~, I “I had long seen the country in the hands of a few shrewd, crafty, covetous men. ..A sordid band of land-jobbers grasped the soil as their patrimony, and with a few leading officials, who dinded the public revenue among themselves, Sormed the Family Compact, and were the avowed enemues of common schools, of civil and religious liberty, of all legislative and other checks to their own will. Other men had opposed, and been converted by them. At nine and twenty I might have united with them, but chose rather to Join the oppressed, nor have I ever regretted that choice, or wavered from the object of my early pursuit.” hs ST — William Lyon Mackenzie NS Oe 8 NS ne Wi a. i Bhi awinm ia a AE I 1 Wi fdiaitee tty il rps Ny MESSMO eeu aaa al i fet AAAS rie + See 2 ee, A Patriote force, barricaded in a church, 1s defeated at St. Eustache. The Battle of Montgomery's Farm, north of T oronto, on December 7, 1837. Anstocracy is a stranger to us. With it we hold not, have not, any principles in common . . . Nearly our whole population is dependent for a subsistence on manual and mental labour. . . We despise the idler who vegetates on the earth a mere consumer of what better men produce. — Patriote Central Committee, Montreal, 1837 (To the Workingmen’s Association of London) Cw. letrerys The rebel army marches on Toronto. “Those men with whom my husband acted were moved by the impulse of noble and generous sympathies. They panted not for office, for those they enjoyed — they thirsted not for blood, for Canadians were their brothers — they were determined to drive a Nero from ius throne, to nd Canada of a tyrant and to effect a cwil revolution that would give hapfnness and prosperity to the country.” —Elhzabeth Lount, 1838 (widow of Samuel Lount) 4,000 Piastres de Recompense ! ae PROCLAMATION. A DU be ee ee ee ee ee Lotis JOSEPH PAPINEAU, de a cn de Mental, Eauyet, ot sore du rte de Hate Trabine ; Ei attends que le dit Lots Joseph RECOMPENSE DE MILLE LIVRES, de cours de cote Province, k guommaer epprtbeniore simi be dt Lens Seurph Papuan ierere entre be mame de be Sestre. wile siamese: Donné som: mon Seing et le Seeas des mey Armes, as Chitean St. Lonis, dane la che de 1 te promite jour dr Deron: dane le Par Ordre de Sue Excellence, (Signe,) D. DALY, “A nation never can rebel. Those only are rebels who resist the will of the people — rom them emanates all legitimate constitutional government.” Charles Duncombe (commander of uprising in London area) SS pi yy) 1, Transported Canadian prisoners in England. From left, Bedford, Miller, Reynolds, Malcolm, Parker, Wixon, Watson, Anderson, Alves, Brown, Walker and Grant. PACIFIC TRIBUNE, JANUARY 20, 1988 e 7