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The Makers of Canada Series (Mackenzie, Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks)
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. THE MODERATE REFORMERS AND THE CANADIAN REBELLION
CHAPTER III. THE UNION OF THE CANADAS
CHAPTER IV. LORD SYDENHAM AND RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER V. FIRST LAFONTAINE-BALDWIN MINISTRY
CHAPTER VI. THE COMING OF METCALFE
CHAPTER VII. THE METCALFE CRISIS
CHAPTER VIII. IN OPPOSITION
CHAPTER IX. THE SECOND LAFONTAINE-BALDWIN MINISTRY
CHAPTER X. THE REBELLION LOSSES BILL
CHAPTER XI. THE END OF THE MINISTRY
INDEX
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Other forces were at work. A large body of immigrants had come into the province after the peace of 1783. A recent decision in England had laid it down that they could not become British subjects or inherit property within the Empire. The judgment, if it stood, meant that a vast number of Upper Canadians had no political or personal rights. The home government advised legislation, and a bill was accordingly introduced in the Legislative Council. The Assembly, however, on receiving the measure found that it fell far short of a complete remedy and threw it out. For several sessions the battle rose and fell and the question was not finally settled before many a settler had his judgment warped and his sense of values numbed by the unseemly squabble. When a new election took place in 1828 the influences of politics, religion, agitation, and class hatred combined to return an Assembly controlled by the Reformers. Mackenzie was elected for the County of York with Jesse Ketchum as colleague. The party included Robert Baldwin’s father, Marshall Bidwell, John Rolph and others destined for good or ill to leave a mark on the political fortunes of the province. Bidwell was elected speaker and an address was voted to the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir John Colborne, regretting that his advisers WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE were those in whom the country had no confidence. Colborne may have had no leanings towards popular government, but he was at least far from being arbitrary and autocratic. If his policy eventually stiffened and if his sympathies were at length entirely on the side of the Family Compact, Mackenzie and his extremists had only themselves to thank.
Mackenzie at least was not content to assume the modesty which might for a time adorn an inexperienced member of the Assembly. He began at once that policy of ceaselessly ferreting out supposed grievances which characterized his journalistic career and eventually robbed his political life of that fruition which is the child of sanity and discipline. He started an agitation over the post office—an Imperial concern—over the chaplaincy of the House, and precious time was wasted which might have been better occupied in building up for the Reformers a platform of successful economic legislation. Political reform does not thrive on the negation of grievances. It is true that something was accomplished, but not enough to prevent the Compact gaining control of the Assembly at the elections of 1830, necessary on the death of George III. The ranks of the Reformers were decimated. Mackenzie and Bidwell survived, but many of the soberer men of the party went down to defeat. There had been no constructive leadership and the Reformers had unfortunately for themselves allowed Mackenzie too much rope. There was no shadow of a political rock in the dry parched land. The general note had been a whine and no evidence had been shown of political vision and constitutional architecture.
