Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. 4 of 22

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Excerpt from Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. 4 of 22: A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions, British Dominion, 1760 1840, Part 2For the very responsible position of special commissioner to the Canadas, Lord Durham was selected by Palmerston. Durham, though one of the younger men of the party, was recognized as a man of commanding strength - too strong, in fact, for the comfort of certain members of the ministry. He had only recently completed a most successful mission to Russia, and was now a free lance in British public life. During the previous summer he had been urged by Palmerston to take the Canadian post, but had declined. Now that a crisis had been reached the request was renewed, and it was only after great pressure had been brought to bear upon him that he accepted the mission, on the day of the introduction of the Canada Bill. There were special political reasons which made Durham's appointment desirable. The Canada Bill proposed coercive measures which were certain to be bitterly opposed by the radicals in parliament, and Durham's known radical tendencies would tend to make the mission acceptable to those who regarded it with suspicion. Lord Durham was the one outstanding man who could command the confidence of all shades of opinion in parliament.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.