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 To the Free and Independent Elector b of the^ 
 
 COUNTY OF MEG ANTIC. 
 
 
 GpNTLEMEN, 
 
 
 I now address you as free born Britons, about to exercise the very highest and 
 dearest of your civil lights and privileges, namely. Your Elective Franchise. — 
 I am aware that if ever ^ou do fail in the exercise of this privilege, [for men are 
 ^.....^..x^tv.,3 XI.O V.1IUI lo uoi ur lutj ueart, but ot the head; however, this only 
 IS thecause, wl ere place or circumstance, coupled with evil council, are ingeniously 
 u-,ed to blind your jtulgments, by appeahng to your passions and prejudices. This 
 la the state of things that has existed and governed every one of the late elections 
 [up to this time] in the Lower Province, under the supreme diction of the dominant 
 faction, whose head-quarters are at Montreal. This faction is becoming daily and 
 hourly better known, and is working its own destruction ; for, as " out of evil cometh 
 good," so is this faction working out its own punishment. It has completely lorn 
 tlie flimsy veil from the eyes of its deluded loliowers of British origin, and of such 
 Canadians as have the smallest remaining spark of loyalty in the Cities of Quebec 
 and Montreal, by its too successful attempts to reject every candidate of British 
 origin, unless indeed he were a traitor, and would become a ready tool. The ex- 
 pulsion and rejection of the independent and patriotic ANDREW STUART 
 (after upwards of twenty years honest probation) of John Neilsun, Thomas a' 
 Young, and George Pemberton, from the representation of the County and City of 
 Quebec, and the substitution of corrup, or untried Canadians, are proofs of this 
 What does this indicate ?— A vile and unwarrantable attempt to deprive you and 
 every free-born subject of British origin, of even a speaking voice in the councih of 
 the country,— iov this speaking voice is the only exercise you have had in. thes« 
 councils for years past. Who does not know that Mr. Papineau, the leader and 
 head of this blind and deluded faction, can wield such overwhelmino- majorities in 
 Parliament, as to carry any question he pleases ? But not satisfied with these ma- 
 jorities, an attempt is now made to deprive you ©f even a hearing, and here may we 
 say their " vaulting ambition hath o'erleap'd itself." Foreseeing all this, and the 
 confirmation of it in the expulsion of Andrew Stuart, (incontrovertibly the most 
 independent and honest statesman that ever entered the walls of the Assemblies of 
 thn Province ;) a proposal was made by a number of electors of the County of 
 Megantic, to the Candidates for the representation of that loyai County by the 
 triends, or rather Committee of Andrew Stuart's friends, [for he has no 'personal 
 enemies] which would have done immortal honor to them and the electors of Me- 
 gantic, had tliey consented unanimously— namely, to retire in favor of the tried and 
 independent Constitutional Candidate for the Upper Town of Quebec, Andrew 
 bTUART ! ! : This propesal was first made to J. G. CLAPHAxM, Esq., who, in the 
 handsomest manner signified his immediate readiness to retire from the contest 
 as requested, which [witli his usual magnanimity] he the following evening conl 
 firniRd, in a neat public address to the electors of the County ol" Megantic and 
 the Upper Town of Quebec. A similar proposal was made to Mr. Layfield and the 
 address from (he Electors of Me-imtic, was handed to Mr. Layfield in person 
 hy a depulalioii fVom Mr. Sluait's Commiflee, of whom I had the honor to be 
 one ; when the answer Mr. Layfiehl gave us was, " (hat hevvould lay the address 
 before his Committee immediately on his arrival at home, and if they consented to 
 
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 his withdrawing from the contest, he would immeiliately do so with pleasure ; as 
 he saw how necessary it was to obtain the services of such a man as A. Stuart in 
 Parliament &c." How then did this Mr. Layfield act ? He proceeded to Leeds 
 AND KEPT THE Address IN HIS POCKET ! Mr. Stuart's Committee hearing nothing di- 
 rect from Mr. Layfield's Comtnitlee on this subject, sent a deputation up to Leeds, 
 to negociate for them, when (Electors hear it !) Mr. Layfield (fearing his Com- 
 mittee would meet the wishes of the deputation) rushed in among them, and 
 with the air of a desperate and ambitious man asked, il' his Committee was going 
 to give him up ! ! if they would not stand by him ! ! &c. «Si;c. &c. Tins base^ 
 vacillating, ambitious, an<l unmanly conduct on the part of Mr. Layfield, compels 
 me to speak plainly, and in doing so I feel conlidtMjt that I am addressing per- 
 sons to whom Mr. Layjield and his works are not altogether unknown. Mr. L. 
 on arriving at Leed, instead of laying the address of the County of Megantic 
 before his Committee, imniediately set about slandering Messrs. Clapham 
 and Stuart, by tantalising Mr. Clapham's friends and supporters, and saying 
 to them, ihat they and their interests were sold to Mr. Stuart's Committee for 
 £200 ! — and that the Committee had offered him, Mr. Layfield, £500 (which he 
 scorned) if he also would retire in favour of A.^Sluart, In justice to all the par- 
 ties, but particularly to the electors of Megantic, I feci myself called upon, as one 
 of Mr. Stuart's Committee, to stale all these facts plainly, and to add for the in- 
 formation of such as do not know it, that A. Sluait and Mr. Clapham are both 
 independent n>en, (as independent in purse as in principle) to whom any thing 
 like a bribe, even in the most indirect form, would have been the greatest insult 
 that could have been olfered to them, and whose lives have never yci been 
 marked by any dishonorable act. Not so Mr. L., (for I must speak plainly, I say 
 again.) He is known to most of you. He has played mnny parts upon the stnge 
 of life among you, from the time ot leaving Sir F. Burtons kitchen, up to the pre- 
 sent day, but jievej' yet has he played the part of an honorable man! But why 
 bandy or pervert term?^ ? Who evpr heard cf h.onor in a thief orjindopendonce in 
 a shoeblack ? Is Mr. Layliekl a r<;isbning or reasonable man i Is he not rather 
 the creature of impulse and passion? Is he fit, by his habits, by his education, 
 by his talents, by his moral character, or by any other good quality, to represent 
 the loyal, and for the most part educated, electors of Megantic .'' Answer this? — 
 ye know hiu). Beware i say, of this man. Ho will if lie succeed in his elec- 
 tion, mislead yon, as he has already A/iec^ to do, aiul misrepresent you as he has 
 already done. He is a fit tool for the popular party ! Uis declaration in favour 
 of the 92 Resolutions (which \ou have most of yon probably never seen or read, 
 but which have for their objtcl, the .>subvcrsi()n of Britisij Rights and llriti^sh In.. 
 stitutions) is one among uumy proofs. I!e grounds lii-* claims to success (ni the 
 gratification of his towering hopes of anibilton)on two points : 1st a local question 
 professedly connected vvith the interests of Leeds, & 2dlN. on an appeal to tuaitohs, 
 if any there be, in support of the 92 Resolutions, tin; (;bi(ct of which is llic sap- 
 ping of your political rights and institutions. To the i'ull ! Forwaid and shew 
 ' yourselves as }ou already ha^e done by voting for an iionest and independent 
 Bnan who is above a bribe ! ! — That man is J. G. CLAPIIAIM. Forward, I say, 
 he is worthy of the support of every Free-born Briton ! Do yourselves and your 
 adopted country honor by voting for him ! He 1 say again, is worthy ot tiip 
 support of the Independent lilectors of the County <»f iVJcgantic. To the Pol' 
 and vote for CLAPHAM. 
 
 ONE OF STUART'S COALNHTTEE. 
 Quebec, November 8, 1834.