 | 1895 - 588 pages
...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. ' I expected,' he said, ' to ' find a contest between a government and a people...found ' a struggle, not of principles, but of races.' Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleam of sunshine for England. Although... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. " I expected," he said, " to find a contest between a government and a people...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleant of sunshine for England. Although... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - Great Britain - 1883 - 338 pages
...of a war of liberty, as Lord Durham expressly remarks in the opening of his famous Report on Canada: 'I expected to find a contest between a government...found a struggle not of principles but of races.' It is however to be remarked on the other side that here too the alien element dwindles and is likely... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - Canada - 1883 - 656 pages
...was ignorant of the " true inwardness " of the strife in that distracted colony. He says : — '• I expected to find a contest between a government...bosom of a single state. I found a struggle not of principle.), but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - Canada - 1883 - 656 pages
...he was ignorant of the " true inwardness " of the strife in that distracted colony. He says : — " I expected to find a contest between a government and a people ; I f . innd two nations warring in the bosom of a single state. 1 found a struggle not of principles,... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 848 pages
...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. " I expected," he said, " to find a contest between a government and a people...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleam of sunshine for England. Although... | |
 | John George Bourinot - Canada - 1896 - 514 pages
...the English-speaking minority controlled the government. " I found," wrote Lord Durham, in 1839, " two nations warring in the bosom of a single state;...found a struggle not of principles but of races." It is true that some Englishmen were found fighting for popular liberties on the side of the French... | |
 | David Breakenridge Read - Canada - 1896 - 404 pages
...dissatisfaction. I found a deeper than political cause, a cause that penetrated deep into its social fabric. . I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people, 1 found two nations warring in the bosom of a mighty state, I found ;i struggle not of principle, but... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Great Britain - 1897 - 580 pages
...hands, they cared little for them as ends in themselves. Many will remember Lord Durham's words : " I expected to find a contest between a government...found a struggle not of principles but of races." The fact, however, that this state of things prevailed in Lower Canada rendered the constitutional... | |
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I expected to find a contest between a government and a people : I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races... 
