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REBELLION IN LOWER CANADA: The French Refuse to Serve as Militiamen; Quebec in a Ferment (1/4/1865)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/4/1865
Posted on 01/04/2025 7:23:08 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
From the Quebec Daily News, Dec. 31, (Government organ.)
The most intense excitement prevailed in the city last evening, when intelligence reached town that the draft, which was to have taken place yesterday throughout the Province, according to the Act 27th Vic., caps 23 and 23, had been resisted in several of the counties in this district, and that the officers appointed to enforce it had been driven away at Chateau Richer, and their lives threatened. Deputy-Adjt. Gen. DESALABERRY, acting under directions from the Executive Council, immediately ordered out four companies of the best and most effective of the Volunteer Active Militia, viz: No. 3 Volunteer Garrison Artillery, Capt. MURRAY and Lieut. MONTIZAMBERT; No. 4 Garrison Artillery, Capt. GRANT and Lieut. W. HOME; Capt. LAMONTAGNE's field battery of artillery, (two guns,) and the Wellington Rifles, under command of Capt. GIBSONE. These four companies left the armory about 8 o'clock in carioles, each man provided with twenty rounds of ammunition, amidst the cheers of hundreds of spectators. It is scarcely possible that the habitans will attempt to resist such a force, although it was reported last night that over 200 ship-carpenters from St. Roch had gone down to cut the Montmorenci bridge, and prevent the troops from proceeding to Chateau Richer. The greatest excitement prevails in the city. The volunteer force is not expected to return to town before evening, after the draft is completed, unless they meet with determined resistance. The four companies are under command of Lieut.-Col. DESALABERRY, Mr. Justice MAGUIRE, accompanying the force in his official capacity. We will have news from the volunteer force this afternoon, which will be communicated to our readers by extra. The resistance of the draft in the rural districts was not unexpected, and has therefore not taken the authorities unawares;
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