It Is A Singular Coincidence That, For Being Hostile To Their Country
At The Time Of The Revolution, His Own Family Were Driven Into Exile
Twenty Years After The Deportation Of The Unhappy French People.
Have not even the most prosaic among us some love of poesy, though
unacknowledged?
And who, in romantic youth or sober age, has not been
touched by the tragic story of the dispersion of the people who
"dwelt together in love, those simple Acadian farmers, -
Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.
Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows,
But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of their owners;
There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance."
Of the name Acadia, Principal Dawson says in "Canadian Antiquities - ,
that "it signifies primarily a place or region, and, in combination
with other words, a place of plenty or abundance; ..." a name most
applicable to a region which is richer in the 'chief things of the
ancient mountains, the precious things of the lasting hills, and the
precious things of the earth and of the deep that coucheth beneath',
than any other portion of America of similar dimensions."
We naturally infer that the name is French; but our researches prove
that it was originally the Indian Aquoddie, a pollock, - not a poetic
or romantic significance. This was corrupted by the French into
Accadie, L'Acadie, Cadie.
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