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"He has been your benefactor," the coarse "crocmitaine" Richot would say. "Had he not risen and compelled Government to grant you your rights, you would forever have been down-trodden by Canadian tyrants. When the rage of the heretics in Ontario shall have cooled down we must send Le Bienfaiteur to Parliament.
His good priest, Pere Richot, who got the bishop's ear, took a highly moral and humane view of the matter. "He was a disturber, and it was good to make an example of him." In a little, we may be sure, the Monseigneur's opinion did not differ very widely from that of the "crocmitaine" priest. "Let the people all assemble," the bishop proclaimed: "I have important declarations to make to them."
But what shall be said for M. George E. Cartier, the "enlightened statesman," for Pere Richot, the "crocmitaine," for Pere Lastanc, the Vicar-General, and finally, for Monseigneur himself? Nothing can be said! We can only as Canadians all hang down our heads in shame, that any section of our common country should make such an exhibition of itself in the sight of humanity.
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