The Speeches and Public Letters of the Hon. Joseph Howe, Volume 1 |
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... majority was put aside , and his rival was appointed Chief Justice . The Council still retained their ancient constitution , and excluded the public from their deliberations . Under a threat of collecting the Quit Rents , a permanent ...
... majority was put aside , and his rival was appointed Chief Justice . The Council still retained their ancient constitution , and excluded the public from their deliberations . Under a threat of collecting the Quit Rents , a permanent ...
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... majority at the close of it was upwards of one thousand votes . From the speeches delivered during this election it is easy to gather the reasons which induced Mr. Howe to go into the Legislature . We give a single extract : - - But ...
... majority at the close of it was upwards of one thousand votes . From the speeches delivered during this election it is easy to gather the reasons which induced Mr. Howe to go into the Legislature . We give a single extract : - - But ...
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... majority ; here , we may record five hundred votes against our ministry , and yet they sit unmoved , re- producing themselves from their own friends and connections , and from a narrow party in the country , who , though opposed to the ...
... majority ; here , we may record five hundred votes against our ministry , and yet they sit unmoved , re- producing themselves from their own friends and connections , and from a narrow party in the country , who , though opposed to the ...
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... majority . We give this speech , hot because there is any thing very remark- able in it , but because it marks a period in his public life and mental development to which his friends attach some interest : Mr. Howe was at all times ...
... majority . We give this speech , hot because there is any thing very remark- able in it , but because it marks a period in his public life and mental development to which his friends attach some interest : Mr. Howe was at all times ...
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... majority at the board . That there are now in that body eight members representing the Church ; that the Presbyterians , who outnumber them by about nine thousand , have but three ; the Cath- olics , who are nearly equal , have but one ...
... majority at the board . That there are now in that body eight members representing the Church ; that the Presbyterians , who outnumber them by about nine thousand , have but three ; the Cath- olics , who are nearly equal , have but one ...
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Page 460 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the
Page 64 - If you doubt of the horrid consequences of suppressing the effusion even of individual discontent, look to those enslaved countries where the protection of despotism is supposed to be secured by such restraints. Even the person of the despot there is never in safety. Neither the fears of the despot, nor the machinations of the slave have any slumber, the one anticipating the moment of peril, the other watching the opportunity of aggression. The fatal crisis is equally a surprise upon both ; the decisive...
Page 227 - If Colonial Legislatures have frequently stopped the supplies, if they have harassed public servants by unjust or harsh impeachments, it was because the removal of an unpopular administration could not be effected in the Colonies by those milder indications of a want of confidence, which have always sufficed to attain the end in the mother country.
Page 462 - I am required to give myself up entirely to the Council; to submit absolutely to their dictation; to have no judgment of my own; to bestow the patronage of the Government exclusively on their partisans; to proscribe their opponents; and to make some public and unequivocal declaration of my adhesion to those conditions — including the complete nullification of her Majesty's Government...
Page 225 - It may fairly be said, that the natural state of government in all these colonies is that of collision between the executive and the representative body. In all of them the administration of public affairs is habitually confided to those who do not co-operate harmoniously with the popular branch of the Legislature; and the Government is 24 25 constantly proposing measures -which the majority of the Assembly reject and refusing its assent to bills which that body has passed.
Page 64 - ... him off, and he appears no more. In the other case, how does the work of sedition go forward ? Night after night the muffled rebel steals forth in the dark, and casts another and another brand upon the pile, to which, when the hour of fatal maturity shall arrive, he will apply...
Page 219 - Scotia misrepresented to the sovereign, the gracious boons of the sovereign marred in their transmission to the people, do now solemnly declare that the executive council, as at present constituted, does not enjoy the confidence of the Commons.
Page 217 - It is quite impossible to allow it to be laid down as a general principle that any part of the government of this country, conducted by ministers having the sanction of this House shall be overruled by a colony, and that such colony shall not be subject to the general superintending authority of the Crown of these realms.
Page 242 - You will understand, and will cause it to be made generally known, that hereafter the tenure of Colonial offices held during her Majesty's pleasure, will not be regarded as equivalent to a tenure during good behaviour ; but that not only such officers will be called upon to retire from the public service as often as any sufficient motives of public policy may suggest the expediency of that measure...
Page 111 - But, as there is now no occasion, so have I no wish for republican institutions, no desire to desert the mighty mother for the great daughter who has sprung from her loins. I wish to live and die a British subject, but not a Briton only in the name. Give me — give to my country the blessed privilege of her constitution and her laws; and as our earliest thoughts are trained to reverence the great principles of freedom and responsibility, which have made her the wonder of the world, let us be contented...