North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1841-05-26

he humane feelings Of British tories.
eve afterwards went 10 the House OF
Mr.. Anderson. where we saw, in the pas
ssge TO the yard, FOUR DEAD BOD
les, and in the house the body Of Chen
Ter THE eommander) exposed on the coun-
Ter 10 the view Of the multitude who visit
ed the piece. The clothes had been stripped
from his limbs yet warm. He aas terribly
mutilsted-CUT IN FOUR QUAR-
TIERS, AND HIS HEART TORN
FROM HIS BREASTn! The spectacle
VISA most horrible and repugnant to
humaniiyp'
No doubt the blood Of our readers will
recoil at the recital Of such horrors, yet il
10 but foe true, that the course of the
Kniahted Butcher, Sir John Colborne
through the ill-fa,ed county Of Two
Mountains, was marked with the perpe-
tration of the most lloody cruelties ever
witnessed, even during the darkest reign OF
the Spanish and Italian InquisilionsH!
Although the suaerings OF the prosecuted
Weaknesses in Piedmont, have been the
subject OF just eensure and Reproduction
thfoughost the whole World, yet the
sulferings OF the patriots in the county OF
Two Mountains, were ten.fold more
prievous. The father was barbarously
murdered in tho presence Of his beloved
son, whilst the aged mother witnessed the
massacre Of her darling child, her only
support. The lovely virgin was polluted
before the eyes OF her chaste mother who,.
in her turn, was forced TO share the dis
honor OF her daughter. The husband was
spared only to witness the pollution OF his
wife, and was then dispatched to the
world of spirits. Even helpless infants
did not escape from this general massacre
but were slain in the wholesale butchery
or persisted from cold and hunger after
their parents fed to the wilderness to avoid
death and dishonor. II 10 utterly impossi-
bic to draw laithfu! picture Of the atroei-
ties committed by the merciless tories in
this sanguinary campaign, for the cruelsies
inflicted upon this devoted race, are more
grievous than words can express. Women,
with their tender infants at their breasts,
in the woods, ignorant OF the
fate Of their husbands and families-Young
and lovely virgins, without any protection,
fleeing for their lives and purify, through
the deep and tracklsss snow Of Canadian
running to and fro in
search Of their parents, perishing from cold
hunger and grief-The aged and inarm,
obliged TO seek shelter in the woods, sink
ing under fatigue or psrishing through the
inelsmsney Of the weather-All these per-
secuted Canadians, men women and chill.
iren, deprived Of their snee happy homes
and turned, helpless, homeless and almost
friendless, upon the cold charity Of an IN.
feeling world. Such 10 but faint outline
Of the dire calamities, with which the
bloody old Colborne visited the pat
riots Of ST. Eustaehe. But let us draw
The curtain over these a5ominations, and
follow the monster, Colborne, who had
given orders for the troops to march upon
81. Bsnoit or Grand Brule, the next day,
where il was supposed that the leaders OF
he insurrection, would be arrested. This
thought alone, elated this modern NERO,
who rejoiced at the prospect OF orce more
gratifying his ssnguinary d.position!!!
But the inhabitants of St. Benoit, con-
Icious that their case was hopeless and still
in British honor in maintaining
nyiolate the sacred rules of war, met the
I'D sanguinary wretch at short distance
rom the village OF St. Eustache. They
tame to meet the conqueror with flag Of
ruce In their hands, and in their own name,
10 well as in that OF their neighbors, they
admitted without any restriction whaiev-
4 to the win Of His Excellency, who Or
Tered them to return to their village, add
M that il q single shot was fred at his
roops, the whole country would be laid 10