The Acadian Proscript

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Excerpt from The Acadian Proscript: A Historical Drama in Five Acts General Winslow. Large, florid, pompous at times, rather illiterate, affable, vain of his attire and vainer of his pedigree and although American born, a loyalist to the end. Much of his speech here is historical and his dramatic action closely follows the written record. His still extant portrait hangs on the walls of the Mass. Historical Society, in whose archives also is to be found "Winslow's Journal, " giving in awful detail the primary facts of the unhappy part he took in the horrible Acadian Deportation. He died, I believe, during the American Revolution, a political refugee, forsaken, heart-broken and disgraced. The descendants of "La Tourmente" still hold his name in execration, a fate he does not at all deserve. Admiral Boscawen. Small statured, knotty looking but extremely dapper, wry-necked, quick-worded, raven voiced, thin faced, bushy browed, aged looking though young. He is autocratic with inferiors, obsequious to those above him in office and despises American generals and their methods of campaigning. Really a man of splendid ability and successful in his campaigns. Costume, English admiral of his times. General Moncton. Tall, lithe, handsome, pale, aristocratic, Voltairish, hawk-eyed, furtively keen, despising the American militia and colonial officers, illy concealing his contempt for military pretension wherever found. Middle aged (45 years). Gov. Charles Lawrence. Huge, bison-shouldered, bull-necked, deep voiced, ready and rough brained-a mightily forceful character. He formerly was a boat painter of obscure origin along the Thames and though inherently dishonest and relentlessly cruel in military methods he was a jolly, good natured man, loving physical sports and dancing. In fact, it was from a too sudden "cooling off" while over-heated from dancing that he contracted an illness from which he died. He alone, without any authority superior to the Nova Scotian council, planned (with the astute Judge Norris, of Massachusetts) the atrocity of the Acadian Expulsion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.