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 THE PROCEEDINGS 
 
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 AT THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF 
 THE LATE 
 
 SIR JOHN ALEXANDER MACDONALD 
 
 p. C, G. C. B., M. P., D. C. L. (OXON.), LL. D., Q. C, 
 
 IN 
 
 HAMILTON, 
 
 On the First Day of November, 1893. 
 
 'A man irlw lared liix Cduntrii iiith a iiaMlimntr lore." 
 
 Published by the Memorial Committee. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Memheiis ok Committer, 
 
 Insckii'Tion on Monument 
 
 Introduction, .... 
 
 Pehsonk Havino Seats On am. in Front ok Platkorm, 
 
 The Ri(iHT Heverknd the Bishop ok Niaiiaha, 
 
 Honorable W. E. Sankoui.'s Speech 
 
 The Rioht Honohahle Sir John S. U. Thompsonh Speech 
 The Honokaiilk Sir Ai.olphk Gabon's Speech, 
 The HoNoiiAHLE Sir Charles Hirbert Tupper's Speech, 
 The Honorable Sir Oliver Mowat's Speech, 
 The Honorable N. Clarke Wallace's Speech, 
 Presentation ok the Statuk to the City ok Hamilton, 
 His Worship Mayor Blaicher's Acknowledoment, 
 Resolution ok City Council, 
 
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 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Statue ok Sir John A. Maci.onalu 
 
 Sir John Carlino, K. C. M. G 
 
 Members of the Dominion and Ontario Governments Present 
 ON THE Occasion 
 
 Members ok the Committee, 
 
 Scene Just Bkkore Unveii,in(;, 
 
 Scene at the Instant ok Unveilin(i, 
 
 Sib John A. Maci.onali. in His Earliest Political Career, 
 
 Right Honorable Sir John A, Macdonald at Age 7(), 
 
 Baroness Macdonalo ok Earnscliffe, 
 
 An Idea ok the Crowd at the Ceremony, • . . . 
 
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 MEMORIAL STATIE OF SIH JOHN A. MACDONALD. 
 

 ^T a meeting of the Memorial Committee held after the ceremrry 
 / • of unveiling, it was resolved that a record of the unveiling- cere- 
 ^ monies be published, and that Messrs. Adam Brown and (). 1{. 
 
 Smith be a committee to prepare the same. 
 
\^ ^g^edonald ^emor^ig,!. 
 
 iIAT Canada had lost a f^reat statesman when Sir 
 John A. Macdonald died was universally realized. 
 IIiB name will always be ri{,'htfully associated with 
 the foundation of the prof»res8 of united Canada. 
 Abroad as well as at home he was recognized as an 
 able and a representative leader— as one amon^ the 
 f^reat leaders of his day. 
 
 Amonf» tiiose who were his perHonal friends the 
 desire to fittingly mark his memory quickly took 
 practical form ; those who had opposed his policy acquiesced, as kuowiufj 
 that monuments to greatness not only commemorate the dead but stimu- 
 late national confidence and pride, and awaken emulation in the living. 
 
 Sir John had many warm friends in Hamilton, and shortly after his 
 death a movement was set on foot to erect a monument to his memory. 
 Tlie following gentlemen were appointed a committee to see about the 
 raising by popular subscription cf the money needed, and to make all 
 necessary arrangements : 
 
 Hon. W. E. Sanford, President; A. G. Ramsay, Wm. Hendrie, Vice- 
 Presidents; John Knox, Treasurer; C.K.Smith, Secretary; Geo. Roach, 
 J. M. Lottridge, Adam Brown, John Milne, F. Fitzgerald, B. K. Charlton, 
 Alex. Turner, J. J. Mason, Geo. E. Tuckett, John A. Bruce, Eli \au Allen,' 
 J. J. Scott, Ale.\. Gartshore, M. Leggat, W. A. Robinson. 
 
 The object before the committee was recognized as so worthy, and was 
 BO in .. jord with the feelings of liberal-minded Canadians, that their 
 appeal met with hearty response. Arrangements were rapidly completed, 
 and the commission for executing a statue of Sir John was given to George 
 E. Wade, a talented young sculptor, of London, England. The work was 
 admirably done. The statue, which is cast in bronze, is of heroic propor- 
 tions—eight feet three inches in height. Sir John, with closely-buttoned 
 frock coat, is represented standing in an easy posture, with the right hand 
 slightly extended, and an animated but benignant expression on his face, 
 as if he were in the act of addressmg a sympathetic audience, and about 
 to get off one of his quaint witticisms. The likeness is an excellent one, 
 and the pose of the figure is easy and natural. 
 
 The statue arrived in Hamilton the 10th of last March ; but, as it was 
 thought becoming that Sir John's successor in olfice should unveil the 
 statue, the ceremony of the unveiling had to be postponed until after the 
 
M.d 
 
 ri'turii i»f Sir .lolin Tliomiison 
 from the Behriii^; Kea arbitration 
 ill Paris, and was finally arranj^ed 
 for the first day of November. 
 
 On :\Ioiiday, the ;i()th of Oct 
 obcr. tlie statue, veiled in the 
 folds of a Union Jack, was 
 hoisted into iiosition. A plat- 
 form with seats for about two 
 hundred persons was erected 
 near tlie statue, and from it rose 
 a tall llag-statT covered with 
 crimson buntinj,' and topped with 
 a iiUt tjlohe and spear head : and 
 in front of the platform a floor 
 was laid, and upon this floor 
 were placed several liundred 
 chairs. 
 
 The morning of November 
 1st was clear and bright, and 
 although the promise of tlie 
 morning; was not fulfilled and 
 rain came before the ceremonies 
 were completed, yet this marred 
 but slifjhtly tlie brilliant cere- 
 mony. Hamilton and its vicin- 
 ity did not furnish all of the thousands who feathered around the statue, 
 for very many had come a f^reat distance to be present. The most 
 distnifiuislied party to arrive was that which came on the morning 
 train from Toronto, and included: Sir John S. I). Thompson, Minister 
 of Justice and Premier of Canada ; Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, Minister 
 of Marine and Fisheries; Sir Adolphe ("aron. Postmaster (ieneral ; Sir 
 Oliver Mowat, Premier of Ontario; Hon. J. C. Patterson, Minister of 
 Militia and Defence; Hon. T. !Mayne Daly, ^linister of the Interior; 
 Hon. N. (Harke Wallace, Comptroller of Customs, and Hon. J. F. Wood, 
 Comptroller of Inland Kevenue ; Lieutenant Governors Kirkpatrick, of 
 Ontario, and Schultz, of ^Manitoba; Hon. Frank Smitli, Senator McCal- 
 lum, Col. Tisdale, M.P. ; Dr. Lachapelle, M.P. ; T. B. Craig, M.P., Collector 
 Small, of Toronto; W. H. Rowland, J. Hamilton Gibbs, W. F. Downey, 
 Douglas Stewart, Sir John's private secretary, and a number of others, 
 among whom were some of the most prominent citizens of Toronto. 
 Senator Sanford was also on board, having gone to Toronto, as chairman 
 of the monument committee, to accompany the Premier and his party 
 to Hamilton. 
 
 Long before the hour fixed for the unveiling crowds began to gather 
 around the statue, and the invited guests filled up the platform which had 
 been prepared for them. When Sir John Thompson ascended the plat- 
 form, promptly at three o'clock, there was seen such a sight as Hamilton 
 
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 MEMBERS OF THE DOMINION AND ON lARIO GOVERNMENTS 
 
 PRESENT ON THE OCCASION. 
 
 1— SiiJoliu riioiiiimoii. 2— Sir .\ilol|ilic('ai(i!i. :i Sir Cliarles Hililifvt T imicr. t- lloii.T. Miiyiie Diilv . "i Hon. .1. ('. I'atterKon.. 
 ti— Hon. .1. M. Ciilwou. 7— Him. N. CiHrk Wiillaif. t — Hud. ,1. K. Wood, 9— Sir Oliver Mow at. 
 
has seldom furnished. The platform and the buildinf-s near it were gay 
 with bunting, and the dense crowd of people stretched over the Gore and 
 the streets adjacent, and filled every available space, while every window 
 tor blocks around was full of faces, and numbers of the more venturesome 
 were seen upon the roofs. It is estimated that twenty thousand people 
 gathered to do lionor to the dead. 
 
 The site chosen for the monument was at the intersection of King and 
 John streets, and upon this site a pedestal of gray New Brunswick granite 
 was erected. This pedestal is eleven feet high and pyramidicalin shape. 
 Lpon the front of it, which faces the west, is a carved shield bearing this 
 inscription : 
 
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 THE RIGHT HONORABLE 
 
 SIR JOHN ALEXANDER MACDONALD, 
 
 PC. G.C.B , M.P., D.C.L., (OXON), 
 
 LL.D., Q.C., 
 
 BORN IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, 11TH JANUARY 1815 
 DIED AT OTTAWA, CANADA, 6TH JUNE, 1891. 
 
 A CANADIAN STATESMAN WHO VALUED BRITISH 
 
 INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUE BASI-i OF THE STRENGTH 
 
 AND PROSPERITY OF THE DOMINION. 
 
 Another shield on the opposite side is inscribed as follows : 
 
 MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF CANADA, 
 1844-1867. 
 
 MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF CANADA : 
 
 IITH MAY, 1847 UNTIL 9TH MARCH 1848 
 llTH SEPT, 1854, UNTIL 29TH JULY, 1958. 
 6TH AUGUST, 1858, UNTIL 2.SRD MAY, 1862. 
 30TH MARCH. 1864, UNTIL 1ST JULY, 1865 
 
 FIRST MINISTER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA : 
 
 1ST JULY, 1867, UNTIL 6TH NOVEMBER, 1B73; 
 
 17TH OCT , 1878, UNTIL HIS DEATH, 6TH JUNE, 1891. 
 
 "his LAURELS NE'ER WILL FADE WITH YEARS." 
 
 Upon the sides were chiselled the names of all the Provinces of the 
 Dominion. 
 
The followinfi, among others, had seats upon the platform (ladies being 
 provided with chairs immediately in front of the platform) : 
 
 Right Honorable Sir John S. D. Thompson, K. C. M. G , (). C aiinis- 
 ter of Justice and Premier ; Honorable Sir Adolphe Caron, K. c! M G 
 1 ostmaster-General ; Honorable Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper K (; :\I G ' 
 Honorable Sir Oliver Mowat, K. C. M. G., Attorney-General and Premier 
 of Ontario; Honorable T. Mayne Daly, Minister of the Interior and 
 Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs; Honorable J. C. Patterson, 
 Minister of Militia and Defence; Honorable \. Clarke Wallace, Comp- 
 troller of Customs; Honorable J. F. Wood, Comptroller of Inland Revenue; 
 Honorable J. M. Gibson, Provincial Secretary of Ontario; Lieutenant- 
 Governors Kirkpatrick, of Ontario, and Schultz, of Manitoba; The Right 
 Reverend His Lordship the Bishop of Niagara; Senators Smith. Mc- 
 callum, Maclnnes, Sullivan, and Sanford, Mavor Blaicher, A. McKay 
 M. P., S. S. Ryckman, M. P., Dr. Montague, M. P., Col. Tisdale, M. v' 
 Dr. Lachapelle, M. P., T. B. Craig, M. P., James Masson, M. P., Henry 
 Cargill M. P., A. Boyle, M. P., U. Wilson, M. P., W. (Jibson, M. P.. 
 t l: ^^'"■' ^^- ^■' ^- <^o^t«^^'orth, M. P., F. M. Carpenter, M. P., 
 U. D. Balfour, M. P. P., W. McCleary, M. P. P., Adam Brown, A. G 
 Ranisay, W. G. Keid, John Calder, Alex. Turner, G. F. Glassco, John 
 A. Bruce, William Hendrie, Geo. E. Tuckett, Robt. Evans, Churchill 
 Livingstone, Col. Monaghan, W. Sanford Evans, H. W. Witton F W 
 Fearman, F. Fitzgerald, Stuart Livingstone, W. Southam, Alex. Ga'rtshore" 
 City Clerk Beasley, C. R. Smith, W. F. Burton, J. J. Scott, Major 
 McLaren, T. D. J. Farmer, J. B. Wolfe, J. Parker, A. T. Freed, J. J. Mason. 
 A Rutherford, S. P. Stipe, W. Kavanagh. W. J. Grant. S. F Lazier. Q. C 
 Thos. Lawry. T. C. Haslett. W. E. Brown, T. H. Brown, E. VanAllen 
 J. V. Teetzel, Q. C. Police Magistrate Jelfs. W. Nicholson. John Kenrick 
 W. Bowman, C. D. Blachford. Jas. Bovaird, W. Young, Geo. Roach, 
 Capt. J. S. Hendrie. Matthew Leggat, Major MacLaren, Major Snider 
 Aldermen Arland, Brick, and Derby, John Leggat. B. Cauley. John Car- 
 ruthers, Murray Pettit, A. G. Jones, C. W. Tinling, John Wylie A D 
 Braithwaite, T. Hobson. W. Clucas. W. F. Walker. Q. C. Jonathan Car- 
 penter, Geo. A. Young, R. T. Lancefield, J. Ronan, J. T. Burkholder 
 W. H. McLaren, E. Furlong, W. Ellison, Geo. Ross. 
 
 From Toronto— John Small, collector of customs ; W. H. Howland 
 J. Hamilton Gibbs, W. R. Brock, David Creighton. (Empire). C. W Bunt- 
 ing. (Mail), W. R. Brock, C. Ritchie, Q. C, Dr. Pyne, Thomas McGaw, 
 T. C. Irving, Geo. Musson, Hamilton McCarthy, H. Soott, W. Laidlaw. Q. 
 C, R. Gowanlock, Geo. Kappele, K. Burmingham, George Simpson, 
 J. Thompson. 
 
 From London-Sir John Carling, K. C. M. G., Ernest B. Smith, 
 Captain Carpenter, Dr. Roome, M. P. 
 
 From Dundas-T. A. Wardell, A. R. Wardell, Thomas Stock, Major 
 McKechnie, Lieut.-Col. Gwyn, W. E. S. Knowles, A. F. Pirie, R. T. Wilson, 
 T. H. A. Begue, John Bertram. 
 
 Rev. Messrs. W. W. Carson (Detroit), Dr. Laidlaw, S. Lyle, B D 
 1{. G. Boville, G. W. Kerby, J. H. Long. T. Geoghegan. J. VanWyck, Dr.' 
 
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 Burns, E. M. Bland, W. K. Clark, Dr. Fraser, Dr. (Mark, I. Tovell, K. M. 
 Fes^enden, Dr. I'otts (Toronto), Canon Sutherland, Father Coty, Father 
 Brady, Chancellor Craven, Uev. Mr. Woodsworth, Kev. James Allen ; 
 Mayor Hiseott, St. Catharines,; C. D. Potts, Glanford ; U. ^uance, jr., 
 Binbrook ; .1. H. Grout, Grimsby ; David Bell, Rockton ; .). Scott, T. Black- 
 stock, H. C. Morriston, Clmrles Morriston, Morriston;.!. Hull, \N alpole ; 
 W. H. Brooking, Ancaster. 
 
 Mayor :Mullin, Brampton ; J. McLauf^hlin, president board of trade, 
 Owen Sound; Robert Henry, Thos. Klliott, .1. .1. Hawkins, Joseph Vanfleet, 
 H. Keville, Dr. K. Grifiin, H. INI. K. Wilson, G. K. Sanbourne, Brantford ; 
 A H. Baird, Paris ; John McDermott, Georgetown ; M. Yonn«. Burlington ; 
 Mayor Barker, Kincardine ; Mayor Smith, Guelph ; Mayor Wri«ht, Dres- 
 den ; E. B. Smith, London ; Jas. A. Livingstone, Mayor Taf?Kart, Clifton ; 
 Joseph Hope, Ottawa; Sur«eon-Major Reefer, Gait; W. A. McCulla, J. 
 Goldina, E. Stonehoiise, W. D. McCulla, Brampton. Others present were: 
 Lady Schult/,Mrs. Kyckman. Mrs. W. Hendrie, Mrs. J. S. Hendne, Miss 
 Tina Hendrie, Mrs. Adam Brown, >Hss Brown, Miss MacLaren. Miss 
 Maria MacLaren, the Misses Howard, Mrs. W. E. Brown, Mrs. Henry 
 MacLaren, Mrs. John Calder, John and Mrs. and Miss Proctor, Major 
 and the Misses OKeiUy, Geo. T. and Mrs. Tuckett, Mrs. Freed, John and 
 Mrs. Hoodless,F. C. Bruce, Mrs. J. Kose Holden, John Crerar, (). C, A. 
 E Carpenter, J. W. Hendrie, Misses Le^^-at, H. S. and Mrs. Brennen, J. M. 
 and Mrs. Lottridf-e, H. H. and Mrs. Robertson. F. F. Dalley, Mrs. John Al- 
 exander, Mrs. \V. F. Walker, E. A. Cohiuhoun. 
 
 After the cheers which created the appearance of the premier had sub- 
 sided Senator Sanfor.l requested Bishop Hamilton to open the proceedinf-s 
 with prayer. His lordship, dressed in full canonicals, came forward and re- 
 quested that his auditors would repeat after him the Apostles creed and 
 the responses following. The bishop then repeated the creed, followed by 
 the Lord's Prayer, all on the platform joining;. 
 
 Senator Sanford, in introducing Sir John Thompson, spoke as follows: 
 Mr Premier and ladies and gentlemen : We have met to day to com- 
 plete the work in which we have been engaged durin« the last eighteen 
 months-^the placing in our city a monument to the memory of the great 
 statesman who, during Canada's brief life, has been most intimately asso- 
 ciated with its growth and development. To the memory of the man who 
 more than all others, was instrumental in forming out of these scattered 
 provinces, this noble Dominion of which we are justly proud. A monument 
 to the memory of the late Sir John A. Macdonald, whoso head and hand 
 for a .luarter of a century guarded Canada's fortunes and guided the way 
 of the greatest of the colonies of the crown through various stages of mater- 
 ial growth and political development, until today «he ranks lirst among 
 Britain's colonial possessions. The work of the subscribers is almost con- 
 cluded, and we refer to it with mingled feelings of regret and of pleasure. 
 Of re.'ret, we who mourn the loss of the great premier, as for a father, or a 
 dear friend, with a keen sense of personal loss. Of pleasure, that in the 
 
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 MEMBERS OF THE MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 1— Hon. W. E. Banforcl, President. '2— Adam Itrown. 3— (ieo. E. Tiickolt. 4- J. J. Scott. 5 — I. M. I.ottiulKe. (i— .Jolni A. Bruce. 
 
 7— C. U. Smith, Socrutary. H— Jolm Milno. !• -tieo. Itoiicli. 10 -Ali'X. (iiutslioic. 11— .1. .J. Mason. 12— Alex. Turner. 
 
 13— \V. A. Itobinson. 11—1'. I'ltzReralil. 15 Wni. Hendiii'. Ki .Mattlu'w I.cficat. 17- It. H. Cliarlton. 
 
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 completion of our work we are first in Canada to erect a monument, cred- 
 itable alike to the memory of the f;reat statesman and to our city. It is 
 most {^ratifying to the committee and the citizens generally that the pre- 
 mier, who was so intimately associated with the late Sir John for so many 
 years, kindly consented to lay aside the pressing duties of state to be present 
 on this occasion. I shall now call upon Sir John Thomson, premier of the 
 Dominion, to unveil the statue. 
 
 SIR .rOlIX THOMI'MON's SI'EECII. 
 
 The premier of the Dominion was greeted with thunderous cheers 
 from the great crowd as he came forward. 
 
 May it please your honor, my Lord Bishop, Mr. Chairman, ladies and 
 gantleraen : 
 
 Before I perform the duty which is allotted to me this afternoon, and 
 which is indeed a task of love— to unveil the statue of the great statesman 
 under whom I had the honor to serve for six or seven years— I consider it 
 my first duty to tender my congratulations to you, Mr. Senator, and to the 
 people of Hamilton, for having been the first in the Dominion of Canada 
 to erect and unveil this statue to the eminent statesman whose memory we 
 are to recall today. (Cheers.) I thank you in the name of the government 
 of Clanada ; I thank you and congratulate you in the name of the people of 
 this Dominion ; but my congratulations and thanks are wider still, for I 
 have the pleasure here of voicing the sentiments of millions of British sub- 
 jects all over the world, who will hail this as a great event and a new mile- 
 stone reached in the history of the British empire. (Loud cheers.) 
 
 At these words Sir John pressed the electric button on the railing 
 before him, and as twenty thousand pairs of eyes were turned from him to the 
 mute, draped outline of the statue, the veil of flags dropped gracefully from 
 it, and there stood before them the life-like figure of the grand old chieftain 
 in the very attitude of addressing the multitude. So intensely dramatic 
 was the incident that a gasp of surprise seemed to emanate from the 
 crowd, there was a moment of intense silence f; 'lowed by a mighty roar of 
 tumultuous cheering, and as it died away the strains of the Thirteenth 
 band were heard playing " Hail to the Chief." 
 
 Continuing, Sir John Thompson said : I have unveiled the image of 
 one of the most illustrious men of our generation. I have spoken of this 
 being the first statue erected to his honor in Canada ; but before it had been 
 erected his bust had been unveiled in the cathedral of St. Paul, in the heart 
 of England, as the memorial of one whose services to the empire deserved 
 to be ranked with those of Wellington and Nelson. These " lords of war," 
 as Lord Eoseberry said, "preserved the empire;" Sir John Macdonald 
 accomplished no less in his labors to consolidate that empire. As time 
 goes on other statues will be raised to his memory in various parts of 
 Canada, and yet the grandest thing for his memory will be that his fame 
 needs no monument to extend or to preserve it. At the time of his death 
 it was poetically and truthfully said, " His work — a nation— stands his 
 monument." (Cheers.) Of no man of any period can it be more truly said 
 
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 that he was the father and founder of his country. After a lapse of some 
 years, when political asperities have ceased to mar the true estimate of the 
 man, this will no lonf,'er be a point on which Canadians shall differ. His 
 life was one of incessant political warfare ; much of it was passed in times 
 when the bitterness of strife between public men was far greater than it is 
 today, and yet, from the moment of his death, the leaders of the party to 
 which he was opposed have spoken generously of his great public services, 
 his great devotion to tlie interests of his country, and his wonderful hold on 
 the affections of tiie people. (Cheers.) One of those leaders I am glad to see 
 here today— and I am sure it will be gratifying to him— at an age when 
 long public life has brought its only sure gift, a crown of grey 1)' irs, to lay 
 a flower on the monument of the statesman who was his personal and 
 professional friend, although for long years his political opponent. 
 (Cheers.) The history of Sir John Macdonald is the history of a long and 
 successful struggle with the greatest difficulties which government in the 
 colonies has presented during the past fifty years. Of these difficulties the 
 statesmen of older countries have but a very faint idea. In Canada they 
 seem to have been greater than anywhere else. His earlier life was passed 
 in a province where the scope of political ambition was confined to that 
 province. The difficulties of its goverimient had been such that to make 
 administration possible it had to be divided, then reunited, and seemed 
 likely to be divided again. The vast country to the west of her borders was 
 a region of romance and rare adventure. With the provinces to tlie east, 
 communication was so difficult that a letter took weeks to reach its 
 destination. Practically they were as remote as Europe is from us to-day, 
 but Sir John lived to see, as the fruits of work in which he took a leading 
 part, nearly all Kritish North America united under one system of 
 government, and connected by railways and other means of communication 
 unequalled in their completeness in any part of the world. (Cheers ) He 
 saw the vast regions of the Northwest held as the great domain of Canada, 
 and traversed by railways east and west, north and south. In the province 
 of Canada there were burning questions about which half the population 
 had taken up arms against the other half, and were ready to do so again 
 and again. Some of those questions— the Clergy lieserves, the Seigniorial 
 Tenures, the Educational Policy— have passed out of politics into history ; 
 others of them, some of them arising from the rivalries of race, and some 
 from proximity to the United States and from the conditions of business 
 and of politics there, are still present with us, but in a modified form, and 
 with prospects that they will disappear as our people become more numer- 
 ous and their resources become developed. Great honor is due to those 
 who in times past aided Sir John in the settlement of those questions, 
 but his career seems to embrace all others, and his mind seems to have 
 risen to each great struggle which came on in turn, and to have called 
 to his aid the men who were needed to carry his projects to consum- 
 mation. He was the master builder among the many who did noble 
 work in the structure of the nation. But it is not my task to-day to 
 give you a narrative of Sir John Macdonald's life, or even of the great 
 
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 eventH in which he took part. 1 Imve only time to recall some of these by 
 name, and tlien to eay a few words to you about the leading features of his 
 personal character and career. This last seems to be the more pleasinfj, 
 and is, perhaps, even the more necessary part of my duty. History will 
 take tiood care to record those «reat events, but it may not preserve so 
 faithfully as we could wish some of the features of Sir John's character 
 which were best known to those who were close to him from day to day, 
 for it is eminently true of him, as was said of a ^reat British statesman, 
 that "he leaves not only the memory of threat achievements, but also the 
 tender traditions of personal affection and social charm." (Cheers.) In 
 the first place Sii .Joinis love of Canada and his desire to serve her must be 
 put far in the front of all his characteristics. His daily thought might be 
 expressed in Webster's words: " Let our object be our country, our whole 
 country, and nothing but our country." " Nothing but our country " in 
 the sense that Canada was to be first of all in every consideration of public 
 policy or personal action. His true and deep (!anadianism was the " pillar 
 of cloud by day and the pillar of tire by night " to the hundreds of thousands 
 whom he led, as no man could have led by a mere party banner. (Cheers.) 
 It has been well said that, as this patriotism was the mainspring of all his 
 action, so it was the source of the wonderful conmiand which he had over 
 the masses of his countrymen. He came into public life like a stripling, 
 just when he was advancing on a professional career in which he nught 
 look forward to honor, ease, and wealth. He left that career at a 
 summons which he considered the urgent call of duty. He supposed he 
 
 ■ was leaving it but for a very brief period— to meet a crisis which might be 
 
 past in a year or two. I once had to consult him as to the propriety of one 
 of our friends coming forward at an election when there was a prospect of 
 
 ; his having to retire at the end of a single session. I asked him if he would 
 
 approve of such a step, and his answer was : " Yes, certainly. Those are 
 
 the terms > which I came into public life." Nearly 50 years went by, and 
 
 I : the call of cluVv which summoned him in his youth was only supersedf d by 
 
 the last summons that comes to man. In the next place I must mention 
 i his wonderful devotion to the interests of the empire. (Hear, hear.) This 
 
 ! has made him more than a Canadian statesman. It has placed him in the 
 
 ' shrine of the empire's heroes. (Cheers.) When he died, the (,)u€en knew 
 
 that her wreath upon his coffin covered the breast of as faithful a servant 
 of the crown as ever lived within her realm of England. The thought of 
 
 ■ the unity of the empire was bright within him when, as a youth, he carried 
 
 his musket during the disturbance of 1837. It breathed in his first election 
 address of 1844, in which he said: "The prosperity of Canada depends 
 upon its permanent connection with the mother country, and I shall resist 
 
 • to the utmost any attempt (from whatever quarter it may come), which 
 may tend to weaken that union." (Loud cheers.) It animated him to 
 the close of his life— for, in the great political struggle which was the 
 final one he spoke of " This, my last effort for the unity of the empire 
 and the preservation of our commercial and political freedom." He en- 
 deavored to stimulate the fame feeling in other colonies and to strengthen 
 
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 British connection in other parts of the empire. The policy of uniting 
 the provinces, of railway connection from ocean to ocean, and of steam 
 communication on both oceans, with the mother country and with other 
 possessions of the crown all we t^ in this direction. 
 
 Another feature of Sir John's character that we. who knew him best, will 
 long delight to remember, was the great amiability and gentleness of his 
 nature. His patience was most remarkable. We know how he was daily 
 beset by cares and difficulties, and by the worries which unreasonableness 
 and selfishness make some men inflict, without necessity and without a 
 thought. It sometimes seemed to us that kindness, humor, and forbearance 
 were tiie only shields which he turned to such attacks. He made all 
 possible allowance for those who tried his endurance, and, with rare mag- 
 nanimity, waited, without resentment, for the second thought of those who 
 judged his actions hastily, when a sharp reply would have been given by most 
 men. (Cheers.) All this in one who relished the fierce conflict of debate, 
 who was accustomed to ask no quarter in a fight, and to deal hard blows at 
 his adversary, helps greatly to account for his wonderful success in domin- 
 ating his party, and in attaching it to himself as no party was ever attached 
 to a leader before. Everywhere his supporters hesitated to disregard his 
 slightest wish— not because they feared him, but because they loved him. 
 It used to be a popular delusion that when he took a new colleague he 
 required from him his resignation in advance. I soon found that when he 
 took a new colleague, the new comer's relations to his chief -"are controlled 
 by aiTection and not by command. (Cheers.) In that tie he had all the 
 control that he needed over those who served under him. Even if Sir John 
 had not been a statesman of such a high order, his quality as a 
 parliamentarian would have made him a great man. He was a parliamen- 
 tarian in the true sense of the word- in the sense in which that word has 
 been applied to some of the great men who have adorned the parliament of 
 Great Britain. He was a most vigorous and effective speaker. . Naturally 
 quick, clear, and intense, he was full of earnestness, which went farther to 
 convince and persuade than eloquence generally does, and his tact and 
 urbanity in debate and in the " management '' of the house won for him, 
 day by day, the admiration of his opponents and the unbounded confidence 
 of his friends. How well these qualities served him can be appreciated only 
 by those who reflect on the difiliculties of parliamentary life in Canada, the 
 difl'iculties arising from a tendency to split up into classes and sections in 
 consequence of race feelings and of sectional interests. In his long 
 parliamentary career how well justified are those words of his uttered lorg 
 before its close : 
 
 " I know that in the long career of political life I have made many 
 mistakes, that the government of which I am a member has, of course, 
 made errors and been guilty of omission as well as commission ; but I can 
 honestly say that the desire was good and the motive good." (Loud cheers.) 
 
 A false estimate of Sir John's character is formed by those who regard 
 him as having been selfish, or even as having been actuated by mere love of 
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 " The people believed that Sir John sought for the oHlce of first miniHter 
 only that he mi^ht best minister to the country, and the j eople's judgment 
 was ri>,'ht. It was not an oHioe that a Helf-aeekinn man cjuld have kept for 
 a 8in>>le session." Sir John himself said more tlian i>U years before his 
 death : 
 
 " If a man desires peace and domestic happiness he will find neither in 
 performinj? the thankless task of a public otticer." 
 
 A«ain, how memorable are those words, which he ut ered later, in a 
 ^reat crisis : 
 
 " I have fought the battle of confederation, the battle of union, the 
 
 battle of thn Dominion of Canada. I throw myself upon the house, I throw 
 
 myself upon this country, I throw myself upon posterity, and I believe that, 
 
 notwithstanding the many failings of my life, 1 shall have the voice of this 
 
 y , country and this house rallying around me. (Cheers.) And, sir, if I am 
 
 "mistaken in that, 1 can confidentially appeal to a higher court— to the court 
 J o' my own conscience and to the court of posterity. I leave it with this 
 
 * house with every confidence. I am equal to either fate. I can see past the 
 
 •j ■ decision of this house whether for or against me, but whether it be for or 
 
 j . • against me, I know, and it is no vain boast for me to say so, for even my 
 
 J enemies will admit that I am no boaster, that there-does not exist in 
 
 ■: . Canada a man who has given more of his time, more of his heart, more of 
 
 I ' his wealth, or more of his intellect and power, such as they may be, for the 
 
 ; »; good of this Dominion of Canada." (Cheers.) 
 
 I '■ We who knew him well know that for years before the end came, he 
 
 I ' j longed for rest and retirement ere he should reach the close of his life. 
 
 ! •: Day after day was filled by unceasing toil, unwearying watchfulness, and 
 
 "i painful labors at details. Night after night, when men in all other 
 
 I iu) occupations were enjoying rest in their homes, he was at his work in the 
 
 ' House of Commoro, seldom leaving his place until early morning— often the 
 
 1 last to leave, and often begmning a long and arduous effort after midnight. 
 
 ;' This was not selfishness in a man who had sacrificea wealth and honors 
 
 . ' that he might have earned, and the peace and happiness of domestic life, 
 
 'j which he loved as well as any other, and for which his whole nature craved 
 
 , when he had reached the three score years and ten. It was not mere love 
 
 I of power which kept him to those daily and nightly tasks. It was devotion 
 
 '[. to a duty which became more pressing and unavoidable as years rolled by. 
 
 :i , He could be replaced when he was no more, but while his services could be 
 
 ;|i had, no man could replace him. (Cheers.) On the first day when he was 
 
 ],'■] , seized with his last illness he passed out of the House of Commons in the 
 
 j afternoon and beckoned me to follow him. We went to his retiring-room, 
 
 near the chamber, and, as he sank into a chair, he told me that he had been 
 
 • ! attacked by some affection of the throat. His condition was too plain to 
 
 iii j be mistaken, but I triedm cheer him by speaking of his need of rest, and 
 
 :|',1 of the desire of his ^Hbagues that he should spare himself the toil of 
 
 ^hj attending at each day's Aesion. I shall never forget his words as he turned 
 
 ; i;, his pallid face to me and said : "It is not that ; I am worn out." He kncrt^ 
 
 Ijjl that the rest for which he longed in vain had nearly come, but that he 
 
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 must meet it at tlie Krave. No doubt Ik^ had a love of fnmo— " the Hoverei^n 
 jjnasion of i)ublic men"— but what public iiuui, worthy of bin callint,', Ih 
 without it'.' hi truth, unHeKiHhnesH and devotion to <hity are amoii^ Kir 
 John's hi^best characteristicH. Ho waH ambitious in the bebt Hense of tlio 
 word. He was ambitious to infuse into the minds of his coimtrymen 
 sentiments an(i ideas that were wider tlian the iwHues of party— ambitious 
 to mai<e ('anada threat— ambitious to hilence tiio voice of faction and the 
 noise of discord— ambitious to leave this country and the empire better 
 otf for the toils and sacrillcos of liis life. 
 
 Ladies ani Kontlemen, I have performed in the few minutes that 
 were available to me, what I described at the beHinninj; of my obser- 
 vations, as indeed a loving,' task— a loving task because we all loved, 
 with all our hearts, the ^{reat man whose political fortunes sve followed, 
 whose political principles we believed, and wliose statue stands unveiled 
 before you to-day. (Cheers.) But as I have spoken of this duty to you 
 as a task of love, I must tell you that it is a task of sadness, too, 
 because in recalling him to memory the voice of alTuction stirs one's heart 
 so deely that remembrance of the past, with its personal feelings and 
 personal affections, is almost too much for the man who has this duty 
 to perform. lUit how nnich sadder is the task made when I recall that, 
 thoutjh but a little over two years af,'o we laid his body in the tomb, this 
 afternoon, in the city of INlDntreal, the jjrave lies open to receive his succes- 
 sor—when 1 remember that to-day we are unveiling,' the statue of one ^'reat 
 public man, and at this time to-morrow we shall be laying; another f^reat 
 public man— another tjreat son of Canada— in hii^ last restinti place upon 
 this earth. The man who succeeded him was worthy to be his successor. 
 (Cheers.) Sir John Abbott's j^reat (jualities of brain and lieart, his j^reat 
 qualities of statesmanship, his jjreat abilities and jjreat .losire to serve this 
 couiitry will never be thoroughly understood by the Canadian people, 
 because his career as first minister was so short. But in remembering,' the 
 services of the two, in reniemberint; the threat characteristics of the two, in 
 remembering; the great love for Canada, the {»reat attachment to Canada, 
 the great desire to serve ('anada, of the two, and the great devotion to 
 British connection of the two— I say it of the last as well as of the first, 
 without fear of contradiction or carping— the great love of Canada and the 
 great patriotism of these men, places upon us who have public duties 
 to discharge, either in connection with the ministry or as simple voters 
 and electors, in this country, a great responsibility which we outiht to 
 consider well this afternoon. (Hear, hear.) The sight of that statue of 
 the departed leader in your public place, and the memory of the men who 
 succeeded him in public life as premiers of the Dominion of Canada— the 
 memory of these will do honor to this country, I care not what political 
 or personal failings thay may have had, and place upon us the 
 responsibility of carrying on — you as electors, we as public men — the task 
 which they laid before them, and in the execution of which they strove with 
 the genius of master hands, guided by the inspiration of heaven which falls 
 upon truly patriotic men. (Cheers.) I thank you, citizens of Plamilton, 
 
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 for the noble work which you have done in erecting,' the first statue to Fir 
 John Macdonald. Addresuing this vast assemblage which is here to see 
 that statue unveiled I beseech you that you will learn by looking upon that 
 figure the lessons which he whom it represents desired that his countrymen 
 should learn and should practice : devotion to the interests of Canada our 
 country, and the determination that the banner of England shall continue 
 to wave over this country &n long as time shall last. (Loud cheers.) How 
 fortunate should we be, how fortunate should any man be, could he leave, 
 as his immediate successor did, " Not only the record of great achieve- 
 ments, but the traditions of personal affection, and of social charm." 
 Whether tliis may be our reward or not, let us steadfastly pursue in the 
 future of this country the principles of the great men whom I have men- 
 tioned, and in the words of Lord Kosebery, in unveiling the bust to the 
 late Sir John Macdonald in the cathedral of St. Paul's: "Once more 
 remember our responsibility, and renew the resolution that, come what may, 
 we will not flinch or fail under it." (Loud cheers.) 
 
 Slli AIlOI.rllE (Auon's spekch. 
 
 The chairman next introduced Sir Adolphe Caron, postmaster-general, 
 as a gentleman who had enjoyed a life-long term of pers^^nal friendship 
 with the late Sir John Macdonald. 
 
 Sir Adolphe Caron came forward and spoke as follows : 
 Mr. Senator, ladies and gentlemen,— Who can have forgotten that fatal 
 day in the history of Canada, June (ith, IH'II ? Who, I ask, who has taken a 
 particle of interest in the history of Canada, can forget that fatal day when 
 the dreaded though not unexpected news flashed over the wires from one 
 end of the Dominion to the other, nay, from one end of the British empire 
 to the other, announcing the sad tidings that Canada had lost her most 
 gifted son, that the statesman, the great patriot, the friend among friends, 
 the master builder of the nation had gone to his last long rest '.' The heart 
 of the Dominion was stilled for a moment when the news was received. 
 It was at a period when his supporters and opponents could not help 
 admitting that he was one of those who had left the mark of his strong 
 individuality on the history of the country and the stamp of his genius on 
 the institutions of the nation. He was the leader of the people who was 
 knowu at home by his devotion, and abroad by his unswerving loyalty to 
 ths empire. (Applause.) Those were the titles which made his death a 
 public calamity which the people of any country could not well afford to 
 meet. He had created a nation out of colonies, which, from the fact of 
 their being divided and under separate governments, had not the power at 
 home nor the influence abroad which confederation afterwards gave tlieni. 
 It was the building of confederation, and the giving of a national govern- 
 ment, directed from a centre, which gave them that strength and influence 
 which they possess to-day. They became a nation full of promise for the 
 future of the people, and a power in the empire to which we are so proud to 
 belong. His love was not a barren love. He gave the benefit of every 
 talent and every effort to his country, and it was he who, during his 47 
 
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 years of public life, could show a record to those who read the history of 
 the country which clearly demonstrated that all the fjreat chanfjes which 
 were afterwards made began with his policy. He was the man who, 
 believing in the future of the country, went to the colonial conference to lay 
 down the principle of confederation. After confederation he was the first 
 prime minister of Canada, until 1H73, and in 187K he was returned to power, 
 and held it until he desired that rest which his appreciation of public duty 
 did not permit him to take, and whicli he took only after he had reached 
 the grave. Every great change in the history of Canada was made under 
 him. The civil law was codified, the statutes were consolidated, the muni- 
 cipal system was organized, a line of steamships was started connecting 
 Canada with Europe, the civil service was reformed, the Intercolonial rail- 
 way was built, the Canadian Pacific was constructed, the election laws were 
 ratified, and the treaty with Washington was made. Yes, it is right for the 
 Canadian people to build up monuments in bronze, and in marble, in the 
 country which was so benefited by his work, in order that our children may 
 learn lessons in gratitude, and that those generations which are to come 
 may remember how much|weowe him. (Hear, hear.) If that statue of bronze 
 could speak, and e.xpress an opinion, it would tell you that, however 
 grateful it might be, it would be much more so if the people of Canada 
 would erect to hia memory a greater monument by continuing his work 
 and following his example. It would be a monument that would do him 
 honor, and if we would follow in his footsteps, let us work together, shoulder 
 to fihoulder, in consolidating the great Canadian people. We all know that 
 in public life a man's career is surrounded with difficulties. Such monu- 
 ments induce men to give up all and every advantage that they might have 
 in gaining wealth and ease, but if tliey do their work earnestly and honestly, 
 they will find a place in the heart of the people. If it was a hard task 
 for Sir John Thompson to address you, it is still more difficult for me, after 
 the brilliant record which he has laid before you. Let me, however, add 
 this testimony which is dearer than any other. Among friends he was 
 the best of friends. I knew him as a boy, when my father was his friend, 
 when he treated me as the child of his own house, and took an interest in 
 me which I shall never forget. Let nie congratulate Hamilton on the 
 success of its enterprise in building the first monument to the memory of 
 Canada's most brilliant son, and let me hope that when other monuments 
 are unveilpd they may meet with as great success as this has done at the 
 hands of the people of Hamilton. (Applause.) 
 
 SIR CHAllLES UIIIBKRT TDPl'BU S SPEECH. 
 
 The appreciation of Sir Charles Hibbert Tapper's excellent work on the 
 Behring Sea Arbitration won for that gentleman a round of very hearty 
 applause, as he stepped forward to address the crowd in response to 
 the chairman's invitation. He said : 
 
 May it please your honor, My Lord Bishop, and Mr. Chairman, ladies 
 and gentlemen — I count myself fortunate that 1 have been permitted, 
 through the kindness of the committee in charge of this great festival, to 
 
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 address to you a few words, and first of all I would like to thank the 
 committee for what I believe to have been the kind and generous spirit 
 which prompted them to permit me to raise my voice with those whose 
 voices you have heard to-day. I believe that my name was suggested (I can- 
 not help not thinking otherwise) because my father, Sir Charles Tupper, 
 had the honor of serving the great and illustrious chieftain of the Conserv- 
 ative party. Sir .John Macdonald, from the natal day of confederation 
 down to the death of that great statesman. (Applause.) I therefore feel 
 under a special obligation to the committee. After the expressions 
 you have heard you will not expect much from me, but if I may be 
 permitted, I would like to raise my voice in reference to sc./ie of the 
 sentiments that I know the youth of Canada feel, and feel strongly, 
 touching the life of the great man who has passed away, and to the 
 great man whom Hamilton has turned out to-day to honor. By this 
 ceremony, by this expedition and promptness in this honor to the 
 memory of that great man, I believe Hamilton has done itself great honor. 
 I would like to tell you that as far as I can gauge, the great impression 
 made by Sir John Macdonald on the youth of this country, in every 
 province and on the borders of every sea, was due to the cardinal 
 principle, to the great principle that actuated that man throughout his 
 whole political career. Sir John Macdonald, more almost than any other 
 man in our young country, showed forth and lived up to a wonderful degree 
 of faith — faith, first of all, in himself as a Canadian, faith in liis party, to 
 which he belonged, and which he so ably led, faith in his country, faith in 
 his countrymen, and faith in the empire, the British empire, from the first, 
 the earliest days. The references of Sir John Thompson show you how 
 that principle remained and began, and you know how it remained with him 
 down to his dying day. His record needs no words from this platform, 
 needs no expression of mine. His record is across the face, the broad face 
 of this country, from ocean to ocean, not only in the statute-books, but 
 in this city, in every great city in Canada. There are men, free from all 
 party bias, free from all political feeling, who will tell you, and particularly 
 on an occasion of this kind, how much there is that will make you 
 remember till your dying day what that man has done for you and for this 
 country, and for this country's future. His record, ladies and gentlemen, 
 defies the tooth of time. His record will live forever. His record and 
 his work, in my humble opinion, were placed on a firm and lasting 
 foundation. He started out in the early days of this confederation, not 
 only with faith in his country, but with a firm and steadfast belief that 
 there was to be on this half of the continent, in British North 
 America, founded and maintained, a great British nationality. In 
 my native province when I was a boy, before Confederation, and just 
 on the eve of it, Sir John Macdonald, there in the midst of our public 
 men of all political parties, announced then that faith and that belief, 
 and said, in prophesying that there would be a great nation '~!an- 
 ada, and made up of the different provinces then under Bri le, 
 
 "God forbid, however, that tl^t nationality should ever be sep tt nd 
 

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 BIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOHN ALKXANDEK MACDONALD, 
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 He was true to that principle down to the last day he spent upon earth, 
 and every threat thought he experienced, and every great effort that he put 
 forth you will find were all in consonance and in keeping with that great 
 and general principle. He lived to see the day that Canada became a 
 nation. He lived to see the day that his hopes in that respect were realized. 
 But he was not satisfied. He went on and bent himself to the further task, 
 a task which the young men of this country, to whom he so often and 
 successfully appealed, have taken up, of making Canada the strong arm, 
 the strong right arm, of the United Kingdom. (Applause.) That was his 
 last grand work, and tliat work we will carry out, God willing, to a 
 successful end. (Applause.) 
 
 Let me ask you to remember, only a few years ago in the history of 
 this young nation, hearts were quailing, men were friglitened, provinces 
 were nervous and disturbed, when a rebellion or disturbance broke out on 
 the banks of the Red river. An appeal wss made out of our weakness, 
 because we did not know our strength, because we did not then exist as one 
 people, but were still scattered provinces, an appeal was made to the 
 mother country for help. That appeal was not made, and never has been 
 made, under similar circumstances, in vain. Our mother country. Great 
 Britain, gave us the help, sent us the British soldier, gave us the benefit of 
 her arms and ammunition, and that rebellion was quelled. But Sir John 
 Jlacdonald fought the good fight, true to the great principle that he 
 enunciated in 1807, worked on steadfastly, and the day came when farther 
 west and on the banks of the Saskatchewan another disturbance arose, a 
 disturbance threatening the integrity of this country. But Canada in the 
 meantime, ladies and gentlemen, had become a nation. No appeal was 
 made to the mother country, or to any other power, and the only trouble 
 then was, as you yourselves will remember, to restrain the men that wished 
 to hurry to the front to the support and maintenance at all hazards of the 
 integrity of this great Dominion, the federation of Canada. (Applause.) 
 These great principles, I believe, 1 submit to you, sum up the whole of that 
 great n an's glorious life. He fought the good fight. He succeeded. He 
 fought as you know in Hamilton, with the strength and courage of a lion, 
 even when his life was failing him, even when he knew that his days were 
 numbered, when he issued his last manifesto to his party that loved and 
 trusted him so loyally. You can read there to-day the prescience of that 
 man, the signification that he knew his last hour had come, and when he 
 appealed to them to rally to his support, to fight for what he believed to be 
 the unity of the empire ; you know that he fought with the courage of a 
 lion, and with the support of the youth of this country, and he won in the 
 fight, and died as a hero should die, with all his glorious triumphs blazing 
 about him. (Applause.) We admire Sir John Macdonald ; we revere his 
 memory, not only for the great deeds he wrought, not only for the great 
 good he has done us and the future generations that will live in this land, 
 but, 1 think, above all, perhaps men and women who study his career will 
 admire and love the man, as we loved him, not only for those great qualities. 
 
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 but for the sincerity and the simplicity of the man. He was no Pharisee. 
 He never posed as a perfect specimen of humanity. He never pretended 
 that he was without sin, but time and again he was ready to stand before 
 you, and face to face to confess to you, as befoie liis Maker, that he was a 
 sinner, and had committed sins upon sins, but the people forgave them, as 
 he believed his Creator would in the end forgive him, for the good he had 
 done and for the love he had entertained, for the love he had felt for his 
 countrymen all through this land. And I cannot do better in closing these 
 brief remarks than to give you what Sir John Macdonald said of him- 
 self, wlien surrounded by loyal supporters and enthusiastic admirers, 
 in the great city of Montreal, with tliat choice of language that he could 
 conmiand when he spoke from the heart, as he so often did in addressing 
 his fellow-countrymen ; and these words I believe you will appreciate 
 better than any humble utterances I can add. Sir John on that occasion 
 said : " You have met to do honor to a man who, with all his follies and sins 
 of omission and commission, loved his country with a passionate love, and 
 you will forgive, as the Divine Master would forgive him, because he loveth 
 much." I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that was no language of e.xagger- 
 ation. No man who followed Sir John Macdonald-and I have had some 
 experience of his leadership— no man who followed him in parliament, 
 or in the campaigns that he fought, followed him without loving him, and 
 many an opponent who fought him loved him almost as well. (Loud 
 applause.) 
 
 SIR OLIVKR MOWAT's .SPEECH. 
 
 Rain had commenced to fall in a steady downpour when Sir Oliver 
 Mowat, premier of Ontario, was called upon, and Hon. T. M. Daly held an 
 umbrella over the head of the venerable gentleman as he proceeded with 
 his address : 
 
 To most of you. Sir Jolm Macdonald held the relation of political 
 leader, and of a very successful leader. As such he obtained for himself 
 the just admiration and the gratitude of his party during his life, and his 
 memory is entitled to a warm place in their affections, now that he is dead. 
 On the other hand, I entered political life in opposition to him and his 
 party, and (except for a few months in 18(i4) we were on opposite sides of 
 politics during the whole of my political life until he died. For many 
 years of my premiership in Ontario there was almost continual war 
 between us on questions as to the territorial and constitutional position of 
 the province. But death minimizes where it does not cancel personal 
 antagonisms. Survivors are glad to recognize all that was good or great 
 or commendable in an opponent who has passed away ; and I am here 
 to-day to manifest by my presence and my words the friendly memories 
 which I cherish of Sir John Macdonald. In saying a few earnest words 
 regarding him, I am glad to follow in the footsteps of the chief of the 
 Dominion Liberal party, who, immediately after the death of tlu -reat 
 Conservative chief, made in the House of Commons an appreciative speech 
 which, for its spirit and eloquence, was commended alike by friends and 
 
';.. opponents. I cannot emulate the elo(]uence, though I may emulate the 
 
 " ' spirit of that speech. You will not expect from me such unbounded 
 
 ' ". eulofjy as came fittintjly from the deceased premier's colleague and 
 
 I successor, Sir John Thompson, and from his other colleagues to-day. 
 
 !•'. Still, without endorsing all that they have asserted in praise of the chief 
 
 who led them so often to victory, there are many things which a candid 
 political opponent may consistently and truly say regarding the man whom 
 the opposition leader described as Canada's most illustrious son, and her 
 I : ^ foremost citizen and statesman. 
 
 jl As Sir John Macdonald was the Conservative leader in Canadian 
 
 politics, so his contemporary, l\Ir. Disraeli, afterwards Lord Beaconstield, 
 '■ was the Conservative leader in Imperial politics; and there were striking 
 
 (k points of resemblance between them as regards both personal appearance 
 
 |.,;;; and otherwise. In the British House of Commons, after the death of Lord 
 
 ! Beaconstield, Mr. Gladstone, wlio had always been Mr. Disraeli's uncom- 
 
 ; ■' promising opponent, moved, notwithstanding, that a bust to his memory 
 
 t ' :* should be placed in Westminster Abbey at the public expense. The 
 
 •';j'. principal reasons given were " the rare and splendid gifts " of the deceased, 
 
 his "devoted labors in parliament and in great offices of state,'" and the 
 •jr important constitutional and other measures of his premiership, affecting 
 
 '' as these did the condition and future of the country. Ileferring to these 
 
 I ,: and other claims of his old opponent to public recognition, Mr. Gladstone 
 
 ■' said: "I have not a doubt that the man who for seven years sustained 
 
 . J ■ the office of prime minister, the man who for nearly 30 years led, either in 
 
 ;: i^ one House or the other, a great party in this country, and the man who had 
 
 ' !. 80 intertwined himself in the interests of the national heart as was shown 
 
 |i| on the occasion of his illness, is a man for whom the House may well do 
 
 what I now call upon it to do." Now a political opponent of Sir John 
 
 !, Macdonald can, consistently as well as truly, say of the Canadian statesman 
 
 I ''' nearly all that was said of the British statesman by his great opponent, 
 
 i. and in some respects may say more. Sir John Macdonald, like Mr. 
 
 i ;. Disraeli, had "rare" and valuable gifts. He, too, had to do with great 
 
 constitutional and other measures, and they were more numerous than 
 those of Lord Beaconsfleld, and more important to Canada than Lord 
 Beaconsfield's were to the Empire. Political parties differ about the wisdom 
 of some of Sir John's measures, and about the justice of others, but we 
 cannot deny that, parliament after parliament, they had the support of a 
 ;',::. majority of the people's elected representatives. Then, Sir John had the 
 
 ': ■ confidence of a majority of the people's representatives for more than four 
 
 times as long as Lord Beaconstield had. He was leader of a great party 
 
 in Canada for 40 years or more, instead 80. For 32 of these 40 years he 
 
 ' ' _ " held high offices of state, and of these 32 years he was prime minister for, 
 
 '' ' not seven years only, but for more than three times seven years. He also 
 
 possessed for a longer time and in a more marked manner than the British 
 statesman the affection of bis party, and of many friends who did not belong 
 to his party or to any party. He had quite an exceptional faculty for 
 attaching to himself his associates and his followers. He was a genial man. 
 
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 a pleaBant con.i.anion, full of humor and wit. These qualities con- 
 tributed to the attachment of which he was the object, though alone they do 
 not account for its bein^ so strong or so general. As regards his political 
 opponents, he could when he chose, in the legislative chamber, on the public 
 platform, and elsewhere, say severe things to them or of them, but his 
 ordinary bearing towards them, in public and in private, was the reverse of 
 offensive, and was courteous and pleasant. With respect to other character- 
 istics of his public life, he was a Conservative by his mental constitution 
 and his associations ; he was fond of what was old, and as a matter of mere 
 sentiment preferred old ways to new ; yet he was a practical man, who could 
 and did discern the signs of the times ; and when occasion seemed to require 
 he did not shrink from new ideas, however opposed these were to his old 
 ones ; nor from new projects, whatever their boldness or their immensity • 
 nor from new methods, however unexpected. Further, he manifested in 
 public affairs uncommon fertility of resource, uncommon courage, un- 
 common perseverance, and unsurpassed common sense and tact, especially 
 in dealing with men. Perhaps it was in his common sense and tact that he 
 most of all excelled others. 
 
 Clonsistently with all that I have said of the Canadian leader, there are 
 doubtless other things which would iiave to be taken into account if 1 were 
 professing to draw or attempting to draw a full portrait of the late premier 
 from the standpoint of a political opponent. But this is not the occasion 
 for sucli an attempt, nor would the office be agreeable to me. I prefer 
 calling to mind those traits of character and mental constitution, and those 
 facts of history, of which I liave made mention ; and I like to call to mind 
 in connection with these my personal relations to Sir John Macdonald r.t 
 various periods of my life. An old man lives largely in the past, and likes 
 to dwell on remembered incidents which gave him pleasure when they 
 occurred, or incidents which others have forgotten. I like to remember those 
 early school days when John Macdonald and myself were pupils at the 
 same school, he being one of the older boys, and I one of the younger. He 
 was as popular with the boys then as he afterwards became with men. 
 I like to remember that we were cordial friends from that early period for 
 some 26 years, and until I became a somewhat active politician, and on the 
 Liberal side. I like to remember my student life in his office for the first 
 four years of my term, and the kindly feeling of my fellow-students and 
 myself towards our genial principal. I remember him gladly as the 
 premier and attorney-general through whom I was appointed a Queen's 
 counsel, and was gazetted without any associate sharing with me the 
 honor. The Bar was at that time my world, and I well recollect the 
 pleasure which the appointment, made in this way, gave me— a pleasure 
 greater than I derived from some of the more important honors which 
 came to me afterwards. I like to remember the cordial relations which 
 existed between us when in 1864, rather less than seven years after I en- 
 tered parliament, we became colleagues in the coalition government formed 
 under Sir Etienne Taohe to carry a confederation of provinces with a 
 special view to settling the differences between Upper and Lower Canada. 
 
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 1 likii to ri'iii<'iiil)er tlio L'ordial relations which exiHted between \is an meni- 
 bei-H of the (,)iiche(' confeii'ncc at wliicii the confederation aclienie was pre- 
 pared and agreed to by tlie representatives of all the British American 
 provinces. I like to remember that when during the sitting of the con- 
 ference the news came to him of a vacancy in the Chancery IJeneh, he in- 
 stantly passed a note across the table offering,' me the place, and as I felt 
 some scruples about acceptinj^ in the then position of public affairs, he in 
 friendly conference art,'iied tliat if I would like the Vice Chancellorship there 
 was no sound reason on public f^rounds against my accepting it. Mr. Jlrown 
 and my otlier colloaHues concurred in that view, and 1 was therefore ap- 
 pointed Vice Chancellor accordiuf^ly after the conference had finished its 
 work. I like to remember the flattering words in which Sir .lohii publicly 
 spoke of me while I was Nice-Chancellor ; and I have been «lad to hear from 
 Senator Sanfovd and others of the kind and complimentary way in which 
 durint,' the latter years of his life Sir .lohn was in the habit of speaking of 
 me to them. All these thint,'8 show the kindly nature of the man when 
 politics did not interfere. If words of other import came, or are said to 
 have come, from him on other occasions, or at other times, or to other 
 persons, and these other words intrude themselves at any time on my 
 memory, I call to mind that in party warfare hard words are luitural and 
 perhaps inevitable ; and with that thought I dismiss from my mind the 
 intrusion. 
 
 Take this distinguished Canadian all in all, it may be said of him, in 
 brief, that he was a great political leader, beloved by his friends and 
 followers, and possessed of qualities which obtained for him the respect of 
 his opponents, notwithstanding wliat they deemed his faults. For myself 
 as a Canadian, and an early friend, and for a short time his colleague in 
 the government, I am pleased to be taking part in the proceedings of to- 
 day, when there has been unveiled a statue, erected here by his friends in 
 his honor as a memorial to future generations, of the statesman who held 
 the premiership of his country for more years than any other premier in 
 any country ever held a like office, and whose administration of public 
 affairs affected the Dominion and its provinces so largely and so long 
 that he will ever occupy a remarkable place in their history. 
 
 Two other things among many history will record of him. It will tell 
 that he contemplated with hope and expectation the future greatness of this 
 dear Canada of ours, and that he apjjreciated meantime and desired to 
 maintain its Britisli connection. May all Canadians long cherish on 
 these subjects like sentiments. 
 
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 Hon. N. Clarke Wallace was the last speaker of the afternoon. He re- 
 ceived a very warm reception on coming forward, and though the rain was 
 falling heavily 'by this time, the people hoisted umbrellas and braved the 
 elements. The honorable gentleman delivered a very eloquent address. 
 He congratulated the city on being the first to erect a statue to the 
 great statesman. " This may be appropriate in the case of Hamilton," he 
 
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 urated, combined with the courage and enterpriHe and Hitill of your citi/.ens 
 you have benefited very lar>,'ely. Tliero were certain characteriitica of our 
 jjreat cliieftain, and I will briefly refer to them. One of them was the 
 ^eiitleneHB of hin nature and of bin bearin({ towardH both friend and foe. 
 Another was hia invincible courage. Aa we all know, Kir John Macdonald 
 very often took hia political life in hit own handa, and, when other men leas 
 courageoUH would have faltered and gone back, he alwaya atood determined, 
 never faltered, never turned back, when he had a purpoae in view, and hia 
 indomitable pluck carried him through all his great undertakings and 
 achievements, built up thia Dominion and made it a country of which 
 every Canadian has a right to feel proud." 
 
 
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 A PRESENT TO THE CITY. 
 
 Senator Sanford then reciuested Mayor Blaicher to step forward and 
 addressed him : " Mr. Mayor, I am instructed to hand over, through you, 
 air, to the corporation of Hamilton, thia monument of the greatest atates- 
 man of Canada. I know that you will be proud to accept it, and I may say 
 that the earnest wish of the contributore is that our pretty city may be 
 graced by many other similar ornamenta." 
 
 " Senator Sanford and gentlemen," reaponded the mayor, "on behalf 
 of the citi/.ena of Hamilton, I thank you heartily for thia moat beautiful 
 monument of the late Sir John Macdonald. The citizena, I am aure, will 
 accept it and cheriah it for the ailent instruction of ages yet to come." 
 (Applause.) 
 
 Senator Sanford proposed three cheers for the Queen, which were 
 heartily given, the band played the national anthem, and the ceremony 
 waa over. 
 
 RESOLUTION I'ASHED IIV THE CITY COUNCIL. 
 
 NcivciiiliiT l;ith, lHU:i. 
 
 Moved by Aid. Ferrea, seconded by Aid. McDonald, 
 
 Resolved, That the thanka of thia Board are due and are hereby ten- 
 dered to the Macdonald Memorial Committee and their asaociates for their 
 gift to the city of the monument erected at the intersection of King and 
 John streets to the memory of the late Right Honorable Sir John Alex- 
 ander Macdonald, K. C. B., P. C, Premier of the Dominion of Canada ; 
 that thia Board recognizes the value of the gift, not only as a work of art 
 worthy to adorn the public place in which it standa but as an incentive to 
 the youth of our city to study the history and constitution of Canada, in 
 the moulding of which the eminent atatesman thereby commemorated held 
 for so long a period a leading part, and to our citizens in general so to live 
 that Canada may be the better for their citizenship, and that their own 
 names may be held in honored remembrance by those within the sphere of 
 their influence ; and be it further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be 
 forwarded to the Hon. W. E. Sanford, Chairman of the Macdonald Mem- 
 orial Committee. 
 
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