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peemeereeesrae SL Ae EAA LP re AEE we SE “THIS IS ‘TRUE LIBERTY, WHEN FREEBORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC, MAY SPEAK FREE.’—Evrurivrs. — Vou. 1.] } CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1847, (No. 6. : A atk lc et hc ech WAR NE NA ies OA i isi aC AE 1S AEE EN IEE LE EET Oo ET PAT AE IE RANDOM REFLECTIONS ON LOCAL |nal address was carried by a large majority—several | friendship—your concurrence in our political sentiments POLITICS. No. III. members who voted for Mr. Pope’s address in Commit-’ —your concessions to our demands for just and equal

omen voting for Mr. Rae’s in the House, because they knew |rights to all classes of Her Majesty’s subjects; we wil! CONSISTENCY OF THE LIBERAL PARTY TO THEIR|y Se eens ‘nae . nhac teaser PRINCIPLES there was a majority in favour of it,—and thereby sought, | therefore fly to the standard of your enemies, and aid “a sh after an indecent manceuvre to proclaim their names upon |them, though we believe you to be sincere.” What mam And still he ’s in the self-same place he J ia as rR ‘ : 7 : ; : Where st his euttink out he wes. the Journals as the advocates of Responsible Govern-|—with any the slightest pretensions to sanity and ment. Those members who supported Mr. Rae’s mo-|sense—earnestly desirous for the establishment of sound

HupipRas., ee : ; Unti! the publication of my last letter, I thought my tion in Committee, supported it through every stage of|/and impartial Government in this Island—and impressed +: Reflections” would be honoured by the perusal! of none the debate. So much, then, for their consistency upon|with a keen sense of the evils which have long followed but those who are the avowed friends of the “Examiner.”| ‘his point. the sway of a powerful and unscrupulous Oligarchy,

4 few days’ conversation with your “men about town”, 2d. Have Mr. Rae and his party renounced their, Would pursue such a line of conduct as would bear the has served to convince me of the erroneous estima-| Pinions and principles relatively to a just and equitable interpretation Ihave given? If the Liberal Party-- tion I had formed of the general taste of the public for compensation to the Tenantry for their improvements ?|"0W zealous in the support of His Excellency—were to Newspaper lucubrations. I must confess, however, that No. Mr. Rae introduced last Se&sion, a Bill upon this consign to the tomb of aii the Capulets their hostility to { have enjoyed greater amusement than instruction from |subject. It passed the Lower Branch: several of Mr,|the Clique, and empty the phials of their wrath upon the the various comments to which that letter has given Pope’s party voting in favour of it, 1 confess—voting unoffending head of His Excellency, justly then might rise. That these comments would be by no means silently—because a vote against it would be unpopular their names be branded with the odium of political flattering to the vanity of a sensitive writer, | will rea- and useless. On every question relating to the long- upostacy. But this can never be: It isa ‘water of dily admit; but they furnished at, least, irrefragible agitated question of the Land settlement, Mr. Rae’s little consequence, how long and how industriously the proof to the accomplishment of the object I had in view; principles, and those of his political adherents, have adherents of the Clique struggle to propagate the pre- namely—such a developement of the present policy of been, and are, of the broadest and most liberal cast. |Posterous falsehood—that a change of principless has the Lieutenant Governor, in contradistinction to that) The Compact party will not now venture to reproach been incurred by the present advocates of His Excel- which marked the administration while under the guid- Mr. Rae with any forgetfulness of the Escheat question, lency. All men of understanding rightly know, that : ance of Mr. Pope, as would force itself on the attention since his advocacy of that formed one of their strongest those who make the charge, are yet unchanged. That of even His Excellency’s adversaries, and leave them|0bjections against him, and since the question ceased) Mr. Rae and his friends are still opposed to the Clique,

4 incapable of disproving it. While my humble strictures | t© be discussed long before they dreamt of accusing |O" every political principle, is proof as strong as Holy called forth the condemnation and abuse of the Bracx|Mr. Rae with a change of principles. Writ, to the soundness and sincerity of “the faith that

Warcn and their adherents, I have ample atonement, 3d. Mr. Rae and his party have been and are, enemies|® in them.” REFLECTOR.

‘ in the fact, that their curiosity impels them into the to official monopoly. Did they not show their consis- August 26, 1847.

ranks of my readers. Some of these gentry affect a tency on this point, in addressing His Excellency on dignified abhorrence for Tue Examiner—they would the subject of appointments to the Shrievalty—prayin ’ not patronize a publication so fearless in the councietite the abolition of the mischievous and cael PARTY NOMENCLATURES.

tion of its principles—* it is a Radical paper that ought practice of appointing one individual to fill the situation TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

not to be countenanced”—say they. Yet, strange to!of High Sheriff successively every year? Who were! Sir;—It appears froma series of Letters that have say, there is no class of the community more eager in the most violent in their opposition to the measure ?|been published in the I-slander, Newspaper, from the their efforts to borrow it—more assiduous in skulking ‘The most prominent and active adherents of the BLack!pen of D. McLean, Esq., M. P. P., that he and the Eii- into secret places for the purpose of devouring its con-|Watcn or Compact Party. tor of his I-slander, have attempted to fix the Nick-name tents, than are its bitterest revilers. For my own part, 4th. Mr. Rae has ever been an uncompromising ene-|of Snatcher on the political party to which you and | they are at liberty to indulge in al] the abuse and black-| my to the domination of a Party that have usurped every |belong. Be it so; let them laugh, for we can afford to guardism with which their blackguard vocabulary can vestige of patronage in the Government—that have/let them. It is an old saying: “ they may laugh that furnish them. ‘They know their case to bea hopeless triumphed over Governor and Assembly—and counter-|Jose, for they that win will laugh.” Now, Sir, it ap- one: and it is natural to suppose that calumny and acted the liberal measures of the Representative Branch pears by the aforesaid letters, that there are three po- falsehood with them must be made to supply the place, by false statements to the Imperial Government. Is)Jitical parties in the Island, viz.: The. Snatchers, the of facts and arguments. To all their ravings I reply Mr. Rae—is there any one of those members who have/Snarlers, and the Sticklers; Ist. the Lijerals or Snatch-

with Boileau : aroused the indignation of the Buacx Warcu by their|ers, as they, the Snarlers, please to call them, are « Pauvres gens, je !es plains ; car on a pour les fous defence of His Excellency’s recent policy—less hostile | those who want to see the Patronage of Goverfment in sll Ahir at the present moment to the sway of an Oligaychy ?|the distribution of offices, &c., dispensed to all alike,

There is no sophism more prevalent with the enemies|No—no! Their determination to overturn it—if such|according to merit. 2d. The Snarlers are those who, of His Exceliency—none has been more industriously|an Herculean task can be accomplished—constitutes|Jike the Dog in the Manger, will neither accept office circulated amongst the country population—than this:| the chief transgression, in the eyes of the Compact, of| themselves (for the best of all reasons, as they are sure that, by supporting the present Governor, and defend-|those who have given their unqualified approval to His jt will not be offered to them), nor allow others to do so, ing him against the rancour and malignity of Tue Excellency, because he is, fortunately for the future|if they can prevent them by Snarling at them, of which Brack Warcn, Mr. Rae, and his political friends in| welfare of the Colony, equally assiduous in the perform-|party D: McLean may be called the Snarler in Chief, the Assembly, have abandoned those political princi-|ance ofthe good work. if his application to Lord Stanley for the office of Sur- ples to which they stand pledged. Now, what are wed In the advocacy of these principles, must be recog- veyor General, was not repugnant thereto. 3d. The principles, for the maintenance of which, Mr. Rae’s| nized the most striking features of the whole course of | Sticklers, Compact Party, or, according to “ Reflector’s” party received the suffrages of the people? Mr. Rae’s political life. The Journals of every Session| nomenclature, the Black Watch, are those who stick ] ist. They stand pledged to advocate a change in the)are full of unquestionable evidence to his consistency |to office as a barnacle to the bottom ofa ship, and they

administration of the Government, from the irresponsible | in their defence. ‘Where then has been the forfeiture | and their allies are the greatest enemies to Responsible

system, under which Officers of Government have con-|or abandonment of political principles? “In support-|Government. So you see, Sir, we have not only the tended for the right of holding their situations as long as| ing the Lieutenant Governor,” the Brack Warcu ex-/Snatchers, but also the Snarlers and the Sticklers. If they pleased themselves, in defiance of the will of the peo-| claims. But the Lieutenant Governor has unmistakeably | wr, McLean thinks he has given the I-slander and its ple, as expressed through their Representatives—to|avowed his adherence to precisely tle same principles. |friends one nickname to chuckle over, I think I have that purely British system, by which the Representative] Shall Mr. Rae and his friends say to the Governor,)given the Examiner and its friends two in lieu of it, to Body would be enabled to exercise’a wholesome con-|« Sir Henry, we do not want your assistance in the car-|smile at, Certainly this Island must be either blessed troul over every department of Government. Have} rying out of our views. It is true, that the Clique who} or cursed, between Snatchers, Snarlers and Sticklers, they been untrue to this pledge? No. The debates advised and defended your policy for five years—who!| or Black Watch. I hope the Lieutenant Governor will of the last, as well as former Sessions, teem with evi-| proclaimed you to be the most efficient and impartial) he able to weather the storm, and be enabled to reward dence of their consistency in this matter. The Re-| Governor that ever ruled over us—who received offices'hig friends, neglect and forget his enemies. I must sponsible Government address was first brouglit into for their friends in reward of their flattery—who poison-|jeaye off for the present: perhaps you may hear from the House, last Session, by Mr. Rae,—and though! ed your ear with calumnies against our party and our) me again very soon, if this is favourably received. I Messrs. Palmer and Pope sought to strangle it by spuri-} principles—now strive to remove you from the Govern-| subscribe myself ous definitions of the system—definitions, which, ifjment, and destroy your public and private character. A SNATCHER. worked out, would produce no change at all—the origi-| But, Sir Henry, we have more confidence in the Clique,}_ August 25, 1847. ss

- with all their deep-rooted hatred to ourselves and our; P. S.—I expect the next Session the favourite toast,

* Poor gentlemen, I pity them, for one always entertainsfor) d C . on the lot faa ae id’. oun je fools more pity than anger. em principles, than we liave in your Excellency, with your im the Room that you enter fro , . = es

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