Public men and public life in Canada; the story of the Canadian confederacy, being recollections of Parliament and the press and embracing a succinct account of the stirring events which led to the confederation of British North America into the Dominion of Canada . re the anti-slavery senti-ments of the Northern and Western States. Itensured the election of Abraham Lincoln to thepresidency of the Republic the following year, andbefore another twelve months had elapsed, Northerntroops on their way to Southern battlefields passedHarpers Ferry singing: John Browns body lies a-mouldering in the g
Public men and public life in Canada; the story of the Canadian confederacy, being recollections of Parliament and the press and embracing a succinct account of the stirring events which led to the confederation of British North America into the Dominion of Canada . re the anti-slavery senti-ments of the Northern and Western States. Itensured the election of Abraham Lincoln to thepresidency of the Republic the following year, andbefore another twelve months had elapsed, Northerntroops on their way to Southern battlefields passedHarpers Ferry singing: John Browns body lies a-mouldering in the grave,But his soul goes marching on! And it went marching on, until the Southernand Middle States werered with blood, and theshackles of 4,000,000slaves were forever struckfrom their limbs. One of Canadas grandold men, one who wieldedmuch influence in UpperCanadas earlier days, andis justly regarded as thefounder of our education-al system, I first met atBerlin at this period. Thiswas Rev. Dr. EgertonRyerson, equally celebrated as Superintendent ofEducation, and as a Methodist divine. He was thenmaking a tour of the counties of the Province, sound-ing the people and educating them up to certainenlightened changes which he wished to make in theschool laws. 141. Egerton Rverson, PUBLIC MEN AND PUBLIC LIFE IN CANADA The doctor was a striking figure. The statute ofhim before the Normal School in Toronto corre-sponds very fairly with my recollections of him ashe appeared in the courthouse, Berlin, before thecrowded meeting which he had called. The prin-cipal changes in our educational system which hethen advocated were: (i) That all public schoolsshould be free; (2) that the law should be madecompulsory on parents to send their children toschool between the ages of six and fourteen; and(3) that the support of grammar schools, over andabove the Government grant, should fall partly onthe county councils and partly on the municipalitiesin which the schools were located. These propo
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