John A (58 page)

Macdonald, “We must soothe the Orangemen”: letter to Sidney Smith, Oct. 13, 1860, ibid., vol. 2, p. 168.

Macdonald, “politics is a game requiring great coolness”: ibid.

Macdonald, qualified double-majority: Russell,
Constitutional Odyssey,
p. 16.

Globe,
“The disruption of the existing union”: Morton,
The Critical Years,
p. 72.

Macdonald, “I am a sincere unionist”: Johnson,
Macdonald,
p. 225.

“was known to have an amorous disposition”: Roy,
Kingston,
p. 163.

Macdonald, “There is no wisdom below belt”: Waite, “Sir John A. Macdonald: The Man,” p. 151.

“I have never met”: Jameson,
Summer Rambles,
p. 139.

Macdonald, “I forgot to tell you”: letter to Margaret Greene, Nov. 3, 1845, Johnson,
Affectionately,
p. 37.

Pp. 205–206 St. Valentine's Day ball: Macpherson,
Macdonald,
pp. 38–39; and Newman,
Album,
p. 46.

Macdonald and Agnes Bernard in Toronto and Quebec City: Reynolds,
Agnes,
pp. 28–30.

Macdonald, “a warm, personal friend”: letter to Helen Macdonald, Oct. 20, 1858, Johnson,
Affectionately,
p. 90.

Pp. 207–208 Hall, “My loved John”: Dec. 21, 1860, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 545; and Newman,
Album,
p. 46.

Macdonald, “P. S. You can make love to Polly”: Johnson and Stelmack,
Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald,
vol. 2, p. 402.

Pp. 209–11 Eliza Grimason description: Newman,
Album;
Phenix,
Demons;
and Biggar,
Anecdotal Life,
pp. 238–40.

“the shrine of John A.'s worshippers”: Roy,
Kingston,
p. 193.

“central, emotional dead spot”: Johnson,
Macdonald,
p. 202.

“because women know men”: Willison,
Reminiscences,
p. 178.

“It is not too much to say”: Waite, “Sir John A. Macdonald: The Man,” p. 146.

Pp. 212–13 Head, “If it is difficult for any statesman”: July 16, 1857,
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers,
1857–58, vol. 40, pp. 12–15.

“never so intimate with any Governor-General”: Pope,
Memoirs,
p. 141.

CHAPTER 14: THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES

Macdonald, “quite willing personally”: letter to Watkin, March 27, 1865, Waite,
Confederation Debates,
p. 228.

McGee, “Who reads a Canadian book?”:
Hamilton Gazette,
June 8, 1854.

McGee, description: Slattery,
McGee;
and
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
vol. IX.

McGee, “I see in the not remote distance”: Slattery,
McGee,
p. 137.

McGee, “one of expedients, a succession of make-shifts”: ibid., p. 82.

Macdonald, “Never did a man throw away a fine career”: letter to Henry Smith, Oct. 28, 1858, Johnson and Stelmack,
Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald,
vol. 2, p. 91.

McGee, “ready and dextrous”: Slattery,
McGee,
p. 93.

Galt description: Skelton,
Galt;
and
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
vol. XII.

Pp. 219–20 Macdonald, “You call yourself a
Rouge
”: letter to Galt, Nov. 2, 1857, Johnson,
Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald,
vol. 1, p. 457.

Macdonald, “unstable as water”: Van den Otten, “Alexander Galt.”

Cauchon memorandum on the “Red River and Saskatchewan Country”: Zaslow,
Canadian North,
p. 2.

Report on West by Hind: ibid., p. 3

Cartier warning to Bulwer-Lytton: Sweeny,
Cartier,
pp. 120–21.

Early Confederation proposals: Upton, “The Idea of Confederation,” in Morton,
Shield.

Bulwer-Lytton, “the convenience of the present Canadian administration”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 1, p. 284.

Macdonald,
Address to the Electors:
in Johnson and Stelmack,
Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald,
vol. 2, pp. 345–51.

Macdonald, “As you are situated”: letter to Benjamin, June 4, 1861, ibid., vol. 2, p. 342.

Pp. 230–31 Brown at Reform convention: George Brown, “Reform Convention,” p. 262.

“some joint authority”: ibid., p. 263.

Pp. 232–35 Prince of Wales's tour: Radforth,
Royal Spectacle.

Macdonald, “Our administration is more familiar”: Johnson,
Macdonald,
p. 210.

Citizen,
“Ottawa appeared lovely and anxious as a bride”: Radforth,
Royal Spectacle,
p. 48.

Orangemen sing, “Water, water, holy water”: ibid., p. 184.

New York Times,
“a rational population”: ibid., p. 198.

Prince a “heart smasher”: ibid., p. 332.

(fn) Prince of Wales, “Ah, it looks very well from the water”: Cartwright,
Reminiscences,
p. 30.

“the biggest liar in all Canada”: Thompson,
Reminiscences,
p. 251.

“I am a sincere unionist”: Macdonald, speech in London, Nov. 12, 1860,
Address to the Electors,
Appendix A, pp. 3–6.

“It had called the attention of the world”: ibid., Appendix A, pp. 28–35.

“It has been said that I and my Upper Canadian colleagues”: ibid., Appendix A, pp. 23–25.

Macdonald, “wearisome beyond description”: letter to James Gowan, March 12, 1861, Johnson and Stelmack,
Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald,
vol. 2, pp. 311–12.

Macdonald, “violent Tories who are fools enough”: Johnson,
Macdonald,
p. 222.

CHAPTER 15: CANADA'S FIRST ANTI-AMERICAN

“The fratricidal conflict”: Macdonald,
Address to the Electors,
in Johnson and Stelmack,
Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald,
vol. 2, p. 351.

Macdonald on Lincoln as “a beast”: letter to Judge Gowan, Nov. 27, 1864, LAC, MG27 1E17.

“a huge bird chiseled in stone”: Winks,
Civil War,
pp. 24–28.

(fn) Lyons, “a rough westerner of the lowest origin”: Morton,
Union,
p. 88.

Russell, “a sudden declaration of war”: Winks,
Civil War,
p. 56.

(fn) “if the North thought fit at this time”: Smith,
My Memory of Gladstone
(London: T.F. Unwin, 1904), pp. 43–44.

“Secession first he would put down”: Winks,
Civil War,
p. 50.

Macdonald, “If they [Americans] are to be severed in two”: speech in House, April 19, 1861; Pope,
Memoirs,
pp. 242–43.

Macdonald, “will return to Canada sadder and wiser men”: letter to McMicken, Feb. 15, 1865, LAC, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 587.

Macdonald silences Conservatives cheering Southern victory: Cartwright,
Reminiscences,
p. 24.

The
Trent
crisis: Winks,
Civil War,
pp. 71–77.

Lincoln, “one war at a time”: ibid., p. 77.

World,
“The simple fact is, Canada hates us”: ibid., p. 99 (fn).

Snowshoes called “creepers” Bourne,
Balance of Power,
p. 224.

Macdonald, “The day was hot”: Pope,
Day,
p. 9.

Pp. 249 Macdonald, “There is no chance of there being”: Johnson,
Macdonald,
p. 232.

Herald,
“overrun the Province in three weeks”: Slattery,
McGee,
p. 156.

Macdonald, “He is evidently an able man”: letter to Margaret Greene, Nov. 20, 1845, Johnson,
Affectionately,
p. 42.

Macdonald, “By the election of the President”: Wise and Brown,
Canada Views,
p. 100.

Macdonald, “I do not think there is anything in the world”: letter to James Gowan, June 27, 1871, Macdonald Fonds, vol. 589, pp. 972–75.

Macdonald, “It has been said that the United States is a failure”: Martin,
Foundations,
p. 298.

McGee, “It is not the figures [of soldiers] which give the worst view”: Wise and Brown,
Canada Views,
p. 109.

Jefferson to “liberate” Canada: Hyam,
Britain's Century,
p. 180.

(fn) Taché, “the last cannon which is shot”:
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
vol. IX.

American settlers as “Aliens”: Errington,
The Lion, the Eagle,
pp. 166–87.

McGee, “they coveted Florida”: Wise and Brown,
Canada Views,
p. 109.

Church,
“For four years”: ibid., p. 48.

Bethune, “the extravagant wanderings”: ibid., p. 49.

Davin, “where there is nothing to differentiate”: Berger,
Sense of Power,
p. 157.

“a seeming contradiction”: Wise and Brown,
Canada Views,
p. 94.

“have always found it very hard to believe”: Cartwright,
Reminiscences,
p. 60.

“an active force of 50,000”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 330.

Macdonald, “I am at last free”: letter to Margaret Williamson, May 23, 1862, Johnson,
Affectionately,
pp. 96–97.

“has had one of his old attacks”:
Globe,
May 15, 1862.

(fn)
Globe,
“in a state of wild excitement”: Martin, “Bottle,” p. 166.

Monck, “nominally by illness” Batt,
Monck,
p. 50.

Macdonald, “slap your chops”: Swainson,
Macdonald,
p. 54.

“The cleverest man of the lot”: Martin, “Bottle,” p. 167.

Macpherson, “I called at your office twice”: letter of 1839, Teatero, “Dead and Alive,” thesis, p. 226.

“particularly true for the period of his widowerhood”: Pope,
Day,
p. 166. Pp. 264–65 “leading a very dissipated life”: Cartwright,
Reminiscences,
p. 32.

Kingston's 136 taverns: Martin, “Bottle,” p. 165.

“Professional men were not ashamed”: Moodie,
Life in the Clearings,
p. 45.

Meredith, “Captain Sparks was hopelessly drunk”: Gwyn,
Private Capital,
p. 189.

Lady Monck, “such drunkenness”: Batt,
Monck,
pp. 84–85.

“One-half of all the crime”: Burnet, “Changing Naval Standards.” in Horn and Sabourin,
Studies in Canadian Social History.

Kimberley, “He should have been in the good old times”: Creighton,
Old Chieftain,
pp. 158–59.

Macdonald, “Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk” and “Mr. Chairman, I don't know how it is”: Biggar,
Anecdotal Life,
pp. 193–94.

Northcote, “People do not attribute his drinking”: April 29, 1870, Morton,
Manitoba,
p. 98.

Pp. 268–69, Macdonald, “we have shown that we do not wish to cling”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 335.

CHAPTER 16: THE WILL TO SURVIVE

Brown, “Already I long to be back with you”: Careless, “Mother of Confederation,” p. 79.

Anne Brown, studies in Germany: ibid., p. 58.

Mowat, “the softer side of his nature”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 186.

Anne Brown, “You must never speak of settling down here”: ibid., vol. 2, p. 188.

Brydges, “omnibus arrangement”: Creighton,
Politician,
p. 349.

Brown, “grimalkin”:
Globe,
April 30, 1863.

Macdonald, McGee, “A drunken man is a terrible curse”: Slattery,
McGee,
p. 207.

McGee, “the fortunate genius”: ibid., p. 230.

Times,
“numerous enough to irritate”: Martin,
Britain and Confederation,
p. 185.

Macdonald, “It is stated [by some opponents of Confederation]”: Browne,
Documents on Confederation,
pp. 95–96.

Macdonald, “We must, therefore, become important”: ibid.

Britain's share of world trade: Hyam,
Britain's Imperial Century,
p. 99.

Disraeli, “a millstone around our necks”: Alice Stewart, “Imperial Policy,” thesis, p. 160.

Disraeli, “power and influence we should exercise”: ibid.

Edinburgh Review,
“productive of heavy expense”: Slattery,
McGee,
p. 58.

Taylor, “a sort of
damnosa hereditas
”: Waite, “Cardwell and Confederation,” p. 27.

Melbourne, “the final separation of these colonies”: Martin,
Britain and Confederation,
p. 166.

(fn) Cobden, “looked more English”: Morton,
Union,
p. 2.

Pp. 281 Peel, “the tenure by which we hold [them]”: Martin,
Britain and Confederation,
p. 167.

Russell, “the loss of a great portion of our Colonies”: ibid.

Palmerston, “it would lower us greatly”: ibid.

Macdonald, “to raise revenue in [its] own fashion”: Johnson,
Macdonald,
p. 234.

Macdonald, “a matter of the gravest importance”: memorandum to Head, March 6, 1861, Johnson and Stelmack,
Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald,
vol. 2, pp. 306–307.

Cardwell, “lynx-eyed logicians”: Waite,
Cardwell,
pp. 20–21.

State of Colonial Office: Farr,
Colonial Office,
pp. 33–34.

Times,
“Who is Minister, at Quebec City”: Martin,
Britain and Confederation,
p. 147.

Gordon, “a last resort”: ibid., p. 138.

Times,
“a wealthier and more completely English”: ibid.

Trollope, “Not one man in a thousand”: Porter,
Imperialists,
p. 110.

“felt himself like a cat in a strange garret”: ibid., p. 251.

Brown, “after all I have seen”: Careless,
Brown,
vol. 2, p. 75.

Newcastle, “Do not remain under such an error”: Martin,
Britain and Confederation,
p. 65.

Laurier, “armed with an eggshell”: ibid., p. 64.

(fn) Newcastle, “The injury to our own trade”: ibid., p. 67.