Assembly of the Six Counties

[1] Presided by Wolfred Nelson, it is the most famous of the various public assemblies held during that year protesting the Russell Resolutions.

The Ninety-Two Resolutions of the Patriotes had demanded democratic reforms for Lower Canada from Great Britain.

Papineau advocated pursuing the constitutional struggle through economic boycotts of British products while Nelson and Doctor Cyrille Côté supported an armed uprising.

They notably proclaimed human rights, refused to recognize the new Executive Council of Lower Canada and approved the Société des fils de la liberté.

At a banquet in honour of Bishop Ignace Bourget (himself one of the relatively rare clerics in favour of the Patriotes), Bishop Jean-Jacques Lartigue declared: "Never is it permitted to transgress laws of to revolt against the legitimate authority under which people have the joy of living".