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But Brown had put his hand to the plough and would not turn back. With the dash and determination that distinguished him, he accepted the proposal, became president of the Executive Council, with Sir Etienne Taché as prime minister, and selected William McDougall and Oliver Mowat as his Liberal colleagues.
Ontario was the chief champion of provincial rights. The struggle was intensified by the fact that a Liberal Government reigned at Toronto and a Conservative Government at Ottawa, as well as by the keen personal rivalry between Mowat and Macdonald. In nearly every constitutional duel Mowat triumphed.
In the copy of the Confederation debates possessed by the writer there appears on the margin of the page, in William McDougall's handwriting and initialled by himself, these words: 'In the Quebec Conference I moved and Mr Mowat seconded a motion for the elective principle. About one-third of the delegates voted for the proposition, Brown arguing and voting against it.
In no sense could he be called a party man. Another member of the Opposition was the young man we have already met as a student in Macdonald's law-office, afterwards Sir Oliver Mowat, prime minister of Ontario. Mowat was of a type very different to Sandfield Macdonald. He had been a consistent Reformer from his youth up.
"Yes, Tonal'," said the trader, taking a few whiffs of the long clay pipe which was his usual evening comforter, "I hev a plan, and, strange as it may seem to an unsentimental man like you, love is at the bottom of it." "Well, you might have a worse foundation," returned Mowat, with something of good-natured cynicism on his rugged face.
It iss a grand spote for birds to fly over, an' there's plenty o' ducks an' geese, so we may count on soon gettin' enough to fill the larder to overflow." "Ay, there's plenty o' birds," remarked Mowat, with the absent air of a man whose mind is running on some other theme. MacSweenie was a keen sportsman, and dearly loved a day with his gun.
Soon afterwards they were within the circle of the camp, where men were still smoking and eating round the fires, and women and children were moving busily about. "Why, there are John Flett and David Mowat," exclaimed Victor, as several of the men came forward to meet the party. "An' Hayes, an' Vinklemann," cried Rollin.
"In that respect the guide shows himself to be a wise man," returned MacSweenie sententiously. "It iss only geese that blab out all they think to everybody that asks them questions." "Ay, that is true," rejoined Mowat, with a cynical smile, "an' some geese manage, by sayin' nothin' at all to anybody, and lookin' like owls, to pass themselves off as wise men for a time."
"The thing that finally determined me was the fact, ascertained by Mowat and myself, that unless we went in the whole effort for constitutional changes would break down, and the enormous advantages gained by our negotiations probably be lost.
"Louis Lambert, indeed, and Winklemann are crack shots, and John Flett is not bad, but the others are poor hands. Mowat can only shoot straight with a crooked gun, and as for that half-cracked schoolmaster, Jan Macdonald, he would miss a barn door at fifty paces unless he were to shut his eyes and fire at random, in which case he'd have some chance "
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