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eee TR —— ee se a ss Pe } ° . ° _ 7 ee . a TTP EES = ————————— : t it perfectly harmless and dissatisfaction, disunion and bitter f amiss ¥ - to which | their views, they would accoun 7m / ’ ness of spirit, general ‘ontinued fr ; e ‘ine from another portion of it that religious privilege, : t be interested in resisting it. That the . oe t oer [ee re J | ] the rec sastnationelly entitled, if not by a law expressly de- | inoffensive ; = ae ly excluded from the Normal School, | agement he weeny of oar hitherto peace-loving community, disput ition, the one said to the other, who had rather outdone they a One ? rescription ; they can) Bible is, however, positively exc n ‘/ and be the cause of much dissension and strife emai y,

him in his quotations from the Scripture, and in his own ap- plication of them: * Toot mon, your Bible is just like Wally Weir's fiddle; ye can mak’ it play ony tane ye like.” {Murmurs of disapprobation.] Of such unprofitable disputa- tion there is, I fear, too much just now in the country ; but set up every young conceited, presumptuous schoolmaster for a Bible teacher, and widely and mischievously indeed will the seeds of it be sown in the minds of the rising generation ; and how many religions we shall have in the end, it will be in vain for me or any other man to conjecture. I honestly and conscientiously eutertain and cherish tlre tenets and doc- trines of the chureh of which [ am a member; bat I am not uneharitable or intolerant towards those who IL believe con- scientiously differ from: me on points of Christian faith; and neither was I, in my youth, trained in a way likely to make me so. The first learning L received was from a schoolmaster of the Presbyterian persuasion; and well do I still remember many of the lessons wich he gave me in my childhood. 1 have travelled a little in my time; and I have frequently, both before I came to this Island and since, been brought into the closest contact with men, both Scotch and English,

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of reli zious opinions different from my own ; but, notwith- | standing my being a member of a Church from which they |

were distinctly separated, 1 never, oa that, or indeed on any other account, experienced any thing but kindness and hos- pitality at their hands; and, as a publie character in this Island, L can truly say that | bave more reason to be grateful to the Seoteh and the English, for the public support which tuey have extended to me, than for that which [ have received | from my-own countrymen and co-religionists ; and traly sorry am [ that bigoted and narrow-minded mea—a sort of fire- brands in the hands of a restless, overweening and selfish faction —should have found so much acceptance among them us, from the signatures attached to the petitions now be‘ore | us, they appear tohavedone. As one proof that these peti- | tions have not originated in, and been urged upon the people’ out of, pure regard for the Bible, L will just instance one | school, of which I have a personal knowledge. This schoo! | is upon St. Peter’s Road; the parents of the scholars are, L| believe, Protestants to a man; and yet, notwithstanding the | great outery which is made about the pretended exclusion of | the Bible from our public schools, and notwithstanding these generally, if they have not all, sigued one of | 4 hool ; although,

parents have these petitions, thg Bible is never read in the se if the parents, being ali Protestants, wished it, it might be read therein every day, and all day long, without let or hindrance from any person connected with the school. This fact of itself, even could no others of an equally conclusive character to the same end be adduced, is almost quite sufli- cient to shew how little any thing like veneration for the Bible, or real religion, has to do with the agitation. What- ever other object may be aimed at by some, that of the men who buve most gladly promoted the agitation is nothing but x thogoughly selfish and political one. This is the last ses- sion of the present Assembly; and their sole aim is the destruction of the present Liberal majority of the liouse, as respeets the next; to the end that, for their own especia! benefit, they may be able, as far as possible, to revive the old irresponsible system of office-holding, upon which they so long fattened, and under which the people so long groaned. Others who have been promiveutly instrumental in promoting the agitation, and in getting up whe petitions, may be partly influenced by motives of a character in some respects different ; but, to me at least, it seems that, whatever else may enter into their motives, Christian charity, forbearance, aud good will to all men, have not the largest suare im their composi- tion. But the good sense of tuis House and the good sense of the couatry will withstand all their efforts, aud the ouly harvest they will reap from them will be disappointmeut and vexation; and woe, I say, be unto’them, and to all who wickedly and irreligiously seek to make a selfish and p litical engiue of the Bible, and who insidiously seek to destroy the peace and harmony which have so long prevailed, in this island, amongst the different denominations of Christians. Mr. [l. HAVILAND.—The hon. member from Flinty Glen (Hlon. Rk. Mooney) has said he would express his sentiments, concerning the question now at issue, in this Couunittee, fully and without reserve ; and, in the very bitter and un- charitable speech which be has just delivered, in which he has accused the petiteoners and their supporters in this House, of bigotry and duplicity, and attributed to them the boing induenced by the very worst spirit of intolerance, | presume he has done so, as he declared he would, in the most undisguised manner. And all the bigotry, duplicity, and intolerance. with which he bas presumed to charge us, in the most direct language and unsparing spirit, he tells us has yeen ealled intu action, for the unhallowed purpose of converting the Bible into a political engine ; that isan engine which we merely regard as a means whereby we may be able to abase the party at present in power, and ele- vate ourselves in their stead. The idea of individuals, the leaders of a party, professing and accounting themselves Christiaas, being so base, wicked, and daring, as, for such wu object, to make so profane a use of the Sacred Volume, seems ty me to be most easily and most naturally conceived hy men who would be the most likely to carry it into effvct. li the agitation however which has for some time been strongly operating amongst the most serious, well disposed, and sobor-minded of our Island community, be directly traced tv its real, its positive cause, it will be found to have been occasioned, neither by bigotry nor intolerence ; and least of wil in a desire for political status or power ; for they whe first became sensible of its necessity, and who have been the most consistently zoaloas in sustaining and promoting it, are men whose ojects are of a kind very different from those of men hearts are set upon the attainment of political power We ure accused—most falsely accused of seeking to coerce Roman Catholics intv the allowing of their children to read the Bible in our publie schools, Bat

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read the Bible im our public schools, We m rely refuse to be

covreed. or rather remoustrate against our being coerced into | the abandonment. fur our children, of so great ub privilege as | we hold the reading of the Bible to be, in connexion with their merely literary or secular education, of which it ought to} stump the yalue, We have not, by any action or declaration |

of ours, been the aggressors. The agitation has not been pro- duced by any miniiestation of intolerance on our part: no, dir; bat we all know full well in what it had its origin. ‘To the reverend! dignitary to whom I musi allude, | aw most willing t» accord all the respect due to the character with which he is invested and. pre-eminent station which he occupies, in his own Uburel; bat, in order to make myselfelearly understood, and that | may do justice to those petitioners and others, with whose opinious on this subjeet, my own are identical, | must speak in plain and unambiguous langaage. The provocation to agitation, sir, was the spirit of obstructive intolerance, which the Kieman Catholic Bishop of this Island displayed in that letter which he addressed to the Board of Edueation, and in which he broadly and positively delared that nothing but the exclusion of the Bible from our public schools,—nothing but ‘—would satisfy the meim-

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slic making those schuols * godless,’ bers ot the Roman Catholie Communion. in this Island, a declaration like this, coming from so highly influential a quarter, and directly addressed to those whom it could sway,

throug! a fear of the political consequences which might ensue ty themselves, from their refusing to be guided by it,

had fail-d to alarm the Protestant portion of our community, and to unite them In the defence of what they profess to regard as the dearest of all their earthly privileges,—the rigiit, Bot only of themselves, but of their children, ireely to

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clarative thereof, yet most certainly by p ‘ than by ceasing to oppose the just, the reasonable, the moderate request of Protestants, that the sent may not be refused adinisston into our chiet public ee institutions, any more than it now 18 Auto our common pu ry schools. ‘This yielding, this moderation on their part wou ts however, at least as they apprehend, cost them too a politically, for us to look for it at their hands. But they ene altogether resist the power of public opinion ; and as, although the last session, we fuiled to attain all that we asked, yet in consequence of the demonstration then hat it is almost tantamouut

do so in no other way,

; in 'such a concession, ‘made by vs, has silently followed tt, t om (to a compiete triuinph of our principles ; I now venture to atter ‘myself, alihough I fully anticipate the defeat of our resolution, ‘that the present struggle will eventuate in @ further concession, or rather practical acknowledgment, of religious privileges. | Asto the dennnciation and threats, thrown out by the pam ‘member from Fiinty Glen, | beg leave to tell lim that, so far las f am myself concerned, [ feel myself, with regard to my views concerning the present question, 80 strongly sustained ‘therein by honesty and integrity of purpose, that | can utterly | disregard both them and the displeasure of any who may be | offended with ether my open declaration of those views, of my e in support ef them. Shek COLONIAL SECRETARY.—I hope hon. members who supported the prayer of the petitions of the lagt session, do not mean to take credit to themselves for the good feeling which have existed throughout the Island, since concerning the reading of the Bible as it is called, into

‘and harmony ithe close of that session, in our District Schools, or its admission, ‘them. Ifthey do, I] must tuke leave to tell them, that that good ‘feeling and ‘that harmony were in existence long betore any discussion took place, in this House, concerning the use of the Bible in our common public schools, Indeed | think | may safely venture to say that, anti] then, they were In existence from the very time at which those schools were first tostituted ; and { feel certain that they would have remained undisturbed and unbroken tllths day, and for a much longer period, had at

as well as from the Academy; and that such exclusion 18 in conformity with their views and wishes on that head, (whatever the basis of those views and wishes,) are facts clearly enough established by that of their determined opposition to the Resolution. That the Resolution is not founded in fact, 1s what no one can truly assert; or that it is not sufficiently clear and explicit, is, | think, what no one will affirm who can com- prehend the meaning of the most plain and simple English. ‘They accuse us who support the petitions, of endeavoring to manufacture political capital out of them, against the coming general election. For myself, | can only say, that they who are the best acquainted with my private sentiments, Concerning the imparting of religious instruction, In connection with secular education, will not accuse me of being influenced by any motives so unworthy, in my support of the prayer of the petitfoners ; and I honestly declare | am not. But the truth is, they who oppose the Kesolution are so fully convinced how injurious their opposition to so Just, 80 fair, and reasonable a demand, as that which it contains, must be to their popularity, with a very large section of our community, that they labor hard to convince those who, they think, will lend willing ears to their assertions, that the agitation of the demand 18 a mere political engine, by which the opponents of the party at present in power hope to be able lo wrest the government out of their hands. Before | sit down, there is just another observation of the Hon the Colonial Secretary, as connected with this view of the question, on which | will venture to remark. That hon. weber has said that the country people, having obtained all they want, with respect to the use of the B.ble, in the District Schools, have no nght to interfere with the regulations con cerning the Bible im the Normal Schoot and the Central Academy ; and has asked, what have they to do with any schoo!s but those in which their own children are taught? Well, I

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ihe Central Academy, although their own children may not be taught im either of these schools. It isin these institutions that they who are to be the future teachers in the District Schvols, are taught, or, at least, receive their finishing course ;

zeal, who awoke, in the minds of many, feelings of jealousy | alarm; of which disappointed politicians have, with pretended sympathy, most eagerly availed themselves, as a means Whereby to damage the party at present in- power, and place them ina minority in the next Assembly. With respect to the present Resolution, subuantted by the hon, member for Princetown (Hon. ‘T. Hi. Haviland) | would wish to know whether lis meant by it, a3 It was held, by some, Was meant by hia Resolution of the same nature last session, that the Bible shall be read in the Academy andthe Normal School. (Hon. T. Uf. Haviland. We mean only that nt ehall or may be reac by scholars whose parents shall or may desire i] On this

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Resolution of the lust session ; but the editor of the pet paper of the opposition, put a very different meaning upon. their ‘shall and may,” waintaining that they made the Resolution allogether compulsory and arbitrary, and commended the majority of the House for rejecimg it. But as respects the present Resolution, the object of itis to cause it to be provided bv law, that the Hluly Scriptures may be real and used in the Central Academy and Norwal School ; and t say that if the Bible is, by law, to be used, in either or both of these institu-

Irish School Books are now in our common schools, they

having been declared so by the Board of Education, according | 4!!- lt requires no arguinent to prove that in schools, partly Cou to a power vested in them by the Free Education Act. The posed of Catholic children and partly of Protestant children, it ts impossible to impart religious instruction which pareats and

hon. and learned member for Charlo'tetown (Hon, BE. Palmer) ind the hon. and Jearned member for Georgetown (Mr. tl. [iiviland) say that religious education tn all our public schools | is the Constitutional and imaltenable right of all the children who are sent to them; but [ contend that it is not, and refer to he existing practice in Great Britain and the neighbouring Provinces, in proof that itis not so; and in support of our yosition, as set forth in the amendmeat snbanited by the Ion. the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. \Warburton) that the State ts not r quired to provide for the religious education of children tn its

schools. Tt is now especiily acknowledged, although TF uiink | t has always been practically allowed, im every free and |

‘nlightened coumtry, that the ieuleating of religious principles, toon the minds of the young, is a duty which is always most happily avd successtully discharged by fathers and mothers ind spirituc! pastors, And wherever it can be accomplished in his way, [think it onght to be so effected. Of paren’s, who can read and who love to read the Bible, [ believe, notwith- standing the declaration of the hon. and learned member for Charlottetown, tun. E. Palmer, to the contrary, there are but very few, even amongst the laboring classes, who Cannot devote hilfan hour datly to the hearing of their children read a chapter in the Bible; and, no donbt, tf they be truly Bible-loving and God fearing parents, they will account the half-hours, devoted, by them, to the discharge of that duty, the most pleasant and profitab-e of every week. And, witi respect to parents who, in therr youth, e:joyed no advantages of school education, and who, Consequently, cannot discharge such religious obligation themselves; but who, nevertheless, earnestly desire thet their children shal! be better trained than they themselves were, and especially, that they shall be taught to read and study the | Bible, will they not consider that in extending to them the blessing of a free education, in acquiring which they are | requiring the ability to read and comprehend the commands | and precepts of the Urble, we are bestowing upon them nearly | all thatthey can reasonably expect from the state on that head ; and particularly when such an arrangement is made as affords them eu opporiunity of being tuught, two or three tines a week, by their schoolmaster to read in the Bible ntself. ‘Phe bon. and learned mex ber for Cauarlottetown (Lon. E. Palmer,) and the hon, and learned member for Georgetown, (Mr. Hl. Haviland,) indeed speak very sl'ghtingly of that privili ge; and say that, because such lessons are given before the business of secular education commences and all the scholars are asserbled, they are not given in school, I, however, think that the presence of the schoolmaster, for the express purpose of giving seripturd] lessons to such of his scholars as are required by their paren's | to receive them, must and does constiute what is properly | termed “school,’? and, furiber, | am fully persuaded that ali parents, Who really and tro'y, mm the sincerity of their hearts, out of pure love and reverence tor the Bible, desire such educational religious training for their children, and who are neither exptiously nor fietuonusly influenced by feelings or | inotives of a different kind, will cheerfully and thankfatly avail | themselves of it for the moral benefit of their children. That} such, however, are not the dispositions of heart of those who | clamour against our present system of pablic school education, | because it does not recognize or embrace that Bible teaching, which could not be made ae cepiable to all; and who censure aud abuse the majority of the Uouse who cannot be made to comprehend the possibility of sending people to Heaven by Act of Parliament ; 1s, [ think, very apparent from the uncharitable | =pirit in which they have excited and kept upthe agitation conceraing it thronghout the country. And, they tro who support the petitions in this House, seem to argue, that children why attend the Normal School and the Academy, will be shut out of Heaven, unless they be allowed to read the Bible We, on the contrary, in our Opposition to the prayer of the petitions, argue, that the providing by law that the Bible should be read in these in8 tulions—the scholars attendiyg

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be injurious, both to the spread of true morality and religion, aud tue diffusion of secular knowledve 3; and would, in fact, be fundamentally subversive of the noble, patriotic, and compre- hensive design of both iastitations, which, from the first, has | been the education of the youth of the Colovy, without distine- tion of creed or denowtnation ; and it is purely out of a sacred regard to tive grand national objects of these seminaries of | knowledge, that Lam opposed to the prayer of the petitions 3 |

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destruction of the general utility of these schools, | would be ve y willing that should be acceded to.

Mr. LAIRD-—The Hon. the Colonial Secretary has connuented upon the Resolution with much severity ; and has declared that itis not, with respect tothe Normal School, founded in fact, as it assumes that the Bible is’ excluded from that institauien, which is not the case, How the hon. member can

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and the country people very properly think that they to whom, in future, isto be entrusted the moral training of their children, should be duly prepared for the proper discharge of that duty, by being themselves trained according tothe only sure and sufe of moral propriety and purity--the Lible; and, therefure, they petition tha. the Bible may be read in those lnstitutions,.

Mr. COOPER.—Since the passing of the Roman Catholic Mmancipation Biil, thas wot been possibile to give any education save a purely secular one, in our public Schools. The entertaining of such petitions, concerniwg the use and the reading of the Bible, in our public Schools, as those which were seut up to the Legislature, in its last session, and such as have again been seul up to tt, in the present one, and are pow before us, is Calculated to doa great deal of mischief in the community, by placing in the most antagonistic position to each other the members of different Carsiian Commuanions, and the sowing amongst them of the seeds of jealousy, strife, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness; for such, tn all Communities is the effect of contention or r.valry with respeet to questions of religion; ang | think it is presuming a great deal too much, on ihe part of those who have sent up these petitions, to suppose that we have nothing elso to do, than to decide on any points of reiigious Controversy, Or even that it IS Our province to do so at

pastors, on both sides, would deemrallowable. In such cases then, itis quite evident that tue only proper Course is not to It has been said, that Catholics cannot reasonably take offence at its bemg required by Protestants, that tieir own children shall be morally aimed, by reading the Bible, in our public schools, But this very requirement itself seems to Cast an linputation upon Catholics, to tue effect that they are not morally trained 5 and is therefore calculated to give offence, although | will not say that offence is intended, But he will be a bold wan, L think, who shall dare to stand up and say, that Catholics are not as moral and correct in their lives and conversation, as Protestants. That they are so, we all know ; and we kuow, besides, that no man’s tuuporali'y is Caused by his adherence to the one Communion, Tue education to be imparted in our public schools, is to be such as can be equally extended to all, and equally recerved by all; to and by Protestants and C_tholics aiske ; aud any teaching, discipline, or course of training, which would lessen or disturb that equaliuy of privileges, would be subversive of the great aim of national education ; Which is the raising up of youth to become good and usefui e1tizens, fit to discharge the duties of every state and calling of life, and, as a people, united by the bonds of brotherhood. Being brought up and educated together, in school, upon a footing of pertect equality as to all privileges, and in pursuance of a system which mo-t crrefuliy excludes everything tending to excite any feclings but such as animate to honorable and friendly cow- petition, mm the pursuit ond the attaimment of Inerary and

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angry which religious controvery almost inyariabl have never yet disturbed. 1 see reason to oppose the Move ment from whatever point of view I consider it; for ia light in which I can place it, it appears to me to be un for and impolitic. 1t is now urged that the majority of population are Protestants, and that this movement, bej me harmony with the sentiments, feelings and wishes Of “the Protestant majority, the Legislature ought therefore to mote it by a compliance with the prayer of the petitions whi have been sent in in favour of it. Well, granting that, at the present time, the majority of our population are Protes what security have we, if it were desirable, that, in the la cf a very brief period, the majority will not be Catholics 7 And, should this be the case, if it be now admitted that the Protestant majority have a right to force the Bible into our schools, in opposition to the wishes of the Catholics, would not the Catholic majority then have an equal right to exclude it from our schools, in opposition to the wishes of the Pro. testants, if they thought it right to do so? Certainly t would. If the Bible may be legislated into our schools, it may also be legislated out of them. Nay more, if the ma. jority of our population were Jews or Mormons, would not either the one or the other, as the case might be have, according to the principle recognized in the petitions now before us, a right to enforce by law the reading of the Jewish Scriptures, or of the Morman Bible, in our public schools ? I maintain they would. The Mormans, I see by the papers, are just now ip a very unsettled state; and in the event of their abandoning their present country, or being driven from it, they might arrive here. [A laugh.] I am quite serious, In that case, I say, they might arrive and settle here, in body so numerous as to constitute them the majority of the inhabitants; and should we now acknowledge that Protestants, on the principle of thir being the majority at present, havea right to force the Bibic into our schools, it could not, without an entire abandonment of that principle, be denied that Mor. mans, although the majority, had not a right to force their Bible into our schools. The High Charch party, as they are called, claiming the closest unity, if not identity, with the civil government, are, L believe, guided by such a principle wherever they have power to enforce it; but we who are: styled Dissenters, professing to be ruled by a very different: spirit, decidedly repudiate it as unjust and arbitrary; and, on this ground, [ go wholly against the petitions which pra that the Legislature will enforce the reading of the Bible in the Central Academy and Normal School. [Hon. E. Palmer, They do not pray for its compulsory introduction, but only | that it may be permitted] They who have petitioned wish to have a law passed to that effect; and if, in compliance with the prayer of their pe itions, such a law were to be passed, it would be compulsory, for the spirit of all laws ig - compulsory. Last session several petitions were sent into this House, praying for a law to enforee the reading of the Bible in all our common public schools; but we refused to comply with them; and yet the majority of the people are now quite Satisfied with the determination of the majority of this House with respect to them. ‘The policy and conside- rations by which we were governed, last session, with respect to this question, we are now, however, called upon to reverse and disregard, not altosether, it is true, but yet to a very great aud material extent, by directing that the Bible shail ve read in our chief, our parent seminaries—the Central Academy and Normal School ; but, I believe the majority of the House, convinced that were they to do so, the resul g would be the very reverse of those most satisfactory ones which have been experienced throughout the country, in con- sequence of the conclusion at which they arrived last session, with respect to the sam» question more generally, will adhere to their former opiuions concerning it, and decline every thing like Compulsory action with respect to it.

(To be continued.) R. B. Irvixe, Reporter.

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Mr. CLARK.—IL rise distinctly to express the sentiments of my own wind on this very serious question ; for, if it do/ not positively prove the last time [ shall have an opportunity | of declaring them, iu this Legislative Chamber, as one of the representatives of the people, it will, 1 believe, certainly be the last time for some years. Mr. Laird says that he and others with whom ke acts on this occasion, do not desire the | compulsory introduction of the Bible into any of our public. schools. [Mr. Laird. Yes; we do not desire to have the

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it declared, by the Legislature, that it is freely admissible into them all, for the use of scholars whose parents desire that they should read it in school.| Mf such be the opinion of the hon. member, with respect to the introduction of the Bible into our public schools, he ought, L think, for consistency’s sake, to separate himself from the Christian denomination to which, [ believe, he professes to belong, and ynite himself with a congrezation of the High Church, as they are called; for we Dissenters deny that the Government or the State ought to | be allowed to interfere with what affects matters of religious opinion, fur the purpose of controlling, in any way, the religious sentiments or observances of any body of men who

subjects. We Dissenters maintaiu tiat every man should be left to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience, independently of all civil authority, provided his doing so does not, in any Way, infringe upon, or interfere with the civil and religious rights of his fellow men or fellow subjects; and we, therefore, on principles purely conscientious, maintain that the State ought not to interfere in matters purely religious, or seek to establish, by law, any course of religious training or instruction in our public schools. This, however, to a certain extent, is the object of those who now petition this {louse that the Bible may be read in the Ceatral Academy and the Normal School; and consequently, for the reasons | which [ have just stated, L am opposed to the prayer of their petitions. Lf the State has any duty which in particular it

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of religion in general, to me it appears to be this: that with the whole weight of its authority, and by every means in its power, it shall endeavour to prevent any particular church or religious denomination from interfering with, or having it in their power, through the enforcement or establishment by law

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10 mahogany and walnut Sofas and Couches

5 Burcaus (with mirrors) 2 rosewvod Cheflioniers

5 Pembroke Tables 6 French Bedsteads Lot of canc-seated Chairs Do. Nurse Chairs 17 Toilet Tables | 31 Wash-stands 5 Towel Horses, Stoue China Dinner Setts Gilt and mahogany Cornices 1 splendid Piano Forte 1 grand Piano Forte 2 beautiful toned Melodians 10 handsome Music Stools, Music Books, &e. Also, 75 Bbls Cadiz salt, &e. May 17, 1858. J. & IT. MORRIS, Auctioneers. Summer Goods. b gerd opened, a new Sapply of Summer Bonnets, Hats, Ribbons, Parasols, &e., &e. Also, Five Cases Boots, Shoes and Brogans, for Ladies, Gentlemen, Misses and Boys’ In variety.

r= A Few Crape Bonnets on hand.

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BEER & SON. re 2 L7 lm Positively the Final Notice! HE subscriber, desirous of preventing unnecessary expense and trouble, hereby gives yet another, and positivel, the final notice, that all debts due him will be sued for, if not settled prior to 15th Jane ensuing. Let no one think to eseape this rale, as If WILL BE GENERAL, AND WITHOUT

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read and study the Bible ;—~—then they would lave sewn them- selves (0 be some of the co'dest, the most hollow-hearted, the most insincere and unteserviug amongst professing Chris- tans. Let not then the hoa, member from Funty Glen, or any ove else, presume to tell us that our moveuent Is ether aggres- sive or poliiials aad if he and they with whom he acts and Joves to be identitied, wish te free the.aselves fre.n the suspicion of into erance, or the charge of seeking ta conerhate, for politica! purpuses, oue purtiva of tke Comuunily, by withauld-

inake it appear that the Bible is not excladed from that school, when itis not allowed to be read in it, by any of the scholars, during the regu!ar hours of tuition, | cannot imagine ; but what ‘las been argued, on that head, by the lon. and learned members, (the Hon. E. Palmer and Mr. #1. Haviland,) is, I think entirely conclusive in proving qnite the reverse of what is stated by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. If the Bible is not excluded, and ‘they do not wish it to be exciuded from the Normal School,

of their own particular views and modes of worship, to annoy slightly, differing from their own. If this is not the real object of the present movement touching the reading of the Bible in our public schools, it cannot be denied that such un-

and it is quite evident that, if it should be completely sue-

why do they oppose the Resolution? If not in opposition to

cessful, it would excite much ill feeling and fument much

or alarm those of religious persuasions greatly, or even but |

fortunately is already, to no small extent, the real effect of it; |

DISTINCTION. ! Remember! the Fifteenth June. JAMES ROMANS.

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