The Last Laird of MacNab: An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada
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The Last Laird of MacNab: An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada
MacNab, Archibald, 1778?-1860
Our history has now drawn to a close. We have endeavored, without
partiality or bias, to give a true record of what has taken place, and
we trust we have done so to the satisfaction of our readers. At great
pains to select documents to substantiate matters of fact, we grudge not
the labor, so that we have made this history interesting as well as
instructive--interesting as a memento of the past; instructive as
tending to impress upon our legislators caution in the opening up of new
country, and in the formation of new settlements. Now that the great
North-west is being opened up for immigration, the Government may take
warning from the past, and not entrust the power which the Chief of
McNab at one time wielded, to any single individual. Canada is too
powerful, too great, too constitutional in the genius and intelligence
of her people, ever again to permit a Family Compact to reign over
them--an oligarchy which for years governed Canada so badly that our
beloved sovereign, the great and beneficent Victoria, herself generously
interfered, and sent statesmen that uprooted this abominable autocracy
that for years had been bane to the progress of the country, and a drag
on the prosperity of Canada; yet by carelessness grievances may creep
in, but if they do, this history will at all events teach statesmen to
listen to and investigate the slightest complaint from individuals,
however humble and poor, lest the disgrace which overwhelmed the Family
Compact in their dealings with the Laird of McNab be their fate, and
their political destruction be pronounced by the fiat of public opinion
which has changed the destinies of empires, and sealed the fate of the
most powerful dynasties in the world.
[THE END.]
DR. THOMAS' ECLECTRIC OIL WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
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