Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . nists evacuated Navy Island onJanuary 13. 1838. their numbers had increased to about Joseph Papineau was the leader in Lower Canada. AsCaptain Heustis describes only his own experiences, any onedesirous of a complete and impartial account of the Patriot War 43 should read Charles Lindseys Life and Times of William LyonMackenzie and the Rebellion of 1837-8. While from a military standpoint de
Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . nists evacuated Navy Island onJanuary 13. 1838. their numbers had increased to about Joseph Papineau was the leader in Lower Canada. AsCaptain Heustis describes only his own experiences, any onedesirous of a complete and impartial account of the Patriot War 43 should read Charles Lindseys Life and Times of William LyonMackenzie and the Rebellion of 1837-8. While from a military standpoint decidedly a Lost Cause,Lindsey declares that Much of the liberty Canada has enjoyedsince 1840, and more of the wonderful progress she has made,are due to the changes which the insurrection was the chiefagent in producing. His testimony is the more convincingbecause he deplores the movement as an enterprise which can-not be justified. In his introduction Lindsey further states thatit was in the end advantageous to the country. The insurrec-tion resulted in very speedily establishing responsible constitu-tional government in Canada; in fact, it secured Home Rulefor our neighbors on the OLD WINDMILL NEAR PRESCOTT CONVERTED INTO A LIGHTHOUSE BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing butvictories. Bunker Hill, soldiers call a defeat. But Liberty datesfrom it, though Warren lay dead on the Held.—Wendell Phillips,1859. Every great crisis in human history is a pass of Thermopylae,and there is always a Leonidas and his 300 to die in it, if theycannot conquer. And so long as Liberty has one martyr, so longas one drop of blood is poured out for her, so long from thatsingle drop of bloody sweat of the agony of mankind shall springhosts as countless as the forest leaves and as mighty as thesea.—George William Curtis, The Call of Freedom. 44
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