 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2591895Full view - About this book
 | Richard Charles Mills - Australia - 1915 - 402 pages
...that his expectation was disappointed. In his Report he wrote, in often-quoted words, " I expected to find a contest between a government and a people : I found two nations warr1ng in the bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races."' It... | |
 | Archibald MacMechan - Canada - 1916 - 210 pages
...Durham proposes a remedy. The fourth part is an outline of the curative process suggested. ' I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...two nations warring in the bosom of a single state.' In that one sentence Durham precises the situation in Lower Canada. Nothing will surprise the Canadian... | |
 | Charles Herbert Currey - Great Britain - 1916 - 294 pages
...described by Lord Durham. ' I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people,' he wrote ; ' I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we... | |
 | Charles Ryle Fay - Great Britain - 1920 - 344 pages
...His tenure of office was marked by the complete transference of the Civil List to the Canadian 1 " I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single...found a struggle not of principles, but of races" (Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North A merica, p. 8) . Government (1847), the ratification,... | |
 | Howard Robinson - Great Britain - 1922 - 550 pages
...races, languages and laws." His words describing the conditions in Lower Canada are famous: "I expected to find a contest between a government and a people:...I found a struggle not of principles but of races, and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we... | |
 | Jean Charlemagne Bracq - Canada - 1924 - 488 pages
...obvious causes of the Rising he dogmatically makes them a matter of ethnology. "I expected," he says, "to find a contest between a government and a people:...state: I found a struggle not of principles but of races."14 This he frequently repeats in various ways. Had this been true the same racial antagonism... | |
 | Victor Lovitt Oakes Chittick - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 730 pages
...French Canada involved gave startling proof of the seriousness of the situation there. " I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people;...two nations warring in the bosom of a Single State," were Lord Durham's often quoted preliminary words, " and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt... | |
 | Edward Murray Wrong - Biography & Autobiography - 1926 - 368 pages
...Canadian Assembly of a narrow and unprofitable racialism. The famous passage in the Report, ' I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ', expresses the views of Buller before and after contact with the problem more accurately than it... | |
 | Helen Grace Macdonald - Canada - 1926 - 254 pages
...French province. Actual conditions as he found them there in 1839 are thus described: " I expected to find a contest between a government and a people:...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions, until we... | |
 | Irma O'Connor - Colonization - 1928 - 340 pages
...discontent. " I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people," wrote Lord Durham, " but I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we... | |
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