The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion: Largely Derived from Original Sources and Documents, Volume 2C.B. Robinson, 1885 - Canada |
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advance affair Allan MacNab appears arms arrest arrived attack believe Bidwell Bloor Street body Canadian Caroline Almanac Colonel Fitz Gibbon Colonel Moodie command December despatch Doctor Egmond evidence Executive fact filibusters fire flag of truce Fletcher force friends Gallows Hill Gibson Government hands Hincks Horne's house horse hour hundred informed insurgents Jesse Lloyd John Rolph leaders letter Lieutenant-Governor Lindsey Lloydtown Lord Glenelg Lower Canada loyalist Mackenzie Mackenzie's MacNab matter ment miles militia Monday Montgomery's morning Morrison movement Narrative Navy Island night northward o'clock opinion passed Patriots persons Powell present prisoners proceeded Province Radicals Rebellion rebels referred Reformers returned Robert Baldwin rode Rolph and Baldwin Samuel Lount says seemed sent Sheriff Jarvis Sir Francis Head soon southward statement steamer taken tavern testimony Thursday told took Toronto Tory town Tuesday Upper Canada volunteers word wounded writes Yonge Street
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Page 23 - I never could enumerate all the blessings attendant on independence ! Up then, brave Canadians ! Get ready your rifles, and make short work of it ; a connection with England would involve us in all her wars, undertaken for her own advantage, never for ours ; with governors from England, we will have bribery at elections, corruption, villainy, and perpetual discord in every township, but independence would give us the means of enjoying many blessings.
Page 256 - I do declare on oath, that it is bond- fide my " intention to become a citizen of the United States, and " to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any '' foreign prince, potentate, State or sovereignty whatever...
Page 285 - A course of careful observation, during the last eleven years, has fully satisfied me, that, had the violent movements in which I and many others were engaged on both sides of the Niagara proved successful, that success would have deeply injured the people of Canada, whom I then believed I was serving at great risks; that it would have deprived millions, perhaps, of our own countrymen in Europe, of a home...
Page 91 - In a short time, two or three people, rushing in at the door, told us that 'a steamer full of the men of Gore had just arrived !' and almost at the same moment I had the pleasure of receiving this intelligence from their own leader.
Page 147 - ... him of the mercy as well as the power of the British crown ; and I ended by telling him that, as its humble representative, I would restore to him his letters unopened, if he would give me in writing a promise that he would leave the Queen's territory for ever. ' Mr. Bidwell had concealed in his heart some good feelings as well as many bad ones ; and as soon as his fears were removed, the former prompted him to express himself in terms which I will not undertake to repeat. Suffice it, however,...
Page 285 - No punishment that power could inflict, or nature sustain, would have equalled the regrets I have felt on account of much that I did, said, wrote, and published ; but the past cannot be recalled. . . . There is not a living man on this continent who more sincerely desires that British government in Canada may long continue, and give a home and a welcome to the old countrymen, than myself.
Page 273 - I still adhere to my opinion that the real and effectual vindication of Lord Durham's memory and proceedings will be the success of a GovernorGeneral of Canada who works out his views of government fairly.
Page 117 - BIDWELL, and the glorious minority ! " 1837, and a good beginning!") the militia advanced in pursuit of the rebels about four miles, till they reached the house of one of the principal ringleaders, Mr. Gibson, which residence it would have been impossible to have saved, and it was consequently burned to the ground.* The infatuated followers of Mr.
Page 149 - I am aware that the circumstances to which your Excellency alluded are calculated to give rise to suspicions against me in relation to this insurrection ; and while they would be likely to render my further residence in this Province unpleasant, they make your Excellency's kindness the more worthy of my deep and lasting gratitude. "I am confident, at the same time, that the investigations which will now of course be made will fully remove these suspicions from your Excellency's mind, and will prove...
Page 111 - did men fight more courageously. In the face of a heavy fire of grape and canister, with broadside following broadside of musketry in steady and rapid succession, they stood their ground firmly, and killed and wounded a large number of the enemy, but were at length compelled to retreat.