Latest / Canada- The Empire of the North / 45 - Canada- The Empire of the North by Agnes C. Laut

Transcript

45 - Canada- The Empire of the North by Agnes C. Laut · Canada- The Empire of the North

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Section number forty four of Canada The Empire of the North.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Lyndamrie Nielsen, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: The Empire of the North by Agnes c. Lot from
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: eighteen twenty to eighteen sixty seven. Part one. It will
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: be recalled that on the coming of the United Empire
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: loyalists to Canada, the form of government was changed by
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: the Constitutional Act of seventeen ninety one, dividing the country
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: into Upper and Lower Canada. The government of each province
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: to consist of a governor, the Legislative Council, and the Assembly. Unfortunately,
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: self government for the colonies was not yet a recognized
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: principle of English rule. While the assemblies of the two
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: provinces were elected by the people, the power of the
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: assemblies was practically a blank, for the governor and council
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: were the real rulers, and they were appointed by the Crown,
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: which meant downing Street, which meant in turn that the
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: two Canadas were regarded as the happy hunting ground for
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: incompetent office seekers of the great English parties, from the
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: Governor General to the most insignificant postal clerk, all were
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: appointed from Downing Street. Influence, not merit counted, which perhaps
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: explains why one can count on the fingers of one
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: hand the number of governors and lieutenants from seventeen ninety
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: one to eighteen forty one who were worthy of their
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: trust and did not disgrace their position by blunders that
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: were simply notorious. Provost disgraceful retreat from Lake Champlain in
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: the War of eighteen twelve is a typical example of
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: the mischief a political jobber can work when placed in
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: a position of trust, But the life and death struggle
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: of the war prevented the people turning their attention to
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: questions of misgovernment. And it is hardly an exaggeration to
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: say that the Act of seventeen ninety one reduced Canadian
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: affairs to the chaos of a second Ireland and retarded
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: the progress of the country for a century. It has
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: become customary for English writers to slur over the disorders
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: of eighteen thirty seven as the results of the ignorant
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: rabble following the bad advice of the hot heads Mackenzie
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: and Papineaut. But it is worth remembering that everything the
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: rabble fought for and hanged for has since been incorporated
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: in Canada's constitution as the very wolf and warp of
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: responsible government. Let us see how the system worked out
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: in detail. After the War of eighteen twelve. Prevost dies
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: before court martial can pronounce on his misconduct at Plattsburgh,
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: and Sir Gordon Drummond, the hero of Fort Erie Siege,
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: is sworn in. Canada is governed from Downing Street. And
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: it is my Lord Bathurst's brilliant idea that forever after
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: the war there shall be a belt of twenty miles
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: left waste forest and prairie between Canada and the United States,
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: presumably to prevent democracy rolling across the northern boundary. Fortunately,
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: the rough horse sense of the frontiersmen is wiser than
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: the wisdom of the British statesman, and settlement continues along
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: the boundary. In spite of Bathurt's brilliant idea. Those who
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: fought in the War of eighteen twelve are to be
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: rewarded by grants of land, rewarded of course, by the Crown,
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: which means the governor, But the governor must listen to
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: the advice of his councilors, who are appointed for life,
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: and to the heroes of eighteen twelve, the councilors grant
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: fifty acres a piece, while to themselves the said councillors
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: vote grants of land running from twenty thousand to eighty
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: thousand acres apiece. After the war, it is agreed that
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: neither Canada nor the United States shall keep war vessels
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: on the lakes, except such cruisers as shall be necessary
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: to maintain order among the fisheries. But the credit for
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: this wise arrangement does not belong to the councils at Toronto, Quebec,
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: for the suggestions came from Washington. As the legislative counselors
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: are appointed for life, they control enormous patronage, recommending all
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: appointments to government positions and meeting any applicants for office
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: who are outside the family ring with the court refusal
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: that has become famous for its insolence. No one but
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: a gentleman. Judges are appointed by favor, so are local magistrates,
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: so are collectors at the different ports of entry. Smaller
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: cities like Kingston are year after year refused incorporation because
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: incorporation would confer self government and that would oust members
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: of the Family Compact who held positions. In these places,
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: office holders are responsible to the Crown only, not to
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: the people. Therefore, when Receiver General Cadwell of Quebec does
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: a weigh with ninety six thousand pounds or two years
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: revenue of Lower Canada, he accounts for the defocalation to
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: his friends with the explanation of unlucky investments and goes
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: scot free. Quebec is a French province, but appointments are
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: made in England, so that out of seventy one thousand
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: pounds paid to its several servants, fifty eight thousand pounds
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: go to the English office holders, thirteen thousand pounds to French.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: Out of thirty six thousand pounds paid to judges, only
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: eight thousand pounds go to the French. And in Upper
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: Canada Ontario, it was even worse. In Quebec there was
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: always the division of French against English and Catholic against Protestant.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: But in Upper Canada the family Compact of councilors against
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: commoners was a solid and unbroken ring. When the Assembly
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: raises objections to some items of expense set down by
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: the council, writes Lieutenant Governor Simcoe in High Dungeon, I
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: will send the rascals, meaning the commoners, packing about their business,
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: and he prorogues the house. Not all the governors and
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: their lieutenants are foolishly blind to the faults of the system,
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: as Simpcoe of Ontario. Sir John Sherberke of Quebec, who
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: succeeds Drummond in Lower Canada, knows very well he is
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: surrounded by a pack of thieves. But they are his counselors,
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: appointed for life, and there he is bound to abide
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: by their advice. Nevertheless, he kicks over traces vigorously. Now
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: and then, like the old war horse that he is.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: The Commissary General comes to him with word that six
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds is missing from the military chest, and he
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: needs a warrant for search. Search. Indeed, roars Sir John,
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: there's not the slightest need. Wherever there is a robbery
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: in your department, it is among yourselves. Go find it. Curious.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: It is how good men reared in the old school,
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: where the masses exist for the benefit of the classes,
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: and the governed are to be allowed to exist only
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: by favor of those who govern. Curious how men fail
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: to read the sign of the times. Colonel Tom Talbau's
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: settlement in West Ontario has by eighteen thirty two increased
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: to fifty thousand people, and the mad Harum scarem of
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: court days is becoming an old man. Tabau has been
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: a legislative councilor for life, but it is not on
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: record that he ever attended the council in Toronto. Still
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: he views with high disfavor this universal discontent with being governed.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: The secret meetings held to agitate for responsible government Tom
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: Talbot regards as a pestilence leading on to the worst
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: disease from which humanity can suffer, namely democracy. The old
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: barristers uneasily in his lair as reports come in of Louder,
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: and Louder demands that the colonies shall be permitted to
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: govern itself. What would become of kings and colonels and
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: land grants by special favor if colonies govern themselves. Colonel
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: Tom Talbou doffs his homespun and his coon cap, and
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: he dons the satin ruffles of twenty five years ago
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: and he mounts his steed and he rides pompously forth
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: to the market place of Saint Thomas Town. On Saint
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: George's Day of eighteen thirty two bands play Flag's Wave
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: the country people from twenty miles round come riding to town.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Banners inscribed with loyalty to the Constitution are carried. At
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: the head of parades. The venerable old Colonel is greeted
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: with burst after burst of shouting as he comes prancing
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: on horseback up the hill. The band plays the British Grenaders,
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: the Highland bagpipes skirl a welcome. Then the old man
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: mounts the rostrum and delivers a speech that ought to
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: be famous as an exposition of good old Tory doctrine.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Some black sheep have slipped into my flock, and very
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: black they are. And what is worse, they have got
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: the rot, a distemper not known in this settlement till
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: some I shall call for short. Rebels began their work
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: of darkness under cover of organizing blank cold water drinking societies,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: where they meet at night to communicate their poisonous schemes
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: and circulate the infection and delude the unwary. Then they
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: assumed a more daring aspect under mask of a grievance petition, which,
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: when it was placed before me, I would not take
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: the trouble to read, being aware it was trash, founded
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: on falsehood, fabricated to create discontent. At the end of
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: a half hour's tirade of which these lines are a sample,
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: the good old Tory raised his hands and, in the
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: words of the Church's benediction, blessed his people and prayed
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Heaven to keep their minds untainted by sedition. Looking back
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: less than a century, it is almost impossible to believe
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: that the colonel's speech it cannot be called reasoning, was
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: applauded to the echo and regarded as a masterly justification
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: of people being governed rather than governing themselves. Perhaps, after all,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: it was not so much the Constitution of Canada that
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: caused the conflict as the clash between the old time
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: feudalism and the spirit of modern aggressive democracy. The United
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: States fought this question out in seventeen seventy six. Canada
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: wrestled it cannot be called a fight the same question
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: out in eighteen thirty seven. It is necessary to give
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: one or two cases of individual persecution to understand how
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: the disorders flamed to open rebellion. One Matthews, an officer
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: of the eighteen twelve War living on a pension, had
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: incurred the distrust of the governing ring by expressing sympathy
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: with the agitators. Now, to be an agitator was bad
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: enough in the eyes of the family compact. But for
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: one of their own social circle to sympathize with the
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: outsiders was snoubrocacy clique of the little city of ten
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: thousand at Toronto, almost an unpardonable sin. Such sins were
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: punished by social ostracism by the grand Dames of Toronto,
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: not inviting the officer's wife to social functions, by the
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: families of the upper clique, literally freezing the sinner's children
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: out of the foremost circles of social life. Many a
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Canadian family is proud to trace lineage back to some
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: old lady of this temptuous period, whose only claim to
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: recognition is that she waged pretty persecution against the heroes
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: of Canadian progress. Now, the annals of the times do
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: not record that this special sinner's wife and children so suffered.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: At all events, Matthew's spirits were not cast down by
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: social sobbery, he continued to sympathize with the agitators. The
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Family Compact bidded their time, and their time came a
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: few months later when a company of American actors came
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: to Toronto. A band concert had been given when the
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: British national heir struck up. All hats were off. Then
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: some one called for Yankee doodle, and in compliment to
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: the visitors, when the American heir struck up, Matthew shouted
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: out for hats off. For this sin, the Legislative Council
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: ordered the Lieutenant Governor to cut off Matthew's pension, and,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: to the everlasting shame of Sir Peregrine Maitland, the advice
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: was taken, though Matthews had twenty seven years of service
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: to his credit. Matthews appealed to England and his pension
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: was restored. So that, in this case the Family Compact,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: for political reasons, was pretending to be more British than
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Great Britain. It was not to be the last occasion
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: on which the loyalty cry was to be used as
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: political dodge. The persecution of Robert Gourlay was yet more outrageous.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: He had come to Canada soon after the War of
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: eighteen twelve, and in the course of collecting statistics for
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: a book on the colony, was quick to realize how
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Canada's progress was being literally gagged by the policy of
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: the ruling clique. Gourlay at time the local magistrates. In
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the press, he pointed out that the land grants were notorious.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: He had advocated bombarding the evils from two sides at once,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: by appealing to the Home Government and by holding local
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: conventions of protest. The past to which things had come
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: may be realized by the attitude of the Council. It
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: held that the colony must hold no communications with the
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Imperial Government except through the Governor General. In other words,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: individual appeals not passing through the hands of the Legislative
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Council were to be regarded as illegal. It is said
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: to have to acknowledge that such a palpully dishonest measure
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: was ever countenanced by people in the right minds. But
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the Family Compact went a step farther. It passed an
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: order forbidding meetings to discuss public grievances. This part of
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Canada's story reads more like Russia than America, and shows
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: to what length men will go when special privileges, rather
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: than equal rights, prevail in a country. Gourlay met these
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: infamous measures by penning some witty doggerel headed gagged, gagged
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: by Jingo. The editor in whose paper Gourlay's writings had
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: appeared was arrested, and the offending sheet was compelled to suspend.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Gourlay himself is arrested for sedition and libel at least
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: four times, but each time the jury acquits him at
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: any cost. The governing clique must get rid of this
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: scribbling fellow, whose pen voices the rising discontent. An Alien
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Act passed before the War of eighteen twelve, compelling the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: deportation of sedious persons is revived. Under the terms of
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the Act, Gorlay is arrested, tried, and sentenced to be exiled.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: But Gourlay declares he is not an alien, he is
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: a British subject, and he refuses to leave the country.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: He is thrown in jail at Niagara, and for a
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: year and a half left in a moldy close cell.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: One dislikes to write that this outrage on British justice
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: was perpitated under Chief Justice Powell, whose failure to obtain
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: decisions from the jury in the Red River Trials, brought
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: down such harsh criticism on the bench. At the end
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: of twenty months, Gorlay is again hauled before the jury
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and sentenced to deportation on pain of death if he refuses.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: He was calmly asked if he had anything to say,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: if there was any reason why sentence should not be pronounced,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: anything to say, any reason why sentence should not be pronounced.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: From eighteen eighteen to eighteen twenty, Gurlay had been having
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: things to say, had been giving good and sufficient reasons
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: why sentences should not be pronounced. The question is repeated,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Robert Gurley, stand up, have you anything to say? The
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: court waits Chief Justice Powell, bewigged and wearing his grandest manner,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: all unconscious that the scene is to go down to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: history with a blot of ignognomy against his name, not Gourlay's.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Gourlay's face twitches and he breaks into shrieks of manacle laughter.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: The petty persecutions of a provincial tyranny have driven a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: man who is true patriot out of his mind, as
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Gurley drops out of Canada's story. Here it may be
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: added that The English government later pronounced the whole trial
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and outrage, and Gourlay was invited back to Canada. If
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: at this stage a man had come to Canada as
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: governor big enough and just enough to realize that colonies
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: had some rights, there might have been remedy for this
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: imperial government, eager to right the wrong, was misled by
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the legislative councilors and all at sea as to the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: source of the trouble. While men were being actually driven
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: out of Canada by the governing reign on the charge
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: of disloyalty, the Colonel Minister of England was sending secret
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: dispatches to the Governor General, instructing him plainly that if
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: independence was what Canada wanted, then the mother country, rather
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: than risk a second war with the United States or
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: press conclusions with Canada themselves, would woittingly cede independence. It
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: is as well to be empathetic and clear on this point.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: It was not the tyranny of England that caused the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: troubles of eighteen thirty seven. It was the dishonesty of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the ruling rings at Quebec and Toronto. And this dishonesty
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: was possible because of the Constitutional Act of seventeen ninety one. Unfortunately,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: just when Imperial statesmen of the modern school were needed,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: governors of the old school were appointed to Canada. After
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Sir John Sherbrooke came the Duke of Richmond to Quebec,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and his son in law, Sir Peguene Maitland as Lieutenant
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Governor to Ontario, men of more courtly manners never graced
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the viceregal chairs of Quebec and Toronto. Richmond, who was
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: some fifty years of age, had won notoriety in his
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: early days by a duel with a Prince of the blood,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: royal honor on both sides being satisfied by Richmond shooting
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: away a curl from the royal brow. But presto, an
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Irish barrister takes up the quarrel by challenging Richmond to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: a second duel for having dared to fight at prince,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and here Richmond satisfies claims of honor by a well
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: directed ball aimed to wound not kill. Long years after,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: when the Duke became Viceroy of Ireland, the irishman appeared
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: at one of Richmond's state balls. Ha laughed the barrister,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the last time we met your grace gave me a ball.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Best give you a brace of now, retorted the witty Richmond,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and he sent his coodam foe invitation to two more balls.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Richmond it was who gave the famous ball before the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: defeat a Napoleon at Waterloo. The story of his daughter's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: love match with Sir Pegren Maitland is a peace with
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: rest of the romance in Richmond's life. Richmond and mat
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: had been friends in the army, but when the Duke
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: began to observe that his daughter, Lady Sarah, and the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: younger man were falling in love, he thought to discourage
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the union with a poor man by emitting Maitland's name
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: from invitation lists. When Lady Sarah came downstairs to a ball,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: she surmised that Maitland had not been invited, and, withdrawing
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: from the assembled guests, drove to her lover's apartments. She
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: married Maitland without her father's consent, but a reconciliation had
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: been patched up. Father and son in law now came
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to Canada as governor and Lieutenant governor. The military and
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: social life of both unfitted them to appreciate the conditions
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of Canada. Socially, both were the lions of the hour.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: A man and gentleman. Richmond was simply adored, and Quebec's
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: love of all the pomp and monarchy was glutted to
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the full. No more distinguished governor ever played host in
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the old Shadow Saint Louis. But as rulers, as pacifiers,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: as guides of the ship of state, Richmond and Maitland
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: were dismal failures. To them. Canada's demand for responsible government
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: seemed the rallying cry of an impending republic. We must
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: overcome democracy, or it will overcome us, pronounced Richmond. He
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: failed to see that resistance to the demand for self
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: government would bring about the same results in Canada as
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: resistance had brought about in the United States. And if
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: he could not guess, for the thing was knew in
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the world's history that the grant of self government would
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: but bind the colony the closer to the motherland. It
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: is sad to write of two such high minded, well
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: intentioned rulers that the worst acts of misgovernment in Canada
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: took place in their regime. End of Section forty four.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Recording by Lynda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, b C.