Young Lion of the Woods - A Story of Early Colonial Days
Smith, Thomas Barlow
English
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YOUNG LION OF THE WOODS;
ORA Story of Early Colonial Days.
BY
THOMAS B. SMITH. Here in Canadian hearth, and home, and name;—
This name which yet shall grow
Till all the nations know
Us for a patriot people, heart and hand
Loyal to our native earth, our own Canadian land!
—Chas. G.D. Roberts.
HALIFAX, N.S.:
NOVA SCOTIA PRINTING COMPANY.
1889.
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1889,by THOMAS B. SMITH, at the Department of Agriculture.
Dedication.
TO MY WIFE
I DEDICATE THIS, MY FIRST WORK,
WITH MY LOVE.
PREFACE.
The only merit that the writer claims for the following pages is, thatthey contain a record of facts, setting forth the sacred sentiments ofduty, religious trust, and the spirit of liberty, amid sufferings-andhardships of persons, whose loyalty was put to the severest test.
It has been beautifully said, "that he who sets a colony on foot designsa great work." "He designs all the good, and all the glory, of which, inthe series of ages, it might be the means; and he shall be judged moreby the lofty, ultimate aim and result, than by the actual instantmotive. You may well admire, therefore, the solemn and adornedplausibilities of the colonizing of Rome from Troy, in the Eneid! Thoughthe leader had been burned out of house and home, and could not choosebut go. You may find in the flight of the female founder of the gloomygreatness of Carthage a certain epic interest; yet was she running fromthe madness of her husband to save her life. Emigration from our stockedcommunities of undeified men and women, emigration for conquest, forgold, for very restlessness of spirit, if they grow toward an imperialissue, have all thus a prescriptive and recognized ingredient ofheroism. But when the immediate motive is as grand as the ultimate hopewas lofty, and the ultimate success splendid, then, to use an expressionof Bacon's," "the music is fuller."
In the hope that the privations and heroic conduct of those who are thesubjects of the story, in the following chapters, may prove asinteresting to the public as they did to the writer, when he firstlearned the history of such heroism, the writer submits them to thereader.
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