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Vou. 1.] CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1847. (No. 8.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1847.

QUR CORRESPONDENTS’ OPINIONS. Our Correspondents seem determined on leaving us little chance of gossipping with our readers from the

and wherefore of Elections, were then to be seen exa-|the same garbage, and drinking of the same dirty pud- mining their ledgers, and preparing to join in the one dles. Connected together by the same link—(hatred great effort, to crush the offending impugner of their of the Governor)—he, in like mamner, is blinded to all other consequences,

Hatred, vanity, and the Speaker’s champagne din- ners have completely destroyed the’small portion of in- dependence and understanding I once gave Mr. McLean

“ Right divine to govern wrong.” Vain and impotent will all such efforts ever prove where the people are alive to their own honor and power, and) let them henceforth mark well the man who shall en-

Editorial Chair. In order to give insertion to a mass of|deayour to controul them in the exercise of their elec- Credit for. It is to be hoped that his constituency will

MS. in the shape of letters from correspondents, with which our table has been covered during the past week, we give up nearly the whole of the space usually reserved for editorial matter. Our readers have, however, no reason to complain of this circumstance,—the letters presented to their notice are well worthy of a careful perusal,—and we have no doubt, the change from edi- torials to communications will be found as agreeable to them as it is convenient and instructive to us. In giv- ing place to the following communications we will, however, be permittled to say, that we do not neces- sarily bind ourselves to adopt the various Sentiments of the writers. Whilst they offer much in which we hear- tily concur, there are still some passages which it would be as well to have left unwritten. Some of the stric- tures are, perhaps, needlessly severe, but they indicate the indignant feelings with which the recent proceed- ings of Messrs. Maclean and Montgomery are regarded by enlightened and liberal minds.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

Sir—The electors and tenantry of this Island are much indebted to you for the course you have pursued since the starting of your liberal and well-conducted paper.

Nothing was so much wanted here for a medium of communicating the sentiments entertained by one part of the country to another, as a Paper which would make

tive privilege either by favor or threats, and the whole ,"V& disgrace themselves by returning him again,

fabric of this corrupt system will be soon shaken to its | MOMUS. foundation, and laid bare to the condemnation it so well | oe deserves.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

by reading your report of the speeches at the late meet-| some observations made by me at a,Meeting in Prince- ing at Princetown, called to enable the Members to give town Royalty, on the 20th August. Considering the a satisfactory explanation of their conduct in the late imperfect accommodation which the Reporter ,had— Session of the General Assembly, and a singular dis-|that his notes were not taken in short hand, nor extend- play Mr. Montgomery seems to have made of it. We)ed for two or three days afterwards, it is creditable to have all heard of the man, him. Yet, it contains some errors and omissions which

“ Whose eyes would hardly serve at most must be rectified. It states that | read from the Jour-

To guard his master ’gainst a post ;” nals an Act relative to Messrs. Pope, J.S. McDonald

and Mr. Montgomery’s intellect would appear to be of and Palmer having been appointed to the Executive the same useful description, for he professes to have Council. From memory I quoted a clause of an Act, been fighting the battle of the people in the company but from the Journals read e Resolution ;—there are, as of Pope, Palmer, the Compact and tail, against those / You know, no Acts inthe Journals. The Resolution, tried and unflinching asserters of the just rights and which was meant to convince the most zealous oppo- claims of the tenantry—Rae, Coles, &c. &c. If he nents of Mr. Coles, that their opposition on the point at really believed that in such company he could ever do issue was inconsistent, is as follows :—

‘any good to the liberal cause, we may feel pity at his “That as 18 out of 21 members of the House had

delusion; but we must consider him totally incapaci|joined in requesting the ane ae to sul

es pe ‘henceforth four of the members of the House to form tated for the office he fills by his abject imbecility. Tf, part of the Executive Council, yet that nevertheless on the other hand, (as may be feared) he was merely any member of the House accepting of such seat so

endeavouring to sneak out ofa scrape, by pleading such | sought for by this House, shall by his said acceptance a flimsy excuse, he is then deserving of all the con-)cease to be a member of this House until re-elected, tempt which can be dealt to him, as entirely unworthy 224 that the three’ptecedents which have occurred since

. * | 1839, of three members of the Assembly accepting such lof all future trust. As to Mr. Montgomery’s assertion, | coats in the Executive Council, viz: the present Speak-

I have been led to trouble you with these observations} Sir—In your No, of 4th Sept. appears ja report of

it a part of its business to report faithfully, and without |that Mr. Pope had come over to him: if he had done er, the Hon. J. S. McDonald, and the Hon. E. Palmer, varnish, all that was said and done at any of the public) no other wrong to his constituents, than this attempt to, ought not henceforth to be regarded as precedents, be-

4 ea : : : ls ‘ : : ” meetings of political importance: that by such means palm upon them this very transparent piece of hambug,he 'S ° such extremely inconventent.

the digested views of the country population might be ought to be ousted with disgrace; and so indeed should | The next error regards an accusation against me, gathered; and a power given it in the deliberations of ql who dare attempt to practise such an imposition upon concocted in 1842, and brought forward in 1843. It the Legislature, which it has as yet been unable to ex-|the understandings of the people, or who may offer any Was proved to have had no foundation, and in speaking ert for want of proper concentration. The policy of similar pretext for their desertion. of the animus which evident!y dictated that move, | the Clique which has so injuriously acted among us has} ‘To any man of ordinary penetration, the very fact of described it as done with an intention to crush by false been to keep the country peopie as much dispersed and Pope and the Compact waging open war with the Go-. accusation a member whom they could not otherwise separated in their interests as possible, and to combine! yernor, should have been an assurance that Sir Henry silence, and to send him forth traduced with the charge and invest all the power and influence of the Govern-| Huntley was seeking to upset the corruptions and a- of having abused the honourable office of Representa- ment ina selected party of their own immediate chums buses which have so long bound and repressed the na- tive, by having made an unauthorized and improper and retainers, and whenever an attempt has been made | tural energies of the Colony and people. What have interpolation on one of the documents of the House. to divide the Island into Districts, to give some of the | the people to do with the private quarrels of any parties, Had this interpolation been made and as described, it power now exerted by the central Government into the | but to seize the favourable opportunity which they may would no doubt have been very blameable, but could hands of the people themselves, an immediate outery |offer for obtaining their remedy for what is wrong. |scarcely, in fair parlance, be described by meas “al- has been purposely raised against it, and the attempt They seek only to be well and wisely governed; and | most as foul a charge as could be laid to the account crushed without even the decency of an examination, if the abuses which have existed, and still exist, in the of any man.” Had it been as alleged, it would have it merited consideration or not. It is time that the management of the public affairs of this Island, they been the correction, without the authority of the House, country should no longer be deluded: and if it really believe have little chance of remedy but in the over-|of an error which I had made in drawing up, by order possess the wit and spirit I arn willing to give it credit throw of the Clique, in whose selfish and corrupt admi- of the House, a certain document; and this done after for, it will soon shake off the bands which have so long nistration they have all arisen. Who has forgotten the) it had passed through the House without correction. 1 been imposed, and rise like a giant in its strength to hurry and agitation with which all Charlottetown was| have learned years since, that it was termed a “ forgery, assert the independence and maintain the honor of the overtaken upon a certain investigation being ordered ? &c.” The error, however, was discovered by some one rural districts. If a striking example of the plans of What a rummaging of tills, and drawing of Bills—what) within three hours after I presented the paper, and was this overbearing Clique had been wanted, it was oppor-| midnight cogitations, visitations, and consultations, and | next morning corrected by order of the House,on mo- tunely supplied by the eager and strenuous exertions | what exertions were then made to stifle its further pro- tion made to that purpose by me. Possibly Mr. Pope of the whole gang to swamp the election of that cou- gress. Who can imagine what tales might be told if might not be aware of the falsity of the accusation. But rageous and truly independent asserter of the claims'a certain chest could utter all its secrets? but close as if so, it was that he had not allowed his own judgment of the people—the Hon. George Coles: so triumphantly they are supposed to be locked in the breasts of those fair play, and in his position as Speaker, he ought not, frustrated by the truth and fortitude of the electors, who who have thriven by them, let the people but do their] unless on the most undoubted proof, to have pledged him- then gave indeed a noble example worthy of imitation | part, by giving their steady support to the men who are)self as he did. The next thing worth notice, is in re- by all who desire their country’s prosperity. seeking to unfold these mysteries, and they will obtain) gard to Mr. Pope’s being ready to adopt any means to

For days previous to that Election the roads leading|a commensurate reward for all which they may now attain his ends. This, of course, applies merely to po- from Charlottetown to the different parts of the districts have to undergo. litical moves. As a Trader, Custom-house Officer, Land

inhabited by voters, were surprised by the absolute) [ have just been reading your further report of Mr.| Agent, Magistrate, or in his private capacity, I make ‘swarming of the storekeepers, lawyers, officials, clerks,|D. McLean’s observations at the meeting: and so Mr.|no such charge. Perhaps his name appears too often, understrappers, toad-eaters, &c. of the Compact and its} McLean has discovered that he has no more confidence | so as to give an appearance of deep-rooted hatred;—but tail. Men who rarely wandered from their counters,|in Mr. Pope new than he ever had; and yet he is found that is past: the aversion and distrust may remain. But and had not hitherto troubled themselves of the why!herding with him and his obnoxions set—feeding on, when I say Pope,by thatword I mean the party of which,ir

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