 It should be no more a bar to a man's promotion, as it is now, that he lived beyond the seas, than living the other side of the channel. It should be our navy, our army, our nation. That's a great word, but the English keep it to themselves, and colonists...  Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute - Page 16by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1853 - 350 pages
...bar to a man's promotion as it is now that he lived beyond seas, than livin' the other side of the channel : it should be our navy, our army, our nation....themselves, and colonists have no nationality: they are like our free niggers ; they are emancipated, but they hante the same social position as the whites.... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1875 - 1029 pages
...to prepare him for another and a happier world.' His father, Judge Haliburton, many years before ha! written : — ' The organisation is wrong ; they are...in his place in the British House of Commons, but iu vain; he had no following, and was not a ]>ower that any minister had need to propitiate. If, indeed,... | |
 | Frederick Young - 1876 - 226 pages
...to a man's promotion, as it is now, that he lived beyond the seas, than living the other side of the Channel. It should be our navy, our army, our nation....nationality. They have no place, no station, no rank . . . They are a mixed race : they have no blood. They are like our free niggers : they are emancipated,... | |
 | Great Britain, Sir Frederick Young - 1876 - 228 pages
...the Channel. It should be our navv, our army, our nation. That's a great word, but the English ke«p it to themselves, and colonists have no nationality. They have no place, no station, no rank . . . They are a mixed race : they have no blood. They are like our free niggers : they are emancipated,... | |
 | University of King's College (Halifax, N.S.). Haliburton - 1897 - 144 pages
...a man's promotion, as it is now, that he lived beyond the sea, than being on the other side of the channel. It should be our navy, our army, our nation....nationality. They have no place, no station, no rank. Honors don't reach them ; coronations are blank days to them ; no brevets go across the water except... | |
 | Victor Lovitt Oakes Chittick - 1924 - 730 pages
...bar to a man's promotion as it is now that he lived beyond seas, than livin' the other side of the channel: it should be our navy, our army, our nation....themselves, and colonists have no nationality: they are like our free niggers; they are emancipated, but they hante the same social position as the whites.... | |
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