Let us no longer listen to the voice of blinding passion, but act in public and private affairs as thinking and reasoning human beings, vindicating our own views as best we can, and making all charitable allowances for others. Let us have honorable ambition; yes! but let us be moderate and modest in our pretensions.
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Letter from His Grace the Archbishop of Halifax, to Henry J. Clarke, Esq., Q.C., on the claims of T. D'Arcy McGee, Esq., (M.P. for Montreal West), to the confidence and support of the Irish and their descendants in the Dominion of Canada (1876)