THE STORY OF THE
Upper Canadian Rebellion.
THE STORY
OF THE
UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION
JOHN CHARLES DENT
AUTHOR OF "THE LAST FORTY YEARS" &C.
Vol. I.
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 feelingsof public men, whose official acts have subjected them to public censure. If itwere, history and biography would cease to be guiding stars, and, above all, wouldoffer no wholesome restraint to the cruel, or corrupt, or incompetent exercise ofauthority."—Tupper's Life and Correspondence of Major-General SirIsaac Brock.
"We rebelled neither against Her Majesty's person nor her Government, but againstColonial mis-government.... We remonstrated; we were derided.... We weregoaded on to madness, and were compelled to show that we had the spirit ofresistance to repel injuries, or to be deemed a captive, degraded and recreantpeople. We took up arms, not to attack others, but to defendourselves."—Letter to Lord Durham from Dr. Wolfred Nelson andothers, 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 Ministerof 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 Briton
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