 | 1839 - 630 pages
...in any attempt to remedy the many grievances of this unhappy Province. I expected" says Lord Durham, "to find a contest between a government and a people....into the hostile divisions of French and English." He then devotes a large portion of the reoprt to the object of proving and illustrating this position.... | |
 | 1839 - 622 pages
...in any attempt to remedy the many grievances of this unhappy Province. 1 expected" says Lord Durham, "to find a contest between a government and a people....into the hostile divisions of French and English." He then devotes a large portion of the reoprt to the object of proving and illustrating this position.... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1839 - 374 pages
...idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed in terminating a deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants...into the hostile divisions of French and English." But why should this conflict between the two races have taken place ? Firstly, because the French,... | |
 | 1844 - 500 pages
...hostility of the two races may be seen from the following passages in Lord Durham's Report : — " I expected to find a contest between a government...expect that any description I can give will impress upon your Majesty such a view of the animosity of these races as my personal experience in Lower Canada... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - 1883 - 648 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...into the hostile divisions of French and English. ... . . The national hostility has not assumed its permanent influence until of late years, nor has... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - 1883 - 656 pages
...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, but of races ;...into the hostile divisions of French and English. . . . . The national hostility has not assumed its permanent influence until of late years, nor has... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - 1883 - 656 pages
...I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state. I found a struggle not of principle.), but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle...into the hostile divisions of French and English. . . . . The national hostility has not assumed its permanent influence until of late years, nor has... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1898 - 428 pages
...quarrel, which really sprang from hatred of the English nationality, and fear of being absorbed by it. ' I expected to find a contest between a government...into the hostile divisions of French and English.' The remedy proposed was to give the French Canadians Responsible Government1 — not the mere mockery... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1901 - 420 pages
...are curiously applicable to the situation in South Africa at the present day. Lord Durham says : — I expected to find a contest between a Government...now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into hostile divisions of French and English. Such words strengthen the hope that what has been done in... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1902 - 328 pages
...evil. " I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people ; I found two nations wan-ing in the bosom of a single State ; I found a struggle,...into the hostile divisions of French and English. " The national feud forces itself on the very senses, irresistibly and palpably, as the origin or the... | |
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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; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... 
