 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham - 1912 - 354 Seiten
...Legislature, and found a deeper seated cause of strife. ' I expected,' he writes in often-quoted terms, ' to find a contest between a government and a people...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ' (ii. 16). Lord Durham probably somewhat exaggerated the strength of the race antipathy, but that... | |
 | 1913 - 158 Seiten
...success could be expected in any attempt to remedy the many evils of this unhappy Province. I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...warring in the bosom of a single state : I found a 68 A STRUGGLE OF RACES straggle, not of principles, but of races, and I perceived that it would be... | |
 | Arthur Pierre Poley - 1913 - 480 Seiten
...antagonism. " I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people," reported Lord Durham, " I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single...found a struggle not of principles, but of races." In 1838 the Imperial Government suspended the Con- ^Ut^ension stitution of Lower Canada, and made provision... | |
 | William Henry Atherton - 1914 - 890 Seiten
...off into disi camps. "I expected," says Durham in his report, "to find a contest between a gov ment and a people. I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single s I found a struggle not of principles but of races." Hence his grand solution "home rule" for the... | |
 | Richard Charles Mills - 1915 - 402 Seiten
...that his expectation was disappointed. In his Report he wrote, in often-quoted words, " I expected to find a contest between a government and a people : I found two nations warr1ng in the bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races."' It... | |
 | Archibald MacMechan - 1916 - 210 Seiten
...Durham proposes a remedy. The fourth part is an outline of the curative process suggested. ' I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...two nations warring in the bosom of a single state.' In that one sentence Durham precises the situation in Lower Canada. Nothing will surprise the Canadian... | |
 | Charles Ryle Fay - 1920 - 344 Seiten
...His tenure of office was marked by the complete transference of the Civil List to the Canadian 1 " I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single...found a struggle not of principles, but of races" (Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North A merica, p. 8) . Government (1847), the ratification,... | |
 | Jean Charlemagne Bracq - 1924 - 488 Seiten
...obvious causes of the Rising he dogmatically makes them a matter of ethnology. "I expected," he says, "to find a contest between a government and a people:...state: I found a struggle not of principles but of races."14 This he frequently repeats in various ways. Had this been true the same racial antagonism... | |
 | Victor Lovitt Oakes Chittick - 1924 - 730 Seiten
...French Canada involved gave startling proof of the seriousness of the situation there. " I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people;...two nations warring in the bosom of a Single State," were Lord Durham's often quoted preliminary words, " and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt... | |
 | Helen Grace Macdonald - 1926 - 254 Seiten
...French province. Actual conditions as he found them there in 1839 are thus described: " I expected to find a contest between a government and a people:...terminating the deadly animosity that now separates the inhabi1 Census of Canada East 1861; total population 1,110,664; French origin 847,320. 403] "5 tants... | |
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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... 
