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Title: The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1

Author: John Charles Dent

Release Date: July 24, 2007 [EBook #22131]

Language: English

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THE STORY OF THE
UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION.

[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._

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"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._

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