The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-14

llnquiShsd all rights to the possession
OF Acadia" (NoyA SCOTIA, to Great
Britain, and nearly half a century
elapsed before the English, fearing the
designs OF the French, began to emf
gratO and to found the town OF Halifax
The French settlers, who enjoyed
privileges as nOuFsls, under tho treaty
OF BREEDS, still embraced u considerable
portion OF tho population, and, with
their allies tho indians, proved OK
csedingly troublesome to tho English,
10 much so, that the English at Halifax
decided to expsl them all from Acadia.
Col. Moucton. Captains Murray aud
Wiuslo carried out the cruel order in
the most brutal manner, by compelling
the French farmers, at the point OF
the bayones, to leave their burning
dwellings and 80 on board OF vessels IN
IhensRTest harbor, whonce thOy were at
once carried and placed in Villages on
thecOast from Maine TO Florida, aepa'
rating fathers, mothers and children
from each other in q most iuhum1n
manner,
Lougiollow has immortalized Acadia,
and the above brutal crime, in hla beau
tiiul poem, "EyanGeline,"
And lo With summons sonorons
Sounds the bell from is tower, aud over the
meadow drum beat
Thronged CFc,Ong was tho church w!Ih men'
Without Ia the chuTchyafl'
Waited the women They stood by the graves,
and hung on the hoadsI0nGS
GEFlands OF autumnIeayes and oyerGteens iseAh
Then came the guard from the ships, aud march
ing proudly among them, =,
Entered the sacred portal, With loud aud DIS
sOnant Changers
ceiling aud casenenL-
Echoed a moment only, and slowly the ponder
Gus portal
Closed, aud In silence the crowd aNAIled the
Then uptose their commander, and spake from
tho steps OF The altar,
Holding aloiI In hl, hands, with It's seals, the
royal commission
clemen. and Kind he has been but how have
you answered his kindness
Let your own hearSrcpy! Tony natural make
Painful the task is do which to you l know
must bo grlGyouS
Yet must bow and obey and deliver the will
Namely that ali your lands snl SlwelllnS, and
cattle OF all SludA
Forfeited be TO tho crown: and that you your.
selves from vii, province
30 transported tu other lands COD gEAnI you
MAY dwell there
Eysra' faithful subjects 4 happy and peaceaoIe
Prisoner, now declare you; for such Is his Ma.
..H4.f.H
There dis disordCr prevailed, aud the tumali and
Busly Piled the irci 4itcd boats and in tho con.
Wives We" We're torn from their husbands, aud
moiheg 100 la.c saw their children
Left on the land extending thelr arms, with
widest cutroatieS.
Many weary year has passed since the burning
When % on iGo falling tide tho ircsh'cd vessels
BeariS aSSAi naion With all its household gods,
Exile Without an end, and without an example
Far a,anG der on separate coasts, the AcAdian'
scattered were they, Ike the fakes OF snow,
whom the wind from the northeast
Strikes a,laa, through the toys that dagken the
baukA OF Newfoundland
F.iendlcs,, h0meless, hopeless they wandered
From he cold LAKES Of the north to sultry south.
err savanna,
Friends they sought. and homes ana may,
du,pairlng aud hcartbVEeu.
Asked OF the earth bat grave, and no longer
friend or htcsile.
Written their history ShndS on tablets oil stone
IN tue churchyafd%'
Among this terror stricken crowd OF
French settlers who were being forced,
at tho point Of tho Dayonot, on board
the vessels, TO hunt new homes, desti'
tute OF even the common necessities o.
liio, was tho young French boy Jean
Godin, fourteen years Of age, separated
from his parents, rotations and neigh.
bors, budding with hundreds Of Others
equally as badly cared Tor, i'll fed, un'
clean for want OF clothes, submitting to
tho cuffs or kicks or rope's.euds OF rough
aailora. Alter weeks oil suffering, he,
with others, was put ashore at Sow Gas.
lilo, Delaware, destitute OF clothes or
money, hungry, aud not Knowing how
10 communicates with tho people, be.
cause oil his speaking only tho French
language.
But our hero, Jean Goln, in spite OF
his youth. and a. adverse cifcum'
stances, evidently Elton his loot. Tor he
had saved sufficient money by The time he
was twonty.sII years OF age, TO enable
him 10 marry some good English glrl,
which Is evidenced by the good old
English namOs OF their children; for
their sou, born about lT75, was named
John Godin, and tholr daughter, born
about l77j, Hester God,n. Both OF
these names arc cherished by their do.
scendants to this day.
Great and sudden changes came 10
this unhappy Gndin family wilhn tho
next lew yearB. Tho mother diUd short
~ after tho birth Of hOr daughter Hos
tor Godin. The i1thOr, Joan, married
second time within aycRr, and diOd tho
following year. lila widow mRrriol q
second husband within a year, thus
leaving these two helpless children
with stopiathor and stepmothOr.
Tho new parents, by law and ClrCum.
stances only, not by affection, wGrH np-
pointed guardians Of tho children.
They sold all their property and took
tho children with thOm to Alexandria,
Virginia, whore they bound out john
Godin to q atlvcBmith and lleslor
Godin 10 n Quaker family, and thOn
disappeared from notice.
On September |, 1852, William Penn
aailod from Deal, England. IN tho Wol.
como for Philadelphia with 4 hundred
comrades. Among these Comralo' woro
william Warner, a SCltCh-lrlAhman,
and George Evans, n WOlshman. 10
these two men William Penn gNyO
largo grants Of land, Those Of Warner
Law between tho iprO5ont town Of lbfyn
Mawr aud tho Centennial Exposition
grounds II 1875, and to Evans was
giyon lots Ia tho city Of PhilalsIphla
Irwin Mnfnnf. lnAcnnlnnL oil VIII.