The Speeches and Public Letters of the Hon. Joseph Howe, Volume 1J.P. Jewett, 1858 - 642 pages |
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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 this "Song of the Shirt.
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 the flame.
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 63 - I will tell you, gentlemen, what they are saved from, and what the government is saved from. I will tell you also to what both are exposed by shutting up that communication. In one case, sedition speaks aloud, and walks abroad. The demagogue...
Page 63 - And what calamities are the people saved from by having public communication left open to them? I will tell you, gentlemen, what they are saved from, and what the government is saved from; I will tell you, also, to what both are exposed by shutting up that communication.
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 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 591 - England ! we'll honour it yet. In the temples they founded their faith is maintained, Every foot of the soil they bequeathed is still ours, The graves where they moulder, no foe has profaned, But we wreathe them with verdure, and strew them with flowers...