The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1

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THE STORY OF THE
Upper Canadian Rebellion.
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THE STORY
OF THE
UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION
JOHN CHARLES DENT
AUTHOR OF "THE LAST FORTY YEARS" &C.
Vol. I.
front
TORONTO.
PUBLISHED BY C. BLACKETT ROBINSON
1865
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.
CONTENTS.
Page.
CHAPTER I.
The Banished Briton9
CHAPTER II.
A Bill of Particulars 46
CHAPTER III.
The Family Compact71
CHAPTER IV.
Fathers of Reform96

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