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I.'ey.empleire film6 fut reproduit grdce i la g^>fi6rosit6 de I'^tablissement prdteur suivant : La bibliothdque des Archives publiques du Canada Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour dtre reproduites en un seul clich6 sont film6es d partir de Tangle supdrieure gauche, de gauche 6 droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la mdthode : 1 2 3 2 6 AN ANSWER TO Some Strictures IN BROWN'S SEQUEL TO CAMPBELL'S HISTORY OF YARMOUTH. By the Rkv. J. R. CAMPBELL. "/rf quod dicitur ego truncaid—maxitne \s,tv. prodttcit" J. & A. McMillan. 98 AND 100 Prince William Street. 1889. ^Z5'ip .m^m An Answer to Some Stbictuuks. To M108SR8. Jameh B. Kinney, W. H. Moody, Esquireis ; Hon. L. E, Baker, and T. M. Lewis, and Free- man Dennis, Esquires : Gentlemen — On the 7th day of October, 1875, you were pleased to state your approval of a manuscript History of the County of Yarmouth, Avhicli 1 had put into your hands and into the hands of G. J, Farish. M. I)., and Josepli B. Bond, M. D., since deceased, for critical examination ; and the concluding words of your approval are these: "All state- " ments ot fact have been careiully verified ; and we believe " the whole to be an accurate and impartial history of the " County." Within the last few months a volume has been jiublished, entitled " Yarmouth, Nova Scotia : A Sequel 10 Campbell's History." In the Preface the author substantially declares that the errors he had found in the said "Campbell's History " were so numerous that he had concluded it to be his duty to publish a Book (page 5); and in chapter ii., page 26, he cheer- fully declares that T shall not have any reason to comi)lain that he has not given sufficient prominence in his criticism to these errors. This is, so far, honest and straightforward ; and all who know the author of the Sequei, will not need to be told that he would enter on his labour with zeal, and that he would execute it with vigour and acuteness. The promised volume was i)ublished in September last ; and judging from the i)ress notices that there was much per- sonal animus about the work, and knowing the man well, I determined that, beyond the publication of the following letter, I would take no notice of the book : Mic? digmim tanto feret hie promissor hiatuf Partur'mni monies ; nascetur ridiculus miu-i ! " For surely some great fault should justify so long a charge. On page 28, some spo':i;ive comment is made with reference to my journeys to Pubnico and elsewhere. I am not ashamed to admit that I had to make very many journeys to all parts of the County, as well as several to the Record Office in Hali- fax. I had no other way of gaining much of that information which, doubtless, I would have acquired more easily had I been born and brought up in the County. I have no doubt that when the authorities of King's College invited Com- petitive Essays on the History of the County, that there ^mt 6 An Answkk to 8ome Stkicturks. were sons of Yarmouth who (iouhl have done the work far more easily than I did: tlio author of the .Skquki, himself, for cxamphi. But no one did it. I think that the people of Yarmouth are more jfenerous than to eennure me for undertaking a vvork which was far more difhcult to me than it would have hecn to some others ; and which, after all, those others would not, and did not, undertake. And certainly it is much easier now for the author of the SKiiUKL, after twelve years liave revolved, to lotlily as,xume the cen- sor's role, according to his maimer, than it would have heen to have taken the initiative, and have borne the burden and heat of the day. On page 28, among the headings of Chapter ii., there is one that reads, "Mr. Campbell's claims to Infallibility Examined." This heading suggests a falsehood. In January, 1886, ten years after the publication of my work, 1 said, in the colunms of the Herald, "No fact as therein stated has ever yet been successfully (juestioned." If, in saying so, I stated any un- truth, let the evidence convi(!t me. I never asserted that no fact coidd be successfully (juestioned. To have saiproves or not, the fact remains that it had been so called, and it probably will continue to be so called. The author of the SEQUEii is so anxious to contradict, and at the same time to air his superior knowledge, that he some- times contradicts himself. Speaking of the Yarmouth River, 8 An Ak^wek to Some fiTiacruREs. — which, lie says, was called tho Cape Fourchii River, because the Kiver is forked like the (Jape, — for the sake of contradict- ing me, he says the town d'«es not stand uj)on the river, but "u{)on the shores of the harbour" ! Therefore, according to himself, the harbour is not part of the river. But if the har- bour be not part of the river, then the river is not forked, for the actual confluence of the two streams, i. e., of tlie Yarmouth River and the Salt Pond Creek, is nearly in the middle of the harbour. Yet the author of the SEQrEL is " a native," and I " was sent all the way from England." On page 36, it is boldly stated that "there is no ground for Mr. Campbell's a.ssertion that the Indians murdcrod the crew of the i>rigantine Baltimore." The assertion was not mine, but is merely a record of the traditions, partly found in writing, and partly received by me from those whose opinion I greatly prefer to that of my inipugner ; and their statements derive force and colour from Murdoch, vol. i., pp. 512-14, where the matter is examined at length. However peaceable the Indians may now be assumed to have been, in the face of very numerous records no one will surely contend that they could not commit outrages. Murdoch's pages are full of such in- stances. In chapter iii., page 38, the author of the Sequel, with one stroke of the pen, credits me with quoting from the late Dr. Henry Greggs Farish ; and, at the same time, charges me with mutilation. The author deserves my thanks for en- abling me to say, now that Dr, G. J. Farish lias passed away, what I could not say when he was living. My first draft of the history contained nmch more of Dr. H. G. Farish's writ- ing than does the published work. His son, Dr. Joseph, begged of me not to insert so much, fearing, as he said, people would think there was too much Farish in it. I think he was wrong ; but, at the same time, against my own judgment and wishes, I complied with his request. I am, therefore, amply prepared to meet the charge of having unduly abbreviated. I was not engaged in book - padding, An Answfr to J^ome fiTFUrrtiirKH. or filling up ncorcs of pages with matter that had iio earthly relation to Yarmouth ; hut by the doing of which the author of the SEtiUEi. may well bo hoisted on his own petard ; for, if I have cut it short, he has certainly sjmn it out. With reference to the French ctillars at C'hegoggin, noticed on jiage ;}9, I received all that I rtuy as a tniditifjn, from authorities whose memories I deeply cherish, and whom 1 shall always esteem much more highly than I do my critic. On pages 42, 43, the author makes merry over the tradi- tional account of the sufferings of the first settlers. The •whole story, as well as the reference to the tail of a hide, I had upon the authority (^f that venerable " eld(u*ly lady," Mrs. H. U. Farish, who informed me that she had it from those who were directly concerned. I desire no better authority. Her character and her te&timony are alike un- impeachable. I have nothing to modify, but all to confirm, with regard to the man who "all but died." The incident was often referred to by the late Dr. G. J. Farish and Dr. Joseph Bond, who had received it from others before them. With reference to the use of oil by Yarmouth or other physicians, jauntily referred to on page 43 of the Sequel, I have only to remark that the best authorities, both ancjient and modern, show that the most intelligent practitioners are accustomed to ii\akc a free use of oils externally. On the same page, the whole argument on alleged discrep- ancies as to land measurements is answered by the unavoidably indefinite amount of land that was actually set apart for a Township. I found the whole subject of Grants to be very difficult, and by no means clearly understood, even in the Record Office at Halifax. I am, however, in very good company with all those who engage in land transactions, and who are, from the nature of the case, necessarily in the habit of saying "more or less." On page 55, the author makas this most daring and desper- ate assertion, " Mr. Campbell has succeeded in discovering an "organized body known as 'New Lights,' but he has not told 1!» 10 An Answer to Some Strictures. "us wliere he found them. The researches of other people "liave not disclosed a distinct sect, nor an organized body "known by that name." Tliere is no more striking example in these strictures of the malicious determination of the author to find fault leading him into a pit-fall. In the easily acces- 'Ible book, known jis "The Life and Times of Ha-ris Hard- ing," by the Rev. John Davis, references to the sect, chunjhes, and o])inions of the body known as " New Lights " simply abound. On page 6 of that work, we are informed that " Mr. Harding attended on ' New Light ' administrations." On page 15, we read that "He (Mr. Harding) went from " meeting to meeting among Methodists or ' New Lights,' as " the case might be." On page 62, we are told that " The " (Yarmouth) Church was gathered on the plan of the other " New Light Churches in the Province at that time." On page 64, we learn that "Mr. Payzant founded a Church at " Onslow on a New Light basis." Ii^ the same work, and up.m the following pages, 22, 25, 30, 51, 74, 77, 94, 110, 131, 168, 179, 181, and 207, ample justification of my position will be found. I do not wish to multiply references unnecessarily, but in the learned work known as Blunt's Dictionary of Sects and Heresies (Rivington's, London, 1874), which is acknowl- edged to be the best authority in the English language on the subject, we find still further evidence. Upon page 31, there is an account of the doctrines and opinions of the New Lights, a sect of the Anti-Burghers. On page 93, there is an account of the New Lights, a branch of the Burghers, which came into existence about 1799. And, lastly on this subject, on page 553 of the same learned work we read of " a " sect of Calvinist Metl.udists whicli had a short duration in " North America in the middle of the last century. It origi- "nated about the year 1740, in the preaching of Whitefield. " and at first took the name of New Lights ; but, being " organized into separate societies by a preaclier named " Shubel Stearne, they took the name of Separates. In the "year 1751, Stes-rne joined the Baptist sect, and carried An Answer to Some Strictures. 11 "many of his followers with him, when the name which "they had assumed ceased to he any longer used." A careful study of the reckless .assertion of the author of the Sequel, that I had succeeded in discovering a body that no one else had ever heard of, will, in the face of the above evidence, be (juite sufficient to enable his readers to gauge the critical value of the whole performance. With regard to the author of the Sec^uel's contradiction of my statement that Captain Ranald MacKinnon had assisted in completing the expulsion of the French, I must say that I believe that statement to be correct ; although with the death of persons living at the time of the writing of my book, some S})ecific means of proving certain statements have passed be- yond my reach. The author of the Secjuel speaks of Mac- Kinnon's having " nothing to do with that disgraceful affair," as if a mere subaltern had any choice but to obey his superior officer, or, as if disobedience would have claimed some special merit. By referring to the date of the deportation of 1 755, and then to the date of MacKinnon's first commission, in 1757, the author of the Sequel infers that the officer in <}uestion " had nothing to do with that disgraceful affair." My answer is that 1755 was but the date of the beginning of " that dis- graceful affair," and that as late as 1761 the Highlanders were instrumental in deporting se^'cil hundreds of the Aca- dians from about the Bay de Chaleurs, for which service Captain Roderick McKenzic, who commanded the High- landei-s, received the tlianks of Governor Belcher in Novem- ber of the same year, thai u, four years after the date of Mac- Kinnon's commission It would luive been prudent in the author of the Sequel to have hehl his peace, just an, a)K>ut some things, I held mine ; but, once the matter ii stirred, the author of the Sequel becomes a strong witness that there is good prima facie evidence that Lieutenant MacKinnon took part in " that disgraceful affair." This much is certain, the iTiere allegation of a writer who is so utterly reckless in other matters, will certainly not establish the contrary. 12 An Answer to Some Strictures. On page 55 of the Sequei , when speaking of Hezekiah Bunker, 1 am criticised in my use of the word " trace." I reply that I do so not so mwch with reference to instrument in which his name occurs, as with regard to his ])ers(mal his- tory, and this is evident from the context. The only trace that I could find of the man was his name : has the author of the Sequel discovered more ? On page 61, it is declared that Mr. Campbell had "no " proper warrant for saying that there were one hundred and "forty pleasure carriages in Yarmouth in 1831." I had a " proper warrant " in the form of a written memorandum of the late Mrs. H. G. Farish. I ask no better warrant. The warrant is unimpeachable. Nothing has been set down by me an^'where Avithout warrant, and without, where possible, having been verified by many witnessess. My statements as to the foreign trade of Yarmouth, ad- verted to on page 62, will stand the test of examination. I admit they wall bear am])lification. From this point of view — and apart from the animus of the writer — the additional information given in the Sequel is excellent ; but in no case, throughout my whole work, have I intentionally depreciated any citizen whose memory ought to be honorably preserved. Upon page 67, I am controverted as to the naming of More-Rum Brook. I question no statement of the author of the Sequel with regard to rum ; but, as regards the naming of the Brook, I entirely prefer the traditional account handed down from the time of the late Colonel Joseph Norman Bond, as well as the information derived from personal intercourse with Captain J. V. N. Hatfield, Colonel James Lent, and many others. I am charged, on page 68, with deliberate misrepresenta- tion in my account of Confederation. I made no misrepre- sentation, deliberate or otherwise, and I require no excuse. To all those who are acquainted, first, with the facts, and then with myself, no further defence will be required. I felt the delicacy of the whole matter, and I spoke both carefully An Answer to Some Strictukes. la and truthfully — commeiuUng myself to reasonable men of both political parties. However, this Is a question u])on which it has been seriously suggested that the author of the Sequel should be taken care of. Upon page 71, I am gravely censured for having located what I thought the most desirable street in the Town of Yar- mouth for private residences. Fortunately I was not a land- owner in that neighbourhood — that was merely my (opinion fifteen years ago. I might not think so now, and if I did it would still be a matter of oi)inion ; but 1 freely admit the gravity of the issue, and the need for writing a book in order to correct me. The unhandsome interpretation put upon my w-ords re- ferring to New St. John's Presbyterian Church will best be answered by the membei*s of tll^i congregation of that Church, who yet, happily, survive — with whom I was intimate — who heard my address at the laying of the foundation stone, — whose confidence I then enjoyed, and do dill enjoy. On pages 73, 74 and 75, the author animadverts freely on my statistics. I admit liis great power at figures. In my judgment, his natural ability, acquired information, large h'lilness capacity, and patience in detail, his originally large resources, and favourable surroundingb all combined to make him one of the foremost men in Yarmouth. But even if they ha.i done so, I would still rather defer to public opinion. I admit that the lapse of years has materially affected this (jues- tion. But any miscalculation on my part pales before that of the author of the " Sequel " as to the efllect of his book. On page 77, a charge of want of modesty is preferred against me for calling my work a History. When I did so, I used the phraseology already adopted by the authorities of King's College. As to the manner in which my reference to Murdoch's History of Nova Scotia is distorted, any reader acquainted with that work knows that it ta a valuable mine of facts not fully worked out in detail. My meaning is perfectly plain. 14 An Answer to Some Strictures. On page 77, the author's childish love of fault-finding not only reaches a climax, but it carries him headlong down the precipice of blinded malevolence, and lands him in a heap of contradictory rvibbish. On page 5 of my work, I had writ- ten : " The river being thus shut up, forced a new opening for "itself; and, in 1810, i( was again closed by a good dyke, " with substantial sluices ; and the abbatteau was protected by "a long pier running out to seaward." "Here," says the author of the Sequel, "we have the terms 'dike,' 'abbatteau,' and ' long pier ' to denote one structure. The description was complete with the words, 'good dike.' " What a combination of malice and folly is involved in the assertion that a "dyke," an "■abbatteau," and a "long pier" are " one structure " ! This author might as truthfully have asserted that the wharves, sheds, warehouses, and railway tracks on and surrounding the site of what was formerly known as Brown's Wharf, but which are now the ])roperty of the Hon. L. E. Baker, are " one structure." The unfortunate man knows better. The author of the Sequel contends upon pp. 78-9 that the Milicites, as a tribe distinct from the Micmacs, had no more substantial existence than that derived from my imaghi- ation. Probably I found them where I found the New Lights. But for your further satisfaction, Gentlemen, I may say that ihe Milicites (sometimes, as in Murdoch, Malicites, or, as in Kand, Maliseets,) are referred to in Murdoch, volume i., page 409, where the author tells us tliat in the summer of 17'24, a party of Indians, consisting of thirty Malicites and twenty- six Micmacs, attacked Anna})olis. Hannay, in his History OF Acadia, published in 1879, on page 43, distinguishes be- tween, describes, and enumerates the Micmacs and Milicites. Munro, in his History of New Brunswick (Halifax, 1855), page 278, says : " In the early history of these Provinces there "were probably several nations of Indians inhabiting this " section of America, but tliey are now reduced to two, the " Micmacs and the Milicites, who s{)eak different languages. An Answer to Some Htkictures. 16 " Tlie former aro a robust race, and principally inhabit the " seashore ; they are the most nunntrous. The luttt^r are less " r.jbiist, and tlieir predilections are more in favor of the " interior parts of the country." At the present time th^re are being published, in tlie Saint John Sun, papera that are attracting considerable attention, under the heading of " Milicite Philosophy," in which one of the principal speakei-g is a Milicite. But what will be felt and acknowledged to be testimony beyond all question, is the following letter, written to me in connection with this matter by Dr. Sihis T. Rand, the greatest living authority upon the subject. The letter is dated Hants- port, N. S., December 10, 1888. He says, "The Micmacs and " the Maliseets are two distinct tribes, and take considerable "pains to let this be remembered. Like some more civilized " nations, they look down with contempt on each other. Their " languages, though cognate, are as really distinct as Dutch "and English — Latin and Greek. Their canoes, paddles, " snow-shoes, crooked knives, etc., etc., are differently formed. " I have a large vocabulary of Maliseet words, and have " printed books in both languages?, and am well acquainted " with individuals of both parties. I have no room for doubts "on the subject." What but blind hatred could have led any man so far ascray with regard to subjects so well known as the hi8tori^^al existence of the New Lights and the Milicites? On page 78, my use of the word " indeterminate " is chal- lenged by this teacher of propriety. My answer is, that I prefer to choose my own words, rather than accept those dictated by this author ; that the word " indeterminate " is an adjective well derived and well formed, signifying unfixed, indefinite, not settled ; and, as may be seen in Todd's John- son, London, 1818, folio edition, is so used by Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. South, and Sir Thomas More. A referem^e to Webster, Worcester, Stornionth, and others, wtmld also give our critic some hints about the use of this word. It is not the only instance of a good word falling into unmerited disuse. 16 An Answer to Some Ptuictures. ReftTfing t<) page 81, I may say tliat literal sympathy with persons long dead is noi possible. But all language is more or less metaphorical ; and in the very best company we perpetually say that " we feel with l*lat(\" or, " we agree with Cicero," or, as before suggested, " we auk with Horace," and all this without regard to the more than eighteen centuries that have passed away since the men lived, with whom we express these various forms of mental association. I need hardly insist that nothing in the derivation of the vvml would preclude the use of it in reference to persons that one never saw, and at any conceivable distance cf space or time. The late W. Edmundstone Aytoun, D.C. L., Professor of Khetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh, is an admitted authority on the English Language. In the preface to his " Charles Edward at Versailles," where he is speaking of the sufferings of that unhappy Prince and his followers, after the defeat of Culloden in 1746, he says: "No "feeling can arise to repre^ss the interest and the Sympathy " which is excited by the perusal of the tale narrating the " sufferings of the Princely wanderer." This he wrote one hundred years after the event referred to. Possibly Professor Aytoun is as good an authority here as the author of tlie Sequel, In the works of the foremost writers of the present age may be found frequent instances of the use of the word " sympathy " in the same sense as that of the offending clause. I am convicted, on page 81, of the serious charge of having used the word "more" thirteen times. In doing so, I was within my rights; and if I live long enough, I will use it thirteen times more, the author of the Sequel to the contrary, nothwithstanding. On page 82, I am bound to admit that I have, inadver- tently, made use of a plural verb instead of a singular. I hope I will be believed l)y the men of Yarmouth when I say that I am acquainted with the rule of English Grammar that requires a verb to agree with its nominative in number. An Answer to Some STRicruitEa. 17 With referonce to my use of the word " vibrating," the following quotation from Davis's "Life of the Rev. Harris Harding," page 15, will show how I came to use that term. Mr. Davis says of Mr. Harding, " Abandoning his occupation " as a teacher, he went from meeting to meeting among the " Methodists, and New Lights, as the case might be." I will not yield to tlie author of the Sequel in my admiration or respect for the memory of the Rev. Harris Harding ; and he will not, by this kind of reference, succeed in his covert attempt at creating ill-feeling botweon the Baptists and myself, any more than in the case of the Presbyterians. Neither will he succeed in the case of the Congregationalists, where my reference to the Tabernacle, to all but a caviller, is easily under- stood. A well-meaning man would not be *^ puzzled" as the author of the Sequel is, but would have seen from the con- text that my obvious meaning was that, at the time it was built, the Tabernacle, in my opinion, was the most correctly detailed ecclesiastical structure in the Province. The reader will note that it is not I, but the author of the Sequel who makes the invidious allusion to " Dissenters." Upon page 439, I am accused of intentionally corrupting the inscription on the monument of Herbert Huntington. I assure you, gentleman, the charge is false ; but in correcting the proof, the fact had evidently escaped my notice that the compositor had set up "singular" instead of"dgnal." There are several criticisms utterly unworthy oi any atten- tion, but one on page 83 deserves passing notice. The common expression, "tackled it up," is applied by me to the harnessing of a horse, and then attaching the horse to a carriage, although the horse was unmentioned. I readily admit that the phrase may be challenged as being imperfect; but it may also be defended as a recognized form and manner of contraction in ordinary use, by common consent, for greater convenience. For instance, who would seriously object to such colloquial phrases as the following, which we read and hear daily : " He was driving a carriage ; " " He d' > the lady six miles," and " The coachman drove his master ad mistress to the park " ? 13 An Answeu to Some Strictures. 1 do not think that there is anything further worthy of the leaat notice : much of what I have touched upon waa un- wortlij of attention. In this Secjuel, we have the result of nearly three years admitted searchinjr for errors, after the book had been ten years in possession. To what extent — technically or substantially — I stand convicted, 1 leave to your decision, and that of the men of Yarmouth. By the course he has [)ursued towards myself, this author haa seriously marred a work which contains much that is otherwise admir- able. That ourse has not, I believe, injured, and will not injure me, beyond causing me this little trouble and cost. But by an unhappy indulgence in personal hatred he has already injured himself — if that be possible — in vanoua ways. Not that this is of much importance — for the inflic- tion of a reflexive wrong only affects himself and those immediately connected with him, — but he ha.s committed. a public offence ; he has wronged the community in which he once lived by degrading and disfiguring, in a permanent manner, the historical literature of the County, for the grati- fication of private pique. Not satisfied with sujjplying what he considered a want in the public annals, and making good my deficiencies, he has stepped from the path of the annalist into that of the slanderer ; he has descended from the sober dignity of the historian to sit in the seat of the scorner, and he has done honour to the chair. Denuded of its personal matter and manner, this performance would stand an admirable mon- ument of the author's ability, but the trail of the serpent is over all ; malevolence has dimmed nis fine gold, turned his silver into dross, and mixed his wine with the Avatere of Marah. • He has proved in the clearest manner and by the strongest evidence, that he has much of the talent and all of the animus that would be needed to compose an exhaustive treatise on " The Pleasures of Malignity." I