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Charlottetown, November 21, 1864.
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UPINIONS OF THE DELEGATES ON
THE CONFEDERATION

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Nee en

Tue public jourunla of Nova Scotia and New
Bevaewick are publishing the speeches of thei:
reapective Delegates, delivered in Cauada, in con-
neetion with the Cuion Question, at the severa
Banquets there. We think we ought to do the

gape in reapect te our Delegajer, not because

fie gentlemen WhO eomposed the Delegation from
- ber dated eciertain any ely Pandy abuUl ecedig
their epeeebes tepreduceds but by giving pud-
incity tutheir opinioas, as revised by thewse.ves,
we shalt pretect them from misoonceptivn, and
4efeat the inaidious arte of soue persons in the
* oeitimlinity, who would fain make it appear that
there, waa not unanimity of sentiment amongst
tee deland Dei gutes ou the general questa of

Cidom. ‘Such of the Maritane Delegates as were

pteert at the last Meeting of the Conference, at

Mei ireal, On their way Lowe to the Tslaud, signed

Uw archer Repors. of the Contentiog—Mre. |

Palvter waa amengst the gamber of these whi
figned it, although, we understand, he expresse
ot made same mental reservation to the effeet
that bis sighature was merely a verification of the
Report. All the other Delegatea might have
smade, and probably did make a similar reserva
thu, but nothing of the kind appears on thy face
othe decement.
Fo return, however, to the Speeches ;-—The
ragaet giten by the Beard of Trade at Quebec,
» the 1th October, waa the first public occasion
« which the Delegates expressed their views in
newer to the teast of their health. The Pre-
- Sineiai Sveretary of Nova Scotia (Dr. Tupper,
(aed the Provincial Sceretary at New Brunswick
(Mr. Tilley} spoke on behalf of their respective
Fievinces, and Mr. Shea (Speaker of Newfound
lwd Assembly.) spoke on behalf of that Colony
fre Hon, Col. Gray, Leader of our Government,
@uke ov behaif of this Island. His Speeet
* follows -—
aoL.. GRAYS SPEECH AT BOAR) OF
{RADE DINNEL, QUEBEC, OCT. 65.

wus

9 Hight comcult, whether, Lhe angels’ visits, they | are now in Canada, te educate the public mind
| should be few and Tar between, or thick ae leages | ip to the adoptran oftheir views, ‘The task may
pt Va lambross.”” He would, however, bear in| bo a tedious, difficult, and protracted one; but ne

mined that the beat quatity of an after-dinne: great tneasure was ever jet accomplished, ot

spetch was brevilys Speecies, on such an eceas! warth much, tuless surrounded with difeulties.
sion aa the present, ahegealal be, if prossible, hke | Deferring reverently to the public opinion ot his
) ie ehuinpagne Detere them, bright and aparkliug, | own Province, be would cheerfully yo amougsl
| dul 8 teen dinposedof COueors) Now, bie first (his people, aud explaining it as well us he could,
duty wasto thaok that detiaguixbed nudiewee, iv] be would a he name of the peopie of Privoe Edward Island, | he believed will enhance their prozperily. Pew
j or the honer conferred upon thein fepresentatives | and comparatively poor as the population ef be
| s8 connection With the other delegates, uot ouly | island ot Prince Edward may be now, tts fertile
tor the — entert@iument beture thea, but | fiedda ood, valleys are capable of supporting u
ur the cordial and overpawering Welcome they bad | population of a mullion, “It waa uneeé designated
received on thei: visit to this tair cily, the gre ati the garden of the St Lawrence, and it was
| commercial @ 4,0 ium of Canada, the grandeur] valuable fishing statien for Canada during the
j of whose busy warts and palatial residences bear | occupation of the Freneh under Montealm. it
) festimeny fo the enterprise, public spirit and re-, sill possesses all the qualities ef a garden, ner
jfined tastes of her sons. He was well aware | rivers aud bays still abound with fish. He desire
sbat the compliment was net so much to the gen) that those great resourees should become. as well
tlemen composing the delegation as to the colony | knewn now and in the future as they were whe
whieh they had the honor to represent. Fle ac. | gone days; and regarding the peerage” 8 es ,
eepted it tn that spiritand thanked their generous} modern unprovements und institutions of or ea
entertainers for it. Politicians are geverally cun-/ as auxiliaries tu the natural resvurces of hie
ing felluwe, and these jn the several Maritime | colony, he was satisfied that she could net tail »
Governments stowed this quality to great advan-} become very prosperous and heppy under the
tage whea they appoitited urembers of the Oppo- Confederation. {Loud cheers.)
sition, to whieh, in Prince Edward Idland, he rey On the next toast being given— “Our Sister
the honor ta belong, but from the care’ of which
he hoped to be soon relieted—( Laughter)—te aid
‘them iv perfecting (he great sclege of coutede-
fation: bece use, it the people of tke seperal Pro
j vinces sould be so Guwise as ta complain tha!
i their liberties and cherished institutions bave beet
taken trou them, the Oppositivn would have to
bear the censure as well as those in the Adminis
ltratien. Members of the Government will say, u
| reply to any Couplaiut, that the geutlemen Uppe | oo og tgdruw attention to some peculiar fucts
}site have been quite as bad as themselves. ei ‘connected with the present movement. They
ime oe ee eee: amen De | might recollect that this was mot the first

routede on wuld be the means of eniargimeg | :
sc tr ieee ot restricting them, and tial , Mie that states had mel together 10 organize
our peble institutions would be strengihened and {4% comsutution, fur in times gone by the
| consolidated, instead of imperiiled, by Lhe propos states of Halland had met to resist the tyran-
jod allanee. ‘The present was his first sisi ta Carp ny of the 5} anish government; and the
i nada,
greatness of the couvtry, in every respect, Which | bled under the eannon’s moath and the roar
#0 far exceeded his expectations, that be ardent fot artillery ; but the peculiarity of this mest-
fy hoped it would not be bis fast. It was great.) oy vay thas at was held in ® time ot peace
he eatd, tu ita industrial, connvercial and waters

; m Kevdburee'et ite: viel} with the approbation, and, ie believed, witi
reseirees, mm the countess renustres - us 6 em ‘ Be Ge 4 lly .
} forests, its inexbaustuble mives, ite gigantic pul | tLe sanction of Her Majesty, that the Colonies

Colonies % = the Hon. Mr. Haviland, of this Is-
land, veleateered the following short speech :—
SPEECH OF COL. HAVILAND.

Col. HAVILAND, in replying to the toast
remarked, that usa member of the smallest
province of the whole, he would not detain
the audience long, at the same time he de-

jtie Works, Whose salue is estimated by many unl might throw aside their swaddling-clothes t

bhons ef dellaes; in the vast ivkes which were |
bamall inland: seas, aud the mighty river which | haod down to posterity the glorious privi-

lows past us, being the natural bighwas tuandtfiew |leges for which their ancesturs contended |

He was so deeply impressed with Uv {uid thirteen states of America had also assem- |

put on themselves the garb of manhood and |

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| huitd up such a ubion as that which we
| would like to see, Upon a wass of guarantees
| based upon mutoul suspicion, but that if we
‘were to beeome one nation, they would lay
the foundations upon the puarantees of mu-
taal trust and confidence.

would swy that they could only beeome #o
by making mutyal copcessions and reposing
in each otber mutual eonfidence, It the

began to establish guarantees, where wie It
to end? Were they tu ‘have gharantees for
the defence of the British minority in Lower
Canada, and of the French minerity in Up-
per Cannda? Hehoped there was sufficient
good feeling end mutual confidence amongst
‘them in these Provinces 0 enable them to
adopt some simple effective mode of union
which would give them a good government
(Cheers ) He must say thyre was one por-
tion of Her Majesty's subjects in these Pro-
sinees—he alluded tw the Prench Oanadian
portion, with whom his intercourse bad
given him great satisiaction. He might
say that both on the occasion of the previous
visit to this Provinco as well as on the pre-
sent, he had never met one person of this
cluss who was not actuated by the most
friendly and loyal feelings to Her Majesty's
government. de believed it, was impossible
tor any stranger like bimysell to, visit. this
country, and traverse this fragment, as it
might be termed, of old France, without feel-
ing deeply interestedin its welfare and future
Seperated from the old country, 1 had not
the opportunity of participating in the glo-
ries of Old France, but at the same time he
did not think the Canadians had been much
the losers by not being involved in the polt-
tical storms which had raged in the old
country in the interval, The inhabitants of
}this Province enjoyed such & medsure of
| social freedom as was not exceeded hy any
nation on the face of the earth.
Asan old servant of Her Majesty, he fel:
proud when he said this. This was the bes
jcompliunent whieh could be paid to the ex
jcelence of British institutions. (° beers.)
| Theretore whatever might be the result ot
| this movement, he hoped it would conduce
o the happiness of the French people ol

Lt the iphabitants | Commeretal Capitaleot America, _
of the North American Provinees of Her) 1 now beg to call your attention to the ree
Majes'y were to become a great people pstaarece our Province.

(Cheers ) |

tt is impossible for apy man not to see that
during the dist fifteen years the city in which
we ure now receiving your hospitality har}
been rapidly taking its place among the first

j

(Cheers ) |

lam afraid you
hive not paid much attention to us, to the |
resources and the business of opr Colonies.
Some may, know, something about them,
‘mving visited them. But yur attentiun,
for the most part. has beer turned in otter
directions. But I may say that the amount
of capital and the resources that will be |
brought into this union by the Maritime!
Provinces will form no inconsiderable ele- |
ment in its prosperity. (Cheers)

Provincrs was two and a half million dol-
lars. | may mention another eircumetance

Provinces duriug the hist year have amouned
to forty-two millions dolars | Now yours, 1
think, amount to 80 or 90 million dollars, 80
that we approach to one-half the anited,im-
ports and exports ef Canada, Taking the
figures of the census of 1557 and 1861, and
allowing fer the natural merease since these
dates. | think you may put down our joint
population, at the close of the present year.
at somewhere about 900 OUO. The shipping
amounted to 645,530 tons. Great us is the
trade you possess, it must be observed that
lor five or 8X months of the year you are
without access to one mile of sea coas*, unless
you pasg through the territory of your beigh-
bor, a merchaut of Canada desires, dur-
ing these five or six months, to send the profits
of his labor home to Engtand, it uust pass
through foreign territory. [ will not cali it
hostile, for L hope it is friendly. (Cheers )
fhis is a condition ineonsistent with the diz-
nivy of any country that desires to maintain
its proper position. What we propose to you
is thisyadd your Marine of Canada to ours,
and the united Marine of Canada and the
Maritine Provinces wall place the country in
the position of the fourth Maritime pewer in
the world, England, Peance and the United
Sintes alune beang superior, The Maritime

Vetreets where there were Gelds and moraseca, (sai, lines of a new constitation ?

| solemnly and repeatedly through the press,

Taking | uew condition,
the offitiat returns of 1865, it appears that | blameless for the consequences.
the evllective revenue of the four Maritime | bad.giten. us Warning that things could not

—that the umports and exports of these four

omnes i

the reason why, he would give the reason iw
oué word, the same whieh the visitor to St
Paul's was called u to read on searching
for the monument of Sit Christopher Wren
(circumspice) look around. (Cheers.) Look
around and they woald see the reasons for
tiie gathering. Look atthe valleys of Vir-
ginia, the uplands of Georgia; look around
in this age of earthquakes and political per
tarbation if North America; look at the
mep in these Provinces, who were called it-
stateshen, Whom Great Britain bad warned

by official notifications, and by Parliament,
that if the Canadians did not provide ade-
quately fur the exigencies of their present
England would hold bersel!
Why, she

yo on in future as in the past. (Loud cheers )
If they wished to see reasons tur the present
Conference, luok across the border and they
| would find reasons as thick as blackberries
iwhy they should go where they did, and en-
gage in the work which had for some time
vecupied them, (Loud applause.) It was
necessary that they should have with them
the cordial sud united support of public
vpinion and the publ.c voiee of the great city
ot Montreal. He trusted they would bave
the support of the majority of all mterested
people in Canada, of whatever origin, creed
orrace, This was not a time for creeds or
Grigius or races, but a time either to save or
tu ruin British North America. If its fate
were not decided withm this decade in one
sense, assuredly it would be in another. 1
the thirty three delegates had presumed to go
into a chamber in Quebec to sketeh an outline
to be submitted to thie luperial Government,
aud to the [mperial Parliament, before which
submission rt was not right it should be sub-
mitted inany kind of detail to the people of
these Provinées; if they had gone into that
rovm in time of profound peace to sketch a
new ‘basis of a constitution for these Proyin-
ces, they sound their jast:fication in ciream-
stances of the peculiar position in which
British American colonies stood towards re
publiean North America, and in intonations
vfficial aod uncficial respecting our duties as

‘It asked

the Ly t *rovinces, Invilungauiatlerchange eleul | from age to age io he old country, and |!
a Sp . i whieh had an, inte these new coun-| Lower Canada % and he believed that it
iries under the protecting shadow of the flag |might be effected just ae easily by simple as
that had braved a thousand years the batt. | Sy compheated means. Ie mightor aighi
the bj iin wt and the breeze. (Hear) Although Prince | be the case that the views proposed by
| the deasititeners of the gallant pedi vw jee, | Edward Island had only 80.000 inhabitants, the Delegates would be earried out; but at

i commercial relations aud an expausien of the re)
-ourees ot them all. It was great, tee, for thre

{hi-tory Which it lias bequeathed tu all time, and
| whieh may now be referred to without disturbing

to self-detence conveyed to us by the. last
British ‘steamer from the most undoubted
sources, trom the seat of government of the
empire itself. (Cheérs ) The Conference
had not acted in an empirical spirit; they
bad not gone into the chawber to invent any

Provinees alone cannot clara this position ;
Canada alone cannot claim it. 1 cannot for-
get that the inhabitants of this country are
sprung froin the most enterprising and ener-
getic people in the world, 1 cannot forget
that this country has a histury of its own

lo little > i “Ure BRO, & owledges | ; :

+ et ie erage 7 tk > Sn — fo po principally engaged inagricultare, yet smal] ine sn” ia piss Se the pe te: to
that history, aud while in Quebee he did not fai, | as it Was it did not come as a beggar to the | C4ftied Into ¢ ‘ebor nothing, or only @ part,
to visit soue-of the places which were made | Conference doors. Its revenue was certainly he might assure them, both for himself and
umous by the marvellous euterprise and hervisw | not very great, but there was yet a surplus | on the part of his fellow-Guvernors, that they

(Cheers.) [turn back the pages of history, | new system of government; but had entered
| : . M ‘
land Ltind deeds reearded whieh need net make | it witha reverent spirit io consult the oracles
}a Canadian ashamed before any country inj of the bistury of their race; they had gone

lthe world. ‘The speaker proceeded ty reter io| there’to build, if they built at all, on an old

of Wolfe. Montmerenci, at which the first dast

Hen. Col. GRay, Premier ot Prince Evcward
lwas wade for the conquest ot Quebec, was :

land, also. ceapouded. He eaid his friend Mr

Ley had_referred to him ic. Counection with ¢ | ple? of stirring interesc which no Visiter coulc

suject ot great impertavee. It was, however,! pass by. The Falls were bet, perfnps, ver)

of about £4,000 sterling to the credit of the
Proyince over and above the
spent ior the Government last year.

lit did not come as a pauyer but was honest)»

might rely upon finding im them every dispo-

£36,000 it had | #U0N to assist them by every moans that lay
Thus | i their power.
{seek to give the fullest development to what- |
|

They, the Governors, would

ithe achievemerts of Canadians on the Phams

of Abraham and elsewhere. There is one
other observation which L bave to make;

jfoundation. (Loud cheers.) They desired
| not to build an edifice with stucco tront and
‘lath and plaster continuation, but a consti-

a by and wopalutable subject.
“Yeiecis would understand the allusion, vod he
wal afraid he might net exactly epprove bo mse |
i tee eves of the chairman and of those toound |
thew tables, if he were to express tuily bis sents |
yoveta on this all-important matter, Lad uring |
ameer asevere culd, ve should pet bave riscu al!
alt. if he bad not felt bound, on belalf of his col-
jeagnes aod the people he represented, to return |
t their entertainers, op this occasion, their hearty |
thanks fur the high benera conferred on them. — |
Whes he looked atound and saw an suieunt of |
uiteiigerce and wealtti, such a¢ it had been rarely |
his fortuie to bate addressed, although bh: had |

His triend Col | wonderful in theuwelves (in) being directed t

."s lore , ) . ep ake “oy (ever Was proposed, and to further as far os
the upper portion of which he was indebted tu i | PT°T ared ty do something all in ite FOwer } lay inl y 7 we ‘ } terests and hi i.
et pasecable end-intalligent French Canadia: | Y Ugesize here in Awevics a constitutions! |!) JM Snel power Sie sniyresie Gad Happ

wiel,) but the bisturic assuciations which tbe) | BWonarchy which suould be able to Spread in- | a ss of those over whoin for a time they had
cecal give Chem an ei during cisim io atiention | sutubions In Ww hich there was the seul of he | een appornted to preside.

He visited the Cove aud walked up the parrow | Derty. (ilear, hear) The despotism now jtelt that perha)s he had been touching upon

pass which led Wolfe and a few teiowers to the | prevailing over our border was greater than | rather diffeult ground, but at the same tine |

leven that vt Russia. The liberty of the pres jhe thought that the period lad arrived when
closed bis conquest of Canada | Liberty in the States was altoge public toeling might be brought to bear Up-
to visit iu the Governor's Garden fhe mounmenl) ehor y delusion, a mockery, and asnure, No | that in whieh the public at large were 80
to the mewory of Wolfe aud Moutcalin. = Y2" | man there could express au opimon antess u | deeply interested. . Hoping that the future

jagreed with the opinion of the majority, tor | 0! Urese Provinces might be as glorious as

4 generous and noble impulse m the Eurt o
Jalhogise thus to eoriinenuterate the pames © ' rues J ini addins Sadi ‘
vs “ii f jth tune being ; as forthe rights of che mino-| © &plendid materials seemed to promise, he

Plains of Abraham, whsie a soldier's deatt
He was delightee | was gone.

(Cheers ) He}

| would conclude with the sentiment whieb hie |

| you must excuse me if [ vecupy more of your tutional edifice upon a basis of solid British

' a -
of Nova Sevtia, replied to by Mr, Attorney Gene.
ral Henry ¢for New Brunswick, by Mr. Attorne:
General Johnston; and for Prinee Edward leland,
by Hon. Mr. Coles. The New foundland Dele.
gates wrre net present. We insert below the
speech delivered by Mr Coles :—

MON. MR. COLES'S SPEECH.

“Hon. Mr. COLES responded for Prine. >
ward Isiaud. He said the reception ae
delegates in this city, last night and tomxday, went
beyond his expectativns. He had thought the
same at Quebec, bet on coming to Montreal and
Ottawa, bia admiration of the Revd-teeling atid
hospitality of the people of Canada had beew still
further inereased. (Cheers.) He stood bere in
a different positiva trum tbe gentlemen from the
other Provinces, who bad just addressed them
both of whom were members of their reapee tite
Governments, while he (Mr. Coles) happened to
be ane of the ? Were aware that
the Oppositiovs of all dhe Provinces bad entered
jute the delegation to usgst in carrying out. the
views of their respective Governments. Gener-
ally, whey, au Opposition joined in carrying out
the views of a Goveritient, they were looked
upon with suspicion by their constituents. dbut
the present case was one which stood enti by
itself, aod be claimed that iu going tor ion
the Gosernwent of Prince Edward Island were
carrying out his views—views which he trad en-
tertamed for many years. (Cheers) In tomuer
times he had found many opposed te his senti-
apents.ou this question. it. was the same as im
the case of a proposed amalranonial onion, when
the friends of the fawily were very apt to raise
objections on the grounds of desparity in wealth,
standing, &e5 but in spite of ‘these ubjections
they had gone to work, and for the last two
wouths —fisst at Charlottetown, and then at Que-
bee—they had been trying to draw wp the mar-
riage setUement—(cheers)—and he bad to an-
nounce to them that they bad sueceeded in fram.
ing a mmerriage setthement which, though in some
respects not what some of thew might Lave wished,
he hoped would, taken as a whole, vive satisfae.
tion te the entire family. (Cheers ) |The mar-
riage ceremony lad yet to be-pertorined. When
that took place he hoped the families thereby al-
lied would not be sich strangers to each other us
they had been in the past, and that the people of
Canada would more frequently visit the people of
the Lower Provinces, who should be to
return the compliment. ¢Cheers) Mr. Gules
went on te speak of the advantages of Prines
| Edward Island as a delightful summer residente
{and of its various resourees—particularly the Mg
exbaustible treasury it had inthe fisheries of its
waters. At present hundreds of thousands of
jponnds worth of fish were taken trom their
waters by the American fishermen. He trusted
that soon Canada would take that fish for the
consumption of her inhabitants, and send hers).
ermen to ¢ateh them, He thotyht they had rea.
son to congratulate themselves on the result ef
the labors of the Conference, That thirty-three
men, representing the vartotis political opinions ef
six diflerent Provinces, could have assembled and
so amalgamated their opiuions as to agree upow
a Cotistitution suited for that great coufederation
war something, ke believed, such as the world
had never scen before, and showed that the dele-

time than | ought (Cheers ) There are} masonry, § »lid as the foundation of the Eddy-
jwmany men who believe that a mere ecom-/ stone lighthouse, which would beat the whole
| mercial anion would accomplish the object force of the tempest and the waves, aud the
| we wish to attain, bugl think that to meo of | corroding political atmosphere of the new
sense it mast be evident that this would not! world, and which they hoped would stand for
to the necessity df one Province imposing | Situtions and of the legitimacy of
duties which might be unpleasant to the | origin. (Loud cheers) in their (che Bri-
others, for the purpose of meeting the in- tish North Awerican) political architecture,
terest aceruing on debts incurred for public! be trusted they would yindicate the honor of
works, thut the character of the country) the races from which they sprung—the war-
might not be stained by repudiation. You | like Norman, the Saxon, the Celt,

effect what we wish. ‘The speaker referred | ages a Vindication of the solidity of their in-!|
their.

the |

adiiressed many assemblages im Varieus perte of} struggle in which they were et gaged, both iilus

the globe, ft needed nothing more to convince him | tieus in their lives aud benowred aud lawented |

that this fine city was destined to take its place | ia their death : ove ibe idol of the Eegiish vacien

in? the froot rank, if not es the first city of a) the other the ewbodiwent ef all that is virtuous

voth bereea, both foemen werthy of the grea :

‘ }rity they were nut recogniged; they did not ex-
ist, and the majority rule rough -siiud overall
tlear, hear). Well, Prince Edward Island

though it was smal!, was prepared to take a|

erighty nation. (Chwers.) Tlie bospitalities whieh
they Lad reeeived at the hunds of the Executive
ef this country, aa well as the citizens of Quebec,
would take a jong time to be effaced from their
memories. He had obeerved the other day a:

erucié io a local newspaper, the sentiments vi
which he heartily cwdersed, alluding too pam-

plilet addressed by a great friend of Dr. Tapper’s
te Mr. Adderly. The editor made aeme wel!
timed rewarks on the failings ef coloniats, and
partic ularty their habit of underrating themecives
¢Hear. and fanghter) He bimseif (Col. Ciray

g-oried i hie being able tu boast thal be wee born
in America, and he was proud, uew standing it
the ewuntry whieh gave him birth, tu be able te
lift his feeble votee te assist in bringing abent x
wnion which he fondly heped would ehertly be
consamuated. The dream of his yeuth end bis
yvaauteed had been, that he might one day be :
emizen of a great nationality, stretching frou
Vaneouver to Halifax, (Cheers) This dream
be Grwiy believed would soon become a reality.
(Cheers.) He would ask any gentleman at thos
board, could he divest binseif of the feeling that
the deger of Providence Bad direeted their labors!
Vaen we regarded the tunes in which we live,

mud chivalrous inthe Freuch character. (Cheers.)! burthena upon ti and share with the other ma-|

|observed appended tu one of the toasts :—
* Then letos be firm and united.
* One country, one flag for us vil.
| © United our atrengih will be freedom,

will permit ime to express: my opinion that) Norseman, the homely, vigorous, fearless

(Hear. hear, and cheers )

we Want something more than a commercial |Seandinavian, and ali the races that go to)
union, thal we want a natiwnal union, that) make up the great concrete called the Brit sh |

be |

/a man may not be ashamed to point to the Empire.

he rals, thu
uuiied and thus couimemourated, be
bolized the clese uhion now
the Fréuch and British races in Cunada. (Ch
But ofall the attributes of the great
there was ove other which he could not overlook
It waa to be seen mm the personal character of the
people of C anada, im the jarge and generous heari
4 lich seemed te throb alike trem ene end of Cie
Province to the ether, Cnafkected by distinction
uf race, fatiovality or erced, it appeared to fel,
aud give visible manifestativus of the feeling,that it
was capecious enough to eafold within its tendri!s
every section of British America. The only fear
was that the caressing, as in the case of the dele-
gates, might be teu warmly given, and that they
night suffer a most agreeable death from th
This was net intended to apply tothe

names of the two great Gens
auliiuily sytu
ng betwee!
ers.)

ness of Canada

subsist

eperalien.

wirladies of Cunada, (laughier,) for the delegates |

being all warried men, were, of course, like
Cwsar’s wile, ubove suspicion as regards a breac!
of tue marttal engagement, for i wet se circum

stanced they would be as dead as Julius Caesar |

mg-ago. (Lavghter.) He would witl
the permission of the chair, offer one or two

how,

wid the omiuous state wf OMuirs eu this continent. observations touching the important busines.
whe, thongh be might alteinpt to foreshadow.) whieh had brought tie several delegates t

evuld presume to furete! the eventa which wight
be evacted ow this continent daring the next four |
years. His friends from the sister Provinces |
had epoken very forcibly of the eoumercial inter- |
véte intalved in the propesed union. They had |
enid 20 meh on thia subject that he, occupying

Canada, and ia domg so he would so express
himeaelf as wot te vivlate the confidence which the
Convention seemed to cousider so exsettial toe the
success of their deliberations. Politicians sume-
times take extraordinary Liberties with the
patience of the public, and perhaps they did thi-

'ritime Provinces In contribating towards im)- |

ee | The speeches at the Neutreal Banquet which | iieve chat the proudest position we can ‘bold | vf republicagism, aud not tulfil the predie-_

| appeared tu be tue most effective, and pronounced | ie that of Englishmen, tiving under a com. | Huns so freely showered upon them by some
}mou Sovereign, and worthy of the great race of the New York journals that the pr posed |

litary delenee, (Lear, lear).
the day would come when the battle of civs!
jand religous liberty woula have to be
fouglit in America, and he ielt that it vould
be tuught between Canada and the United
States. Wien that tue came Prinee Bi-
ward Island would be prepared to contribute
its quota of men and money in order to aid
Cuuuda in defending those free institutions
which are so dear tv .sas British Americans
(lear, hear). There was a point of impor-
tauce connected with this subject. ‘Luere

was an fron band wanted tu unite the Colo-!/

| nies—the band of the Lntercolunial railroad—
and that completed, the interior coonected
with the seaboard, the Colonies would be
fable to go on band im hand together in ¢ow-
lmercial and military undertakings, (lear
hear )
being in Montreal during the vwesit of Lis

Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who| t : i
} would, some day—might that day be distant own judgwent of their merits :—
Then he was her: |

—rule over this country.
}a3 @ stranger and the maritime provinces |
{were hardly known; it was with the utmost |
| difficulty be could find so much as a newspa- |
| per trom the Lower Provinews in the reading |

rooms. Now, however, he felt like belong. |
| ing to a nation, for he thought ere long we |

Some years ago be had the honor of |

* Divided we each of us fall.” (Loud Cheers. )

pride in acknowledging it. (Cheers) 1 be-

| to be the best, were those from: Mr. Gray of New |

| Brunswick, and from Mr. McGee, of Canada.— |

low a course calculated to do honor to out
was still Keen, and on the watch fur disclosures|own country. (Cheers.)
lvrom the Delegates; but when Mr. MeGee rose | Wore remark to make, and that is upon the
to speak tue company was pretty well tired—the national defences of our coutry. :
| 5 4 ( |} you to bear in mind at this moment wha
| champagne tind taken effect in many cases; but) 446) man contributes to the defence of the
country, and | ask you to turn to any other
country in the world, to any portion of
Europe, or to turn to the United states, and

jearly hour—while the attention of the audience

every person was clamouring to bear Mr. McGee, |

land we are sure his great personal pupularits

with his coustituents of Montreal would have se-

feured him the most Teapectiul bearing at ans

; * “} | ‘ ~ \ iv . | . Th
| time and under any circumstances, We give a) poarths and your homes? (Cheers) Liv

| tollows hia speech, with Mr. Gray's (of N. Bo) | speaker referred to those whose suns had

| themselves bravely.

I have only one |

to tell me in what country people contribute |
liess than you do here to the detence of your) aying of the Atlautie telegraph cable a sew f the first nations of the werk.

SPEECH OF THE HON MR. GRAY OF |

NEW BRUNSWICK.

Lt Col. the Hon. JOUN U1. GRAY, of New
Brunswick, rose to respond on behalt of New
Branswick. When the cheering had ceased
Mr. Gray proceeded to say that, being placed

| be soworthy of the heritage of our race, i

country from which be comes, but may have | trusted that the British North American po-|

litical architecture would not bea plagiarism

| whenee we are sprung, and while we per-/| Union would be simply democracy in disguise ; |
; ‘ : . | petuate the Coustreutional principles of thie | bat that wes) ould not only ackpowledye the
| Mr. Gray had the advantage of speaking at an} wountry from which we come, we shall fol. wenarchial principle, but construct an edifice |
with British connection as the corner-stoue,

and trecdom as the iain wails of the strac-
‘ture, and make tie people feel their treedoi

lL ask | Was connected witha due respect for authority | cpiion even

and for the throne, as well as for those wo re-
i presested here authority and the throne,
newod cieers ) Ls answer te the well-wishing
editur of the New York Adbiea, whe had caution-
led Cauudiaus against the premature rejolengs
jover the sewmieg suceess to which they had
irrived, as iney had dene with regard to the

years age. be (Mr. MeGee) would ventare te

assure the editors that they bod net been experi-|

. . is { | Aw 2 ; ‘ *? j i ‘ir +e)" *
and having read them, Jet the reader form his} jommed the ranks of the army, sud acquitted | wenling and sending outlet their depths, as those
; e » di Who tad the cable did. (Laughter and applause.
bold that we suould) "

Lue ference bad wot beew
togetiier so far without having a fair indication of |

enber: ob the ¢

(Re-

when the tine is Come for us to do something
for ourselves, we do Dot show that we are They wanted the eleetrical stimulus troni England, |
| prepared to du it. W hone Violating: the having only to touch the Magna Charta and the |
rules of secrecy as to the deliberations of the bill of rights te reeeive all the imspiration or im-!
conference, | may say that the Provinces if} puise they wanted in their present labours. |
‘united, will devote all their means if eadled |

what each other's sentunents and opinions were. |

iChrets.) So jong as they had that electrical

} gates were worthy of the position they held —
'(Cheers) He said this although there was po
j span mOEre disappointed than himself with respect
|to some parts of that constitution, but by mutual
| concessivn they had arrived at a result which

jthey could all agree im submitting te the
j people, for he beld that it must be submitted

|tu the people. They e© ull net foree it an the-

people; they imust endeavor to show them that ip
| Was for their beuefit aud thus induce them to ac
jceptit. (Cheers.)

| The Hon. Col. GRAY, of Prince Edward Ieland,
| before the company separated at the Dejenner in
the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, axked them to
till their glaswes. [ft was wot his intention te detain
them with a speech, as he saw that their fair
} companions Were already looking forward with an
j agreeable anticipation to a mere convenial tek, one
better suited to their capacities, although he would
net say to their understandings. (Cheers) The
delegates had conve to this city as strabyers, and is
wus pow his duty us chairman of the conveution of
the maritime provinces to usk them to jpin in drink-
ingw bumper to the health of their hospitable en-
tertaipers, (Ubeers > They bad been mneh delighted
to-day with what they hud seen. Niatre and arp
jhad combed te render this fale ety peentinrly
attractive, and ae rewarded thie superb siructnre im
which they were tow assembled and whieh nop
ouly rivalled the Taileries of Paris, tat iu leis
the hewnases of Paorliement on the
inames. (Coeers) They all agreed that it was bus
4 dita proper building forthe purposes to which
io was to be duntted, oue in which sieuld sit the
| representatives of u free people, who soon wousedi
Lave their terriory washed hy the Atkiutie us
Helitax and by the Pacific at Vanconver. (Cheers )
It needed no prophet to foretell that the day was
peerong When they weuld take their place among
Cheers) He asked
}thetu to join him tn drinking the henlth of then
werthy Loess, the Contractors for these publie
| babidi: ur. (Uleers.)
|

|

Mr. Craxx (one of the Contractors). brielly res-
| poreed.

The Ball at Ottawa on the evening of the sane

i day, (Ist Nov.) closed the festivities at that

place. This Ball was generally proveuncea to be
the mest agreeable and plesant ene of all.
The Delegates started on the following day for

in the same position as lis honorable triend

upon for the maintenance of their liberties

inspivation iy the libraries at their sides they | Toronto by special train, wader the personal care

ae he bad alwaye done during these proee dings
toe uneuviable pusition of curing is at tle heel
«i the gust, was precluded from entering pon
that subject, more especially as if was but o smal
welouy which be and hia colleagues reprecerted
They felt, however, that they could throw a little
inte the commen stock, and that they could be
te this Conf-deracy what Rhode Island was te
The United States, which, theugh of less exten: |
than tie own Island, had lately sent four regi- |
tients, eaeh of a thousand strong, to help the
Ue in ite great struggle; and in bbe cconner:
the people of Prince Edward Isiand could throw |
in their wight tuo when the tuse arrived. He}
would remind theus Ghat io prosecuting this plan |
ot anion the public are Dew met in conierence |
in Quebec required something more than suc b}
hiespitulities as they bad partaken of at this mag
nifieieut feast. “Phey required the #)mpaiby and |
eomeperation of the people, and coud uw wttain |
the resulis they looked for unless the people of |
their respective Previnees gave them t! eir aid |
te the utmest, banishing all sectional jn lerests |
and prejudices, abd waiting together aa bLrethret 5

}

te brag avout tha desired consuumation, which |
be would say wae as desirable on other prounds |
ns ifow tke mere commercial pointol view. As}
the chaivman of the Contention of the M aritine |

tu say that there was met & mau aimeng
ite the
testimony to the faet that the confession waa o |

wiles they reselyed apon belding a secret Con-
ference; but it may be, that they bad so wany
dark sina to confess te each other bat they ina-
gined it would not be safe to let the public listen
coufession. Ile would, however, bea

mest satisfactery one. Bach felt that he was en-
titled to political abselucion for niany sins done
by his province, and now behold (suid he, toueh-
me the chanipague glass,) how earnestly we are
all doing penance. (Laughter) The Contede
ration of Lie Provinces may voi follow immediately
in the steps of the Coulereuce, but that it will
come, or that our condition will become ver;
much worse than it is at present, seems morally

eertain. Nothing ean be worse than to become

tie prey of a miitary despotism, not far distant, |
where every vestige of liberty is daily offers a}

asa sacrifice te the Moloch of Ambition, and

i wherein the ties that were supposed to bind twe

peeple of common origin aud common language,
are now brittle: ax glass, aud an oppertuuity i
desired to ery ** bavuc aud let slip the dogs of
war” upon wiefllending colenisis Ii we want te
woid such a misfortune the people of Britis!
America must become more united than they are
at present. The Convention, whose labours have
just closed, waa the first step iu that direction

other too long, as much so as it we lived under

| should be a nation with interesis no

}honored flag which now foated over us
| (Applause )

Pp;

| McDonnell spoke at the Moutreal Dejeuner. The |

| seutiments of the latter coummanded great atten-
tion, aa well from the ease and ability with which

i they were delivered, as from the high position ol

}the soeaker, We make room for Sir Richard's |

| speeeh as one well worthy of perusal ;—

GRAVES MeDONNELL’S
SPEECLU.

| He said, your reception of me has been
jsu very kind and s¢ very cordial, that 16 al-
| most eu barasses Wie, accusiumed as I uni to
| public ite, and to the welcome which Let
| Majesty's subjects in all quarters of the
| globe accord tu those whom they know to be
j actuated by a loyal seuse of daty. I have
lalwoyslound that Her Majesty's subjects are

; SIR RICMARD

‘delight d to to lend their au to the repre-|and our wealth inty cone common natioa. Canadians, in the presence of your beautiful
| sentatives of the Queen in carrying out the | Che speak r alluded to the legisiatures of | 1
lubjects of the Queen, and these objects, 1) these Provine s having in time oi need placed 'own great river, I call upon you in the pre-

longer
| distinct, butone people under the same time-|

General Sir Fenwick Williams and Sir Richard |

‘op the right who had just addressed them, (Cheers ) You will permit me to reler to
\he bad to acknowledge with tlanks on the the pleasure | enjoyed this morning in hay-
| part of New Brunswick the kind reception of | ing an opportunicy tu visit the various er-
ithe toast, and he must ety that the embar-| mories of this city. It was a souree of
ressment which he naturaily felt on rising to | gratification to find taht you had the nucleus
address that assembly faded away before the | around which you would rally in case of dit-
cordiality of their welcome, This was one | ficulty and danger. I have one more word
of the occasions «hen men rose superior to} to say. \ hen you come into this Union, we
the culd caleulations of interest, and chose ask you with all sincerity that the first step
the path of honor. At no period in the} you take be to put usin a position to have
history Of British North Awerica had such /uccess t» you wt all times, and that you may
& question come before the people. It is. have access to us at wll times of the year
not simply. continued Mr, Gray, that we (Loud cheers.) Lister to that undertaking |
lure your guests, received with such un- | sanctioned by the expression of ony pablis |
byundced hospitality that no language can | OF iniun, the cqnetraction ol ge work
express our appieciativp uf it; but the} which will make us brethren. We ask you
reasun of our being bere is that a public) to aid us by the expression of your public
question is before us, a public question most) opinion 4 to tell your statesmen that we are
uomentuus to the future defence of the Pro-| to be plaeed in a position that will keep as
vinces of British North America—-the ques- | no longer strangers to each other, but enable
tion of Confederation, not simply a eom-| us to know each other, (Cheers ) Tris
mercial connection bata political eunneetion, | question of union has been one of deep im-

merging our interests, our national ciaracter, | port and of deep interest. Leail upon yon,

hills, | call upon yuo in the presence of your

would always know what was thonght in England | of the Managing Director, Mr. Brydges. At Bello-

of the work they were doing it Quebee. (Cheers. )

provinces, in going back to their constituents, he
sdid-te them, not asa Canadian or as a Lower
Canadian, fer he had always said the province
oe had beet abolished before he eame to}
Canada, and if it-was never drawn again till be
drew st, either socially or politically, or any other
way, if wenld remain ondrawn tong enongh. He
said to them not siinply as a citizen or a repre-
senutative of Moutres!, er as an mhabrtant
of Caiada, but as whe heartily desir: |
ed, an his bumble way, te bring about this |
very speetacke whieh they to-night witnessed, |
that they could say fearlessly and unreservedly ou |
the part of Canada that if they, he firmly be-|
lieved, songht abis alliance, not trom mercenary |
motives, but from aoosentiment of commen
delenee; if they came into the A’uien, as he
thongit they would, well dowered and in such a
Mahoer 33 vo one of the partuers to it could ever
upbraid them with their having come in an insn-
bordinate position, they could say that if Canada
desired this Union, which he believed she did,
althongh the pubbe wind of the country was net
yet fully informed apon it, he went in for ne such |
small or merecnary purpese. (Cheers.) They

could say ter the pablie intelligence of Canada, |

cele’

‘ | ville, there was a Review of the of the Volun-
And, addressing the delegates froin the sister | saepirotees ‘j

teers in honvur of them—an Address from the
Corperation, and some hasty refreshments. At
anoth-r Address, ands
sumptuous Dinner ordered by Mr. Brydges. At
Cobourg, the place of residenee of the Solicitor
General of Upper Canada, the Train arrived after
dark, where the Mayor and some of the Corpora-

Kingston there was

tion of Toronto bad come te meet the Delegates.
Phere was an ibnatation of the City ef Cobourg
—a torch-light precessien—an address from the
Corporation, and more festivities at the residenee
of Mr. Cockburn, Solicitor General. After a
delay of more than an heur, the Train again
started for Teronta, and arrived there about half
Au Address from the City
authorities was immediately read and replied lo

past ten o'clock.

at the Railway station—a torchlight procession
of very great length, accompanied by at least fre
thousand people, attended the Delegation party
to the Queen’s Hotel, where every arrangement
Short

Provinces, and on their behalf, lie felt aut lorized | In the colonies we lave been strangers ta eae!

Why would swt promotly come forward to give | separate sovereignties.
his eubstance te the utuiwst, and to spend the lat) and apprehensive of each other; wutually restrict
dewp of hie blood, rather than that the soil ef! ing our trade and placing obstacles in the wey ot

We have been jealous |
; jresulé im advancing the social welfare

emmmercial prosperity ol
Caueda should be polluted by the bestile foot of | yur prosperity—not kuowing and not respecting |colontes. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, in thir
the stranger. (Lowl cheers.) On this suljeet,| each other aa we should. Llu our separate and | fair city, which L may terw the natural an

| Ihereaeniny

a

however, he would forbear making any further |
remarks, a6 he did wot koow whe might be io!
the rown, and he would net be the last to say |
nagthing that could be coustrued in an offensive |
tense to acy ete. He would only add, that with |
the peaple of the Maritine Provinces united with |
the Canadians, as a band of brothers, the y might

be assured that God would defend bis owu work.

‘The oext Dejesaer or Banquet was at Montreal
ou the altecucea aud evening of the 29th Octuber,
the Delegates having artived there ow the previ-
ous doy, aod tad been entertained at a Ball, as}

we wmettioned last week. The Dejeunc

| foreign neighbours

disjointed condition, we have not been, and never
cau be, treated with due respeet by our powerfu
Even Englaud is concerned
for our feeble and defenceless state, aud gently
chides ua for our apparent supineness and indilfe:-
euce. Tie Confederation, if perfected, wil
remove that stain, and give all the colonies a
national and indivisible character. It will be
seen that we are willing

us, We may reat assured that the red right arn
ot Britaia will be bared to aid us in repelling
aggression. (Loud cliecr -) lle had only seen,

Was 8) a day or two age, ov able article in the Londen

very grent affair, and larger, we think, (van that | Telegraph—a paper of great influence and ability

at Quebee. ft was arranged that the public |
epeeking at Montreal siwuld be done by the Op-|

i first helped ourselves

—iy winch thie tiew was clearly set forth—that
England would be always willing to Le p us if we
Alludiug to the proposed

pesition, and accordingly one member of sueh | Confederation, the writersund:—* Firmly believ

from each YProvinee was selected -— llon.

Archibald, from Nuva Scotia — Hon, Mr. Gray

| be equally acceptable to the Home Goverument

from New Brunewiek—bfeom. Mr. Shea from} As the matter already stands, England is cou-

ward I+lund.

The Hon. Col. GRAY briefly introdaced Mr
W helau ua follows :-—

Colsiel GRAY. P. E L., said, we bad heard

lor the Thauws.

ibe at ow the indus, the Marray, the St. Lawrence,
Doubtless the responsibility is
great, doubtless the work is arduvus; but the
| duty existe. Lhe best way, indeed, to lighten it,
jis te call upon our culouiers themselves to tahe
| measures for their own defence, assuring them

to struggle and make |
sacrifices for our own provection ; and then, ehould | Ladyship feeis ou this ber first visit to this! the last bhues of autumn,
an evil day and evil counsels bring a coutliet upon | city, at fading berself surroundod by fami-| almost turned away their attention from the
' | project, and the legislature last winter direct
ed its attention to another project for the! tertainers, many of whom he was glad to sce

| commercial eentre ul the Province which liaue |
| been truly called the biiintest jewel
lcuown of Knug!aud,—civers,—allow me

}eongratulate you ou

jufw former visit, which L was fortunate

jenougl to make some years ago.

llarfuess. Sue conpratulates herself upou
ithe lucky opportunity whieh enadled ber.
| during the reeent visit of Cana-
idian delegates to the Lower Provinces, to

jmake the acquaintance of sv many of

the

‘your number, that it mak-s it seem like | had passed away,
lis Exceliency was very glad | atves of the Lower Provinces were engaged

i nome to her.

Mr }jtig that the project will be momensety beuefiera! ) to acertauin exrent, accidental, i towk piuce

Ite the colonies, we are convinced that it willjat a Gwe when the Delegates from tle Pro | proposed that we should no longer remain
vinceover which he bud the honor to preside | separate, isolated Provinces, but tora some
f¢ had afforded him great union which would perpetuate tue great
Newfoundland, and Mr. Whelan from 2. inee Ed-| mitted to the protection of every acre of ber soil, | pleasure to respond to the invitation given! principtes of British Constitutional liberty

}

| were present.

{him by the Committee, to be present at the

entertainment given op this uccasion in bouor, that the proposition thus made was in entire) mowent who bad bot spoken, allow the meet-

l uf the D-legates.

jat large, when he sad that whatever might| (Cheers )

may be permitted tu say, are such as will) their means at the disposal of the Soversizn. | wenee of that stupendous work whieh —
and| the public men of New Brunswiek bad look-| your river and testifies your onward march
the ed to this connection With great ticterest wod }

auxiety. Years back the public meu and leyis- |
lature bad turned their attention tu the
construction of the Lntercolonial Railway.

L call apon you by the remembrance of the
past, the spirit of the present, and the hopes
of the future, to rally round that great
achicvement which will tend to promvte your

and expecially for the city of Montreal, which in | had been completed tor their reception.
seme respects Was the heart and bone of the com-| speeches were made to the pepulace from the

i i ‘ ~ ae) , leah ‘ar , -ar e
inunity of anada—that we w ere year by yeat | baleony ot the Queen 8 Hotel by the Prov. Secre-
beeoming mere enlarged and Jiberalized in our} mms , .
views; that we were becoming less angry and | MY of Nova Scotia, by the Seeretary of New

hostile as to sects and classes; that we were | srunawick, by Hon. George Brown and by Mr.

becoming better friends, and that men agreed

in the | which, by bringing us closer tugether, would
tu| make us brothers and friends.
ie progress whie!s| year, from sume cause which he must now
jeverywhere [see around me, since the period | attribute to aceident, had fifteen years passed
juway, and that object lad still eluded their

i

Ailow me j
to express the great pleasure which ber! Brunswick had gradually faded away like

| regret toat the great object of their ambition

| that though bis present visit to Montreal, was) in Cuulerenee,

liv was sure that he only | unison with the
jexpressed the sentiment of the community | political lite, and was warmly welcomed | endorsement tu every word uf welcome {roi |

iuture prosperity and the happiness of your

Yet year by | people. (Loud cheers )

SPEECH OF HON. MR. McGEE.
Hon. Mr. McGEE then rose, and was
greeted with hearty cheers, which lasted some
seconds. Ue said he had no intention of, at
this late hour, after their long sitting this
alternoon, to detain them. When they were
in the Lower Provinces their hospitable en-

grasp. The hopes of the people ot New

They bad at last

here to-night, on all occasions were pleased
to vear Capadians speak aad to listen them-
selves. Le thought, as faras he (Mr. McGee)
was concerned, he would best discharge his
duty in shuwing himself a good bust by being
a good listener. (Cheers) Mowever, as the
earliest Canadian politician who made the
acquaintance of some of the gentlemen now
here. as one who had been in a small way a
pioneer of this gathering of the Brituwsh North:
American family, he could not, as the only
vther member for Montreal present at the

union of the Maritime Provinces. lle, the
speaker, could not then belp some feeling of

But while the represent-

contipued the speaker, the)
‘ministers of your country came down and

(Cheers ) Gentlemen, | need nutsay tu you

'

cherished priuctples of our) ing to separate without giving his hearty

}

I need pot say that your states- the chair, and by various speakers on this |

frow our friends trom the other three Provinces | that wheneser the odds are too heavily against | be the opinion as ty the subject which gave | wen placed before us such simple, manly | vccasion. (Cheers \ They were wi leome to |
ao great deal of the conamereial, politica!, and mili-| thom, whenever the dangee becomes kerious, we) rine by the meeting of the Delegates, we were jarguments in support of their proposition | Canada on ther own account as accom- |

tary element. Now, as his triends had rather | pledge the Britiv-h empire to their aid.” (Loud | all ready to give them the credit of having | that we had ov hesitation in foregoing the)
wid beew | cheers.) Mr. Whelan continued—Commereial entered upon the task with great geal and | mamediate object ol our meeting, and in plac-| iments and powers the meeting had this)
For this, he was sure, the com- |

t-ausgreteed Upon the usual time that
devoted heretotore te these subjects, he proposed
tu hace something said of the social, nud asked
rigierion for his trend and co-delegate, (Hon.
r. Wieedsn) to respond, 48 there was uone bet-
ferable or auere Worthy, as a eon of Eri
effeet te their feelings, in answer to thie cordial
end apprapriate notte wb whieh they had been
weleumed; ** Cead mille facdibs.” (Cheers)

Mr. WITELAN thea reeponded. LL. Speech is
taken from the Toronto Globe :—

jand pecuniary motives, if po ether of @ elerner
jnatare prevailed, should eertainiy, teach us to
junite. There should be ne hostile or restrictive
j tariffs between the several Provinees—no dissi-

a, to give | pilar postal regulations—no dissimilarity in our |

jeurreney aod exchange. Our couuneree, which
now flows into other channels, where we get httl

thauks for it, would diffuse its enriching streams) been taken that the Delegates should repre-| arrived at.

| patraotisa.

‘munity must always feel gratelul to them. | veruments, and our governments had no hesi- lstill more welcome to Canada on account o! | that went te make up this great previnee. Great |
j bin resources, great in gumber, but greater still in

| Poough the Delegates came among us with
}oo authority from the lusperial Parliaweat,
| yet they cume represen'ing the state uf tecl-
jing in each of the Proginces. Care had also

ing these proposals belore our re-pective go-| evening a specimen. (Cheers) They were |

}tativa iu sending us to deiberate on this| the colonies of Newfoundland, New Bruns-
great question, Mr. Gray proceeded to say | wick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward [siand, |
that it would not be proper for bim to enter | and the communities there which ‘hey repre- |
j intu the details of the results whieh bad been! sented. (Applause ) As far as he wag con- |

lle believed that some explana- cerned, he would make no mystery of what)

amongst ourselves, and neihing could possibly | seot the feelings of the opposiboa, whiel:! tion ow Unis bead woeld be given by the Cana-| brought them bere, or of the business with: |

| prevent us from becoming a great and poweriul in a country like this, was equally neccessary. dian statesmen. The people were entitied) which they were engaged. They were doubly |
. : ‘ | ’ , . wit
confederacy. The wnien proposed by the Con-) (Cheers) Thereture, great weight would) tu some statement of the sort.

ferener, in whieh there were mutual concessions!) pe attached to

(Cheers )) welcome to his mind, as one of the represen. |

that we could go where we liked on Sunday, or}
nowhere at all if we liked that better, and that,
atall events, on week days, in our own business |
and social relationa, we bore ourselves as we |
pleased, net cutting each other's throats for the |
love of God. (Laughter and loud ebeers ) They |
could say that in Canada religious bigetry was at |
a discount, and if they wished bim he could put |
ins finger and show them where that bigotry had |
withered on its stalk, and Where ones it had
made a great show of power and influence was)
ew so poor asnene to de it reverence. (Cheers,)!
Bigots ofall kinds, Catholics as well as Protestant, |
bigets of all classes en all sides, and bigots of |
race Who believed that ne good could come out |
of the Nazareth of any other origin but their own,
their day of suall things, Gad knew how sinall, |
had passed in Canada, where every man was}
willing to respect every other man's couvictions, |
and We had at last reached the degree of sate |
government, aud shown ourselves to be in the |
best sense civil and religious freemen fit for seli-|
gevernment, by allowing every man of every |
creed and sect and race te manage his own affairs |
in his own way, and to wash his own dirty Tien |
in his own back yard, so that he need not trouble |

}

i hin neighbors or disturb the peace of the comune. |

nity. (Cheers. )
nad all that iu Canada, religious combined with
political liberty. (Renewed cheering ) Tle was
serry they had been sa lorg in

tune befire the vecessities of the seasen conpelled
them to return to their homes, te see the people

promise, itseemed to yove that promise bere in Bri
ush Nerth Atuerica we should establish that free.
dom—~not freedom hke the apples of Sodom, tair
without but within rottenness and hellowaess—bui
the freedom that gave every inan his own private
and personal rights consistent with the private and
persoual myhtsot others, (Cheers.) They might
say to their constituents that if Canada went inte

He thought they might say we | sided,

. that political |
plished gentemen, and of their accom plish- laboratory at Quebee that they would not have | Hen. Mr Fisher, lately Attorney Geneeal in New

Whatever prepositions those
geptiemen might wake. At the sume time,
it muat be ubserved that suggestions, even

SPEECH OF THE HON. MR. WHELAN OF | of giiall sectional laine, and a auanimnous desive
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. for conciliation, wall oot when iis deliberations are

flun Mr. WHELAN aid be was gra‘e-) more fully kuown, alarmauy man. Large sec tional |
fui te the gallant Cojemel, the Leader of the Go) righia and interests are proposed to be preserved. | aa
wetament of Pringe Keiward Island, tor the eal!) Phe connexion with the British Crown will vot) novepted Plas was a very eritical time .—
with which he bad beey homed aud alee tor the Lauly be unimpaired, but wall be étrengihened ;| Phe whole future ot the Provinces wouid, no
handsome but wholly uudeserved tery. in whieh | aud for the preservation of those free dustitutions | doubt, be affected for better or worse, by the
bis name bad been aunounced. While suy man, | which we all value so much, aud which we dope deewion which the people arrived at on the
se wiatter bow great bie ability, wagl( be justly | te transit to future geverations, be thought ihat | propositions made to them. —Cheers —With-
wt the position ia whieh be “as piyced, there wus but one remedy, and that remedy was} uuttrenching upon anything he bad beard,

could tot subdue # feeling ot eusbirrasmuent |” aulon. (Cheers.) Bat let noe mar Hoagie | he did hope when the country decided upon

patriotically made, were not at once to be |

iT sball therefore, he continued, furego any) tatives of the fires city iv British Norst. | ‘His union she went ite it mainly with a view te

| remarks upon the subject, aud it is wy pur-| America, for tue work of union in whien | Pretete the comuion prosperity, secure the come,

| pose tu call your attention for u few moments! they were now engaged. (Loud cheers ) He. wey. aud to estabust the common liberties
tu the resources and position of the Province! was told that some of the eitizeus had often |" a 2 en Rast Saperes. Goud ‘and long
jut New Brunswick, that you, the peuple o!| asked why tits Conference ut Quebce sat | O00 UNC’ SPPiauee.)

| Canada, may see Liat we do Nab come ty you, with closed doors? why all this mystery ?| The next Dejeuner or Banquet waa given in the
as supplicanis, Cut as meu eunfident of our why this gathering together from both ends) poo... co :

. a | Picture Gallery ef the Parhament Buildings at
resources, und while we aduuit the greatness! of British America, and of all the leading | ;

of your reevurees, believing that we puesees | srieaaaiiaeds Why were several Governors | Ottawa, on the Ist of November, by the Cuntrac-

Whelan.

Tie forenoon of the next day was spent in wi-
siting some of the principal institutions of learning
in Toronto—the College of Upper Canada, the
University — one of the handsomest buildings
in America, and the unrivalled Normal School,
at which institutions addresses Were present-
ed to the Delegates by the Alwnm, and suit-
ably replied to. Osgood Hall, the magnificent
seat of the Courts of Law, was also visited, and
elicited the most unqualified admiration of the vi-
sitois. The principal streets of the City were gaily
decorated with flags during the day.

The greatest of all the Banquets was held in
the afternoon of the same day at the Music [all
in Toronto. About 350 persons sat down to the
sane description of feasting as in the ether Cities

| —ladies were only adinitted to the galleries aud

side seats as visitors. An adiuirable String Band
furnished susic, and the toasts were the same as
at the ather places. The Mayor of the City pre-
ln answer to the Delegation Toast, the

Hton, Mr. MeCully, Leader of the Qpposition ia

| Nova Scotia, spoke in behalf of that Provineer;

|
| Brunswick, replied for his province; How. Mer.
| Shea spoke on vebalf of Newfoundland ; and Hon.
| Mr. Palmer rose aud spoke as follows on behalf of
| Prince Edward Island :—
| The Hon. EDW. PALMER, Attorney General
lof Prince Edward Island, rese on behalf of that
} Colony to reply to the teast, Tle was well received
lou rising. He begeed the company, on behalf ot
|himeselt and his colleagues wao there repre-
seuted it, to accept his acknowlegments for the
sery flattering manner in which the health of the
delegated gentlemen had been proposed and re-
leeived by the Assemby ; aud proceeded ty say:—
i Che dsiaud trom whieh L came is but a small
country, and it requires perhaps !ilile to be said
lin its Dehalf; aud it is tortunate it is 50, 28 the
‘task haa fallen apon one so incapable of dwog a
| But notwithstanding 1 shall say a few werds, ~
lin speaking of the Island, { ain at first reat
feta very facetious remark of a gentleman w het

11 trust you all know—and that is nary sero

» at the eouseiousiess that be stood in Lie presence
wt wetie of the first men of British Acuerics, aud
ethers wie had reudered ewincut service | commenced.

The halla of the several loca

that thia miach-desired object can be effected at.

Quebes vt Montreal. The great work ix bu | premier strength an matters of defence, and/ pidity uf your progress.

eome plun wf gction, one designed to give

;
: . . } j , :
Set aets that would add to your importance | and Lieut. Governors of the Provinces eust- | tors of that ummense werk. It was iu must res-

and make you take a higher position among

}the nations.

L am impreesed with the ra-

Some ten vears

| pri ne 4 | ' sees ‘ poe i! ) "Arey ee es wh epenkin
a de setae pri a and advice of | pects like the previous Bangnets, wut so nume- | Sn eed tele ye itty gentleman
| their reepuneib-e advisers hy should they | rously attended perhaps—Ottawa being a very

: : , i. te ‘ sal v t your little
be allinaeouneil chamber in Quebec counsell- | onnd, §« doeer't sve be tase Se wy ener a or 4

| young city,—but it had this additional feature,

£9 rewp i4 the four quariere of the globe.

Kiesured, however, that bis euburrass-

| hb Bd reevive the geverwur cou deration ot

i kind friends around him, who would
: o y aud forgive in a strane erie.

in public meetings assembled, and on the hustings, Ment. that it would dnd same effectual means
are the places in wideh the great question tust | © bee ge out that object which we
te settled. jt will be the duty of the public mral fad wil in common.—Cheers.— Le — be-

agg eee ee. ee Pemrewontatiqes lieved they would uct Gu

if necessary to

Legislatuses, the constituencies of each Province | eres d economy ia conducting the govern-| ago, in the same month of the year, L bad ing together? Parties suid they elected those

island; don’t let us hear so muc

the omg being im this city on & public! gentiewen tu administer the government and the eT ana eanreeete te the Miiar 8 Ee ee et cosgpies ite “* il ‘rere ‘you r
mission, sud the progress made in these ten laws as they existed. and |quet; in the other places they were not. The | lle ene of ue lakes, whe ) Perbaps
ears exceeds whut could have been pictured oanntiodaien. ; eon esis . . NS | take care of yourselves.” (Langtle! a little i-

Why, it was asked, had those | toasts were the same in all places. The one

the liveliest i ination.
Wayination @ hers to sketch out, as was) which referred tu the Delegaice, sas, on the part

I see noble’ genticwva com

‘if this did happen—it yeu did bring.¢

‘
1d not bare daach

asen mn
laud lave, We Wolk ue