 | Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 988 pages
...not now a conflict of principles between the English and French, but a conflict of the two races. He says : — " I expected to find a contest between...not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham - Canada - 1839 - 452 pages
...ere any success could be expected in any attempt to remedy the many evils of this unhappy Province. I expected to find a contest between a government...not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions, until we could first succeed... | |
 | United States - 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....not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions, until we could first succeed... | |
 | Ireland - 1839 - 804 pages
...of thii unhappy province. I expected to find a contest between a government nnj a people — I fuund two nations warring in the bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, nut of principles, but oi races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration... | |
 | England - 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...not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions, until we could first succeed... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States - 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....not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions, until we could first succeed... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - Canada - 1883 - 648 pages
...upon the spot he was ignorant of the " true inwardness " of the strife in that distracted colony. He says : — " I expected to find a contest between...not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - Great Britain - 1883 - 338 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
