This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...own desire, petitions which were offset by counter demands from Ontario and the Orange lodges throughout Canada, that the "arch-rebel," as they called him, be speedily executed. No person in his sane mind will deny that if this course was taken in preference to following the implicit direction of the jury before whom ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...own desire, petitions which were offset by counter demands from Ontario and the Orange lodges throughout Canada, that the "arch-rebel," as they called him, be speedily executed. No person in his sane mind will deny that if this course was taken in preference to following the implicit direction of the jury before whom Riel was tried, it was not on account of the part he took in the rebellion of 1885, from which medical science absolved him, but because of the shooting of Scott, of which he was not then accused, and for which he had already undergone five years' banishment." His own execution must therefore be looked at in the light of a miscarriage of justice. In spite of a perfect avalanche of protests and after two respites had been granted, he was executed in the morning of November 16, 1885. Even his enemies admit that Louis Riel marched to death like a man, and Christians must be pleased Even the Orange Sentinel, the organ of Orangeism in Canada, practically admitted this in some of its articles, as when, for instance, it said (6th Aug., 1885): "We affirm that it is the Government's duty not to mind the recommendation to mercy, but on the contrary, the interests of the entire Dominion demand that the law be allowed to follow its course," because "he has committed a most detestable and atrocious murder on the person of a loyal Protestant subject" (quoted after a French version). to learn that, after having abjured errors due to his overworked brain, he died like a saint. Father Andre had spent many weeks preparing him for the fatal moment. In the quiet of seclusion, his mind gradually got over his strange ideas, and he saw with clearness the wrong he had done. In the first days of November he wrote out his testament, as...
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