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by next Boat some of the Delegates will go home. When our papers have gone in 
our labors will have closed so far as concerns the Cabinets deliberations, and it is 
not probable that we shall all be required here to watch those of Parliament out of 
which it is impossible to foresee what may come within the next three months. 
One thing we know that, while keeping fair with Carnarvon the Delegates are praying 
for the downfall of the present Government. This leads us to suspect that all has 
not gone so smoothly as they wished. However, we are prepared for the worst, and 
if it comes, the consciousness that we have done our best to avoid it will always con- 
sole us. 
You will see that a gentleman named Ludlow"! has taken up the “Organization” 
policy with great spirit, in the London Spectator. That an able writer, in the Im- 
perial Review, endorses the policy in two elaborate articles, while even the Saturday 
Review has become a Convert, as you will see by its article of today in which will!” 
professing to explain the proceedings of the Conference it admits that ‘‘Organiza- 
tion” must follow Confederation. Having thus roused the shrewd thinkers of 
England to the consideration of a great National subject of course I am not much 
disturbed by Archibald’s and Tupper’s passionate attempts to mystify and mislead 
the people of Nova Scotia."* It will be time enough to answer their letters when we 
get back before our own countrymen who will, in the meantime, remember that by 
my plan no duty would be imposed, and not a shilling would be taken except under laws 
which had been voluntarily passed by our own Parliaments with the assent of our electors. 
I do not propose to tax any body or march any body, by an arbitrary Imperial Statute 
which Nova Scotians have never! seen or never approved. As to the Company I 
keep it is quite as good as that in which Mr. Archibald has been found for some 
time. I shall give him a Bill of particulars some fine day, and, in the meantime am 
content to leave him in the hands of Judge Marshall"® and my old friend Morrison," 
whose letters I have read with infinite pleasure. 
Annand, McDonald, Garvie send kind regards to all hands. As for myself 
I feel like a soldier singing with natural longings for home, ‘‘when will this cruel war 
be over” and yet not able to leave his post. 
God bless you all, and believe me 
Sincerely Yours, 
JOSEPH HOWE. 
Lloyds Weekly, which has an enormous circulation had a Capital Article on 
our side a fortnight ago. We did not discover it till after the mail had gone. Tupper, 
like a fool replied to this article under his own signature to which McDonald replied 
in a long letter under his own name. The Editor using Mac’s letter as a base has 
replied to Tupper in an Editorial a column long in today’s paper. Annand will 
send you the papers with Spectators and Imperial Reviews. 

111 John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, born 1821, an English writer of the period on economical and his- j 
torical questions. Edited The Reader, 1863. Contributed to the Spectator and other London reviews. 
112 Should read ‘‘while.’’ 
113 See Bibliography Nos. 64 and 60. 
14 This characteristic fling at the forthcoming British North America Act is hardly borne out by 
the facts. Five eminent Nova Scotians, duly appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of the province, 
on the formal request of the House of Assembly, took an active part in the preparation of the Bill, and 
discussed every amendment. A Bill drafted by the delegates of the four provinces, and accepted by 
the British Parliament to meet the wishes of these representatives of the Colonial Legislatures, can 
hardly with justice be described as ‘tan arbitrary Imperial statute.” 
15 Howe was evidently smarting under certain personal comments in Archibald’s article. 
16 See Bibliography No. 66 also No. 78. 
117 See Bibliography No. 77. 
