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French ; but he was arraigned before a mock court- 

 martial composed of some half-breeds, having a man 

 named Lapine as president, the French language only 

 being used. A frivolous charge of breach of parole 

 (which was not true) was alleged against him, and 

 he was condemned to be shot. The execution was 

 carried out within a few hours by some intoxicated 

 half-breeds, commanded by a United States citizen 

 who had been in the Northern army. This murder 

 is said to have been carried out in a cruel and 

 atrocious manner. Those who perpetrated it by 

 Kiel's orders were at the time addressed by a French 

 priest on the ground where it was committed, and 

 told they were about to perform a righteous act. 



Mr Scott's murder caused a cry of execration to 

 resound throughout the English districts of Canada. 

 The press, which everywhere in the province of 

 Ontario had all through these affairs called for active 

 measures, now preached up a crusade, and with such 

 effect that it is almost beyond doubt that had the 

 priestly party in Canada succeeded, through their 

 mouthpieces, in preventing an armed expedition 

 being sent to the Eed Eiver, there would have arisen 

 in Ontario an organisation for sending an armed 

 body of emigrants there, sworn to avenge the foul 

 murder which had been perpetrated. Mr Scott was 

 an Orangeman, a volunteer, and an Upper Canadian, 

 and he had been murdered by those whom the people 

 of Ontario regarded as French Canadians. 



