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Newspaper
North American
Location
Swanton, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1839
Page
3
In a Lords session on the Truck System Lord Stanhope compares hand loom weavers to enslaved negroes, noting 14 hour days yield only five shillings per week. He urges relief and cites a pensioner refused outdoor relief after fifty years paying rates, opposing workhouse confinement and separation from his wife in old age.
Parliament debated American neutrality with Mr C Buller arguing that after the Canada affair the government should judge the situation by the American public mood. He defended the United States for maintaining a strict neutrality law and condemned anti British actions, insisting the US government must act decisively, and noting sympathies against Britain were limited and regional.
The passage urges generous acknowledgment of the U S government for its liberal efforts to fulfill duties. It encourages fostering good will among the American people and avoiding a self serving national pride that would withhold praise for what has been accomplished.
The London Mercury Herald column argues a war between Britain and the United States appears inevitable without ample national defense. It claims Van Buren favors war to seize Canada and subjugate Britain, while U.S. commercial elites resist conflict yet fear the political gains of democratic forces.
The report notes that these prisoners have been hanged and detail in the text the method used to dispose of them, indicating a grim execution record from the Windsor area.
A compiled list shows Amos Peley Joshua G Dean Hiram B Lynn Daniel D Bedford Albert Clark and Cornelius Cunningham taken to Kingston to be banished. Others including Robert Marsh John B Tyrell Elijah C Woodman James Aitchison Henry V Barnum and more are pardoned and discharged. Abraham Tiffany James Toles and Daniel McKinsey are tried and acquitted.
Edward P Anthony and Samuel Whitaker lie unwell in Sandwich Jail from wounds that prevent their removal. Truman Woodberry, captured after an escape on a borrowed horse, is detained in London Jail. In Canada, Daniel Swetnam, William Bartlett, Sidney Barber, George Putnam, David M Dougal, John Hickey and William Grason are named witnesses. the first three remain here, the others were freed in Canada.
A friend of the late De Lorimier corrects the record noting his birth at St. Cuthbert Berthier County in the Montreal district on December 26 1803 He died at age 35 years one month and twenty days while opposing British rule.
A Quebec visitor reports Britain plans a fort at Madawaska with thick walls and suggests local support or opposition. The note questions whether the home government will back provincial fortifications in the region and hints at tensions over Port Blunder and Port’s Point.
Axeoten Mantya Gone. Annoixe Dorr Esq., wealthy merchant of L Acane County, died after harsh imprisonment in Canada. He was detained near St Johns, sent to Montreal, and died soon after, health ruined by the cruel regime. Mention of plundered wife, Livelihood loss, and broader dire acts by British authorities. Died at Montreal on 8th inst. Toussaint Pertinn aged 76, father of Montreal lawyer Toussaint Pertier, and Cannes Chavon Cone Cote Esq. added notes of house burnings, imprisonments, and executions during the period of conflict.
Joseph Baker announces a new high school at Cambridge Centre Wisconsin focusing on reading writing arithmetic geography astronomy philosophy chemistry rhetoric logic and more with special attention to studies under his instruction Tuition three dollars per term board available in respectable local families Cambridge March 25 1839.
A Montreal court martial composition returned a death sentence roster naming Major General Curturnow as president and Lieut Cols Sir John Eustice Barnard Grier Crawford with Majors Prichard Bigs Thornton and Captains Smith Kerr Cadogare Cox among the sentencing officers.
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