The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-06-03

ter. The reply was that there were Frenehmen,
and they would give good quarter. They then sur
rendered, but the terms OF the surrender were
gravely violated. The prisoners were turned over
70 the Indians. who cruelty murdered all but ten or
twelve, who were carried away captives. When the
which shocks humanity. After destroying all ths
houses in the vicinity ths French and Canada Indt
ans, with their captiyes, returned TO Quebec. Capt.
Sylvanus Davis has written long account OF these
events which is published in the Mass. His. Soc.
Coll. He, with some other prisoners, were exehang-
years subsequently. Some Of them made their
homes among their French captors.
Thus was Fort Loyal captured and destroyed, and
the infant settlement OF Falmouth swept out OF
existence. II was the government Of Massacha-
setts who were crminally responsible for that dis
sster. large number Of letters and reports con-
cerning Fort Loyal and its destruction are TO bo
found in the Massachusetts, archives at the State
House in Boston. also the French archives at Paris
which are published I'm the New York Colonial
Mss, and are quite yoluminous-and these are the
principal authorities relied on. The French and
English accounts generally agree although there 10
some discrepancy of times and dates.
A number Of French accounts of the siege were
read, the principal one being letter from NJ. ls
Monseignat, Comptroller General OF the Marine
and fortihcatons of New France, to the celebrated
Nine. de Maintenon.
The dead who were slain at Casco remained IN
buried for two years, when Maj. Charch came here
and caused their bones to be inferred.
The closing words Of Mr.. Hul's paper we're the
following:
Friends and fellow citizens, 1 have detained you
long in the recital o. the history Of Fort Loyal,
and the brave deeds that done by its glorious
defenders nearly two centuries ago, who were then
the humble men of Falmouth. Truly the name
'LOyalP was well chosen, and its significance was
made apparent, when in the last days Of that
fearful struggle it went down amid flames,
carnage and slaughter, and the life blood of
its defenders was poured out. They were
loyal men who defended it. They were loyal
to the English Tag. They were loyal to the Pre-
testant religion. They were loyal 20 the new SOW
ereigns of England, William of Orange and Mary
his wife. Nobly they upheld the banner Of st.
George against the white flag Of the Boutbons.
They were loyal TO the Massachusetts, governments
Notwithstanding the neglect they had received from
them: They were loyal TO their own homes and
hresides.
1t is but few days since, when not only here,
but in nearly all parts Of this Union. has been laid
upon the graves of those who laid down their hVes
for their country, the mementoes of our gratitude
and reverence for the Union dead, and we in this
community are hoping soon to perpetuate in endur-
ing stone lasting monument TO their sacred memo
ries. Can we not without forgetting the greater
sponsibity that exists with u.s. do something pre-
serve in our memories and the history Of the city
some modest remembrance of the deeds Of our an
cestors? Can We not erect in some place suitable
memorial, to those who two centuries ago laid down
their lives and sacrificed themselves as victims?
Their bones have mouldered to the dust among the
unknown dead. Their memories, let US not a. cit
izens of Portland ever forget.