When, How, Or By Whom,
The Leader Of The Great French-Speaking Section Of The Canadian People
Was Placed, Thus, In A Position Inferior To That Of The Leader Of Upper
Canada, Who Was Made "K. C. B.," I Do Not Care, Now, To Inquire.
But I
felt at the time, and I feel now, that it would have been unjust -
unselfish and earnest as my services had been - to give to a man like
Mr. Cartier, an honor inferior to that which common report had
attributed to me.
I felt, also, that the proposal would be treated as a
slight to the Catholic and French-speaking people. I did all in my,
limited, power to represent the mistake and the danger to the leaders
of the Government, at home; and, as will be shown in the next Chapter,
I wrote to Mr. Disraeli on this serious question on the 3rd August,
1867.
"MONTREAL,
"23rd August, 1867.
"MY DEAR MR. WATKIN,
"I thank you very much for your kind letters. Really you are too good
to espouse, as it were, my cause respecting the honors
conferred in Canada. There is no doubt that - - is the cause of all
the evil in the matter of the honors conferred. Some
other parties are also not exempt from blame. I have not as yet
received a reply to my letter declining the C. B. ship. I
presume I shall have it very soon. I have to tell you that I will make
throughout all Lower Canada the best electoral campaign I
have ever made.
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