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REPLY
TO THE
Hon. CHARLES YOUNG'S
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT BEQUEATHED
TO HIS LATE CONSTITUENTS THE ELEC
TORS OF THE THIRD ELECTORAL DIS-
TRICT OF QUEEN'S COUNTY,
BY
WILLIAM DOUSE, Esq.
FORMERLY A MEMBER OF THE COLONIAL
LEGISLATURE FOR QUEEN'S COUNTY,
PBINCE EDWABD ISLAND.
" TBI HUIUlf MIin> IS A. STRAiroS C0MF0T75D."
CHARLOTTETOWN :
PRINTED By JAXfiS D.HAS2ARD, QUEBU'S PRINTER.
1840.
REPLY.
« But I see what you want j you want excitement.
'•How would politics do? It's a wide field, and
"some considerable sport in it too. Agitate the
"country; swear the church is a-goin' to levy
" tythes, or dissenters to be taxed to support them,
" or that the Governor is a-goin' to have a martial
<* law. Call oflice-holders by the cant tarms olCom-
" pact shques and official gang, and they will have
" to gag you with a seat in the Council, or somethm'
'L°» fi^^^^^^> ^^ ^^ ^^y <ioa't-" Samuel Slick to
Eul Dill.
To THE Honorable CHARLES YOUNG, Piovisional
Legislative Counciixor.
Much esteemed Sir,
By the Gazette of the 22d ultimo, I perceive that His
Excellency the Lieutenant Governor has been pleased
provisionally, to appoint you to a seat in the Legislative
Council ; and by your address to your late constituents,
1 also see that you have at once accepted the appoint-
roent. ■^'^
This address appears to be an apologetic and exculpa-
tory epistle of no measured length, proceeding from self
accusation, which has seemngly wisely dictated to vou
thus to anticipate and to defend yourself from the
charges which you expected would be brought against
you by your deluded constituents, at the bar of public
opinion. *^
In this your anticipatory defence, which by the wav,is
drawn up with much of what we may terni legal ino-e
larly of the Electors of the Third Electoral District of
Queen's County, but yet I think more especially ol my
sell, as your Chi^ODDoneni: at vmir Into anA nn-o! n.iP:'
fied Election, closely to enquire, how far you have truly
estimated the charges of political npostacy which may
be brought against you, and how far you have made
provision to shield yourself from the expected storm.
When you tendered your services to the Electors of
the Third Electoral District of Queen's County, I opposed
you upon principles which I then declared, and to which
I still adhere ; but, it appeared your pnnciples nere more
phasing in their sight, and your pledges more satisfactory
to them, and they did you f you ! ! you .'.'/ a mere stranger to
most of them .'.'/.' the high honour of electing you their Re-
presentative !!!.'.'
In imitation of your own course, I will, besides mser-
ting the substance of one of ray cards,circulcated among
the Electors on the occasion already spoken of, favour
you with the insertion of two others verbatim : the first
merely states, that " my public and private character
" during a residence of nearly twenty years was, I be-
" lieve, known to the most of them ; and that should
" they deem me worthy of their confidence, I should use
" the same efforts for the improvement of their section of
" the County as I did when I formerly had the honour to
"represent them;" and this I will now add, that if they
had done me the honour they conferred upon you, I
would not have deserted theni as you have done, for the
sake of a mere empty appellation of honour
A celebrated English statesman was in the habit of
saying, every man had his price. You might be adduced
as aninstanceof the justice of his observation. It is now
evident you have had yours, and that by no means a
great one. Vanity may instigate us to make great pre-
tensions in the eyes ot others; but there are vejy fcAv
who do not secretly know their own value; and that
you, as well as some above you, were fully sensible of
yours. I question not; children and childish minds, ge-
nerally speaking, are pleased with a rattle, tickled with
a straw.
You may remember that when the Election was ad-
journed from Belfast, you proposed to the Electors that
they should give me three cheers, for (as you expressed
it) my gentlemanly conduct; but how far you merited
a return of the compliment from me at Lot 49, when in
a most ungentlemanly manner you tore up my Hand- /
bills, I will not now stop to enquire. Notwithstanding
the havoc you then made of tham, I have been able to
procure a copy which escaped your destroying hands,
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and now for my own gratification and that of the public
I will insert it, and your own as a guide to any one
who may wish to complete a full length portrait of a
political deceiver.
CHARLES YOUNG
IS A REFORMER,
And ts determiHtd, if returned, to do hix utmost
CoHStstait/,/ nith the principles of the British Constitution.
To have thti Fishery Reserves opem I to the Puhlir •
To have the loyalists Redressed;
To have the
TENANTRY RELIEVED
E^om their Oppressive Burdens;
And is also pledged not to accept of any Office of evwhmnU
under Government, nor any Land Agency.
^The copy below was issued by me at the Election, ji,
REFORM.
, .r- ^J^^^ES YOUNG IS A REFORMER!!
Is this Reform Annexation to Nova Scotia, and depricins:
you of your Franchise ?
C. Young mil throw open the Fishery Reseires ! Jhes he
man to rob Frccliolders and Leaseholders of their fronts <•
C. Young will redress the Loyalists ! Can he do it in fate
of the despatch of the Home Government ?
^^Z^f young wHl relieve the Tenantry of their burthens !
WUl he pay their Rents for them with some of his smrc
CASH!
C. Young will take no Agencies nor Government
OFFICES!!!!!!!!
Did he not came here to look for Land Agencies ? Has he not
canvassed for the Clerkship of the Assembly t
C. Young is a Reformer ! Will he pledge himself to
Reform Lawyers' BILLS?
Avaunt Ye!!
On the occasion of your tearing up my handbills, I did
not retaliate further than by severely reprimaudinff you
for your improper conduct, and at the close of the Poll vou
again proposed three cheers for me. The Electors kind-
ly responded to your proposal, at the same time telliuir
you that it was not from any want of personal respect
for me that they had declined giving me their votes •
they shook hands with me, and stated thfiv had known
me tor many years, and that their only objection to^me
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was my being a Land Agent ; and to you they observed,
that uniess you looked well after their interestx,you would have
no occasion to prtsent yourself for their suffrages a stonul
time.
Having thus prefaced, I will now come to the grand
inquiry, whether, during the very short time you were in
the House, you are justly entitled to so much self-praise
as you have taken to yourself in your document published
in the Royal Gazette, or whether you redeemed your
pledges or not. I well remember the mighty promises
you made to your constituents at the time of your Elec-
tion; and on carefully examining your short political
career, which may aptly enough be compared to the
glancing of a " Will ot the Wisp," or, perhaps, still more
correctly speaking, to a " flash in the pan," or an un-
shotted and useless discharge from a musket— I can
observe no light which you have left behind you for a
guide to others, nor can I perceive that in any way, you
have weakened the defences of your political opponents,
for, happy man— happy at least in your own estimation—
aiemies you say you have none, either personal or politi-
cal, although in my ignorance I had, until better inform-
ed by you, always considered political opponents and
political enemies as synonimous and convertible terms.
Your own view of your parliamentary career, iiow-
ever, differs widely from mine; and I shall, therelbre,
with the licence of a reviewer, proceed to dissect ami ex-
amine that history of it, the writing and reading of which
has no doubt afforded yourselt so much gratification;
but which, unfortunately for its author, carries to the
minds of the public no more conviction favourable to
him, than would a perusal of " Gulliver's Travels" con-
vince a reasoning mind of the truth of the adventures
therein narrated.
In your history of your parliamentary career, you, in
the first place, assume credit to yourself on account of
the commutation of the Colonial Secretary's fees which
was effected by the House in their last Session, you say,
you have been told, that by that commutation, a saving
of nearly £300 has this year been made to the Colony.
That the amount of saving is correctly stated, I very
much doubt, but the public accounts will clear that ques-
tion. I will proceed to consider what credit is due to
you, for supporting the call for such a commutation. I
for one will plainly tell you, how much I think you may
fairly claim on that score. You acted the part invariably
played by all envi'nis political fortune-hunters, eagef-
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ly on the one hand panting for honours which they have
no native dif,'nity to support, and on the other, sordidly
longing for emoluments, to which their merits will never
entitle them, they are ever ready to join in full mouthed
cry, against the more honourable and more fortunate
men, whom they behold in the enjoyment of both.
Thus, sir, I assign to you in full measure all the muTii
due to you for the share you had in etfecting that com-
mutation which, by the bye, had been proposed, and for
the which, the Bill was framed by one of the Honorable
Members lor Georgetown, before you had taken youc
seat in the House.
You next acknowledge, a.i your second pledge, your dcter-
min«*ion to do your utmost, consistently with the priiicipica
of the Britisl» coiistitulioii,to have the lishery reserves thrown
open to the public. Well, 1 will take it for granted,that in this
instance, you did your utmost, but that utmost it must be
allowed was but trifling. That utmost did not enable you to
draft such a fishery reserves bill, as could, without evident
infraction of law and justice, give a final quietus to the ques-
tion. Neither, it appears, did your u'inost retain you in
your place when a division was about to ensue, on the ques-
tion of the proposed address to the Queen, after the rejection
by the House, of tho amendments to the fislicry reserves bill
went down to them by the Council. Your utmost, it appears'
was not able to fix your volatility on tliat occasion. Before
I dismiss this part of your parliamentary conduct, I will just
hint to you that you have shewn but little wisdom in your at-
tempt, in tiiis part of your defence, to heap new abuse upon
the Land-owners; and as little will it accomplish your main
object, the divertmg from yourself of the just resentment of
the deluded tenantry, especially when it is remembered that
although the draft of that Bill was the work of your hands
those hands were only those of an interested and hired scribe!
I am now to consider in what way you prove you , 'emp-
tion of your pledge to have the Loyalists redresses Upon
this head you say but little, and that little, without any injury
to its weight or moment— or to your literary taste and dis-
cernment—might easily have been made less. You tell your
late constituents that the Loyalist Bill had been passed be-
fore you took your seat in the House,and that the Council re-
jected it, on the ground that a similar Bill passed in the pre-
vious Session, had been disallowed by the Queen. This sim-
ple statement is so far correct, and it besides fully exonerates
the Council from all blame on account of their rejection of
the Bill. By your own shewing they acted with firmness,
but temper towards the House, and with proper delieaev
ij.,„.^., .,..„.r i\l>jui iTitoueoo. licre uivu wanung occasion.
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or prrhaps tioM, afraid to arroign the Council n. you formerly
1.(1; and .hull I ,ay afraid, lest your provmonal Lpoi, mJit
•idviscrs of the Crown, for their counsel give.i to the Quceti
r gardu,? the Loyalist claims-you once inorc with coar'c
invective, assail the owners of property, and rai dy cX!
vour to turn from yourself the resc'nt.ncnt of you late con
«t.tue„t3, whom you have so grossly deceived, to thoe whoso
dehnquences you would gladly have U,o tenantry to bS
are greater than your own. "^-iit-tt-
I next in order come to the consideration how yon have
redeemed your pledge " to have the Tenantry relieved-" an I
ZZtr'C^'^'JT ''''''"'''' "r'^''"^^ you Skit n
appear, but as I believe most people regard it, your hiinorri.
u<./, not to use a still stronger e;ithet,''appeal to the Afmigl -
already d scussed, to arrogate merit to yoursoif-Iess reason
--less tliau none there cannot easily be. But not oiily i,
there no merit due to you on this point, as wiu ^ the
fouTavf ae ual v"? '"" *"^" "^^ °"'^ ""'^^ "° "^"'^ ^'
tenantry bt ii^ **"".'." .""^ """""^ »"J'''-y ^° "»«"y o<''h«
tenantry, by your delusive express bns. You and vour
Suuty'Kr' ;''?•"- ^^''"'"se of the ignora:::.^':^
Ss hav7m Y ""^''••\""'^^'y are but too conunon amongst
feri of^h! '"'*. '"•'^ «'^?gg«'-ated the grievances and s5f.
ces?f such If '"''''V" ^^'^''' °''" ^y^*"' """' »he consequon-
pJoductL nf r"*" *""'"' '•" ""^i^ "Stances, been the actual
fnr,^v ^i \*'°?^ yery gncyances and sufferings, which be-
fore existed only ,n imaginaUons, highly excited by the art-
I;!' wnfrh"'"!' '^"1 interested speeches of that noisy, hun-
gry wo fish pack, whose deserts a.e but too clearly pk:tu?ed
«ri countenances, in which may variously be rcad-vanUv
SlnnUh h ^''^°/*-^'"«")«" Of a Robespiefre-the snarling,
snappish, half-starved spirit of an Elwes-the steady-S
stolidity of the Ox, with that utter vacuity and want^of ^ll
fact SSn [ ^'^'"^ r •"'"''^'^'J^ distinguishes those utsns^ s of
faction, whose sole power lies, in casi of a division, in iheir
being allowed numerically to 'pass i" to the calendar Jf men
I agree with you, Sir, as to the fertiUty and salubrity oS
S'^ K-l"''' but I should as soon expect to see the bed
of snow which now covers our soil, instantaneously removed
by the warm and genial breath of an Italian spring, aSdIhe
next moment to behold the country smiling in aKe rich-
ess and beauty of a paradise, and to behold every where in
It our ancient men surrounded by all that can deliSeh^
hearts, seated like patriarchs ol" old, undertheir «°o,U fig
trees, eazino- uDon ♦h«!- <iftrL- »-•!"-'•-. ,,,..''"8
. „ » -D uj-uij .j.vii ••ocKsj anil uKii vine-covered hiils''—
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as beliere that jour impracticable and visionary schemes
will ever, or that you hope they will ever— notwUhstandinir
your frequent hypocritical and highly disgusting appeals to
the Almighty— be the means of making the |)«opl(! of the
Island peaceable, contented and happy. I do believe, how-
ever, that in process of time, the condition of our agricultur-
ists will be much improved; but tlils I expect from other
sources than those to which you h;nc been tcacliing them to
oolf. Such a change I liopc will ulso be greatly accelerated
bv the immigration from Britain of intelligent niid respecta-
ble farmers; of men who can introduce improved and scien-
tiOc systems of agriculture; and to whom some who arc too
obstinate to learn, or too idle to practice anything like sys-
temaUc operations, must give place, and to whom they must
leave the enjoyments of those blessings which the soil, tha
bountiful mother of all, is ever ready to shower from her law
upon those who are not too idle or unskilful to court her
favours. In commenting upon the determination of Govern-
ment not to interfere with or change the tenure of lands and
your remarks upon the imposition of a Penal tax— you sav
the tenant would not be bentHted, he would not be rdievetl
but would be in a worse position than before, because the
greedy landlord, or his crafty agent, would wrest from him
the little substance ho had gathered around him, in order to
meet the increased demand.
Without expressing an opinion on the situation of the
tenant, or the propriety of the tax, I may here obscrvr that
greediness and craftiness are only phantoms which exist iu
your own brains. And now Sir, although your observation
appears m general terms, yet as it occurs in an address to
those who were lately your constituents, many of whom arc
tenants upon property under my manngemcnt, I think I may
lairly infer, that you wished to excite a bad feclin" nmona
them. Your envenomed expressions will, notwiUistandinS
your malignant intention, have no cfl'eet, for the iiersonsi
allude to, are, I believe, convinced that my inclinations to-
wards industrious persons are neither harsh, unfeelinc, nor
rapacious; and I am proud and happy to state that on no
property m the Colony have coercive measures been more
rare than on the property in question— although provocation
and ill-advice to tenants, in several instances, obliged me to
take legal proceedings. Under the same head you next ob-
sarve, the only feasible plan for the relief of the tenant, should
the government refuse to interfere, or purchase the lands,
would be a compromise of the arrears of rent, and which
arrears it is impossible the tenants can ever pay. In this
scheme I can recognise nothing but impolicy and injustice to
the honest and industrious tenant,both which must be enuallv
evident to ynnrapir Thp* "TT -Tii!- '-• -'• ■»- • .•
"- -' -.K.. jvJuF pvftcjnion VI lus unpoucy
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and injustice should prevent your recommending (to serve
your own especial purpose) what you know would be so ac-
ceptable a boon to the indolent and dishonest: and whai
would also be very readily accepted, even by others of i^ bet-
ter character, excites in me no surprise. It is of a piece
with the usual practise of those fretful, envious, schemine
and restless agitating beings, who linding themselves sunk
jar beneath the level to which vanity and ambiUonhave
Uught them to aspire, hope that by the exciUng of popular
commotion, some convulsive throw may elevate them to dis-
tmction, as earthquakes frequently throw up to the surface
what otherwise might for ever have remained buried in its
proper sphere— obscurity. But, before I leave this topic, I
wculdjust enquire who, generally speaking, and wfeat are
the characters of the persons who are most heavily in arrears
ior rent] Are they to be found among thr sober, honest,
steady and mdustrious portion of the tenantry in the Island!
I dely you to prove that they are. No, Sir, they are to be
round among those who by habits of continued dissipaUon
have left themselves, their wives and their children, destitute
ol necessary and decent comforts,by being satisfied merely to
fell as much wood, and to half cultivate as much land, as
would enable them, in some degree, to gratify their appetites
lor tobacco and rumj and who, in the prosecution of such in-
dulgence, have, to complete their ruin and misery, fallen
into the company of some itinerant agitator and preacher of
i-scheat; whose doctrines yielding them a prospect of release
from all obligation to pay rent, have only fos' ered and encou-
raged their slothful and vicious habits, and prevented their
gathering around them any substance by which decently to
support their families, and stUl less, by which to meet the de-
mands of their landlord. No, Sir, neither you nor your co-
adjutors have yet done— and I venture to say you never will
do— any service to the agriculturists in the Colony. You
are its present bane, and as such your names will be held in
execration by the children of those whom by sophistry vou
have first olind-folded, and then by declamation goaded on
to rum. *
Let me next enquire who are those among the Island ten-
antry whose dwelling houses, offices and farms afford the
most pleasing prospect, and speak most plainly of the wis-
dom, industry, comfort and abundance, which are the por-
tions of thtir occupiers] Do not these farms, almost without
excepUon, belong to those who have honesUy adhered to the
contracts into which they had voluntarily entered: and who,
il they found they had what they may call rather hard bar-
gains, yet have honestly endeavoured to do their best, and
make the most of them.
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I now come to consider what yon call " your two last
pledges," and which are, that you would not accept of anv
office olemohiment »nder Government nor any Land
Agency. When yon made this promise, T really believe
you expected you would be enabled to keep it, altho' ol
yoOT expectation respecting the others, I can by no
Wieans say so much. You had been disappointed of ob-
laming a land agency, your chief object in cominij
nither, and you were conscious that your juvenility f for
I will give you credit for so much modesty) precluded
all chance of your being called to the Bench, and less, I
J>resume, would not have gra?fied your vanity— so lor
then, I thmk this promise was honestly made, and so far
t give you credit; therefore, to use your own words « J
need say nothing further to you on the subject" although
to your, " although I may state that I have been offered
three Land Agencies and refused them," I will take th
liberty to add a simple (?) It is certainly an assertion
which must provoke a doubt. Imayhere remark that
a. respectable member of society, Samuel Nelson, Esq.
to use his own words, asked you on the hustings, in the
presence of the Public, the reason why Jack would 'nt
eat his Supper, and your reply was, because he could'nt
get it, he said "that you were in the same predicament,
tor nobody would trust you with an Agency."
From these facts, Honourable Sir, ijmir generous coh-
stituejitsyiin perceive that you have only « kept the word
of promise to 'the ear, and broke it to their hopes," you
have not fulfilled their hopes as regards their local in-
Jerests; and they may jostly complain that, by your
having accepted a seat in the Council, you have broken
your promise with regard to the improvement of their
roads and bridges. Your examination " with your own
eye has not repaired them, although you received so
much kindness and hospitality" for the promiae to do
The resolutions you alluded to as " passed at several
district meetings oj; the County," lyou might have con-
fined yourself to tocO were, it is said, prepared by
"your own hands J' However, aUowing them to have been
all you represent them, they merely show how desirous
I'^.^^'^T^^''^^ were of supporting you, under the im-
pressionthat your delusive promises and pledges were
sincere; and your faithless mgratitude to them is there-
by only placed m a stronger light.
I would pass over your observations Jrespectiae the Le-
giBiative uouiioiJ, had you omitted to refer to the resolu-
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S iXCaTi;-r; o)T''^^^^^ ^^ -so-
lutions passed' irAprKsfrthTr'""''?^^'^^^ '^^■
their opinions of the SutioL i^. ''f- ^?"*=^'' containing
by the Writy of t e'^To^^' Houst' "ff ^^ ^''^'
are m accordance with mv Zn .^a' r ^\^'® "P^mons
such of your constitupnt?L' ""^^ for the benefit of
I refer to^he Sue Slay A'ltO^^' ''^" "^'^ ^^^'"'
from that weigh^o? Session wh'ii^^ ^^"^''^
them to the dust." S cnm^ Tr .1^.^^' '''"^^^^ ^orne
circumstances rhavinr, ilT °^^he tenantry are in low
this Colony,) 'aSha/e d?ftrnh° ""^'^ '^^^' ^^«^« '«
both admit aidTsretl,?t«?r' '° '^^^^^^ ^^^^h, I
I have any kuowled'e of th^ir 1 ^^ '^-""^ f^'""' ^^"^ 'hat
alluded to Tf;^;,X ^^'^''^^''^•"*'''' in the District
lievelhem e ther Lv tt' ^""^''^ ^"^ difficulties you "e
. by bestowilig u^'nVem anvl°n °r " ^^"^ ^'^^^^^'^^•"' ^^
which you s5 Ion- aStf.i?K°fy'''''' '"'"?'»« cash,
was peihaps as httle Sv In ?h«t ^'"*' ^^^^^^"2^ '^ere
I have no Soubt both bSL f ^^^\ ^' '"* y^"'" Promises,)
you for the K That 1 "^'t 'f^-^^*' ^'^^^^ thank
your duty lo endeavnnr t. V '' ^"'^ '' s^'"' however,
grievaiice^s of any tIZt arisL°;'f "'^^^ '' '''''''' 'he
ment of either JndC ;,rTen? Z,nT ""^f ' ^''^^'-
stituents I freelv adm^^t hn. fu ' ^"?°"^ ^^"^ ^l^'e con-
wiU not enable you to Vhew it. ''"''''* investigation
exist m the District l^L^^oXSteT' ^"^^^"^^
arnongThL^Sg^a't^^^^^^^^ »i«'"^^ that
distresses SSTci^a Sdln^.S- ^''^'% ^^^^ ^^^
were provoked by ve^r^; al^alaS^rcSueT' ^'^^ '^^'^
^'^^^Ttl^lX^^' '^T^' o^ ^h'ch lands have
999 yearsTsome at 6d S^^ '^ ^'' ^"''"^"^ ^^^^ for
more^han'ls s^^Per acS^'ln v!;?'"' ^?^^'^' ^ ^^^«k, at
in this Island, wh?ch 1 ttnt • ^T ^^^ ''"tate o/24 acres,
the lands Sded (o vJu w.'' °^>.'' vM""' ^"^"^y than
thing more not unhkelvTr ^Z?^'^'^ ^'^^'^ ^°^ ^^'"e-
you may not be aware of it mlf/ ?'' ^"i"^ ' ^"*^ though
less evei in the Klv «f 'n?^ ^i^"'*' ^"^^ ^'^^^^'^ ^""^ "inch
comparison aoneaTX ^harlottetown. Who, in this
on? The'rdKf'?K T'^ exorbitant landlord, you
which you SS 5 *^ tenantry from the oppression,
yoti Wish to persuade them tbev labour nnd-r
ise of Assembly, re-
y- It occurs to my
ght it expsdient to
stuuents, thereso-
ouncil, containing
5u upon the people
e. These opinions
I for the benefit of
It have seen them,
pledge, that you
! tenantry relieved
has almost borne
enantryare in low
■n they came to
contend with, I
le time, deny that
i in the District
lifficulties you re-
your energies." or
ur surplus cash,
(although there
» your promises,)
mts would thank
5 still, however,
>st to redress the
iny unjust treat-
g your late con-
st investigation
iuch grievances
id.
t District, that
ears, only two
, and that these
uct.
hich lands have
lerally held for
few, I think, at
itate o/24 acres,
sr quality than
ased for some-
5 J and though
iased for much
Who, in this
landlord, you
fie oppression,
labour under
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S?li?* ^^^^^^^ H ^^^^"^ ^*^^s '^an those displayed in
the following copy of a placard, with which you former-
ly had some acquaintance. It exhibits your tender mer.
?l^^°^^^^l:'''POJ"' ^feeding tenant," who became the
l!fSf' J'i'^"^ "[ y°"'' generosity of feelmg. I will
merely add upon the subject that, indeed, - he ts almost
b9rne down to the dust," yet it is not " by his greedy land-
lord or his crafty agent." * ^
LOOK AT THIS
Electors of Lots 49 and 50.
Is tJiis C.
Young's Reform and relieving you oj your
Burthens?
Tvi^il ni^'^'^'A ^r'll "^ ^'^ ^2, brought an Action of
Trespass— Mr. Charles Young teas his Attorney— the case
wasn^er brought into Court, but decided by Arbitration,
Mr Young, without furnishing Mr. Ryan mth a Bill of
Costs, obtatns his signature to a Warrant of Attorney, enters
up Judgment, end •"
BEHOLD THE CONSEQUENCES!!.'
SHERIFF'S SALE.
.>cS rr"r € " J?*^"^ of Statute Execution to me directed,
nZi.V^ ^'' i^/?;e5<y'5 Supreme Court, at the Suit of
Charles I oung, against Michael Ryan, I have taken and
siezed as the property of the said Michael Ryan, viz:
utI: i' J^'^''^! ^^{^ ""''^ Leasehold Interest of the said
Michael Ryan, m and to One Hundred Acres of Land a
little more or less, being part and parcel of Lot or Township
Number 32, in Queen's County. ^
I do hereby give Notice, that I will Setup and Sell at
Fubltc Auction, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, on
?Jw«f ^'; /' -^""'^ ^""K'-^ ^P"^^' IS'^1' '^^ ^A« hour of
nveive clock, noon, the above recited property
JOHN S. MAC DONALD,
vu..^a) r^jr n« , „ Sheriff of Queen's County,
hhenffs Office, 21th March, 1840.
MEN OF LOTS 49 (J- 50, Mr. RYAN IS NOW IN
CHARLOTTETOWN JAIL '^""'^^^
r\ZZ ««" *^^ f^T''''^ *^^* y°^ ^ave been selected,
tf.^l l^V""^ ^^5'°''' political principles, to fill your
present situation, the stepping stone to which they placed for
you. Into the reasons which induced your appointment
I presume not to enquire, but whatever those ?eSs
may have been, thev can. bv no Tnflan« iust^f" "on- h-
sertion of the trust reposed in you: ^hi? tra^tC t
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vcr intended to l^ your stepping stone to the Council, and
yon would have done yourself infinitely more honor by
lespsctfully declining the appointment, than you have
achieved by its acceptance; and that, in the eyes both of
your constituents and of your political opponents. Sam
•Slick says " he never looks on a desarter as any great
shakes." How your constituents will look upon you,
remains to be seen; although some among them, I under-
stand, feel very much disposed to award you that treat-
jnent generally bestowed upon puppies when they offend
against propriety.
I must take the libc v to notice the following sentence
of yours; in which we iiave so contemptible a display of
mock modesty and pretended humility, as I have no
doubt must have called forth a sneer of contempt from
the least intelligent individual, who may have honoured
your epistle with a perusal. " You may, and I have no
'•doubt will get a man of surpassing ability to myself to
"■ represent you, but that you will get one more alive to
.' your interest or more desirous to serve and do his du-
<' ty towards you than I have been, afid will continm to be,
.' I will never believe."
What, Sir, do you imagine any one will suppose that,
in your heart, you believe a man of abilities surpassing
yours, can be found? You! a man who has shewn him-
self to be the legal adviser of the House of Assembly;
Ihe man whose hands prepared the " voluminous Fishery
Reserve Bill;" the man who can holdout to the people his
hope of seeing this Island become, through his instrumen-
tality, a second "land of promise;" and, to crown all,the
man who for his condemnation ot, and opposition to, cer-
tain avow d and constitutional principles of Her 3[ajes-
ly's govcrnment,hasbeen selected as an individual whom,
in an especial manner, Her Majesty shall delight to ho-
jiour! Away with hypocrisy so disgusting, so sickening
to common sense, as your "pretence that you believe any
laan, at lea^t in these Colonies, can be found of abilitie's
surpassing yours. Your mind is certainly n st ran ae com-
pvnnd: all boast, this minute; all humility, the next. In
your silly pretensions to humility, you remind mc of the
philosopher, in whom pride was" as conspicuous, through
his filth and rags, as ever it appeared beneath imperial
purple.— Whoever may be your successor, Sir, or what-
ever mav be thought of his abilities, surpassing, or other-
wise, 1 hope he will, withall, be one possessed of tho,' ,
voluable, those sterling endowments, common sense, ana
v'om'n'.iri honesty; one who will not eneouratje cxpccta-
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tions which he really knows can never be realizcil: one,
the sincere, but not cajoling friend of his constituents;
one who will not make it his whole business to sow
jealously and mistrust bet>veen those, whose true inter-
ests are severally best promoted when mutual confidence
and good will prevail between them. Your successor.
Sir, I hope may be one anxious to prove himself a watch-
ful guardian of the rights and welfare of the Tenant; a
promoter of agricultural improvements; ihe general, not
partial, friend of the country; a lover of peace and order;
and a hearty admirer and supporter of the Constitution
of his country. Such a successor, Sir, do I wish to see
serving your constituents; and such a successor, if duly
supported in the House, would do more for his constitu-
ents, and the country generally, in one Session, than any
number of such men as can have no political influence
or existence, unless by the creation of agitation for the
promised attainment of some unattainable object,could effect
through the whole duration of a Parliament. May your
late constituents then. Sir, have the good sense and good
fortune to select such a man; and they will not only be
benefited by his attention to their local interests, but by
his strict impartiality on all questions affecting the more
general interests of the Colony.
Now Sir, under no fictitious signature, I must reluct-
antly bid you adieu for the present; reluctantly, for I have
left much unsaid, both to you and to the Electors of the
Third Electoral District, which nothing but my want of
time, and a claim to a larger space in the medium through .
which I have chosen to address you, would have induced
me to withhold.
I am. honorable and much esteemed Sir,
your most obedient humble servant.
WILLIAM DOUSE.
Charlottetown, Dec. 2Sth, 1810.
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