Papineau Louis Joseph 1786-1870 Louis Joseph Papineau Era Tribune Of The People 1 A


melodious speaker, 1-3; compared with Cartier, 2; his parentage, 3-4;

services in War of 1812, 5, 33; his house at Montebello, 6; college

days, 32; enters Assembly, 1812, and immediately springs to front, 32;

succeeds Panet as Speaker, 1815, 33; studies history and constitutional

law, 33; his speeches, 34; leadership acknowledged, 34; his opinion of

the constitution of 1791, 34-38; insists on budget being voted item by

item, 42; sent to England to oppose proposed union of Upper and Lower

Canada, 1822, 44-53; attacks Dalhousie in the Assembly, 56; Bibaud on,

56; fight for control of the budget, and removal of political abuses,

56-64; criticized for accepting mission to England, 65-66; revolt

against his leadership, 66; friendship for Neilson, 67; difficulties

with his followers, 68-69; refuses offer of seat in the Council, 1822,

72; his unsuccessful fight for responsible government, 75; defeats

motion for adoption of Goderich's offer, 77; his action defended in

Durham's Report, 77; advocates reform of Legislative Council, 79; his

Montreal speech, 1834, 79-82; question of patronage, 84; his immoderate

attitude, 86; deserted by Neilson and other moderate men, 86; blames

government for ravages of cholera, 88-89; Ninety-Two Resolutions, 85-97;

becomes an annexationist, 97, 113; stormy scenes in the Legislature,

1835, 99; his outbursts of passion, 100; replies to Gugy's speech in

Assembly, 103-106; has Lord Aylmer's remarks about Ninety-Two

Resolutions erased from journals of Assembly, 106, 109; bitter attack on

Aylmer, 107-108; and Craig, 109; becomes an irreconcilable, 110;

conflict with Lord Gosford, 110; criticized by Dr. Henry, 112; accepts

invitations to Government House, 112-113; refuses to vote supplies, 115;

the eve of the Rebellion, 116; moderate French, with the clergy, break

away from his leadership, 116-117; fails to secure support of

malcontents in other provinces, 118-119; his seditious speeches,

119-125; influenced by example of American Revolution, 121-122; at the

St. Charles meeting, 1837, 125-126; leaves Montreal for St. Hyacinthe,

127; charged with high treason, 128; leaves St. Denis on the eve of the

fight, 132; a price put on his head, 137; escapes to the United States,

137-138; extent of his responsibility for Rebellion, 143; denies having

advocated violence, 143; his speeches evidence against him, 144; his

letters, 144; and the government, 156; the people follow him blindly,

indifferent to political rights, 160-161; spends the period of his exile

in France, 163; letter to his brother, 164; returns to Canada in 1845,

165; historical studies in Paris, examines Canadian Archives there,

164-165; his pamphlet on the Rebellion, 165; again enters Parliament,

1847-1854, 166; relations with La Fontaine, 167-180; advocates

independence, 167; attacks La Fontaine, 170-172; La Fontaine's reply,

172-176; his hatred of all forms of compromise, 177; forms new party,

Le parti democratique, 1849, 178, 187; its leaders, 178; its

programme, 178; retires from public life, 180; his letters to Christie,

144, 180, 191, 194; criticism of the Act of 1840, 181-182; his

correspondence with his friends, 183; lectures before Canadian

Institute, Montreal, 1867, 183, 199; his portrait, 185; his character,

185; his father's influence, 186; merits and defects of his public life,

186-188; his correspondence with W. L. Mackenzie, 189; his home on the

Ottawa, 190; his social qualities, 190-191; home life, 192; friendly

attitude towards the English, 196; his letters, 197; his death, Sept.

23, 1870, 198; attitude towards the church, 198; opposed to

Confederation, 199; his love for his country, 200. (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Born in

Montreal, 19; political life, 19, 20; his connection with the Rebellion

in Lower Canada, 45, 46, 49; anxious to conciliate clergy, 47; Cuvillier

votes against his Ninety-Two Resolutions, 86; his correspondence with

Hume and Roebuck, 229; his life in exile, 288; La Fontaine secures his

pardon, 288; his return and election for St. Maurice, 288; his lost

leadership, 289; attacks La Fontaine and his policy, 289-290; La

Fontaine's reply, 290-292; for Radical party, 292; opposes

Redistribution Bill, 303; in the Assembly, 312; leads Radical party,

342; opposes La Fontaine, 342, 343; Elgin calls him "Guy Fawkes," 342;

attitude on Seigniorial Tenure, 350. (Lord Elgin era) Causes of Rebellion, 17, 75,

76; his dangerous eloquence, 17-18; an agitator rather than a statesman,

20; fights for an elective Council, 21; mistaken attitude, 22; returns

from exile, 50, 91; elected to Parliament, 50; his career in Parliament,

50-51; Elgin's antipathy for, 56, 57, 72, 73; contrasted with Mackenzie,

91, 92; controls Legislature of Lower Canada, 97; opposes development of

St. Lawrence, 97, 98; forms Parti Rouge, 108, 109; factious opposition

to law increasing representation, 117; held responsible by Cartier for

amendment to Union Act, 122; his defeat and retirement from public life,

134; aftermath of Rebellion, 190. (General Brock era) Elected to the Lower Canada

Legislature, 117. (Sir Georges E. Cartier era) His influence on Cartier, 1, 5; his St. Charles

meeting, 3; standing as a statesman, 23; founds Democratic party, 26;

advocates reforms, but crosses limits of constitutional agitation, 96.

(Sir John A Macdonald era) Heads Rebellion of 1837, in Lower Canada, 7; Cartier goes to United

States with, after defeat of rebels, 266; in struggle against political

domination of priesthood, 45. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) Visited by Mackenzie, 288; addresses

meetings, 328; amnestied, 474. See also Rebellion of 1837. =Bib.=:

Dent, Can. Por.; Taylor, Brit. Am.; Dict. Nat. Biog.; Christie,

History of Lower Canada.



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