{[BURPEE] HOWE AND THE ANTI-CONFEDERATION LEAGUE 433 
So far, we have every reason to be satisfied with the result. The Daily News® 
has given two articles and the Star (Bright’s organ)** one to the subject and we are 
promised others from other quarters in good time. 
The Delegates here were evidently taken by surprise by this movement. We 
did not let a soul of them know what we were about and by selling no copies till 
they were sowed broadcast over the three Kingdoms and in the Provinces we have 
taken a rise out of them. 
Tupper has rushed into print % but Annand answers him in the next No. of the 
Star® and he will find he has taken nothing by that motion. 
Annand has been very active and very useful in personally visitting and discussing 
the question with leading men connected with the London Press. Even where we 
could not get them to suddenly change previously expressed opinions they have 
been modified, or the parties have promised that they would see that we were not 
unfairly expressed. 
From present appearances I should think that some if not all the Delegates are 
preparing for a homeward flight. The Canadians are not coming till January if they 
come then, and John A. McDonald expressly tells them that they should arrange 
their local Constitutions before asking for an Act of Parliament.*’. 
It is quite evident that, in coming here at all, they made an eggregious blunder. 
They do not look very happy but we keep our own Secrets and do not enquire into 
theirs. 
Though anxious to get home I cannot yet determine whether I can get away by 
next Boat or not. As soon as I am satisfied that no further good can be done here 
I will go out and see what is necessary to complete the work at home. 
They must have a Session, and if we manage right we may get the Resolution*® 
reversed. 
Annand will write and send the papers and in the meantime 
Believe me, 
Truly Yours, 
JOSEPH HOWE. 
29th 
Since writing to you Jonathan‘ has rushed into print and has got an admirable 
dressing down from the Editor of the Daily News, and John A. McDonald and his 
drunken crew have got a fearful castigation from the Editors of the Telegraph.4 
Annand will mail both papers. 
I fear it will not be possible for us to leave here by next boat, but we shall try 
hard to get away by the end of the month. 
32 Founded by Charles Dickens in 1846, and edited by him for a short time. Edited by Thomas 
Walker 1858-69. Radical in politics. 
33 Founded 1856. Radical of the Manchester School. Edited by Samuel Lucas 1856-65; and 
by Justin McCarthy 1865-68. The Evening Star ceased publication 1869, and the same year the 
Morning Star was absorbed in the Daily News. 
34 Tupper’s letter, which appeared in the Star, September 26th, is reprinted in his Recollections, 
46-50. 
#5 September 27th. 
36 As already mentioned they arrived in November. 
37 A somewhat different attitude is revealed in Macdonald’s letter to Tilley of Oct. 8, 1866. Pope, 
Memoirs, I, 305-9. 
38 See Campbell, Nova Scotia, 445. 
39 Jonathan McCully. See Note 1. 
40 Founded 1855. First editor, Thornton Leigh Hunt, son of the poet. George Augustus Sala 
joined staff 1857, and Edwin Arnold in 1861. Liberal in politics. 
