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Title: The Tribune of Nova Scotia
A Chronicle of Joseph Howe

Author: W. L. (William Lawson) Grant

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_Chronicles of Canada_
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes

26

THE TRIBUNE OF NOVA SCOTIA

by

WILLIAM LAWSON GRANT

Part VII
The Struggle for Political Freedom

[Frontispiece: THE TRIBUNE OF NOVA SCOTIA--AFTER A SPEECH IN MASON
HALL. From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys]

THE TRIBUNE OF NOVA SCOTIA

A Chronicle of Joseph Howe

by

WILLIAM LAWSON GRANT

Toronto
Glasgow, Brook & Company
1915

Copyright in all Countries subscribing to the Berne Convention

{vii}

PREFACE

In May-August 1875 my father, the Rev. G. M. Grant, published in the
_Canadian Monthly_ four articles on Joseph Howe, which give, in my
opinion, the best account ever likely to be written of Howe's
character, motives, and influence. Twenty-five years later he had
begun to write for the 'Makers of Canada' a life of Howe, but his death
left this task to Mr Justice Longley. In this he had thought to
incorporate much of his earlier articles, and his copies of them remain
in my hands, with