[999] Ed. 1882, vol. ii. 225.
[1000] “The publications of C. R. Williams, with notes concerning them,” in R. I. Hist. Tracts. no. xi. For other accounts concerning the condition of the “Evangeline Country,” see E. B. Chase’s Over the Border, Acadia, the home of Evangeline (Boston, 1884), with various views; J. De Mille in Putnam’s Magazine, ii. 140; G. Mackenzie in Canadian Monthly, xvi. 337; C. D. Warner’s Baddeck (Boston, 1882); and the view of Grandpré in Picturesque Canada, ii. 789.
[1001] There is a sample of this purely sympathetic comment in Whittier’s Prose Works, ii. 64.
[1002] New series, vol. vii. (1870).
[1003] Palfrey (Compend. Hist. New England, iv. 209) says: “There appears to be no doubt that they were a virtuous, simple-minded, industrious, unambitious, religious people. They were rich enough for all their wants. They lived in equality, contentment, and brotherhood; the priest or some trusted neighbor settled whatever differences arose among them.”
[1004] Halifax, 1865-67, vol. ii. ch. 20. Cf. Vol. IV. p. 156.
[1005] Page 369.
[1006] Ch. iv. and viii.
[1007] Montcalm and Wolfe, i. 90.
[1008] He does intimate, in some later published letters, that a taking of hostages might perhaps have sufficed. The controversy of which these letters are a part began with the anticipatory publication by Mr. Parkman of his chapter on the Acadians in Harper’s Monthly, Nov., 1884. This drew out from Mr. Philip H. Smith a paper in the Nation, Oct. 30, 1884, in which incautiously, and depending on Haliburton, he charged the English with rifling their archives to rid them of the proofs of the atrocity of the deportation. Parkman exposed his error, in the same journal, Nov. 6, 1884, and also in the N. Y. Evening Post, Jan. 20, 1885, and Boston Evening Transcript, Jan. 22. Smith transferred his challenge to the Boston Evening Transcript of Feb. 11, 1885, making a good point in quoting the Philadelphia Memorial of the Acadians, which affirmed that papers which could show their innocence had been taken from them; but he unwisely claimed for the exiles the literary skill of that memorial, which seems to have been prepared by some of their Huguenot friends in Philadelphia. A few more letters appeared in the same journal from Parkman, Akins, and Smith, but added nothing but iteration to the question. (Cf. Transcript, Feb. 25, by Parkman; March 19 by Akins; March 23, April 3, by Smith.)