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wards the English officers and soldiers, in a manner that seems unac=ountable and that kindled their utmost indigna-
tion. Towards the Acadians his |
behavior was still worse......…. The Acadians built small ves- sels and the French authori- ties at Louisburg sent them the necessary rigging. Nichol- son ordered it back; torbabe the sale of their lands and houses and would not even let them sell their personal effects; cooli- ly setting at naught both the treaty of Utrecht and the let- ter of the Queen. Cauldfield and Doucette, his deputies, both, in one degree or another, followed his example in pre- venting s0 far as they could the emigration of the Acva- dians.
The Acadians being thus foiled by the English in their every attempt to leave the country, asked that as subjects of Great Britain they be exemp- ted from bearing arms against the French, or 1lvdians, their
said :
“You have always refused to take the oath without an ex- pressed reservation.”
The oath which the Acadians took and which was entitied “Oath of Fealty” [“Serment de Fidélité] was as follows :
“Je promets et Jure Sincere- ment en Foi de Chrétien que je serai entièrement Fidele et Obeierai Vraiment Sa Majeste Le Roy George second que je recounoi pour le Souverain Seigneur de l’Acadie en Nou- velle Evosse. Ainsi Dieu me Soit en Aide.”
Turn we next to the conduct oi the Acadians, as subjects of Great Britain, duriug the forty three years they occupied the country following the treaty of Utrecht. This is a phase of the
as an honest man, though none of them dare come to us at present. They helped ia the repairing of our work to the very day preceding the attack.”
1n another letter, dated De- cember, 1744, Governor Mas- carene says : “To the timely succor received trom the Gov- ernor of Massachusetts and our French inhabitants refusing to take up arms against us we owe our preservation. 1f the Acadians had taken up arms they might have brought three or four thousand men against us.”
Now what must we infer from these letters of Governor Mascarene ? What but that the Acadians who were faithfui to their oath of allegiance in such a trying and perplexing situa- tion were surely not disloyal when neither occasion nor in ducement offered itself. 1t 1s
question which demands the] worthy of noting here, that fullest and elosest scrutiny and not one of Governor Masca- investigation, as upon the loy-|rene’s letters testilying to the alty ofthe Acadians to Great|]oyaliy of the Acadians during Britain must largely turn the|{his war can be found in the justification or condemnation | Noya Scotia archives. The com- of their expulsion and deporta | piler's purpose, evidently, was
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testimony of the English settle igive proof of the faithfulness
E ACA- jhas killed most of their cattle, | Schools and French Protestant and the priest residing a mong them has behaved, also, |.
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M. George Seney qui de meuré près de Mount Pleasant, comté de Durham, Oat., est un homme bien connu dans tout le comté. Il est le propriétaire de la maison Seney à Mount Pleasañt et il l'a dirigée, jus- qu'à, il y a un an, à la satisfac- tion de tous ses clients. M. Se- ney est un de ceux qui doivent ‘leur santé et leur force aux qualités vivifiantes des P'lules
Roses du Dr Williams. Voici ce qu’il a dit récemment durant une entrevue, à un journaliste, sur sa maladie, et sa guérison : “Je m'apercevais, que ma san- té s’en allait ”, dit M. Seney, “mais Je n'éprouvai réellement
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allies. There was surely noth- | SR RER 14e mere statement |ofthe Acadians to their oath de crainte que lorsque je devins à : EF | F ing unreasonable in this de jof ss historian, based upon 0 lof allegiance. ‘si faible que je ne pouvais plus i 3 | mand, seeing that the English evidence but hear, Will! A word here asto the cha-| vaquer à mes occupatious. J’ap Ï Ée. 4 | failed to carry ont the terms of not be accep prie proof of|acter and conduct of Abe Le pelai alors deux médecins en st F3 À +
the treaty, which gave the AÀ- the loyalty or disloyalty of the | Loutre. the French missionary, | consultation, mais il ne s’accor- _ — Fe 1 Bi | cadians the right to leave the Acadians must be dedaced | who played a part in the events | Gèrent pas sur la nature de ma < s 2 F ! H country, and seeing, too, that from official documents and|of this epoch. There can be n0| maladie. Cependant celui des ÉÆ é. à | ihe French who resided on the | the opinions of those who have | Goubt that this over zealous|deux que je préférais, me dé- D à e k uorth side of the Bay of Fundy, |?° historicas case in Case In and hotheaded priesi dilevery-|clara que ma maladie était En À i î at River St. John, Chipody, |°°urt- ‘thing in his power to stir up causée par une secrétion d’hu- ? 3; : | Petecodiac and Memramcook. On March 15th, 1144, waer)the Indians against the English, ! meurs morbides dans le sang. k59 |
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were not only their compatriots but their brethren and relatives.
was declared be‘ween England | and on this score his <onduct and Frauce, and the French jé entireiy responsible. But the prepared for au invasion of reader should remember that
, En conséquence il me lança | plusieurs tumeurs que j'avaiÿ sur le Cou, ce qui me procura
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they did not desire to wage a war with their kinsmen, who were fighting for American in- dependence They had been re- tained in the country contrary to their will and contrary to the terms of the treaty of Ut- recht—was it not most natural that they should impose the conditions under which they should continue as subjects of zreat Britain ?
Astathe character of the oath which the Aaadians took, 1 think there is not a doubt {hat it was at no time unquali- fied. In support of this conten- tiou let me first cite Governor Lawrence, the very man who deperteil the Acadians. 1n his cireular to the governors of New England, which accom- panied the transports laden with exiled Acadians, appears the following : “The Acadians ever refused to take the oath of ailegiance without having at the same time from the gover nor an assurance, in writing, that they should not be called upon to bear arms in the de- fence of the Province, and with this General Phillips did com- plr”, of which His Majesty dis- approved.
dians remain faithful to theiriin mind by those who charge,
rvine. Je n'avais presque plus
oath of allegi:nce at this trying without any foundation, Le d'appétit et mes nerfs sem-
moment ? Surely this event woald test their fidelity. Du- ring this war, which is known in history as King George’s war, Acadia was invaded at least four times by the French. The Acadians, however, re-| mained loyal to the English aud could not be sh:ken in their determina ion nor in- duced by coaxing or threats to swerve in their allegiance to Great Britain.
After having exhausted e- very means of persuasion, Du- vivier and de Gonn, the French generals, who commanded the, first expedition, issued the fol lowing severe orders : “We order you to deliver up your arms, ammunitions...……. and those who contravene these or- ders shall be punished and de- livéred into the hands nf the indians, as we caunot refuse. the demands these savages make for all those who wi:l not
Loutre with instilling disloyal: blaient détendus et j'éprouvais ty into the hearts and minds,un grand affsiblissement mo-
of the Acadians. No doubt he;
did everything possible to in- duce his country living on En glish territory to wihdraw from the country, but there is no evidence whatever that he ever made any attempt to turn them from their aliegiance while they chose to remain sub- jects of the English Sovereign. Abbe Le Lourtre and ‘his mis- sionnary companions labored in French territory and hence
their zeal and ardor in behalf
of their countrymen were en-!
tirely justifiable. But Le Lonrtre’s attempts to coerce the Acadians into abandoning the English territory was wrong, and for this he was re- primauded by the Bishoh of Quebec, He hal the undoubt- ed right to persuade them, but here both right and duty ended. It should, however, be remembered that as Richard
submit themselves.” With this | says, “The guilt ofthe French, order the Acadians refused to in using extreme measures to comply, stating in their reply compel the Acadians to with- amongst otherthings, that“ We draw fromthe English terri- lire nnder a mild and tranaquil tory. does nat enrpass nor even
ral. La médecine me faisait peu
et jignorais où chercher du soulagement. J'avais beaucouP lu et beaucoup entendu de lou- anges des vertus curatives des Pilules Roses du Dr Williams ‘et je pris enfin la résolution de les essayer, Avant d'en avoir é- puisé tine sevonde boîte, j'é- | prouvais une amélioration dans |mon état ét après avoir persé- | véré chcore un peu, je recou- vrais ma santé et mes vigueurs uormales. 11 y a bientôt un an |que j'ai cessé le traitement et |j» continue de jouir des bien- | faits d'une parfaite santé, je re- |commande énergiquement les Pilules Roses du Dr Williams et je crois que le récit de ma guérison peut encourager ceux que le lirout”.
Les Pilules Roses du Dr Wil- liams sont un médicament to uique qui enrichit le sang et fortifie les nerfs, attaquant le mal dans son principe et l’ex- pulsant en dehors de l’orga- inisma, Fllus sont, sans enntre-
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œovernment and we have «il equal that où the governors : dit. Le plus rrand remede dun. 1 : Auain, writing to Sir Thouas god reason 10 be faithful toit” in one case there was violence Ni\ine sisvie et ont Suéri des
NII 1 love f P +] ! Ï sat } {} à fois É . . {* , © : » À à # 1755, Lawrence says, speaking \the Acadians, speaking of the other violence against the ex- des médecins. La grande vogue
of the Acadians of Beaubassin : |expedition of Duvivier says: ercise of a right.” The conduct des pilules roses du Dr Wil- As we expect to vacate our present
“They were the descendants of those French who had taken the oath of allegiance to His Majesty in the time of General Phillipp’s government with the reserve of not bearing arms.”
Governor Cornwallis, in his!
letter, dated September 11th. 1749, to the Duke of Bedford, writes :
“1 cannot help saying that General Phillipps deserved the highest punishment for what
he did her2, his allowing a re-|
serve to the oath of allegiance”
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napolis, returned to Mives thy rather in its methods than where he proposed to remain/in its purpos:.
tor the winter with his soldiers; | but the Acadians sent in such zeal, which had gréwu into a a strongly worded remons- fanaticism, surely his desire to
he fonnd the people equally faith would not be tampered averse to his remaining aud with was most natural, in
succee-leed Armstrong, says Castle under date, August 15th under date July 2nd, 1744 1746... “By which means “The Acadians of this river and removing the Romish
trance that he was constrained win over the Acadians to the! to withdraw. At Beaubassin French territory where their
finally returned to Louisburg” view of the projects which Writing to the Secretary Goveinor Shirley had disclosed War, Governor Mascarene, who | by Jetter to the Duke of New
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