The Treachery of John A. Macdonald and His Clique

Mowat and Connor spoke also, but the chief effort was Brown's. This time there was nothing faltering or resigned about him, as he held forth on the population question and the wrongs done Upper Canada. She had 60,000 more inhabitants than Lower Canada in 1851, he proclaimed, had waited ten years under eastern domination, now had five times that lead  —  and still was denied justice! Were 300,000 westerners to remain disfranchised  —  because of the treachery of  John A. Macdonald and his clique? It was all rapturously received. In fact, Brown' s old vitality seemed to come flooding back that evening, stirred as he was by the big, excited audience.

--J.M.S. Careless, Statesman of Confederation, 1860-1880, vol. 2 of Brown of the Globe (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1989), 44.