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 A REVIEW 
 
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 The Riflit HonoaraUe Sir Richtrd Cartwright'i 
 
 Remiiiiicencet 
 
 BV 
 
 SIR JOSEPH POPE, K.C.M.G. 
 
 The Publishers' Association of Canada, Limited 
 
 Toronto 
 
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 140598 
 
 CoPYRioHT, Canada, 1912 
 
 BY 
 
 Sir Joseph Pope, K.C.M.G. 
 
BT. HON. SIR KICHARD CARTWRIOHT 
 
REMINISCENCES 
 
 By 
 
 Thb Right Honoubablb Sir Richard Cartwrioht, 
 G.C.M.G., P.O. 
 
 Thib book is not aptly named. By Reminiscences of a public 
 man, is commonly understood a chatty narration of past events 
 —a recital of what happened during a stated period, and of the 
 narrator's share therein. The volume under consideration is 
 rather an Apologia,— a justification of Sir Richard Cartwright's 
 public career, accompanied by a denunciation of nil who presumed 
 to differ from him. Much of it suggests the decrees of a Pontiff 
 defining things to be believed under pain of censure, and this im- 
 pression is heightened by the catechetical form in which the 
 credenda are proclaimed. 
 
 This style, however, though at times irritating, is not without 
 its compensations. It is always refreshing to find a man who is 
 not afraid to give clear-cut expression of his views upon men and 
 things, and the pleasure is enhanced when, as in the present case, 
 these views are presented in the terse and vigorous Saxon which 
 Sir Richard knew so well how to employ. There never is any 
 doubt as to his meaning— no small advantage in this age of quali- 
 fications and refinements. He has sketched lightly, with a bold, 
 if careless, hand, the broad outlines of Canadian history between 
 the years 1863 and 1896. The state of the country when he en- 
 tered ParUament— the fierce struggles between political parties 
 
* A REVIEW 
 
 ^Ck>nfeaeration— the acquisitiou of the North We>t— the Riel 
 ujmmngt-the Canadian Pacific RaUway— the National Policy; 
 and— with the exception of one commanding figure— the public 
 men of those days are aU depicted with reasonable fidelity, and 
 in a style which, for clearness bad finish, if not for accuracy, it 
 would be hard to excel. The exception is, of course, Sir John 
 Macdonald— the villain of the piece— who is treated throughout 
 with a malignan t unfairness unworthy of a gentleman possessing 
 the character and attainments of Sir Richard Cartwright. Sir 
 John's motives are misrepresented— his very few mistakes magni- 
 fied and distorted— his fewer failings grossly exaggerated— and, 
 only towards the end of the book, after the victim has been tried, 
 condemned and executed, is there a pretence of fair play. 
 
 To begin at the beginning. Sir Richard Cartwright speaks of 
 the "Double Shuffle" as a piece of "sharp practice" (p. 10), 
 "gross unfairness" (p. 11), "notorious" (p. 302), and so on. He 
 does not tell us that, though not in Parliament at the time, he was 
 Sir John's follower then and for long afterwards, nor that that 
 tower of virtue, Mr. Gladstone, thirteen years later, did very 
 much the same thing as that for which Sir John is here so severely 
 censured. The gravamen of Sir John's offence in the affair of the 
 "Double ShuflBe " was generally held to consist in swearing to 
 perform the duties of an office which he had accepted to get 
 round a technicality, and which he knew he was not going to 
 hold for any length of time. Mr. Gladstone apparently did not 
 share the "very unfavourable impression" which Sir Richard 
 says (p. 11) Sir John's action produced, for, in 1871, in order to 
 qualify Sir Robert CoUier, his Attorney-General, for a seat on the 
 Judicial Commi+tee of the Privy Council (appointments to which 
 were restricted to those who had previously held Judicial office), 
 he nominated him a justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 
 which Sir Robert took his seat, forthwith resigned, and went on 
 the Judicial Committee. 
 
 To take another charge— that of "making a corrupt bargain 
 
REMINISCENCES g 
 
 with Sir Hugh Allan for the sale of the Canadian Pacific Charter" 
 (p. 303)— Sir Richard assumes Sir John's guilt throughout. 
 The culprit was caught "red-handed" (p. 111). There are no 
 extenuating circumstances. Yet Sir Richard had before him when 
 he wrote, Sir John's solemn declaration to Lord Dufferin: 
 
 "To sum up this matter shortly. I would repeat that Sir 
 Hugh Allan was informed, before he subscribed a farthing, that 
 his railway company would not get the privilege of building the 
 railway. He was informed that that work would only be entrusted 
 to an amalgamated company, under the terms of the Act passed 
 by Parliament; that each amalgamation would be effected on 
 terms fair to the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as agreed 
 upon between the representatives of the two rival companies; 
 and that such amalgamation would only take place after the elec- 
 tions."* 
 
 A fair-minded man would surely have referred to this. To 
 show that in dealing with this incident in Sir John's career, Sir 
 Richard was dominated by his personal feelmgs, it is only necewary 
 to allude to his attitude towards Sir Georges Cartier in regard 
 to this subject. The story of the C. P. R. "scandal," or "slander," 
 as it is variou% styled, is a long one, and cannot be gone into, here, 
 but I may just observe that, putting things at their worst. Sir 
 Georges Cartipr was at least equally "implicated" with Sir John. 
 It was Cartier, not Sir John, who primarily and principally 
 carried on the "negotiations" with Sir Hugh Allan. Yet, in 
 telling the story. Sir Richard does not, I think, even once mention 
 Cartier's name, and certainly nowhere visits him with any of that 
 censure which he so liberally pours out upon Macdonald. 
 
 The foregoing is perhaps nothing more than ungenerous, but 
 there is worse behind. When, after accepting office in 1873, 
 Sir Richard sought re-election in Lennox, he sent Sir John a 
 challenge to be present at the nomination, offering, at the same 
 time, to pay his travelling expenses to Napanee and return to 
 
 ♦ Pope'i " Memoira of Sir John Maedonald," (Vol. 2. p. 189). 
 
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 Utitr from Bank Managtr oeeompanying the famoiu duque. 
 
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 A REVIEW 
 
 Ottawa. Of this incident Sir Richard says in his book (p. 136), 
 "Sir John accepted the challenge and the chfque, and we met 
 accordingly." The plain inference here is that Sir John accepted 
 from Sir Richard the money which the cheque represents, but such 
 is not the case. 
 
 Shortly after his return to Ottawa, Sir John received this 
 letter: 
 
 "Napanee, Nov. 26, 73. 
 "To Sir John A. Macdonald, 
 
 " Dear Sir John. — I am desired by Mr. Cartwright to enclose 
 you cheque for $40 in fulfilment of his promise to pay your ex- 
 penses here and back. Should this sum be insufficient, have the 
 kindness to advise me. 
 
 " Your obedient servant, 
 
 "H. L. GEDDES." 
 
 This, in the circumstances, was an insult, and no doubt was 
 intended as such. Sir John no more accepted the cheque than 
 Henry V. accepted the D/iuphin's gift of tennis balls, and equally 
 resented the " bitter mock." He put the letter and enclosure in 
 an envelope; endorsed it, "Lennox Election, 1873, cheque $40 
 from R. J. Cartwright," and placed it with his correspondence, 
 where it remains to this day. It is difficult to understand how Sir 
 Richard could have forgotten that the cheque was never cashed, 
 the more so in that shortly after Sir John's death, the Bank was 
 applied to, to refimd the money "to the owner." 
 
 With all deference to Sir Richard Cartwright, — and I confess 
 to a certain regard for him, — ^he would surely have done well, 
 before publishing grave charges against an opponent long since 
 dead, to have gone to the trouble of verifying his statements. 
 Instead of this, he has been content to rely upon his own recol- 
 lections, with disastrous results to his reputation as an historian. 
 
 Everyone knows how treacherous is memory after the lapse of 
 years — how little to be trusted. Yet Sir Richard never seems to 
 
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 A REVIEW 
 
 haye token the trouble to Mcertain whether or not the picture 
 in hie mind of » oertein oecurrenoe was true or otherwiie. He 
 Apparently ooneidered that the fact of hie having made a charge, 
 INreeluded all further c(mtroverey. Paasing over his ihameful 
 accusation of misconduct <m the part of Sir John towards H.R.H. 
 the Princess Louise, which the Duke of Argyll has fittingly dis- 
 posed of by a single word, I select a few instances, some of them of 
 little intrinsic importance, to illustrate how completely Sir Rich- 
 ard ignored the cardinal maxim, "always verify your quotations." 
 
 It is related of General Ben Butler that when he occupied 
 New Orieans in the course of the Civil War, he issued an order 
 forbidding all citisens to have weapons in their possesnon. A 
 young man, who was brought befpre the General charged with 
 having a sword in his house, pleaded that it was not regarded by 
 him as we^Mn of offence, or defence, but was preserved as an 
 heirloom, having belonged to his father. "When did your father 
 die, sirT" demanded the general. "In 1858," replied the young 
 man. "Then he must have worn this sword in hell, sir," replied 
 Butler, "for it was made in 1859." 
 
 Sir Richard, if he ever heard this story, signally failed to 
 Iffofit by it. 
 
 What, for example, can be more glaring than his stotement 
 that certain of Sir John's partisa: 3 in the press, and out of it, had 
 the supreme impudence to allege that "the sending out a Governor 
 closely connected by marriage with the Royal family . . . was 
 done by way of special compliment to Sir John." (p. 211.) 
 
 Look at the dates. The Mackeniie Government was defeated 
 at the polls on the 17th September, 1878. Sir John took <^ce 
 on the 18th October, 1878. The appointment of Lord Lome as 
 Governor-General of Canada was announced in the TimM of 
 the 29th July, 1878, and in the press of Canada on the following 
 day— nearly three week*; before the old Parliament was dissolved, 
 when Sir Richard Cartwright was firmly entrenched in office and 
 8ir*John was leading a forlorn oppontion. 
 
REMINISCENCBB 
 
 11 
 
 Sir Richard Mems to Iwve had Sir John on the brain to such an 
 extent that he ecnnetimes imagined occurrences which it can be 
 demonrtrated had no existence in fact. Thus, he writes with 
 reference to Mr. Blake's great speech on Kiel's execution: 
 
 "It was, in short a speech which no man in the House except 
 Mr. Blake could have made and which on such an occasion no 
 man but Mr. Blake would ever have made. The effect produced 
 on his audience may be best judged from one simple fact. I 
 was sitting directly opposite to Sir John aU through the harangue, 
 and I had noticed at the outset that he was pfaunly nervous. As 
 Mr. Blake proceeded I observed that Sir John grew more and more 
 •t ease, and at last I saw him turn round to one of his colleagues 
 seemingly much amused. Mr. BUke had then been speaking 
 about two hours, and the Chamber was very crowded and the 
 atmosphere very close. Glancing round I saw that our friends 
 were all, as in duty bound, in solid phalanx in their pUces, but 
 also, alas, that the majority of them were fast asleep. Knowing 
 that if this circumstance came to Mr. Blake's notice he was quite 
 capable of flinging down his manuscript and leaving the House, 
 I succeeded in passing a note to one of our whips begging hun 
 to wake up the delinquents with all speed, but you may imagine 
 how seven hours of such a disquisition was Ukely to affect the or- 
 dinary hearer. As it was, after Mr. Girouard had repUed in an 
 diort of eight hours' duration, principaUy composed of traversing 
 Mr. Blake's speech paragraph by paragraph, the whole life had 
 gone out of the debate, and no power on earth could revive it." 
 (pp. 265-6). 
 
 Hansard shows that Mr. Blake deUvered this speech on Fri- 
 day the 19th March, 1886. Will it be beUeved that Sir John was 
 not m the House of Commons on that day? For some UttU 
 time before, he had been confined to his house by iUness. A 
 reference to my shorthand note books shows that on the day of 
 Mr. Blake's speech he wrote thus to his friend John Mclntyre. 
 Esq., K.C., of Kingston: 
 
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 A REVIEW 
 
 "Ottawa, 19th March, 1886. 
 
 "My dear Mclntyre 
 
 " I have yours of the 18th. I am still a little under the weather 
 but hope to be able to .esume my place in the House next Monday, 
 etc. 
 
 "In haste 
 
 " Yours sincerely 
 
 "John A. Macdonald." 
 
 Sir Richard probably had in mind a similar story of Pitt's 
 demeanour on the occasion of Erskine's attack upon him, and in 
 some extraordinary fashion associated it with Sir John and Mr. 
 Blake. Moreover, Mr. Girouard did not reply to Mr. Blake. 
 Mr. Girouard did not speak until the 24th March, and then he 
 did not reply to Mr. Blake nor traverse the latter's speech, for he 
 supported Mr. Blake's view and voted with him. It was Sir 
 John Thompson who replied to Mr. Blake. 
 
 Again: Sir Richard says that Sir John was so disturbed by 
 Riel's first rebellion and its consequences, that "in and evil hour," 
 "and for no I ,tter reason than to drow a red herring across the 
 trail" (p. IS), "he bethought himself of incorporating British 
 Columbia" into the Union. Once more look at the dates. The 
 Red River trouble began in December, 1869, and cuhninated in 
 March, 1870, with the murder of Scott. Now, in my Memoirs of 
 Sir John Macdonald (Vol. 2, pp. 143-4) there is a letter from Sir 
 John to the Governor-General, dated the 25th May, 1869, or 
 nearly a year before the Scott murder, which shows that Sir 
 John was then, and had been for some time previously, actively 
 engaged in negotiating for the entrance of British Columbia into 
 the Union. Manifestly his actions in May, 1869, could not have 
 been influenced by what happened nearly a year later. 
 
 Of what value are "Reminiscences" such as these? 
 
 Sir Richard says (p. 41) that in the Parliament of 1863-7, Sir 
 John was completely overshadowed by George Brown, who in 
 
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 A fetter /rowi il/r. George Brown to Sir John A., ahovnng very ^ 
 plainly who "dominated" the sittiation. 
 
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 «»«a WM the l6Mier and Brown th« follower? 
 
 " (Private and Confidential 
 "Dear Macdonald. "Quebec, Monday, 
 
 tml! ^rlT^'^T^Z!^ '"»^''"' °»^«°" yo« »-ve juat 
 
 ^u ^r\'^ ''' "y P^y -uPPorting the Re«>lution. I 
 ^it p^icularly offendve. Of couree. I only caU JoHt 
 
 T^^t I /kT "»'r'-»«'y '- • portion that com^ 1 
 ■wallow them without letting you know that I see them. 
 
 "Yours truly, 
 
 "Gio. Bbown." 
 
 'JWfn.t.on He undoubtedly pUyed a patriotic part in uniti^ 
 Mr B»w^"? T- ' "^ '^''^ 8^ RichariXt. ZtZ 
 JlvehZ^' ^*!:!?^ '^■°" ^ '^' Confederation migj^ 
 have been long deferred. But, although a man of abilitv CwL 
 
 IrtSii, fl- ,1^ ^ '*"^' *'°''''^^' *° «y *»»»* during W« assocU- 
 
 IrtiTcl^ Lf" ""^"^"^ '^ P**^^ ''^ (albeitTuttletSSTy 
 at tm,^) and does not deserve, any more than Sir John, the fuU 
 
 Whcation of Ooldwin Smith's cynical observation, iT he 
 aUumce between Brown and Macdonald "was as brief and oer! 
 fidious as a harlot's love." ^ 
 
 party m 1864, and that a movement was set on foot to displace 
 there was no alternative but to send for Sir John" (p. 36). 
 
REMINI8C&NCEB |f 
 
 The SMB* thing ta iiad to h.ve luipiMBed In lies, ody 00 thirt 
 ^tho lupplMittf WM Mr. Cartter, b«t Or John wm •«* 
 » cmfty intriguer," that the movement agftin orumbled and ooet 
 ■ore he aamuied his triumphant eway. Thue, though "olt 
 doomed to death, the millc white hind was fated not to die " 
 Sir John, for a "dissipated," "unpopular" and "diseredited" 
 politician, seems to have had a remarluble run of luok in tboae 
 dayst 
 
 And, for all this, Sir Richard does not adduce a ^Uable of 
 proof, beyond his mere word! That there was a slight misundsr- 
 standing between Sir John and Sir Alexander CampbeU in 1M4 
 IS true, and something of the kind at which Sir Richard hints did 
 occur. It is also true that Sir John and Sir Alexander were not 
 kmdred spirits, but any want of cordiality between them was on 
 personal grounds, and politieaUy they were alwiQrs (save periume 
 for the brief interval of 1864, to which I have referred) cloeely 
 united. As regards Sir Georges CarUer, there is no trace of any 
 jenous disagreement prior to 1868, and that Uttle misunderstand- 
 ing (which arose out of circumstances over which Sir John had no 
 control) was soon cleared up. Sir John at aU times fuUy recognis- 
 ed and appredated Cartier's worth. Often I have heard him say 
 ttat but for Cartier Confederation could not have been carried. 
 He was, moreover, genuinely attached to his French<Janadian 
 ooUwgue. On the occasion of the unveiling of Cartier's monument 
 at Ottawa on the 29th January, 1886, he declared with mueh 
 feeling, 'I loved 'him when he was Uving-I regretted and wept 
 for hun when he died." 
 
 Sir Richard repeats once mora, what he has said so often that 
 no doubt he came to beUeve it, that Sir John was not originally 
 iftiavou of Confederation. This, in face of the fact thatSto 
 John was a leading member of a Government that, so far baek 
 as 1859, caused these words to be inserted in the Queen's 
 speech: 
 
 "The possibiUty of uniting, by some tie of a federal character 
 
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 A REVIEW 
 
 the British ColoniM in North America, hM formed the lubject of 
 correepondence, which will be pUced in your hands/'* 
 
 That in the mom year thia Government, he being etiU a mem- 
 ber thereof, despatched a mission to England to ascertain the views 
 of Her Majesty's Government on the subject of a Union of the 
 British North American Provinces: 
 
 That from his place in Parliament on the 19th April, 1861, he 
 declared that "the only feasible scheme which presento itself to 
 my mind as a remedy for the eviU complained of is a Confederation 
 of all the Provinces," and much more to the same effect. 
 
 Sir Richard asserts that Sir John was not a Protectionist unUl 
 after 1873, though he could not possibly avoid having known that 
 so long before as 1846, Sir John advocated protection to native 
 mdustries; that in 1850 he belonged to an association one of whose 
 chief aims was to promote a "commercial national policy." In 
 1868 he was a member of an administration whose Inspector. 
 General of Finance announced protection to native industries as 
 the policy of the Government. In the General Election of 1861, 
 he, at various times and places, explained and defended this poUoy! 
 tartly on the eve of the general election of 1872, seven years be. 
 fore the introduction of the National Policy, Sir John wrote: 
 
 "At the hustings in Western Canada and in all the constituen- 
 cies, except Toronto, the battle will be between free trade and a 
 national policy. The farmers are indignant at the Opposition 
 having taken the duty off American cereals last session, and they 
 all say, and say truly, that if I had been there instead of at Wash- 
 ington, it would not have occurred. It is really astonishing, 
 the feeling that has grown up in the west in favour of encouraging 
 home manufactures." 
 
 It will be observed that these views of Sir John Macdonald, 
 expressed in 1846, 1850, 1868, 1861 and 1872, are in close agree- 
 ment with the position taken by him in regard to protection to 
 native industries between 1873 and his death in 1891, and when 
 
 • Journato of tb« LafMativc AMmbljr ot CumU, 1S«» (|m«« 10). 
 
REMINISCENCES 
 
 17 
 
 h e«i be shown that the opinkm held by » nuw at thirty-one, wm 
 hie opinion at thirty-flve, at forty-three, at forty^ix, at fifty-aeven, 
 at eixty-four and at wventy-six, it is, I thinli, not unreascmable 
 to assume that he maintained it unchuiced through life. 
 
 Nor is this carelessness confined to those portiems of the " Rem- 
 iniscences " which treat of Sir John Macdonald. Other evidences 
 of haste abound. For instance, Sir Richard says (p. 142) that the 
 late M. C. Cameron, "afterwards Chief Justice," voted against 
 Riel's expulsion from the House of Commons in 1874. Now Mr* 
 Cameron did nothing of the Icind, for the very good reason, among 
 others, that he was not a member of the House of Commons at 
 the time, and, indeed, never sat in the Parliament of the Domin- 
 ion. Sir Richard had only to turn up journals of the House of 
 Commons for the 16th April, 1874, to see that the Cameron who 
 voted against the expulsion of Riel was Malcolm Cameron, 
 commonly known under the sobriquet of "the Coon"— a very 
 different person from the late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. 
 
 Sir Etienne Tachi is alluded to as Sir Eliear Tach« (p. 361), 
 —nay, the very dedication of the book contains an *'rror, TLe 
 celebrated saying, DiUxi ju^itiam e< oditfi iniquitaktn: proptena 
 morior in exilio, {■ universally ascribed, not to Dante, but 
 to Pope Gregory VII— the famous Hildebrand. But enough of 
 this. 
 
 "Cartwright," onct observed Sir John, "never had any ade- 
 quate reason for his hatred of me. His attitude is quite inex- 
 plicable." 
 
 The private correspondence which passed between the two 
 quite bears out this view, and while it does not agree with Sir 
 Richard's statement that he entered public life as an "indepe&> 
 dent Conservative," neither does it disclose any particular grounds 
 of animosity. The occasion of the rupture between the two men * 
 io to be found in Sir John taking Sir Francis Hincks into his 
 cabinet in 1869. Sir Richard objected to this step in a manly. 
 
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 •w the veiy ones urged ^ffir^^^ '''»«h curioualy enough 
 
 ftt«,whichwilIbefoandr;vT«J r^' "^P'^' ««» extract 
 Vol. 2, Appendix «. (pn ^^4^r7 ""^ *•" '^'^'^ Af««fo„a«, 
 
 1869, and thi.i,fou"we?L!^- ? '^^^ **>« "«» November 
 he says: ^"'^ ^^ * '^''^"'der from Sir Richard, in whi^ 
 
 ^^^-HrmTnotTSed't^r''' ''' '"^^ ^«««' 
 f'»««l'. "lamwron^tt'tTth'T":"^."*^'^*' 
 toon will do you ^tle w4 lITril ♦ r'^"' ""^ °PP«^- 
 ter it should come from a quarterlS^^ '* '"^ ^'^^^^^ ^ ^^ 
 Yet within a short p^T^^^^l ^ y°"««'' P^^Y- " 
 ^ Sir John in terms Suwl!'' '^''^^ ^^^^''^'^ <*«»<>"«- 
 which he mamtained until th^r ^T"^ '^~'^' "> *«itude 
 
 Those who knew sTjo^ M^ h« death-and after, 
 -uiprised to learn ^1 he t^rl"^" " *'^ '"'' -" -* ^ 
 'eeli^rs which Sir Richard cJ^T^ "^'Procated the bitter 
 While naturally he oomn^T^^^^^^ "^^^ ^• 
 w«m regard for one who Z.Vi T^ *° '^^^'^ '^y veiy 
 bim. Sir John was IlZ. ^Vf 'VPP°'^"^ty of rerilbg 
 •ood points, and ioZToy^ l:^"""^ ^ir Richa^ 
 i<«o^crasy foreign to ll Zl^^'J'"^ '^<^^y to « 
 euAtome. Discussing onTLTr "^ "'«**°«« <>' this oo- 
 Committee of En^ teJ^l^ composition of a House 
 Wchard was thereTl; tidT^ .'" .'**''"'^*''>» ''"^t Sir 
 implying that he wodd no?.^ t L^T"^* " » »»»tleman/' 
 -Jeninl884ErastusCa^^^;^-y^,^^^^^^^ Again. 
 Jjtee of a dark plot bdnTutcIS J^ ^u ?** **' ^ '^°''- 
 Manitoba from the BritiS CwTk ' °*'''^ °' <*«taching 
 
 Mr. Blake and Sir mZ^I^^ t^ ""^ ''^'^'' "»d S 
 John replied: Cartwnght were privy thereto, Sir 
 
REMINISCENCES 
 
 19 
 
 ftr Richard Cartwright. The latter haTe:™^ 
 
 tte future independence of Canada h^t^T^ i^"' ^ 
 
 ^ would countenance for T^^^^X^^t 
 
 -i^erer ht^rAl^Ta " "^^ ^^ 
 •Wending Crtwrijht." Ind^ «i, *"'"•'»" «»• for m., 
 
 be Mid to „,e „„ d.„ "i. „ ™'2, ^ '"'"^- *" •«" So." 
 no naentmente." ■ """l Ham, ". public nun dionld lav. 
 
 «-' Ub°S £ Metd" Sr'Jr.:'*^^' ""' '» -- 
 
 '»b|.. -ho .«d unghiog,, j:^"'o,tr::^,:j^r.r «- 
 
 S" John'. oolleZ.^ t^ to .p«k. Of hi, eetinute rt 
 fcom Si, John hSf th^ J^i " ""^ " «™'<'" " «!>« 
 to- Tl-.roubl.l'S'S^'^Jj'^^-'^-o-p.ion., 
 ■Monty „ Mr. Did, iZ^ JX^K^*"™'^ ""* "^o 
 Chnrle, the First', he^T^J"^ "'" "^«-W >>^ birtoiy. 
 ••B«|ini«ence.." ^r^1::T^S,'°, '", " ", "- 
 «ucb length, doe, he carry thi, tw r^ Z " ""'• ^o 
 "d GiUt Me ril n,«le to nu^' ?"^' '^P'^'' B"™ 
 
 «»" they ~>t„.lly M:,'°.''iTT^' .7" '°"»^« «"- 
 eminence. " '" *'«" 'fom Sir John', pre- 
 
 my o™ Bmlted knowledge JT^ » «» "-^ •« Hree- with 
 Mr. M„tode, though defei«.tinm.ny,„^iM„^.,^^ 
 
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 was an upright, prudent and capable Miniiit..r «n*f « * _ 
 
 Ontario man. '«>m lirst to last lie was an 
 
 who. .peecbe. could be printed « .bey m^Zl^C 
 
 „ ™ U '^"Tf "'W^" =^<1 of bim, Sir Ricb«l X-8.,. 
 
 tie was also, I understand, a chivalrous opponent, who alwavs 
 played the game." Though fierce in dec Wion, he ^Idom 
 
 ; h^e h^n^rTH.*^ ^*«^- ^'' ^^ soclafreir^ 
 1 nave heard him breathmg out threatenings and slaughter'' 
 towards men who might be so unfortunate as'l displealf ht. 
 
REMINISCENCES 
 
 91 
 
 h^aJT *" '^"^ * ''^ "^ ' "'" ^^"^ ** '^'^ 
 
 befJrTtTt f** *"*!?" quit^"m"^ni«t^t with what h« gone 
 cS^tS tTT^"^"""*^"**- I «Peak of Sir Richard 
 
 I caimot bPJp tiunking that his friends have done his memory 
 scant just.ce u. aUowing the pubUcation of this volume, ^c7 
 
 c^K??; "^' °' ''^ '-'^ °f ill-considered juCent 
 c^ot but derogate from the reputation of a dis i^he^' 
 
 
APPENDEC 
 
 Fhom The Toronto Globe, 2kd D.c«,beb, 1912. 
 
 ft«NC«88 L0,;«B XND SiH JOHN MxCDONAU, 
 
 To the Editor of TAeGfofca- Wi*K w 
 Sir Richard CartwriRM W.n*7 [^ T""*^ *° ***« ^^^^'^^t «« 
 i-ceucefi/'tothTeSthlfTr r?,'''"*'"' ^«'""« ^^ "Remin- 
 
 was«uiiWo.::;::r:r^tr.^^^^^^ 
 
 I have to request that you would hi r^^ ^""^ ^"^- 
 to the following letters wWro^,^*'^ " *^ '^^^ P"*'""*^ 
 and Sir John. togetheT ^th th •t*''*'" ^*'" ^^^^ »8hp «s 
 
 lication. ^ ""*'' *^" "^"^^ *»thority for their pub- 
 
 uporuryt::dll^V:rS»f:- - ^ senes of attac.« 
 journals of a Wghly sen^fo^,?'^ ?* f ''"^ ^"^"^^ States 
 Minister's wife C mX ie^.f^' k*° *'" ^'"^^ *^* ^'^^ P^me 
 « to compel hrCr H Sr ^'^'"'"^'^ ^ '^^ ^"-e- 
 whither she had gone for hlTTSthl "'"^ " ^^™"^'*' 
 
 Government House, Ottawa, November 28. 1912 
 Coifd^t^--«:,^^' ^^^^^ the Du.e of 
 H.R.H. the Princess iTuirf^i^tr ! ^' ^"^ ''''^"^ ^«>°» 
 certain letters which p^ Mw!^! h"'**'"" '''' ^^^ *° Publish 
 late Sir John MacdoiST^tt ^^ 1^"^"*' ^'I^'^ '"^ *»«« 
 
 you have shown to His Ro^fHiJSL'T, "''*'' '^**^" 
 Bincerely, ' «igxmess. Beheve me, yours 
 
 ^•^•^^«=H.Lieut.<Jol., Military Secretary. 
 Sir Joseph Pope, K.C.M.G., etc. 
 
atn TOHX A. MACDON-AI.D 
 
 From a kUherlo unpMi>h,d phntoaraph taken in „U 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 
 H. M. S. Dido, January 26, 1883. 
 Dear Sir John,— I have been wanting to write to you ever since 
 I Mw those ill-natured articles in the papers against Lady Mac- 
 donald and myself, but his ExceUency thought as they were such 
 preposterous inventions that I should leave it alone. Now that 
 you have written to Col. de Winton, I cannot help sending you a 
 few lines, having received so much kindness from you and Lady 
 Macdonald ever since I first came to Canada, and I have learned 
 to look upon you both as friends that I made out there. It is 
 therefore, most annoying to me that such stories should have been 
 cjrcuUted. To invent that I have had a misunderstanding with 
 your wife vexes me beyond measure. 
 
 You must know in how many ways I admire Lady Macdonald 
 and thmk her a worthy example to every wife. I hope your health 
 w qmte restored. Believe me, with kind remembrances to Lady 
 Macdonald, yours very mnoerely. Louibb. 
 
 Stadacona Hall, Ottawa, February 20, 1883. 
 
 Madam,-! am honoured by the receipt of your gracious note 
 and can assure your Royal Highness that I gratefuUy appreciate 
 Its kind condescension. 
 
 Your high position, while it does not altogether shield you from 
 the base attacks of a degraded press, renders them powerless for 
 harm and your Royal Highness can afford to treat them with the 
 contempt they deserve. 
 
 It is otherwise with Lady Macdonald, who has already proofs 
 that these calumnies have been widely disseminated and that some 
 people have been willing to beUeve them simply because she hap- 
 pens to be my wife. 
 
 Lady Macdonald feels especially aggrieved at the imputation 
 CMt upon her of having faUed in respect and duty towards your 
 Royal Highness, from whom she has recefved such unvarying 
 kmdness. Both she and I are, however, more than compensated 
 for the annoyance by the gracious letter sent us by Col. de Winton 
 
** APPENDIX 
 
 your Roy.1 Highne*' grateful and ob«ilent «,rvw,t. ^^' 
 
 JOHM A. MACIXnrALD. 
 
 .ub^uL'TjT' °' '" ^'^'^ ^^«- '^^ '^t*-*^ -t a period 
 ■uoMquent to the occasion indicAtMi K« as. »• u j « i«'"wa 
 
 T. i« ,»* : .7. ^™* " admmirtration in Can^dA 
 
 u«i BTOBuy inniited her terms such u thna« »k:»k u » 
 
 •^ "Hwd-. regard Md frt^dAlp .«, oo^Wy «rfZZP 
 my r«p™»wr Your „b«U«., «„,„,. J^^^ 
 
 Ottawa, Novnnber 29, 1912. 
 
 •*»»' put on her by ZZT"'" '™ """• "" •^='' "** 
 To which His Grace replied: 
 
 Kensington Palace, Thursday 
 Rubbish, 
 
 ASOTLL. 
 
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