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P *~% } ple, and nothing that the people could do; | that speech showed evidence of the highest | could wrest that power from their hands. | | eloquence, and probably that was not to be Was that a state of affairs that any people wondered at when he stated that th'at gen-- with spunk in their constitution would tlemen was the father of Hon. Edward willinily submit to? It was difficult to im-- | | Blake, who was himself a well--known ora-- agine how one would feel if he lived in a tor. Mr. Blake said :-- P certain age--half a century lfi"--"d he That loyalty, which is ever ready to extend did not know what his individual predilec-- %nd'qtrtqnuth:g l"i'::?it];;;mfl?:'?b::tg: t hh ; bui & tions would have been it he had been living px:p;::' }:"l'wt loyalty, but slavery. | It cannot then, with the feeling of a grown--up M&AD ; | _| rosult in stren tnen{ng the connoction of this but as -- often as he read the story | | country v;lithlfinmlnn}l. B:Itmg;t l':g'tl t"m':i',';t M * a n the allegiance 0 e ho fls sen e t n on | |Winioienatinnetioniihee and submit to in connection with those | | 1.:.:0;..: :19 lé'fin} from hon. 'genclemen oppo-- troubles his strongest sympathies had al--| | ste: Loyu;ltyl to my Suoeg ;s :er:t:gw:;tdan% wg,h been with those .099"'"'.1 and against | L:'::: SLmy Wa:'l:g shall _ nover be want: those whom he believed might fairly be ' ing when its aid may be required. . . . c?llod the oppressors of that time. (Ap--| | But nla"{)'"fi"" }t. ha'ieh no symtxl):'t'?eyn v;;'t'l;os:ao plause.) ' He was not there to say that so | |-- would--be loyality of hon. ESA ] k y s P ch, while it at alltimes affects peculiar zcal take ~up arms against the constituted ;'(;Llit';::;[';'er: d live olthe Crownistrertready to l:thont:y of the day was a meritonon; sacrifice thefiibertiy %;' the aubjectl. 's.lht" h;' nimlt thing, but he was there to deprecate, wit British loyalty, itis the spurjous loyalty which all tfi:a emphasis of which hil: nature was | . atull ll):rii':l't:) O:J-l*)'o""}';';"d' ty ';:,'!::s';g': capa.b%e, any such idea as the House passing | !'.}.';'l;gf"- fas boen applied by the éa"'"" knight Mernge aoce time sit We heam | UNTHID ponietedantnenproned anet Shes n u issatis-- eir 3 C fied, andponwhic}?" n;':":i'f;e involved n:-lc not regelu to their constitution and coun-- an expression of disapprobation of the try. course taken by them . at that time In that eloquent speech the ho:;; 8e"fle'| They were not called upon to take such man called attention to the fact that there | action. Fortunately that trouble had passed | _ W*$ such a thing as rebellion to the Crown away, and it was the duty of the House to and rebellion to the constitution. While deprecate and frown down any attempt to | _ there. Wwas On0 p";']y (k)nowu we : vhose revive those bygone issues. He was aston-- rebelling against the Crown, the other ished 'at the offort made to revive those| party had been. constantly. in rebellion issues. Even within the short time of ten | against the constitution--against the con-- or fifteen years after these things took | stitution as the word is generally under-- place the iarliament of this country was | . 84994 from a British point of view, willing to let bygones be bygones, both as BELONGED TO THEM HIMSKLF, | regards those who took up arms against the He felt a difficulty in addressing the Government and those who took up arms in | ; House upon this subject, because it was its defence, and to treat them in the same | _( one upon which he felt very warmly, He manner. They all knew that the Rebellion | belonged to a family which was among those | Losses Bill, which was adopted by the Par-- not satisfied with the state of things at | liament of that day, was not a bill for the that time--a family some of whom took an | indemnification alone of those who took up active part in the difliculties of the time. arms and those who suffered losses thercby, His own father was understood to be but for those also who were sympathisers a sympathiser with the insurgents and was with the rise, and who, many of them, as such taken a prisoner. lt was not like-- had taken part as insurgents in that affair ly, then, that he (the speaker) could take and who lost by it. 'The Rebellion Losses any course in the discussion of this quest.on Bill provided for the payment of indemnity which would, impliedly or otherwise, ex-- to the latter as well as the former. There press disapprobation of the course which was a disposition on the part of the people his father had taken. (Applause.) He of this country, and certainly on the part hated to hear people prate of loyulty or to of the majority of the })cople, as represent-- blow their own trumpet, but he thought ed by the Parliament of that time--not to that as the son of an insurgent of 1837--or revive those issues, but to bury them out a rebel, if they should like to call it that-- of sight--to treat all alike, insurgents as he was entitled to some consideration in the well as the othors, living, as they then were, matter of loyalty. As he said before, he under the form of responsible governmeont, did not appreciate those who preached loy-- and reaping, as they then were, the fruits alty lousest, or made the biggest pro-- of the crisis which had taken place and fessions of that sort of thing, but which had bestowed upon this country a even if he was a son of Tone who constitution which was in spirit as well as was one of the malconteits of 1837, h in _ name _ a _ free and _ enlightened probably had as satisfactory a record of his constitution. (Applause.) The Government own to show to this House and country as of that day was willing to wipe out all any man who sat in the House or was to be these old scores, to bury the past, and to found in this country. (Applause.) From live in peace and amity--an example which his student days he had worn her Majesty's t!xe hon. gentleman who moved the resolu-- uniform, and had been among those sent tion would have done well to follow. out t,(; (!;) duty, not at nl tim(;) when there REBELS OF A LATER DAY. was strife among ourselves, but when ou » It was trie that while the mutlofity of borders were threatened by aliens fron!; the people were in favor of that couJue, yand gnot.her la.nfi. He haa taken hjs part then while the bill provided for the indemnifica-- in: preventing inteloulabie anischisf 'and tion of all, there were those who at that damage by & band of marauders, He had time were the extremely loyal people of also in the subsequent troubles of 1885 the courtry, and who did not hesitate to been at the services of his country. become the rebels of 1849. . (Appluuse.) l{o had seen over 30. years of ser-- There were those who because the majority vice, and he was still in | harness of the members of Parliament thought fit to and ready to take up arms on behalf of this pass a measure dealing with this country for the purpose of defending it subject were mot above --rebeliion on against foreign invaders,or to quell i"'"fiof' their own sccount, they were not above dination when called upon by his superior exhibiting to this * soubtry <and -- to the oflicers or the proper authority in that be-- world the spectacle of a Governor--General half. _It was therefore very natural that he Béing duly rotten--egged at their hands, and should be opposed to any action that would the Parliament buildings, then at Montreal impliedly, even in the remotest degree, cast being burnt. . He mésant to say that, Com. a reflection upon his ancestors or relatives paring those troubles of 1837 and 1839, he connected with the troubles of 1837. \What-- would infinitely prefer those who were ever might be said with regard to those j called the insurgents of 1837 to those who troubles, no one could deny that . refused to submit to an enlightened Gov-- great good had been the result. | erament in 1849 and were partics to the Anyone who read the report made outrages that then took place. . (Applause.) by Lord Durham would agree with him l He would read an extract from a lpoec.h ; that if the people of that day were to be a delivered in Parliament at that time by a | free people at all, they.could not lenger |gevnlemnn who certainly in the course of