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THE TRUESTORTY OF THE .ACA-

| | DIAN DEPORTATION. |

BY THOMAS O'HAG

The saddest epie inthe his- tory of the New world is the expulsion and deportation of the Acadians from their homes on the shores of the Bay of Fundy, upon which is base the poet Longfellowss sweet, sad story of Evangeline, 1ndeed this sorrow ful event has made of that arm of water another Ægean Sea, arouad which cluster memories that conse- crate the pages of history, and the sacred ties of kinäred re- main to embalm them in story.

The historian has been large- ly false, the poet trae to this New World tragedy. Hannay, Parkman, and Akins, compiler ofthe Nova Scotia archives, have done historivai truth a grevious wrong in fheir pre- sentation of the facts and cir- cumstances which led ap to this wanton and pitiful deed.

iougfeliow has given us the story in the idealized light of poetry, reflected fromthe great orb of truth. 1t remained for a descendant of the Acadians. Edouard Richard, of Arthabas-

kaville; Quebec, an ex-member of the Canadian House of Com- mous, togive tnthe world, in his admirable work Acadia : Missing Links ofa Lost Chapter in American History, the true story of the Acadian expulsion and deportation. Halbnrton. waose mind was, eminent:y, judicial aad well fitted for the weighing of historical facts, lacked îhe data upon which to found sure and solid evidence, though the integrity of his mind frequently led him to just conclusions where there were missing linksin the chain of circamstances and facts.

it is the office of the histo rian to present truth as the fruit ofthe fuliest and most impartial investigation. He should held no brief for any personage, whether king, gov- eruor, or the meanest subaltern. He is a judge sifting. the evi- dence submitted, aud his par- pose is {o present to the jury of mankind fagts, not fiction dressed up in the specious garb of glowirg periods and tropi- cal rhetoric.

The historical facts in con- nection with the deportation vf the Acadians, in 1755, reach back 'o the treaty of Utrecht,

in 1713. which transferred them as subjects of Louis X1V. of France, to Queen

Anne, of England. The charac- ter and behavior of the ÀAca- dians during these foity two years must stand, in some me- sure, as the justification or con- demnation of this unwonted deed. 1t will not do to quote the intrigues of Abbe Le Lourte, nor his over zealous efforts to persuade his country- men to; forsake the English lands for the territory of New France. The question is one of

allegiance in its restricted form whether the Euglish failed to comply with the fourteenth ar-

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ticle in the trea:y of Utrecht, and wlether the deporation was not planned and carried

ing Governor Lawrence and his immediate friends with th: property which the Acadians were forced to leave behind.

Mr. Richard, in his excellent

deptedness to a history of No- va Scotia, In manuscript, which was prepared by Rev. Andrew Brown, between the years 1787 1795. Mr. Brown, who was a Presby- terjan minister, was invited some’years afterwards to fillthe Chaït of Rhetorie in Edinburg University, where he died. His history, incomplete and in manuscript, was found with all the original and other docu- ments that accompanied it in a grocer’s store, and bought Nov. 13th, 1852, by Mr Grro- satt, who sold it to the British Museum in London. 1tis very evident how important this manuscript history by Mr Brown is. He, no doubt, con- versed with many who were eye witnesses of the deportation

the cireumstances which led

and a Scotchman, he cannot be charged surely with any bias or partiality for the Acadians, and his testimony should, therefore, carry great weight in the discussion of the ques- tion we have now on hand, 1t is a well known fact that Park- man had access to this manpus- cript history and its accompa- nuying documents, yet he en- tirely ignored them. Parkman evidentiy aimed not at truth but at justifying the deporta- tion of the peaceful and pious Acadians. He wished to des- troy the effects of “New Eng- iand humanitarianism melting into sentimentality” by hold- ing a brief for Lawren-e and his countryman, Winslow.

Now let us briefly consider the treaty of Utrecht as it ef- {ected the Acadians, as well as examine how fa: the English fu)filled that portion of its terms Which had relation to the life and fortunes of Grand Pre and the other Acadian settlements.

The Fcurteenth article of the treaty of Utrecht, which def- ined the situation of the Avca- dians is couched in the foliow- ing terms : “It is expressly pro- vided that in allthe said pla- ces and colonies to be yielded and restored by the Most Chris- tian King, in pursuance of this treaty the subjects of the said king may have Jiberiy to re- move themselves within a year to a1. y other place, asthey shail think fit, with all thegnors ble effects. But those who are wiing :c.remain here and to

free exercise of their religion according to the usage of the Church of Rome, as far as the

out for the purpose of enrich-|

work, acknowledges his in-!

of Halifax, !

and had accurate knowledge of

up toit: Being a Presbyterian

laws ef Great Br'tain do allow

EM same.”

| A letter dated June 23rdr

11713, from the Queen of En- gland to Governor Nicholson,

extended further the terms of

the treaty granting to the Aca-

dians, who wished to remain las subjects of Great Britain, the

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| privilege of retaining and en+ joying their lands and ten- ements without any molesta- tion, or to sell the same if they | should rather chcose to remove elsewhere. {The treaiy gave them a year to

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remove from the country, but the letter did not specify any time for their departure. We shall now see how far the En-

glish anthorities in Nova Sco-

(tia complied with this particu-

|tar article of the treaty.

in August, 173, the Aca- dians sent delegates to Louis- burg to come to an understan- ding with the French governor on the conditions to be held out to them if they were trans- ported over to the French ter- ritorv. From this date up to 1730, tbe policy and purpose of each successive English gover- nor was to prevent the Aca- dians from leaving the country. First, Governor Vetch, then Nicholson, 1hen Cauldfeld, then Doucette, then Phiilips, aud Armstrong, and later stiil Cornwallis, used not only their perogative but every artifice ‘aud cunning to defeat the set- tled purpose of the Acadians to leave the country. This fact cannot be denied for it is borne out by the oflicial documents of time. |

Let us, at this stage 9f our investigation, then remember that the Acudians made seve- ral attempts lo leave the coun- try between 1713 and 1730, but were thwarted in their designs by the actions of the Engish governors. Àt first the Acadians thought they could leave in English vessels ; these were refused. Then they asked that French shiprs might be permit- ted to enter the ports of Acadia and this was opposed. They next constructed some small vessels for which they endear- ored to procure equipment at Louisburg and Boston, but in this they were prohibited. Be. ing prevented from withdraw- ing by water there remained inow but one o‘her way by which they could depart—by land. They, accordingly, set to wok to open up a road but had to desist from the work by order of Governor Phillips.

Even Parkman, whose chap- ter dealing with the expulsion ofthe Acadians in “A Half Century of Conflict,” reads like a brief in defence of the policy of England in the New World, a‘ limits that Governor Nichol- son aud his succes:ors did everything in their power to prevent the Acadians from de- parting. Here is what he says : . ‘“Governor Nicholson, jike ‘his predecestor, was resolved to keep the Acadians in the

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