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il iaut ~Léir."'~~) This ilierne {vas maintained from February onrvards
nntil tlie Lattle subsided. IIe insisted ~hat ttie fomeriters oi sedilion and
rerolt muat be silenced, their jniluenee destrored and itieir "nefariou*
work" eiided. Before God. beiore the Chureh, before their reli,' 'TloUB
brcttiers, Trudel arid L'E~endard, Bishop Lailiache and the lournal des
l'rois Kivière.~, Tardive1 and La Vérité were intriguers who "par leur
orgueilleux entêtement, ont amené la erke dnulourense qne nons tra-
vprSonS.i'1451 As bishop ex partibus he excumiriuriieated al1 of ttiem
because "vous êtes la révolie dans la société religieuse et le désoidre
dans la société ei~ile."(~~i Aeeused of being a traitor to his eause, he
retnrted that it was not he who >vas a traitor but they whn in ttieir pride
hari heeome blind to their first duty and whri proelaimed to al1 "we shall
nut serve."'4r' For him ultramunlaniatn tiad ceased to exist as a livirig
political ereed. It had given plaee to the "casturs", this "secte détestable
et f ariaiique. sbditieuse et iilt 01érante."[~~)
Tarte's liberal-conservatism endured until 1891 when he juined the
ranks of tlie Liberal pnrty, and eritererl iederal politics. It is not wittiiri
the scope of this paper to relate in detail the persona1 reasous whicti
pronipted thi~ charige of allegiariee. However the following consider-
aiioris explairi io a eertaiii degree Tarte's odyssey to the Lihcral pnrty.
ail od>sse!. rvhicti wap riot peeuliar tn hirn alnne hut also tn an entire
sr-liool uf Canadian politicians. Tlie Cartier articicil 01 politirs tu which
Tarie \\as reconverteri in 1883 tiatl Iieeri alIiliated with the other rlernerits
in the Conservative part? thruugh a comproniise. This cornpromise.
rvhich recognized the rluality oi the Canadian heritage arid the full
participation by French Canada in the politieal liie of the country, ruas
seriuusly endnnprerl tluring ~he jears fullnwing Cartier's death. The
nppearance of Casturism, or prilitical ultramontanism. ~he constant
qudrrels betwcen thc Frerieli Canndian miriisterial repreeeritative~, the
Riel erisis with its elaf-h of raec and tongue, seandals sueh as the
hIcGreevy-L?ngevin aifair wtiieh tiumiliated Freueh Cariada. delays iri
the solving of the hIa~iiioLa Seliools question, the betrayal of proiuises
and the ternporarv lriurnph of the Ultramontaries : al1 these ~eatly
aflected the solidarity ri1 thc Frerieh Canacliari Conservative party and
served to accentuate the ~ieed for a new politieal alliarice. This school,
faced rvith political stagriation and possible extirietion, sought reruge
withiu the rnnks of the Liberal party. By 1E% their odyssey had Leen
corripleted.
The French Canadian poljtico-religious erisis whieh had largely
subsided after Tarte's reconverzion had lived lhrough the riatiorial
disaeter of the Riel affair and the exciteme~it over thc Jesnits' Esrate Bill
of 1889. In 1E91 with the begiri~iing of the agitatiou over the Manitoba
Scliools question, the eoriflict tiurst out anew with greater fury.