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-—teeerats eo ‘ ines are ve galling to my tenantry of the Island as well»qualified asthe Free-)the Boyalty : ond feet vem the "Journals. Even holders of Nova Scotia? nan : Or | Even om the Bead Master of the ‘Academy has been going ope would stop at removing the Goyernor, if ne evel |‘ € would. not succeed at ceded in that ? | Noteat all, gale men ee he we nor El 1 hen. tlleatpas had also told that bis influence, and exert all hie’talent-o injure the Re- ea atin gona 1 ° a geet ee ee seual ter aueaeal Mp. Homphress would only say that he mere an had put it im Ate power 00.60.22 oe , "ei and did not wish to interfere, rT represented the —_ q — auee ce Pore’ Msdegaisary ba been misinformed. —" Po > hi ea . . 5 : ° 4 ee a ‘ell i of Assembly was degrading to} yy. Clark had now an opportunity of clearing meas ae d now assisted to send him | fe had often held conversation with Mr. McLean up human nature, and he had now ass Coverr ndl- 9; E d often disagreed with him. He did mention home, and if he did return with & new Governor, andi nolitics, and often i for the part that Mr. erp ert gv ober do M ee od Deke tne Mr. Coles’ election, ever was, Montgomery had taken respecting Mr. © : "i. eee had never acted with Mr, Pe which had injured him in the opinign of paforteee so: Pope had acted with him. He had turned round. He) He has been asked, and answered, f eee 7 aoe ‘Montgomery) had never done so. He did not like to poted to Montgomery, and iki e on Seay be impeache with what could not be proved. He de- event of a new election this fall, . ee ae riied supporting Palmer. ‘Was he to flee from his prin-| put of this he never spoke at on. - Oe eae ciples because former enemies adopted them. He atill| Tore was no pledge of change of policy Rae. possessed the same principles, and was still a liberal to nor, at the commencement of the Session; aaa the back bone, and cared not who said the contrary. pointment of Liberals to the Ba giNAGT ee nd of the He cared not*who brought forward measures for the edly, a symptom of change; but meet e het good of the country, he would support them. He never Session arrived, and he heard His Exce ener ee went abont’ with petitions against the Governor. One|phe then expressed his determination to ft w ilo was sent to him, which ke received when about a dozen friends, and I am still convinced we oug ; o te people were present; and when’ asked by them if he|pim when well advised, I never sold my in Bee eat would recommend them to sign it, he did not do so, but] and was not. advised by any one to act ast rs v . told them to aet‘as they pleased. As far as he was con-|i¢ my constituency disapprove of my conduct Ma re- cerned he would sign it himself. sign. The principal cause of the cry against Co es was

Mr. Owen had no guarantee for Pope’s conduct. He! pecause his appointment to the Council was a wound to had always been an enemy to the country, and will be! ino power of the Family Compact. The delegation was soagain. Let him but get a new Governor, and then) cont to England to represent a few, and these few were you will see that if he get into his confidence he will the old compact who formerly hindered every one from treat him im the same way ashe did Sir Henry. Liked being appointed to office but their friends, dependents no back door business, and always found fault, when he| 54 connexions. Pope and Palmer would be ruined if thought fawit was shewn. ...., {the compact were broken up, therefore the part they

Mr. Rae was always the same. ‘When the British |took need not cause surprise. They have never chang-

Government set aside our charges against His Excel. | ed—Mr, M. now goes with them—who then has chang- tency, what was the use of bringing them forward again? ed ? What earthly service:would it be to repeat to Her Ma-| 47, Monlgomery.—Mr. Clark says I have changed. jesty those charges which they had already repudiated ? ‘Look at the Journals; he and I voted together on every People might say he was a bitter eremy to both Coun-| division on Responsible Government. We ought not cils, because he had said that he thought the Legisla-| judge by out of door appearances; but on all leading tive Council interfered in an indecent manner respect- questions in the House Mr. Clark and myself went to- ing appropriations. Some thought he should have fol-| cether. I deny joining the compact, and act in the towed up his first motion, by a motion of want of COM-| way I do, because I have yet seen no change in the Go- fidence in the Executive Council, but he knew it would.

wn , vernor. J was asked last winter if 1 would accept office, not be carried, and therefore, if so, it would at once be.

: ‘but would not, and have kept myself free. This con- turned into an expression of confidence, which was to.

'stituency have always sent me to the House at the head be avoided above all things. I thought, Mr. Chairman, | oF the poll, and I would be sorry to forfeit. their confi- that those would be the wisest who would first seek tO\gence. The appointment of Mr. Coles rivetted the conciliate, and therefore I endeavoured to do so, instead chains of the compact; for how can those who signed of driving him desperate by bullying, and so plunge the| the letter to Mr. Ree now bring forward a vote of want country into inextricable confusion. I did not agree to! o¢ confidence in the compact? Would Liberals take stand for the Speakership, until days before the} oiice under such circumstances? Mr. Howe—a man meeting of the House, and even then offered to resign | of Liberal principles—resigned £700 a year, under my claim to any liberal who might be thought Compe-| similar circumstances. We, who are a young Colony, tent. I have been much abused for meeting the Gover-| ouoht to follow the practice of Nova Scotie and Canada. nor half way. Covld J, sir, expect His Excellency to mo

|The Governor’s speech, about which so much has been come to my lodgings. I knew that I might render the| said, does not signify responsibility to the people, but country essential service by communicating with him, | responsibility to the Governor, (It got so dark the Re- and as “the mountain could not go to Mahomet, Ma-| norter could not take any notes of the remainder of Mr. homet must go to'the mountain.” JT never dined, 1 ne-| Montgomery’s speech, and afew observations of Mr. ver supped at Government House ‘I would not do 80, Clark's.)

becanse [ would not take advantage of my public po-| "we Montgomery was asked by an elector if he sition to receive those courtesies which I might not be thought that Rae and Pope had changed sides-—that is, thought worthy of in my private capacity. When MY/had Rae turned Tory, and Pope become a Liberal ? own business, or the business of the country requires! yr, yy. answered, that he considered himself a Liberal, me to go, then I will go to Government House, and &°' and where Mr. Rae differed from hini thought he acted openly, not caring for the smiles or the frowns of eny illiberally. He had never joined with Mr. Pope—Mr. ene. Have | been erafty or cringing? Dare any man P, had joined him,

say so? Did I care for the smiles or frowns of ‘a Go- MM R Dose Mr think th d vernor, any further than that I might serve the country ? » of lib 2 = ee “re : ot — 1, sir, appealed from the Governor ill advised, to the | YOC8¢Y ~ libera verging stop yams Ren oe ved Governor well advised; “from Philip drunk to Philip|@tterly valueless, a ig ae smal] — mm sober.” Were I in the Exeeutive Council, I should |*veen Pope and the Governor should puff them wT think myself most illiberal to endeavour to prevent the; Mr. Montgomery had no more confidence in Governor from consulting any other person, if he wish-| than he ever had. His motives are confitied t

Mr. Pope

0 his own ed to do so, Does any man suppose that a Member of | breast. He may be acting from pure, and he may be

the House of Assembly ean not go to Government) acting from selfish motives.

ifouse without betraying his constituents? If | am a| Mr. Rae—Mr. Montgomery acted with me for eight fiatterer, | have now to learn the trade for the first time.| years, but because I went to Government House, and That I have never flattered Governors in particular I) Pope would not, then his plan was best,—knowing that need only to refer you to my past carecr as a Repre-| Pope supported a false accusation against me, yet Mr. sentative. With respect to my conduct on the Belfast, Montgomery proposed him as Speaker. It was owing islection question, respecting which I have been twitted,| to his instrumentality that ] was exonerated from as al- { will read you my speech upon the subject. (Mr. Rae| most foul a charge as could be laid to the account of here read part of the speech.) T put a question to Mr./any man. No man could havestood more firmly by my Palmer as the only Executive Councillor in the House,|side, and now let him lay his hand upon his breast and aud as the relation of the Sheriff of Queen's County. 1|say that a man who could pledge his word and honor to

have also been twitted with voting large sums to Go-|a falsehood was fit for the Speaker’s chair. Pope lured vernment House, but being only one out of a Committee| on Sir Henry Huntley to accuse a man whom he could ef six, [could not make as much saving as I wished ;/not oppose on the floor of the House, yet he put that but atthe same time did not vote as much as has been| man over u Let Mr. Montgomery consider how right eet he hen oes. | do think Government House| it was to do o. It might be more reputable to support would be better in ashes, as it is in a most wretched | Joseph Pope—the man of multifarious offices and mul- condition. Again, sir, with respect to my appointment tifarious employments—than it was to vote for Sandy as J. P., { have written to His Excellency that I_ only| Rae, who may be stingy, mean, and parsimonious, if retain it until I have made up my mind whether I wij} \you will, but who never told youatie. Is there a man retain my seat in the House of Assembly or give it up.|in this meeting who will rise and dare to say I ever told

Mr, Montgomery.—Mr, Rae does not now stand injhima lie? Ifthere be, let him now do so. There is tiie same position he formerly occupied, and he cannot| none. Well then, this man who pledges his word and

charge me with that. It is not fair for him to read hj C was a fact which was no a fact,

g . . é $|sacred honor that that a h fi own speeches, without reading os vi ; 0

t those in opposition to! was esteemed by Mr, Montgomery the most w rth them. Will my Soancenente say they have no confi-|be the head of the Represeniative body of P E. Tslond dence in me? If so I wi! make en he is the best. “Mr Mont-

’ way for others, J have, They must be a bad set wh beard it reported that I would get only three votes in. gomery professes to believe that Pope has changed.

' place within the last sixteen years,

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és il was sick—the Devil a saint would be, the era ‘got well, te devila saint was he.” . I, Sir, was condemned at one time as an emissary of Pope’s, because J advocated reduced rents instead of a total Hscheat. When I found, however, that the coun- try desired a total Escheat, I stuck by it as long as there was any possibility of it. Are then my eight rears ser- vice in the cause of the Liberals to be puffed away at the nodof Mr. Pope? I trow not. Had I kept back my resolutions upon Responsible Government until the Bel- fast Election was settled, the Session would have been frittered away and nothing done. T'hisis another port upon which Mr. Montgomery and I disagree, and ~ iis was my reason for acting in the manner] did. I, a still retain the confidence of many members, and if have lost that of Mr. Montgomery 1 am sorry, for 1 have lost a good aid. Montgomery never introduced a Bill into the House which he carried through with his own influence; he is therefore no leader. Will any man in his senses believe that Mr. Pope, the proud, the inde- fatigable, the imperious, the industrious, who will do and does more legislative labor in one day than Mr. Montgomery in a week,—will any man, I say, believe that such a man will be led by Mr. Montgomery : No, Sir, no man will lead Pope longer thay he pleases. ‘It is not in our power to get a Governor who will dare to agree to Escheat,—yielding to such would unship him as long as the despatches from the British Government remain. Of this I was wel] aware, and when sent on a Committee to request the Governor to recommend two addresses, setting forth the grievances of the land ten- ure, I was foreed to do so against my will, for I did not wish a man to do a thing to endanger his office. The Governor at that time knew nothing about the distress, but promised to take a tour through the Colony, and ex- amine for himself, although he did believe our state- ments. Next day, however, Pope and some others hav- ing dined with him, in the interim he changed his tale, and believed nothing ailed the country. Who was to blame here? Had the Governor not quarrelled with Pope we would not have got the chance of Responsible Government; but if he go to-morrow, or remain until next year, no future Governor can get over his conces- sions. Use your opportunity, but do not abuse it; sup- porting a violent remonstrance against a Governor who was the first to introduce Responsible Government, wil! very much injure the cause: you ought to be very care- ful, then, what you do. Respecting Coles re-election, Montgomery and others acted a very singular part. When Pope, Palmer, and J. S. Macdonald were taken out of the minority, and went to Government House every day, we found no fault; but no sooner does the Liberal majority change into a minority, than, if we go to Government House all the elements of mischief are set on foot to frustrate our designs. Rae has sold his constituents and the country, I sought not your votes, and I will not sel] you for any office in P. E. Island. When those gentlemen went to the Council there was no word of going back to the electors ; but lo! no soon- er is George Coles, a man of the people, called to it, than a new interpretation must be put on an old Act, the ashes of a law which had become obsolete, was dead, and as valueless, for any essentia] purpose, as the mouldering remains of the dead in the rear of this build- ing, had to be reanimated for the purpose of driving, if possible, Mr. Coles from his seat in the House. Rise up, Donald Montgomery, and deny it if you can,

Mr. Monigomery, at the time of the appointment of the gentlemen mentioned, to the Council, was a very young member, and was not aware of the existence of the law in question, or he would have acted upon it,

Mr. Rae.—tIn the old Election Law there were certain clauses which vacated the seat of any member accept- ing a seat in the Council. But at that time the Legis- lativeand Executive Councils were embodied in one, and the obvious spirit of the Act referred only to the Legislative Council. Besides, the practice of the Impe- rial Parliament was against it. There no one vacates his seat without accepting some office of emolument. He had moved a short Act to explain. [Mr. Rae here read from the Journals the Act referring to the appoint- ment of Messrs, Pope, Palmer, and Macdonald, being an inconvenient oer Did not the Attorney Ge- neral know the Act when these gentlemen were called tothe Council. He did not advise the Governor to is- sue new Writs for an Election. His opinion is the same still, and backed by the Solicitor General, and yet Montgomery IS against it. When Mr. Montgomery brings in a bill imposing a high duty upon luxuries, and a low one upon necessaries, then he may pitch me oyer- board. Lay aside all old wives’ Stories, and apply to the business of the country,—take into account Pope, who came into the country a boy, who has done all he

could ever since against the countr » and consider whe- ther it would be better to put yourselves into his power or into that of Sir H. Vv, Huntley, who at all events is solicitous to earn a good name befo

f : re he leaves us, [To be continued.]

1ONIN THE Far West. | Indiana, Michigan, TMiinois and Wissconsin, in 1787, just sixty years since, was 4000 souls—and the population of the same States in 1847 is Four Millions One Hundred and Seventy five Thousand souls! One half of this increase hag taken

RAPID INCREASE of PorvuLation1 —The population of Ohio,

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