(08-09-2015, 11:47 PM)SSlater Wrote: If anyone hasn't read "A Report of J. Thompson" posted in our "New York Crowd" post at Post #13 (Click on the highlighted https://archive/cihm_ 49664# page? n4/mode//up) It is the history of Jacob Thompson term of office in Canada, and one very important reading of all that Thompson accomplished and why it turned out as it did.
Slight correction. It's post #33.
Here is another link to the report.
https://archive.org/stream/cihm_49664#page/n4/mode/1up
I found page 4 of the repot very interesting.
I don't know if by this time he's getting paranoid but " The bane and curse of carrying out anything in this country is the surveillance under which we act. Detectives or those ready to give information stand at every street corner. Two or three can not interchange ideas without a reporter" and
"The Presidential election has so demoralized the leaders of the order of the "Sons of Liberty" that a new organization under new leaders has become an absolute necessity"