23 THE EXAMINER, eal en ies ala eg em wo A Ee are fo reerrvenantewmamen 7 = ereweraciniartifi island. ‘This is the substance of the accusation preferr-|ral. From your abuse of Mr, Rae, one nmght infer that opinion of the character and objects of the Constity

ed against you in the Evaminer ofthe 16th May, and|such was your beliéf. On reference to the Palladium of tiondlist paper, just then issued :— which you undertogkto isprovey Sut have not done so.|June 052544; you will find acommunication from your’ ‘Phe last post, you observe, ‘gratified me with Y ou betray a degree of imbecility and folly which even| pen onthe subject of ‘ Annexation,’ dated ‘ New London, line from you, accompanied by a few papers, for which

| would not ascribe to you, when you seek to inspire the} 10th June,’ in which you thus speak of the gentleman oublic mindewith sympathy for your injnred innocence, | whose consistency and ‘integrity’ you so violently as- by pretending to great indignation, by lavishing your)sailed, from fectious motives, in the letters just referred foul epithets om me, and by vaguely threatening my ex-| to :—

you have my, best thanks. On the subject of our insular politics, I am becoming. very listless, ner is it probable that I thall take part in them after the present summer— the bigotted stupidity that suppressed the Palladiyn,, gave me a distaste, from which I have never recovered,

onision from the Assembly by your glorious majority of

one. ee «Thereds no terror, Cassius, in your threats :

Kor Lam,armed so strong.ia honesty,

‘The oligarchy, fearing the 1INCORRUPTIBLE INTEG- ‘i cannot agree with you that the new paper is a rity, universal knowledge, and ready and powerful pirate. If yon read.the prospectus you will find that the

| eloquenee of Alexander Rae, Esq., M. A., it became an eo grievance of the Colony, the land tepures, is care- jobjectto oust him from the House of Assembly.’

ully avoided. I ‘pointed this out to the editor, or the

That they pass by me_as the idle wind,

Which I respect not,” © i That you have abandoned those political. principles, with which you commeneed your career as an agitator in this island, is abundantly clear from the whole course of the

I'shatl shew you now that the sin which you laid to Mr. Rae’s charge, and to mine, of office-seeking, or office-snatehing, if you like the term better, wascommit- ted by yourself, and openly avowed by you. Turn to A SR the Palladium, Sept. 18, 1843—(you, eurely, have pre- last two years of, your political life. Inthe Session of} . meq the files, being so devout an admirer of the paper, 1347, your, name stands in, almost every division. with which, in those days you woald hardly say was conduct- those of Mesars. Palmer, Haviland, Longworths, Douse, ed by a ‘half-editor” though he who then held’ the Sc., and opposed to those, of Messrs. Rae, McIntosh, D. |, ditorialichair holds it still)—Tura, P beg of you, to the McDonald, Fraser, Le Lacheur, &c., who were formerly | sano of Sent. 18/1843, and’you will find your unblush-

known to be your political allies. Your excuse at that ing profession ‘of the| doctrine of Snatcheri#h, ina eom- time for cutting your, old friends. was, that they had

changed, because they were known to be friendly. ta Sir) il. V.,Huntley,., This was a convenient excuse atthe time, but, it.could-not, and did not serve you.long. , Did Mr, Rae or any of his political friends. introduce any;

inthe Islander. Yousay's |

6 I beg to assure a ‘Tried Reformer’ that if I could ‘force myself into office. 1 would take great pleasure in

munication purporting ‘to be areply toa’ Fried Reformer’ and explain the real state o

! fh jdoing so; but as that happens to be‘against the rales of fault of the major guestion derogatory to, or at variance with, their former|ihe sérvice with which I am:tolerably woll acquainted, ‘sh y y

person who, I suppose, was the editor, and frankly told him that | would. not encourage the people to subscribe to it, becatise if they did, they would incapacitate them- selves from supporting a paper like the Palladium, ifone should espotise their cause. This T have done, unless. in cases where I knew the parties could well afferd two’ yet, notwithstanding, I have reason to believe it has obtained the best of our folks for the next siX months. This, therefore, will be a bar m the way of the Morning News, at least for a time, in this quarter, whatever may be its politics; and it must change very much before it ought to receive support from the agriculturists, It is emphatically the organ of a man*who had preju the question at issue in this Colony, and who, I doubt not, for selfish considerations only, givens to open his eyes

affairs, and who, it is im- peratively necessary, should be recalled.’ T'o accomplish that end I would use his quarrel with Pope, in's

‘$0 jar as it could be made to bear upon the subject ; and should the poeple hereafter place Joe in a minority, i willbe the

rily if he be not kept in “his place. In short, my policy was, to make these twe worthies realize

eourse of conduct? No: if they did; it would have|he need not dread a cousummation of the sort. What/the fable of the Kilkenny:cats, (the real interests of the

heen blazoned forth.ere this,.y. your prolific pen... It is/,2 contemptible, pusillanimous government we must have

true, you charged Mr. Rae nd mn cn in pe Be ie in Charlottetown, if, as the Tslander’s unhanged friend a5 IF vies : ’ C. ‘nsi it betaf Saf A Hie 2" :

letters addressed fo that gentleman, in the; Islander, (aad _ oe It vow ) |

your patronage 6 this paper which is known to be the!’ Tn another communication from you, in the Palladium

organ,of Tory. principles, and the advecate.of Compact of October 30, 1843, I find the following modest display

ascendancy proves nothing for. your claim to consis-}°f Your claims to office, It is worthy of note:

‘people being evidently, equatly lost sight of by both), Pope: like Ulysses, to be the ‘last devoured!’ This is a faithful, transcript from your letter, .. The original yeu'can see atany time, ... «©. h Now, let. me.ask, if Mr. Pope was such-an enemy to the public interests in 1846. why: did you vote to put

tency *), with a.desire to work themselves, into office.}’ *{ had almost omitted to state that my application for;him in the Speaker's chair in January, 1847.. In Febru- [n this charge you were promptly, seconded by men|an office, which, possibly more than all tire rest, iras laid jary, 1847, you yoted,,in-the, absence of sufficient evi-

wh se whole lives had been spent in official-employments,

and who had a direct interest in crying down Mr, Rae

the foundation of future discord’—{what'a prophet you are!)+“in the community, was not grounded in the least, on political influence, as the Islander insinuates, but

dence, to expel Mr. Le Lacheur,.who, you are well aware, is a firm friend to the ‘question prejudged’ by

and his friends. Did they desert their principles to/altogether on endowments wiiich no amount of popular Sir Henry. Huntly, your, cad, Donald Montgomery, gratify the desite? No. Titey espoused Sir Henry’s| favour can either confer upon, or divest me of. Being: yoting with you, in. opposition. to, Nicholas , conroy,

cause against the Family Compact and the Tories of the Town, when Sir Henry, as he afterwards acknowledged

a very apt scholar, and always hearing the oligarchy and its advocates modestly insist, that the ‘ family. com- pact’ must necessarily exist, because men of sufficient

who had the courage to enrol his name. with those of Rae, Melntosh, D. Macdonald, Jardine, Fraser,

at the public Breakfast, had changed his views. It would) talent are not otherwise to be found in the country—1|}Warburton, Coles, Clark, &c, In 1848, Mr. Pope's De just as reasonable for the Liberals of Nova Scotia to|thought there could be no great harm in turning the|quarrel with Governor Huntley. having terminated, it turn round and say to Mr. Howe: ‘Sir, you and yous|enemy’s artillery upon me the oh and with a modesty might have: been. expected that you. would separate

equal to their own, claiming the office from Her Majesty,

allies have forfeited the confidence of the country,because| oi score Wf bether better qualified fo execute the duties ‘yourself Saves, than compact party in the House of As- you have. sought office and obtained it—because you of it than any man that EVER filled the appointment in this;sembly. ‘That you did not do so, | have only to turn to

havé made friends with a Governor, who for a time submitted to be ruled by a Tory Cabinet.’ I have yet to learn that opposition to every Governor, whether good or bad, is the chief merit and distinction of a libe-

* Nore.—-I confess that I am not so fastidious as you i the matter of quoting from another writer, for | have amused: myself within the last two or three Hours, in rending your communications published in the Palladian.

(find one, dated from New London, Oet. 18, 1843, and; n

puijlished Oct. 30, which contains the following piquant sentences in reference to the Planilé’. You say:— * My per ss itching to draw a fall feneth! portrait o? the ‘slander. So soon as 1 shall get my feathers cumfort- able shaken down in ‘limbo vile; I may, perhaps, sur- prise the Editor of that kighly principled periodical’"— “te italics are*your own)—“py ‘proving to the world

‘row the most incontrovertible ‘statistical data, thal the}:

sninse purswed-by tte faction of which he isan organ has| i direct lendency to alienate the affections of the. people of, the Colony from connection with their father land, and consequently to accelerate the dismembernient of the British Empires.” ‘Vhis as.very rich: the paper which was cal- culated, from its viplent Toryism, to make rebels of us all, is now the especial favourite of Duncan Maelean! Duncan will surely say, that Johu Ings has turned his: Coat. Donald Montgomery said at the Malpeque Meet- wg, lest-_year, ‘that Mr. Pope had changed his. polities end Some over te him, but he had neverchanged/’ | The 0g rome ni, Spppose, can be applied by Mr, Maclean “CUMS. ings.

th another jetter, addtessed ta me in May, 1245, and

Colony; und Trather think Lord Stanley i3 pretty much| your votes to prove. Your first act was to assist in ex-

satisfied of the truth of the assertion, Old servants of |pelling. Mr. Coles—your second, to assist. in expelling ‘unimpeached character and abilities have been cruelly | Mr, Warb Both of th : thai il a voted from their academical situations—a hardship which| "4% YY arpurton. these genivemen were sprep

the compact only -seems to feel when the ler talionis is| ously opposed by the-compact—they were and are known applies to one of its own links. Had I not been possess- to be advocates of Responsible Government, and to be

ed of higher qualifications than political tnfiuence, J would favourable to a settlement of the “ great grievance of unhesitatingly have used it in attacking the abuse of any} t great g

ae office,(and claimed the office, too, if the fancy had struck |the colony, the land tenures, which Wentt?- Palmer meds pon the principle, that the only effectual ‘ way to get, Pope and Company are net.* At Mr.Coles’s re-election,

of the rooks is to pull down their nests,’ and a few}your friend Donald. Montgomery.prompted Dayid Simp- more expostires of the manner in which the public SeT- |son.to offer in opposition, You professed, I believe, to

vice is eonducted, will probably incline the British ; a re Government .to.annexation to Nova Scotia, which, in} be a passive spectator at that election,; but it is notorious

my opinion, is the only, speedy remedy for palling down that you, in conjunction with Donald Montgomery, used all the nests of the tyrannical gang.’ your influence and exertions .on behalf of Mr, Simpson, These passages prove you, beyond all doubt, to have| and against Mr, Coles, Moreover, previous to ths been, at least in 43, and ‘44, .a Snatcher of the first, election, you. declared that if Mr. Coles came from the

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class; and now that you see your own opinions brought polling ground at New London with a majority of votes. up in juégment against you—(and, mark, I have many ,You would consider the fact tantamgunt. to a declaration more choice passages selected from your correspondence Of no confidence in you by your constituents, and would to garnish a succeeding letter)—you must confess that, accordingly resign your seat. Mr. Coles thrashed you you haye acted the part ofa madiman,or a fool, inj and Donald Montgomery and David Smpson as you charging Mr. Rae and his,party with political inconsis-, Were never thrashed before, and still you clung and tency and tergiversation, because they were believed by,cling.to your seat. You were quite right in, believing you to entertain a wish for office, while you could prove: that the fact of Mr. Coles polling a majority of votes #* nothing positivemgainst them, and wien, a short time N ew London would be proof positive of your having jos! before, the same wish was entertained and acknowledged, by yourself

* As one of the many proofs which may be adduce« in support of this assertion, allow me to remind you

‘ ] 4rtended for publication in the Palladium, but not pab- | MOMr; GBR AR HegerHne the Libere! party, ie the |she opposition oifered by those gentlemen last Session jStred beeauve of the discontinuance of the papery F fin | Assembly, was convenient, I have said, for a line— to ‘the plan. which was submitted ‘fer establishing the

ae» folowing remarks in referenee, to the Jstander—| somplajming, of misreporting i that journal oy the Bible! Question Debate: You say:—‘T was. informed. by a}

geutleman of the strictest. veracity, that that man of strat’, Joka Ings, of the Islander, voldhim that he would!

)ol. suffer. any. Correction te Appear ia -bis partial and!

yaltry, print, Flence, that worthlessly stupid and silly, tool | “18 not only committed very serious breach of privilege,

is : o . . . t 7 ‘ut whatis Tar worse, a disgraceful: viclation of truth!

ue. Seat) government must be fallen: imdeedy that

anders tie,public meney, for the suppert.of%se broken’ "Per ast tee ‘alander. hick cand not othercriee exist” |

convenient so long as Sir H.,V..Hentley remained in rate of exchange, in all payments fer Rent, at one-mmt”

the. Colony, ;.but that excuse was wholly untenable in Over the Currency of the Island, instead of fifty per cent. ; as specified in most of the leases,

tap Legian of > pn ban We Sash plead he + Sinée writing the above, ] find that I was wrong '" before [have done with you. ‘The crusade commenced |p olievine that you had a wish to be ‘considered a pas- by, the Compact in *46 against the Governor, you ap- sive spectator at the Election. While most of'your New proved of.only inasmuch as it night serve ta remove the London friends were busy in voting for Mr. iaebinzour later. Ip support.of this.assertion, I, give the following! nfluence ‘to the conirary notwithstanding, you ee ne ; ‘busy in moistening your clay with his whiskey ; and 42 extract from a letter, addressed by you to me, on the); 0" ,0) up your confage to the sticking point, and ‘a ** 4th June, 1846, which, you may remember, was in reply drappie in your e’ee, you mounted the Hastings 2s, toa, letter from me. wherein! frankly expressed miy! gave your vote to the hoosier candidare..