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Most of the Patriote leaders took advantage, however, of the virtual amnesty offered them in 1842 by the first LaFontaine-Baldwin administration, and returned to Canada. Many of these, as well as many of the Patriote leaders who had not been implicated in the rebellion and who had not fled the country, rose to positions of trust and prominence in the public service of Canada.
His English works, translated by Lanthenas, a friend of Robespierre and co-editor with Brissot of the "Patriote Francais," had earned for him the dignity of citoyen Francais, an honor which he shared with Mackintosh, Dr. Price, the Priestleys, father and son, and David Williams.
After asking for more rolls, we accosted him with the usual phrase, "Et vous, Monsieur, vous etes bon patriote?" *"And you, Sir, are without doubt, a good patriot?" "Oh Lord, Sir, yes; one's obliged to be so, now-a-days." Mr. P admitted the man's tone of voice and countenance as good evidence, and acknowledged I was right.
It is absurd to pretend that many of the English in Lower Canada were not arrogant and brutal in their attitude toward the French Canadians, and lawless in their methods of crushing the rebellion; or that many of the Patriote leaders were not hopelessly irreconcilable before the rebellion, and during it criminally careless of the interests of the poor habitants they had misled.
On the 13th of August 1789 it was announced in an article in a journal called 'Loisirs d'un Patriote francais', which was afterwards published anonymously as a pamphlet, that the publisher had seen, among other documents found in the Bastille, a card bearing the unintelligible number "64389000," and the following note: "Fouquet, arriving from Les Iles Sainte-Marguerite in an iron mask."
The opinions of Brissot, who advocated a complete reform; his great activity of mind, which he developed at once in the journal the Patriote, in the tribune of the assembly, and at the club of the Jacobins; his exact and extensive knowledge of the position of foreign powers, gave him great ascendancy at the moment of a struggle between parties, and of a war with Europe.
Saint-Simon notes that "Patriote comme il l'était, il avait toute sa vie été touché de la misère du peuple et de toutes les vexations qu'il souffrait." La Bruyère was the first effective moralist who realized what a monstrous disproportion existed between the fortune of the rich and of the poor.
Mad. de F added, that she had not seen him for above a year, but that she believed him still to be "extremement patriote." We reached Mons. de 's just as the family were set down to a very moderate supper, and I observed that their plate had been replaced by pewter. After the first salutations were over, it was soon visible that the political notions of the count were much changed.
Immediately the Patriote press became furious. The newspaper La Minerve asserted that a 'general massacre' had been planned: the murderers, it said, had approached the corpses with laughter, and had seen with joy Canadian blood running down the street; they had shaken each other by the hand, and had regretted that there were not more dead.
All his threats are futile, and his fears but the creatures of imagination. Papineau did not yet contemplate an appeal to arms; and of course he could not foresee that only two years later Conrad Gugy would be one of the first to enter the village of St Eustache after the defeat of the Patriote forces.
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