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The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1 By: John Charles Dent (1841-1888) |
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[Illustration: Yours truly, John Rolph] THE STORY OF THE =UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION= JOHN CHARLES DENT AUTHOR OF "THE LAST FORTY YEARS" &C. VOL. I. [Illustration] TORONTO. PUBLISHED BY C. BLACKETT ROBINSON 1865 New York THE STORY OF THE UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION; LARGELY DERIVED FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS. BY JOHN CHARLES DENT, Author of "The Last Forty Years," etc. "Well, God be thanked for these rebels." I Henry IV. , Act iii, sc. 3. "Truth is not always to be withheld because its expression may wound the feelings of public men, whose official acts have subjected them to public censure. If it were, history and biography would cease to be guiding stars, and, above all, would offer no wholesome restraint to the cruel, or corrupt, or incompetent exercise of authority." Tupper's Life and Correspondence of Major General Sir Isaac Brock. "We rebelled neither against Her Majesty's person nor her Government, but against Colonial mis government.... We remonstrated; we were derided.... We were goaded on to madness, and were compelled to show that we had the spirit of resistance to repel injuries, or to be deemed a captive, degraded and recreant people. We took up arms, not to attack others, but to defend ourselves." Letter to Lord Durham from Dr. Wolfred Nelson and others, confined at Montreal, June 18th, 1838. =Toronto:= C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, 5 JORDAN STREET. 1885. Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1885, by C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture. I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY ESTEEMED FRIEND, GEORGE STEWART, JUN'R. OF QUEBEC: WHOSE RESEARCHES IN A KINDRED DIRECTION WILL ENABLE HIM TO DO FULL JUSTICE TO WHATEVER IS MERITORIOUS IN IT; WHILE HIS GENEROUS APPRECIATION OF THE EFFORTS OF HIS LITERARY BRETHREN WILL RENDER HIM INDULGENT TO ITS DEFECTS. JOHN CHARLES DENT. Toronto, 1885. [Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors, including punctuation, have been corrected. All other inconsistencies have been left as they were in the original.] CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. THE BANISHED BRITON 9 CHAPTER II. A BILL OF PARTICULARS 46 CHAPTER III. THE FAMILY COMPACT 71 CHAPTER IV. FATHERS OF REFORM 96 CHAPTER V. A "FREE AND UNFETTERED" PRESS 122 CHAPTER VI. THE CASE OF CAPTAIN MATTHEWS 144 CHAPTER VII. THE NIAGARA FALLS OUTRAGE 151 CHAPTER VIII. THE "AMOVAL" OF MR. JUSTICE WILLIS 162 CHAPTER IX. THE CASE OF FRANCIS COLLINS 195 CHAPTER X. LIGHTS OLD AND NEW 213 CHAPTER XI. PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE 231 CHAPTER XII. DISENFRANCHISEMENT 253 CHAPTER XIII. MR. HUME'S "BANEFUL DOMINATION" LETTER 264 CHAPTER XIV. "SEE, THE CONQUERING HERO COMES!" 282 CHAPTER XV. "A TRIED REFORMER" 296 CHAPTER XVI. THE TRIUMPHS OF A TRIED REFORMER 324 CHAPTER XVII. REACTION 342 CHAPTER XVIII. THE FORGING OF THE PIKES 354 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS John Rolph Frontispiece David Gibson 284 THE STORY OF THE UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION. CHAPTER I. THE BANISHED BRITON. [Sidenote: 1819] In the afternoon of a warm and sultry day, towards the close of one of the warmest and most sultry summers which Upper Canada has ever known, an extraordinary trial took place at the court house in the old town of Niagara... Continue reading book >>
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