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 . rrich and ErastusWiman, Toronto; Hon. George Coles, Charlotte-town, ; Hon. Charles Fisher, St. John, ;Hon. James Skead, Ottawa; Hon. J. G. Currie, ; Hon. E. Leonard, London. There werealso a great many other representative Canadianspresent. Having shortly before won a prize offered inMontreal for an essay on
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 . rrich and ErastusWiman, Toronto; Hon. George Coles, Charlotte-town, ; Hon. Charles Fisher, St. John, ;Hon. James Skead, Ottawa; Hon. J. G. Currie, ; Hon. E. Leonard, London. There werealso a great many other representative Canadianspresent. Having shortly before won a prize offered inMontreal for an essay on the Reciprocity Treaty,which was widely published in the press, I receivedan unexpected but warm invitation from the dele-gation of the city of Hamilton to attend this Con-vention, and therefore had the honour and pleasureof being present during the whole proceedings. I never had seen an absolute tyrant until I wit-nessed General Wallbridge wielding the baton aschairman at this Convention. With hundreds eagerto speak, however, it was quickly perceived that butfor his tyranny the delegates would be there forweeks instead of days, and a very few minutessufficed to make the tyrants will law and the fall ofhis gavel irrevocable. The flood-gates of discussion 248. HON. JOSEPH HOWE. RECIPROCITY VAINLY SACRIFICED were then opened, and the tide of eloquence flowedon unceasingly for four days. The best argument in favour of the continuanceof Reciprocity—in fact, the speech of the Conven-tion—was delivered by the Hon. Joseph present had ever seen the eminent Nova Scotianbefore. His presence was prepossessing, and hequite maintained his high reputation as an speech was exceedingly brilliant and eloquent,and when during the peroration he told with deepemotion of the large number of young Canadianswho had shed their blood—and that even his ownson had served under General Sheridan—to upholdthe cause of the Republic, hundreds of the delegateswere so moved by his el
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