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Cambridge Imperial & Post-Colonial Studies

SCOTTISH
PRESBYTERIANISM
AND SETTLER
COLONIAL POLITICS
EMPIRE OF DISSENT

VALERIE WALLACE
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 Acknowledgments

This book has been a long time coming. It gives me great pleasure to be
able at long last to thank the many institutions, funding bodies, colleagues,
friends and family who made this project possible. Four chapters of the
book derive from a Ph.D. thesis completed at the University of Glasgow
in 2010 and funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council doctoral
award. I spent a life-changing ten years in the Department of History at
Glasgow and I owe a great debt to my fellow students and to the teachers
there who trained me. Stephen Doig, Hazel Mackenzie, Lauren Mirzai,
Neil Paterson, Tania Scott and Colin Morrison provided unfailing support
during my Glasgow years and after.
Post-Ph.D., I went to the Bentham Project at UCL where I learnt
many new skills from my quirky and brilliant colleagues: Philip Schofield,
Tim Causer, Oliver Harris, Catherine Pease-Watkin, Michael Quinn,
Justin Tonra and Xiaobo Zhai. I am most grateful to Philip for giving me
a position at Bentham HQ and for pushing me out of my comfort zone.
His constant teasing about my progress on this book meant I never forgot
about it even when Jezza was at the forefront of my mind.
Next I had the good fortune to spend a year as the inaugural Fulbright
Scottish Studies scholar in the Center for History and Economics at
Harvard University. The reading and writing I did there were invaluable.
I owe a great debt to Emma Rothschild for her invitation, which made this
year possible, and to Steve Bloomfield and Alexia Yates for their friendship
and encouragement. My year in Cambridge was one of the best of my life
thanks in large part to members of Jack in the Box and Gore Street
Industries, whose dedication to their own fields of study is beyond

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i­nspiring: Praneeth Namburi, Zenna Tavares, Melissa Troyer, Jack Troyer,

Galen Lynch, Max Siegel and Julian Jara-Ettinger. I will treasure the
memories always.
While at Harvard I was offered a lectureship at Victoria University of
Wellington in New Zealand. I have learnt so much from colleagues and
students at Vic. Steve Behrendt and Gwyn Williams read over funding
applications and made some suggestions which made it into the final man-
uscript. A Research Establishment Grant in 2013 funded research in Cape
Town; a grant from the University Research Fund in 2014 funded research
in New Zealand, Australia and the UK; and a Research Development
Grant in 2015 supported the work of two research assistants. Florence
Baggett and Evgeniya Kryssova helpfully transcribed much of the material
for Chaps. 4, 10 and 11. Flo the Impaler also took some marking off my
hands. A further Faculty Research Grant in 2017 funded editorial assis-
tance. Without this support it would have been difficult for me to com-
plete the bulk of the book.
Most of the manuscript was written in 2016 when I had research and
study leave from Victoria and a visiting fellowship at the Institute of
Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews. What a won-
derful place. Steve Boardman, Mikki Brock, Michael Brown, Lorna Harris,
Konrad Lawson, Roger Mason, Steve Murdoch, Richard Whatmore and
the entire Kidd family—Colin, Lucy, Susan, Adam and Maisie—all helped
to move this book along. The Strathmartine Centre gave me a place to
stay. Muriel Watson made the place feel like home.
After that I had to make the manuscript presentable. The following
friends and colleagues commented on chapter drafts and saved me from
many embarrassments: Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Gerry Carruthers, Tim
Causer, James Kierstead, Jim McAloon, Charlotte Macdonald, Simon
Perris, Ben Snyder and Greta Snyder. Liam Barnsdale chased up a few
references for me; Hamish Clayton compiled the index; and Colin Kidd
read every word of the manuscript in draft. I am grateful to all for their
input at this stage. If any errors remain, I am to blame. The anonymous
reader and series editors at Palgrave provided helpful comments on how to
improve this work. Molly Beck and Oliver Dyer were supportive through-
out the publication process.
Special thanks are due to members of my family and family-in-law.
Robert Wallace, my dad, is one of the hardest-working people I know. He
inherited his work ethic from my grandmother, Pamela Martin. I have
tried hard from my earliest years to follow their example. Andrew and Jess
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are a constant source of inspiration, comfort and good sense. They host
me at the Smorg and listen patiently to my lifeblood soliloquys. The family
Eng—Andreas, Alison and Allan—lived with me and this project for a
short spell in the summer of 2016. Their enthusiasm and words of encour-
agement boosted my morale and kept me focused when outside the sun
was shining and inside the mouches were buzzing.
I owe my greatest debt above all to three people. Gillian Wallace, my
mum, first attended university as a mature student when I was eight. She
dressed me in a University of Glasgow jumper and took me on campus
with her. My fate was sealed. Jamie Eng met me when this book was in
progress and has supported me in every conceivable way through to its
completion. When I told him on our first (non)date what the book was
about his eyes lit up. His fate was sealed. Colin Kidd—mentioned twice
already in these acknowledgments—has encouraged me since 2001 before
we dreamt up this project together. As lecturer, supervisor, collaborator
and friend he has shaped my career and enhanced my life. This book, for
what it’s worth, is dedicated to Gillian, Jamie and Colin, in admiration and
with heartfelt gratitude. Thank you for everything you have done.
 Contents

1 Introduction: Empire of Dissent   1

Part I Journeys  33

2 Thomas Pringle in Cape Town  35

3 Thomas McCulloch in Pictou  59

4 John Dunmore Lang in Sydney  81

5 William Lyon Mackenzie in Toronto  97

6 London Lobbying, 1829–1834 121

Part II Backlash 147

7 Radicalism in Scotland 149

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8 Rebellion in Canada 171

9 Disruption at the Cape 197

10 Republicanism in New South Wales 219

11 Samuel McDonald Martin and Oppositional Politics

in Auckland 245

12 Conclusion 283

Index 289
 CHAPTER 1

Introduction: Empire of Dissent

In the nineteenth century around two million people left Scotland to

begin new lives in the colonies of Britain’s empire.1 They left for many
reasons. In the depression of the post-Napoleonic era, government-­
sponsored emigration schemes encouraged the dispossessed and disen-
franchised to seek their fortunes abroad. Skilled tradesmen from the
Scottish lowlands travelled to Canada; in 1820 around 4000 Britons, of
which about ten percent were Scots, went to the Cape Colony in southern
Africa; in later years thousands more would go to New South Wales and
New Zealand.2 Distinctive regions of Scottish settlement evolved where
the exported customs of Scotland endured. In Scotland the dominant
faith was Presbyterian, and in the Anglican world of Britain’s empire com-
munities of Scottish Presbyterians sought to institute their own churches
and maintain their own forms of worship.3 They sent requests home for
religious ministers to come and join them. Hundreds of missionaries from
the established Church of Scotland and the branches of the dissenting
churches—the Secession, the Relief Church, the Reformed Presbyterian
Church and later the Free Church—answered these calls.4
Among those who left Scotland in the first decades of the nineteenth
century were the five individuals with whom this book is chiefly con-
cerned. The Rev. Thomas McCulloch (1776–1843), a missionary from
the Secession church who was born near Paisley, settled in Pictou,
Nova Scotia in 1803. Thomas Pringle (1789–1834), a lay member of

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the Secession and a poet from the Borders, sailed for the Cape Colony
in 1820. William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861), another member of
the Secession and a journalist from Dundee, left for Upper Canada in
the same year. The Rev. John Dunmore Lang (1799–1878), an evan-
gelical Church of Scotland minister born near Greenock, arrived in
Sydney in 1823. Samuel McDonald Martin (1805?–1848), a journalist
from the Isle of Skye, admirer of the Free Church and the brother of a
minister, went to Sydney in 1837. He later moved to Auckland
in 1842.
Before their respective migrations, these five Scotsmen had never met.
But their experiences as settlers in Britain’s empire were strikingly similar
and would bring their lives together. Inspired by ideas and rhetoric drawn
from their Presbyterian heritage, McCulloch, Pringle, Lang, Mackenzie
and Martin all complained about Anglican privilege in the colonies: the
Church of England’s official, or de facto, position as the established church
in the empire, its control of land reserves, its grip on education and its
monopoly of political power. These colonists all utilised the newspaper
press to voice their grievances and they lobbied government to bring
about political change. They became acquainted with each other’s work
and, in the case of a few, met each other in person. This book weaves
together for the first time the stories of McCulloch, Pringle, Mackenzie,
Lang and Martin, five demonstrably important but under-researched
reformers, uncovering their connection to a Scottish Empire of Dissent. It
describes how, though settled in far-flung territories of Britain’s empire,
the lives of these five migrants, and the reform campaigns they led, came
to be intertwined.
This book considers the political role in early nineteenth-century colo-
nial societies of some of the smaller and less well-known, but nevertheless
influential, Scottish Presbyterian dissenting churches. It has less to say
about the major Presbyterian denomination in Scotland—the national
Church of Scotland. The established churches in Britain, particularly the
United Church of England and Ireland, have received more attention
from historians of colonialism than their dissenting rivals. God’s Empire
(2011) by Hilary Carey examines how the Church of England and the
Church of Scotland, as well as some other religious institutions, promoted
imperial loyalty in settler communities and helped to foster the idea of a
globalised ‘Greater Britain’.5 The Church of England, other scholars have
agreed, played an important role in forging an expanded and integrated
Anglophone settler world.6
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 3

But the attempt to establish the Church of England as the church of the
empire also generated an enormous amount of protest. Nonconformist and
dissenting churches, as well as some troublesome elements within Anglicanism,
sometimes acted as conductors of disruptive ideas and fostered only condi-
tional loyalty in pluralist settler societies. Networks of religious dissenters and
interaction between dissenters and reforming politicians—particularly on
issues like slavery abolition and humanitarian ‘protection’ of indigenous peo-
ples—facilitated challenges to colonial governance at ‘home’ and ‘abroad’.7
The Scottish Presbyterian dissenting churches with which McCulloch,
Pringle, Mackenzie, Lang and Martin were all affiliated had a reputation
for political subversion. These five migrants—two of whom were clergy-
men and three of whom were lay members—transmitted the disruptive
ideas propagated by these churches and they were not the only ones to do
so. Indeed, there were thousands of migrants who belonged to these
churches—the Secession, the Relief and the Free Church—whose adher-
ents constituted about one-third of the Scottish lowland population.8 The
Secession was one of the first churches in Scotland to send missionaries to
colonial settlements in North America; these missionaries encountered
little competition from other preachers and became culturally influential.9
The Free Church, which propagated similar values as the Secession, would
be similarly influential on a new generation of migrants in the years after
the great schism of 1843.10 Yet there are few histories of the Scottish dis-
senting churches in the British empire—the Secession and Relief churches
were entirely omitted from Carey’s book—and there has been very little
written about their influence on colonial politics.

The Politics of Dissent

What was the tradition of political subversion to which McCulloch,
Pringle, Lang, Mackenzie and Martin were so indebted? Dissenters in
Scotland—‘Conditional Britons’, to use Colin Kidd’s evocative label11—
had a reputation for stirring up trouble. The revolution settlement of
1690 established Presbyterianism rather than episcopacy—rule by church
courts rather than rule by bishops—as the church of the Scottish nation.
The Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Act, which accompa-
nied the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707, was designed to protect the
Scottish Church’s independence within the new multi-confessional British
state. This act, some believed, which was a ‘fundamentall and essentiall
Condition’ of the Treaty,12 guaranteed that the Church of Scotland would
4 V. WALLACE

be left to govern itself. It would exist harmoniously with its co-established

sister, the Church of England.13 It proved impossible, however, for the
British government to stay out of Scottish religious affairs. Legislation
passed in the aftermath of the Union alienated many Scottish Presbyterians.
The Patronage Act of 1711/12 took the right of appointing ministers to
vacant parishes away from congregations and restored it to lay patrons—
local landowners, the burgh councils and, in some cases, the Crown. The
Secession broke away from the established Church of Scotland in 1733 in
protest at this act. The Relief Church was formed in 1761 for the same
reason.
The Secession and the Relief adhered strictly to the two-kingdoms doc-
trine of Scottish Presbyterianism. The theory of Presbyterian polity, origi-
nally given shape in the Reformation era, stated that Jesus Christ alone was
head of the church; the monarch, head of the temporal sphere only, could
not interfere in the church’s business. The British constitution, which rec-
ognised the monarch as head of the Church of England and which allowed
Anglican bishops to sit in the House of Lords, flouted these principles.
Seceders claimed kinship with the seventeenth-century Scottish
Covenanters who had rebelled against the attempts of Charles I to bring
Scottish worship in line with Anglican practice. The covenanting move-
ment took root when much of the Scottish populace signed the National
Covenant in 1638. During the turbulence of the civil war period the
­covenanting movement fragmented. The hard-line Covenanters of the
Restoration, when episcopacy was again established in Scotland, declared
war against the King and were hunted down by government troops. The
Stuarts, it was claimed, had stolen Christ’s crown and had declared them-
selves supreme in all matters spiritual and temporal; they had become des-
potic and had deprived the Scottish people of their liberties.
In the eighteenth century, the Seceders renewed the National Covenant
and Solemn League and Covenant (1643) and bore testimony against the
British Hanoverian state. They disliked the Church of Scotland for having
tolerated the Patronage Act and resented the civil government’s contin-
ued incursions into the Scottish spiritual realm. In 1747 they divided into
‘Antiburghers’ and ‘Burghers’ after a squabble over whether Seceders
should swear the Burgess Oath, which asked subscribers to acknowledge
the legitimacy of the established church. During the French Revolution
era, a period of political instability and paranoia, some dissenting ministers
were accused of sedition; in some cases these accusations were not
unfounded. In Ireland covenanting values partly underpinned the agitation
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 5

which gave birth to the 1798 rebellion14 while in Scotland George Lawson,
professor of divinity in the Secession, defended political radicals against
charges of sedition, championed the right of petition, and argued in favour
of efforts to retain ‘redress of the grievances of our country’. He thought
his students should read the works of Tom Paine.15 As John Brims has
noted, the Seceders’ beliefs—that congregations should vote for their
ministers and that the monarch’s powers should be curbed—were likely to
draw ‘them into supporting the sort of radical political reforms which
would take power away from the hated nobility and place it in the hands
of the common people’.16 Indeed, the Rev. Archibald Bruce, another
Seceder divinity professor, explicitly defended freedom of the press and
declared that he was ‘glad to see so many spirited advocates raised up to
plead the cause of political freedom and the right of prosecuting a civil
reform’.17
Dissenters tended to sympathise with the evolving liberalism of the post-
Napoleonic period. As Maurizio Isabella has recently argued, the emergence
of liberalism did not symbolise ‘a step towards the ­secularization of the
political sphere’. Rather, political reformers of the 1820s aligned their tradi-
tional religious values with their commitment to liberal ideals. These ideals
included: reducing the power of the established church and loosening the
bond between church and state; guaranteeing religious tolerance; and secur-
ing freedom of expression which, in the defence of orthodoxy and in the
name of stability, their conservative opponents sought to curtail. Everywhere
religion was ‘contested territory’; liberals and conservatives keenly debated
what kind of relationship the church should have with the state.18 In Scotland
many dissenting Presbyterians, inspired by the evangelical fervour of the
period, supported the policies of the whigs—the opposition party from
1807 to 1830—to extend the franchise and secure press freedom hoping
that these measures would undermine the Anglican establishment and lead
to a revitalisation of religion. Many dissenters were encouraged by the lib-
eral tory reforms of the 1820s, perceived to be the beginning of the end of
the old regime: the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828, which
removed civil disabilities imposed on non-Anglicans, and the emancipation
of Catholics, who, from 1829, could sit in parliament.19
What became known as ‘new light voluntaryism’ underpinned the lib-
eral politics of many Presbyterian dissenters. New light voluntaries, the
bulk of whom were members of the Relief Church and the United
Secession Church—a body formed in 1820 from a union of the two main
groups of Antiburgher and Burgher Seceders—remained theologically
6 V. WALLACE

orthodox, but they became critical of the Westminster Confession of

Faith. The Westminster Confession—the subordinate standard of the
Presbyterian churches, to which all ministers subscribed—stipulated that
the head of state should act as a ‘nursing father’—or mother—to the
church. In 1829 following the emancipation of Catholics, the Rev. Andrew
Marshall, a United Secession minister of Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow,
preached a rousing sermon in which he denounced church establishments
as illogical, unfair and unscriptural. The new lights in the Relief Church
and in the Secession, who had always believed firmly in the two-kingdoms
doctrine, now desired the complete separation of the spiritual and the
temporal spheres and the disestablishment of the Church of Scotland and
Church of England.20 Ministers should be paid not by the state but by
contributions offered voluntarily by congregations. In the eyes of volun-
taryist dissenters the Erastian nature of the British constitution had caused
the state to usurp the throne of Christ, the only true head of the church.21
Despite the recent liberal reforms, they thought, the British state remained
an oppressive church-state under which dissenters suffered. The clergy of
the established churches conspired with the landed gentry to deprive the
populace of cheap bread and a say in how they should be ruled both in the
local parish and the national legislature. New light voluntaries, as we shall
see later in this book in Chap. 7, tended to demand extensive political
reform, even Chartism, to bring about their goal of disestablishment.
Disestablishment and an expanded electorate, some thought, would boost
the nation’s spirituality, heighten its morality and bring an end to social
and religious inequality.
Some evangelicals in the established Church of Scotland argued along
similar lines. In the first decades of the nineteenth century the Church of
Scotland, also known as the Kirk, divided internally between ‘evangelicals’
who wanted to purify the Kirk by encouraging missions and bible circula-
tion and by abolishing patronage—initiatives also supported by dissenters
outside the Kirk—and ‘moderates’ who found missionising suspicious
and vulgar and who acquiesed in some oversight by the civil powers.
Some Kirk evangelicals supported whig-liberalism hoping that a reformed
parliament with middle-class representation would rejuvenate the Kirk by
abolishing patronage, the age-old grievance.22 It was important, some
thought, to secure popular election in church as well as in state. They
expounded the doctrine of ‘non-intrusion’, a less extreme version of new
light voluntaryism: the state, though it should fund the Church, should
neither intrude unwanted ministers on Kirk parishes nor interfere with
the Church’s business. The Church of Scotland’s Claim of Right
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 7

(1842), issued during the ‘ten years’ conflict’—a long-running dispute

between Kirk and state over patronage—embodied the non-intrusionist
constitutional thinking of evangelical Presbyterians. It declared that the
Treaty of Union had protected the independence of the Church of
Scotland. Non-­intrusionists regarded the Treaty as a foundational docu-
ment which checked the sovereignty of Crown-in-Parliament and safe-
guarded the autonomy of the Scottish Church—sovereign in its own
spiritual sphere.23 The Claim of Right declared that the Church of
Scotland’s privileges had been reserved by the Treaty ‘from the cogni-
zance and power of the federal legislature created by the said Treaty’—i.e.
the newly united British parliament.24 In 1843, over one-third of the
Kirk’s ministers, mostly evangelicals, staged a revolt against the British
state: the famous ‘Disruption’, featured on the cover of this book. They
left to form the Free Church; free because it no longer had to endure vio-
lations of the Kirk’s spiritual independence. The populace had allegedly
been liberated from the domination of the landed gentry—the custodians
of ministerial patronage. In defence of their civil and religious liberties
they took to the open air to preach in conventicles as their covenanting
ancestors, so Free Church ministers proudly pointed out, had done two
centuries before them.

Empire of Dissent
But what of dissenters outside of Scotland? How did the values of Scottish
Presbyterian dissent impact on the politics of the wider British empire?
How influential were the inflammatory tenets of dissenting Presbyterianism,
transmitted from Scotland and transmuted through an imperial network?
Were reform politics in the settler colonies—the campaign for press free-
dom, the assault on the Church of England’s established status and the
demand for representative and responsible government—inspired by the
values and traditions of Presbyterian dissent?
Focusing on the period roughly between 1820 and 1850, Empire of
Dissent takes five colonial sites as case studies: Cape Town in southern
Africa; Pictou in Nova Scotia; Sydney in New South Wales; Toronto in
Upper Canada; and Auckland in New Zealand. It traces the movements of
Thomas Pringle, Thomas McCulloch, John Dunmore Lang, William
Lyon Mackenzie and Samuel McDonald Martin and examines the reli-
gious dimension to their politics. The personal stories of five colonists act
as entry points to settler societies and dissenting culture more generally.
Sometimes these figures operated on the fringes of colonial society, as
8 V. WALLACE

when Lang championed separatist republicanism, but at other times they

spoke for the wider community, as when Mackenzie condemned the
detested solicitor-general of Upper Canada, Christopher Hagerman. The
similarity of their views suggests that the values motivating the politics of
Pringle, McCulloch, Lang, Mackenzie and Martin enjoyed wide currency
across the empire, beyond the localities in which these individuals lived.
The book focuses on these five colonies for several reasons. Nova Scotia,
the Cape, Upper Canada, New South Wales and New Zealand were broadly
similar in terms of their systems of governance, economies and demo-
graphics, and there were personal connections, through the denomina-
tional networks this book considers, between the colonists who lived across
these regions. Ideas travelled via shipping, press and correspondence net-
works, and the movement of peoples. There were similarities and meaning-
ful connections—particularly, as this book argues, in respect of the role of
dissenting churches and the resonance of political language—between
these particular colonies. Having said that, this book does not seek to claim
that Scottish Presbyterian ideas were only relevant in the colonies discussed
here nor does it seek necessarily to reinforce the idea that Canada, South
Africa, Australia and New Zealand constituted a distinctive ‘British World’
from which other colonies and non-white actors were excluded. As Katie
Pickles has reminded us, the boundaries of the ‘British World’ were porous
and ever-shifting.25 The ‘Empire of Dissent’ may have, and probably did,
include subjects living in other regions of the British empire and outside it.
The constitutional position of the Church of Scotland was a controversial
topic in Van Diemen’s Land where the Rev. John Lillie (1806–1866) was
a formidable advocate for the Kirk;26 it was also raised in India, a debate to
which John Dunmore Lang referred. American Presbyterians transplanted
and reinvented the covenanting tradition in America where it underpinned
political agitation before and after the American War of Independence.27 In
the second half of the nineteenth century, moreover, Presbyterians were
politically active in the Caribbean, Malawi and elsewhere. Ireland had a
different relationship with Britain than did the colonies of settlement,
but here too, particularly in Ulster, Presbyterians were, to use David
Miller’s label, ‘Queen’s rebels’.28 Scotland’s politics of dissent were
replicated in Ireland where the tradition of covenanting was strong.29 To
what extent were Ulster-Scots who migrated to Britain’s nineteenth-
century settlements inspired by the Presbyterian values herein discussed?
What ­ contribution did Irish Presbyterians make to colonial reform
politics? The present study could be extended and its arguments,
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 9

perhaps modified to take account of local context, applied to other

Presbyterian communities or other time periods.
This book is, however, confined to five case studies in the first half of
the nineteenth century. It aims to transform our understanding of the
religious foundations of colonial reform politics in settler societies (and
comments briefly on Scottish domestic politics in Chap. 7), a topic which,
in some cases, scholars are only beginning to explore. Indeed, some histo-
rians have been too quick to assume that colonial politics were ideologi-
cally bankrupt.30 In small settlements, some have argued, personal
animosities rather than political ideas dictated political allegiances.
Reformers’ critiques of gubernatorial rule in New Zealand, Tony
Ballantyne has suggested, did not represent the ‘transplantation of any
coherent British tradition of political philosophy’. Reformers were often
‘pragmatic and reactive’.31 On migrating to the colonies settlers jettisoned
whig, tory and radical ideologies and adherence to the traditions of these
parties was nominal at best.32 According to Mark Francis, governors main-
tained order not by the application of policy founded on political values
but by cultivating an image of authority. Francis’s view of settler politics,
Paul McHugh has argued, is anti-doctrinaire; some historians, he says,
might even term it Namierite.33 There is some merit to the argument that
politics were personal—Governor Brisbane allegedly backtracked on his
policy towards Lang’s congregation after a rebuke from Lang’s mother
while Martin tried to resolve his dispute over press freedom by challenging
the registrar of the Auckland Supreme Court to a duel. This book argues,
nevertheless, that religious ideas—ideas which helped to form the basis of
party allegiance back in Scotland—provided some of the theoretical basis
to colonial reform politics. Politics were still personal but reformers were
motivated by principle as well as by pettiness.
Michael Gauvreau has attributed political reformism in Upper Canada
to the influence of Scottish dissenting traditions. Religious controversy
contributed to the politicisation of public space and caused non-Anglicans
to demand a government more accountable to their needs. The Church of
England controlled King’s College, the only higher education institution
in the colony, and it attempted to appropriate all of the clergy reserves, the
land grants assigned by the 1791 Constitutional Act for the maintenance
of the ‘Protestant clergy’. The Scottish Secession’s commitment to church-­
state separation encouraged resistance in Upper Canada to an Anglican-­
dominated legislative council and underpinned demands for a government
responsible to a pluralist settler population.34 Upper Canada had a
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representative assembly, elected by forty-shilling freeholders, and a legisla-

tive council, nominated by the Crown. The colony had a lieutenant-gov-
ernor, accountable to the governor-general in Quebec, who was responsible
for the nomination of officials and who headed the executive, a body com-
posed of some members of the legislative council. Since the legislative
council tended to defend the interests of the Church of England, the de
facto established church in the colony, and could block all measures passed
by a dissenter-supported assembly, reformers like William Lyon Mackenzie,
a figure omitted from Gauvreau’s study but who features prominently in
this one, viewed the nature of colonial government as the root of
inequality.
Michel Ducharme, a historian who would definitely insist that colonial
politics had an ideological foundation, describes Mackenzie as a radical
republican who sought to revolutionise the political system in Canada.
Ducharme believes that an ideological split over the meaning of liberty
divided the Canadian population in the pre-rebellion era. Republicans
fought to entrench popular sovereignty and to secure a society of indepen-
dent, virtuous and equal citizens while those who subscribed to ‘modern
liberty’ sought to protect civil liberties—freedom of worship, press free-
dom, the right to have one’s property protected—by upholding a bal-
anced, mixed government within the British constitutional framework.
Denominational equality was as important an issue to republicans like
Mackenzie, who fought to free the populace from the tyranny of a state
church, as it was to reforming liberals, who fought to preserve the rights
of individuals to religious freedom. Ducharme did not have space, he
admitted, to examine the attitudes of Canadian thinkers and politicians to
the vexed question of church-state relations and consider how these
­intersected with their ideas on liberty.35 This book makes a modest start by
examining the views of Mackenzie. It will also consider the significance of
denominational equality in the reform campaigns of other colonies with
Scottish settlements: Nova Scotia, the Cape Colony, New South Wales
and New Zealand.

British Birthright and the Covenanting Idiom

Whether or not British reformers advocated republicanism—like William
Lyon Mackenzie or John Dunmore Lang—or were committed to
whig-­liberalism—like Thomas Pringle, Thomas McCulloch and Samuel
McDonald Martin—most couched their political demands in
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 11

the language of ‘British birthright’. The idea that Englishmen were free-
born and inherited the right to consensual governance and the rule of law
originated from a seventeenth-century jurisprudential tradition. This tra-
dition emphasised the restraints placed by the ancient constitution on the
English monarch.36 That Englishmen carried their rights overseas was
affirmed by a Privy Council judgment in 1722: ‘if there be new and unin-
habited country found out by English subjects, as the law is the birth-right
of every subject, so, wherever they go, they carry their laws with them’.37
Lord Mansfield endorsed this principle in 1774 when he found in Campbell
vs Hall that all British subjects of settler colonies were entitled, because of
their birthright, to representation in government.38 Colonists across the
nineteenth-century settler world—Scots as well as English—declared
themselves to be free-born Englishmen who, on emigrating, carried with
them the rights ‘deeply implanted’ in the laws and constitution of England:
the right to representative government, the right not to be taxed without
consent, the right to petition and the right to trial by jury.39 British birth-
right, however, was an exclusionary right; it applied only to property-­
owners and to Britons who were white and male.40 Though New Zealand’s
Treaty of Waitangi (1840) promised Māori all the rights and privileges of
British subjects, in reality Māori were deprived of many of the privileges
granted to European settlers, some of whom reinvented ‘Britishness’ as
something distinct from indigenous ‘savagery’.41 William Lyon Mackenzie,
moreover, on the eve of his rebellion in Upper Canada, in a statement
whose meaning would repay closer analysis, called on settlers to defy the
British government’s First Nations allies.42 Mackenzie’s liberal rhetoric
also marginalised black Canadians.43 Self-government, Ann Curthoys and
others have argued, gave settlers the freedom to disenfranchise non-whites
and assert their masculine strength.44
British birthright rhetoric was a colonial version of what some historians
have called the ‘constitutional idiom’, or ‘popular constitutionalism’.
Reformers in early nineteenth-century Britain, who, to validate their
demands, drew parallels between past and present to construct a lineage for
their ideas, celebrated both the whig tradition of challenging ‘old corrup-
tion’ and the balanced constitution secured by the 1688 revolution.45 Into
the Chartist period, as Josh Gibson has recently argued, reformers continued
to point to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights of 1688 and they imagined
the constitution as written—by depriving the populace of their democratic
rights, it was argued, parliament had contravened fixed principles of funda-
mental law.46 According to Paul Pickering, just as constitutionalism was
12 V. WALLACE

the ‘master narrative’ of British politics until the second half of the nine-
teenth century, so it was the master narrative of settler politics in colonial
New South Wales.47 Whig-liberals in the colony, as in other regions, cher-
ished the constitution as the guarantor of civil liberties but so too did repub-
licans who sought to secure their right as free-born Englishmen to participate
in government and root out corruption. Republicans emphasised freedom
from domination but not necessarily freedom from the Crown (though
William Lyon Mackenzie and John Dunmore Lang would both come to
adopt that position).48 They cherished the notion of a balanced constitution
in which the third estate—­represented in Britain by the House of Commons
and in the colonies by popular assemblies—could bring the monarchy and
aristocracy to account. According to Paul McHugh, British birthright was a
robust political language—not empty rhetoric as Mark Francis claims—
anchored to contemporary constitutional thinking on the ancient common
law.49 Colonists employed British birthright to challenge the doctrine of par-
liamentary supremacy, which had gained currency after the American
Revolution when the imperial government sought to underline its authority
over its colonial dependencies.50 Whereas in the old colonial system represen-
tative assemblies, some Americans had argued, had been coordinate with the
Westminster parliament, the colonial constitutions granted by Westminster
after the American Revolution were subordinate to parliament. Australian
reformers challenged this idea and they looked to English history for inspira-
tion: Magna Carta, the struggles of the Civil War and the revolution of 1688.
The ‘entitlement to parliamentary liberty’, says Peter Cochrane, ‘had become
a defining characteristic of Britishness abroad’.51 Political claims in Australia,
Angela Woollacott has written recently, ‘were couched in terms of English
liberties and rights’.52 Historians of Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and
elsewhere have made similar arguments, as exemplified by Jack. P. Greene’s
volume: Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600–1900.53
British birthright rhetoric constitutes only one strand of the multifac-
eted constitutional discourse invoked by imperial subjects when they cri-
tiqued the legitimacy of colonial authority. To justify their claim-making,
colonists drew on a range of sources from what Lauren Benton describes
as a ‘cluttered constitutional field’.54 Besides drawing on an English juris-
prudential tradition, the settlers in this book also looked to Scottish his-
tory and couched their claims in terms of Scottish liberties and rights. As
B.H. McPherson has pointed out, English common law, which provided
the foundation for British birthright, did not apply in Scotland. According
to Ian Holloway, the Privy Council judgment of 1722, cited above, and
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 13

Blackstone, who later reinforced the principle that English subjects trans-
ported their laws on migrating to terra nullius, relied on unjustified
assumptions that English common law was the law of Britain’s empire.
Several migrants, Holloway noted, came from Scotland.55 Could Scottish
migrants have claimed distinctive rights as free-born Scotsmen? Did Scots
carry their rights with them on migrating to a British colony governed by
English law?56
Pringle, McCulloch, Lang, Mackenzie and Martin, along with many
other Scottish settlers, employed what this book terms the ‘covenanting
idiom’, a Scottish variant of British birthright rhetoric, which emphasised
the contribution made by Scotland’s Protestant heroes to the development
of Britain’s constitutional liberty. Scottish Presbyterian settlers, as Thomas
Pringle’s efforts show (discussed in Chap. 2), wrote their history into the
narrative of British birthright. Scots Presbyterians drew inspiration not just
from English history but from Scotland’s historic battles against Catholicism
and Anglicanism. Scottish colonial reformers looked to the covenanting
rebellions which had supposedly paved the way for the ‘Glorious
Revolution’ and to the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England in
1707, which protected the revolution settlement. They drew inspiration
from the writings of the Rev. Thomas M’Crie (1772–1835), a minister of
the Secession, who published histories of the Reformations in Italy, Spain
and Scotland. M’Crie drew parallels between the historic battle against
papal ‘tyranny’ and the contemporary struggle in Europe for liberal reform.
In Romantic-era Europe, it was common for historians to rewrite the his-
tory of the Reformation to support political myth-making.57 In his hugely
popular and sanitised accounts of the lives of John Knox and Andrew
Melville, M’Crie depicted Scotland’s Protestant martyrs as national heroes
who had resisted ecclesiastical supremacy and political despotism.58 In a
much-celebrated review of Walter Scott’s Old Mortality (1816), moreover,
M’Crie aimed to rehabilitate the reputation of the Restoration Covenanters
who, he claimed, had died to secure civil and religious liberty for Scotland;
to ensure that episcopalian rule was never again established in the coun-
try.59 Episcopalian rule, it was argued by M’Crie and the Presbyterian his-
torians who followed him, had been despotic in church and state and, by
resisting its incursions, the Scottish Covenanters had hastened the evolu-
tion of political liberty for Scotland and for Britain, enshrined in the bal-
anced constitution secured at the anti-­Catholic revolution of 1688–89.60
M’Crie was a fringe theologian from the old light Antiburghers who
was committed to maintaining traditional covenanting standards. Though
14 V. WALLACE

a dissenter, he rejected new light voluntaryism and hoped that his sect
might one day rejoin a purified Kirk. M’Crie’s fundamentalism did not
appeal to moderate Presbyterians or to his new light voluntary colleagues
in the Secession, who disagreed with his establishmentarian views.
Nevertheless, M’Crie writings were terrifically popular and his historical
narrative captivated everyone across the Presbyterian spectrum. Describing
himself as an ‘old whig’, M’Crie located Scottish whig-liberalism within a
long-standing tradition of Presbyterian dissent.61 Reformers in Scotland
could mobilise popular support by emphasising the country’s distinctive
contribution to the development of British constitutional liberty.62 They
equated demands for political reform with the historic defence of
Presbyterian polity. Covenanting rhetoric infused political speeches and
inspired local people. In 1815 a radical crowd marched to the scene of the
Covenanters’ Battle of Drumclog (1679) to celebrate the power of popu-
lar resistance.63
The covenanting idiom was influential in the colonies of Scottish settle-
ment where, as will become clear, M’Crie’s works were available in librar-
ies and widely read. McCulloch, Pringle, Lang, Mackenzie and Martin
employed the covenanting idiom in their reformist rhetoric which was
dotted with references to Scotland’s historic battles against Anglicanism.
The British government’s policy of establishing the Church of England in
the colonies and allowing Anglican bishops seats on unrepresentative gov-
erning councils resembled too closely, it was thought, the aspirations of
Scotland’s Restoration regime to episcopalian supremacy. Because of the
sacrifices of their covenanting ancestors, British subjects at home and
abroad, it was argued, particularly if they were white and male, were enti-
tled to the political liberties enshrined in Britain’s constitution: to repre-
sentative government, freedom of expression and even, William Lyon
Mackenzie argued, the right to resist a despotic regime by force. Scottish
Presbyterians were entitled to something else in addition: the protection
of their church’s spiritual independence. Scottish settlers argued that the
Treaty of Union, as documents like the Claim of Right (1842) demon-
strated, obliged the British government to protect Scottish Presbyterianism
and, by implication, the Crown rights of Jesus who headed the church.
The Treaty was a written document, like Magna Carta and the Bill of
Rights, and it was binding on parliament. It obliged the British govern-
ment to grant certain concessions to Scottish settlers.
Trevor Burnard has pointed out that Scottish Presbyterians and English
Anglicans were not that different—both belonged to the empire’s
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 15

hegemonic social group; nor were Presbyterians the only Scots who moved
abroad. Scottish Episcopalian/Anglicans like John Strachan, Bishop of
Toronto, were easily integrated into colonial power structures as were
some Presbyterians, like Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of British
North America. Indeed, Scottish Presbyterians often worshipped along-
side English Anglicans when there was no other option. According to
Benjamin Jones, a sense of shared Britishness brought migrants together.
‘The concept of the international British family’, he says, ‘as opposed to
the native English, Scot, Irish, or Welsh, proved to be not only transport-
able but also central’ to settler societies.64 As Linda Colley has argued, a
common Protestantism united Britons against the Catholic other.65 Yet as
Michael Gauvreau has shown, a ‘common sense of Britishness was fre-
quently qualified by, and subordinated to, older patriotisms…that centred
particularly on the distinctions of church polity between Presbyterian and
Anglican’.66 Scottish Presbyterian settlers were often keenly aware that
their version of Protestantism differed to that espoused by the Church of
England, the dominant church in the British empire.67 The British empire,
as David Armitage has noted, had ‘no unitary theological foundation’.68
Indeed, as conditional Britons, Scottish Presbyterian dissenters in Scotland
and in the British colonies of Scottish settlement believed that they were
entitled to certain rights because of their distinctive faith. Their right as
free-born Britons to civil liberty, they thought, was only guaranteed when
their right as Scottish Presbyterians to religious liberty was protected.
What was meant by religious liberty? Just as the rights of Englishmen
could be vague and imprecise in eighteenth-century American claim-­
making,69 so Scottish Presbyterian birthrights were ill-defined. John
Dunmore Lang, at least initially, believed that the Treaty of Union obliged
the British government to distribute state aid to Presbyterian ministers and
Anglican clergy equally. He also defended his right to spiritual autonomy—
to the freedom to administer church business without interference from
Anglican-influenced legislatures. The reformers in this book thought
that they were entitled to live free from Anglican supremacy. They demanded
liberal reform, even autonomy from the Westminster parliament, to loosen
the connection between the Anglican church and the state. In the 1860s, as
we shall see in Chap. 9, the Dutch Reformed Church of the Cape Colony
stated that the Scottish Presbyterian doctrine of non-intrusion had qualified
the ‘absolute supremacy of the Crown’. The governing principle of the
British empire, ‘that the Sovereign is the fountain of all authority’, had
received ‘a most important limitation’.70 The claim that ‘this realm of
16 V. WALLACE

England is an empire…governed by one supreme head and king’ was first

asserted in the 1530s when Henry VIII broke with Rome and assumed the
headship of the Church of England.71 Three hundred years later some
Anglicans contemporaries insisted that the doctrine of Anglican suprem-
acy—that the monarch was head of the church and state in a spiritual and
temporal sense—had been extended to and established within Britain’s
colonial territories. In response, Scottish colonists insisted that the Treaty of
Union had guaranteed Scottish rights—rights for which their martyred
forefathers had died—by protecting Scottish Presbyterianism and restricting
the Church of England’s authority to England (and Wales and Ireland)
alone.72 It was but a short step from the position that the Crown (and parlia-
ment) had no jurisdiction in the Scottish spiritual sphere to maintaining that
Westminster had no jurisdiction in colonies at all. John Dunmore Lang’s
separatist republicanism, as we shall see in Chap. 10, partly evolved from his
campaign to protect the spiritual autonomy of his church.
The settlers discussed herein often employed the covenanting idiom
opportunistically (and in concert with other arguments) but their rhetoric
was also anchored to their Presbyterian political and constitutional values.
They were invested in the narrative of covenanting martyrdom made
famous by writers like M’Crie and they believed in the Scottish Presbyterian
doctrine of spiritual autonomy allegedly enshrined in Britain’s constitu-
tion. Some believed in the Free Church principle of non-intrusion; others
subscribed to the more extreme Secession tenet of disestablishment
voluntaryism.
Like British birthright rhetoric, the covenanting idiom was an exclu-
sionary language.73 It emphasised the rights acquired through battle with
Catholics and Anglican/Episcopalians by Protestant—particularly
Presbyterian—men. Despite the sacrifice of covenanting women, the cov-
enanting idiom tended to emphasise the rights of men alone. While male
Covenanters were celebrated for their valour, female Covenanters were
described as having behaved ‘beyond the bounds of moderation’; they
tended to be defined according to their relationships with their husbands,
brothers or sons.74 John Dunmore Lang, as we shall see in Chap. 10,
believed in excluding all women from politics and was not keen on involv-
ing any Irish Catholics either. Lang and his allies were intent on infusing
Protestant virtue into Australia by encouraging the migration of Scottish
tradesmen and their families and disapproved of the migration of single
Catholic women. In Canada, discussed in Chap. 8, fear of the influence of
Francophone Lower Canada where Catholicism was dominant, caused
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 17

Scottish Presbyterian settlers to resist the union of the Canadas in 1841.

When the union passed, they demanded a wider franchise to bolster the
Protestant electorate and marginalise Quebecois Catholics.

Outline of the Book

Empire of Dissent is divided into two parts. Part I traces the journeys of
Pringle, McCulloch, Lang and Mackenzie to Cape Town, Pictou, Sydney
and Toronto, charts their experiences there and unpacks the Presbyterian
foundations of their political thought. Chapter 2 discusses Thomas
Pringle’s trials at the Cape. Born near Kelso in the first year of the French
Revolution, Pringle was the son of a farmer with strong ties to the
Secession. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and attended the
church of the famous Secession historian, the Rev. Thomas M’Crie. In
1820 Pringle moved to the Cape Colony where he became a librarian.
With his compatriot, John Fairbairn (1794–1864), he opened the Classical
and Commercial Academy, a school for English-speaking children. Pringle
and Fairbairn also edited the South African Journal and South African
Commercial Advertiser. Governor Somerset denounced Pringle as an
‘arrant dissenter’ and closed down the press. Somerset, who ruled without
a representative assembly, was, Pringle claimed, an autocrat; he persecuted
dissenters and restricted their freedom of speech. This chapter demon-
strates that Pringle’s poetry actually inspired Thomas M’Crie’s celebration
of covenanting resistance and suggests that, in turn, M’Crie’s narrative
coloured Pringle’s poetic reflections on colonial rule in southern Africa.
Whig-liberal discourse imagined the Cape as a new site of conflict in
Scotland’s long battle for civil and religious liberty.
Chapter 3 discusses Thomas McCulloch’s struggles in Nova Scotia.
McCulloch, born during the American War of Independence, studied at
the University of Glasgow and became a missionary for the Secession. In
Pictou, where he settled in 1803, McCulloch established the Pictou
Academy, a controversial college of higher learning for non-Anglicans. At
the Academy McCulloch taught Jotham Blanchard (1800–1839), an inte-
gral figure in McCulloch’s story. Together through the pages of the
Colonial Patriot newspaper, McCulloch and Blanchard fought to secure
permanent funding for their institution from the local legislature. Nova
Scotia had a legislative assembly and a nominated ‘council of twelve’,
which performed both legislative and executive functions. When their
efforts were thwarted by an intransigent council, the two men campaigned
18 V. WALLACE

for an accountable system of colonial rule, arguing that the government

resembled a tyrannical Anglican church-state.75 This chapter examines
McCulloch’s connection to new light voluntaryism and surveys his literary
works, considering how he refashioned for a Nova Scotian audience,
M’Crie’s politicised narrative of Scotland’s past.
In New South Wales, a crown colony until 1842, John Dunmore Lang
couched his anti-establishment agitation in similar terms. As Chap. 4
explains, Lang was born near Greenock on the Clyde coast during Britain’s
war with Napoleonic France, and left Scotland two years after Pringle. He
was educated at the University of Glasgow and trained as a Church of
Scotland minister. He associated himself with the Kirk’s evangelical wing
but identified with its dissenting heritage. Lang settled in Sydney in 1823
where he became the first Presbyterian minister in the city and, later, one
of the most controversial politicians in nineteenth-century Australia. Lang
resented the Church and School Corporation established to provide
instruction on Anglican principles. He keenly defended the rights of
Presbyterians and lobbied the British government to secure funds for the
erection of the Australian College, a college with a Presbyterian flavour.
Lang invoked the covenanting idiom in an angry memorial to the gover-
nor, who, he believed, was failing to treat the Presbyterian community
equitably.
William Lyon Mackenzie had similar concerns, as Chap. 5 explains.
Mackenzie left Scotland for Upper Canada in 1820 after the shop that he
kept went bust. He was a lay member of the Secession and his religious
beliefs inspired him to challenge the structure of colonial government. He
eventually settled in York (later called Toronto) where he worked as a
journalist, having launched the Colonial Advocate newspaper in 1824.
Mackenzie became Toronto’s first mayor, a member of the legislative
assembly and, in 1837, the leader of a rebellion against British rule in
Upper Canada. This chapter charts, in the period before 1832, Mackenzie’s
journalistic efforts to critique the Anglican ascendancy in Toronto.
Part I of the book ends by describing in Chap. 6 the travels of Blanchard
(as McCulloch’s agent), Lang and Mackenzie to Britain during the reform
crisis of the early 1830s when the whig government was attempting to get
its bill for the reform of political representation in Britain through parlia-
ment. It considers the ways in which the colonists shaped this process,
were inspired by reform culture in Britain and became known to each
other. Blanchard was introduced to Pringle, now based in London, through
the intervention of the United Secession Church. Pringle also met with
 INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF DISSENT 19

Lang and invited him to consult with John Fairbairn when Lang stopped
off in Cape Town on his return journey to Sydney. With the help of their
contacts—particularly, in Blanchard’s case, the Secession—the colonists
lobbied government, visiting the office of Joseph Hume (1775–1855), a
radical MP who had ties to the Scottish dissenting community and access
to the Colonial Office. Without a direct communication channel to the
colonial secretary, colonists used personal contacts from their own net-
works to pressurise the government.76 This chapter draws attention to the
significance of Scottish dissenting networks, whose role in colonial lobby-
ing is too little known. As Miles Taylor has shown, Hume’s knowledge of
Indian affairs strengthened his commitment to parliamentary reform at
home.77 His dealings with Lang, Pringle, McCulloch and Mackenzie, this
book suggests, also shaped Hume’s politics. Tellingly, following successive
meetings with his colonial visitors, Hume—described by Taylor as ‘the
virtual member for the empire’78—introduced in July 1831 an amendment
to the reform bill in the House of Commons, calling for greater represen-
tation for the colonies and an end to Anglican privilege in regions of
Scottish settlement overseas.
Chapter 6 concludes by endorsing the view of Taylor: that the limits of
the whigs’ reform agenda generated a backlash across the empire.79 Part II
of the book examines how this backlash unfolded. Blanchard and
Mackenzie returned home disappointed; Pringle and Fairbairn thought
Hume’s proposals did not go far enough. In Scotland, as described in
Chap. 7, where dissenters were for the first time politically enfranchised, a
reinvigorated campaign for the reform of the established Church culmi-
nated in Chartism and the Disruption of the Kirk; these events sent shock-
waves across the British empire. It is difficult fully to understand the nature
of colonial unrest after 1832 without first taking stock of the Scottish
political climate. As Chap. 8 explains, Scottish church politics impacted on
Upper Canada and Nova Scotia as demands there for reform intensified. A
radicalised Mackenzie headed a rebellion in 1837. He hoped to establish
a republic in Canada. Before he commenced his armed attack, Mackenzie
employed the covenanting idiom in his newspaper, aiming to attract sup-
port from the Scottish Presbyterian community. Perhaps unsurprisingly,
his uprising became known as the ‘Scotch rebellion’.
The collapse of Britain’s ancien regime also reverberated, Chap. 9 sug-
gests, in Cape Town. Reformers here, who were still trying to secure rep-
resentative government, and later responsible government, were stimulated
by Disruption politics in Scotland and the church-state conflicts of Canada
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