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Sir John Alexander Macdonald, K.C.B., D.C.L.,

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&c., &c., &c.,

A STATESMAN

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WHOSE LOVE OF LITERATURE AND ART

HAS NOT ONLY PROMPTED HIM EARNESTLY TO MUSE ON

THE WORKS OF

Theologians, Poets, Artists, Jurists and Satirists;

BUT WHOSE SYMPATHY WITH

Human Nature

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HAS ENABLED HIM TO FIND REFRESHMENT IN NOVELS

AND

PHILOSOPHY IN ALL WRITINGS WHERE WIT SPARKLES,

OR

WHERE HUMOUR FINDS A TONGUE.

A STATESMAN,

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MOREOVER,

WHO HAS GIVEN TO HIS COUNTRY THE FRUITS OF HIS LARGE EXPERIENCE, RARE INDUSTRY AND MATURE WISDON, ESPECIALLY ON THOSE SUBJECTS THAT RELATE TO

Parliamentary Law and Constitutional Government,

AS THEY ARE EXPOUNDED AND ENFORCED BY THE SUPREME AUTHORITY

OF THE

Mother Country.

For my part I look upon the Imperial rights of Great Britain and the privileges which the Colonists ought to enjoy under those rights, to be just the most reconcilable things in the world. The Parliament of Great Britain is at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities, one as the Local Legislature of this island, providing for all things at home immediately, and by no other instrument than the Executive power; the other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I may call her Imperial character, in which, as from the Throne of Heaven, she superintends all the several inferior Legislatures, and guides and controls them all without annihilating any.—Burke's speech on American Taxation, Vol. I, page 156, of his "Select Works" edited by E. J. Payne, M.A., Fellow of University College, Oxford.

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