"fe^ t> v^, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I !f IIM IIIIIM >^ i^ IIIII2.2 If lio |||20 18 1.25 1.4 1.6 ■^ 6" ► . - " S Hector Langevin, Sir Adolphe Caron and Hon. M. Chapleau, were publicly burned. An English new.spaper office was visited, stones were sent into the windows of the editorial rooms, and the proprietor narrowly escaped a serious wound. In Quebec the same evening, 15,000 people met in a gathering which was " exceedingly violent in " its expressions and resolves of antipathy to the Orangemen of " Ontario." The windows of the Chronicle, the only Quebec paper which appro^'ed of the execution, were smashed. RACE AND REVENGE. On the following day the organizers of the so-called National Party met in Montreal for the purpose of laying out their plans. An f^xecutive committee was appointed. Among the members of that committee were Mr. Mercier and Mr. Prefontaine, now President of the Young Men's Dominion Liberal Association. On the same day a mass meeting was held in the Champ de Mars, and the following sentiments were embodied in the resolutions then passed : " That the execution of Louis Riel is an outrage to justice and " humanity ; that the French-Canadian Ministers, and those who endea- " vor to justify their conduct, be looked upon as traitors ; that Louis " Riel be placed among the political martyrs of the French-Canadian " nationality." This was the first general announcement of the National Party of the policy of " Race and Revenge." On the following day the alliance between the National Party and Ontario Liberals was arranged, and to-day Mr. Blake stands at the head of the former, with Mr. Mercier on one side and Mr. Mowat on the other. Then MR. EDGAR GAME IN. On November 20th, 1885, the confidential agent and general factotum of Mr. Blake arrived in Montreal for the purpose of arranging an alliance between the leaders of the Liberal Party in Ontario and the promoters of the " Race and Revenge " movement in Quebec. At the previous night's meeting Mr. David had declared that " at the head " of the new National Party should stand the Hon. Edward Blake." The arrangement then made has so far been faithfully carried out by Mr Blake and his Lieutenant, Mr. Mowat. On November 21st the Globe announced, on behalf of Messrs Blake and Mowat, that those gentlemen had determined to ally the English-speaking Reformers with the Nationalist Party, joined for the purpose of avenging the death of Riel. In the course of the article announcing this, the Grit org.in said : " We ask all fair-minded English- " speaking citizens to put tl emselves in the place of the men of Riel's " race, before charging them with offensive sympathy A hearty "union of both Provinces to punish the malefactors in office is the " only course by which Canada can be saved." About the same time ",Mr. Anglin declared in his own paper that the execution of Riel was " a foul political murder." On Sunday, November 22, a great meeting en the Champ dc^ Mars, Montreal, was held. Riel was then held up as a patriot, a ^.: 4 > martyr, a h(>ro, and a saint. The " hangmen of Ontario " were held reHponsiblc for tlie " crime." Mr, Laurier declared that the execution was a "judicial murder." He said that "if he had been living on the " banks of the Saskatchewan when the revolt broke out, ho would "himself have taken up arms against the Government." He said further : " Henceforth there is to be but a united nationality, which " will receive the support of their Liberal allies of the Province of " Ontario and of the great statesman, Edward Blake." THE "NATIONALIST" PRESS <■> came out hot and strong upon this question, as might have been pected, after the lead given to it by firebrand and interested politicians, lirench and Englisli. Said LEtendard: " As to the affairs of the North-West, is it "not evident that the highest sense of justice would have avoided the " rising and the civil war ? . . . . and the arson, the thefts, the " robberies, the murdering of the wounded by the volunteers — was not " all this persecution ? " Le Nord burst forth : " Glut yourselves, " Orange brothers, with the spectacle of the hanged Riel. You have " vindicated the majesty of the law, but you have also dug beneath " the scatibld a pit in which may be buried all your dreams of tyranny " and domination over the North-West." MR. JOLY'S LETTER was a thunderbolt to the conspirators. Formerly Premier of Quebec, and a Rouge at that, rather than join the " Race and Revenge " crusade for party purposes, he declared in his letter of November 28th, " I " cannot approve of the agitation which is now carried on in the Pro- " vince of Quebec I cannot see how the formation of a " new party,the National Party, would better their position (the French- " Canadians), but I think I can see how it would endanger the future " welfare of the Dominion." Another letter, breathing a very different spirit, but equally indicative, though in another way, of one spirit ^' -if. was permeating the Quebecians, was sent to the Mail by " a " Montreal French-Canadian." It was dated December 8th, 1885, " and opened : " Messieurs les Orangeistes. — You are nothing but vile " scoundrels. You have hanged Riel, the brave French -Canadian '■ Metis. . . . But the crime which you have committed at Regina •' will not remain unpunished." And so on, et cetera. THE ONTARIO RIELITES During the last session of the Ontario Legislature an amendment to the address was moved by Mr. Meredith, expressing appreciation of the conduct of the permanent military forces of Canada, and of the volunteers. An amendment to this was moved by Mr. White, as fol- lows : " And we must, now that peace has been restored, the suprem- " acy of the law vindicated, and just punishments inflicted upon the " principal participants in the rebellion, it may be consistent with the " public interests to extend the merciful consideration of the Crown 1 1> y 1 • r " to the cases of those who are now umlergoinjr imprisonment for "otf'enccs committed during or arising out of it." The amendment was most bitterly opposed by the Government, and was voted down. During the debate Mr. Fraser liiconed Riel to Sir George (.Artier, and said that at no distant date a monument would bo erected to tho rebel's memory. The following are the names of the gentlemen who voted againsL Mr. White's amendment, and who practically thereby denied that justice had been done, an'/ard, Cascadon, (Uiisholm Conmec, Cooke, Dill, Dowliiig, Drury, Dryden, Forgu.s on, Ft-rris^ Fraser Freeman, Gibson (Huron), Gillies, Gould, Hagar, Harcourt, Hardy, Hart, Hawloy, Laidlaw, Lyon, Mclntyre, MacKenzie, McKim, McLaughlin, McMahon, Master, Morin, Mowat, O'Connor, Pardee, Phelps, Rayside, Ross (Huron), Ro.ss (Middlesex), Sills, Snider , Waters, Young . PACAUD'S CASE The sympathy which the Government side of the House then displayed with the " Race and Revenge " movement was even more strongly brought out by the Pacaud episode. The people of Ontario are not likely to forget that Mr. Mowat not only took into his em- ployment, but energetically defended, a man who had made it his bu.siness both to insult the volunteers and to e.spouse the cause of Riel after the fashion of the rebel's most rabid friends in Quebec. Pacaud is editor of Le Progres, published in Detroit, and, favored by pap from the Ontario Government, undertook to introduce the " Race and Revenge" cry into Essex. Pacaud afterwards went to Toronto, and told the people to watch for his letters from the Press Gallery. This is how he wrote of the rebellion and of the volunteers : " The Govern - " ment troops were the first to fire ; the volunteers assassinated the " wounded Metis, insulted the women, burned and pillaged tlieir houses; "Riel was indirectly promised his life by General Middleton; the " trial at Regina was specially contrived to condemn Riel to death, " the jury was picked out, and Richardson either was an Orangeman " or was the stipendiary tool of the Government." This and much more of the same sort. Mr. White asked whether it was right that a man so misrepresenting and abusing the Opposition should be allowed to sit in the gallery. Mr. Mowat energetically defended hi.s protege, who is now a candidate in his interest in the county of Essex. RACE AND REVENGE AT OTTAWA Di^ring the last session of the Commons, Mr. Landry moved a resolution expressing strong regret that Riel had been executed. In the following debate Mr. Blake advanced every possible argument in justification of Riel and of the rebellion. The rebel was likened by v*- 6 Mr. L'Angelier, M.P. for Quebec, to our Saviour. The motion was ilctortted, the voting iinalysiH showing that Ontario went 18 for it and 1)5 a<.(ainst, Qu('l)ec supporting it by 28 vot«\s and 36 being cast against it. Only one Englisli-speaking representative from Quebec voted for Mr. Landry's motion. The Refonners voting with the Government ruinbered 24. The Ontario Reformers who supported Mr. Lamhy were Messrs. Allen, Armstrong, Blake, Cameron (Huron), Cameron (Middlesex), Campbidl, Casey, Cooke, Edgar, Glen, Hawley, Lauderkin, Lister, Mills, Somerville, Trow and Wells. THE CHAMBLY ELECTION * came on about the end of July, the sole issue being the Riel question, Mr. Prefontaine being the Rielite candidate. He was successful, one of the first to congratulate him being Mr. D. E. Cameron, a prominent Young Liberal, who telegraphed : " Accept our sincorest congratula- ' tions on your magnificent victory, which I regard as preceding a still "greater triumph." Another telegram began: " The Liberals of Toronto " congratulate you on your splendid victory." It ended as follows : 11 WELCOME TO OUR (RIELITE) COLLEAGUE." EDGAR J. D. Referryig to this extraordinary document, the Huntingdon Gleaner, the leading Liberal paper of the Eastern Townships, and the organ of the English-speaking Reformers in Quebec, said : " Mr. Edgar " is a member of the House of Commons, and reputed to be Mr. Blake's " adviser in party movements. Whether he has authorit)'- to speak on '• behalf of the Toronto Liberals, we cannot say. If he has, are we to ' un (« ^ K1, mnJm fgumi^M i * > t» QUEBEC ELECTIONS Senator Thibaudeau said : "The choice of the neeting should be a " NationaliHt. It does not matter so much as to his prot'ession." At the .same meeting the following preamble to a resolution was passed : " Considering that the Liberal and Conservative National electors of " Montreal at Inst hold it to be necessary to oppose the re-election of " the Hon. Mr. Taillon, in order to avenge the national caiLse," etc. As is now known Mr. Taillon was defeated, and MR. MOWAT, FULL OF JOY AT THE RIELITE SUCCESS, telegraphed as follows to Mr. Mercier, " Have just received here the "joyful news oi your great triumph. 1 congratulate you and all your " friends on your important victory." That is, he triumphed in the fact that the men who are seeking to avenge Riel by destroying both the Quebec and Dominion Governments had succeeded. Ho and Mr. Blake have now called upon their,friend and ally, Mr, Mercier, to send lliolite speakers in+o Ontario to help fight their battle here. In view of this compact between the Mowat Government and what is known as Nationalism in Quebec, it is important to com- prehend the full meaning of that term. L' Union dea Cantons de VEnt, a Nationalist paper published at Arthabaskaville, on Nov. l.Sth thus discoursed upon Nationalism : " The Conservative Nationalists, break- " ing with Sir John and the sect, join their natural allies in Hon. Mr. " Blake and the party which marches behind him. Mr. Blake and " his followers in Ontario are the men to whom we must tender our " hands. They are fighting our enemies ; our enemies are the Orange-' " iates and all who favor them." It is impossible to misunderstand this, or to avoid the conclusion that it thoroughly explains the close relations confessedly now main- tained between Mr. Mowat and the Rielites. No wonder that the people of Ontario, both Liberal and Conservative, have taken alarm at the unholy alliance between the Provincial Government and the rebellious Quebecians for the sake of retaining power. No wonder that the GHOSTLY POLICY of taking the stump on Kiel's grave in order to embarrass Sir John Macdonald's Government and pifrchase Mr. Blake's support for the Local Government, has given offence. Was it for this that our gal- lant volunteers leapt to arras a^d underwent untold privations in order to suppress the rebellion and avenge the cold-blooded murder of defenceless men, innocent womeip and children ? Was it that Riel might be elevated from his real turer, to that of a canonized blood ? Was it for this that tj laid down their lives ? The bloc for his country cries aloud froli What say the friends of the >sition as a cruel, mercenary adven- ro that Canada gave of her heart's gallant men whose names follow of every soldier who gave his life the grave at such a suggestion. «i $i KILLED AT DUCK LAKE Constable T. J. Oihson, N.W.M.P. •• O. P. Arnold, •• KILLED AT F18H CREEK Privato A. W. Fkuquson, OOtli Battalion. " Jas. Hutchins, •• •• Geo. Wheeler, •• " W. Envts, •• Gunner G. H. Demanolly, A Battery. " W. Cook, •• KILLED AT CUT KNIFE Private John Rooebs, Gov..Gen. Guarda II Osgood, d m II Arthur Dobbs, Battleford Rifles. Bugler H. Foulkes, "C" Comp. I.S. Corpa, Corporal W. H. Lowry, N. W. M. P. It R B. Sleioh, II Constable P. BuRKE, h Teamster Chas. Winder. KILLED AT BATOCHE Captain E. J. Brown, Bou ton's Infantry. M John French, Sctmts. Lieutenant W. Fitch, 10th Grenadiers. ,1 A. W. KiPPEN, Injel. Corps. Private T. Moor, 10th Grenadiers. n R R. Hardisty, J Ofch Batt. II Jas. Fraser, * II Gunner W. Phillips, "A"|Sattery. I All this is to say nothing of the suf!<^'ings of the wounded, and of the death and suffering brought upon ^civilians by the arch-traitor in whose behalf Ontario Rielites or .Mowatitos — for the terms are interchangeable — have raised their wL^es and are now exerting their infiuenee. ^he foregoing are facts, and r quire no comment. It is only necessary that the electors of Ontaij o should see them in their true light to get an expression of opini^ tn during the pending elections A wbicl;^.Mr411 for ev^er set at rest the is,, 3a that it is a justifiablo political cG^^s^|o'^^ witji*. treason. 'H £ka£h : 4" ^iT'.* ■ " « -'WKs^^m^y^w"- l l jl Hl jl i l >> "'- fttifm . i tH HiUmtl a.