Anti-Gallic Letters Addressed to His Excellency, the Earl of Gosford, Governor-In-Chief of the Canadas (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1836. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... which cannot express comfort, which knows not t&r endearing term home, which requires ever; muscle and every limb to act as an interpreter of the tongue, and which, though last not least, is said to harden and distort the features of youth and beauty. But seriously, my lord, the measure will be as fatal as it is ridiculous. It is a lever, my lord, with which I shall vigorously attempt to raise the national and patriotic feelings of every man of British blood in British America. The French faction's rashness and your lordship's weakness have rendered the struggle no longer political but purely aad exclusively national. A French stale shall not be permitted to exist on this English continentFive hundred thousand determined men wiH speedily repeat that declaration in voices of thunder. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, Camillus. No. XLVIII. MoNTasAL, 16th December, 1835. Mr Loan, The next twelve paragraphs of your lordship's speech either require no comment or have already been incidentally considered. The next three, respectively numbered 25, 26 and 27, may perhaps form the subject of a series of didactic letters for the information of the Royal Commissioners. The remaining seven paragraphs are worthy of a brief discussion. In the commencement of your twenty-eighth paragraph, your loxdship says, 'This moment, as it seems to me, is a great opportunity for good or for evil'. I very strongly doubt, whether your lordship attached any definite meaning to the quoted words; and 1 cannot gather any other meaning from them, than-that your lordship's conciliatory course, as it seemed to yourself, was destined either to narrow or to widen the breach between the 'two parties'. So safe a prediction displayed at least as much ...