Tell me, Axe-Grinder, how came you to grind axes?
Did some rich man tyrannically use you?
Was it John A.?
CROSS ROADS.
Dr. (now Sir) Chas. Tupper was a warm advocate of Confederation, and did more than any other public man to induce his native Province, Nova Scotia (Acadia), to enter the Union in 1867. Hon. Joseph Howe, a much greater statesman than Tupper, and a man of vast influence, was amongst the opponents of the measure in question, and was suspected of a preference for annexation to the United States. In the cartoon the Province is represented as halting between the two opinions, and the loyal artist takes pains to point out that the advantages are all in the way that leads “to Ottawa.”
Diogenes, November 20th, 1868.
CROSS ROADS.
SHALL WE GO TO WASHINGTON FIRST, OR HOW(E)?