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... Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.1 The reason for the refusal of the Maritime provinces to consider proposals from the League for a legislative or federal union was expressed in a letter of Howe's , the Reform leader of Nova Scotia , to ...
... Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.1 The reason for the refusal of the Maritime provinces to consider proposals from the League for a legislative or federal union was expressed in a letter of Howe's , the Reform leader of Nova Scotia , to ...
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... Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , Prince Edward , and Newfoundland had been among the best customers of the United States for bread- stuff , but that within the past year Canada had arranged with three of these provinces for a free exchange ...
... Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , Prince Edward , and Newfoundland had been among the best customers of the United States for bread- stuff , but that within the past year Canada had arranged with three of these provinces for a free exchange ...
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... Nova Scotia in the protection of the fisheries by providing two sailing vessels to cruise in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the coast of Labrador . Nova Scotia was to continue to employ two vessels in the protection of the fisheries ...
... Nova Scotia in the protection of the fisheries by providing two sailing vessels to cruise in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the coast of Labrador . Nova Scotia was to continue to employ two vessels in the protection of the fisheries ...
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... Nova Scotia to influence public opinion . Opposition in the Maritime Provinces to the proposed reci- procity treaty was so strong that in his despatch of May 4 , 1854 , from St. Johns , he stated that " after several inter- views with ...
... Nova Scotia to influence public opinion . Opposition in the Maritime Provinces to the proposed reci- procity treaty was so strong that in his despatch of May 4 , 1854 , from St. Johns , he stated that " after several inter- views with ...
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... Nova Scotia , Prince Edward Island and of the several islands thereunto adjacent , without being restricted to any distance from the shores , with permission to land upon the coasts and shores . . . and also upon the Magdalen islands ...
... Nova Scotia , Prince Edward Island and of the several islands thereunto adjacent , without being restricted to any distance from the shores , with permission to land upon the coasts and shores . . . and also upon the Magdalen islands ...
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Page 61 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 77 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 113 - 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...
Page 42 - I do not think that that time is yet approaching. But let us make them as far as possible fit to govern themselves ; let us give them, as far as we can, the capacity of ruling their own affairs ; let them increase in wealth and population ; and, whatever may happen, we of this great empire shall have the consolation of saying that we have contributed to the happiness of the world.
Page 177 - On Lake Ontario, to one vessel, not exceeding one hundred tons burden, and armed with one eighteen-pound cannon. •' On the upper lakes, to two vessels, not exceeding like burden each, and armed with like force.
Page 49 - Island, and of the several islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore ; with permission to land upon the coasts and shores of those, colonies and the islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish...
Page 43 - You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them to believe that, without severing the bonds which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain the degree of perfection, and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free men have a right to aspire.
Page 40 - American gentlemen, there was not a man who signed that manifesto who had any more serious idea of seeking annexation with the United States than a petulant child who strikes his nurse has of deliberately murdering her.
Page 197 - I make the assertion that no consideration of finance, no question of balance for or against them, upon interchange of commodities, can have any influence upon the loyalty of the inhabitants of the British Provinces, or tend in the slightest degree to alienate the affections of the people from their country, their institutions, their Government and their QUEEN. There is not a...
Page 55 - Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the views of the imperial government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada.