Can There Be A More Lamentable Picture

Public Opinion Is A Compound Of Folly, Weakness, Prejudice, Wrong Feeling, Right Feeling, Obstinacy, And Newspaper Paragraphs.

Agitation Is The Marshalling Of The Conscience Of A Nation To Mold Its Laws.

However Much I Have Been Blamed For Not Showing More Deferences To A Great Party, And For Not Acting More Steadily On Party Principles, All I Have To Regret Is That I Showed So Much.

The Reform Bill Has Destroyed The Ancient Conduits And Strainers, And Brings Public Opinion To Act Upon The Government With The Rapid, Turbulent, And Uncertain Violence Of A Flood!

My Object, Having A Surplus To Deal With, Is To Consider How I Can Deal With It To The Greatest Advantage To The Consumer - How, Without Inflicting Any Injury On Canada, I Can Secure The Most Substantial Benefit To This Country, To The Manufacturing, To The Commercial, And To The Agricultural Interests. The Real Way In Which We Can Benefit The Working And Manufacturing Classes Is, Unquestionably, By Removing The Burden That Presses On The Springs Of Manufactures And Commerce.