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Durham would be much better away from here. Tell the doctor I say so. Who is taking Mr. Durham's place?" "Taking up his work do you mean?" "Yes who is looking for the man who stole my deeds from the bank? Why aren't you doing it, instead of wasting your time here?" "Oh, that'll be all right, Mrs. Burke. We've got a clue don't you be uneasy." "I shall be uneasy until Mr.
The only criticism directed against his course in Canada was on the ground of its excessive lenity. Wolfred Nelson and Robert Bouchette had certainly suffered a milder fate than that of Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews, who had been hanged in Upper Canada for rebellion. Yet when the news of Durham's action reached England, it was immediately attacked as arbitrary and unconstitutional.
Whatever the wording of these instructions was, they always fell short of Durham's recommendations, and always expressed a certain reluctance to entrusting the government of Canada unreservedly to representatives of the people.
Set down the cause of Canada's slow progress up to 1840 to misgovernment. Durham's Report remedied all that; and confederation followed in 1867. Was Canada's progress as swift after 1867 as it ought to have been? Examine a few figures: In 1790 the United States population was four millions. In 1800 the United States population was five millions.
He has been only six months in America, and the change has not done him good. In his manhood he worked in a cotton mill, but then a coughing fell upon him, and he had to leave; out in the country the trouble disappeared, but he has been working in the pickle rooms at Durham's, and the breathing of the cold, damp air all day has brought it back.
"Oh, he'll hit it all right," answered Satterlee, 2d, "only maybe he won't hit it hard enough." Nor did he. Durham's third baseman gathered in the short fly that the batsman sent up and so ended the inning. "Something's going to happen now, I'll bet," said Tom. "Carpenter's up." "He didn't do much last time," objected Satterlee, 2d, "even if he is such a wonder. Willings struck him out dead easy."
The Cabinet had made its last concession; Ministers determined, in Lord Durham's words, that a 'sufficient creation of Peers was absolutely necessary' if their resignation was not to take immediate effect, and they laid their views before the King.
Lord Durham's recommendations were fully carried into effect, partly in the Canada Act of 1840, but more especially by a simple instruction issued to governors, that their ministries must henceforward be chosen, in the British fashion, on the ground that they commanded the support of a majority in the elected house; and that the governors themselves must be guided by their advice.
But he came at a decisive moment in Canadian history; his tenure of the Colonial Office coincided with the period in which Durham's Report exercised its greatest influence, and Russell, who had the politician's faculty for flinging himself with all his force into the issue dominating the present, inaugurated what proved to be a new regime in colonial administration.
So it was that Sir George Arthur, a Tory governor in partibus infidelium, was driven into panic by Durham's frank criticisms, and expounded to Normanby, his Whig chief, fears not altogether baseless: "The bait of responsible government has been eagerly taken, and its poison is working most mischievously.... The measure recommended by such high authority is the worst evil that has yet befallen Upper Canada": and again, "since the Earl of Durham's Report was published, the reform party, as I have already stated, have come out in greater force not in favour of the Union, nor of the other measures contemplated by the Bill, that has been sent out to this country, but for the daring object so strenuously advocated by Mackenzie, familiarly denominated responsible government."
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