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Newspaper
North American
Location
Swanton, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1839
Page
2
The passage debates national allegiance during upheaval, contrasting British, French, Yankee, and Highlander identities. It notes Canadians may reject Britain, favor local loyalties, and ponders party alignment between Loco-focos and Whigs, foreseeing a shift of sentiment amidst fear and resolve.
From the Florida Herald a long polemic arguing Americans ignore Polish and Canadian oppression while condemning Siberian punishment. It portrays Canadians as revolutionary liberty lovers contrasted with British colonial brutality, urging sympathy and action to defend Canadian liberties and resist tyranny.
A fragmentary passage discusses states resisting government pressures and delaying action. It suggests a looming confrontation, with human agents prepared for an onset, hoping Providence will not delay expelling European influence from the free end of America.
A chorus of voices argues William Lyon Mackenzie deserves release from a filthy jail. They urge banishment instead of imprisonment, comparing him to historic patriots and urging Queen Victoria to grant him asylum rather than punishment. The piece condemns government treatment and asserts jails are not for honest men.
The Bangor Democrat quotes the Saturday Courier of Philadelphia defending Gesxrnas Brarisu also known as Banon Faareiix. It cites commissions showing Bratish as Major General of the British Auxiliary Legion and Consul General of Greece, arguing his conversion to U S citizenship and unimpeachable character despite hostile editors and court papers in Philadelphia and Portland.
A fragment discusses combustion, noting no smoke or visible loss as a body seems to vanish. It argues that heated air carries the dissolved matter, which remains as part of the atmosphere, asserting matter is not destroyed but transformed into a new active form.
A Swanton December 25 1539 item laments confiscation by Mr. Poulett Thomson as patriots deprived of life or exiled to Van Diemen’s Land. It prints a Quebec Official Gazelle list naming proprietors of the best Canadian farms to be sold by the sheriff for the government’s profit.
Extract from a dated December 1889 letter describing tensions between Britain and the United States. In Detroit the writer met Colonel of Ste. Claire who reported British efforts to lure Native tribes away from U S treaties by offering rations and free lands on Canadian frontiers. The note cites English government intrigues and Indian strategy.
The New York Reformer argues the Maine boundary dispute is being delayed by the Neutrality Act and contends the government aims to wear down Maine’s resolve to concede territory. It claims Canada’s insurrection is suppressed and credits a strong army, while accusing officials of seeking a peaceful compromise through pressure rather than war.
The Boston Republic reports that British troops extend operations along the Madawaska and St. John rivers, constructing barracks at Temiscouta and the confluence, violating a prior agreement and amounting to an invasion of Maine by a British military force.
Fragmentary wartime dispatches lamenting Yankee actions along rivers, with British American tensions and calls to preserve republican institutions. The piece voices anti monarchy sentiment, fears of British influence, and urges vigilance to defend republican values amid ongoing hostilities and public disorder.
The attendees at Goreron Thomsons Levee were mainly French Canadian civilians plus Montreal and Teeslense bishops. The listed priests, including Rev Migneault Huslon and Primesu, are described as royalist clergy profiting from salaries and aligned with the government.
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