The Camp Ground: Or Injunctions a Specialty (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Scene I. - Room in the cottage of Louis Marsile, on 17 banks of the St. Lawrence. Josephine Marsile, aged 18, in the dress of a peasant girl, sitting at the table in meditation, her arm upon the table and her head resting upon her hand. Period, 1837. Enter Henry Westcott, a young man in the uniform of an infantry Captain, and embraces and kisses Josephine.

Westcott. I have come to bid you farewell. I must leave you for a short time, dear Jose. I have organized a company, been elected captain, and to-day we must meet the Patriot forces, that are assembled on an island a short distance above. [Extending his hand to Josephine, who places hers in it.]

Jose. I regretted to hear yesterday, of your connection with this perilous military movement of the Patriots. A feeling of disquietude, and an apprehension of disaster and misfortune has oppressed me ever since.

Westcott. 0, banish these womanly fears, Put away these disquieting thoughts. I feel inspired with a patriotic feeling, and a desire to aid in giving freedom to the oppressed, and relief to the enslaved. Thousands in Canada are secretly encouraging this movement, and ready to welcome and join us as soon as the opportunity offers; and although our force is at present small, it will soon be swelled by enlistments of discontented Canadians who are awaiting our appearance within the Dominion. Fear not, my dear. I feel confident of a favorable result, and actuated only by a patriotic feeling, I shall gratify my highest ambition, and secure not only honor and glory, but the gratitude of the oppressed, and the approbation and approval of mankind.

Jose. I doubt not your sincerity, or the purity of your motives, dear Henry; but I fear you are being deceived by ambitious and unprincipled leaders, who, through ignorance or design, are misrepresenting the actual condition of things in Canada, and the sentiments of her people.

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