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.