Excerpt from At the Sign of the Hand and Pen: Nova-Scotian Authors People of such social and cultured eminence as the Loyalists who came to Nova Scotia did not gladly exchange the land inwhich they were so well established for the comparatively un' settled regions in which they were offered homes. Most of them were compelled by official or unofficial persecution to leave the Old Colonies; and they looked forward persistently to the time when they could return. Jacob Bailey (l73lol808.) who was associated with the Loyalist ...
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Excerpt from At the Sign of the Hand and Pen: Nova-Scotian Authors People of such social and cultured eminence as the Loyalists who came to Nova Scotia did not gladly exchange the land inwhich they were so well established for the comparatively un' settled regions in which they were offered homes. Most of them were compelled by official or unofficial persecution to leave the Old Colonies; and they looked forward persistently to the time when they could return. Jacob Bailey (l73lol808.) who was associated with the Loyalist settlement at Shelburne and whose Journal is one of the important records of Loyalist experif ence. Writes: When American Independence was announced to me. I was sitting in my study reading; but the instant this dis, agreeable sound struck my ears I continued motionless. Frozen with horror. For the space of ten minutes During the night I enjoyed but little repose. Interrupted slumbers. Distressing dreams. And visions of terror were my constant attendants till the morning opened with a sullen and malignant light to renew a train of melancholy reflections. Again he writes: The thoughts of being driven from our country. Our much loved home. And all those endearing connections we had been forming so many years. And. If we escaped the angry vengeance of the ocean. The expectation of landing on a strange and unknown shore depressed our spirits beyond measure. Bailey's later records show that the anticipation did not exceed the first cruel reality. The suffering from hunger. Cold. And disease. The writings of the Loyalists are full of the homesickness of a people who regard themselves as exiles in an inhospitable climate. They are also full of a threefold despair: despair at the past be, cause they had been defeated in what they regarded as a right, eous cause; despair at the present because they were dissatisfied with each other. With the treatment they received from the British administration. And. In many cases. With the ideals of the Puritan settlers; despair at the future because the Prospective Acts passed by the revolted colonies destroyed all h0pe of return to the land of their birth and they had yet no vision of happy homes in the land of their forced adoption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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