The Reform Bill Has Destroyed The Ancient

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.

Of All The Vulgar Arts Of Government, That Of Solving Every Difficulty That Might Arise By Thrusting The Hand Into The Public Purse Is The Most Illusory And Contemptible.

My Belief Is, From All That I Have Seen Of The French People And Their Government, That They Are Much More Likely To Presume Upon Our Weakness Than To Take Offence At Our Strength.

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

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