The Last Forty Years: Canada Since the Union of 1841, Volume 1G. Virtue, 1881 - Act of Union, 1841 |
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... colony . From his political opponents , in the place of generous forbearance , he met with unre- mitting persecution ; and as for the character of the support which he obtained from those ministers who had themselves placed him in the ...
... colony . From his political opponents , in the place of generous forbearance , he met with unre- mitting persecution ; and as for the character of the support which he obtained from those ministers who had themselves placed him in the ...
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... colony , which had long been gathering to a head , culminated , in 1837 and 1838 , in open rebellion . In the Upper Province , the move- ment , though by no means so insignificant an affair as it has sometimes been pronounced to have ...
... colony , which had long been gathering to a head , culminated , in 1837 and 1838 , in open rebellion . In the Upper Province , the move- ment , though by no means so insignificant an affair as it has sometimes been pronounced to have ...
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... colony in general terms . The purely military rule which had prevailed since the Conquest was somewhat relaxed . By degrees tranquillity was restored throughout the land , although the introduction of the law and language of England was ...
... colony in general terms . The purely military rule which had prevailed since the Conquest was somewhat relaxed . By degrees tranquillity was restored throughout the land , although the introduction of the law and language of England was ...
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... colonies . These refugees have gained a conspicuous place in our history under the name of United Empire Loyalists . They ... colonial Intendants were utterly dis- tasteful to the British colonists . Trial by jury and other regula- tions ...
... colonies . These refugees have gained a conspicuous place in our history under the name of United Empire Loyalists . They ... colonial Intendants were utterly dis- tasteful to the British colonists . Trial by jury and other regula- tions ...
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... colonies on the other side of the Atlantic . He added that in countries where they made a part of the constitution he did not think it wise to destroy them , but to give birth and life to such principles in countries where they did not ...
... colonies on the other side of the Atlantic . He added that in countries where they made a part of the constitution he did not think it wise to destroy them , but to give birth and life to such principles in countries where they did not ...
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Page 190 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 81 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 142 - That in order to preserve, between the different branches of the provincial parliament, that harmony which is essential to the peace, welfare, and good government of the province, the chief advisers of the representative of the sovereign, constituting a provincial administration under him, ought to be men possessed of the confidence of the representatives of the people...
Page 121 - Either the governor is the sovereign or the minister. If the first, he may have ministers, but he cannot be responsible to the government at home, and all colonial government becomes impossible. He must therefore be the minister, in which case...
Page 147 - to speak out ; for, Sir, you are about to appear before a Judge who is no respecter of persons.
Page 120 - ... already done much to put it down in its inadmissible sense; namely, the demand that the council shall be responsible to the assembly, and that the governor shall take their advice, and be bound by it. In fact, this demand has been made much more for the people than by them. And I have not met with anyone who has not at once admitted the absurdity of claiming to put the council over the head of the governor.
Page 199 - Imagine my surprise on discovering that this line runs wholly south of the St. John, and between the head waters of that river and those of the Penobscot and Kennebec. In short, it is exactly the line now contended for by Great Britain, except that it concedes more than is claimed.
Page 29 - The Queen's Government have no desire to thwart the representative assemblies of British North America in their measures of reform and improvement. They have no wish to make those provinces the resource for patronage at home. They are earnestly intent on giving to the talent and character of leading persons in the colonies, advantages similar to those which talent and character, employed in the public service, obtain, in the United Kingdom. Her Majesty has no desire to maintain any system of policy...
Page 195 - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient and adequate squadron, or naval force of vessels, of suitable numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations, of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the slave trade...
Page 33 - ... duties in the right discharge of which the character and policy of the Government are directly involved. They are intended to apply rather to the heads of departments than to persons serving as clerks or in similar capacities under them; neither do they extend to officers in the service of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.