His reputation as a satiric humorist having been made by _The Clockmaker_, Haliburton became a thorough systematic creative humorist, publishing _The Letter-Bag of the Great Western_ (1840), _The Attaché_; or _Sam Slick in England_ (1843-44), _The Old Judge_; or _Life in a Colony_ (1849), _Sam Slick’s Wise Saws and Modern Instances_ (1853), _Nature and Human Nature_ (1855), and _The Season Ticket_ (1860). Besides these works in creative satire and humor, Haliburton applied himself to editing humorous works, and published _Traits of American Humor by Native Authors_ (1852), and a sequel, _The Americans at Home_ (1854). All his creative works and his compilations of humor were published on both sides of the Atlantic and ran into innumerable editions and pirated reprints, and _The Clockmaker_ and some others were translated into French and German. So that, on the face of original production, Haliburton appears as the first and foremost systematic satiric humorist of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. The core of all his works in creative humor is some problem of the larger politics—British Connection, Imperial Federation, Free Trade, the Independence of the British North American Colonies, their Annexation with the United States, Anglo-Saxon Alliance or Union, Responsible Government in the Maritime Provinces and the Canadas, Confederation of the Provinces, Voting by Ballot, Universal Suffrage. For instance, in _The Clockmaker_ (second series) he presented the desirability of British connection, but in _Nature and Human Nature_ declared for the independence of the British North American Colonies as against their annexation with the United States, because he fancied independence would be better for them and the motherland. In _The Clockmaker_ (second series) he advocated Imperial Federation in the form of a union or alliance of the Anglo-Saxon peoples for reciprocal security and economic development. But in the same work and in _The Attaché_ he opposed Responsible Government for the Colonies out of a fear of mobocracy, a fear that had been engendered in his heart by the Rebellion of 1837. An inherited prejudice against republican institutions and a dread of mobocracy caused him to oppose Confederation of the Provinces and Universal Suffrage. In every one of his works of humor or satire we find some special thesis, but chiefly satiric arguments for the union or unity of the Anglo-Saxon peoples to which he bends all his power of humor, satire, ridicule, and epigram. Hitherto Haliburton’s originality and greatness have been based on two claims. He created one of the perduring or unique comic characters of humorous literature; and he is regarded as the ‘father’ of American humor. Neither of these distinctions constitutes his real originality and greatness as a satiric humorist and man of letters. He is really great on account of his distinct and definable influences on three literatures.