The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-02
MONUMENT TO MONTGOMERY.
Continued Tory Opposition In Canada to a
Project which Has Been Laid Aside.

QUEBEC, Aug. sI-The continued efforts Of
the old Tory party In Canada 10 stir up feelings
Of unfriendiness between the people OF Can
ada and the United States Is illustrated by
constantly recurring and quite uncalled for
attacks upon the proposal to erect a monu-
ment in Quebec to the memory ~ Brig Gen.
Montgomery who lost his life here In an at
tack upon the fortress Of Quebec with Bene-
dict Arnold on the morning Of Dec. 81. IT'S.
From the moment that 1t appeared that there
was opposition on the part Of some Of the Ca
madam people TO the erection OF the monument,
there has never been the slightest attemp on
the part of those who proposed IL and we're
ready to supply the funds TO force it's accept
ance upon the people Of Quebec. So far as
they were concerned, they quietly allowed
| the matter TO drop, on the ground that they
we're not at all inclined to force any gift upon
a community that even q small proportion
of such community did not appreciate. New
ertheless they are constantly assailed by crit
les Of their former offer in the most unjust
and ungen erous fashion.
In the very last printed volume Of the pro-
Ceedings of the Royal Society of Canada, Just
issued from the press there Is a false %lnsinua-
ton as we'll a. another attack upon the pro-
posal, The report Of the council Of the society
says:
a year or two TO obtain permission TO place
in the city Of Quebec a monument In honor Of
Brig ten. Montgomery has not been renewed
in the face Of the determined opposition, that
II has properly evoked from all true Canadians,
especially from the women Of the Dominion.
We find nothing in Canadian history. or in the
| character or services Of this soldier TO Justify
our encouragement Of the proposed memorial.
On the contrary, II would be a positive desc
who had even /" -ssrryeda With Wolfe. and Of The
Congress, who had only a short time previously
insuIted the religion OF the trench-Canadians
This extract will serve TO show that the basest
passions and prciudices are still being appealed
70 for the purpose Of promoting Canadian
no other reason for the publication Of the in
slltinR paragraph, for 1t Is absolutely untrue
1pa1 nPPiiiSa as 6ea iS[ % RsEBs Be psSsIste 90 i fr Seca 'se
MISSION sGs ' but 1Raf Of 0P the ciSio az autFSo;riinieSs R %as
accorded directly il was asked, when the offer
TO erect IL was made now several years ago.
the canadian Government or from t dsse car rpI1s
critics who oppose the erection OF the monu-
ment. There Is nothing in the laws Of Canada
20 prevent anybody from purchasing a, lot Of
land and erecting whatever respectable me-
mortal TO departed worth he may desire. and
there was nothing in the opposition TO the monu-
dropping Of the project, beyond the fact that
those who we're prepared to lay out money
on the spot where ne fell, declined to force their
gift upon a community, which contained some
UNWILLING RECIPIENTS SDOulu tley AT any TINE
decide TO erect the monument In Quebec, they
may do go despite both the Government Of
the Dominion and the Royal Society Of Canada.
for they have ia their possession the certificate
Of the vote Of the City Council OF Quebec duly
signed and bearing the city seal and conveying
the necessary permission for honorinR the
memory of the brave American General.
Very little OF the opposition TO the monument
comes from Quebec, where Montgomery's
memory is held in high esteem. especially
among the large Irish element of the popula- |
ton. In fact, IL vas a Quebec Irishman who
Vla,aA in o. raaA : VAatN Ion - a. - -.
the face of Cape Diamond, indicatins the spot
below where the brave leader fell, and the
calling him n traitor by the Royal Society has
no more effect than If the same term were APP
piled to Washington. In fact, there Is a tory |
element IN Canada. in Ontario particularly. !
that would gladly l~nculcqte in the Canadian
mind the Idea that the authors Of the American
Revolution wore traitors to Britain, notwith-
standing the lapse of a centu-" and a quarter |
from the event.
With such maliHnily is Montgomery's mem-
DRY now being besimirched in CaQada that
some historians are holding him Responsible
for the %Cruelties p~raCtised upon the French-Cana- |
dians of ST. Anne. st Joachim and other par
ishes near Quebec. by the barbarous Capt
Alexander Montgomery Of the Forty-thIrd
Canadians distort the history of their own
country is not surprising when IL Is borne In
mind that Or Kingsford. who was recognized
a. the national historian Of the Dominion. has
committed. the unaccountahle blunder Of
changing the very date Of Montgomery's at
upon Jan. !, l77a, when not only has Benjamin
Franklin in his epitaph of the General given
the da to as Dec. 81, IT'S. but the same is proved
70 be correct for all time by the letter 20 Con-
gress ~ BENEDICT Arnold, written from Quebec
on Dec, 81. l7'5, the day Of the battle.