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But serious and urgent things were to be thought of, and at once, for on the morrow Brevard was going down, disguised, to Louisville, in one of the two monoplanes, to attend a final secret meeting of the North-middle Section Committee. From this he would proceed to the refuge near Port Colborne, Ontario.
'The guilty have received justice, the misguided, mercy, he wrote to the Queen, 'but at the same time, security is afforded to the loyal and peaceable subjects of this hitherto distracted Province. Furthermore, his proceedings had been 'approved by all parties Sir J. Colborne and all the British party, the Canadians and all the French party. Durham fancied that this question was now settled, and that he could proceed unhampered with his main task of reconstruction.
Stoliker sought an officer and delivered up his prisoners, together with the incriminating paper that Yates had handed to him. The officer's decision was short and sharp, as military decisions are generally supposed to be. He ordered the constable to take both the prisoners and put them in jail at Port Colborne.
The situation was one calling for the exercise of great tact, and the new Governor-General proved himself equal to the occasion. He made no changes in the composition either of the Special Council of the Lower Province a body formed under Imperial sanction by Sir John Colborne or in that of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada.
As in Port Colborne, here, also, was to be observed that spirit of disaffection towards the British Crown which led to the hoisting of the American flag over a public building at the former place, when it was ascertained that the Province had actually been invaded.
The feeling against that church culminated in 1836, when Sir John Colborne, then lieutenant-governor, established forty-four rectories in accordance with a suggestion made by Lord Goderich some years previously.
"An' perhaps that British Colborne will hang us to our barn doors eh?" There was silence for a moment, in which Lavilette read the letter over again with gloating eyes. Presently Castine started and looked round. "What's that?" he said in a whisper. "I heard nothing." "I heard the feet of a man yes." They both stood moveless, listening. There was no sound; but, at the same time, the Hon. Mr.
Ferrol had the secret of the Rebellion in his hands. A moment later Castine and his bear were out in the road. Lavilette leaned out of the window and mused. Castine's words of a few moments before came to him: "That British Colborne will hang us to our barn doors eh?" He shuddered, and struck a light. Mr. Ferrol slept in the large guest-chamber of the house. Above it was Christine's bedroom.
Meetings were held to denounce Sir John Colborne and those who had prompted him to this high-handed iniquity. The Wesleyan Methodist Conference and the Synod of the Church of Scotland in Upper Canada, if agreeing on no other subject, were of one mind as to this, and officially pronounced upon it with a vehemence which commended itself to popular opinion.
Now, nevertheless, they were within a very few miles of him, and might be upon him and the neighborhood he was approaching, at any moment. There was something in this latter conviction that appeared to move him greatly as he stepped off the train at Port Colborne, where he found the inhabitants in a state of the direst alarm.
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