Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. 14 of 22
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Excerpt from Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. 14 of 22: The Atlantic Provinces ´Not Confederation itself, but the way it was brought about,´ say Nova Scotians, ´was our reason for fighting Confederation.´ How real their objection, how strong their opposition, is manifest from what took place immediately after the dissolution of the assembly. On July 1, 1867, by the fiat of the imperial parliament, the union of four scattered colonies was consummated; a new nation had come into being; and new elective bodies must be chosen to carry out the new constitution. Nova Scotia had ceased to be a quasi-independent state. Against the will of its people it had been forced into a new political combination, to which public feeling was actively hostile. On such a momentous question as a complete change of status the people directly affected should surely have been consulted; the consent of the governed should have been obtained; but in his brief span of power a strong-willed man carried this radical measure by the weight of his majority in the local parliament. Even if he be credited with broader patriotism, wiser statesmanship and deeper vision than his opponents, still, to overturn the whole constitution of a quasi-independent state and alter all its relations without a mandate from the people was dead in the teeth of every principle of free self-government. It provided one political party with a grievance that lasted for thirty years. Nothing could be more free from doubt or ambiguity than the pronouncement of Nova Scotia on the question as soon as she could make her voice heard. In the first Dominion elections the only Confederate returned was Dr Tupper himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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