US- a- A Weekly HFournal o **This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.’’---Euripides. Vol. LY. Charlottetown, Prince Edward sland, Monday, { Politics, iterature, and Slews, January 30, 1865. ave COTEDD (fp) COMPLETED ALM \ ‘| AT THE . i : a ' B i TI ( | The New York Tribune says, ‘The reason why Cloths. Cloths, Cloths, 5 i WAR EH ( l f E, Drake’s Plantation Bitters are so universally used N ees, Whitneys, Meltans, Blue | QU KEN SQUARE, ] Biack, Brown and Drab BROAD-CLOTH —~—Sosr TM PORTATIONS a aT PALL INGA BEER & SONS THE SUPPLY OF | and have such an immense sale, is that they are al- ee Shawls and Mantles. ATEST STYLES, cheap. ! the prices have so largely advanced,” &c The YZribune just hits the nail on The | material, but the people are told what it is | Recipe is published around each Bottle, and the POETRY. comprising the population of almost a whole denial, have been all the time, by money- continent ; wait until we have two or three! power and by war, and by negociation, ex- WAITING FOR THE TIDE. hundred thousand men, succeeded by as|tending their frontier, until they more Come down! those shadowed sands invite, many more, if need be, on our frontier line,| than quadrupeled their territory within at Amherst, or perchance at the head of the sixty years; and believe it who tay, are Basin, or the Three Mile House, and then they now of their own accord, to come to a what you say about the advantages of Res- full stop. No; aslong as they have the j And that soft glory on the deep ; ! We breathe an atmosphere of light command of Canada. And so with the Lower Provinces, if their statesmen could wield our arms and our resources in addition to their own, does any sane man pretend that would not be an inimense gain to them ? | (Hear, hear.) I may be told again the im. | perial Government alone can neither do any | ways made up to the original standard, of highly | invigorating material and of pure quality, although | the head @ The Plantation Bitters are not only made of pure ponsible Government, and the blessings of isolation, and the strength of a militia ot fifty thousand, will be our never fuiling re- source against every calamity. Sir, either there is, or there is not danger ; or, in other words, either the nation on our borders has or has not the power to pull down our flag and destroy us as a people. By this gray limit of our pier; | [f they have the power, then good intentions : : | and inclinations arg a matter of no impor- tance whatever. We are, then, living only on sufferance, on mere toleration. Our lives Subtle as dew and calm as sleep. | See, here and there, beyond the foam, A sail is shining like a gem; I think the boats are comin home ; We'll linger down and look at them. Not yet ; the tide is shy, and stays It doubts, it trembles, it delays, Yet all the while is stealing near. | 7 ~ - ° The boats and we must wait its will; Oh, pleasant patience! thine to make dollars and ten cents taxes, and everything and liberties, and the means of paying four) power, they must go onward, for it is the | of these things so vromptly, so fally, nor very nature of power to grip whatever is) with so little trespass on our responsible go- within its reach. Lt is not their hostile feel-| vernments, as a united legislature could, ‘ings, therefore, but it is their power, and) through a united public force, with the aid only their power I dread; and I now state it of a Federal treasury. I[ really, gentlemen as my solemn conviction, that it becomes the} ought to beg your pardon—and I do so—for duty of every British subject in these Pro-| dwelling so long on the truism that union is, | vinees to control that power, not by the in-/ in our case, strength ; but as the first propo- ‘sane policy of weakening them, but by | sition to which we all agreed at the first strengthening ourselves — rising, with the| Conference, I thought I would give some ex- whole of Britain at our back, to their level ;| planation why we bad unanimously arrived /and so be prepared for auy emergency.| at that result. (Cheers.) There is no sensible or unprejudiced man in FEDERALISM AND IMPERIALISM. | the community who does not see that vigor- ‘ " : eee te yee Another objector opposes oar project be- 4 BEER & SONS s ‘ : sila British& Foreign Merchandize, bottles are not reduced in size. Atleast twenty 1 <p< ] I ’ i R 1; imitations and counterfeits have sprun up. They BAY a une COMPRISING OUR E f ‘ Re ady Made ot l Z STOC K IN TR AD . impose upon the people once and that’s the last of | GOOD Assortment. A large lot of | IN. . - E, them. : ees coe BI ER SONS bash ustinasotiiaiateanetad The Plantation Bitters are now used in all the eae AMP iow, a oe Sceond to : ion |Government Hospitals, are recommended by tke | : e y the | FUR CAPS, FUR CAPS. | A SPLENDLD variety in qualities and | - ' t { 5 BEER & SONS. | LADIES’ FURS, ee « Eru Monkey Mutis lam) Sa&ine Oppossum, Musquash and Mock | Mufls and Cuffs to mate Alsv Russian Pup and siberian | BEER & SONS. e bk as, [IN THE CITY, For Variety, Quality, Style or Value. | me | j | Selected with the greatest care, purchased on the best terms, and sold at the lowest remuuerative prices, Wo Solicit Inspection. W. & A. BROWN. Charlottetown, Nov. 21, 1864. (While we behold them and lie still) best physicians, and are warranted to produce an . ; A hundred pictures for our sake. immediate beneficial effect. Facts are stubborn | things. «* * * Towe much to you, for I verily be- Oh, happy patience! Not a hue Can flutter through thy changing air, lieve the Plantation Bitters have saved my life. Or mould the cloud, or touch the blue, REV. W. U. WAGGONER, Madrid, N. Y.” | That is not meant for them to wear. | ye . Thou wilt send me two bottles more | And as they watch the glimmering sand of thy Plantation Bitters. My wife has been greatly | That warms the film within the foam, benefitted ly their use. They know the certain wave at hand— The tender wave that lifts them home! we hold most dear are staked on a haphazard, | ous and timely preparation is the only pes- on which no man ean caleulate,and no nation | sible means of saving us from the horrors of can or ought to depend for a single week. =| a war such as the world hasnever seen. To If there be fifty thousand men already pre-| be fully prepared is the only practical argu- pared to invade this country, as you admit, | ment that ean have weight with a powerful instead of laboring to keep us in our present | enemy, and make him pause beforehand and disjointed and defenceless position,you sould | count the cost. And as the sort of prepara- rather call on ell to unite where a single | tion I speak of is utterly hopeless without man cannot be dispensed with, and gird on | the Union of the Provinces, so at a moment our armour for the rencontre. Lf Responsible | when public opinion is being formed on this Government which the great and good men | vital point, as one deeply concerned, I feel of this country won for us be a precious, it a duty to declare myself unequivocally in cause colonial union is inconsistent with Im- perial connection. Well, to that, we might answer that we are quite willing to leave it to the statesmen of the Empife themse!ves to decide that poirt. If England does not find it eo, | think we may safely assume that itis not so. And, in point of fact, the Im- perial Parliament several years ago decided the question when they passed the New Zealand Constitutional Act, establishing six or seven local governments, under one gene- Thy friend, ASA CURRIN, Philadelphia, Pa,” SEAL SKIN COATS. pee | RENFREW HOLSE, | A FEW very SUPERIOR “mn . * I have been a great sufferer from | - BEER & SONS. | ’ | Dyspepsia, and had to abandon preaching. * * *| __-__ | Thomas 8 Old Stand, | The Plantation Bitters have cured me, i ur ~ .7 - al aati yo Felt Hats, Felt Hats, REV. J.S. CATHORN, Kochester, N. Y. —_— GREAT GEORGE asyrpai| = Oe re oe pepethonemocntiods “«* * * Send us twenty-four dozen more of | AV ] NG CC NI PLET ED our your Plantation Bitters, the popularity of which are | Importations for the Season. | daily increasing with the guests of our house. 71 SYKEs, CHADWICK & CO., Proprietors Willards’s Hotel, Washington, D.C.” | | «* * * Thave given the Plantation Bitters | to hundreds of our disabled soldiers with the moat | astonishing effect. G. W. D. ANDREWS, Superintendent Soldier’s Home, Cincinnati, 0. BEER & SONS. | | Boots & Shoes. . a agers and BOYS’ STRONG BooTs| Ve Gesire to call public attention z und BROGANS; Ladies’, Misses’ and| to our Stock, consisting of ‘ i oe aes S| eT gun Euaey BEER & SONS. BUFFALO RORES, : r aa s grmraiselan.. DRY GOODS, _ Hardware, Groceries, ‘Boots and Shoes, Rubbers, LADIES’ FURS, SKELETONS, HATS and CAPS, 2 SHOES ‘«<* * * he Plantation Bitters have cured me of liver complaint, with which I was laid up pros-| trate and had to abandon my business. H. B. KINGSLEY, Cleveland, 0. * The Plantation Bitters have cured me SKATES, SKATES, SKATES, ADIES’, GENTS’ and BOYS’, a larg yariety aad VERY CHEAP BEER & SONS. “ce & —— ’ of a derangement of the kideys and the urinary or- Stoves, Stoves, Stoves, ee poroapasens oi FEW of the VICTORIA COAL COOK) STOVES, a know edge d to be the very best i gans that has distressed me for years. a charm. C.C. MOORE, 254 Broadway.” : t Swall Coa Also some very hand- And a variety of other Goods. ‘ wut u wail i Al ' i ery an | s : : : come Pa sieves for buth Coal a Weed.) All of which we are offering at New-Beprorp, Mass., Nov. 24, 1863. Scheol-houses and churches. ; 5 evs Staves he Dear Sir :—I have been afilicted many years With severe prostrating cramps in my limbs, cold fect and hands, and a general disordered system. PAIRS LADIES’ and MISSES The Leviathan Cook Stove for Wood Prices that, we think, to GENTS I com- BEER & SONS. | als me m AmNGs FAL Se aa : Physicians and medicines failed to relieve me. Some 30 KOY'S and CHILDREN'S | DELANY & BYRNE, iC give satisfaction to purchasers. | friends in New York, who were using Plantation } Charlottetown, 1%th December, 1864 Rubber Boots and Shoes, SS Bitters, prevailed upon me to try them. menced with a small wine-glassful after dinner. Feeling better by degrees, in a few days I was as- which, in order to meet the ‘* hacd | Beware of re-filled bottles. See that the cap has | ‘ . OF SUPERIOR QUALITY. S a tonisbed to find the coldness and cramps had en BEER & SONS. o c A oh tirely left me, and I could sleep the night through, | Charlottetown, Dee. 5, Is64 = ce - pe =| Which I had not done fur years. I feel like another | reg ao te ( f ) a“ | being. My appetite and strength have also greatly a ‘ Th Chea est House i ~: tnd rere improved by the use of the Plantation Bitters. C D : ae s > \ + a Xespectifully, JUDITH RUSSEL.” | T i a Le } \ ! o = me © If the ladies but knew what thousands of them | > c: =% ow ‘A are constantly relating to us, we candidly believe | ¥ a — C2 _> ats one half of the weakness, prostration and distress | i o~ i~ gi 3 o | experienced by them would vanish. James Marsh, [ y ; . } 2 ) a , . Iw ‘ Hy 4} i ES & VW LE ERS So _ # bes asm | Esq, of 159 West l4th St. N.Y, says, “be has} ; : z ne —{ t3 = three children, the first two are weak and puny, his | Respectfully announce that the ry} 2 . = ‘p. {<3 aA wife having been unable to nurse or attend them, | | = a on —_ but that she has taken Plantation Bitters for the | 2 R' we. © J ' 7 <2 —— [i last two years, and has a child now eighteen | iMI 0 i A i ON s as i ar mo ons = | months old which she has nursed and reared her- | FOR THE | -_ Ty rg 3 A | self, and both are hearty, saucyand well. The ar- | j = o » : eet , at ts ' ” be ‘ ; Sasa } = 6 2 i GG ticle is invaluable to mothers,” &c. Coming pens reves a . 7 a Such evidence might be continued for a volume | ae ~ a be - ¢ an CF The best evidence isto try them. They speak for | NOW COMPLETED ! - > uw Co i > ~ themselves. Persons of sedentary habits, troubled a = ~ — saz - with weakness, lassitude, palpitation of the heart, ; 4 ‘oe f : @ =: ; oe + — + lack of appetite, distress after eating, torpid liver, The Stock of Gl ODS — 1a co > enon tz “ constipation, diabetes, dc, will find speedy relief | . ‘ . } | se . = ’ : | hand is LA RG EK, and includes| a ~. Zz © through these bitters, | . ° - 4 a i : a ie eal almost every article which the oa pay - Every bottle for Rte and 7" out a i 7 ) = TInited States has a metai cap and green label | wants of the country demand,and| @ @ = ta wp \ er oS | e a = on | around the neck. m a" “= > ae — ow oe 2 oat ow r ose “eo x) . imes,’’ have be mark é ; not been mutilated. Any person pretending to sell | times, have been marked at 5 : : vie a : si netiieninnatiic! | t< Plantation Bitters in bulk or by the gallon is @ Exceedingly LOW RATES. we postor. We sell it only in bottles. ; ee \~u Sold by principal dealers throughout the habita- qv vals ictal i yb Sill hn : | — perry ble globe. We especially invite asa tad my New Grocery «and A. Lae rge stock | L1Q UO R STGRE. oF ft : MelIsaae's Old Stand, - - - Queen Street Ready - made Goods, | —_ | suitable for Winter—manufactured | P. HW. DRAKE & Co. New York. Oct. 10, 1864. 6m a 7 : PENH subscriber begs to acquaint his| Toronto papers of the 31st ult. contain the friends and the publie that he has opened the expressly to our order, and warranted . ° “3° . . to give satisfaction—io | among other articlenex BhipLorvstrom LONDON, | o¢ artillery. the whole under command o 7 | ?aincess oF Waxes from SHEDIAC, Commence) Li Col. de Salaberry, Deputy Adjutant lfrom BOSTON and HALIPAX, and Reraeven | Heol. or. vere.’ ’ : 2 : len NEW YORK : cenerad of Militia, reached Chateau Richer teefing Jackets, | trom NEW YORK :— ~ | Genexad of 3 , Feac ' > Pancheous RLM, Hhds HOLLAND GIN,} Jast night, where the riot mentioned in my Over - Coats, , Do = Aleohol, (95 Cases = DO DO | despatches of yesterday took place. News Pants, Vests, — proof ; _. paar, , wee pry. mtr rrr Arve sem preceded Y . ’ ’ r Hhds Coxnac Bram 7, ids Scotch Mait liia- f° sie sid = wl F ancy Flannel SHIR S, ‘ ’ it, and when the volurteers reac hed the parish | Cases do do ev, ‘a i Hhds Iris do Whiskey,| the chief delinquente had fled to the woods Heavy Kersey Drawers, | Port Wine, 1% rter and Ales in quarts | The officials,then, under the agar of - os ° [Sherry Wine, aud barrels, 1 ¢ oe seded with the militia ballot an Lasz.bs Wool and Merino Loren, prnenene Kt Barre!s choice EXTR \ FAMILY FLOUR, omnite anita — ‘ | PEA. Crushed and Brown SUGAR, MOLASSES, ‘completed it peaceably. The men were Vest s, 5 ants. ae. | ' quartered for the night in the village, and Boxes and quarter boxes RAISINS, Apples, Soup, &«, &e, Ke. this morning they arrested several persons for + | The above having all been purchased for! being concerned in the riotous display of ALSO, | Cash, can be sold at unusually iow prices. | yeotentag- Alter an examination by ee A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF MARTIN U'HALLORAN. | Maguire, of this city, who accompanied tne | ‘ ~e ; on were oht as prisoners Charlottetown, Dec. I2, Ls64. | volunteers, two men were broug : = Flannels, Wool Serges, a a PY =e /tu Quebec, and the others released. The DAWSON'S BUILDING | whole foree of volunteers returned to the city —— Pl. , ‘ eS er ecea ay Raney Flannel SHIRTINGS, "conser, or ciest GEOKCE AND |". eaten alg oti BLANKETS, | - ces. Cloths, Déeskins, WILLIAM H. WILSON | Fur Caps, Buffalo Robes, AS JUST OPENED A LARGE ‘uses Ginger Cordial, A Crown or GuLv or a Corovet of Pearls is joiee in a glorious head of hair — Nature’s own diadem and title to dignity— by the use of Mrs. STOCK OF 2 MUFFLERS, SCARFS : S$. A. ALLEN’s World’s Hair Restorer and Zylo- + ’ » Ae 79 ! i i : T% « ‘ il lie General Merchandise, balsamum, or Hair Dressing. Every Druggist IOs, JOMANS s,s | *—— CONSISTING IN PART 0F-——— sells them. W.R. Watson, Agent for P. E. 1. Gloves, &c. &c. LEDIES, DRESS GOODS, in all the latest ——aeet? j ‘ re ings. MWI styles; Coburgs, Alpacas, Lustres, Delaiues, A lecturer said: * Parents, you have _Queen Street, Dee. 19, Sebak ila abieeathd-scttamiy Wincies, French Merinos and Delaines. children, or if you have not, your daughters | becomes ny duty to correct as best I can. Cape Breton, and Yarmouth, and Shelbourne, | You say that ‘every mail brings us tidings| where they have far stronger local reasons 'and Orangemen in ail the chief cities of | vernment in Halifax, than Nova Scotia can Taz Vouunreer Rior ty Canapa.—The/ ang for the public weal. | Esqr, and offers for sale for Cash the following,| yolunteere and two gens of a field battery ‘aegis of the Catholic religion. On the con-| be able to calculate on their continuence.— the privilege of few to have, but any lady can re- heirloom oa the liliputian scale on which we now find it, instead of bartering it away for nothing by Confederation, as you say, we shall rather, in my opinion, add to its lustre and yalue, and ennoble and enrich it, and make it boundiessly grander and more se- cure for ourselves and those who are to come alter us. We obtained Responsible Govern- ment from the Mother Country, in whose Legislative Halls we had mot a single mem- ber to represent us. We are now, on the contrary, asked to transfer the rich and prized deposit to a place which will bea part only of our common country, where our voice must be heard, and where we will have It comes—they pass—each turning sail Is first a hope and then a bliss; Come back, aud dream a fairy tale That hath a close as sweet as this! pitied Sil WILL YOU LOVE WHEN I'M OLD? Will affection still enfold me, When the day of life dectines ; When old age, with ruthless vigor, Ploughs my face in furrcwed lines; When the eye forgets its seeing, And the hand forgets its skill, When the very words prove rebels To the mind’s once kingly will? City of London, or Liverpool, or Bristol can When the deaf ear, strained to listen, : ; ; and this is the great difference between o Scarcely hears the opening w ; i > : pening word ; taining from England what we had not, and And the unfathomed de epths of feeling | Are by no ewift current stirred ; make it more valuable and more available When fond memory like a limner, Many a line perspective casts— Confederation, therefore, instead of depriving Spreading out our by-gone pleasures us of the privileges of self-government, is the On the canvas of the past ? continuance. We are too small to be war- ranted in the hope of being able to hold it} always on the strength of our own resources ; and England, if not too weak, is certainly tov prudent and too cautious to risk her last shilling and her last man in acountry where, instead of a population of four millions, she will have scarcely one-tenth of that number to help her against the united power of a whole continent. To deny, therefore, the obvious advantages of Confederation you must first ;rove that union is not strength— that isngland, under the Heptarchy, and France under her feudal chiefs and barons, were greater, and stronger, and happier than they now are us the two greatest nations of the world. You must prove that Lucerne, and Geneva, and Berne, and the Grisons, would be equally strong and secure out of the Confederation of their sister cantons in Switzerland; and that Florida, and Texas, and Delaware, and Little Rhode Island in the neighboring States would be stronger if detached from each other. You must prove that the petty and miserable Republics of Central America, with all their Responsible | Government, and entire exemption from foreign control, are in any way benefitted by their smallness and isolation, and their re- luctance to coalesce and form one strong go- verrment as the only possible guarantee for the lives and liberties, and happiness of all. On the principle that the part is greater To the Editor of the (Halifax) Morning Chronicle.| than the whole, you must prove that the Sir,—In your leading article on Wednes- smaller the state, the greater, and stronger, day morning, | was sorry to find astatement | and happier the people; and that on your which is calculated to make an injurious im- | own principle the repeal of the Union at the pression on the public mind, and which it | present moment would be a signal benefit to When the leaping blood grows sluggish, And the tire of life has fled; | When the friends that now surround us, Half are numbered with the dead ; When the years appear to shorten, Scarcely leaving us a trace ; When old Time with bold approaches, Marks his diam on my face ? When our present hopes, all gathered, Lie like dead flowers on our track; When the whole of our existence Is one fearful looking back ; When each wasted hour, or talent, Scarcely measured now at all, Sends its witness back to haunt us, Like the writing on the wall? Whien the ready tongue is palsied, And the form is bowed with care; When our only hope is Heaven, And our only help is prayer ; When our idols, broken round us, Fall amid the ranks of men; Until death uplifts the curtain, Will thy love endure till then? meen ee el arene ARCHBISHOP CONNOLLY ON FEN. | IANISM AND CONFEDERATION. of the organization and arming of Fenians) for being dissatisfied with the central go- Canada. People are drilling in the churches | ever have for being united, with Ottawa as —arms are coming in from the States in cof-| its capital, and the boundless British terri- fins and disguised packages,’’ &e. Lf by all) tory beyond our borders. Prove all this if this you mean to impress your readers with | you can, and without referring to the finan- the belief, that the so-called Fenians, as a | cial and commercial views at all, which are secret society, are being drilled in Cathvlic| completely beyond and beside the question, Churches, as would appear from the context, | you will convert me and thousands like me 1 beg leave to say thut it is not only incor-| in Nova Scotia to the policy of having a large rect in fact, but according to the well known | and effective militia, and paying heavy taxes principles of the Catholic religion such an| for the debt already contracted, and the two vecurrence is simply impossible. In war| contemplated railroads, and we shall con- time, and in cases of great public emergency, | tentedly settle down according to your Catholic churches haye been often copverted scheme, with no hope within our natural into hospitals and armories, and perchance | life-time of having an Intercolonial Railroad | into drili-rooms, but it was in the daylight)| or more frequent iatercourse with our Sister and in the cause of patriotism and humanity, | Colonies and the yast country that extends) There is no in-| for thousands of miles along their border. stance on record, in ancient or modern times, | I yield to nd man in my heartfelt appre- ‘following account of the Volunteer riot | where Fenians or any other secret society | ciation of the blessings we all enjoy in this ; ’ al tt ig ( g » > . ; STORE formerly occupied by Donatp Meisaac, Chateau Richer: fhree companies 0!) found shelter or encouragement under the country, and [ ask for nothing more but to trary, however benevolentthe purpose of any | Sed hoc opus hic labor est. This is the diffi- |}such association, and however upright the | culty, and [ will say with all candor, the ,intentions of its members, the Cutholic| only difficulty for me and all others who | Church invariably condemns it on the broad! have everything to lose. No country situat- | principle that its very secrecy is crime and | ed as Nova Scotia now is, with a vast area ‘its own condemnation. If good, it is wicked! and a sparse population, can reasonably | to conceal it—the name of Him, whois Light) hope to maintain its independence for any jitself, should not be invoked to withhold it| considerable period. Unless we are to bea | from the eyes of mankind; and if bad, it is single exception, and an anomaly in the his- | doubly wicked as it is sacreligious to attempt | tory of nations, some change must come, ito have it hallowed by the religious obliga-| and come soon. Ina word Mr. Editor, as {tions of an oath. It is not true, therefure, you say, **Something must be done.”’ that Fenians or any other secret society ever; lastead of cursing like the boys in the up- were, are, or will be drilling in any Catholic | turned boat, and holding on uniil we are Church with the koowledge and consent of | fairly on the brink of the cataract, we must the Ecclesiastical authorities; and in the | at once begin to pray and strike out for the country which is yet, thank God, free, no! shore by all means, before we get too far such drilling or dewecration can take place down on the current. We must at this without the sanction and complicity of those | most critical moment inveke the Arbiter of who are severally responsible. Nations for wisdom, and abandoning in time and armed and hostile organizations in a) boldly, and af some risk, for some rock on neighbouring country be true, which 1 du|the nearest shore—some resting place of pot contradict, some or many of our Catho-| greater security. A cavalry raid visit from a fuller and fairer representation than the | | boast cf in their English House of Commons ; | H)- | transferring what we uow have, in order tu} If one half of what you say about Fenians! our perilous position, we must strike out} |favor of Confederation as cheeply and as jhonorably obtained as possible, but Con- federation at all hazards and at all reasunable | sacrifices. After the most mature consideration, and / all the arguments I have heard on both sides for the last month, these are my inmost con- |victions on the necessity and merits of a imeasure which alone, under Providence, /can secure to us social order and peace, and | rational liberty, and all the blessings we now }enjoy under the mildest Government aad the | hallowed institutions of the freest and happi- |est country in the world. 1 kave the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, + THOMAS L. CONNOLLY, Archbishop of Llalifax. ~ +m — INTERCOLONIAL UNION. for our own purposes, and by far more secure. /ELOQUNT SPEECH OF HON. MR. McGEE. Hon. Mr. McGee delivered a speech the oaly practical and reliable guarantee for its ‘other day at Compton, C. E., characterized | by that singular ability which always dis- tinguishes that gentleman's public efforts. We make room for some few extracts which will interest our readers :— THE DEFENCE QUESTION. * * * [ will take as an instance of the ir rationality of such an argument—the par- ticular, the greatest question remaining be- tween Canada and England: the question of defence. (Uear, hear.) The future genera) government has reserved to itself, saving the sovereignity of England, the contro] of our militia and military expenditure. Every one can see that a war between England and the United States would be largely a naval war, and such a naval war as the ocean has never before seen—(hear, hear)—a war that would interest and stir the heart of England even beyond the pitch that made her staid mer- chants astonish Lloyd's in 1813, with **three times three cheers,’’ when they heard that the Shannon had fought and captured, and carried the Chesapeake a prize into Halifax harbour. (Cheers.) Suppose, then, in the event of an invasion of our soil, either in Upper Canada or Lower Canada—suppose thata flotilla was needed on the St. Lawrence, or on Lake Ontario—that England could spare us the gunboats, but not the skilled seamen—would it be no advantage to Canada to have the 30,000 Atlantic sailors of the Lower Provinces to call upon for their con- tingent to such a service? No doubt the Empire could call upon them now, but un- less it restored the press-gang it could not make them come. But if by our Union we gave that valuable class of men the feeling of common country; if by the intercourse and commerce which must follow on our Union, that feeling grew to the strength of identity, we would have ail the help of that description—drawn from what my col- league, Mr. Cartier, calls the **maritime cle- ment’’--for the asking. (Cheers.) The Imperial power having conceled to all the North American Colonies Responsible Go- vernment, can only secure their co-opera- tion, even in military measures, through those several separate governments. (Hear, bear.) Every one ean see at a glance how much the Imperial power, and we ourselves, would gain in any emergency, if there were but two governments instead of six to be con- sulted—how much in promptitude, in de- | cision, in time, in unanimity, and effective- ness. I need not enlarge, | am sure, on so self-evident a propositivn as this; the man that will not see it, will not—that is all | need add on that score. (Laughter.) It has, indeed, been asserted by the sceptics in our work that all our theories of a closer ral government, in that Colony (Cheers.) Still another objector contends that the com- plement of Federalism is Republicanism, be- cause most of the States with which we are familiar as Federal States, are also Republics. But this objection 18 by no means unanswer- able. {tis true Switzerland is a Kepubliec in the sense of having no hereditary head, but the United Netherlands, when a Con- federacy, were not a Republic in that sense, {tc is true the United States and Mexico, and the Argentine federations were all Republican in basis and theory; but it is also true that the German Confederation is, and has always been, predominently monarchical. Thera might be half as many varieties of federal go- vernments as there are states or govern- mentsin the world; there may be aristo-~ cratic federations — like the Venetian — or moaarchical like the German — or Demo- cratic, Jike the United States; the only defi. nition which really covers the whole species of governments of this description, is, the political union of States of dissimilar size and resources, to secure this external protec- } tion and internal tranquility. These are | the two main objects of all the donfederacies of States, on whatever principles governed, locally or unitedly ; federalism is a political co-partnership, which may be, and has been formed by Monarchists, Aristocrats, and Democrats, Pagana and Cbristians, under the most variuus circamstances, and in all periods of human history. (Cheers.) There may be almost as many varieties of Con- federation as of companies, in private and social life; we say, with propriety too, the company at the hotel, or the compsny who own the hotel; but the orgnization of each is widely different. Our federation will be British ; i¢ will be of the fourth ciass of Lord Coke’s division, de mutui Auarili—for mutual aid. The only element in it not British is the sectional equality provided for in the Upper House, a principle which is known to be alike applicable to the Demo- cratic confederation next us, and the Monar- chical confederation of Germany. MEXICO I have referred to the assertion of some- what similar principles to our own now be- ing made in Mexico. It would be sirange if Canada could reach, by deliberation and forethought, the same results which Mexico has grasped at out of the miserable depths of her long anarehy. (Cheers) We are not yet informed whether the new Emperor de- signs to consolidate his Provinces, or to leave them their organizations; but this | know, that with all the immense natural advan- tages of Mexico, I should, for my part, rather take my chance for the permanent establishment of a free monarchy in the North than io Mexico. (Cheers.) We have already solved for ourselves one great pro- blem—the legal relation of Church and State—which 1s still before the ralers of Mexico. If we have but half the population, we have three times the numver of men of pure European race that Mexico has; and while Lown that L wish every success to the Mexican Empire, under the auspices of France, I have, I confess, still stronger hopes for the successful establishment of the free kingdom of Canada, under the auspices of Great Britain. (UCheers.) “For fiery, fierce and fickle is the South; But loving, dark and tender is the North.” BRITISH AMERICAN FEDERALISM ESSENTIALLY CONSERVATIVE. AND CANADA, We have also solyved—so far as the late Conference could do so—for these Provinces —the relation of the Crown to the people — the sphere of the prerogative, and the sphere of the suffrage. We have preserved every British principle now in use among us,and we have recovered one or two that were well nigh lost ; we have been especially careful not | commercial intercourse are chimerical, and | yet, oddiy enough, there aro the very same people who think a commercial union would ‘*- secure all the benefits ’* of this chimerical prospect. (Laughter.) Well, I will not ineet assertion by assertion, but I will an- |swer a conjecture by a fact. At the very | time the member for Hochelaga was issuing his rather inconsistent declaration against a political union, as among other reasons, wholly unprofitable in a commercial point of view —and in favor of a commercial union as all that was to be desired in itseli—at that moment, the first steamsaip, laden with breadstuffs, direct from Montreal to New- foundland, was dropping down the St. Law- rence, as a result of the partial and brief in- tercourse brought about between the two communities through our conference at Quebec! That isa tact not very important in itself, perhaps, but very indicative of the | possible usefulne-s ef Union in a commercial |puint of view! (Cheers.) I may mention another fact: while we were lying in Charlot lic churches, with or without our consent,| our Fenian friends on horseback, through | tetown harbour last September, our attention may be turned iato dgrill-rooms—but if I| the plains of Canada, and the fertile valleys | was called to the arrival of a fine sea-going know anything of the Catholic body in this of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, may | steamship—one of the regular line between country, | youeh for it, they will never be | cost more in a sigle week than Confederation | Bos on and Prince Edward Island. The used for the paryosee of pretended loyalists | for the next filty years, and if we are to be-| Boston people find the trade of that rich little and sympatiizers, or the foreigp foe, and | lieve you, where is the security even at the | Island worth cultivating, and they do it; much less for the Fenian Brotherhood gn| present moment against such a disaster.|they know where there is produce and their quixotic expedition, unless, indeed, it} Without the whole power of the Mother) where there is a market, and they establish be to help them in finding and filling up| Country by land and sea, and the conevn-|a line of steamers to run there; yet I am Cash Provision Store ! Grey, White, Striped aud Printed COPTONS. SHIRTINGS, Tickings, Osnaburge, Drills, Jeane, ‘Laue Sheetings iu Grey aud White. W.S SMITH, Great George Street. White, Red, Blue, and Fancy Broad Cioths, Dueskins, Tweeds, &¢., &e. Superior Meltons, very cheap; Mantle Cloths, FLANNELS; | | Mantilea, and Ready-made CLOTHING. FLOUR, TEAS, FEATHERS, Hats, Shawis, Boagets, Gloves, WINES, | Hosiery, &e., &e. SPIRITS, | HARDWARE, Shoyela, Hoes, Plough Mounting, and GENERAL GROCERIES. Weavers’ Reeds, Nails, gec., dc. TABLE CUTLERY, Sheath Koives, Powder, Shot, Caps, Blister Steel, &e., &e. BOOTS and SHOES, Ladies’ Wellington RUB- BERS, Rubber Shoes, &e., &c. GROCERIES; TEA, superior quality ; Sugar, Molasses, Raisins, Tobacco, &c., &e. HOOP SKIRTS, iv great variety. N. B—W.S.S. would cal! the attention of Re tai) Dealers to his Stoek of Wines, Spirits, &c. Ch town, May 23, 1864 isl & rw tf WATCHES and JEWELLERY. UST RECEIVED from ENGLAND, of best quality, and for eale at a low price— Horizontal Watches in Silver Cases, W.H. W. begs to call special attention to his 4 boies jewelled,....,+.<<<++- £310 0 Steck of FURS, imported direct from the Do. in Bunting Cases...., ...,-.--- 400 Montreal Factory, consisting of— Ecyglish Levers,...... ee wu iD 10 BOAS, iu Mountain Martin, Stone Martin, Fitch, Mock Fitch, Lustred, Opossu.n and Minesota. Watch Chains and Keys, Finger Rings, Steel Ear A few Princess Royal BOAS, very superwr Ringsend Brooches, Gents’ Pins in great vuriety, y CAPS, io Hair Otter, Plucked Otter, Gre A. PURCHASE, Watchmaker, ae Saeee re or, Grey 5: Charlottetown, Oct. 3}, 1864. Plushed Alfred, and a lut of otber styles. Dawson's Buildings, Nov. 7, 1864, mardon’s Corner. way bave.” those much talked of and mystrious coffins | —— HoLLowAy's OINTMENT AND PiL_s.—Hope | their muskets are to be supplied. | for all. —W hatever their eteeepe. “. eres It balt what you say be true, (although I | despair of being cured We thes papel ae ce rie ,am uo politician), on the strength of your | | inestimable remedies. tel - ne dise ne | own argument, I say the sooner we are seatiat internal or external, spontaneously, er the result | derated the better. If of violence; ita.cure be possible, Holloway’s we- | federated the better. If the maxi be ani- | dicaments will eect jt, ‘fhe severity or duration | versully admitted taut union is strength, no | of the malady is no bar to the successful influ-| time is to be lost, fur in your hypothesis we | ence exerted by these twin medicines, which | will at oace require all the elements of | cleanse, purify, and invigorate every solid and | strength at our command, and (may a kind fluid in the body, and completely renovate the Providence forbid) perbaps more too. digestion. They render every organ ot ee To leave Upper and Lower Canada and | healthy. These admirable autidotes to disease | now Brenswick to their fate, as you pro- | act immediately ov the absorbent system, lungs, |- See all to ot i art, and circulation, whereby thax iovarieny adoleet ais lee = too poe corer, ver and vigour to all the natura fifty mel men, shal ahiaiemitet-entne | thigh taiji tish army of thirty or forty thousand, 18 Tue Ixrant’s FRienp. — Mrs. Wixstow’s | precisely what an American or our worst | SOOTHING SYRUP is the best and surest rewedy enemy would suggest if & War were to com-. | in the world for all diseases of children, such as, Mmence Saieaal a a uotil Upper and | teething, wind colie, &e. It corrects acidity of the a Canada a - eal ranewick be ae +h, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, | pea ey Sas ates er; wait until we | emete: Fe ‘ shail have detached three millions of fellow health and comfort to mother and child. Perfectly subjecte—good tee silk Seeneenciinem baie ale) | gafe in all cases, as millions of mothers can testify. legiance to Britain, and added them to the : - 5 High Poa ag be Lees. Fon, OED pumberless hordes of the enemy already tration in a single hand of all the strength of | sure they sell nothing to the Islanders. whicl | from which, according to you, Mr. Editor,| British America, our condition is seen at a! we, at third the distance, could not just as| giance. Whenever the present difficulties) well supply them with, from Quebee or will terminate -- and who can tell the mo-| Montreal. (Cheers) I repeat, however, ment ?—we will be at the mercy of var [ will not argue so plain a point, with Pro- neighbors ; and victgrivus or otherwise, they | vinces like ours, a8 Chat union is strength, is will be eminently a military people, and | reputauion, is credit, is security. 1 will just with all their apparent indifference about | give one other illustration on this last head, annexing this country, and al! the friendly and then | will drop the topic where it is: feelings that may be talked, they will have! the security for peace which a large political the power to strike when they please, and | organizition has over @ small one, lies not |this is precisely the kernel and the ovly only in its greater interests and disposable touch point of the whole question. No na-|force but in this other consideration, tion ever had the power oi conquest that did that the aggressor must risk or lose the not use it, or abuse it, at the very first fa-| benefit of much larger transactions, in at- vorable oppurtunity. | tackiog w larger than in assailing a smaller All that is said of the magnanimity and State. If, for example, in our system of de- forbearance of mizhty nations, can be ex-| fence—in addition to all the Imperial Go- plained on the principle of sheer expediency, | vernment could do for us—if we could, by as the world knows. The whole face of our joint representative action, be sure to Europe has been changed, and the Dynasties shut up the river St. Jobn on the people of of many hundred years have been swept Maine—to exclude from the gulf the fish- away within our own time on the principles ermen of Massectiusetts—to withhold from of might alone~—the oldest, the strongest, the hearths and furnaces of New England and as some would have it, the most sacred the eval of Cape Breton—po man can ques- of titles. The thirteen original States of tion but that we would wield several ad- America, with al) their professions of self- ditional means of defence, pot pow at the to trench on the prerogative of the Crown, as to the powers, rank, or income of its fu- ture representative on this continent; as to 'the dignity of the office, or to the style and title ot the future kingdom or viceroyalty, or by whatever name it may be Her Majes- ty’s pleasure to designate hereafter her do- minions on this continent. (Cheers). Next to the United States we have the most extend- ed suffrage in the new World; some think | quite too far extended ; but in our state of society, | do not see how that is to be avoid. |ed, in the selection, at least, of the tax-im- |pusing House of Parliament. We have, | besides, restored to the Crown one of its es- |sential attributes when, as the fountain of honor, we leave to the Sovereign the confer- | mation of the second, the smaller and more Conservative chamber, and we preserved for the Crown its other great attribute, as the fountain of justice, by retaining its right to appoint the Judgesf{—of course upon the ad- i vice of the Constitutional Councillors of the | Queen in this country, who are in turn res- | posible to Parliament and the people for | their advice and appointments. (Cheers). | We have provided also, in our new arrange- | ments, that the tenure of all officers shall be 'good behavior, in contradistinction to the ‘spoils, principle’? of our next neighbours. In all these respects we have built on the | old foundations, in the spirit of the old wis- dom, and we have faith, therefore, that our work will stand. j } j (Loud cheers). DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY. | Naturally, gentlemen, we cannot expect ‘that our course will be all plain sailing. We ! shail have our difficulties, as all States have |had; and this brings me to refer to the | powers remaining in ne of the lo- leal jegislatures. The difference of language | between the majority of Lower Canada and | the majority of the whole anion is a diffical- ty; but it isa difficulty which almost every | Other nation has had ard has solved; in Bel- 'gium they have at least two languages; in | Switzerland they bad three chief langaages, ‘German, French, and [talian; the federal form of Goverament—the compromise be- |tween great States and small—seems pecu- liarly adapted to conciliate difficulties of thie description, and to keep politically together men of different origins and ia e | (Hear, hear) I confess, I have less anxiety on this score than | have on another—the roper protection of the minority, in origin Sod ectighets in Upper and Lower Canale, respectively. [Hear hear]. On this point there is, no doubt, @ gouvd deal of natura, anxiety felt in the Townships, as thgates. srl Ta ee a Se 7 Bt 4 a Py é