MURMURS OF REVOLUTION
RACE AND CLASS ANTAGONISM
“CANADA TRADE ACTS”--LORD DALHOUSIE BANQUETED AFTER BEING
RECALLED--MOVEMENT TO JOIN MONTREAL AS A PORT TO UPPER
CANADA--THE GOVERNOR ALLEGED TO BE A TOOL--EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL--RIOTOUS ELECTION AT MONTREAL--DR. TRACY VERSUS
STANLEY BAGG--THE MILITARY FIRE--THE “MINERVE” VERSUS THE
GAZETTE AND HERALD--THE CHOLERA OF 1832--MURMURS OF THE COMING
REVOLT--MONTREAL PETITION FOR AND AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL
CHANGES--MR. NELSON BREAKS WITH PAPINEAU--THE NINETY-TWO
RESOLUTIONS--MR. ROEBUCK, AGENT FOR THE REFORM PARTY,
ADVOCATES SELF-GOVERNMENT--FRENCH-CANADIAN EXTREMISTS--THE
ELECTIONS--PUBLIC MEETING OF “MEN OF BRITISH AND IRISH
DESCENT”--TWO DIVERGENT MENTALITIES--THE CONSTITUTIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS--PETITIONS TO LONDON--LORD GOSFORD APPOINTED
ROYAL COMMISSIONER--HIS POLICY OF CONCILIATION REJECTED--MR.
PAPINEAU INTRANSIGEANT--RAISING VOLUNTEER CORPS FORBIDDEN--THE
DORIC CLUB--“RESPONSIBLE” GOVERNMENT DEMANDED 139