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Newspaper
North American
Location
Swanton, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1839
Page
2
A long, fragmentary narrative vents against British colonial rule in Canada, criticizing press bias, governor actions, and property seizures. It covers arrests, prison conditions, editorials, and mentions protests in Hamilton and Dundas, with references to Lord Durham, representation, and calls for accountability amid ongoing political turmoil.
Canada. A large assembly in Hamilton and Dundas drew about 2000 attendees with 1000 named. Reformers reportedly added to Sir F B Head's ranks as a division formed over the split with England in the state of exile, altering political support lines.
In Canada and the United Kingdom’s influence, Tory factions denounce liberal reformers and defend harsh law interpretations. Three suspended judges face threats after upholding sedition law. ministers are warned as public anger simmers. A private from the 934 Regiment is found nailed inside a hot on a Hamilton to Rochester route, showing wartime discipline and irregular transport.
Report notes a powder magazine and arsenal built within Sherbrook jail walls. The Montreal printing establishment Am du Peuple, a French Tory paper, was seized for debt by the Sheriff, linked to a clerical patronage history and opposition to Liberal papers. Wellington calls for more troops in Canada. Parliament debates army rise. Brig Stakesby reaches Quebec with government stores and 218 Royal Artillery men.
A Montreal paper reports an epidemic at Pointe Claire eighteen miles south of Montreal. It begins with a blood discharge and a darkened face as in the Chol era. Twenty two people have died there in the past week and one case has appeared in Montreal.
E S Southmayd and Daniel Sprague of Barnston South Carolina, political refugees in the United States since the last troubles, have returned home. Montreal papers report they were lodged in Sherbrooke jail by Stanstead cavalry on charges of high treason.
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