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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter xxx 'the sunset gun too soon' Hen of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.--Emerson. 1840 Resignation of Lord Glenelg--Anti-Corn Law agitation--Melbourne resigns and re-assumes office--Lord John Russell at the Colonial Office--Durham's interest in the New Zealand Company--Outbreak of another rebellion in Canada--Consideration in Parliament of the Canadian problem--Durham's last Speech in Parliament--Appointment of Poulett Thomson as successor of Durham in Canada--Durham's welcome in the north--The Duke of Sussex on Durham's services--A meeting with Brougham--The Canada Bill--Durham's illness and death--'The dead man lives in the hearts of the people '--Expressions of sorrow and sympathy--Death of Lady Durham--The verdict of history--Durham's prominent characteristics--Tribute of Bulwer Lytton. Lord Glenelg's political reputation, which had never been brilliant, collapsed dismally when the Durham Report, and the official papers which accompanied it, were placed before Parliament. He had bungled over the affairs of Canada, and the Government needed a scapegoat. The truth is, Melbourne ought to have removed Glenelg from the Colonial Office before asking Durham to proceed to Canada. Glenelg's incompetence was even then fully established. 'Need I,' said Sir William Molesworth in the House of Commons, in the beginning of that year, 'count over again the long list of promises forgotten, of assurances never fulfilled, of instructions which never arrived until it was too late?' Glenelg reduced the art of doing nothing to a system, and when he abandoned that attitude what he did was usually wrong. People felt in the spring of 1838 that it was absurd to subject a man like Durham to such control, especially at a crisis when judgment, cour...
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