North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-05-22
NORTH AMERIC AN:
SWANTON, MAY 60 1889.
REVIEW OF DURHA'Ms REPORT.
No. III
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| 81 national antipa .hes and hatreds whic
hatred he says forces itself on the yer
senses. iTresis' ably and palpably," and de
clares that h knows this to be the fac
from his personal experience - whic
experience we have shown was acquire
IN the company OF such worthless as Mol
son, .hcCutcheon and Redpath the latte
was Scotch mason, and few years sine,
WIS day-aborer, bu, who enriched him
self by jobbing on the Rideau Canal. -
Notwithstanding the Improvement in thi,
mans finances, he was SO grossly igno
rant as not TO be able TO read an address
10 HIS LoRDsHIP," though Duncan
Glib, the tailor, was employed three days
in teaching the worthy man of mortar "to
say il by heart even ifhe could not be taught
TO read )" nevertheless, when he came
into the presence of a greigM mon, the
booing Scotchmon cOu'd ma look him in
ne Jdfee, and his Lordship had to take the
paper from the bashfnl mason's hands and
read it himself. We are truly sorry to be
obliged at each step Of our progress, TO
notice the personal defects Of the Lord
High Commissioners "leading men ,, but
since they are thrust upon us in contra
to the "ignorant Frenchn we
feel compelled 10 say WHAT these char
acters are, in order that our readers NAV
appreciate the purity Of the fountain, out
OF which his LoRDsHIP dipped his hume
rous LIES. Again, in our last we gave
10 our readers a specimen of the "leading
English merchants" [aIas the poor Scotch
pedIar-woman's son's] disinterestedness in
sending to Scotland, his native country.
for an engine and engineer, which facts
Lord Durham carefully keeps out Of sight,
est his mistress, the Queen, should see on
which side nationality is really to be found. |
in another part of the "Report,n his
Iordshlp selects the /" Emigrant Tax" as
further proof that the Canadians hate
he English, and that the Canadians passed
hat Law in order to hamper or exclude
he emigrants from coming to Canada: but
little farther on in the report, where he
desirous of contrasting the liberality and
ne fostering care Of the CRowN with the
hatred of the Canadians" he let's out this
Pcret, "that this law was passed in COM
lance with recommendation from the
'olonial Office" which is the fact and The
nall sum of 50 head, paid by the Can.
iln who transports and cheats the emf
rant, is appropriated to the wants of the
OK and helpless emigrant by commission
s " named by the government" This
roof also, like the'preceding one, of the
ltlonallty of the Canadians and of their ,
atred to the British, turns out, when ex-
"hed' TO be agratuitous falsehood de-
'erately disguised and distorted by the ;
'racious "Lord" in support of his asser-
IN that the Canadians "hate the British: >, r
ID this fact being so established. his +.
-ordship" finds no fault with the "Anplo.
lxon race" which determined "never to ,
omlt to French majority'' but "soone y
an DO that, this spirited and enterprising -
leddllngl race will take the government \
70 their own hands, separate from rhe u
'ther-country, and continue to be EN- |"
Lioh at the expense Of ceasing to be Vi
~ pr
l his equitable spirit, so characteristics III
'ne "Anglo-Saxon race" his Lordsbin. al
from disappearing, gIories in, and delhi. to
ltely says must be respected and assisted II
ID order to attain this end, he recon-. t
ndS to his "Mistress the Queen, ), that
al measures be contrired, sucb as shall
c 10 the British population, which is
y one sixth of the Canadian, a majority rel
representatives: then, but not till then be
the Anglo-Saxon race be satisfied ;, w
oil this, his Lordship finds no national III,
Indice or hatred, but on the contrary es,
oil that enterprising spirit fur