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" I feel confident that the accuracy and moderation of my description will be acknowledged by all who have seen the state of society in Lower Canada during the last year. Nor do I exaggerate the inevitable constancy any more than the intensity of this animosity.... "
The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham: Her Majesty's High ... - Page 35
by John George Lambton Earl of Durham - 1839 - 423 pages
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Report on the Affairs of British North America

John George Lambton Earl of Durham, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield - Act of Union, 1841 - 1839 - 164 pages
...their antagonists. They 22 find themselves still a minority in the midst of a hostile and organised people ; apprehensions of secret conspiracies and...co-operation between its classes, is practically in abeyance ia Lower Canada. The militia, on which the main defence of the province against external enemies, and...
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A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Part second, Volume 3

Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 374 pages
...portion of the population ; and the picture which I draw represents a state of things so little -femiliar to the personal experience of the people of this country,...shall possess or even approximate to a majority." Although M. Paj)ineau and his party were very willing to fraternize with the discontented party in...
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A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Part ..., Part 2, Volume 3

Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 384 pages
...people of this country, that many will probably reg'v<i it as the work of mere imagination ; but I fee) confident that the accuracy and moderation of my description...shall possess or even approximate to a majority." Although M. Papineau and his party were very willing to fraternize with the discontented party in Upper...
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A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Part second, Volume 3

Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 378 pages
...the state of society in Lower" ; Carfada during the last year. Nor do I ejcaggerjij-e ihj: - -.- :"-. inevitable constancy, any more than the intensity...shall possess or even approximate to a majority." Although M. Papineau and his party were very willing to fraternize with the discontented party in Upper...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 5

United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...from ever again kini; predominant in any portion of the legislature of the province." * » • * " Never again will the present generation of French...shall possess or even approximate to a majority." And with respect to the material condition of the Province, he speaks of the tranquillity and happiness...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 5

United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...race from ever again being predominant in any portion of the legislature of the province." • * * * "Never again will the present generation of French...shall possess or even approximate to a majority." And with respect to the material condition of the Province, he speaks of the tranquillity and happiness...
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A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Part second, Volume 3

Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 386 pages
...yield a loyal submission to a British Government ; never again will the English population tolerate tho authority of a House of Assembly in which the French...shall possess or even approximate to a majority." Although M. Papineau and his party were very willing to fraternize with the discontented party in Upper...
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Memoir of the Life of the Right Honourable Charles Lord Sydenham, G.C.B ...

George Poulett Scrope - Canada - 1843 - 542 pages
...of French Canadians yield a loyal submission to a British Government ; never again will the British population tolerate the authority of a House of Assembly...shall possess, or even approximate to a majority." — In a subsequent part of his Report he again expressed himself on the same point in words scarcely...
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The Political History of Canada Between 1840 and 1855: A Lecture Delivered ...

Sir Francis Hincks - Canada - 1877 - 96 pages
...years since Lords Durham and Sydenham were persuaded that the English population would never again tolerate the authority of a House of Assembly in which the French should possess or even approximate to a majority. The present House of Assembly of Quebec is composed...
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Canada: an Encyclopædia of the Country: Rebellion of 1837 and ...

John Castell Hopkins - Canada - 1898 - 544 pages
...a majority of that race from ever again being predominant in any portion of the Legislature of that Province. I describe in strong terms the feelings...shall possess or even approximate to a majority." The nature of the situation will be better understood from this impartial summary than from almost...
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