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Alter some desultory
Johnstone should |
should be |
bnvestigation.

The learned C
of Edmund F
P st Box k, but that the entry wus that he yefused to swear
Chere is evidence, however, said the learned Counsel, to shew
hat re did not refuse to swear begagse he had not the pro
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omission in the Law True
void, but en referring to the circumstances it would be seen
that there was no oath suited to the case, and that the Law

did not compel a man to do what was morally impossible.

Mr. McGOW AN—He knew that bis vote was objected, and
he had ample time to make it good when the sorutiny was)
llaving neglected tg do ge he has a}

held ai Georgetown

np»
fight to be diefranchised ; but 1 am satigfed that he bad nc
Wote.

« Hen. Mr. BELR—The learned Counsel at the Bar assumes |
{ The entry in the book}
iy Chit he refused to qualify, not that he refused to do what!

what the Poll Book does not justify

was impossible for him to do.

Counsel JOUNSTONE.—I spoke in referenge to the evi-|

dk nee.
but the Poll Book.

fon. ATTORNEY GENERAL—The Poll Book is evidenee, | the tenantry the privilege of converting their leageholds into) Cylony were not to be trusted.
best that can be got, and it is conclusive to the) freeholdg, gn reasonable terms, and a large remission of

perhaps the

point, though other evidence is no doubt admiseable. There | rears of rent. }
are two forms of oaths in the Act, one for those who reside; to [ler Majesty the Queen, in answer to which,

in. the Polling Division in which their property is situated,

and another for those who de not. In this cage it appears | suggestion of Sir Samuel Cunard and other proprietors,
that the elector’s property is not in the Polling Divigion in; limited an enquiry, and insisting that if Commissioners .
as agent of | appointed they should he free and unfettered in their oper-| culated against him,

which he resides, but ip that in which he acte
the sittimg member, and therefore he could not take the oath.
{ do not see that it would have been any violation of law for
the Retorning Officer to have modified the oath to suit the
cirenmstances of the case; at least it wonld have been a less
violation of Jaw than to take the yote when she person refused
to qualify

lion. Mr. BEER.—I think the Blector should have stated
his reasons for pot taking the oath ; and these should have been
entered in the Poll Book. That bemg done, 1 cannot see
that we woull have anything to do with further objections. It
would be easy to appoint persons as agents who had yotes in
the District in which their services were required.

Hon. Mr. LORD.—Theve are always a number of special
woters at every electiong but | never saw an agent sworn.
have always seen their votes taken, and the objections, ifany
entered in the Pol) Books. It might be jhe ease that a
Candidate could pot get 4 man in a polling division who was
qualified to act as agent, and it would be a hard case if he
tock a wap from another polling division that he should loose
his vote.

ton. PRESIDENT. — ( appoint a man who resideg in one |

Polling Division tw act as agent for me in another, that man
has the privilege of polling bis vote in the division where he
is employed ; bat it will not be a special vote upless it Is
polk | for a Candidate in another District. | cannot see any
reason for retaining this vote on the Poll Book whea the man
refuaed to swear.

fion. Mr. ANDERSON.—I do not see any hardship in the
case as the man had an opportunity to substantiate his vote
when the seratiny was held.

Hon. Mr. WALKER.—There was no necessity for doing so
because it was not objected.

Hon. Mr. HEND' ERSON.—It is trove that the reason of his

refusing is not entered, otherwise we might Jook upon itin a}

different light.
aatter.

Hoo. ATTORNEY GENERAL.—The man was not forced
to act as agent. As he refused tu qualify, his vote should not
have been allowed tu remaip op the Poil Book. If he tenderd
his vote and the Returning Offcer refused to take it, the remedy
is prescribed by Law.

it was then moved that, as Edmund PF. Byrne had refused
to qualify when desired to do so, his vote be struck out, and
the question being put thereon it passed in the afirmative.
ou-e resumed and progres3 reported.

Adjourned till to-morrgw at 11 o'clock.

That might giye us the key to the whole

The following Address of the Legisiative Council, in answer |
to His Excellency’s Speech at the opening of the Session, was
inadvertantly omitted by the Keporter last week :—

To His Exeellency George Dundas, Esquire, Lieutenant
(Jovernor and Commander-im-Chief, $e. Fe. Fe.
May iv prease Your Exceviency :

We, Her Majesty's loyal subjects, the Legislative Council
of Prince Edward fulande beg to offer to your Excellency our
thanks for your speech ut the opening of the present Session.

It is with; apfeigned leagure jye haye receiyed the annotince-
ment of the Sopréschidg Mariage of His Royal Highness the
Prince of Waies to Her Royai Highuess the Rrineess Alexan-
dra of Denmark. This auspicious event affords us much
acditiongl pleasure, convinced 5s we are that it will be a union
so conducive tg the heppiness of our Gracious Queen, Ller
Royal Family, and the Ration at large. :
~ ‘The recollection of iis Royal Mighness’s recent yisit to this
Colony stimulates us more cordially to unite in the national)
expressids of saiisfaction ut the approaching alliance.

We learn with mugh interest that the Secretary of State.
for the Culonies has laid before Her Majesty the Petition}
passed last session praying for privileges, in respect of shipping,
identical with those conceded by France to the Proyince of |
Canada, and that the question of extending these privileges |

to Coloniui built vessels is under the consideration of the}

French Government.

We deeply regret to perceive that the Colonial Minister has
intimated to Your Excellency that the Commissioners appoint-
ed by the Queen to inguize ipto the differences existing
between jandlords and their tenants
powers in the report which they have made.

We trust that that which is supposed to be the excesa of
authority referred to may not ultimately prove so material as
t» endanger the validity of an adjudication on which the pros-
perity of this Colony so much depends, and toward which

/mentas the hon. member for Charlottetown. The hon leader |
of the Opposition way opposed to the Acts pagsed last segsivn |

vast numbers of its inhabitants have looked forward with jo-)

tense anxiety.

We will proceed with much interest to examine the papers question, but a very important one. He (Mr. H) thought) pression are new and put forth fer o paltry motive. What

which will be laid before us on this subject, and we are most
earnestly soli¢itgug that the juet and reusungble expectations
of the peuple should be realized by a speedy ang satisfactory

settlement of the difference existing on this important measure. ‘This was acceded to ;
We will give our best consideration to the system by which |

money votes are initiated in the Houge of Assembly, and to’
such proposed measures, in relation thereto, a3 may secure
greater responsibility for the financial condition of the colony.

The Act changing the Constituiion of the Legislative Coun-

cil haying come joto operation, we feel assured that ity delibe- | made pub

rations, in whatever respect ila Constitutional functions may
be affected by the Act which renders it elective, will be
strengthened by a consciousness of popalar support.

We coneur with your Excellency mm deeming it advisable
that the qualifications of electurs under the present Jaw should
be registered, and we will be prepared to take into considera-

tion such measures a3, for that purpose, may be brought) —

‘He, however, thought that the Ilouse last sessidn did right in| parted from her. The circumstances of this Island also ren-
dered, in my judgment, religion a matter of paramount neces-
sity. Such was my views and feel

before us.

To which Address [is Excellency was plegse to make the
following Reply :—

Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative
Counce ;

J thank you for your Address, and for the assurance that
you will give your careful consideration to the measures which
will be brougtt before 7

J trust that your delsberations may tend to the adyancement
and well-being of this Colony.

JIOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
Saturpay, March 7th.
AFTERNOON SITTING.

Committee on the Address in answers to His Excellency’s
Speech resumed.

Mr. Howart.—An amendment had been submitted by the
hon. leader of the Opposition, but if he (Mr. U1.) understood
it. it was similar to the parageaph wader consideration. ile
was glad that the hon. member seemed to be disposed to go to
some extent with the majority, It used te ke hig practice to
oppose everything brought forward by this side of the poage ;
bat he had geen it advisably to change his ygliey. He had
now found that the country was in favor of the Award. There
was no doubt respecting its opinion on the subject, and as it
was true sespousible government to carry out the well under-
stood wishes of the pegple, what should the majority do but
exett their utmost to obtain the Award? The people wished

. bate it was finally decided that Mr,
» heard on condition that none but he
on behalf of Mg. MeDonajd during this

Johnstone, then observed that
Byrne was not marked objected on the

uired, but because there was uo form

on aceount of an}
said the Jearned Counsel, the
Law said that if a man refused to swear his vote should he

Are we to discagd that altogether and go by nothing | resolutions were passed, whieh were introduced by the present}

titself considered of sufficient importance to be referred to the

‘long time, b2fore they would append their names to another
| document of the kind.

| Hon. Mr. Hewnstey did not take the same view of the amend-

haye exceeded their Telgting to the Award. and therefore how could he egprexs| Mr. Eprror :—

| words ** as yet’’ should not be introduced, if be intended it to they have heen accepted as welkfuunded and may operate

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ive effect to the report of the
it was on this ground the
» in order that the way
After such a state-

s - — —— ny
ilon. members of the majority feemed to think that it was deemed themselves bound to

not laid aside, and avowed their intention to prosecute the! Commissioners. Probably, then,
subject farther. Ie would not detain the Committee by dig-| Award was set aside by the Duke, |
| cussing this point now, When the dispatches came down, might be clear for the Proprietor’s bill.
referred to in the speech, he would be in a better position fo
enter ipto the question, and jf the proposal of the majority
should meet his views, he would give it his support, if not
he would biing forward something else. The Government.
certainly posgessed the contidenge of a large hody of the ten-) by the bon. member for the
antry, as was shown by the large majority they had in both |
branches of the Legislature. ‘They ought then to carry out) accept It.
their pledges tg the people. He was not ignorant that other) question at present,

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ment, to the effet, that the
ondeyhand manner. He (Mr. P.) :
to go into quit rents, but he supposed it would be brought up|
third district of Prince County. |

did not think it necessary |
of Synod, it is dee
uniformly held by the body :
its existence as & separate Chureh is built.

He was not anxious to enter into the quit rent) The Resolution is the following :

He had gharaeterized the Award asa
and did he know of any stronger term

‘ . ”
/indlaences than the Award, had been brought to bear on the} * gigantic humbug ; ‘ a oe
, eo ae? ; ; ‘a F P se it. This
sections, sach as re dices--a cireumstance for|in the English language he would be glad to u
electjons,; sGoR .gs. religious .pepjadices 6 spinsumstabog fort Y pat r since he learned the loan

which he was sorry—still the subject of the Commission had | wag the opinion he entertained eve ;
also been before che people, and a a majority had been re-| was not ty form a part of the Award. An — sageary
; turned in favor of the Government, he was not disposed to) remarked this morning that if the evidence ve been dif-
give them a factiogs oppysition on this question. / missioners had been correct, their report rp. beet re’ Court
Mr. Buecken did not understand why the religious question| ferent. He (Mr. W.) had stated in the Commissione
had been dragged in here ; it should neyer be hrought wp une at St Eleanor’s, what he believed to be ee a ase
> less it had a bearing on the subject under consideration,—and | the lands of this Island were not worth above k 7 : po
it had nothing to do with any paragraph in this address, To) In going before the Commissioners he had no > p+ the Awe tt
obtain the operation of the }ward, if possible, was unqestion- an incorrect statement, on the contrary, he ba - an
ably the great plank in the platform of the Conservatiye party | stake. He was aceuged iby many of Rete A +. wonton
at the last election, and they were bound to use their utmost) high, but had acted gonscientiously. He agree Se sab 10
endeavours for the attainment ofthisend. The present aspect | leader of the Oppositiop, that the proprietors’ bi >} i
of the question appeared to be this: When the celebrated | years to purchase, was hetter than anything contained 10
Award.—There was dissstisfaction in the country ; some even
‘hon. leader of the Government, their object was tg obtain for believed that im matters relating to land, the Judges of the
This wasan erroneous opinion |
ar-|at least he himself had ¢onfidence in them. [t had been
This was the substance of the address presented stated that the present Government were returned to carry out
a despateh | the Award. ‘This was not the means hy which they gained
at the the election. In the district which he represented, he knew
to so that other influences were employed tq defeat him, than the
were land questign.—xtraordipary stories were industriously oir-
one of which was that his father had

‘ations, and should be allowed to go into all the questiang in| killed a priest at the time of the rebellian in [reland, &c.
(Laughter)

dispute. He also stated in another place that the consent of |

‘all the parties would be necessary to give validity to the re: lion. Mr.
port of the Commissioners. But a late despatch from His/ subject.

| Grace to the Lieatenant Governor contained the following :—)} — jjon. Mr. Wannurton brought it forward to show some of

| * Your advisers appear to consider that H. M. Government} the influences brought against him, and still he was ny

‘bad proposed to the Proprietors of land, and that those Pro-| though known to be determinedly opposed to the Award. No-

prietors had consented to place themselves and their interests | thing had been dane to settle the land question until the po

absolutely in the hands of the Commissivneys. This, however, | chase Bill was introduced. He be lieved it was right of the
was far from being the case. people to have had Escteat, but as this could not be obtained,
The Proprietors consented that Commissigners should be! he had supported the Purchase and Loan Bills as just measures.
appointed to enter into all the enquiries that might be ueces-| Both of these, however, were opposed by the fory party.
sary, and to decide upon the different questions which might) With regard to fishery reseryes, if they were surrendered, as
be brought before them, giving of course to the purties inter-) was proposed in the Award, it would be an injury to the Colo-
ested an opportunity of being heard.”’ ‘ny from which it ynight never recover. Parties who had
| The main questions thus to be decided upon were ;—First, | visited the Westorn portion of the Island, and witnessed what
at what rate Tenants ought to be allowed to acquire freehold | a large portion of the population were employed in the fisher-
| interests in their property ; and next what amouat of grrears ies, could not fail to arrive at the same conclusion. Ile

,of rent should be remitted by the Landlords.’’ i —, ned yparey eg we ae he ager then hf os

’ saith it Mie » Difenne 'man had been injured, as for example the case which he bu

i} W a ae ae vee he. iy a a alluded to this morning, instead of Cae benefit resulting from

ae = ee ee : . } | the Commission, it had been an eyil.

ared to say, but it was inalmost direet opposition to the other : i 4 :

‘ = one [Jis Grace said the Commissioners should be free and; Hon. Mr. Wuetan did nut intend to enter into the subject be-
unfettered, and in the other they ought to have confined their fore the Committee, and would have been silent were it -
investigation to the two questions here mentioned, for this was fur allusions to & certain newspaper, the name of which

| the pith of the objection in his latter despateh. An Award could not be mistaken, tle was highly dattered at the state-
on these two questions was what was asked for in the resolu: wepts made, as it ap feared the paper in question possessed
tions agreed to by this louse; but the Duke of Neweastle more influence in England than it bad hitherto received credit
and the Proprietors were not satisfied with this, they desired for. fle would be very happy if the statements were correct ;

| the Commissioners to be less lettered. The despatcves being) he was certain that no person expected the two Bills wotl«
so contradictory, he (Mr. Brecken) thought this house should ever he anything bat adead letter. This he affirmed notwith-

Award without a further effort to have it) standing the
If the question of the Fishery Reserves,| sincerity of the Government.

not turn on the Land Question :

i was received from the Duke of Neweastle objecting,

Pore did not seo what this had to do with the

not relinquish the
carried into effect. :
'which formed but a smail part of the Award, was once of it had been put forth by
law officers of the Crown, surely it would be no trifliag matter,
and nothing more than justice tu the people of this Colony,
that the whole report of the Commissioners should be submite-
ed to them for investigation, before it were finaily set aside.
be hon. member for the third District of Prince County, |
might denominate the Award ‘a gigantic humbug,”’ but he
(Mr. B ) believed that if the proprietors were only relieved
from their engagement in this matter it would be a long,

The point at issue was whether the Roman Catholic

‘to obtain—or not. ‘In regard to his Girace the Duke of New-
castle reviewing his: position respecting the Award, he would

on the subject. It had been said that the matter might be

unimportant Colony like this could overthrow the Colonial
They had found themgelves ia a ds
adyantageous position. The Imperial Government seemed
determined to uphold the prourietors in their claims to the
land. ‘The hon. leader of the Opppsition when in power, de-
elared that Escheat was a fruitless and mischievous agitation;
and he was right when hes iS. Lf this House then gave up
the Award, what else could they expect from the Proprietors? «
‘The only course apparently which could, be pursued was to)

test the legality uf the Commissioners’ report. He (Mr. B )
did not mean tosay that any agitation which this Culony
could raise Would be the means otf displacing such an exalted
official as the Duke of Neweastle ; but this he would say, that
he thought if the Legislature here made proper applitation
regarding the Award, to the British Parliament, justice
would be done them. He had no doubt, however, that if a
respectful rewonstrance was sent to His Grace he would not
refuse to hear it. Great credit wag due to the hom. leader of

recommended in the Commissioners” report, namely the loan
| (hig it was objected would burden the Colony. He (Mr. W.)
| howe 7er, thought that the evil would not bear a comparison
with the ¢reat benefits which would result from the adoption
of the Commissioners’ suggestion.

CORRESPONDENCE. |
To rue Epitog oF THE Examiner.

Six, — Will you allow me the ytivilege of space in your
paper for a communication | sent, to the Protesiant in reply |
to certain editorials, &¢., in whieh jé is assumed that Cam
opposed to var youth being. instrueted m the principle of |
religion or of the Bible, than which nothim; cu" be more
the Government for the resolutions on this question which he S*0ssly untrue. — That communication the Protesiant, yerred
had intgodyced in a former session ; and he (Mr. B ) was glad bs riised and circulated ‘the stander, refased to pubs,'. + |
that they had heard nothing to-day from hon. members of Principal object is to show that a Certain statement in og
the Opposition respecting the famous “ Spy,”’ and that there tu Education, which P ineidantally’ mide in réply to Me
were ho taunts aboat the insincerity of the Government. He Sutherland, and which las been sthade the foundation of the |
could not exactly undergtand what object the hon leader of | vlander, is In entire pret ica a the principles of the |
the UOppositign bad in view in proposing his amendment. | lurch to which 1 be Ie = UM . pana ar ap esd
The wording of the paragraph and amendment were nearly , distinctive principle. I consider,it,due to myself that this:
similar—it was a distinction withouta difference. The hon. | be done. IT trust that, if this communication own m your
member since he had gune so far, ought to have extended his P&PEF, the contents will gradaally reach the peuple before

liberality a little turther, and given his support to the para- | whom { wished the communicatign ty be laid.
graph. Yours respectfully.
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Covebead. JAMES ALLAN.

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To tue Epiror or tHE Protestant.

regret that they had not received the Royal assent? He) (Qontrary to my expectations and desire, U feel impelled to
should rather rejoice at the fact. The amendment expressed | resewe wy en. The reason is your own improper imputa-
regret that the Commission had been fyllowed by no beneficial | tiong on my motives and conduct, ‘They could have no effect
result. a in But in other quarters

There had been some diseussion as to whether the) on any person in my neighborhood.

injurioasly.

apply up to the present time only, 4s he explained this to be! f
d| "You seem to say that the yiews to which have given ex-

big meaying. ‘Fhe subject under congidegation was gn o!

‘that the resolutions first passed by the Houge, agking for an! jaye
investigation, were too stringent. Intimatiun came from the | insincerity ? Two indiyida.ls out of my congrdgation, I
| Colonigl Office that the Commissioners should be unfettered. learned, were proposed by their friends as worthy of aspiring,

still he was of opinion that they were not 4, Jeyislative honours —one on each side of party politics : |
different from other arbitrators; they could not give & report put neither thought fit to ask my advice, and ag litile did 1

yoy seen in me that Jeads you to think me capable of

'differently—it must be final and decisive. He wae not dis-|

‘ment, they ought to hear bo more charges against the Govern-
bad thwarted the Award in an |

Hon. Mr. Waanurron | ad received a challenge, and would |

true, when he said)

av » ascendancy—as it was supposed they were desirous | : _—_ Op
nie the aapeneenty ‘ tig . | to the soundness of a principle, if it be held by the |

} Church to which an individual belongs, it need
ay. ... | excite no surprise to find him proclaiming it, and |
probably say if appealed to, I have already given my opinion |

j world
charged with being an agitator, when I did nothing |

j

deew it my duty to interfere with the prospects and operations

the doctrine constai u
mine Palas which so gerce an outery has
been raised in the country, and on account
‘of which I have been stigmatized ap getting
‘forth the views of the Roman Catholic Bishop.
And mark, the: statement is pot only lard
down almost jin PY words in the resolution

work satisfactorily that does not proceed on the
principle
vot within the province of the
to provide fur the religious instruction of the

ject, and that so far as

ing the religous instruction whey given ty be
supplemented by the Local Boards in any way
they think best without interfering
gular hours of school attendance.’ ”

Rentor of Kelso thus prefaced his observations

lution by the Unites

within the provinee of the Civil Goverument t

|animously re-affirmed in the Synod. — ur
them that, next to the doctrine of Christ crucified

liberty.
principle standing before the worl '
tor aud its advocate—occupied in relation to the
tional edueation. This Syuod had for a succession

| abstained from going forward—to press upou the
Goverumeyt, ta press upon the Legislature, te
be done in aM other form than by a resolution
and by a course of action originated in the Synod

’

State.’

It must now be plain and palpable to every

person that she statement I imade, which has raised jie the yoluntary principle, of which among other }

proofs her Seminary at Truro is at once a stand-
ing evidence, and a standing public protest against

la ery in the country, is net only most consistent |

| with the principles of the Church of which I an

lterian Church ot Nova Scotia, now merged inte

flattering terms in which some had spoken of the | the Chureh of the Lower Provinces, but forms in
Tie issue of the elections did | truth its distinctive characteristic paaciple—a priv-
| ciple so esssential as to rank next in importance
some of the papers in the interest of the Government that | to the doctrine of the Atouement in its estunation ;
the question was Roman Catholicism versus Protestantism. | and am f to beheld as entertaining some sinister

3 were to | end in view for making it or avewing the prin-|

Whatever may be the opinion of men as | In the last issue of the Examiner T gave formal

ciple !

no man of sense would ever attribute the fact te
(low and unworthy motives.

carried to Parliament; but it could not be expect that an) [ possibly have to serve but the cause of truth? |

| None but a fvol will ran counter to the

Minister. The only method gp settle this question was that of the multitude with no worldly purpose to serve, }
|ualess he is influenced by the tuterests of truth.

/And had you possessed wore internation, you
would have written otherwise than you did.
wwust now be sensible that I cannot be

wore than proclaun, at a Gime when the passious of
men Were tumultuosing and seething bke a boiling
cauldron, a principle which, with Mr. Renton, |
honestly believe shields the domain of conscience
and of liberty.
* best friends” beiag alienated by the course I have
pursued. Your ignorance of the place whieh the
principle advocated by me holds in the Chureh to
Which we both belong shelters 5 ou from the charge
of libel on those whom I have the honor to reckou
my friends.
ifitis to be purchased at the price of keeping
back the counsel of God, or even at the expense
of freedom to express my sentiments on any sub-
jeet whatsoever. | T-wish no man te accept my
sentiments as bis, but on conviction of their truth.
Jo true Protestant ‘would think of acting other-
wise, or of submitting to any other treatment. 1
may state here, however, that I regard it as a
fortanday Cwcumstance for the country that the
result of the ei tons is as itis. It is just possible,
in consequenee, i. *t the long vexed question may
be terminated with s«spect to the proprietors’
interest inthe lanes.

I may add that not omy Dr. Chalwers helt pre-
cisely the same views upou ta question ef national
education that 1 do, although net a volunteer, but
the same views I find embodied in tie 12 eriet Row
Mauifesto, and are supported by many met of the
greatest intelligence, of all denominations in Rri-
tain. Aud they who make an outery abous
religious instruction being essential te any system
of national education, are ignorant that the Pa-
rochial Syste, introduced by John Kuox and the
Reformers, which is so much and deservediy
lauded, coutained no provision for religious in-
struction. It was not until after the ruin of Mode-
ratism iu the Scottish Establishment that any such
provision wake introduced — not, in fact, until the
ene of the Secession had spread over all the
land.

But the measure introduced by the Lerd Adyo-
cate was dropped. No party in Scotland was ia
favour of it as just on account of the religious
element, so difficult is the question to settle.
Lishop Gillis even, in the name of the Catholics,

d in that statement of

on which indeed} ren,

“ That no educational measure, in the judgment
of this Synod, can eyer settle the question er

recognized by this Church— That iC ts
Civil Government
sub-
Government auperinten-
dence and control are concerned these be cou-
fined to thé sécular branches of education, leav-

with the re-

from which it will be seen what importance Is
attached to the principle enunciated fi the Reso-

{ Presbyterian Church of
Scotland —a church inferior to nene iy — of
influence in that country: ‘The question under
discussion was a very great and wide one, Ov
the first week of the union between the two greal
bodies which composed the Pnited Presbyterian
synod, (the Secession and Relies chyrches) there
were three memorable resolutions adopted in re-
gard to this subject. The priveiple of the tirst of
these resolutions — which to his mind was par-
amount to all other resolutions they had ever
adopted — was that the Synod heid it was hot
proyide for the religious instruction of the subject.
Phat principle was the distinctive one of their
.| Church — it was a principle which distinguished
them from all other churches in this couutry—it
was a principle that had been repeatedly and un-
He assured

he gloried in this principle as the most ilustrious

they would shield the domain of conscience and of
He confessed, however, that he couid
uot look without deep humiliation oy the position
which such a Church as theirs — poling such a

asx 118 eX posi-

application of this principle to the question of na-

of years refused to go forward — at least it had
press upon the country ina way that could not

the iniquity of attempting to teach religion by the

a Licentiate, and by consequence, of the Presby-

What purpose could |

prejudices |

You bint at the possibility of my |

Phe friendship of that man I scorn, |

“ everywhere un
parents, and ho
ranee of their children. 1
‘teachers in the edueation of childten.

ithen the character of schools in a christian land, |

\@ hie! christian pagent is permitted to coun-
ae wiiene ob oe ae hat they sould
superintend

| tenance, must be a reth
ibe were loving and goldly parents to

ired in it to be a principle in their own persons the educampa ther Paal ithe egotists!

d\imagine themselves!
4 cient adage, which some modern philosophiats,

By every consideration of duty to (or
his child is the christian parent hound to guar
against being a party to any arrange ment whic
might prove detrimental to the
children or the glory of God.

intruction, &.”’ ; ;
sixtible sequence, exclaims the Catholie, if the
State is to provide religious instruction,

have a school fur myself. 7 am auswerable
for the education of my child.
‘to any arrangement which might prove detrem
to the weli-being uf my child or the glory of

God

Wosleyan, &e.
be, that the parent is answerable

edueation, and if the State is to provide godly re

In support of this resolution, the Rev. Henry | jigious iustruction,the logical conclusion ts separate

sanction a course of
of which
, if our
brother had the smallest discrimination, he might
have pereeived that Dr. Wayland is speaking of
ported vy the parent, bat

»| schools. The parent cannot
instruction the soundness and pyesesy
he cannot in conscience admit. Beside

schools, provided and su

what is “strictly and literally and absolutely ’

1 cannot, however, expose in detai

ulsory tar. t
and worn “ logic’

the wretched “ philosophy”

the readers of the Protestant.
heavy dlLassorted stuff, throwa loosely on board
might cause the vessel ty founder! !

himself ealled on to enter his solemn * protest.’

"| byterian Chureh of Scotland.

Church.

in 1827; but it is not true that it was more thar
partially successful. It is not true that the union
was acknowledged by the Established Chureh it
Sevtland.
of the Church of Scotland in the Provinces” en
tered the union.
book says so.

’

views. At all events she was publicly committes

i/

the principle of State denpminational grants.
Yours, &e.

JAMES ALLAN.

’

Covehead.
FOR THE PUBLIC.
Me. Eprrer;

[ intended addressing them in a brief series of
,| letters. These letters wfl hayg a direct bearing
on themeelves, considered not only as a political
My reasons
selecting your paper, as the most suitable
} medium of communication, 1 have already stated

j but also as a religious community.
| for

) explicitly and conscientiously. My reasons for writ
jing the letters themselves, which 1 have thus in

The | cuntomplntion, are both numerous and adequate.

| There are some, no doubt, who will be ready to
| anticipate these reasons before they have heard
them. ‘There are always hasty characters of this
| description, #hoe may be safely counted upon at
pall thmes, as existing in every part of the world
| No section of Liman society, of which [ have yet
heard, is exactly clear of its own qneta of these
| precocious individuals, whe are ever too apt to
jjummp at prennuiure conehisions, even theagh they
| jump in the dark. But although such individuals
jare doubliess essential te the very exgstence of
| society itself, as at present constituted, and altho
}We woust all admit that without them, and just

pauch as them, this world would net by any means
} be the world it nowy is, yet to abl such | would
}siuply hint the propriety of suspending, if possible,
their own judgment, however discriminating it may

positively betore them that very particular species |

of evidence four which even the wisest of mortals
never find it uniise to wait. before on any Bubject
they suffer themselves to adept any thing bearing
the slightest proximity to the nature of en absolute
decision. 1 have wany things which I design duly
propounding for their personal consideration. J
have many ideas also in my mind, about which I
{de net mean fo say ene word. Lam ene of that
| peculiar description of animals who kolds a good
any poluts ef belief, in commen with the rest of

shadow of esem the most inconsiderable shade of
actual or redoubtable evedit. Tbe general epistles
of 124 identical huma» whe at this mement pens |
these a-Sertions will soon, in black and white, be
themeelvex before the public. He will then, but
vot Hilthen— ‘ke ‘ Pawlet Tassus, a much greater
man than himsell, ov even than the preseut Chaplain
of the House of Assembly—protest, and protest
tearlessly, to that pubsic—* 1 speak as uote wise
wien, judge ye of what J say.”

With this understanding then as to the eon
ditions on which I write, and without any further |
delay, I shall now at onee proceed to pay my * bess |
respects’ te the entire people of Prince Edward |
Island, consisting as they do of Ladies, Geatlewen, |

te the duty hy ge } a

om responsible for the Iguos age ,
4 tom A. te thenact ttetigh of ‘tarkey shen-husband * aires it makes him ap-
Hence

we Ubi ing of Aus |
He cannot enter into | 8
an agreement which would ney ralize godly, parental
Just so; and therefore, by irre-|

I must
to God | wheregn ty strut their boots among the other mn,
I cannot be a party | significant vecupants of this sublunary world!
ental | But 1 am no egeotist:

> si mauner speaks the Presbyterian, the why
ee oc egy If it be but plies as it must | explain in this respect concerns myself

for his child's

proper and imperative in schools sustained on the
coluntary principle is wholly inaduiswable in el
schools endowed by the State and upheld by a com- here sey to my friends, the People of this Island,

condensed jn those articles. T perceive the inten-
tion announced of inflicting a secies of such on
A series of such

It relates te the relation in which the Presbyterian }
Charch of Nova Seotia stood to the United Pres-
It is difficult te
understand bow any may could manage to erewd |

Charch of Canada, in connexiom with the Estab- |
lished Church of Scotland, is 9 reference ta that
But it is not true that ber relations to the
U.P. Chareh were not similar to these in which che
other Churches referred to, stand to each other.
[t is true that a union was attempted to be reached

It is not true that “all the ministers

It is not true that Patterson's)

notice to the general populace ef this Jsland that |

be in the preseul case, cutil they shall at least have }

same thane, there are net a few notions afloat im | ini » law a eh force
the world of thought, in whieh I never expect to } ae ee by Was Senay pment 9 all bruty farce, 208
be either led or driven te repose the ematiest pothers through the merest accident, been returned

" second or twe about myself, Egotion ie a first
rate thing! it gives aman an inexhaustible supply

pear larger, much Jarger, than his body dothes
were ever intended to permit. Jilustrations ape
numerots, I ide~—one or two of our wore promi.
nent members of Government, and one or two of
our would-be leading Government member Clergy.
meh, as point blauk « sampler. — How blessed are
How over almighty they really
How true is the good ay.

lwith very blunt perceptive powers, have vain}
triven to explede, that * Ignorance ie blisg 1”
land how certainly true must thie came old a
‘ever manifest itself to be, notwithstauding
thing which can be said to the contrary, so
| ng such men continue to find any elevated position

{can in no sense claim the
_| distinguishing tithe; and yet I want to say some.
| thing about myself. But since what I wich to

Leven less than it does the ppblic, 1 shall not sernple
ch, I believe,
is stil] at least legally conceded, although perhaps
tacitly denied, to all British subjects in thie Pro-
vince. Jt is presumed, I imagine, too, that this
will be the cage until our existing Government and
Sanhedrim (comprising W. H. Pope and the rest
of the Clergy) think proper to publish and core
the new Protestant Inquigitwn Decalogue,

’ other dogmas, of which | have already given the
public a faint hint. I shall, therefore, I say, us
yet make bold enough to “talk freely.” 1 shall

-| to “speak freely.” Freedom of

}/ that in general—these are very exciting times,
*) The world over, action and revolution seem te
play the most prominent part, and to enjoy the
most unrestricted developement. Perhaps there
never was a period in the whole chequered history
of the past, which more stirring events were
trauspiring, both amidst and around us, than at
the present moment. On the one hand, we see a

,

But J mugt potice what he says in regard to the neighbouring people, the Young ites wublie of

“ third statement” of mine, agaiust which he feels |

») America, stifling itself with the dm, and gloating
itself with the blood, and beggaring itself with the
expense, of a most wnnatural civil war; and om
the other, we find in its own estimation, the next
greatest conntry on the face of the earth—(but a

ur which the Church-militant could contend. (Ap- |, ics : ’ ay Country Which, i the floating ideas of all other

Lor ani Ut eae the whole principle of religions |™* many errors into wo small p space. It W Ver) humans except those alone by whom it is thus it
a A (re, rue th er. P NOVY PC . leelf i ’ “up . it 3

freedom. Let them stand by that principle and independent Church, just as the Presbyterian | °!f inhabited, occupies the rea) pesition of the

smallest bantliug which nature hus yet produced
‘in the form of a political community, of ow whieh
lepe has thought tit te bestow, in coutrariety to all
| ordinary experience, something bearing the name
| of a distinct lacal Government of its own)—litth
weeney Prince Edicard Island, just emerging from
,| ane ot those tremendously sensational st
, 4 well known every four years as a General
, | Election, and which is ave febly as well known te
result almost invariably im that especial sort of
Gare up which may be most appropriately styled
“A tempest ina teapot.” And what a tempest?
ign amounted

bell
|

| Has not the late Government campa

Lut it is true that subsequently to); a ek Wet Mak. ©
that union she maintained relations only with the |in realty to a perfect Volitical Torusde? Had

Secessign, gbtained ministers for her, &e., and
must, therefore, have been committed to her

any af you, my quiet and pease disposed Fel-
|fow-Islanders, traversed this Cofoay from East
; Point to North Cape a few weeks ago, what
| would you have heard, and what would you have
‘seen? Would you not bave heard men, women
jand childron talking pehtics? Would you not
have seen a certain neondeseript fragment of gen-
tlemen, most of them the veriest ‘ris inertia’
tools of the present Gesevament faction, running
about pearly every settlement, bike so many blue
tering boys, both boasting to each ether, and alse
inflating themselves with the idea, false ae silly, of
having beaten, during the feverish hewr of party
contest, some of the nest pepaler men who te
lopposition could manage to pit agaist them?
| What patriots to be sure such fellows do get te
be tor a week or so, every fourth year of thew
mortal lives! How kind, how condescending,
i how affabie, and how killingly polite do the mest
‘of then thus periodically, during these brief quet-
raimeal seasons of political agitation, all at enee
become! Why—are net these the very Sane in
| dividuals who, for several mouths betore the
election, were found entering ahnest every but i@
| the land, bering the poor unoffensive nunates
| nearly to death tor their votes? Whocoeuld have
mistaken ove of them when be happened to meet
‘them ou the read? Everybedy surely well ux-
derstood who that * pecooliar” knot of genthaney
| were, who, when any person chaneed some litthy
jtime past te fallin with them any where around
i‘ diggins, would inaoediately take off their hate,
jand waking a very, very low bow, to manifest
their fitness for some special station, say—* How
do you de, Mr. -—-! ©, Faso happy to meet
jyou! LT hope you are quite well, sir! How are
| your wife and children getting en?) How do you
| think the election is going to turnent? You know
1 happen te be one of the candidates at present
‘dragged inte the field te ran a, contest for the
| House of Assembly, ay for the Legislative Council,
‘Cas the case may be), aud yeu Know. too, that I
bare always been a great Jriemd of gpers, and
ito do all the geod T ean'for my country! Hon't
rote fur me, sit? But what am Labout? t
know you have always been ou the ‘right side’ ©
politics, and therefore 1 need not ask yon! Weil,
T shall expect you te do al) you ean tor the cause
for which I am new making such a sacrifice of
of my own personal interests, and try te get as
many as you can te vote for ws by the day of the
felection? Good bye, six, and mand seu deat (or.
‘get what IT have told you! Anew!’

, Now, Mr. Editor, bere are just the plain, and

th® mame! kingdom around hin; while, at the simpic, and inseizagable factees the euse. Serh is

the character ofthe men whe im a great measure

in the ixsue of our late general election, to con-

| statute the Government of this Colony tor the
/easuing representation term.

Many of them, f
aay, aud T tearlessly repeat, are nothing more ner
less than just the most sheer political vs whiel
the entire Colony could readily produce. Wh
the independent cleetors of Prinee Kdward
should thus return sneh men to grace their legisla~
tive Helly is more than esther you er 1 or auy
other sane person can well divine.

The Liberal party, perbaps. bave wet chosen in
all jnstanees paragons of efficiency to act as their
eXpoments, any mere thon the Gevermment een
federation itself. But then they did not descend
to the suse low gouging and blustering experi
ments te seeure a majority on theiy side. Theg

posed to say at present whether the Award was legal or |
| illegal ; but he could not go for the paragraph; though he |
| had voted for the billg of last Session. Since the Award was'|
lic he newer thought it would be any great boon to
the tenantry, and recent experience jn examinations with re-

|

| spect to the va
| in the arbitration clause.
certain property was worth eo much, and others shortly after |
‘also on their oath, state it was not worth half the amount.

of either. To one of them, indeed, at his own request, |
gave « certificate of moral character; but I observed to him,
in doing so, that I did pat think it necessary, gpd that it
would be of no service to him.

I did concur with my brethren, some years ago, in the

lue of land, had shaken bis faith aliost entirely | design of establishing a newspaper in the Island specially for
He had heard parties swear thata the defence of Protestant trath and Pratestant interests. “The
Church of Rome bad abated none of the vast pretensions pat
forth b

her during the Middle Ages. Sbe professed not to

| With this additional experience he could not join in expressing | have x esa in character, and she has lately startled the

‘regret that the Acts had not received Her Majesty's agsent. |

‘passing these Bills, as by so duing they had established “|
| strong ease in their favour, by showing their readiness to con- |

orld wrth the appearance of a vitality supposed to have de-

gs then, and such are my

firm ti.e decision of the Commissioners in every shape and views and feelings still. But while [ think, as | haye eyer

means of obtaining for the tenantry more favourable terms)
‘than they otherwise would from the Home Government. He}
‘did not look apon the despatch of the Duke of Newcastle as
_ conclusive on the subject.
| perial Government saying to the Commissioners, if they had

+e

w

Ile saw nothing to prevent the [m-|
|

form. ‘heir conduct in the matter would probably be the) thought,

where is the propriety of treating an opponent un-

fairly, of speaking of hin wncoetigougly, of imputing to him
purposes which he does not avow, or of attaching to his

word” a meaning which one believes was not intended, and
hich any one, woderately acquainted with current events

and newspaper phraseology, knows it will nut necessarily

exceeded their authority, ‘* you should go again and report bear? No good can come out of that. Let any one read that

within the scope of your powers."’ fie had never accused’ chapter of England's History when the Exclusion Bill was
| any of the members on the other side of the House of insincer-| ynder discussion, and the subsequent ceaction that toak plage,
| ity, though he differed with them to some extent last session. | and he will see what may result from sugh guaducs. ‘Ane

| He would be pleased to hear some of the legal members on the

| Goverpment side discyss the legal bearings of the different |
| paragraphg of the Award. He did not think this subject was.
| set altogether at rest, by the Duke's decision, and was glad to

| find that the Goyernmens intended to prosecute it further.

| Hon. J. ©. Porw was glad to hear the hon. member for|
| East Point speak of the sincerity of the Government, but did)
not understand why he shoyld haye supported the Bills of last:
| session which he himself had assisted in perfecting, and could)

not now yote for g paragraph which merely expressed regret,
| that thoss measures had not peceived [Jer Majesty’s approval.
‘He (Mr. P ) was sorry, after what had fallen trom the hon.
/member, that he cogld not yeturn him the compliment for sin-
| cevity. All the excuse that he had for not supporting the

paragraph was, that he had ascertained some people were not
to be trusted in regard to the valuation of Jand. It was un-
| necessary to say much on this question, as most of the hon.

| is it to be inferred that I have resolved, and for some paltry

the Award, the whole award, and nothing but the award ; it members present were here Just segsjog. The time of the

because [ lay dgwn principles of even-handed justice between
man and man, which I baye ever maintained and advocated,

sinister purpose, not to resist encroachment which might be
made on our Protestant rights, or is it to be supposed that
my relations with Popery are now changed? I have entered
into no political connexion with Roman Catholics, as the ad-
herents of the Kirk in Nova Scotia for the most part have
done. Before that certain persons reproach me with *siding
with Popery”’ let them look well to their own relatives. The
Pope is nearer of kin to them, I can assure them, than he
is to me. fas

My views on Education are not new. They have heen ex-
pressed, and in the Presbytery too, before the Protestant or
the Protector newspaper an existence. They are hased
on a principle held to be ef importance in the church in
which I was edacated, inferior only to the doctrine of Christ
crucified, as I sha}l presently shew you. They are views,

was the duty of the Goyernment, tien, to endeavour to get it
earvied into opration.
not been the benefits from it which they could have desired
—The paragraph, before the Committee, bowever, expressed
thie, and the amendment was very little different. There
being 89 Jittle difference between them, why should the time
of the Ilouse be taken up any longer on the question ?
lion. Mr. Cones was not surprised that the hon. member for
Tryop had taken that yiew of the amendment, as did the hon
member for tle seegnd !)istrict of Queen's County thig morn-
ng. ‘Phis resulted from not paying strict attention to the
words of the amendment. The paragraph of the Address did
not express regret that no benefits hud resulted from the
Award, but the ymendment did so, and he contended it would
therefore zpress the opinion of the people more fully. . He
did not doubt that the hon member for Tryon was pleased to
find thet be «Mr. C.) was indixposed to offer a factious op-
position to the Goverument. As the majority of the people
wad returned a party op iqsed to his (Mr. C's.) views, why
should tie waste time in objecting to as much as he would
otherwise do were it the Jasp Seesign of the Legislature. It
had been stated that the Gppositign gid more to defeat the
Award shan the proprietors themselves. Jt was pretty evi-
dent there was ny djsposition on the part of the B oor oer
t» favor this side of the House. We'himeff had met with
strong opposition ju hig District from some of that party. He
(Me. © ) would express his views briefly, as he was as anxioug
“fr a short session as any one. He thoagtht the paragraph
did not go far engugh. From His Execllengy’g speech the
Qearned what appeared to be a final settlement of the Award.
The Colonial Minister had intimated that the Commissioners
bad exceeded their powers in the Report which they made.

jlon. members all knew that there had/

moreover, which were entertained by the father of the Free
| Chareh, and one of the naost sagacious men that ever lived,
he bad hinted he would, pro-| Dr. Chalmers, subsequent to the Disruption at least, ay alone
| vided no other person would take itup. Hehad denoisiinted | udapted tc the altered ecireumstances of Scotland by that
‘the Commission ** the most gigantic humbug of the day.’’| event, although he did not reat them on what is called the
As had been very well put by his colleague, if the hon. mem-| voluntary principle. With these views | with others entered
her believed it to be a humbug, why had he gone before it? | the Union, on the express understanding that I should be al-
Ilon. J. Warwsurton said he was deceived. | lowed to entertain and advocate them. The Presbyterian
lion. J. C. Porzx—HUe first said he would have nothing to do) Church of the Lower Provinces, if every individual member
with the investigation; but after having had some conyersa- | but one has since the union changed: his sentiments, cannot
: tion with the Commissioners, he declared he had confidences in} pronounce them to be wrong, without dissolution first and re-
them. and made a statement in their eourt. Lhe Govern-| constraction upon a. different basis. If it does it will violate
went had done all they could to obtain the Award; bus after) the ‘* contract,’? a phrase now come to possess a technical
whgt had been stated by the Duke, in his several gespatches,| meaning, and might be made snswerable at the civil law for
they had certainly not been treated fuirly io this matter. | civil consequences that might arise.
His Grace bad said the decision of the Commissioners would) That tue views I expressed, to which the Presbytery have
be strengthened were it unanimous. Tis was the case, and | taken exception, are entertained by the Church of which |
it Gught so baye weight. Had the Commissioner for tie Pro-| am a Licentiate, and by consequence of the Presbyterian
prietoxss objected gnd said to bis associates you are exceeding Chuvoh of Nova Scotia now merged into that of the lower
your powers, the egse would have been different ; but as he Provinces, and that those views are ‘the necessary application
assented to the whole yeport, certainly the Proprietors were of the voluntary ag ren characteristic principle which
bound to carry ont thejr contract. Some hon. members of the Gistipguishes it from the other branehes of the Presbyterian
Opposition complained that the loan had not been ae amily in Scotland, and to which it attaches the greatest
The Award, the whule Award, was confirmed by the House ; importance, [ shall abundantly prove, merely premising that
had any part of it bee; gajected they might have reason to |-ignorance on this subject is very extraordinary.’ i
Parliament pro

|Committee should not be further delayed, unless the hon.
member of the Third District of Prince County mtended to go
| into the subject of quit rents, as

4

‘complain. How the Bills relating to the Award were not as-| Last year # measure was introduced into
_ sented tg af Home cannot be yery easily accounted for. fu

viding a national system of. education- in Scotland by the
the meantime, befure they were received, a proposal eame

Lord Advocate. The measure, as mizht be su , was
from the Proprietors, which they desiged to be accepted in) taken inty cor ideration by tho different assemblies of the
place of the Award. This propos the Government declined, | Churcheg whic jas in May. Now, in the Synod of the
\as they considered better terms could be obtained-under the} United Presby

refused his support, because it was “ godless.” He
preferred the system at present in operation, and
wished it extended to Ireland. Aud what is that
system? Lot those who insist upon the State
providing religious instruction mark the answer—
the inevitable conclusion to which it will lead:
Nearly all seets have their separate denominational
schools, aud all are receiving grants fur their sup-
port, Gevermnent now abandon all idea of being
a judge. What Government now said was, ‘ you
may all be right, and you may all be wrong. We
do not pretend to suy; but we are willing to sup-
port youall, ‘That was the ground on whieh every
statesinan proceeded at the present day. I dety
any one to point out any statesman of eminence
who held that it was the duty of Government to
discriminate between truth and error. That was
an exploded principle. The principle of au Estab-
lishment like the Chureh of england or Seotland
was gone, and the principle of indiscriminate en-
dowment was coming iste play in its stead — a
principle incomparably worse. Perhaps it was
not far short of the truth, though I speak here
without distinct information, that the Catholics
alone were in the receipt of £100,000 annually ;
a large as this sum is, it will expayd indefinitely
il] it equals the yast proportious of the Protes-
tant Establishments, unless all endowments be
soon cut up, reot and branch, At present we see
the poner of indigeriminate enddwmeuts rising
up like a little gloud; jt is no bigger, though vast
sims are spent as matters now stand, than a man’s
hand; but’it is gue which, there is great danger,
will ere long overspread the whole sky, and bring
down God's indignation upon the Churches of the
land. Let those, therefore, see to it who insist
upon the State providing religious instruction to
any amount. ‘The consequence will inevitably be
Nace — of a widper and lower grade—
Jenominational grants. classes of th
lation are entitled to equal rights and erie,
aud there will be necessarily beart-burnings in the
land till this be obtained. We have only very
of the devominational sepayate school system in
the eudowmeut pf St. Duygtan’s, © 7
I perceive that my brother of Cavendish has
thought fit to step down iuto the arena. Iam
afraid he has been in somebody's closet, and has
got innoculated with some bad ideas. The words
with which the editorial (an old leeture probably )
commeace (1 assume it was he who sat in the
chair while it was being written) literally and
strictly and absolutely” apply te that long’ effu-
sion and that other over his own signature. The
pith ef the whole, as far as 1 am able to compre-
hend his meaning, is contained in the sentences
quoted from Wayland and Hogge — sentences
nd, excellent and judi¢ious. | cordially assent
to them as cyntaining most important truth. But
what do they prove! Most certainly they pomt
to conclusions the very opposite to those he would
wish to establish, and thost conclusively prove the
soundness of mine. The whole of that weary,
dreary article, which puts ove's patience to a
fearful trial to wade through, is based the

not be theroughiy permeated with religion.

fore, the whole that is apen it falls

ground. I most solemnly reiterate what J have
already repeated over and over again, that L am
most thoroughly opposed to a mere “

education.” But what I assert is, that a godly
education among a mixed community is not to be
obtained in schools entirely supported -by a eom-
pulsory tax, unless that each sect; as in Scotland,

lp to be allowed schools for itself throughout the
land. And the truth of what I assert is most

conclusively established by the

| iter t h Charch of Scotland, the resolution pro-
joperatign of the arbitration clause, and stated that they| posed ae the expression of its ecntiménty is an embodiment of

ae

brother. “The Scriptures,” says sr. Wayland,

Metropolitans, Rusties, Aristocrats, [ndiaus, Kam-| pever, ia se far as Leould perevive, have permitted
ekatkans, Whitemen, Negroes, Bushwhackers, themsechves te do this, at keust not to the sae
Hottentots, Mountebanks, Baukrupts,Greenhorns, | extent; aud to their eredit it shall, in ny view of
Pseudo-Yaukees, Political Bullyraggers, and Filla-| the ovaties, errr redound. The practiee of can~
bustering Politicians—and composing as they do, vasring, #8 carried om iw this county, and as often
One Grand Cosmopolitonically Intermalgamated | carried out, is ia my optaien one of the most con-
Commonvealth. O ye august occupants of the | temptible of which it is easy to conceive or ta
magnificent Island of Prince Edward, to you 1) which it is easy for any man to descend But as
shall now presume to address my simple speech! I have been one of these unfortanates who have
I shall talk to you about the times and s-asous.| been most scandaloasls, and wninstigatedly, and
I shall talk to you about your own country. 1 | unrecoverably whipped mys, iw ranvimy akpecial
shall talk to you about your own interests. I shall | contest during the cafopaigw in question— 1 will
talk to you about your own Government — its | perhaps, by talking in this strain, incur the sus-
wonderful constitution—its astonishing humility— | picion of being one who writes from aseuse of the
its present aud past *multum in parve’ history — | tresh smart of the disappointment experienced by
its unconstitutional proceedings — its hetero-| that smitten creature calied “a rejected eand>
geneous character—its homogeneous duplieity—| date.” I shall, therefore, close thix epistle to all
its absolutely amazingly ‘religious ever much’ | the people, with the frank acknowledgment that
uliosyncracies—its more than magically dexterous | —the poor creature feels wocfully cast down! But
——— for gulling the people over whieh it pre-| a8 I am on this subject of a elections, I shall
sides — the self-evidently unparalleled sunplicity, give them my own experience and more developed
nay, even stupidity of the baits which it reeently | sentiments in my next.

employed to secure its own return to office—the

apl ) W. KEIR.
willful and apparently infatuated, if not indeed ows

perfectly incredible, facility with which the people
have permitted themselves to be gulled—and the
more than unprecedented and utterly shameless

and redeemless effrontery with which both the | _

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Che Examiner.

Goverpment, at least some of its members, and
many of its supporters, undertook to force these
baits “Pa the passive acceptance of the egre-
giously duped and unmitigatedly hoodwinked
community, These, my fellow -colouists, are
strong terms. But they are ne stronger than I —

wand rapa be , uarely and op ge every| Is the Government mad, or has judicial blind-
word to subs ee on eS Senta aae shall ness 80 soon befallen itt Do the Government
I shall talk to you also about your feealod hope or dare to legalize proseriptive secret s0-
political clergymen — their pugilistic proelivities | Ci¢ties within this Empire, so long as the British
~—eae ricer Mme mer ood ant cow constitution endures to protect civil society? Let
ances, their anti-Christian rg Fy one | ase $e aa teunhug er\ignersat epistthe-ciges

Charlottetown, March 23rd, 1863.

ORANGEISM.,

assumption that 1 am epposed to a bible educa-
tion, or that the instraction of the child should

the assumption is entirely groundless, td there

quotations of our

tolic secession ' pretensions, their auti-Catholic
oaths, and yet their myriad of worse than Roman
Catholic works, of worse than Roman Catholic
superogation? But no—oh no~—ao! perbaps I
had better not talk to you of these last at all, for
fear T should incur the awful risk of being avathe-
malized as gon of the devil by the terrifically
pious sanhedrim of this Island. Ӵ might indeed
be called many beautiful names if 1 «hould for one
moment attempt to speak of anything of the sort.
1 shall therefore, of course, most prudently forbear.
1 would not for the world be demolished by a civil
prosecution. }t would net vniy rujn myself, but,
What is worse, far worse, it might scare my poor
old mother into fits—and then I would hy called a
matricide! I love the old iady as well perhaps as
any body else, and much more than nearly every
body else in this world, for she has been always
among my best earthly friends. | shall not, there-
ture, venture to endanger myself unnecessarily by
exeiting the wrath of such terrible men us ——
oh, but never wind their names just now: we shall
perhaps approach near enough to get a glimpse

of them by-and-bye! I shall, however, talk to y
also of your slavishly. pne-sjded, and despically
udiced, and extremely over-taxed, if vot

im fact mentally gally-worked, newspaper editors
o— Fg oe want of any distinguishable

pory, or even of any palpably practical principles
of systematic legislation | a guide the vt mind
—ot some of the more obviously” prerequisite
objects which should be sedujously pursued by our
leading statesmsn, in order to render the fature
prosperity of the Colony a consummation of even
vomparative certainty—as well as of many ¢ther
cognate and uneognate subjects too multiforin in
‘the present Counexion tospecily. You shall there-
fore, you see, before | have done, have no small
amount of plain talk dished out to you, free gratis
for nothing, aud without any pay. ‘

Hut in the fipst place of all, I shall talk to you

this, the very existence of such societies is incom-
patible with civil liberty, the laws, the Parliament
and the Crown itself; and neither Mr. Dundas
vor the Duke of Neweastle, his master, dare to
sanction them. What! legalise an association
claiming to take cognizance of the laws of the
jand and the prerogratives of the Crown, and ask
the Crown to sanction thus its own dishonor and
defeat! Protestantism in danger, quotha! and
Protestants must, therefore, surrender up to the
Colonial Secretary or uther successful leader of
Orangemen their dearest rights and liberties, and
the very “freedom of mind,” which is the most
popular and pleasing boast of Protestantiom, and
become his insensate slaves, that ke may save
they. Should pot the late party triumph be
sufficient to appease an ordinary bigotry, reassure
the most timid Protestants, and offer security
enough tor a full lifetime ot official sway, without
seeking this extra security against future defeat?
And what is the security thus obtained! Sup-
posing that Mr. Pope, for instance, really believed,
or came hereafter to believe, any thing of all he is
accused of saying, or of having said, in favor of the
Cathplic Church, where then would be the escape,
on the part of his Orange subjects, sworn to fullow
jmpheitly and blindly his bebests, from the tyranny
(let us say’) and tendency of his Catholic poliey?
It is of the essence of civil liberty that every
individual who claims protection from the Stgte,
or lives within its limits, shall be responsible to it
for his acts. Now, what responsibility is there