hauteur of the dismissed officials there had been many qualms; the Attorney-General thought it ill became the Colonial Secretary to “sit down and answer this rigmarole trash” (Mackenzie’s hard work of seventy-two sleepless hours), “and it would much less become the Canadian House of Assembly to give it further weight by making it more public.” One, a little more sane, thought that if Mackenzie’s papers contained such an amount of falsehood and fallacy, the best way to expose such was by publication. But a large vote decided that it should not go upon the Journals, and the official organ called Lord Goderich’s despatch an elegant piece of fiddle-faddle, ... full of clever stupidity and condescending impertinence. The removal of the two Crown officers was described as “as high-handed and arbitrary stretch of power as has been enacted before the face of high heaven, in any of the four quarters of this nether world for many and many a long day.” The organ’s vocabulary displayed such combinations as “political mountebank--fools and knaves--all fools and knaves who listened to the silly complaints of the swinish multitude against the honourable and learned gentlemen connected with the administration of government.” Whenever time dragged withal in the Upper Canadian House they re-expelled Mackenzie and fulminated anew against “the united factions of Mackenzie, Goderich, and the Yankee Methodists.” Mackenzie’s friends lost no time in celebrating what was to be a short-lived triumph: “They sneered at Mackenzie and quizzed his red wig; That the man was too poor they delighted to show, Nor dreamed with such triumph the future was big, As chanting the death song of Boulton and Co. Rail on, and condemn the corps baronial, Lord Goderich and Howick despatched at a blow, Those peers who knew nothing of interests colonial, In proof read the march route of Boulton and Co.” Lord Goderich’s polite wish not to hamper any nor coerce--that these gentlemen might be “at full liberty, as members of the Legislature, to follow the dictates of their own judgment”--ended in the dictates of anger appearing in hard words in the official press. The affections of these tried Loyalists were said to have been estranged; moreover, “they were casting about in their mind’s eye for some new state of political existence” which would put them and their colony beyond “the reach of injury and insult from any and every ignoramus whom the political lottery of the day may chance to elevate to the chair of the Colonial Office.” Now Mackenzie himself could not have done better than this, nor had he yet gone even thus far. But the official in that chair was used to many hard knocks, and the individual was changed so often that the blows had no time to take effect. Nor was the incomer ever anxious to avenge the woes of his predecessor.