The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 19 Jan 1876, p. 2

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ob pOrERAITOLOY UL _ WIUS U _ U o L2b Een tlne proved. The general Aot was sufficlent for the purpose,and he asked the House withouthest-- tation to rejeot all special B--lis for which general legisiation was provided, Mr. ROBINSON said that the Attorney-- General bad voted for the Bill whea it was first brought in. Now he objected to it He VCV Anovar ce us P mp. 7. C EC CT AARIT T .lV\Da-' CET mm oE EP was joined to bis idols and they r.nlght par baps let him alone. If 1t had not baen for the Orange Assnclation there would have been more volunteors biting the dust at the time of the Fenian Raid. He allegod that the question would bonb'r:)ught up agala u:| A ASOH a power, eut Yamy NZ RCOg! C000 EP P ation showed that the general Act did not suit thotr organization, There were, bow-- ever, political reasors, in and out of the U s M CCA (Aubbkausd"sma Finv. ©veRp P es s PCR TT s lke t Eonse.k whish bound and fottared the Gov» f ernwent, and prevented their psssing this Bill. _ The Oraugemen would continus to agitate, and they should agitate, He did not speak with any opposition to Roman ('atholice, but the leader of the opposition to this BiJl was a Catholio--the Commissionsr if Pablia Woarks--whose actin had done more to keep up this agitation thau any other man. Ho thought this orier was en-- titled to special ivcorporation. 'The resson for the psssege of this general Act was in woOusd M CC EC EC CElt m: R Attorney--General had made the question a political one, sincs bhe had expressed himsalf as in favour of the inco=poration. Soms other \ reasors than public ones were oe'rh\nly Al:'- t L a W ¥i _ 00L KIGL han | fluepcing his miad. order -- to _ answer --« the _ UVrangemon. Tke -- Order re{fused to _ get _ incor-- poration _ by a back -- door, but they claimed a right to obtain the Act in the light of éay, This matter was not a political k acdircne! Aud Eogt uestion, I{it wera, there wore more gen:-- (tllsmcn on the Opporition side that wmfl:?Q be affected by it than on the Governmsnt miae, He thought members should vote as thoy pleased, inrtead of being influenced by the opinion of the Government. Very meny Orangemen wished the question to be an on-- tirely non--politicsl question,. He supposeA the motion would be defeated, but that would rot end the matier, for the organization would not be put off, He :ogre"tiod thn: the It warsa bigh--handed | act for the Government to advise His Honour to reserve the Bill. The Attornsy-- General had said there was no need for dis: cussion, but he bad forgotten that there wore many now members in the House whoss opinions had a right to go to the country; the representatives of the poople had a right to bave their voices hea:d, Ho knew that influences that should not bhave baen brought to bear upon the Attorney--General had boen brought to bear ugpon him -- Perhaps the Ocmmi{scioner ol Pablic Works, who had formerly made an attack upon this respect-- able body, which had created a stroug feeling in Toronto and in the country, would not repeat the attack on this oscasion. The . whole responsibility for these anuual rectim-- Inctions gpon this Bill fell upon the Attorney-- General, for It his Government bad ad: viced the Lieutsnant Governor to assent to the Bill the trouble _ would have been ended long ago. He hopod the Orangemen would press for thair rights in a pesceable manner, . Ho believad that no | other influences than Roman Catholie infla-- | ences had brought about the veto of the Blli. Many Roman Catholics were of the opinton that this annual strite should cease. Ho weuld never refure to _ Rowman Catholics the same prvileges which hs now atked for a Protestant body. _ Supposa the Orangemen wer» organizod like the Evangelical Alliarce, of which the Attorney: Goneral was President, to resist the aggres-- glops of Roman Catholiclsim, what would the Goverament say if they asked incorporation. Mr. PATTERSON (Essex) said he had never thought until to night that the Tory pariy was a party of intolerance. There might have been some juaetlf. catien for the organization of _ such a society as the Oranga one in lrehnd some C 2 a es s P c o o meama in tha mll'lll.,' mR Nesm N N C mee 1 in stiming up religlous animositles where otherwire they would not exist. The old time principles of the Tory party were far re-- movid from the ciap trap cries which were brovgk$ into this House and country by poli-- ticlars who were incapavule of formiag a plat-- ferm of their own, and so fell back upon thkese misorable religiona orlss. (Loud chears.) "This Blll was a direct slap io the face toevory Romer Catholio whom the Tory patty had elected;it was saying to them **We want you, but we must put our mark upon you,." (Hear, hear,and laughter. ) The motion was ca'c;llt'ted WEL se ie iigh o ut t EesE esA ncE CC C w d l ard he teare?l was intended to stir ap religl« ous animosities in this country. TheOrange body were in the hablt of boastlag of their loya'lty ar d their religion; in fact they seamad . . C C A%0 L4 Daskantawke Hha e e e e s n t 4 004 We P to regard peascable quiet Protastaute like himself as a lot of hall Fenlans, (Laughter. ) He claimed to be as loyal a man as the groatest Grand Manter of them _ all. (Laughter); and his experionce had lod him to believe that those who wers continualiy :boafinga * Loyaity" and .' Rellfillon" had less of both these commodities than those who made less fuss about the mattor. (Hear, hear.) The principles of such men as ( Cnnnl:g, sieks J RCC & es C s fes ooo o n Peel, and Pitt were the genuine Tory prin« ciples of the past, and is was by a humble adherence to such principles as these that he (Mr. Patterson) rested his clailim to be a member of the Tory party--not upon the eupport of such narrow, stupld, intolerant, and bigoted views as the Torles of this House were advancing. (Cheers ) He would like to know why notbing bad been heard of these Orange Bills when Sir John Macdonald or Mr. Saudfield Macdorald wore in power ? (Hear, hear) Just as soon as hon. gontle:« men cpporite got into the Treasury benches an sttempthad been made, for purposes with which he for one would not identity himselt (chesra) to appeal to religlous pre: judices and to _ arouze sectarian _ an{-- mositiss _ by -- these yearly discuss'ons on the Orange Bilis (Hear, heA'r.) ;l?he EF pogme o n Pn sls am &n 120 10 h Achauet > ms n P Honee 4 1 hon, woimmbsr for Eset Grey had refterred to the feeling which had been produced in To: ronto by one of the speeches of the Com-- misglone: of Pablic Works on this question, but thot kon, gentleman would do well in making ruch reforences to recollect of the scoundaions #znd rlotous procesdings which h54 taken place on the streets of Toromto last fall (Hear, hear ) Buch upeeches as the bon. membsr had just made were calou-- lated, fnstead of allay ing relg;ml astrife, to incrosse is and spread it throughout the whole land. It had been sald that 200,00 loyal Protestants desired the special Bill to pass, Jf _ where Wore, he (Mr. _ Patterson) could say that there were 500,000 Protestants just as loyal as the others who did not desira euch a Bill to becoms law,. (Hear, hear.) He spoke acvi~edly in saying this, for he had taken spec!sl prins to arcertain the feeling of the Protestant community in goncral in regard to the matter. It had been said by the

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