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     VOL. 22. 
     
    
   
   
    
     TEMPERANCE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. 
     
    

    
     Rev. Mr. NAIIRAWAV in seconding the first Resolution said. 
     
     Mr. Chairman. Ladies rind Gentlemen: The able speech of the 
     
     never of the Resolution render: it unnecessary for iiie to detain 
     
     you by any lengthened reirrarke. 'l‘he liesolution asserts. that the 
     
     common use of intoxicating liquor: is a tremendous evil. No asser- 
     
     tion can be more readily deiiioiisiriible. lnnuineriilile facts, prove that 
     
     the ordinary use of those maddening drinks, dethrom-s the reason, 
     
     eltinguielies the generous emotion: of the soul, benumbs the cori- 
     
     scienco. God‘: vicegerent in the human breast, degrades man 
     
     below the level of the beasts thtit perish, delivering him up to the 
     
     uncontrolled tyranny of the treat passions. and impel: him to 
     
     that self-murder. which shuts him out ofthe kingdom of God. Nor 
     
     do the result: of those destructive draught: terminate with the user. 
     
     He cannot. if he would, suffer alone. His pzirricidal vice brings 
     
     the grey hair: of his parents with sorrow to the grave; breaks and 
     
     crashes the food heart ofthe wife of his youth, and bequeath: ii le- 
     
     gacy of pauperism and uiitaught ruggedness to his much suffering 
     
     country. And. sir. when you carry your investigations beyond the 
     
    

    
     ecincte of the drunkard’s woe-stricken domestic circle, you b - 
     
     libld drunkenness paralyzing the industrial nerve of the land. filling 
     
     the dungeons with the condemned and furnishing the scaffold with 
     
     victims. Without doubt, in all landii, the coiiiirion use of intoxicat- 
     
     ing liquors is ri trainendous evil—everywln-.re inuliiplying poverty 
     
     and crime. ini-aer and taxation. 'l‘his evil. the Resolution says, 
     
     must be iibolishe . You have been iitierriptiii it for years. 
     
     have effei-tr-d much. but the evil is far. iiiimeiiauriibly far, from 
     
     being abolished. What do you purpose to do now .’ You have, 
     
     sir, reclaimed irtanv forlorn and fallen ones liy your sympathy and 
     
     truth. your persuasion and pledges; but there are many. w ioiii you 
     
     cannot save b such means. You have preserved ii.yri.-ids. of the 
     
     noble youth of the land from the coritaiiiiniition of the iiifectiou: evil, 
     
     but an equal number of equal promise have been strickeii down before 
     
     your eyes by the terrilile plague. You have induced many that were 
     
     engaged in the ianufacture and sale, to abandon a triillic fraught with 
     
     indescribable woe to the best interest: ofthe huirian faiiiily—biit lllr‘ 
     
     river of death still overflows all its b:nks—l fountain of iiii-. ._i 
     
     slvtrvs no sign of exhaustion—the fires of "ophet still blaze with 
     
     cud iniiiiehoed fury. W'liat is next to be done.’ Sir. you must still 
     
     ply your logic. array your facts. cnfiirce your appeals, and cast the 
     
     warm riiantle of your eyrnpatliy. over the treiiililing and sinking 
     
     hopes of your perisliirig brother man—brit you must also arouse 
     
     society in its collective capacity. you ttiust invoke the iriiijo-sty of the 
     
     law—-vou uiust summon to your aid the ariit of legislative I\V('l’. 
     
     Why ‘should not this be done .’ Are not all those aiair-ii.i inte- 
     
     rerits, which it is the province and duty of civil government to 
     
     conserve, threatened with utter ruin liy that trarlic. without which 
     
     intemperarico could not exist for an hour. I: net the protection of 
     
     life and propert a principal design of the inflfiion of Civil Go- 
     
     verrtmsntsl Km not both property and life destroyed to an extent 
     
     perfectly heart-reading. by the use of intoxicating liquors.’ If the 
     
     manufacture and sale of those drinks were prohibited by law, the 
     
     prohibition would be just and wholly in ccordance with the proper 
     
     end: ofsecular government I If societ has the right to stiy. thou 
     
     shah not kill thy fellow-man with swor and pistol. with arsenic or 
     
     opium. has it not the same right to commend, thou shalt not eliiy 
     
     him with gin or briindy, with ru:ii or whiske ' ? Imagine, Sir. that 
     
     almost within the period of each month in t is Town or in some 
     
     of this Island, the body—-the murdered y of: country- 
     
     man should be foeifl—scarcely a month without a new victirii-— 
     
     uow drawn from the her circles. and now dragged from the 
     
     huinbler wallte oflife, but all foull slain—wiih what horror would 
     
     not tlis whole community stand ag at? Every resource of legis- 
     
     lation. of justice. of executive power and private zeal would com- 
     
     bine to unveil the mysteries. and punish the perpetrators of such 
     
     dreadful crimes. Suppose inoreaver. that these bodies. as in the 
     
     unhappy Webster case. were all cruelly cut and mangled and dis- 
     
     membered. as if in very wuntcnness of cold-blooded ferocity. the 
     
     horror of the public sentiment would be intensified to an sroezirrg 
     
     degree. Now. Btr. the fact is stronger than the fiction. In this 
     
     Colony. there have been many untimely deaths——miiny more are 
     
     likely to ensue, and yet. lrocnuue there is no sign of pistol or dag- 
     
     ger wounds. no symptom of arsenic. or opium, or prussic acid, or 
     
     poisons of kindred nrime—-societ must triake no iiiquisition for 
     
     blood—tske no leg:il nccountiibility upon the prime agents of this 
     
     fearful slaughter-—and take no effectual step to prevent the fI‘[M'll° 
     
     tion of such soul-harrowing deeds ! This is the old diictriuc——tlic 
     
     ancient superstition. which is about to be exploded forever. But. 
     
     Sir. the niangling in this case takes place before deritli—iiot when 
     
     the lifeless li--dy is insciiaible to indignity an :tin. Yes. Sir, be- 
     
     fore the body is dead. the brain and heart an soul are stretched 
     
     upon the rack-—tlirougli long years, the mind and heart are rriangletl 
     
     and tortured with agony and despair. Every drunkard feels  
     
     Every man that makes his fellow-iiian ii diunkurd ought to know it. 
     
     and that he is in the sight of out raged liutiiniiity and humanity‘: God, 
     
     accountable for it all. rid the coiriinunity, through its civil go- 
     
     vernment must do its utmost to destroy a traffic which, vairipire- 
     
     like, has been draining the life-blood of the unconscious sleeper. 
     
     It is in vain. to reiterate the old theory of inornl ituasion. The un- 
     
     happy siictim of lnteniperaacc. when totally enslaved. is pow- 
     
     erless for resistance in the larger proportion of cases. Ile 
     
     tremble: at the fate which threatens him. He shudders 
     
     on the brink ofthe hell which yawn: at his feet—but the fas- 
     
     cination of the serpent. which wreatltes the cup of sorcery, draws 
     
     Iiim on. From the ruins and places of his nature there come: forth 
     
     the despairing wail of his piteous iiiisery. It must wake from it: 
     
     lethargy the eluinbering people. The cup of riboriiiiiation: must be 
     
     broken by the strong liaiiil. and the serpent‘: head crushed by the 
     
     ririghly heel ofavengiiig Law. 
     
    

    
     Car-rarir Giigusau. R. N., moved the second Resolution. as 
     
     given in our last. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Chnirriian—:aid lie—lf there is any subject on which I 
     
     should wish to speak well and clearly. it would be the impor- 
     
     t:nt'subjsct of this Resolution. You have heard many good reason: 
     
     for temperance. and each class of hearers in this room have been 
     
     severally addressed, exhorted nod persua I am sorry. that the 
     
     consideration of this and kindred Resolutions. has not an equally 
     
     large and crowded audience. as was observable in this Hull yester- 
     
     day evening. at the Jews’ meeting. Yet it is for a subject iiitiiiiiite- 
     
     I rieeted with religion and our social udvunceritcnt.—-u subject 
     
     dyeserviiig the warmest interest of every one, who is desirous of see- 
     
     ing his fellow nraii freed from the continued dangers and miseries 
     
     arising from inteniperance. How is this-—alivo to the claiiris of the 
     
     Jews. aml blind to the claims of 'I‘einpersnce—the upper—crust of 
     
     eociety. as my friend Mr. Arbuckle would say. the educated. the 
     
     noble. the high-born, the genteel stand a oof from us. now 
     
     there is more than ordinary attraction elsewhere this evening; but 
     
     I know also. that the principal obstacle to their attendance is. the 
     
     ordinary custom of what is called societ . we are 
     
     brought up too much in the atmosphere of drink. to realise the 
     
     burnt ofdrinlting wine. Our father‘: knee and : sip at our father‘: 
     
    

    
     hiss. belong to the-recollections of earliest childhood. and lon 
     
     f'ore we have arrived at man’: estate. the dririlting of two or three 
     
     glasses sf wine daily has been fl confirmed _habit. even with our 
     
     most eliuate and refined ‘otrug ladies. Let me say. moreover. 
     
     that the habit of Ilperfltlotre living. of tarrying long at the dinner 
     
     table. of evening partieb and hot suppers. so coiiiirion, as not to be 
     
     considered incorrect or improper. all coiiiliino to make the genteel. 
     
     par excellence. sliuri all temperance associiitioris. We want. I am 
     
     convinced. as much a reforniatioa in high life. as in low life; but at 
     
     pausent. we may look in vain for so great a g again. I 
     
     must say. tint for the improvement. we restupoii the masses. Yes 
     
     we rest upon those principally. who engaged in life's sharp strug- 
     
     gle for ai'li:‘teria sail supprat efthsvzelves apdTfuiiiilies, feel ex- 
     
     riinenta y, w great a I rei it 0 sin .rance rinci- 
     
     lples would bring them. Yee,of Er greate'r conseqireiibe is thep'l‘em- 
     
     entice Reform in the welfare of the ruueeee. I In any measure be- 
     
     E ‘ Put suit the druukard’s'cep. and close the 
     
     drain-shops. and we shall seen use our eoeritryuieneat ofdebt and 
     
     free indeed. I could enlarge ispori this subject; bet I mu; rgmgm. 
     
     bar. I have now to coniirisnd t tsrins af.th'I flemlstliia to our 
     
     notice. It is priiufirl to express an opinion. as uoulsiiiriarory the 
     
     ti-sluts srtlsin spirits. tisitniiti isrriiih; sad I would this hope. 
     
     itat the I expression of eosviotioa. may lead thus: 
     
     this in . to consider their position. and perhaps. to feel their si- 
     
     t ‘that flcbththneebl  
     
     by rsuislslrig is this s-flay-sat. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In secoriding the Resolution. Rev. Mr. Raise observed. that he 
     
     felt the iiiiportiince ofsa ing just what should be said. and not say- 
     
     ing uny thing which oug t not to be sai u had seen the three 
     
    

    
     esolutions. 'I‘liey armed a climax. The first represents the 
     
     evils of the common use of intoxicating Liquors. and our deteririi- 
     
     niition to sbolis it. The second refers to the trsfiic. and the 
     
     third, to the mean: by which this abolition is to be effected. Ifthe 
     
     first expressed a truth. ~the next two followed as a lIl’lI.l.Bf of course. 
     
     Aiidwhu could sdequatelyprirtray the evils resulting from Ardent 
     
     Spirits.’ ls poverty an evil.’ 'I‘ iey produce and they aggravate 
     
     ls_:iclmess an evil.’ they produce and they aggravate 
     
     I: tirsanity an evil? they produce and they aggravate iii- 
     
     suuity. What the poet says of Sin, iniiy be applied with scarcely 
     
     any modification to uni. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ \Vhat havoc hast thou made. foul monster. " Rum," 
     
     Greatest and worst of ills! The fruitful parent 
     
     Of woes of all dimension: ! 
     
     All noxious thing ! 
     
    

    
     Of vilcat nature ! Other sorts of evil: 
     
    

    
     Are kindly circuinscribeil and have their bounds, 
     
     The fierce volcano from his burnin-_-, entrails. 
     
     That belchee molten stone and globe: of fire. 
     
     Involved in pitchy clouds of smoke and stench. 
     
     Mars the adjacent fields for some league: round 
     
     And there it stops. The big swollen inundation, 
     
     Of mischief more diffusive. ravin loud. 
     
    

    
     Buries wltole tracts ofcoontry. threatening more. 
     
     But that too has its shore. it cannot pass, 
     
    

    
     More dreadful far than these. " llutn " has laid waste. 
     
     Not here and there a villiige, but it war ii ! - 
     
     Blasting tlie foodfiil grain. the loaded branches, 
     
     Arid iiiarking all orig its way with ruin ! 
     
    

    
     ccursed thing ! 0 where shall fancy find 
     
    

    
     A proper name to cull thee by. expressive 
     
    

    
     Of all thy horrors.’ l’i'egiiniit woinh of ills! 
     
    

    
     Of temper so transcendently rnaligii. 
     
    

    
     'I‘h:it toads nnd serpents of most deadly kind, 
     
     Compared to thee are harmless. Sicknessee 
     
    

    
     Of every size and symptom; racking pain: 
     
    

    
     And blueet plagues are thine. See now the fiend 
     
     Profusely scatter: the contagion ronii .’ 
     
    

    
     Whilst deep-mouthed slaughter bellowing at her heels, 
     
     \Vndt-.s deep in blood new spilt; yet for to-morrow 
     
     Shapes out new work of great unconiiiiori during. 
     
     Arid iuly pines till the dread bloiv is struck." 
     
    

    
     The speaker went on to show, thattbe killing of people by giving 
     
     llIl'lII poison. in the shape of Ardent Spirits. was as really itiurder. 
     
     as killing them in any 0ll|t'I‘ way. and indeed, tiiurder of the worst 
     
    

    
     That robbing people of their money. by giving them that 
     
     ivliicli was itiftiiitel worse than nothing in return, was robber of 
     
     the worst kind. '1' e aboiiiiniible traffic. can only be defended’ by 
     
     the s:inte arguments that would defend smuggling. stealing, robbery 
     
     and piracy, upon the hi h seas. It ought not to be endured for a 
     
     moment. Vhat was the Slave trade compared with it. Scitrcel 
     
     worth it thought. The voice of suffering humatiity riiust be lieardl: 
     
     'l'lte oppressed and the indignant comirruity then should rise in their 
     
     great strength, and throw off this incubus. Heaven speed the day ! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Itcgtetatttir iatgccrulngu. 
     
     House or ASSEMBLY. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wurnvusrunr I8th. 
     
     AFTERNOON Sl'l"I‘ING. 
     
     Hnusi: IN (,'o.\i.vii1-rein cs ~riii: REPDIIT "or rii: Sncisr. 
     
     Coiiuirrse, APPOINTED 1-o Rirroar on Eoucntou. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Continued) 
     
     Mr. HAVILAND in the Chair. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. I\I0O_‘lF.Y was satisfied with the amount of 9:. 2d. on the 
     
     ivildcrness lands. It was quite enough, as the Proprietors received 
     
     no benefit from tlinse lands ; an 6s. ( . was quite as much as the 
     
     tenant could p.'i_v.tilt iugh it was true his children. if he was blessed 
     
     with any. would, no doubt. receive some benefit frnin it. But how 
     
     min ' a poor man was there in the Island who never saw the face 
     
     of his own child. and who. in pll probability. never would; and 
     
     still he would have to pay the tax of lis. 8d. for the education of his 
     
     neighbor's child ! And, with all this .-tnring us in the farce. are we 
     
     going to let it class of gentlemen get ofi' Scot-free tvlru. most of all. 
     
     were justly liable to a tax for the education of their tenants‘ cliild- 
     
     ren. These gentlemen were driving about. through the streets of 
     
     London and elrcwliere. a continual drain upon the olony. Ab- 
     
     sentceisiri was the brine of all countries ; and yet we must lot our 
     
     abseiiteo proprietors enjoy all these privileges without interfering 
     
     with their lniids in any shape or form. But, Sir, those days were 
     
     gone by. never to return a trio. he hoped. If thos gentry were 
     
     not willing to do that whit: they ought to do, it w s the dirty of 
     
     the Representatives of the people to couipcl them. His aiiiendirrciit 
     
     was founded in justice. 'l‘ake Lot 34, for instance. There was not 
     
     a more respcctalile class of to-iiantry in the Island, than they who 
     
     were settled on that Lot. They paid their rents regularly ; and 
     
     was he to be told. that we were not to compel the Messrs. Montgo- 
     
     mery to contribute towards the education oftheir tenants’ children? 
     
     He might be told. that to endeavor to make them do so would litter- 
     
     fere with the passing of the Faliiczition Bill. But. iftliere were good 
     
     rurlsurll for entertaining such a fr-.iir.it was time for them to cease legis- 
     
     lating on any matter connected with the lands, unless it should be for 
     
     tliepliicing of an additional buithen upon the tenrintry ; and, l'or such it 
     
     proposal, they could tind advocates enough. But should it be pro- 
     
     posed to meddle with the proprietors. the were to have all Downing 
     
     Street about their ears. Ilow frighten some hon. members were 
     
     of Earl Grey and the Proprietors. Yes. the Pro rietors had access 
     
     to the ear of the noble Secretary no doubt ; but et the Government 
     
     act as they ought to do, and what would they ltavo to fear? The 
     
     Country had sustained them well. 'I‘here never had been a Go- 
     
     verniiii-nt in any of the Colonies supported in the same way lll which 
     
     they ltiid been sustained. Several of the members of (iovernriieiit 
     
     had accepted Office under the new system ; and lied they not, in 
     
     some iiistaiiceit. been returned by it show of liaiids.’ And others of 
     
     them had been supported by the tensntry. while the Proprietor’: 
     
     A rent, in one case, was the opposing candidate. Did not the people 
     
     tliiuk. when they were doing so. that their condition would be but- 
     
     tered it those whom they were instrumental in raising.’ They did. 
     
     Sir. flye (Mr. Mooney) knew they did. Ilut that they had been 
     
     deceived and mistaken in their opinion: was quite plain. when it 
     
     was found that the Gnveriimeiit were afraid o imposing ii tax of 
     
     one lialf-penny an acre on the rented lands of the proprietors. ‘ 
     
     would be an instructive son to the tensntry of the Island ; and it 
     
     would give liiiiiselfa great deal of peace ; for he was known by the 
     
     English, Irish. and Scotch. aye. and by the I-‘rencli too, and, when 
     
     he met with any of them their question was. “ Mr. Mooney what 
     
     are you doing for us?" He would now have to answer. " Nothing, 
     
     unluae tcacliiiig you all for nothing : givmg you free education, by 
     
     imposing a tax upon our land. and on your tea. molasses. and 
     
     sugsr." If we are to rave free education. let as have funds at our 
     
     disposal, that it may be of seine service to the people; but the 
     
    

    
     ropoued tax will not half pay the master: that are now etrrplo ed. 
     
     a I8-I8. he saw. by the Census. the number of rhildren under six- 
     
     teen years of age was 29,732; and taking the one-half of that 
     
     number as a criterion to go by. (which considered a just propor. 
     
     tion,) allowing 50 scliolnrs to each school. there would be required 
     
     207 schoolitiastora ; and to allow escli of these £50 a year, would 
     
    
   
   
    
     require an annual expenditure, for the urposes of ucutioo, of 
     
     12” Were they prepared to raise t t amount? They were 
     
     not. by the fliruey _msa:ure proposed by the Report. Let them 
     
    
   
   
    
     impose a tax as his amendment proposed; let them draw from 
     
     savor’ available source. to place the s stem u n u selficientl 
     
     extensive and firm basis ; let them give t it proceeds of the Fishery 
     
     Reserves for tho sup rt of general education ; let them svids for 
     
     the support of the system. as he proposed ; arid. inste of delud- 
     
     ing, and. at the same time. increasing the burtheu: of the people, 
     
     they would confer a real sad lusting» benefit upon them. 
     
     Mr. A E8 would support the seisadinsrit of the 
     
     ho. member for the second Distrist sf Been’: Cossty Mr. 
     
     |uspsy).bnsms it was based 0: inequitable prlaeipls vr ieli 
     
    
   
   
    
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     CHARLOTTET0ll’N,PR.INCE EDWARD ISLAND, TUESDAY, lI'ARCH.l6, 1852. 
     
    
   
   
    
     recognises the liability of all persons. possessed of rsteable pro- 
     
     perty. to be taxed for the support of a public measure which we 
     
     extend advantages of the highest character to all. If the Bill for 
     
     the Encouragement of Education were to be introduced, in pur- 
     
     suance of the recommendation contained in the Report. so far as 
     
     respeoted the extent of the land tax. it would be a direct violation 
     
     of that equitable princi le ; because. whilst it would impose a tax 
     
     upon the wilderness an unproductive laud: ofthe Proprietors. and 
     
     also upon all leasehold and other occupants land. it would allow 
     
     a class of men. who drew liir e income: from their estates in this 
     
     Island. to escape Scot-free. t would. indeed. be a positive injus- 
     
     tice to the people to allow absentee proprietors. who drew from the 
     
     Island, annually. rent: to an aiiioant which exceeded our annual 
     
     exporuttions. to be exempt from bearing is due share of the general 
     
     burtlren intended to be imposed for the support of the contemplated 
     
     free educational system- 
     
    

    
     Hon. Mr. POPE. The prqpiosed amendment, if carried into 
     
     efliict. would amount to a con cation of the estate: of the Pro- 
     
     prietors. lie was far from being influenced by any undue feeling 
     
     to favor of the Proprietors ; but he would ask any reasonable person 
     
     to say. whether~a tax of 9:. 2d. the hundred acres, upon their 
     
     wilderneu lands, was not a heavy iui ition. Beside: Lot 84. 
     
     Sir James Montgomery had a very extensive estate of wilderness 
     
     land. on which. under the operation of the contemplated Act. in 
     
     connexion with the existing Land Assessment Act. he would be 
     
     subjected to the payriient of a tax of 9:. 2d. per I00 acres. The 
     
     existing penal tax upon the wilderness lands of the great Proprietors 
     
     paused very heavily upon them in some instances. "ak 
     
    

    
     orrell Estate: for instance. from which. notwithstanding the num- 
     
     ber of tenants upon them. the nizinsgers, he liiid been iiiI'ormed by 
     
     theiiiselves, could not. at present, raise as much as would enable 
     
     tlieiii to pay the land assessment ; and they had, consequently. been 
     
     obliged to draw upon the proprietor ut home for the deficiency. 
     
     any one question. more than another. required to be deliberated 
     
     upon, by the Lo-gisliiture. with iitinds entirely divested of all party 
     
     feelings. it was the all-important one of education; and nothing 
     
     ought to be mixed up with it which could be at all likely to militate 
     
     against its usefulness. or to prevent its receiving the Royal Assent. 
     
     He was, therefore, decidedly opposed to the proposed amendment; 
     
     for he was convinced that its adoption would call forth so uruch 
     
     hostilitv. to the general measure. on the ' as 
     
     might. for a time. completely defeat the object of the Asjy. 
     
     with respect to it. But, although he argued against the propeeition 
     
     of the hon. member (Mr. Mooney.) as if it were practicable to 
     
     carry such a measure into effect. he felt persuaded, however. that 
     
     it would require the exercise of much more ingenuit . than he be- 
     
     lieved liiin to he possessed of. to prepare uucli a ill, as would 
     
     render the measure effective in direct contravention. us it would 
     
     be. of the covenants and conditions of the Lease: granted by the 
     
     Proprietors. Iliid its object been to compel the registration of the 
     
     original Grants. be (Mr. P.) would have cheerfully supported it ; 
     
     but this Act had been disallowed as being repugnant to the general 
     
     principle: of Law. which did not require a person to disclose a defect 
     
     in his title. He had tnade hiinself pretty generally acquainted. by 
     
     reading. with the different riiodes of taxation which had been had 
     
     recourse to in other countries. and the working of them; and 
     
     one result was a conviction that the most hateful of all taxes was an 
     
     Income Tax. In ‘ngland. or wherever else it had been tried. a 
     
     Property Tax fairly levied would not be so objectionable; an In- 
     
     come 'I‘ax had always been rega ed as a moat inquisitorial measure. 
     
     If the should impose a Kent-Itoll Tax pen the Proprietors, and it 
     
     shoal receive the royal allowance. it was very questionable how 
     
     far it would benefit the plu ; but one thing certain was. that it 
     
     would cause the land s to be much more stringent and severe in 
     
     the election of their rents. And. as respected the Proprietors 
     
     themselves, to _v such heavy imposition: upon their property, 
     
     would elinost amount to a confiscation of it; and. in fact, they 
     
     might as well bring in a Bill for that purpose at ones. He ( 
     
     always withstood such extreme measures. because he held it to be 
     
     impolitic and unjust; and, on that account. he would continue to 
     
     oppose it. 'I‘h:t the proprietors should be made to bear a reason- 
     
     able and due share of the public biirthens. and particularly those 
     
     applied for the education of the tensntry, was, however. what he 
     
     had always considered a. just proposition; yet. still he was psi-- 
     
     suadcd. that to support the Resolution of the hon. member. (Mr. 
     
     Mooney.) would be to sin against the interest: of the people, by 
     
     defeutinga measure that they had so much at heart. He. therefore, 
     
     must vote against it. 
     
    

    
     Mr. MOONEY. The hen. the Treasurer said be (Mr. M.) was 
     
     not sincere; and that his amendment was on y u side-wind. He 
     
     would tell the hon. the Treasurer. that there was no side legislation 
     
     about him. lie was more frank and straight-forward than ever the 
     
     lion. the Treasurer had been during|his legislative career. Ile (the 
     
     lion. the Treasurer) lied told him a ought to bring in it Bill inde- 
     
     pendent of the School Act. But he wanted his measure carried. 
     
     and. therefore. he would make it contingent u on the School Bill. 
     
     'l‘lie lion. Treasurer had, however. intimated is opinion, that be 
     
     (Mr. M.) was not nlile to prepare such a measure. Ile begged leave. 
     
     in reply, to tell the hon. the Treasurer. that he was quite as com- 
     
     petent to fill any situation to which he had ever aspired as he (hon. 
     
     Mr. P.) was. What had he to do respecting any Bill which he 
     
     might wish to introduce. but to at his view: in writing. and the 
     
     Law Clerk was bound to put the same into legal form; for the 
     
     country paid him to do so; and, in justice to that gentleman. he 
     
     would confess he was very attentive. He (Mr. Mooney) was asked 
     
     to withdraw his motion ; but if every man in Prince Edward Island 
     
     were to ask him to do so, his answer wou " o . et h‘ 
     
     legislative life depend upon that Resolution. Let the hon. the 
     
     Treasurer advise the Governor to dissolve the House to-morrovv: 
     
     let him vote against his (Mr. M's.) Resolution. and there was not 
     
     ii constituency in the Island. before which he would not face him 
     
     and defeat him. The Resolution was founded in justice, and he 
     
     would be willing to stand or fall by it. 
     
    

    
     LARK opposed the amendment proposed by Mr. 
     
     MOONEY, who. he observed. did not appear to have calcula- 
     
     ted the expenses of such a tax as lie proposed with respect to 
     
     the small freebulders and tenants, who. he believed. could not, 
     
     by any law that the Legislature could pass. be relieved from 
     
     the payment thereof. From a calculation which he had made, 
     
     he found that according to the scheme roposed in the Report. 
     
     the proprietors would have to pay near y £2000 yearly. whilst 
     
     the small freehold:-rs and tenants would only have to contribuia 
     
     a little over £3000: the £2000 on the part of the proprietors 
     
     was as much as they could in iustice. be called upon to contri- 
     
     hate. The adoption of his (Mr. Mooney’s) resolution, if by it 
     
     the tax could be fixed upon the proprietors, would damn the 
     
     measure altogether. It would cause the proprietors lo exert 
     
     all their influence against it, with the Home Government ; and 
     
     the Bill would eventually be lost. He (Mr. Clark) himself 
     
     had presented a petition against the additional tax of one-hslf- 
     
     pt‘nll_V an acre. as proposed by the Report; but. when he had 
     
     fully considered the proposal of the petitioners, which was that 
     
     such an appropriation sboitld be made from the general reve- 
     
     nue, for the encouragement of education. as would double the 
     
     amount of the Government allowances now made to teachers. 
     
     on condition that their employers should, in every instance, 
     
     tslla an equal amount. by sssi-sstnent o themselves, so as to 
     
     raise the salaries of the teachers to sixty and ninety pounds 
     
     per arinurri. he found that such assessment would double the 
     
     amount of the tax proposed by the Report: and he. therefore. 
     
     clearly saw that such a proposition. as a general one, would 
     
     quite impracticable : for if the people could not ay the mode- 
     
     rate tax oftls. Hd. per I00 sores, ssit was asserts liy some. they 
     
     certainly would not be able to pay one of double the amount. 
     
     According to the scheme laid before the Committee by the 
     
     hon. leader of the Government. there would be taken annually 
     
     from the people, in the shape of taxes, for the purposss of 
     
     ediication. to the sinount of 0000, and £3000 from the gene- 
     
     nl revenue. Bat were that ofthe petition adopted, the poo I: 
     
     would have to raise upwards of l000l : year, and double that 
     
     amount would have to be appropriated from the general revenue. 
     
     E(lIlCIll0fl throughout the Colony was very far from bring in a 
     
    

    
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     the School Visitors Reports. In ms, there were ll iiisriy 
     
     teachers are layer! in the country as are now engaged; and 
     
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     eflectusl should be done to foster the interests of education. it 
     
     was very clear to hint, that they must retrograde. On ruuture 
     
     deliberation, he was convinced that the scheme contemplated 
     
    

    
     the Report was, at present, the only feasible one : "3 ll! 
     
     would therefore. support it. He did, indeed. very uiiieh re- 
     
     gret. that in doing so, he would have, in some degree. to act 
     
     in opposition to the views of his constituents. with reference to 
     
     the question ; but, so convinced via: he of the propriety of his 
     
     determination. that he would be willing to risk his reji-ction by 
     
     his present constituents at another election, o: the vote in 
     
     favor of the scheme, But, before that time arrived. if the 
     
     measure should be carried into Law. be hoped the working of 
     
     the system would have been so successful s: to have convinced 
     
     all that it was the very best and most economical that, under 
     
     existing circumstances, could have been devised ; and infinitely 
     
     preferable to the old system, by which a poor tenant farmer 
     
     had to pay 9! or 31 a year out of his grain, for the schooling of 
     
     one of his children. 
     
    

    
     Mr. M‘NEll.L. If they could devise any practicable 
     
     scheme for the furtherance of the interests of general educa- 
     
     tion, without, at the same time, throwing any additional bar- 
     
     then upon the already overburtliened tensntry for. the support 
     
     of it, he would re'oice at it, and the scheme should have his 
     
     hearty support. at with respect to the taxation scheme, 
     
     contemplated by the Resolution, and which the hon. member 
     
     for Priiicetotvn (Mr. Clarlt) was persuaded would tie it etrrs for 
     
     the evils or imperfections of the resent defective educational 
     
     system of the Colony he (Mr. M‘ rill) was of opinion, that the 
     
     care would be worse than the disease. He cheerfully gave 
     
     the hon. member at the head of the Government (Mr. Coles) 
     
     great credit for the attention and ability which he had devoted 
     
     to the important question of education ; but be (Mr. M‘Neill) 
     
     was of opinion. that that hon. member. in his great zeal and 
     
     anxiety to give the country a better, and more eflicient educa- 
     
     tional system than the present one, had inlensibly allowed 
     
     himself to overrate the resources of the country. Ifthe rus- 
     
     'ority of our people were freeboldars, as in the neighbouring 
     
    

    
     rovincrs. the imposition of an additional land tax for the pur- 
     
     poses of education. might justly be had recourse to, and would, 
     
     no doubt, be cheerfully submitted to. But. uaiortunstely, the 
     
     case was widely different; for the great msjoiit of the people 
     
     were subject to a tax of 51 sterling : year, psi , in the shape 
     
     of rent. to the proprietors. Nor was this all, it appeared be- 
     
     side-. that there was due. from a portion of them, about 40001 
     
     or 50001 for sesd-grain &c.. with which they had been supplied 
     
     on credit by the Government, in the years ’47, '48 an ’49 
     
     which it was admitted, on all hands, that they were unable to 
     
     pay in money. Now. if the people were in such circumstan- 
     
     ces, as not to be able to pay that amount, after a credit of: 
     
     years, he could not imagine how hon. members ex ted that 
     
     they would be able to pay an additional land-tax o 4:. 2d. per 
     
     hundred acres. 
     
    

    
     Hon. Mr. COLES. It was a most erroneous idea to sup- 
     
     pose. that the imposition of a tax of-ts. 2d. per hundred acres. 
     
     for the urposes of ueation, according to the scheme set forth 
     
     in the eport, would be an increase of the burtliene of the 
     
     tensntry ; and he was indeed surprised at the rtinscity with 
     
     which some lion. members adhered to it, in spite of the repeat- 
     
     ed and very clear explanation: which had been sfiiirded them 
     
    

    
     not-rning the manner in whieb the scheme would 0 rate for 
     
     the benefit of the tensntry in geiier:|,bist t eislly r.thst of 
     
     the poorer class of them. What could be c rarer. than that it 
     
     won d be a great, positive, and direct benefit to a poor man, 
     
     the father of a family of four or five children. who had been 
     
     paying, at the very lowest, at the rate of 90:. a year. for the 
     
     schooling of one of his children. to have the whole four or live 
     
     educated for 4s. 9d. or 2:. Id. : year! With res t to the 
     
     Resolution of the hon. member for the Second istrict of 
     
     Queen’: County, (Mr. Mooney.) the object of which was to 
     
     impose a tax of dd. an acre on the leased lands of roprietors, 
     
     to be paid by them, and not by their tenants, he (. r. C.) had 
     
     always wished for the imposition of such a tax upon the pro- 
     
     prietors ; and in the first or second year in which he had had 
     
     the honor of a seat in the Assembly, he had proposed a Rent 
     
     Roll Tax; for he held it to be very unjust, that proprietors 
     
     should have it in their power, by the covenants and conditions 
     
     oftheir leases, to devolve upon the lcnantry the payment of all 
     
     taxes or public burtheiir, imposed or hereafter to be imposed, 
     
     on the lands held by them on leases. And, for it measure 
     
     which would impose upon the proprietors the direct payment, 
     
     by themselves. out . f tliefr rents, of an equitable tax on their 
     
     leased lands, or or. the a-I aunt of yearly income actually de- 
     
     rived, by them. fromtliose lsads, lie was as strong an advocate 
     
     as ever he had hero He was of opinion. however. that it 
     
     would be positively unjust to require them to pay a tax upon 
     
     their incomes, as estimated from their rrnt rolls ; for to do so 
     
     would be to tax them l'iir incomes which might be. to a great 
     
     extent, merely imaginary: and, were the Legislature to impose 
     
     upon them the payment of an equitable and moderate tax on 
     
     the annnsl aiuounts of rent: actually received by them. he was 
     
     inclined to think, that they themselves, c()I|VlllcPd of its equity 
     
     and propriety, would raise no opposition to it. But were a tax 
     
     to be imposed upon their rent rolls, one certain consequence of 
     
     the imposition would be, that it would render the proprietors 
     
     much more severe and exact in the enforcing oftlieir legal de- 
     
     munds upon their tenants. Without the encumbrance of a 
     
     clause or clauses to tax proprietors for their leaseil lands, 
     
     as pro y the amendment of the hon. member for 
     
     the 2d istrict of Queen's County, (Mr. Mooney.) it was not 
     
     at all improbable. that obstacles might be thrown in the way of 
     
     the Free Education Bill, should it be found simply in accor- 
     
     dance with the principles set forth in the Report. lint, were 
     
     that amendment to be ineorrorstetl with the Bill, the success 
     
     of the measure would be rendered very doubtful indeed : and, 
     
     surely, the advocate: of the amendment were not prepared to 
     
     say, that they would wish the loss of a measure or‘ so much 
     
     importaiice to the best interests of the community at large. for 
     
     the sslie of wot a year. which was all they could expect to 
     
     raise by the proposed tax. The Government wee well dispos- 
     
     ed to carry out every just and reasonable measure for the public 
     
     good; and they had already given ample earnest to the people 
     
     of that disposition. hey all knew to what extreme: the 
     
     present majority of the Assembly went, in the stoppage of the 
     
     Iupplifl. to procure the concession of Responsible Government; 
     
     but, although he believed they who now comprised the Govern- 
     
     ment. and the majority, would again, if necessary, set with 
     
     equal firmness and determination for the accomplishment of 
     
     any measure of the same vital importance, they would net, 
     
     he thought. allow themselves to be driven into the sdop. 
     
     tion of so extreme a course, for the attainment of an object of 
     
     comparatively very minor importance, such as subjarting the 
     
     proprietors to an additional land-tax. t raise the sum or wot a 
     
     year; and there was good iesson to be icve. that iron amend- 
     
     ment was incorporated with the Bill, the measure would be 
     
     defeated, or the Assembly would have to support it, by that 
     
     extreme course. And for the attainment sfsuch an arct, he 
     
     would say, that so far as he was indivlduall concernei , eithrr 
     
     as a member of the Government, or of a majority in the 
     
     House. he would neither recommend nor vote for such a course. 
     
     When the Assembly triads that determined stand for the attain- 
     
     ment of Responsible Government, they rustle it for the praeticsl 
     
     recognition of a principle of Government. iridepe 
     
     which. no Govrroiusiit eould be based on just feaadstioss. 
     
     But, with respect to the imposition of such a tax. as thut cog. 
     
     teaiplsted by the proposed amendment, just as the tax inirht 
     
    

    
     , there was no principle involved, worth irntneiliste contention 
     
     for. at the risu of losing the ire errant measure for general 
     
     education. If the hon. member (Mr. Mooney) however. m‘ d 
     
     essserit ta vrttlidnvr his amendment, and would spgsg lo 
     
    
   
   
    
     , brieg ln a separate Bill In the itupositioti of such a lax, sstht