[RAYMOND] NOVA SCOTIA UNDER ENGLISH RULE 81 
an oppertunity of Acquainting the Inhabitants that if any persons 
attempt, by Indians or others, to Destroye or otherwise Molest his 
Majesty’s Troops, you have my orders to take an Eye for an Eye, a 
Tooth for a Tooth and in shorte Life for Life from the nearest Neigh- 
bours where such Mischiefe is Performed.” 
Capt. Sylvanus Cobb wrote on the 24th of September to Col. 
Winslow, “I have the Pleasure by Honest Crooker to hear of your 
welfare and fine Success in Securing so Many of the Bogers. I hope 
you will Continue in Such Success til you have routed all such Enemys 
from the Land.” 
Winslow writes on September 29th from his camp at Grand Pré, 
“T know all, and more than they Feel, they Deserve, yet it hurts me 
to hear their weeping and waling and Nashing of Teeth, I am in Hopes 
our affairs will soon put on another Face and we Get Transportes 
and I rid of the worst peace of Service yt Ever I was in.” 
It is claimed on behalf of the Acadians that Lawrence and his 
subordinates were unduly prejudiced against them. This may be so. 
The object of these quotations is merely to show that, if language means 
anything, those who were responsible for their deportation had abso- 
lutely no confidence in their loyalty to Great Britain, and believed 
their presence in Nova Scotia to be detrimental to British interests. 
The Expulsion a War Measure. 
The expulsion of the Acadians, whether justifiable or not, was a 
war measure.’ It was carried out in accordance with the standards 
of morality which prevail when rival nations are engaged in deadly 
strife. Lawrence made no attempt to act with gentleness. Rightly 
or wrongly he distrusted the Acadians and believed them to be a source 
of danger in any emergency that might arise, as well as an insuperable 
barrier to the introduction of English-speaking people. Accordingly, 
on the 28th of July, with the approval of his Council and of Boscawen 
and Mostyn, the admirals on the station, he decided that if they persisted 
in refusing to take an unqualified oath of allegiance they should be 
removed forthwith and distributed among the colonies to the southward. 
Before this conclusion had been formally approved, or any instruc- 
tions had been issued to carry it into effect, news arrived of the terrible 
disaster that had befallen General Braddock’s expedition against 
Fort Duquesne. The news of this disaster was brought to Halifax, 
on the 23rd of July, 1755, by the brig Lily, Captain Morris, one of 



! See remarks on this head by Dr. W. F. Ganong in the Transactions of the 
Royal Society, Series II, Vol. X, English section, p. 35. 
Sec. II., 1910. 6. 
