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Excerpt from Letter on the Increasing Public Expenditure of Ontario, and a Reply to the Attacks of the Hon. Geo. Brown Thereon: With Observations on the Present State of Dominion Affairs
Before submitting statements of the expenditure of the Province, I shall review the history of the Administrations which have ruled in Ontario since the establishment of her Provincial autonomy. -i do so for the purpose of exhibiting the spirit which animated and governed the leading Administrators.
It will be remembered that in 1864 the leading statesmen of Canada entered into a coalition to settle the issues which for many years had disturbed the Canadian body politic. In that coalition were men who had differed widely. Sir John Macdonald and the Hon. George. Brown, Sir George Cartier and the Hon. W. Macdougall, Sir 'alex. Galt and the Hon. Mr. Howland and others, associated themselves for the common purpose of removing barriers which had prevented them working together in the public service.
Their labors resulted in the union of all the British north-american Colo nies except Newfoundland. The old issues being thus disposed of, it was expected that our public men would devote themselves to the great work of consolidating and knitting together in bonds of amity and interest all the Provinces of this young Dominion.
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