The Campaign for Representative Government in Newfoundland
This paper examines the campaign for an elected assembly in Newfoundland, granted in 1832, and challenges established views of the Colony's reform movement. In the early nineteenth century reformers repeatedly appealed for a local legislature, but their efforts met with limited success in the f...
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fterudit:oai:erudit.org:031071ar 2023-05-15T17:21:55+02:00 The Campaign for Representative Government in Newfoundland Bannister, Jerry 1994 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/031071ar https://doi.org/10.7202/031071ar en eng The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada Érudit Journal of the Canadian Historical Association vol. 5 no. 1 (1994) http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/031071ar doi:10.7202/031071ar All rights reserved © The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada, 1995 text 1994 fterudit https://doi.org/10.7202/031071ar 2021-09-18T23:22:26Z This paper examines the campaign for an elected assembly in Newfoundland, granted in 1832, and challenges established views of the Colony's reform movement. In the early nineteenth century reformers repeatedly appealed for a local legislature, but their efforts met with limited success in the face of opposition from both merchants and government officials. However, fuelled by concerns over taxation, the reform movement transformed in 1828 into a viable coalition for representative government. In London the reformers overcame the government's intransigence through a strategy designed to gain support in Parliament and to undermine the Colonial Office. An analysis of the rhetoric employed in local meetings and petitions, as well as in Parliamentary debates, suggests that an assertive press and an inclusive public discourse played crucial roles in the reform movement's ability to embrace disparate socio-economic interests. Cet article se penche sur la campagne qui mena à l’instauration d'une assemblée élective à Terre-Neuve en 1832, pour remettre en question les thèses les plus courantes au suject du mouvement réformiste dans la colonie. Les premières pressions pour la création d'une Chambre d'Assemblée locale n’avaient rencontré qu’un succès restreint, au début du I9e siècle, devant l’opposition des marchants et des gouvernants. Mais à partir de 1828, le mouvement réformiste réussit à se transformer en une coalition viable en faveur du gouvernement responsable. Il put venir à bout de l’intransigeance du gouvernement métropolitain en réussissant à la fois à s'assurer l’appui du Parlement britannique et à contrer les vues du Colonial Office. La rhétorique que les réformistes empruntèrent au cours des rencontres locales, celle des pétitions, de même que celles des débats parlementaires, tendent à montrer que c’est grâce à une presse sûre d'elle même et à un discours public ourvert que le mouvement put rassembler des intérêts socio-économiques disparates. Text Newfoundland Terre-Neuve Érudit.org (Université Montréal) Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 5 1 19 40 |
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This paper examines the campaign for an elected assembly in Newfoundland, granted in 1832, and challenges established views of the Colony's reform movement. In the early nineteenth century reformers repeatedly appealed for a local legislature, but their efforts met with limited success in the face of opposition from both merchants and government officials. However, fuelled by concerns over taxation, the reform movement transformed in 1828 into a viable coalition for representative government. In London the reformers overcame the government's intransigence through a strategy designed to gain support in Parliament and to undermine the Colonial Office. An analysis of the rhetoric employed in local meetings and petitions, as well as in Parliamentary debates, suggests that an assertive press and an inclusive public discourse played crucial roles in the reform movement's ability to embrace disparate socio-economic interests. Cet article se penche sur la campagne qui mena à l’instauration d'une assemblée élective à Terre-Neuve en 1832, pour remettre en question les thèses les plus courantes au suject du mouvement réformiste dans la colonie. Les premières pressions pour la création d'une Chambre d'Assemblée locale n’avaient rencontré qu’un succès restreint, au début du I9e siècle, devant l’opposition des marchants et des gouvernants. Mais à partir de 1828, le mouvement réformiste réussit à se transformer en une coalition viable en faveur du gouvernement responsable. Il put venir à bout de l’intransigeance du gouvernement métropolitain en réussissant à la fois à s'assurer l’appui du Parlement britannique et à contrer les vues du Colonial Office. La rhétorique que les réformistes empruntèrent au cours des rencontres locales, celle des pétitions, de même que celles des débats parlementaires, tendent à montrer que c’est grâce à une presse sûre d'elle même et à un discours public ourvert que le mouvement put rassembler des intérêts socio-économiques disparates. |
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