The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion: Largely Derived from Original Sources and Documents, Volume 2C.B. Robinson, 1885 - Canada |
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affair afterwards Allan MacNab appears arms arrest arrived attack attempt Baldwin Bidwell Bidwell's boat Buffalo Captain Drew Caroline Almanac Clear Grit Colonel Fitz Gibbon Colonel MacNab Colonial command course December despatch Doctor Duncombe evidence Executive expedition fact filibusters fire flag of truce Fletcher force friends frontier Gallows Hill Gibson Government hands hour hundred informed insurgents insurrection Jesse Lloyd John Rolph leaders leading Reformers letter Lieutenant-Governor Lindsey Lloydtown Lord Lord Durham Lord Glenelg Lower Canada loyalist Mackenzie Mackenzie's matter ment miles militia Monday Montgomery's Morrison movement Narrative Navy Island Nelson Gorham night o'clock opinion passed Patriots persons political Powell prisoners proceeded Province Radicals rebels Rensselaer revolt Robert Baldwin Samuel Lount says seemed sent Sheriff shore Sir Francis Head soon statement steamer tavern Thursday took Toronto Tory township Tuesday Upper Canada volunteers words Yonge Street
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Page 291 - ... adopted. But the success of the policy lay in the broad principles it established, and to which other colonial systems as well as that of the Dominion of Canada owe their strength and security to-day. One may say, with little help from the merely fanciful, that the rejoicings of emancipated colonies might have been in his dying ears as he sank into his early grave.
Page 18 - 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 276 - 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 294 - 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 Governor-General of Canada who works out his views of government fairly.
Page 306 - 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 201 - ... duty to inform you, that without having offered to the United States the smallest provocation, without having entertained the slightest previous doubt of the sincerity of American alliance, the inhabitants of this province may in a few days be called upon by me to defend their lives, their properties, and their liberties from an attack by American citizens, which, with no desire to offend, I must pronounce to be unparalleled in the history of the world.
Page 163 - I reminded 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,...
Page 306 - 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 132 - 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 166 - 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...