The Life and Times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie: With an Account of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837, and the Subsequent Frontier Disturbances, Chiefly from Unpublished Documents, Volume 1 |
Contents
11 | |
28 | |
34 | |
63 | |
78 | |
108 | |
137 | |
143 | |
312 | |
324 | |
355 | |
390 | |
5 | |
100 | |
185 | |
215 | |
160 | |
173 | |
187 | |
209 | |
224 | |
244 | |
288 | |
243 | |
303 | |
313 | |
344 | |
358 | |
369 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afterwards American arms Attorney Bidwell bill boat Boulton British Canadian civil court Clergy Reserves Colonel Colonial committee Crown declared dispatch District ditto ditto ditto duty election England Family Compact finding security Francis Bond Head friends Hagerman Handy House of Assembly hundred James John John Colborne John Rolph judge July jury justice keep the peace kenzie laborer land Legislative Council Legislature letter libel liberty Lieutenant Governor Lord Glenelg Lord Goderich Lount Lower Canada Mackenzie's magistrate March McLeod McNab meeting ment militia Navy Island pardoned Parliament party Patriot persons petition political prisoners proceedings Province refused Rensellaer reply resolution Rolph Samuel Lount schooner security to keep sent session Sir F. B. Sir Francis Bond steamer Sutherland taken tion Toronto trial troops United Upper Canada Vict vols vote yeoman Yonge Street York
Popular passages
Page 249 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are [at] peace...
Page 343 - That matters of religion, and the ways of God's worship, are not at all entrusted by us to any human power, because therein we cannot remit or exceed a tittle of what our consciences dictate to be the mind of God, without wilful sin; nevertheless the public way of instructing the nation (so it be not compulsive) is referred to their discretion.
Page 8 - That while it is expedient to improve the composition of the Executive Council, it is unadvisable to subject it to the responsibility demanded by the House of Assembly.
Page 7 - October, in the year 1832, no provision has been made by the Legislature of the province of Lower Canada, for defraying the charges of the administration of justice, and for the support of the civil government, within the said province, and that there will, on the 10th day of April now next ensuing, be required for defraying in full the charges aforesaid to that day, the sum of £142,160.
Page 355 - April, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, which have not since expired, or been repealed or altered, and such acts of the Legislature of this State as are now in force, shall be and continue the law of this State, subject to such alterations as the Legislature shall make concerning the same.
Page 213 - ... by the veneration due by all freemen to the laws which they have assisted to enact for their own government, by his regard for the honor and reputation of his country, by his love of order and respect for the sacred code of laws by which national intercourse is regulated, to use every effort in his power to arrest for trial and punishment every offender against the laws providing for the performance of our obligations to the other powers of the world.
Page 149 - Had that been done, the war would never cease. Even if the territory had been exclusively that of Spain, and her power complete over it, we had a right, by the law of nations, to follow the enemy on it, and to subdue him there.
Page 371 - In a number of other instances, too, the elections were carried by the unscrupulous exercise, of the influence of the Government, and by a display of violence on the part of the Tories, who were emboldened by the countenance afforded to them by the authorities. It was stated, but I believe without...
Page 9 - Destroy the Revenue ; denounce the oppressors. Everything is lawful when the fundamental liberties are in danger. ' The guards die — they never surrender.
Page 348 - Any bill may originate in either house of the Legislature, and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other. SEC. 14. The enacting clause of all bills shall be "The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows," and no law shall be enacted except by bill.