CONTENTS. CHAPTER V.-Clergy Reserves, Rectory Endowment, and Separate School Questions-The Globe's Attitude.. 30 CHAPTER VI.-Mr. Brown enters Parliament-His Rela- CHAPTER VII.-Attitude towards the Ministry-Maiden Speech in Parliament. . . . . . CHAPTER VIII.-Increasing Influence-The Globe as a CHAPTER IX.-Attacked by Mr. J. A. Macdonald-Report CHAPTER XVII.-Mr. Brown advocates the Acquisition of the North-West Territory-Withdrawal from the Government-Confederation Accomplished........ 10% CHAPTER XVIII.-Mr. Brown's work in achieving Reli- CHAPTER XIX.-The Reform Convention of 1867-Reso- lution of Thanks to Mr. Brown-Mr. Brown's Reply 112 CHAPTER XX.-Mr. Brown contests South Ontario-His Bow Park Farm-His Interest in Confederation.... 117 CHAPTER XXI.-Letter to the Roman Catholic Committee. 122 CHAPTER XXII.—Mr. Sandfield Macdonald's "Patent Com- bination"-The Elections of 1872-Mr. Brown and CHAPTER XXIII.-Mr. Brown made Senator-Appointed Joint Plenipotentiary to Washington-Declines the CHAPTER XXIV.-Mr. Brown's Assassination-Universal Sympathy and Sorrow-The Funeral Obsequies 141 "Club Nationale," Montreal..... Gaelic Society, Toronto....... North Grey Reform Association. St. Andrew's Society, Toronto.. Primitive Methodist Church-Toronto District Port Elgin Reform Association............. Toronto Reform Literary and Debating Club. Caledonian Society, Toronto... Funeral Sermon, preached in St. James' Presbyterian Funeral Sermon, preached in St. Andrew's Church, Sarnia, EXTRACTS FROM MR. BROWN'S PRIVATE LETTERS TO A RELATIVE ON THE RECIPROCITY TREATY NEGOTI- INTRODUCTION. STATE OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN CANADA ON MR. BROWN'S It is impossible to present any fair estimate of Mr. Brown's life and character, or to do justice to his merits as a public man, without dealing to a certain extent with the public questions in the discussion of which he was engaged for thirty-six years. When Mr. Brown first appeared in Canada the country had not recovered from the shock and confusion caused by the ill-advised insurrectionary movements of 1837-9. These movements were brought about by a quarter of a century's misgovernment at the hands of a small but compact body of men, whose professed excessive loyalty to king and church, though marred by an abhorrence of popular rights, had generally secured to them the support of the British Government, then also controlled to a great extent by the same unjust and antiprogressive spirit. The leaders of the popular party were almost exclusively engaged in a battle with the powers of the day on specific grievances complained of, and consequently gave comparatively little attention to the advocacy of fundamental principles of government which, left to operate freely, would have removed all grievances by due course of law. Mr. Lindsey, in his life of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie, says: "The people "complained of the government, when they ought to have struck a blow "at the system which rendered it possible for a party who could com"mand only a small minority in the popular branch of the legislature "to continue their grasp on the reins of power." Wild attacks on the leaders of the Canadian oligarchy (sometimes embracing the Governor), and petitions to the Secretary of State for the colonies, on subjects which the Canadian people, left to themselves, would have immediately put right, were perhaps to be expected; nor would it be just now to severely blame, or to blame at all, that mode of procedure; but such a course only anticipated some temporary relief in some specific cases of injustice caused by a bad system of government, rather than looked for a radical cure. The initiation of a system of partially responsible government with the union of the two Canadas did not rapidly tend to produce perfect contentment, for the simple reason that the name existed without the |