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THE CANADIAN DOMINION A CHRONICLE OF OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBOR |
 | | There had grown up in the colony a little clique of officeholders, of whom Jonathan Sewell, the Loyalist Attorney General, and later Chief Justice, was the chief, full of racial and class prejudice, and in some cases greedy for personal gain. |
 | | Of the non-official English, some were strongly opposed to the pretensions of the "Chateau Clique"; but others, and especially the merchants, with their organ the Quebec "Mercury", were loud in their denunciations of the French who were unprogressive and who as landowners were incidentally trying to throw the burden of taxation chiefly on the traders. |
 | | The governing clique, as the older established body, had no doubt that they could bring the western section under their sway in case of union. |
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