Come now, don't be fools.

The Governor alone up there in Montreal has enough men to drive you all into the hills of Maine in a week.

You think you've got the start of Colborne?
Why, he has known every movement of Papineau and your rebels for the last two months.

You can bluster and riot to-day, but look out for to-morrow.

I am the only Englishman here among you.
Kill me; but watch what your end will be! For every hair of my head there will be one less habitant in this province.