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: i re “THIS IS TRUE LIBERTY, WHEN FREEBORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC, MAY SPEAK FREE ”—Evuniriprs ——— ad choad certs a — SRE a nnamamneomeeteaceaes ~ eT reer ee eee ees Saree errr aire a tuetnrereninnneetastwensinnysanedesorentenasseneniveeia ne sennennatit nana Vou. 1.] CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1847, [No. 11. oa ———— aemeninannesenenineenne ST reach ae een REN —_—_— iene ani stittinetmmmamimstemse Sei Re ke. F PURPELPHMHBNES. Clique is so interwoven by Inarriages, mercantile alli-| YO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. ane, but above all, by a desire to hold all power in| Sir ;—I request your insertion of the following, taking “THE CLIQUE.” “a own hands, evened simile can so aptly represent you to be the more immediate organ of the farming in- the “ Family Compact,” as the Plexas of the nerves and terest. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER, blood vessels in the human system; where, if you touck’ Some time ago a letter was published, siened “ Dan- =

The Clique! ‘“ And what is a Clique ?” inquires my i bleed the slightest branch, the whole vibrate or bleed dy Dinmont,” in the Royal Gazette, advocating the

: d ; / ° . ° e . _ ‘ ' . . . . . reader, Courteous reader, this is a French term, used together! Such, in verity, is that incubus that stagnates growth of Potatoes, and rather guizzing an opinion | had

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to represent a party banded together for some solitary, the heart’s blood of the country. ‘given at the last meeting of the Royal Agricultural So- " . . ~ ; y } ; : . .

selfish purpose, from the benefits of which they cautious- No sooner does a Governor arrive among us, than the ciety, tending to cry down the absurd practice of their

ly exclude their fellow citizens. “And to whom do you |Clique hold their Levee. Their different offices give cultivation for exportation. I hope Dandy Dinmont,” apply the term among us 2” Have a little patience, and them ready access to his person. From them he must who, by the bye, is perfectly well known to me in his lend attention, and youshall hear. In every small com-| derive all his information, till bitter experience informs real name, did not pursue the intention expressed in the munity there are persons who value themselves above him that it flows from a poisoned source: then it is too letter in question, of growing a larger number of Pota- their fellows, for some real or imaginary superiority, !#te to amend by the knowledge ; and he must bear the toes than usual; for, at all events, that if he did, he has The idea of this superiority is, sometimes, caused by | burden of popular hatred, while “his confidential advi- been spared from the general loss that the farmers will the accident of birth, one thinking that because his pa-|S¢rs” shelter themselves under their irresponsible net- sustain by the destruction which the potatoe rot, what- rents bore an honourable character in the community, be ore of family ramifications, while in the conflict, the ever it be, has unhappily occasioned. But supposing unfortunate country suffers. So compact and so de- the potatoes had answered every wish,—I will not say

should inherit their good name as well as their wealth,| if they left any; though he may happen to be as profli-|*¢rmined are they, in shielding the delinquencies of reasonable expectation, for the expectation was not rea-

a } ~J y ‘ 1 > ry } , ~ o y . © - . gate a subject as ever craced a gallows: and however |those who are connected with them, that the most gross sonable—and had produced a large crop, I still should ues-|Violations of law and duty, if camplained of, are unheed- have maintained that the growth of them for exportation,

unreasonable and irrational his claim, it is seldom q tioned by his fellow citizens, who admit it, perhaps, in ed and unredressed. is a practice injurious to the Colony, and subversive of consideration of his forefathers, and bow down to him as| It is not my design, at present, to give you personal the individual interests of those who plant them. If, a being of superior order. This is the “ Family pride” examples of my assertions, though this I could give in indeed, the potatoes grown were to be used on the farm, Clique, which, for order’s sake, I shall call Clique No. 1. abundance. General terms will suffice; but, let my then too many of them, or of any other green esculent, There is asecond order of society who, from small readers who are conversant with the subject, look round could not be planted: but when sent off the farm, they beginnings, some by industry and economy, others by |them, and consider how places of profit and patronage occasion to the grower an immense loss, and deteriorate cunning, deceit, and chicanery, raise themselves to|have been distributed for many years past-—how the the soil beyond all calculation. ‘most glaring abuses, and the lavish expenditure of the) When Ladyocate the growth of Turnips in preference,

wealth and opulence. They form a distinct clique. Now| | should Clique No. 1., of honourable pretensions, by ye. [panic money, are sedulously screened from public view it is because [ believe those roots will find only a very verses of fortune, become reducedin the world, it will --how the most beneficial public enterprises are thwart- limited market—must be used at home, make fat cattle be no difficult matter for Clique Np. 2 to claim an alli-|&% because they don’t accord with the views of those! and a large quantity of manure, which will cause the ance with its members. And Henee; a new-€tique ;| who steer the state barge, while others of a contrary production of a large quantity of wheat and other grain, engendered; or more properly speaking, both Cliques [tendency are unscruptlously undertaken, when found which the farmer will find, in the long run, a safer thing are amalgamated, and form what poor people are taucht © benefit the parasites and dependants of the Clique, to depend on than the selling of Potatoes, and thereby to call “the higher orders of society.” When I first (2% he will give a ready assent to all Isay. Don’t abstracting from the farm the means of reproduction. began this essay, I thought I could add a learned Clique, |imagine that I have any objection to an individual's fill- [t is surprising to me, that such a system can find an jad a virtuous Clique; but on mature reflection, I find |* lucrative office, simply because he may have an ailinity advocate, or even apologist; for there is not a farmer, that both learning and virtue bold cliques in abhorrence. - those holding other offices ; but when I find persons or a farming labourer, in the new or the old world, whom The talented man, if he have(as he generally has,) im- of this class, less competent in every respect, than persons a few moment's refiection will not convince of its folly. bibed those principles of honeur which ornament a cul-| of @ different one, foisted mp every office above that of My motive just now is, to induce people to digest the tivated mind, will never delase himself by stooping to|* petty constable, the glaring truth irresistibly bursts on subject whilst they are laying out their lands for next those mean exclusiveacts—tlbse circumventing schemes my mind, that “ There's something rotten,” not in “the year’s crop. I do not set up for an authority in these by which a clique endeavous to maintain its ground, as state of Denmark,” but in that of Prince Edward Island; things, but I doset up for being desirous to promote dis- lord of the ascendancy. Os the other hand, the virtu-|224 — this political Clique, called “the Family Com- cussion, in order that men may come to sound conclu- ous man equally detests tht clique, whose every act is ae is subversive of the liberty and happiness of the sions, and not follow the practice I am writing about,

Colony. The truth is, the lucrative offices of P. E. or any other, without knowing why. For my own part, sland are become an heir-loom in the respective fami- and in my own farming operations,—being situated lies who hold them. Don’t they pass from sire to son where I can procure manure to purchase, or lime—(for with as natural a transition, as does the patrimonial in- it is the same thing to my argument}—I feel no neces- to screen the corrosion ofhearts burning with envy, by | beritance, without the slightest regard to ability for fill- sity for keeping a large quantity of stock, and I wish to an outside, friendly smila. He despises that pandering '"8 the office ? Some of those offices are a mercantile be understood as writing in the foregoing remarks only

commodity, and serve as articles of commerce to specu- to those who have (as by far the larger portion of farm-

for power which characterizes every aspirant for office :|, desis | hie heart loathes the dell fle wih wee s-| arrived to test the truth of this. An ers have), to make their manure at home. ‘Those who

low men, without distinetion of country or creed, and he Arama Ri por tocar and discontented peo- need not do 80, but can command lime, guano, or any would patronise merit, were patronage in his power, re- Pie—the sources of employment and wealth dried up— other such thing, will find it the best plan to grow no

gardless of those distinetions that are the characteristics |Plic confidence annihilated—the delusions of a tried more green crops than will supply themselves with what

of members of our meetin. No, Leia tenly | isereont misleading the public mind, or casting it into they want at home, by which means they will produce a

virtuous, or a truly Jeaidiienns wee. anvers sealer of 1S ai and gloom of suspense ; and ‘yet, our senato- much larger quantity of corn and grass, and pay much

those unsocial Cliquealf So 1 must commence ine on : a and Solons sit with folded arms, sipping less for labour. Let us just go through a valuation of

with the steckietenaid iuatieameabess deansibe d,| eir ran y and water, and whiffing a cigar, with as much a rotation of crop, on each plan, and see what the result sang froid as would a Turkish Bashaw drink his coffee | will be:

diametrically opposed to hi principles. He cannot pa-| tiently listen to the slandert by which its members vilify those who come not up to their standard of membership. He cannot suffer that meaa duplicity, by which they try |

and see how far the generic term applies to the “ Upper ce ; ; Crest!’ off Peisien © dwit 2 ielaed and smoke his pipe, while some disobedient slave was Ist year—Plough the sod and sow Wheat, A ; k me form of organization being strangled in his presence! And the remedy pre-| Produce: 12 bus. at Gs per bus, with straw £4 12 0 ee A rome sae hi scribed for all these evils by our law quacks, is the re- “4 Y ear—Wheat with manure, grass, &.. the officials must be gaturally sought among our “ high- endl dl Wn Chait if a: | 24 bus. at 6s. per bus. with straw 8 4 0 * a h: and if talent rnor, just as if these evils were not co lee er orders.” This igreasonable enoug ‘iii @ not 34 year—3 tons clover 90 0 and virtue were as plenty among them as supercilious|*°°o™ ating since the first Governor set his foot in P. 4th do—2 do. do. 60 0 pride, or the hoards that witness the rapacity and deceit E. Saal Was it not the same in the days of Gover- 5th do.—2 do. do. 60 0 ’ nors Ready, Yo Harv ? —_—_—— of their forefathers, or of themselves, nothing would be y, Young, Harvey, and Fitz Roy? Aye, and are;

ever will be the same, while the Clique can present so ——

judici shoice. But alas! this is rarel more judicious thanthe choice. Dut alas: this compact a phalanx to Colonial improvement, even though. Ist year—Plough the sod: 25 bus. oats at

the case, as the plundered public coffers of P. E. Island,

left but the bare hones, With which they'll take especial care not to blunttheir greedy beaks! Our governing} opt, 27,

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t Sir Robert Peel himself were appointed G <= Is. 6d b i £2 18

4 : eae bene. bee ppointed Governor. The Is. 6d. per bus. with straw 18 0 : this day, too painfully demonstrate. ney have only remedy I can perceive, is to apply fire and brim- 24 year—250 bus. potatoes, at Is. per bus. 1210 0 4 drained to maintaiga set of speculating cormorants, who _ the ‘ } . 3d do.—20 bus. wheat and straw ‘. eee 4 , 4 Pi agit stone to the wasp’s nest ; the bees may then collect their.

3 have hitherto preyed on her vitals, till there is nothing) | os, 4th do.—2 tons clover 6 0 0 4 y in peace. Sth do.—14 do. do. 410 0