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Chronicles of Canada
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes

26
THE TRIBUNE OF NOVA SCOTIA

BY
WILLIAM LAWSON GRANT

Part VII
The Struggle for Political Freedom

THE TRIBUNE OF NOVA SCOTIA

A Chronicle of Joseph Howe

BY

WILLIAM LAWSON GRANT

TORONTO
GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY
1915

Copyright in all Countries subscribing to the Berne Convention

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PREFACE

In May-August 1875 my father, the Rev. G. M. Grant, published in theCanadian Monthly four articles on Joseph Howe, which give, in myopinion, the best account ever likely to be written of Howe'scharacter, motives, and influence. Twenty-five years later he hadbegun to write for the 'Makers of Canada' a life of Howe, but his deathleft this task to Mr Justice Longley. In this he had thought toincorporate much of his earlier articles, and his copies of them remainin my hands, with excisions and emendations in his own handwriting. Inthe present little book I have not scrupled to embody these portions ofmy father's work.

Howe's speeches and public letters are the basis for any story of hiscareer. They were originally published in two volumes in Boston in1858, nominally edited by William Annand,{viii}really by Howehimself. In 1909 a revised edition, with chapters covering the lastfourteen years of his life, was published at Halifax, excellentlyedited by Mr J. A. Chisholm, K.C. The Journals of the LegislativeCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia contain the dispatchesfrom the Colonial Office quoted in the text. Incidents and anecdoteshave been taken from the biograp

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