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Newspaper
North American
Location
Swanton, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1839
Page
2
A long excerpt details colonial governance in Canada with critique of English officials, military quarters, and the Canadian nobility. It discusses taxation, civil offices, and the impact of British policy on French-speaking subjects, alongside remarks on church order and clerical status. The piece notes unrest, prisoner oversight, and interlinked divisions among settlers, merchants, and authorities.
Accounts from border regions describe active emigration to western states, especially Michigan, with 100 road workers moving to the United States. London District letters claim business is dead at home, families seek western settlement for fair laws, and hope Lord Durham will address the enmity. The Toronto Examiner notes this as evidence of responsible governance.
The piece notes attacks on printing offices and vandalism at a city site amid Tory tensions in Upper Canada under Governor and mayoral watch. It cites Montreal Herald reporting warrants for confiscation of traitors property and refugees excluded. The British Queen steamship arrival is described with its grand features and a brass promenade rail.
The text appeals for clemency for Mr Mackenzie jailed for 18 months under neutrality laws. It lauds his 20 years of service to freedom and laments his losses in his homeland. It urges readers to buy Gazettes and support his cause, noting trial coverage and sales proceeds.
An 1837 era broadside mocks Canadian policy and British rule, urging American sympathy for Mackenzie and condemning neutrality laws. It quotes Southwick and laments education limits in Canada, arguing for liberty and abolition of arbitrary power amid Niagara and Upper Canada debates.
Report cites government moves to stifle public enlightenment as a broader tactic. It notes JS Neyerith’s arrest in Montreal, now free on bail. $7 000 to $8 000 in counterfeit coppers sent to Kingston US to pay Royal Militia. Reynolds of Sandwich fined 85 dollars by Dr Theller for a watch theft while Thester was prisoner at Sandwich in 1889. Feargus O Conner to defend Chartists. Quebec lawyers protest A W Cochran appointment to the bench, deeming him unfit.
Cos Company s Droner Esq former Saguenay MP and noted Quebec Bar member has been admitted to the Buffalo Bar. May he rapidly gain U S eminence akin to his Canadian standing. We received papers from Madame De Lorimier, wife of Chevalier De Lorimier, who died for patriotism under Colborne. The documents will appear in the North American.
A St Johns Chronicle piece mocks fears of US annihilation and notes odd quips about a Canadian imprisonment for whistling Yankee Doodle. It highlights Bast Highgate’s Scything Factory funded by Mr. Rixford, boasting top quality blades and the plan to advertise locally before expanding abroad.
The Franklin Gazette condemns the Mackenzie case, denouncing the trial and sentence under neutrality statutes seen as aimed at British domination in North America. It decries the punishment of a patriot attempting reform and recalls Washington’s era of liberty.
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