North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1840-09-02

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w. Ry'snd, wcni 10 establish the facts Z
lating 10 MeLaaeis arrest IS We have a
ready given them ourselves.
The evidence on The part Of the Crow
being now closed, the Attorney Geners
made q long speech, in which he pretende
that all the accusations brought lorwar
against the prisoner, had been substantial
ted, and concluded tina. The Jury ought L
bring IN verdict of gully against the &C
cused. The prisoner then said a lev
words in his own vindication and he was
followed by his Counsel Mr.. Pyke, who
was succeeded By his colleague Mr.. Frank
lin. The Arguments OF these two gentle.
men were replied 10 by the Attorney Gen
eral who was followed by the Chief Jus.
tice Mr. Osgoode, who made long charge
TO the jury-sfter which the jury retired
for about twenty minutes, when they re-
turned verdict Of GUILTY. The law
yers Of the unfortunate prisoner tried TO
plead some rreguariiy in the proceedings,
but their objections were overruIed, and
the awful sentence Of death with all the
concomitant horrors attached TO il on ac-
count Ct treason, by British barbarity, was
finally pronounced by the Chief Justice.
McLane stood his fate as a brave man.
He was sentenced to be executed on the
2lst day Of that same month (July 1870.
The terrible day was soon at hand the
prisoner with his back turned towards the
horse, was drawn on hurdle 10 the place
Of execution which was near the spot
where the National school is now kent
outside Of St. Johns Gate. An immense
crowd was gathered 10 witness this most
savage execution. The sufferer was placed
On the platform and was immediately
aunched into eternity. Life was not vet
extinct in him, when, according to the in
human and revolving sentence which had |
been pronounced against him, his head |
vas severed from bis body and put at the
md Of pole, and the executoner in show
ng it thus to the crowd, cried out " here
$ the head Of a traitor" His entras were
orn out OF his yet living and palpitatinc
BODY and were put on a gridiron and were
'urnt, and his four limbs were marked
With knife. Such was the horrible and
disgusting scene the British hireings
nacted in Lower Canada at the end of the
eighteenth century. Let US suppose for
moment that McLane was earnest in
lis ridiculous and insane plan OF surprs-
ng Quebec the Gibraltar of North Ameri-
a. With srooden pixies and by Intoxicating
he soldiers with Laudanuna, in the
anne OF bleeding humanity, ave, in the
anne OF common reason, was there any
ecessity for sending such man as Nc
.ane to the galows and to accompany his
cath with such horrible barbaritv !
Tut the real secret of all this sangnnary
'ansaclion was, that certain party in the
rovince was at the bottom of the whole y
f it, and was moved with those views
hich we have already exposed.
The English Government has alwaysl
cen faithful to all appearance in reward
g traitors and intormers. In 1908 those s
ho had sold McLane's life, received their d
'omised reward from the Colonial adj 1
Barnard the first witness, O
ho in his testimony Dragged that he had a
zen advised by McCord the magistrate of II
ontreal, to act as spy and nformer a. ii
inst McLane, got II ,2sl acres OF land O
the Township Of Brompton. We are 81
II informed how this miserable wretch m
lished his days bot he certainly must O,
I'VE undergone the fate reserved by divine al
evidence TO traitors and informers. n
Elmer Gushing, who avows in his PAM D,
let that money alone enticed him TO sell ST
friend and countryman, who by his a,
archery and viIlany he brought to an un- ii
tnral and tragcal death, received also in d.
oS, the enormous quantity Of So, 692 acres to
land in the township of Shipton. We L
eredibly informed that Gushing lived n,
object of contempt and scorn to all man. "
ID, and that he was generally known nm in