Political Testament of Louis-Joseph Papineau - Revision history

Mathieugp at 01:33, 29 April 2011

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	No, it is not true that the political dissensions, which were as sharp in both Canadas, were a fight between races. They were as rough in Upper Canada, where there was only one nationality, as they were here, where there were two. The majorities of both of them were uninterested friends of the rights, freedoms, and privileges due to all English subjects. They were voluntarily exposing themselves to the lieful slander, dangerous anger, sanguinary revenge sometimes, of egoistic minorities, by themselves weak, but supported by the strength of the bayonnettes paid with the gold of the people, but everywhere directed against the people.		No, it is not true that the political dissensions, which were as sharp in both Canadas, were a fight between races. They were as rough in Upper Canada, where there was only one nationality, as they were here, where there were two. The majorities of both of them were uninterested friends of the rights, freedoms, and privileges due to all English subjects. They were voluntarily exposing themselves to the lieful slander, dangerous anger, sanguinary revenge sometimes, of egoistic minorities, by themselves weak, but supported by the strength of the bayonnettes paid with the gold of the people, but everywhere directed against the people.

	[[Image:Mackintosh.jpg\|thumbnail\|left\|James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician and historian]][[Image:Brougham.jpg\|thumbnail\|Henri Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish scientist and politician]]The most enlightened men of England and America called noble and just the efforts that my English friends and my ''Canadien'' friends, me and my colleagues in the House, and our colleagues by identity of principle and community of devotion in the Parliament of Upper Canada, have done to deliver our countries from outrage and oppression. It was the aristocracy's prejudice and interest to applaud at the excesses of the colonial bureaucracy, this small-footed nobility, aping the airs, copying the practises, and following the [[Wikipedia:Machiavelli\|Machiavellism]] of those who had installed them. The Parliament approved them, reason made them fade away. The Parliament approved them! But isn't it notorious that more than the nine-tenth of the imperial representation remains foreign to any interest, any knowledge of what is being done and of what should be done in the colonies? At that time especially, it was the colonial minister who had to know what was appropriate for them. He was paid to know it. With him, the honour of success, the shame of errors, the responsibility of the decisions, and the ~~flocks~~ of sheep following his steps behind him. But the men who all their lives were friends of public rights and freedoms without ever deserting them, the princes of the science of Justice and the Law: — the virtuous Sir [[Wikipedia:James Mackintosh\|James Mackintosh]], in our first battles; [[Wikipedia:Henry Brougham\|Lord Brougham]], the most universal and most surprisingly erudite man of our days; and [[Wikipedia:Daniel O'Connell\|O'Connell]], the most eloquent of the defenders of the rights of Ireland, before him defended by giants in oratory power, [[Wikipedia:John Philpot Curran\|Curran]], [[Wikipedia:Henry Grattan\|Grattan]], [[Wikipedia:William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket\|Plunket]], and so many others; and [[Wikipedia:Joseph Hume\|Hume]], who devoted his great fortune to the protection of the colonies; who, surrounded by four secretaries, worked day and night, and deprived himself of any recreation, because the crimes committed in the English possessions on all five continents and their archipelagoes, by delegates of the aristocracy, were brought to his attention, with prayers to protest against evil; and a crowd of other worthy and good Englishmen understood us, and praised us. What means the number of ignoramuses and interested ones who condemned us because they were bribed for it, were interested in it, interested in the destruction of all feelings of hostility towards what is arbitrary and oppression?		[[Image:Mackintosh.jpg\|thumbnail\|left\|James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician and historian]][[Image:Brougham.jpg\|thumbnail\|Henri Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish scientist and politician]]The most enlightened men of England and America called noble and just the efforts that my English friends and my ''Canadien'' friends, me and my colleagues in the House, and our colleagues by identity of principle and community of devotion in the Parliament of Upper Canada, have done to deliver our countries from outrage and oppression. It was the aristocracy's prejudice and interest to applaud at the excesses of the colonial bureaucracy, this small-footed nobility, aping the airs, copying the practises, and following the [[Wikipedia:Machiavelli\|Machiavellism]] of those who had installed them. The Parliament approved them, reason made them fade away. The Parliament approved them! But isn't it notorious that more than the nine-tenth of the imperial representation remains foreign to any interest, any knowledge of what is being done and of what should be done in the colonies? At that time especially, it was the colonial minister who had to know what was appropriate for them. He was paid to know it. With him, the honour of success, the shame of errors, the responsibility of the decisions, and the flock of sheep following his steps behind him. But the men who all their lives were friends of public rights and freedoms without ever deserting them, the princes of the science of Justice and the Law: — the virtuous Sir [[Wikipedia:James Mackintosh\|James Mackintosh]], in our first battles; [[Wikipedia:Henry Brougham\|Lord Brougham]], the most universal and most surprisingly erudite man of our days; and [[Wikipedia:Daniel O'Connell\|O'Connell]], the most eloquent of the defenders of the rights of Ireland, before him defended by giants in oratory power, [[Wikipedia:John Philpot Curran\|Curran]], [[Wikipedia:Henry Grattan\|Grattan]], [[Wikipedia:William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket\|Plunket]], and so many others; and [[Wikipedia:Joseph Hume\|Hume]], who devoted his great fortune to the protection of the colonies; who, surrounded by four secretaries, worked day and night, and deprived himself of any recreation, because the crimes committed in the English possessions on all five continents and their archipelagoes, by delegates of the aristocracy, were brought to his attention, with prayers to protest against evil; and a crowd of other worthy and good Englishmen understood us, and praised us. What means the number of ignoramuses and interested ones who condemned us because they were bribed for it, were interested in it, interested in the destruction of all feelings of hostility towards what is arbitrary and oppression?

	By the number, we were ten against one in the two provinces. By morality, by disinterestedness, by our justly acquired influence, we were ten times more powerful than by the number. The English and Irish people, by those who were their true and worthy representatives approved us; the American governors and citizens approved us; the enlightened men of the European continent approved us; but especially our compatriots, for whom we suffered and who suffered with us, approved us; better than that even, our conscience approved us.		By the number, we were ten against one in the two provinces. By morality, by disinterestedness, by our justly acquired influence, we were ten times more powerful than by the number. The English and Irish people, by those who were their true and worthy representatives approved us; the American governors and citizens approved us; the enlightened men of the European continent approved us; but especially our compatriots, for whom we suffered and who suffered with us, approved us; better than that even, our conscience approved us.

Mathieugp at 01:29, 29 April 2011

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	No, it is not true that the political dissensions, which were as sharp in both Canadas, were a fight between races. They were as rough in Upper Canada, where there was only one nationality, as they were here, where there were two. The majorities of both of them were uninterested friends of the rights, freedoms, and privileges due to all English subjects. They were voluntarily exposing themselves to the lieful slander, dangerous anger, sanguinary revenge sometimes, of egoistic minorities, by themselves weak, but supported by the strength of the bayonnettes paid with the gold of the people, but everywhere directed against the people.		No, it is not true that the political dissensions, which were as sharp in both Canadas, were a fight between races. They were as rough in Upper Canada, where there was only one nationality, as they were here, where there were two. The majorities of both of them were uninterested friends of the rights, freedoms, and privileges due to all English subjects. They were voluntarily exposing themselves to the lieful slander, dangerous anger, sanguinary revenge sometimes, of egoistic minorities, by themselves weak, but supported by the strength of the bayonnettes paid with the gold of the people, but everywhere directed against the people.

	[[Image:Mackintosh.jpg\|thumbnail\|left\|James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician and historian]][[Image:Brougham.jpg\|thumbnail\|Henri Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish scientist and politician]]The most enlightened men of England and America called noble and just the efforts that my English friends and my ''Canadien'' friends, me and my colleagues in the House, and our colleagues by identity of principle and community of devotion in the Parliament of Upper Canada, have done to deliver our countries from outrage and oppression. It was the aristocracy's prejudice and interest to applaud at the excesses of the colonial bureaucracy, this small-footed nobility, aping the airs, copying the practises, and following the [[Wikipedia:Machiavelli\|Machiavellism]] of those who had installed them. The Parliament approved them, reason made them fade away. The Parliament approved them! But isn't it notorious that more than the nine-tenth of the imperial representation remains foreign to any interest, any knowledge of what is being done and of what should be done in the colonies? At that time especially, it was the colonial minister who had to know what was appropriate for them. He was paid to know it. With him, the honour of success, the shame of errors, the responsibility of the decisions, and the ~~troop~~ of ~~cheeps~~ following his steps behind him. But the men who all their lives were friends of public rights and freedoms without ever deserting them, the princes of the science of Justice and the Law: — the virtuous Sir [[Wikipedia:James Mackintosh\|James Mackintosh]], in our first battles; [[Wikipedia:Henry Brougham\|Lord Brougham]], the most universal and most surprisingly erudite man of our days; and [[Wikipedia:Daniel O'Connell\|O'Connell]], the most eloquent of the defenders of the rights of Ireland, before him defended by giants in oratory power, [[Wikipedia:John Philpot Curran\|Curran]], [[Wikipedia:Henry Grattan\|Grattan]], [[Wikipedia:William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket\|Plunket]], and so many others; and [[Wikipedia:Joseph Hume\|Hume]], who devoted his great fortune to the protection of the colonies; who, surrounded by four secretaries, worked day and night, and deprived himself of any recreation, because the crimes committed in the English possessions on all five continents and their archipelagoes, by delegates of the aristocracy, were brought to his attention, with prayers to protest against evil; and a crowd of other worthy and good Englishmen understood us, and praised us. What means the number of ignoramuses and interested ones who condemned us because they were bribed for it, were interested in it, interested in the destruction of all feelings of hostility towards what is arbitrary and oppression?		[[Image:Mackintosh.jpg\|thumbnail\|left\|James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician and historian]][[Image:Brougham.jpg\|thumbnail\|Henri Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish scientist and politician]]The most enlightened men of England and America called noble and just the efforts that my English friends and my ''Canadien'' friends, me and my colleagues in the House, and our colleagues by identity of principle and community of devotion in the Parliament of Upper Canada, have done to deliver our countries from outrage and oppression. It was the aristocracy's prejudice and interest to applaud at the excesses of the colonial bureaucracy, this small-footed nobility, aping the airs, copying the practises, and following the [[Wikipedia:Machiavelli\|Machiavellism]] of those who had installed them. The Parliament approved them, reason made them fade away. The Parliament approved them! But isn't it notorious that more than the nine-tenth of the imperial representation remains foreign to any interest, any knowledge of what is being done and of what should be done in the colonies? At that time especially, it was the colonial minister who had to know what was appropriate for them. He was paid to know it. With him, the honour of success, the shame of errors, the responsibility of the decisions, and the flocks of sheep following his steps behind him. But the men who all their lives were friends of public rights and freedoms without ever deserting them, the princes of the science of Justice and the Law: — the virtuous Sir [[Wikipedia:James Mackintosh\|James Mackintosh]], in our first battles; [[Wikipedia:Henry Brougham\|Lord Brougham]], the most universal and most surprisingly erudite man of our days; and [[Wikipedia:Daniel O'Connell\|O'Connell]], the most eloquent of the defenders of the rights of Ireland, before him defended by giants in oratory power, [[Wikipedia:John Philpot Curran\|Curran]], [[Wikipedia:Henry Grattan\|Grattan]], [[Wikipedia:William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket\|Plunket]], and so many others; and [[Wikipedia:Joseph Hume\|Hume]], who devoted his great fortune to the protection of the colonies; who, surrounded by four secretaries, worked day and night, and deprived himself of any recreation, because the crimes committed in the English possessions on all five continents and their archipelagoes, by delegates of the aristocracy, were brought to his attention, with prayers to protest against evil; and a crowd of other worthy and good Englishmen understood us, and praised us. What means the number of ignoramuses and interested ones who condemned us because they were bribed for it, were interested in it, interested in the destruction of all feelings of hostility towards what is arbitrary and oppression?

	By the number, we were ten against one in the two provinces. By morality, by disinterestedness, by our justly acquired influence, we were ten times more powerful than by the number. The English and Irish people, by those who were their true and worthy representatives approved us; the American governors and citizens approved us; the enlightened men of the European continent approved us; but especially our compatriots, for whom we suffered and who suffered with us, approved us; better than that even, our conscience approved us.		By the number, we were ten against one in the two provinces. By morality, by disinterestedness, by our justly acquired influence, we were ten times more powerful than by the number. The English and Irish people, by those who were their true and worthy representatives approved us; the American governors and citizens approved us; the enlightened men of the European continent approved us; but especially our compatriots, for whom we suffered and who suffered with us, approved us; better than that even, our conscience approved us.

Mathieugp at 13:44, 17 April 2011

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-{{title|Speech of the Hon. Louis-Joseph Papineau before the ''Institut canadien'' <br />on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of this society|[[Louis-Joseph Papineau]]|December 17, 1867<br /><br />Translated in 2003 by [[User:Mathieugp|Mathieu Gauthier-Pilote]] from:<br /><br />''[[biblio:Discours devant l'Institut canadien à l'occasion du 23e anniversaire de fondation de cette société|Discours de l'Hon. Louis-Joseph Papineau devant l'Institut canadien <br />à l'occasion du 23ème anniversaire de fondation de cette société, <br />17 décembre, 1867]]''}}
+{{title|Speech of the Hon. Louis-Joseph Papineau before the ''Institut canadien'' <br />on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of this society|[[Louis-Joseph Papineau]]|December 17, 1867}}
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 == Editor's Notes==
 {{Refa|1}} [[w:Voltaire|Voltaire]] would have written "Le genre humain avait perdu ses titres : Montesquieu les a retrouvés, et les lui a rendus".

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