Note 383 — INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO CHAPTER VIII

Mr. (afterwards Rt. Hon.) John Arthur Roebuck. A Liberal “free lance,” who earned the sobriquet of “Tear-’em.” Lord John Russell had brought in a Bill for suspending the Constitution of Canada, and Mr. Roebuck, who was not at the time in Parliament, claimed to be heard at the bar of both Houses as agent for the Lower Province. He made a very able but bitter speech.