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capt. Globensky at their head, were the true patriots of that tinie, as subséquent events hâve fuUy proved. Had the insurgents succeeded, it could hâve had no other resuit than annexation to the United-States, and before arriving at that consummation, a very large number of lives must hâve been sacrificed on. both sides. Tt is true a few fell at St. Eustache, others paid the penalty the law awards to the crime of treason, but had they suc- ceeded in their enterprise, how many thousands of our young men would hâve deluged vith their blood the soil of Virginia and Maryland in that great civil war which lately devastated the United-States ? How many millions of our money would hâve gone to defray the débit incurred in that struggle ? Where would then bave been french nationality, french laws, and french language ? Ali would hâve dissappeared as they hâve done in what was formerly the french state of the neighbouring repu- blic, where nothing now remains to show who were French but the names they bear. Yes, I repeat most emphatically, that the late capt. Globensky and his hand" full of French-Canadians loyalists were the true patriots of 1837, the true friends of the French inhabitants of Lower-Canada.
You désire to be informed if I was cognizant of his having acted harshly or cruelly towards those whom the fortune of war placed in his power. I unhesatingly answer No ; but to my knowledge the reverse was fre- quently the case, of which I may cite a few examples.
Our Company was stationed at St. Martin about two
