It is, perhaps, no worse than many of the horrors of war.

On the other hand the Acadians had, as a whole, committed no overt act of disloyalty, though a few of them had done so.
Should a whole community thus suffer for the wrong doing of a few?
This is certainly a difficult question.
Those interested in the subject should read an article by Parkman in "Harper's Magazine" for November, 1884, where he justifies the action.

For the opposite view, see "Acadia" by Edouard Richards, vol.I, chap.

IV.
The following quotations will be found of interest.

The first is from Edouard Richards; the second and third from two of contemporaries of the exiled Acadians, Moses de les Derniers and Brook Watson.
"All that vast bay, around which but lately an industrious people worked like a swarm of bees, was now deserted.