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might such men,/ Q&-}}km . MoGez ! Doubtless the understood this point _ wo ; though there "way "have been some members intimate with Montreal, individualâ€" ly interested l(itu-..lmy, and . viewing things through other than Lambâ€" tonian spectacles, that did lee? the fuil furce of Mr. Jout‘s remark that aand Mr. MceGez: merely been content to let mutters alone,â€" to keep his month shat anif his‘hand still, the Fenian excitement woul have borne a very different character. Mr. Jouy felt, as nearâ€" ly the whole country teels, that Mr, Mcâ€" Ger‘s silence, even on this question, waoulkk have heek m nullamal asnl ul‘ the population which had been grossly MWMMN. Of course! 'MWWM Moâ€" Kexzis is the citivalme defencier _ of the Irish name whble political: ante cedents, not to spedk of other acéidents or associations, foint him out as tlieir real tund % | : f ! 4 cok anch -‘.1}.. is s & :‘s: I Mr. McKeEXztE, as became him, denied all intention of mw Mr. McGer‘s character in any respect; he had merely asâ€" serted that Mr. McGaer‘s aitempt to prove the existenceâ€"of Fegianism in Montreal had husmx::gj.objmm to vindicate the loyaity of a.larze class of for space this morning to the publication of a fall report of the brilliant and exhaustive apeech of the Hon. T. D. McGaze. It is quite probable from the late hour it was got into type several errors" may have escaped corâ€" rection, but we slrall have it carefully revised for publication in the next issue of the Weehlyl Tiuzs. Arrem one of the most inercstin of the week, the Adifress was ca night, and the House adjourned a twelve. ThrOttowaCimes Governorâ€"General‘s Office, and departure by the Eastern door of the buildin 5. * We give up.the greater portion of our ar my ofrice ix I . The Departmentel . Buildings, Wrentlemen attending the Loveo will please to W-nn-me..mumufl_ biy writtenor printed on them, one to be given to the person appointed to receive them in the Corridor, and the other to the Offcer who wili anncunce ""‘"""-'llul--: the Governorâ€"Geneâ€" SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, Entrance by the door immediately under the LEV E E: The Governor General _ wWees, the Address was carried last and the House adjourned at halfpast member for Lotbiniere, Mr. Jouy oceasion will the names of| ~0.|: “'.!h'.-lb be Inne::m Inamum AT TWO O*0LOCK, P.X s NQOYRMBER 15, 1967 NEW ADVERTISEMEXN rs hnie, J. 6. 1RFINE, Oy T4.â€"Colonel, g debates w ol e 2 C CHY CeHeh nent. The Northwest, capable of maintaining many millions, was held agrasping monoâ€" poly. ru.-u.ndu-:&'-uunuoun the interests of civilization of this country, and ot the Empire. â€" Tt was the duty of either the British or Canadian Governments to open up the vast agricultural wealth of this country to s Nt Pm un _ newspapers . abolished _ throughout the Dominion. One object ofmc.,., federation, and not the least was the consolidation of British power on this conti. o t 29 l tould urge its repeal. He believed M&: talents of the gentlemen from Nova Scotia would preserve her individuality, _ If they were determined to fight out the. battle to the bitter ond it would be butter to iet them go in peace, but he was persuaded that they would soon accept the situation. He would ask if they were prepared to adopt and su & volutiomary pelicy for nyg:utb dm? ;e. thought they were not. He hoped the postage on letters would be reduced, and the pocm‘ on _ newspapers . abolished throughout tho â€" Pinmebictines Aos Ei. 8 po en Py Union were equal to all Provinces, and he was pleased to hear the last speaker say that ho would give the Coufltl:::n a fair trial. He believed all had patriot enough to do that, and if it were found '-ho-tony,oull, they could urge its repeal. He believed that the talents of the gentlemen from Nova Scotia would preserve her individualite _ Tfi s L ul """ 1POM® lorge 01435 in his constiâ€" : Mr. McKENZIE (Cape Breton), said it was 40%, the practice in Britain for members to , | legisiate away constitutions as had been done in Novea Scotin, exctr in the single case of the aunexation of réland, the history of which was written in blood. ~ He pmll: | mmmwmmmin-u Confederation had Leen carried. To say the: people of Nova Scotia had auy voice in it was a mockery. Was the question itseli good of bad? He condemmed it He was a repealer, in earunie eeninnd in h ce © wou to j h;l.t“lo, and when he could nhoildlho ruinous € of Confsderation, he could a peal to England without a charge of acuo-n':-. Mr. BODWELL said it was not his intenâ€" tion to make any remarks had the discussion not taken so wido n mige. lu:.uh-nly congratuiate the Dominion on consume mation otf Contcderation, but it was not fault. | less, He thought the Senate ought to have beon made elective. He thought a great migâ€" | take had been made in passing this scheme | without submitting it to the &aplc,‘nltgh ‘ it was scurcely necessary in Ontario, where it | was alinost ananiniously l;'ppomyd. It esta. | blished a bad precedent. hile he admitted | ‘ the ability of gentlemen ove Scotia, he | * iegretted the course they taken. He | ° thought they had overdrawn â€" picture of | * their grievances. RHe belie e benefits of | " Union were caual to all Provinass ..3 3 1@ O6L| ' i ;‘ *u'.lr‘â€"‘â€"r ESV tuency, se Mr. MeKENZTIE /m« Still it would require a great outiay, and T"IC Cestroyed it would all that wazcllritinh in Canada, lm. Mr. MceKENZIE said that he had merelv said that the honâ€"member for West Montr.a) . Lok us > se mm wer ug,4 3 i8 _ _ ""C@ to that hon. gentleman He used his power to repress his countrymen when he thought th-{ were golug too far, Compare the late élection with formet ones and witness the eoall-obl’yecto which that hoa, gentieman had beem su Qd‘ncco-qt of his patriotic efforts. Me had placed his w ole lntercsts at the command of his adopted country, and he shouldâ€" be the high honor of ) He went on to define Conâ€" federation. _ He had ndl â€" > but theâ€"dic was now‘ HBMI] wat 2. Mr. JOLY (Lotbiniere), sait as the hon. member for Montreal West was absent, on aoâ€" count of illness, he said the country owed a debt of gratitude to that hon. gentleman 13. mm _ «z___ . _ "OB" poWer on this conti. The Northwest, capable of maintaining T | ; | Jonmepmmnene o .V ~3 4n ces hoi ..m t "'â€"," i :.i?er‘ln:}y Inited In w‘.'.',m hfuatuls 2 k "T Mr#* F. JONES did not think it neces sary to refer to the manner in which elections were cartied in Ontario, ‘That was over now. Under the circumstances he felt the necessity of Coalition, notwithstanding al! that bad heen suid against it. He had given his vote for Confederation, partly from the iar political situation of the country, arâ€" E::‘ from sectional views, rendering lcg‘aln- tion impossible. He tefetreid to the oneness of views existing between the member As‘ Hon, ss}jdfiiwwifikcfi\':'nb said ne. gociations were going on, would be able to lay explanations before the House in a day or two. Mr. HOLTON demanded an to what m:dhd beenâ€"taken t ~ The SPEAKER took o‘clogk. 8 _ 0 . _ [ i kenvieman stated, it was desirable to have these matructions, together with the Union Act, printed with the new edition of .lhfr E.‘l::' and Olnlon of the House.â€"Carried. P . NPE piaces each week, and by what route or routes they were sent. s ADDRE=®, Hoo. Mr. CAMPBELL moved for an Adâ€" dreas to His Excelienoy pray ing him to comâ€" municate to this House, any royal instrucâ€" tions received by him respecling the passage of Bille by Purliament. | The hon. gentleman stated, it was desirable 1 }? M\'o‘thn matruetions, together with the for those places each ruute or routes they we LEFoRTNXG THE peBatks, A general conversational discussion ain took place on the motion of Hon. Mr..wil- mot for s commitiee to enquire at what,coat the debates of the House could be reported and printed. Some hon. members favored the appointment of such a committee : o::eu Snfimd leaving the matters in the hands of he Committee on Contingent Accounts, and by consent of the House the inotion was amended so #a to refer it to that Committee. l It was then put and parried. _ . MAILS To Tuk Lowkr raoviscr®s. . Hon. Mr. STEEVES gave notice that he would inquire to morrow of the Postmaster General, whether daily mauils were made up in this city for Nova Scotia and New Bruns wick ; if not how many mails were made un Hon,. Mr. MeCLELANX inquired of the Government if the report that two gentlemen appointed to this Chamber from New Brunsâ€" wick had declined acceptance of their seats was correct, ami if so, had those vacancies been filed, and by whom ? ; ‘ Hon. Mr. CAMPBELL answered â€"that there were two vacancies for New Brunswick in' the House, umt they were about to be fillâ€" ed up, The House then adjourn«} Tucksoay, November 14, 1861. Tile SPEAKER took the chair at three o'el-la. CANADIAN PAUAMENT, :2 un-u I.H";w ;';fl‘.'?': 'oy‘:} [ «auld M o ho Diten After the presentation of petitions, ‘er routine. HOUSE OF COMMOXSs "y vemarks had the discussion ido n mage, l-fluhnnly he Dominion on the consume fcderation, but it was not fault. ight the Senate ought to have Lk â€" sw PF > tar PAQ had beenâ€"taken to replace J ces Puvespay, N THE SENATE e people, although it &?fli where it upported. 1t esta. While he admitted ALLAMENT : 11 SESSIONX motion of Hon. Mr. Wi) ee to engiiire at what coat House could be reported e hon. members favored t such a committee : omehl Isquiry at ofa Scotchman, , but the people it princi and ble p!_o mprl:-'csme Â¥, Nov. 14, 1867, the Chair at three explanation as Ee ee" y 0°° Fod hard .styluyts .duting his lato h.&'\ cauy. paign, 1 presume to call him); I regretted much to hear him so repeatedly nsothe sortm‘, whonever he spoke, * “"“‘“‘.'7-"{": wy from Hants, h::: "af ylunt 1 N, o e mmet r-Tu or _ " new % y a deliberate and wel conzkm the Sovereign, to begin a new set of journals, which wo'nll trust ug':no-chfln precious records of a great, people. .(Cheers. I regretted -lchtohcummw‘ from Hants, for so (notwithstanding suckain fum oo ment on ies srothere A0in aded, s L ie CEg 'A!lfll ad defend, many thousands ’ P Arov M‘:l‘:“lfi:ol trnu’ re: This " oflives and many mA y e 3@ tested with gallant "coveted, so bravely cu; prvagin it i/ w :colnpeu‘tzgl;"l‘:.o'.."lb of. my limperial # mu. to you and yours, to "'hnwbh:‘l:fi";h tr‘low)bfi “I-M“puw ht h":.‘(“.b- the pasâ€" ol’ t::qunion Act, â€"and if deeds wc:‘u as 4 :)‘Cll as words, (whivh thay bitenâ€"&re to thoss made up _ ife uW O A* bost I can. ‘Her Majosty '-i‘ht have said on mwqunfifn tofor, @ (:enthnen of the four uuuk,r» #® vinces, 1 transfer to your chargo and kgopâ€" ® ing, all those parts of North America which "remmined faithful: to the King, my grandâ€" " father, after the secesston of out other Ameriâ€" " can posscssions. I transfar to your charge and # keeping, a vast tcml?(k vh't:h the Kings # my predecéssors Bate clung to with a doâ€" * termined resolution for three centurics : for " the possession of which we seven tfmel " went to war with powerful.rivals : which ip uk c uke Py td Min« PMIVAIC@C 0° tno previous 10101 C Plhm,o'( Mr. ,Sp.tz,'udu my which" will be grateful hcreafter to every momber of this Honsé who has nog.had formerly that privilege; Phig P"u-na 8ir, over. which..you bu:.hu chosen with unanimityâ€"to pr meetszhere in what was called the other night" the backâ€" woods ot Canada," uud-rdfis: , but in the main, what I canunot but> ink, fortaniate auspices. ~Contrary to foolish ramots which had been let looge by their fookish authors, no member for the new Domiloion is abscut from his seat; we meet with full benches, and with ‘an lx:cnuu strong enough ;x‘a exâ€" perience a5d in , to a Ralutary certainty to mm-um meastires they may propose to this House. (Heary We meet in the Capital of the Bovereign‘s choice in obedicace to . the Soversign‘s summons ; lnlbl trust, and believe, we are all here to ‘ AFTER RECES. M _ The SPEAKEIH took the chair at eight u‘clock. Mr. McGEEâ€"Mr. Speakor : Although we all must teel the inconvenie of a proâ€" longed discussion on the AE«., 1 trust the House will zl.t me its kind indul. fave ruggented Thomestres to ont mind during ive ves to my m the course of this interesting L hrfl-at discassion, (Hear.) In doing so, sit, l make my mnd ::' the .‘-nh-u‘ â€" position: you oee to present posssssor ; a most grateral duty to sny one, who h-'hoq'i]t‘h- m &, Spnt':,'ouu % w*l thn "ifedÂ¥ntii® m se P P er mt ol VOVS | General and Local Governments had en« : deavored to bring out candidates in opposiâ€" tron to Reformers, wherever the could, in | the face of Mrpthy ol‘y desired a | fair trinl, which sach ers were willing | to give. He would maintain that the éclec. tions in Ontarie 'ur; :ot urtud" rlnem;fi !:w country approved of the policy of the nigâ€" try. | He objected to the non#inalion of Sene. tors by the Crown, arguing that if they . were elected, Nova Seotia conld not complain, that she bad no ftepresentation of her peculiar views in the Senate, and he Wotild not oppose repeal in that particular." After a lengthy speech, he resumed his seat araid cheers, 2ob en enc 3. 11 being six o‘clock, the Spertker left the C t. on n s n e it head, ‘an absolute equality mainâ€" g:ol:,.\vhllo m..onl.oal Go‘v.e!rfinenh of Onâ€" tarioand Quhehd..-nthnrphud.b« of the Inte Province of Oshada. He believed the tariff should bedqwered instead o'nix, as trade should be mrfrecas possible. In ref ence to defence we had the guarantce of the Imâ€" perial Government that its whole power would be given for our assistance, and with the volunteers our position would be safe, as: ho believed the people of the United Btates had no desire for war. > ‘The safte feeling existed in the South as before it was conquered, and if the United States provoked war with this country or .lulud’ the South would gain its independence. He referred to the banking ‘ :\hm of last Session. He ‘h:d voted for it, t it was on the ass Athe Governâ€" ment that it wouTd nmguied'?thv Governâ€" ment debentures could besold. He had been deceived. He argued that tht failure of the Commercial Bank was tho,.tesult of the manner in which the ‘scheme had been carâ€" tied out. ‘The questionat the lats election in Ontario ~was whether the Government which | bad camicd the scheme should b« allowed ‘to | : put it in workin‘udnjbnt Ministers of both| Py ie D been sent to Nova Scotis for public works than had been ruceived from it. The debt of‘t.hoi Dominion was distributed at Mr. OLIYVER had great pleasure in say ing that he agreed with the answer to the apeech. He believed Confederation would result in great good to the whole Dominion, and while sympathising with the Nova Scotians in their objections to the manner of carry ing the ticaâ€" sure inâ€" that Province. he was aoriswad shue __M. TREMBLAY, Chicoutimi, next addressâ€" ed the House in French. Mr. CABMiCHAEL, Pictou, explained the manner in which the election in his county had been carried. He objected to Nava Scotia occupying a position of inferiority and existing by sufferance. * . " TDUINIZg PNC Doon said in tie m M Reciprocity Treaty. W'J. asters predicted from the repeal of that treaty | bad not been {uililled, We had rmpt«l, but it was partly due to the demands mf" :r:n uce by the Americag , but when ;?:o’x?:'mlour state of uflm’pu‘ed away we would feel the want of the treaty, although he still believed we could UHve‘ vm“'& At the election he had taken the position that party govurnment was the only true onc, and although he would accept good measures from a purcly ‘Conservative goreriment he would prefer a purely Reform one. He could not forget that.the Hon. Mipister of Public Works had said that if the Reform party ask. ed him to do so he would leave the Govern. ment aud take his position in the Reform ranks. If the goverhment brought down economical measures they nceed not fear facâ€" tious opposition. He believed hou. gentle~ men in the House had risen above tho «epirit | of sectionalism. (Applause.) \ Olner, _ He ht defence should by pro. 159, bat all the resoutfoce of This conkiny should not be lrpmprhud to that object, He believed the United States would nut pre» cipitate a causeless war by iovation ; but it was right that we «hould, prepare to meet kwln:‘&ndn“k-unt of June, |gc, but not to assume ttitude of munage, .Be segretted | that nothing had been said In (%e @pegh Jn CEOVY o Emm TegTe (T C ". 70. . _ " VVâ€" | can, one country ; we are all ,,,,,vfi._.-:.. ‘un:u he f:Tl fl::uw feeling of loyalty exâ€"| of us, if in bone “., which mmm tended from one end of the D\lmh)iuh‘ to the | to : gisliate :‘o:..th- foutr Provinces (and other, _ He ht defence should by proâ€" | Brilish Auei ultimately) as one country ; Uided o¢, um.&.a..an.r. vonntry | and the hour that we "r-.a that bar, to should mot be appropriated to that olj«ct.. take the oath of Membership in the Parlia He believed the United States would nut preâ€"} ment of the Domiaton of Canada, we assum. cipitate a causeless war by fovation ; but it}led the character ot fellowâ€"countrymen even was right that we «hould, prepare to meet | mors bindingly, than we had it betore, The lnb..‘“tou..m.u..: of June, 1866, but not | bon. member and those who may agree with to assume an_attitude of menage..Be segrotted | him. have already made thair ayul2;{=8"%® * OJ We _ WV PC ' L fully. Me if No so (notwithstanding , certain ""0, envire . Daminfop» / Mr. soon as we were assembled f we had the spsech‘ from the under consideration.; but there N° HeWmSyo, we are all hvn‘ to t of that Constitution, which ‘ve Soptlin®rere to ho l:mdddmmh. the other lato hastibg‘t cam. r’ #o be a source etbetrength, there would in assaming new burdens nTmu the felt that the f afies by a allasion to L4] PC t w aadliiimss: Slities c t been urged against this Union as a corrupt taint in its very conception, that it was brought about »0 as to settle a chronic constitutional uarrei, between Upper and Lower Canada ; sit, I a{mit that was one reason tor the Union, annd a very good and excellent reason it was ; but there were other motives and hlnu-,J floreign .and domestic} at work . in I COOF mem nV Li ucssc ple fo ind increase of favor on Mm flull«ue;mdthhwldhthuhn cu:u:a:::.::; ‘:’-mu-or, In'o-‘h‘ t on in the first terested interposition ‘“:le hon. ne-l:rr-;orhn::m Co-pto:, , Morris and Mr. Pope,) sanctioned by slolut.ue:‘nhulw%nn,authw vote oi the Opposition of that day. It has (TRTTINRROITY dRA EL P w t w in the u3. , _ ; _ "CAUence at Quebec, So fatr from @lanyning over it for an hourt," the joint weet‘z of ministers over which I had. the hono: to preside, listened for ncarly that space wo an ardent appeal from the hon. memâ€" ber to take up the Union question conjointly with t ic railroad, and whea we who agteed with him found ourselves a minority, we conâ€" soled ourselves with the reflection, that the raid would render the Union, bye and bye a necossity. (Loud cheers.) 1 mention these facts t» show, that whoever else was taken by surprics by the design of a Canadian Union, the hon. member tor Hants certain‘y was not, but though men may halt, or â€"may drop off, «avents will not stand still ; and accordingly in ‘64, w â€" found that uu:rw.-lly the of Uniâ€"n, both east a west, had m: Lrightâ€"ned up. Between March 63 and June ‘8¢, w5 had three unsuccessful Canadian adâ€" minis: rationg,a state of things which every one saw could not contine in this country. This E‘P Mr. Brown‘s Constitational committes hoay. ,p4 _ [f " ) Eieaianot Unive. {Hear, hear, and chbeers.) The hon. member ;?ld‘;hlo“olhr “MM be brought in his s U iion reaoln: satisly my esteemed friens, Mr. Johr 'l‘oblnl the former member for HM«lifax city ; if so I am happy to know that 1ir. Tobin had so much and such a salnâ€" tary influence upon the hou. memter ; but he was n :tâ€"I refer only to what Iam personally . a wit: +ss ofâ€"quite correct, as to what too‘{ place {i cousequence at Quebec. So far from ret io uesA Bb c ds 11 u22 in relition to the Intercolonial Rallroad, how mucl they regretted with me, that the then Government of Canada proper, head«d by the hon,. member for Corawali, could not be inâ€" duced to take up the question of Union. (Hear. uc PPY C E C i WO eb sn dn i ccc c in 2 mou»:y, the Union resolution read for other night, by the hon. member behil (Dr. ‘Cupper.) I well remember i when the hon. member with one, much regret for the -holtlhnnu., now with us, &l:r. Archibald,) the hon. tor n ar me (Mr. Tilley,) and other ; men from New Brunswick came to ( in re:stion to the Intercolonial Ruil... i tov‘aces, especially in Nova Sootia, the movement for â€" UYnion was simultaâ€" neots with ou: own. In 61 the hon. mem‘er for Hants, (Mr. Howe,) moved and the lm“l'lllltl'l:!“ Nova Scotia carried unaniâ€" mainator Alus Wrek S 22200 un ‘ 22 22 ®" mSamand Head, had ised in his -p.e.n,".:memama-mo-mm Imp; sial authorities. 'l‘h-.m,thohou. miâ€"ter of Militis, the hon. member . for fi:mh-, and tblollo-. lr.“lou,l then in ag! ind, did actually‘ bring it ; in 1859, the " .?:’mâ€"lor- 001::40. declared in "en- eral (*n:'lfit:“l:o,m principle ; as a meet ing e wetr Canada 0”““, with which I, at that time ;c.ud, also M'l about the same period., the other Provinces, ~especially in Nova @=® ble and n __.....-..-unl: 0f so many able and patriotic men, steadi y prosecuted through several years, when he ventures to Asperse the motives of our colleagues in this work and to discredit the work iteeltâ€"it is Aecessary that some Unionist, who knows all the fucts, should rise before the close of this debars, to vindicate both the work and the work men, (Cheers.) It will be remembered by all who hear me that the Mofthlmdo-l in was t :‘l"‘!l lm-..n n!!.‘“;-l.m m n20u8, ho e e f wonkâ€" | country." ‘This Act I” '&“‘ of '.'M we be groat | were dummoned here, in Queen‘s name, anocessâ€" | constitutes us, so far as a Constitutional Act Fenianâ€" |’ can, one country ; we are all here, every man ib C 1 B8 F THE OTTAW A [IMy83, NOVEMBER on of ‘64, which nro .._......:: o except & the '“md. md increase of favor «on both of use ; and this again led to the Canadian im s# dr c LTIES d WTBn dag sn w lLy C3 0004 CZs AEATCEIONR + | (cheers) ; and iif as Lord Bacon said, in re. p comdnlaing the ldogflon of the name of t | Britain, in the reign of James 1st, a name has <] * much impression and enchantment in it," | i beiiwre we kave chosen the best . one ‘which ] wes loft to us, and one which we may bhope, | ali our descendants, if not ourselves, will be proud to bear, to defend, and to fllustrate, (Cheors.) â€" Mr, Speaker, the Union is estab. lished, and we are here, or ought to by, all of u4 fibllonlth; and I quite agree with the hon. member for Cumberland (Dr. ‘Tupper), that It would be much to be duplored, both here and at home, and beyond our limite, if the impression was allowed topnlnodb&on this House especially, that our Act of Union was carried by means of intrigue, corruption and coercion. No such stain must be allow. ed to rest upon the fair ropute of this great tramsaction ; no such false version of the fruts must be allowed to go uncontradicted into goneral and permanent ciroulation; and I stand here"prepared to maintain thy alleguâ€" tions in the Address, that not only as to its substance, but as to the mode of its prepara. tion and passage into law this British Amerâ€" icr ‘Act, is a glorlious and most tiimely charter, for which we have all > cause to be thankfal. (Cheers). As one . of the least of its promoters, cognizant, I beâ€" | lieve, of every step of its ro.n-, from the | tirst rnde sketch scarce hal designed at Charâ€" | , lottetown, in Neptember, ©64, to the finished | i pice» of legislation, vompleted at Westminâ€" | iter, in ‘67, as we now have it here ; I stand | : up to maintain, that all its provisions wetre | i (VC EVE s erenancinnes dher can d t V gu s c 0 o neement AuF q noEs 4+ tions ; Cuud.]h:. name familiar to all eduâ€" cate«i people in‘England, France and America, (cheers) ; and lif as Lord Bacon said, in ro. comloliing the adoption of the name of Britiin, in the rsign ofgunec 1st. a name has M not if such oulh}.bo s :o :::l‘d“m bm1 Mlcu..wm he ?" when the hou. gentleman goes farther personal vindicationâ€"when he attempts rude hndu on this work of so many gui ue is y Nee THe him, have already made their election in comâ€" ing herw ; they have already acknowledged the Union, and sealed their acceptance of it with a most selemn oath ; they cannot, there. fore, be in the Union and out of it, at one and the same time ; and :{ respectfal sug. tion to the gentlemen of that ofillon-fi, & they should fn in the which they have given, c nll‘ud gracefully as the hon. members from Westmoreland and Guysboro‘ did when they spoke, and so let us proveed, to hold common council, for a com. mon country. (Cheers.) This Act says : "Canada shall be divided into four Provinces, Prickmellse > PicsNers N ks part, should geraihas c aud ECCC L n. No such stain must be allow. upon the fair ropute of this great ; no l.w_:h false version of the frots resolution tead for us the hon. member behind me, well remember in 1862 _ ths hon. member . for ) Hon. Mr, Ross, then in y‘so bring it ; in 1859, the ivention declated in genâ€" Federal MN’L" & mber behind me, | iOudly behind our b m-her in 1862 ;"-"'oo-ldnoth | one, who, 1| fence; who sit h his House, is not | but on ‘a three 1. ) the bon. minis. | those boid accusers mm -"L“?.:t.“’" her @ M ‘M al Railroad. how -nhnu..:.m...m committeo , hear.) If British o ns 7 nou :7,.‘ to all muo.:' ‘e (Cheera) ; our Union, e or corrupâ€" , seems now, | Among (he on or profode s ort th, hotn A 0 pre, udices .ml‘ li::::vu: against the Union, was ‘.h"., Seins aftireet Soiae mar p ho Legiataiins ‘impudently assymed to be a caté in polnt . 8, will be illustrate, is estab. by, all of as to its prepara. a Amerâ€" timely 7 VW Of Frince Edward‘s Island, the whol: Dominion owes a debt of mfltfi. % 1 truat will be repaic, with intorost. (¢ ph J Whenever such an Unionist presents ‘Wimself in public or in private life, throughout . this wide Dominion let his very presence bring a welcome with it, and let his name be a‘ title of honor for us and for our children, Hoar, hear.) 1 do not blame all thoke who ruot original Unionists; T do not blame the j wise and good men, who could not, of . cannot yet sce, this cause as we see it ; but I do blame those who had recourse to nrein. in lay 50C ENS ..:.b-&-:uu---ponm n laudatory terms of the pua .(flou who nldedr!{lm, in his abotive a!.lt-l:?ph deâ€" feat this Union. Bir, I am quite willing that t(}u public conduct of the friends .«'5.. of Union, in all the Provinces, should be = trasted, as often and as openly as »l??:c whether greater moral courage was shown in swimming with the current of local prejudices, or against it in the Maritime Frovinges every mau can judge, and I will say for my part, that to the fortitude, the energy and the deâ€" termination of the Maritiimne U my hou. friends near me (Mesers. Tilley and Tupper), not fergetting the gallant and faith» ful few of Priace Edward‘s Island tha what« 3 Wt w uiA sc ct j be answered thnn); let then, culumnies of the canvass perish an gotten with_ the ~canvass; _ and retribution which is spared ‘to the jators, be & warning to all those w after them, that detraction , at > groat m distance, is an unsafe ns we unworthy weapon ot political warfare bear.) The hon. member for Hants has KE it will have _WB ... 30. [[nmimyrsit 4 trust it will hay â€"many statesmen, entitled to find" their affigies renked by his side. (Hear, hear.) The President ot the Quebec Conference is r‘lolpr able to dufend himself or his colieaghes in that Assembly, but, the great majority of those who were mombers of it are still here, or in the othor House. If there was a corrupt intrigue, we are here to answer for it: we are here ready and willing to be tried by our peers, and for one, and for all, I challenge those who have acoused us o loudly behind our backs, before audiences where we could not be heard in our own de. fence; who sit here not on seats alone, but on ‘a three legged lis; I _ dare those boid _ avcusers â€" of absent men, to stand up now ; here; in â€" thig debate ; | aud to make good their charges of corruption ; -nhnunumouonhlnumon, in any one of | ‘ those Provinces, (Hear, hear.) . Mr, Speaker, | this challenge will not be accepted ; it cannot | o MXpHRinHdii. crid entareiradicias oo‘ 2. P " 96 Sihbg io 10 AD us MB raas Bjudice | found to have a meaning before the end of ( Cana. | that same year, when in the month . @‘ British | Decenies, c:rnln Wilkes seised Messrs. densed | Mason and Siidel!, in the Bahama chan. enous, | net; when the United States Govern. rctions | ment iucarcerated thein in Fort Warren ferred | and the British Government demanded\their have | mlase, (Hear, hear.), Not only at the ard, 1| time of the Trent aftfsir, but at every subseâ€" cepted | quent period of the four years civil war, trsonal | American events deeply lmr-kd the ® : and | selves on every Canadian cnf.b e of observaâ€" which | tion or reflection. We saw in those four years ne so | the improvisation of a Northern army of 800,â€" cable, | 000 men, and a navy carrying 4,900 great Proâ€" | guns. In the miserabie affair of St. Albans ;4 mada. | in placiog armed vessels on the lakes, con, ether | trary to the treaty of 1818 ; in the Fenian â€"â€"the | raids; in the introduction of a vexations sya« stage | tem of passports; io the refusal to renew the t acâ€" | Reciprocity Treaty, we were hugh# at every eduâ€" | step how powerless we wore under the old state trica, | of things; we wore taught that the days of t re» | the colonial comedy of Goveroment were over e of | and gone, and that politics had becoms stern, has | and almost tragic for the New World. (Jbsers.) | it‘ | We needed not the lesson taught with such per. |: hich | sonal directness in the detestable assassinaâ€" | ope, | tion of Mr. Lincoln, and the equaily atrocious | : 1 be | murder of more recent date, when the gallant | : rate. | Emperor of Mexico was done to death at Queâ€" | : tabâ€" | rataro (hear.) I donot pretend, Mr. Speaker, | c 1 of | to discern more clearly Lg-nothen &Iucig:not. C the | the times on this side the Auwfiob t I~] a er), | should consider it an insalt to the intelligence | r oth | of any member of this House, to undertake to F #, if | show him how this revolution in the whole | c rom | American econeray, military and financial, | a lon | affected and continucs to alfsct, these Proâ€" | t ion | vinces, and to render more and more necesâ€" | U owâ€" | sary for thein, a common Government, and a | o eat | common policy (hear, hear.) The statesmen | w ‘sts | of England, accustomed to deal with affairs, | sc nto | far and near, were quick to learn the lessons | d _1 | ot the civit war, aud long before Lee had kurâ€" | el gaâ€" | reudersd, Great Britain began ta shaps het | S its | new policy toward the United le raâ€" | Sir, that now policy included flw.tom ni erâ€"=| tion of the forees and means of these Proâ€" | su ly | vinces, under one General Government, if the | ge iso | British counsction was to be: maintained ; | m of | everyone knows that snch was the condition Ca )eâ€" | of the connsction ; and, whoever values.the | to he | connection, wilt not disparage the condition, | m irâ€" | (hear, bear.) _So imnuch, !(:.fi:ri-ku, as .to>| se ed | the antecedents of the proj Union up to | of nâ€"| ‘64, and the coincident American ov Th id | which scemed to many observare hlum wh re | and the Provinces, to demand all possible oxâ€" | ter is | pedition in its prosecution. ,The Quebec Conâ€" | noi at ?mcn_‘l_ have already mentioned, but perhaps | pre P e e e Peeaneoeg among them. (Loud cheers.) Sir, it was a very proper (u' of the last Parliament of the {ormotmfl.&ol Cauada to order a tostiâ€" monial to the memory of Sir Rtienne Tache to be placed in the House he led during the Contederation debates in 1865; and I feel thag, we could none of us wish our new Union bet._ ter, than that it may have hereafter,â€"as I Irnak Th sslm 200CR t " o Panc & iL e 000 05 CCC PC Corenelh (hear, hear.) His sense of duty was MEQ{Q soldier of the Spartan stamp ; and there is reason â€" to fear. that he may have hastened on his last illness, by this devoâ€" tion to the cause of Unio9. <(Hear; hear.) Even in death it seemed as if !xiq_hol“)} character served to promote the same g work ; and I could not but think as I saw his colleaguesâ€"Protestant â€" and Catholicyâ€"the Hon4 Mr. Brown included, sitting in the same" tuary, at the Requiem Mass, and Standing be. side his grave in the quiect churchyard of 8t, Thomas, that the example of so \O::hl & leader, would not be without -m.’ among them. (Loud cheers.) Sir, it was a very proper proceeaing of the last Parlinmant .f £1.7. P ooo s e t e PORRITd g‘Dr. Tupper) an4 my other hon. friend (Mr. Tiliey,) were accused, I believe, of sacrificing their respective Provinees to thy deep seated imachinations of the soâ€"called «* Canadian party ;" but, whoever had seen those gentleâ€" _men and their culleagues, in that conference, must have at all events, borne testimony to their seal, for their own constituents, (hear, hear.) Sir, I cannot recal the recollection of that assembiy, now that its work is so far Gone, without reference to one bright and Feuerable nameâ€"that of the President of cu1 bodyâ€"Sir Etionae ‘Taché, (kear, hear.) Thosé® who remember that gallant old French Canaâ€" dian gentleman, need not be reminded bow far he was above lending his unsailied name t: any ‘l‘nlunblu intrigue on corrupt bargain, fhaus ED Ww s EL en ol ho e mmioge Om e eaepe I‘may be permitted to refer again to the 33 rndemon, who cuame together there, »to rame the outlines of this measure. I will not compare them with other assemblies held in other times and countries for similar purâ€" poses ; but I will eay this, for that assembly, that a moreanxious and laborious body, never met to deliberate on the fate of theitr fellow countrymen. (Cheers.) © My hon. friend {Dr. Tunser)s ant mw ntlar hAW duinct ray. : | not be so to the populat recollection. , | It llmmh' apt we are to loose sight | of the influence of events in which we have | not been ourselves pcnoullf concerned, and | I need not take a better illustration of this | fact than by asking the members of this House | â€"all of whom must well remember the dats= to carry back their thoughts to the bombardâ€" ment of Fort Sunfir, on the 12th of Arl.} l”lc !ut five weeksufter the instal w t Lincoln, at Washington. l'#: years have lotrn yet passed, and who bu actors personally engaged can now recall the successive steps by which secession rose into civil war, and civil war into a American revoâ€" lution, both in a inilitary and constitutional sense of the word revolution? Who remem. bers the particulars of the segession of South Carolina, of Major Anderson‘s first movement, or General Beauregard‘s firstotrdet to fire on the flag of the Union ? I recollect, sir, saying at the time, in a dobate on our constitutional | difficulties in 1861, when we sat at Quebec, that that first sbot fired at Sumpter " had a message for us"â€"Cunadiaus; and that that message was " to sleep no more, except nponâ€" our arms." (Hear, hear.) But if my words were then considered, as they may have been, Lnyat‘lerl,Lor at least premature, they were || ere, or in t‘l;o ol-b-l;fâ€"llon:.-i'{ corrupt intrigue, we are here : we are here ready and willing ) our peers, and for one, and for Hants has spoken (Hear, l k) P0 LCCE ®In d¢ dis. eussed with the gravity which belongs to them as members m great Parliament, and tranzmit their own sense of increased reaponâ€" ! Sphere of action is entarpud Lo 5htH Jutt 25 the re of “M,h .m the v will be discarded, large questions will be uis s wColl C CCAEABUITS have been 5 to di.‘.‘“.' ind Bat "““","-:-mmy of the fact that in these confederated Provinces there wili henceâ€" forth be m larger material whence an adequate ’m“ be drawn, it l:“ °°i 'I" Elt. durea,a20p, "a PC diawn, it is not, AOLLOC, . _ CS Arerick will be applied to evetry form of mental or , moral e:nv.'hk‘{o:' wlfll it bo‘:o tln.dhn body offldr.phi 11 alone feel . The ‘tome" Of Parlisment, the stundard of the Goyâ€" ermagit, will rise. Colonial instiâ€" Wflmmm-tHdI land, But Eaglish institutions, as we dl.:m, geed to be of a certain size, Public opinion fimw.ofhnh...uylm;na the first condition of public is that it ‘Munot:humm:l.o. It would not be d to show that almost in proporâ€" tion u‘»-l:. lhmlw.- Colonial Governments hhvn PA C 49 wilit t acr c h l'."'â€"- 'T.â€"'*-"ll-mmovod, and the schools, the law courts, the prot slong,»the industries of these Provinces are Abrown open from one end to another, depend upon it a stimolus greater than that has ever been before in British Nor.t?A-edeu will be applied to every form of mental or moral energw â€" Naewiuy 1. 3 __. "" 4B°nIal C L y ccuccy 03 2CCOm . Ned vOn, Fhat speech wil n-dl.'mvhdn. testiâ€" notv of his Lordship‘s great abilities, and his "Iitercét in our future : and perhaps the _g::;u will permit me as illustrative of its whole spirit, to read them one passag‘ which occurs towards the close of that speechâ€" * But if the advantages of Union are great in n-mnuy,aco-uchl, a material point ol view, ;bey i." pot, I think, less in the moral and political aspect of the question, When one <xisting restrictions are :l'novm t y y e I L 03 0009 MCO A=TRCD TT was someâ€" what becalmed,.by getting under the lee of the great domestic question of the dayâ€"the Reform Bill. Although, therefore, the Act was passed. without an exciting debate, it ‘certaumly was not passed, cither in ignorance or indifference, »thomz,ut-tun,of these Provinces. â€" Before passing from this point, I hope I may be permitted to render: what is due to the two statesmenâ€"the then | Coalonial Minister, and his predecessor in thet ofliecsâ€"(Mr. Cardwel! and Lord Carnarvon), to | whom bur delegates when in England were so largely indebted, It was my good fortune though detained behind my colleagues to reach London, as a Delegate, before the introâ€" ductfon of the Bill in the House of Lords, and to have listened to the very full, and clear and convin¢ing statem=ut of Lord : Carnarvon. That Sbuuth WIW sumunts o uooo , ME 7 i IYmnoriaj p _i; "zCNt, 10 the: menibers of the Imperial Parlian®nt that the adoption of this measure was a foregone conclusion, and they are not apt in England, to debate matters alâ€" ready decided. Every statesman of every party saw the necessity tor its passage ; it was the mcasure ot two administrations, and fortuâ€" Bately could not not be made by any side a. party question, e:leu, hear.) Mr. Giadstone aod Mr. Cardwell, were as.anxzious for it, as Lord Carnaryon and Mr. D‘Israeli ; one of the â€" best speeches made in its behalf was by the voteran Whig leader, Ear] Baussell, though it was brought in by a Conservative administraâ€" tion. | These cireumstances go far to explain the absence of any elaborate parliamentary Criticism of the Bili ; and besides, it was someâ€" ihak IhALIe C422 9 Lu% 1 C ) damanlalnsenc, .3 _ "~â€" . PRPORKG, (Mr Kowe,) complains that the measure was not more tullly discussed in both Houses of the .ll'nperhl Patlintient, ~Sit. whila 1 inin Lis tion. | This seems to have been @onsidercd a most sight | crushing reproach as addressed to myself, and have | I am told great use was made of it, on }-oth , and |â€"sides the Bay of Fundy, and (that it \ bad ‘ this .:ln. effect w;:h Irish clectors ‘:‘l-"t:rll"cull- [ouse | stituencies. (Hear.) I am ashamed, sir, to have 118 â€" W the HKouse so false, and so unâ€" bardâ€" | worthy a means of misleading the illintormed pril, | as _030 was, and to charge its authorship as I C oppel ulsnls en s m on ce e LC subserve the Union cause : it was eren alled. ged difectiy, at one» time, that I was instre~ mental in prowoting the Fenian raid against Camp‘ Belto, asâ€" an electionecring auxilliary to our friends in New Brungwiek. If this was meant as c jest, it was & poor one ; it it was seriously meant, it was a pitiful invention, of which its authors ought to be ashamed. These were some of the prejadices against which our friends ou the Atiantic had to.conâ€" tenil; in the Proviuce of Quebec there wore not wanting sectional c and appeals to prejudices of creed and :l“;ln; but my. hon. triend the Minister of Militia, with the moral courage which distinguishes him withstood tfmu: h“!ul' and aided by the lcading men of #l k i e k C o Wl 15, n hw:ufiu absolutely for that Kingâ€" u‘l \x:!?vhnj utly with fts own Crown, in peace c, | and in war; voting its supplies to the King of a | Ircland for the army and navy and civil at | gervice of Ireland ; choosing a Regent on its )nâ€"| own termms, (as in 1788) ; a Crown coâ€"ordinate is | with the Crown of Britain; a Sovereign Legisâ€" n, | lature, within its own domains, not derived re | from the Legislatare of England, as hdb--cn‘ of solmnly »asserted and admitted, in 16i1, 0‘ | 1639, and 1782 ; this was the description of s. | nationality which was extinguished in 1800, iâ€" | while the people of Ircland groaned under iâ€" | martial â€"law, _ and ~mmeetings of electors i | were dispersed atthe puint of the bayonet, r | and yet presuming on the credalty or preâ€" e | occupstion of their auditors, this is the hisâ€" â€"| torical parallel which intelligent menâ€"memâ€" , | bere of this House I am ashamed to sayâ€"did » | Rot besitate to parade as an awtal watning, â€" | and & ease in point at ths hustings in the s | Maritime constituencies. (Cheers.) Sir, some â€" | months ago, a truly great man, on bis election t | as Lord Rector of the University of Eninburgh ; | in epeaklug of the abuses of high intelligence, |/ | was driven to ask,could there be a sadder | : | spuotaole, than "an cloquent man, speaking | that which was untrus?" (Cheers.) I turn to | i the gentlemen who were guailty of misleading | | their Irish fricnds into hostility . to this | | Federal Union, by false and foreed parallels | 1 | with the Irish Legislative Union, and 1 ask | c them in all carnestness for what purpose do | J they suppose did the Giver of all good gifts 1 endow you with their superior intelligonceâ€" | 1 above that of the mass of raen? On what | o temure do you hold those powers of expres | t sion and perguasion by voice and pen? What | v ate . the obligations of the inkll’:entw the | o ugintelligent, among countrymen and foellowâ€" | 1 citizens? Is itto trade on their prejudices, | n or to withstand them ? Is it to foster ancient | v animositiecs and antipathiecs, or toapate and | h reatrain them ? Is it to tell the truth, or to | m pass off falsehoods for truth? (Cheers.) There | I cau be but oRe answer to tiess questions, | p« and I commend that answer to the authors of | m "tho unfounded parallels between the {risir} di Union and our Union. (Cheers.) For the friends | di of the measure, I defy any ons to show that pl we ever resorted to such unworthy appeals to | th sectional prejudices, either in the protracted | th debates at Quebec in 1865 ; or during the two | th elections in New Brunswick ; .or in Nova | on Sootin (bear, hear.) It is true it has been al~| tic leged cisewhere that we made use of the Feâ€" | lo nian organization in the United States, to | un lulfsuf_vc the Union cause: it was even alled. | tiv ’-u, on gentlemen, who ought to know better." The Irish Legislative Union, sir, has | "hot one circumstance, cither in its inception | or eo.pleflo? in common with our Federal | Union. In Ireland there was an ancient | Royalty, first invaded <in jhostile array | by xugmq I, but really united, by c-lw-‘ % own ehiefs to the Crown ot England in e of Henry VII, (in the year 1541);5 an ancient historical Kln‘Som retainingiafter | the aunexation of the two Crowns its own | 1 50( in Loadon. mpSed to create a sectional ather the qld and4 obsolete Provinceâ€"and be met with learned guntleman at the the n B2 ail.00 00 CC D@CCCORTPUCEU iG~ e | vention, in the last years of the last century, a | It is to put side by side in this now archne, I | filled 'l‘ cagor E?echtou, the masterpicces f | of Aifred and Edward I ; of Bacon, Bomers, . | and Chatham, with the masterpicces otf Washâ€" 5 | ington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and . | Marshall ; it is toâ€"compare an ancient text of s | freedom, enriched wit‘ the commentaries of | Hall, Burke, Mansfield, and Mackintosb, with , | a modera text elucidated by Webster and | Sturey and Cathoun, They have no cause to ) | be ashamed of their political progenitors; | neither have we (hear, hear); and with all | possible admiration tor the age that produced | the American coustitution, and the illustriâ€" ous men who &dopted it, I hope we live in a | better century than they did (hear, hear.) "This cqetnry,u compared with the XY(IIth, : may be‘called s religicus century ; there is mo Bolingbroke possible now "to patronise Providence ;" no Voltaite to argue "that | Christ was no charmist ;** no Litchtenberg to anticipate the day when " the belief in God would be like a nurskery tale ;" the ‘(;:3““' 1 method :f Descartes is not, thank , the | . jhilogophical gospel of the age. ‘Though the | , Republican Fathers were many of fi‘? size | ; cerely religious men, yet many others, such | ; As Jefferson and Franklin, were professed | , skeptics ; and the philosophy of doubt, break» | ) jog off all traditions, and pretending that each | , man should -t:n afresh on hig own consciousâ€" | < ness, acknowledging nothing he could not ; ) prove, was too congenial to the epoch and its | , work, not to be acquiesced in by the majority, | J g:lho:;ldin-liu.nt:mo«nenflbm; t reverence have prepared the deeper | a mmwuwm of Govern» | i ment;and until faith and rewasasls a 55° 7700 | 4 T F MR wl Aics on old ucssn c hi s 1 ment, and the American, or Democratic sysâ€" ‘x'i'i hlt is to give the third geueration of the th century an opportunity to obserre the institations of our common «ncestors adapted to our Canadian circumstances, side by side with the institutions of Angloâ€"Ametican inâ€" wamblan d2dr a.c% B 2 00 NCy Delong to the sams class, as the orâ€" dinary Stutuates of the realm. They are lookâ€" ed upon, to use Lord Chatham‘s words, as " the Scriptures of the Constitution ;" while other ordinances of Parliament are as the writings of particalar commentatcrs, open to revision and correction (hear, beat.) Bat, sit, I will go farther than the fitness of the tims, the constitfutionality and civeumspec» tion of the change, and the excellence of the Act ; Iafirm this, that in establishing a see. und Constituational Government on this. conâ€" tinent, we @re rendering an un purchasable service to the cause of civil and religions liberty everywhers. I say a swcond Constiâ€" tutional Government, for I admit that of Washington to be the first, and I suppose we must leave Mexico at pressot out of the acâ€" count, not 6hly of constitutional, but of civi~ lised governments. What is it to establish such a second government in America® It hi in my hamble opiaion, to provide all men with an opportunity of comparison, and a means of choice betwoen two systems â€"the British representative system of free governâ€" | evatm ic on n S ig i i c 2e I § nchri-unmo'u.try,(Appllnn_.)AltothoCon- | stitution of the two Houses, under this. Act, we haye adopte«d hor», what Ontario long ago deomanded, and Qacb resoint«ly resistedâ€" " representation by population.* bad always declared thaf principle a jast o , as applied to the popuiar, or taxing branch gf the legis. lature, but I had always voted against its ‘adoption, " unless as part of & geReral Coustiâ€" tutional change." _ Well, wir, tha\ chunge at lengthariived ; Ontariogot what she wanted $ and the first use she made of her enlarged roâ€" presentation, I um refoiced to say, was to put down her sectional agitatore, und to send here a sound Union majority. Tt cannot bé concealed, however, that 81 members for one Province, out of 181, is a formidable preâ€" ponderance, and it will be for my hon. friends, the leaders of Ontarian â€" publis opinion, on both sides of the House, to see that it does not become a dangerous one. I will not venture to speculate at this moment, on the probabilities of future party combinaâ€" | tions; but it is plain to any one, that it is most undesimble for the sake of each Pro vince, and of all, that any one slould come here en masse, as a Province, either in Governâ€" :nen.!,' or in Opposition. But, sit: this aiw a Christian stitution o | aibility and selfâ€"respect through Parliamect | and the Government to the main body of the | people," _ As to the measure itself I am | not going to inflict on the, House, f.u analysis of its 147 clauses ; but there are sojae principal provisions of it, to which I must refer, in juatice to the subject | itself : such as the guarantee of the educational | rights of the minority, in the 93rd clause ; and | the several clauses which define the Constituâ€" { tion of this House ; of the Honorable Senate } of the Jadiciary ; and the clauses afirming the Sovereignty of Her Majesty and her successors, over British Ametics.~ So far as 1 know this is the first Constitution evergiven to a mixed people, in which the contcientious sights of the minority, are made a subject of formal: guaeantee, I shall never cease to remember with pleasure that J was the first proposer of that guarantee in ‘ the Qucbec Conference; a gusrantee by which we have carricd _ the principle 'ol’ equal and reciprocal tolcration a btep farthcr io Canada, than it bas yet been carried, in any‘ other free governmentâ€"American or European, (Hear, hear.) 1 have no desire to xo into the vast question of educition at this moment; it is a question on which all men feel free to speak, rather than bound to think ; but I hail tis 93rd Clause of our Union, as the Mazna Charta of the youthhood of this Doâ€" mainion ; as a solemn gusrantee that no Chrisâ€" / tian parent shgll ever be obliged in any part |â€" of British America to succumb to the heart. | less, and soulless, and godless doctrine,that reâ€" | lig_i.un' and education can be justly divorced in | t nov Was the whi of + ‘00es of Tuture party combinaâ€" is plain to any one, that it is ble for the sake of each Pro all, :lut;uny one slould come DHULDZ 200 citcumspec. quan nd the excellence of the tion ; it in establishing a s0¢â€" | are n overnment on this conâ€" darics ring an . unvurchasable ing i : of civil and religions | we c I say a swcond Constiâ€" tried, t, for I admit that of | and }, first, and I suppose we | notion t presuot out of the a¢â€" | not e astitutional, but of civi~ the J: What is it to establish | whare Democratic sysâ€" Ne Eul Al‘:".f, man, wo. and child in Canada, mbued with |:T;‘.‘.,...ufm enabled Switzerland to bold her own against the Austrian Empire, and BSpain in her decline bu‘mlw in :h 'i‘:::i" wlll‘h-h enough, within cor vers rapide 2 summet, and our snowed. Ipmdcludfmdn‘-kl.h winter, (Hear, hear.) We complain of our mgorâ€" feanty that wo tuysaiey i fln oompemantion a1 o.l‘t‘iuo:-d.. u....l;‘._~_. WR fiic _ Nt â€"â€"coubty, â€"â€"If â€" wo uit _ Aninal united as one man, in its defence. (Applause.) No popchdo.Mcnbulurrd-qu, u;pntuwh_ lo-'nllluhu,fic-hfio- with us, on our own soil. every man, wo. man &*chud in Cunaia le Li 29 MH of i7 °4 490 ie rant PioP ic s know anything of Canads, up to the day ? In those hives of human labor, ‘km“'”‘"mâ€"lw-u seaportâ€"New ‘-flt,_“ once give Provinces united the aspect of Empire, . M‘N“M-n-e,.“ the reput and credit of the Dominion will be ou immigration agents abroad. (Hear, 1 Asto our inability to stand alone, wit numbers we I-n,!bqtooiune, wir, h:yo)(nb.,u depends very muc} o, unsnimity ~or division. No power fre1 . cun _ take _ forcible _ posse aiics "p 1, °t _ 1068 did not impress the imaginâ€" ation of the emigrating ciasses. Who in the byeways of Germany, or even of Britain, know anuthine se aul q. COTs P tel uuu'm'b.'..,h::.t abroad., car, * ‘Mfl(flo, "l&fi" °x to observe, &,g::) mds very muck on our lon. _ No power if we are â€"united , and &c'm' â€"â€"‘“‘ on will be our best oad. (Heatr, heary _even of Britain, , up to the other , make ,'!7 h' an agrectnent 10, Sif, to dw aries ABd conse this formal and onarchy on this ct of four millions he path which liy y chosen to enter to abandon it, we bure, wnd wiithie _ Bir, for one, I ud foit al along 1 We were calied ibtod, no N9t for ud well in chous. house, such as * one that shall 4 that all that hi was a sound Te order to secure sured that the } good order enf« #4 “-' and concloding w mond." . We opening night, Spanish Grama with all its orig m praestea n role of organized is a an qrray of ts the requisit»s und Thos. M the choicest already to hand John Dasn, Mi next is now q opening night whom have a ed with his cor ed there on a« He will be bur honore. The. the Drill Shed Deatx or a of No. 1, Capt rison Artillery, a long and cont tered the Batter ordered on fron! with assaulting inclusive of ©o and disorderly. , Mvcn Nexves standing as & te Menty Y Jo‘in Hurvey soners to ¢ existing state humane insti sons employed the financial L8th N cial pointed a day »hd:‘n-.-' a .': cer of the the l'M’im 4 to issue euch 0 The Gazete lowing order : * ol Quarantine 4 fax, vessels trow Indies, or uny wharf vessels comingâ€" hoist two ver O there be not mgned 10 w camp. | Severn Chict Jastice Grand Jury, onl fon Governuient laws, which wh dents through t! Bpecial to the T ta January, _ _ still continue, to his house boree, One hund paid into Rove in urticles. + the 12th Dece and Provincial posed. | The Axpress Campbell is c pressed inten brings hope as party. . It prod Cempbell‘s exa The C) tacks Mr. Ottawa, and d Anti ranks. keenly felt by Specia) to the aul mently . -:2. House o‘clock. muves moubla express my ow of our fature 4 canunot yet see or Tolima, or triotic faith ot sufficigut to -ucl-.:‘i“vlfl after Speaking resumted lris plaudits, w on fut light you like, of praience, . trust this firs :A“ stamp it« n of such a ing all bravac ing men i0 ow endeavor ty « public «pinit of bron. member € he would Baf & The policy of the f:lhluu bcou underant tor, Uper quercd ?FM * Knough 1 Thy soat \'u!’ullb- Por villa these grounds cenkurable 6 which . tu20y have â€" taken certainly the minds ## stituent mun noed not illa rate the pows place the safe the »pirit and it is in the po or ruige the : 'w1‘k°. “l.: it is bocause t va Sootia baÂ¥. m‘rpnbllc-‘ pRious and . Lo the a-lfi-fl a o he weill a cnitial, the ure, the -l% mada, and a turn it a Ang

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