Excerpt from The Mackenzie Homestead: Minutes of Proceedings at Two Meetings Held in Toronto, Preparatory to an Appeal Being Made to the People of Canada, on Behalf of an Old, Faithful, and Talented Public Servant William Lyon Mackenzie, Esq., M. P. P Amidst all this venality and corruption, Mr. Mackenzie still maintains his integrity, and with the same manly firmness that he displayed in former years, seeks ear nestly, however ineffectually, to secure for Canada the full benefit of those great arid popular principles which he so ably advocated in the earlier period of his life. As the natural consequence of his untiring zeal and devotion to the public service, he has always drawn upon himself the most bitter hostility of Government. While numer ous servile creatures, in Parliament and at the Press, have been sustained and enriched from the revenues of the country, Mr. Mackenzie has been left entirely to the precarious support derived from the publication of an independent newspaper. Possessed of superior talent for mercantile pursuits, in the conduct of which he might long ere this have acquired an independency for life, he felt called upon by a sense of duty to his country to abandon those pursuits and undertake the arduous duties of an editor, animated, we believe, by an honorable ambition to promote the liberty, prosperity and happiness of his country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.