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Las diagrammas suivants illustrant la mAthoda. 1 2 3 4 5 6 „^ SEQUEL TO THE .;..;» P R O S P E C T U SCf: :. <«« < f • ■ . , • 0R» . • • . ..•• ■ A REVIEW OF LATE PROCEEDINGS or THS »t.-(fl r I i * * % V • t , .1 .. • GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATURE OF UPPER CAIUDA,. • ' • . > , • • t •• APFBOTINO THB OACBK OF '"•'.'' RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.., ' 4 » > > V .-» • » WITH ..,,. AN ESTIMATE OF THE PRESENT STATE AND PROSPEOT^ OF THESE COLONIES, : . . * . IN EIPIRENOC TO THIS FIRST AND MOST ESSENTIAL OF ALL HUMAN mam's f t i • 4 "» ■; # -. AND ,. ' A SUGGESTION OF SUCH MEASURES AS THE PRESENT CONJUNCTURE SEEMS TO REQUIRE. \ i I J t BT THB OOMMITTBE OF THI MONTREAL SOCIETY FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF RELIGIOUS ♦n ^UBERTY and EQUALITY IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. MONTREAL t PRINTED AT THE COURIER OVFICCr 1837. LP ,>li .. ■m'w ■I- 'J . w.i i.-ix'^ix-t' 'r*2i^^'^:\ ^'v ;'v,'v\'vH^V^' HfeVVV WTff'rm. •'r.'^i»r '•VK The Com Liberty in jisfaction, 1 of these ( within the: and exerti( fore the pu to suggest i the good V The lat( Upper Ca majority o man Cath( tion with sets at rest, ion and fei rights, and of those w as violatori and what i It will r posed of m jiidice or hi partiality ii of the Hig the close o the success we are wel country vv( portion of This decisi Prospectus, manner, th that many 1 ections in < SEQUEL, dec. ftViiii ■ -.J . . . . '..-'■'jL '■ ' ■ .-, The Committee of the Society for the establishment of equal Religiotto Liberty in British North America, while they feel, with unfeigned eat- jisfaction, that there is much cause for congrat.u]ation to the inhabitants of these Colonies, on the rapid advancement which has been made, within these few months,towards the consummation, to which theif aiijns and exertions are directed, deem it important, at this crisis, to lay be- fore the public an estimate of what yet remains to be accomplished, aiid to suggest such measures as appear to them expedient in order to perfect the good work. The late decision of the Committee of the House of Assembly in Upper Canada, manifestly in accordance with the sentiments of the majority of the members, that all the leading sects in that Province, Ro- man Catholics not excepted, should be admitted to an equalparticipa- tion with the Established Churches of Britain in the reserved lands, sets at rest, we presume forever, all further doubt as to the general 6^\n- lon and feeling of the country on the question of equality of religidtis rights, and seems in fact to have stopped, in a great measure, the moiiihs of those who preposterously denounced the advocates of this doctrine, as violators of vested rights, as sacrilegious invaders of Church prope^ and what not! : .;..■.>.■.>:: j l(f It will not be denied that the present House of Assembl)^ is cbraj- posed of men, the great majority of whom are not only divested of pre- judice or hostility to the Church of England, but actuated by a decided partiality in her favor and a bias no less decided towards the sentiments of the High Church and Tory School. It was a subject of boasting at the close of the last elections in that Province, that the greater piirt 6f the successful candidates were of the communion of that Church, and we are well persuaded that nothing short of the conviction, that the Country would not bear it, would have been sufficient to induce a ^at portion of the members to abandon the exclusive system as untenable. This decision goes not only to add new authority to the doctrines of the Prospectus, but proves incontrovertihly and in the most triumphant manner, that public opinion is on our side, and that, to such a degree, that many have been constrained to sacrifice their higb churdi predi* ections in order to retain the confidence of their constituents. ' ' • '^ 77903 With what reluctance they have done so, and with what violence to their personal and party feelings, to their deep rooted, and with many, we fear, whatever they may have professed, or however they may have voted, their still secretly cherished attachment to the exclusive system, will be evident to those, who bear in mind the tenor of the re- solutions brought forward, in the first instance by Mr. Draper, in which it was most preposterously and insidiously proposed to adopt as the ba- sis of the division of the reserved lands, the ratio of the several denom- inations or sects, not in the Colony, as common sense and common hon- esty would have dictated, but (I'isum teneaiis !) in the Parent country ! Heally it were no easy matter to decide whether to admire most the grossness of the stupidity, or of the effrontery displayed by these High Church: gentry. They verily reckon largely upon the gullibility of their constituents. The effect of this proposition, had it been carried, would .have been to give a vast preponderance to the Church of England oyt^r all Jier rivals, and Mr. Draper & do. woifld have treated their constil(- uenta, «/ iheycould^ like those juggling fiends in Macbeth "who kept the word of promise to the ear and broke it to the sense," Subseqiieiat iinovements of that party shew how capable they are of contemning >th,ose generous scruples which influence highminded men — ^those wlio are inicapable of sacrificing the jewel honor, to mercenary or party puc- poses. No doubt it was discovered during the Christmas iJJecessi that this Machiavelian manoeuvre would not pass with their constituents, as a latisfactory absolvement of the pledges which had been proffered or exacted so recently upon the hustings, and the "won mi reccrdo'* sa.- vours too much of the land of Machiavel to be heie accepted as a valifl .apology. After the ina;vispicious rejection (such we assuredly deem it) of the motion so ably advocated by Mr. Cameron and others, that the reserved lands should be converted into a peace offering and appropria- ted, to the service of general education, an appropriation in which the whole Province would have cordially concurred (with the exception of those only who were selfishly interested in favour of the contrary course,) and of which all denominations would have equally shared the benefit, whatever was liberal in the last measure, carried in the com- mittee, it is impossible to doubt, vt^as extorted, from some at least of the .members, who felt that they dared not fly in the face ol their constitu- lents ; and those who have forfeited their pledges, may spare themselves the trouble of presenting themselves to their outraged constituents after such a public expose of their Punic Faith.. In what light (his deci- ^sion of the committee was viewed by the ultra party, how cordial was ijLliie^r antipathy to it, is abundantly manifest in the burst of foul and |ierC9 invective, into which Mr. Hagerman, the Thersites pf the (ac- ^.Ubn, wafi hurried in an evil hour for himself— if both the government l^nd the. country be not blind and infatuated. We trust that " there is no Qiistake, and th^t there shall be no mistake" hereafler, as to the real cha- racter and views of Hagerroajn and his party, and of the unipitigated and immitigable opposition, with which, openly and clandestinely, dj- BO^^tt^ -tcctly and indirectly, they are prepared to encounter all liberal mem- The unmanly and dishonorable attempt which was made^ ader (hey saw the ranks of the liberal party thinned at the Hoee of tlie ses- sion, to carry their point by a stratagem, afTords lucid proof of the ani- mus of the party, and of the unecrupulous character of the zeal which inspires' them. Tiieir defeat after all was abundantly humiitating, when we reflect that Toronto is the centre of their etrength, and that their opponents must have not only been reduced in number but takep in a great measure by surprise. U. irsoi ;■,)*! !i;t:^,r. To those who are not thoroughly indoctrinated as yet, in the f*',mlad- mrartf" it might seem somewhat surprising, even after a. pretty enlar- ged and familiar experience of the consummation of folly vimpudem^, and recklessness, which selfish men and especially selfish political par- tisans are used to show off in the face of the world. and of the sun^ that Mr. Hagarman should not have thrown a slight veil over the nakedness of his selfish and insane political dogmas— At were a pnostitJution-of the -word to call them principles. Mr. Hagerman, as fortunately for the in;- terests of the country as unfortunately for th&designsofhi&cahal,;i8one iOfthose men whose dishonesty and lack of prinoipleris not covered by (ond rag of discretion, with whom in- very verily, " the want of decency ♦ia want of sense." He is the orator more bold than discreet, of a par^ ty whose extreme, and we might add, judicial blindness ("yttasefetts perdere vuHprius demeniai") hive brought them, and we grieve to :add, these Colonies whose government hiis been too long directed tby their blind councils, to the vergeofagulph from which one glimmering of vii^idh would have made them recoil.. He is the worthy Captain of a bandtxt' forlbrn incurables, whom experience cannot teach, who learn jiothing, foi^et nothing, stick at nothing, whom only fate and neceesily. are able to arrest in their blind and insensate career, who never recognize truth, justice or moral principle, until they think that they can be used as cbnr- venient tools to set - i'leir ends and interests. The friends of religicue liberty never had gre'^ser cause to arouse themselves and to p»it forlli all their energies. Let them read with attention the tirade of Mr. Ha- german,valuable for nothing but the unreserved freedom (a freedom how like that of a drunk man) with which he throws open his wltole eoul, and exposes to the public eye, the unbounded selfishness, the coaree and •vulgar insolence of a monopolizing taction, which is chargeable with the whole original sin of the past mismanagement and present unlvap*- py distractions of the Colony, and until the government is purged from their leprous infection^ it is vain to look for settled tranquillity or gen- eral harmony. If the country sit still in supine and listless indifference, thej^will soon realize to their cost the fable of the horse arid tho.sta^, and will feel ere long, with unavailing riegret, how muoh easier it is to prevent the bridle from being put into the mouth, the saddle from- bein^ fastened on the back, and the rider from taking possession of both, than to unseat him after he is onco mounted : for votir sacerdotal rider is the .1 dl»JC» •»>'- true antitype of the memorable man of the sea, in the Arabian Night^ Entertainments, whom the ill fated Sinbad knew so sorely to his cost. We grieve to say that all along and more especially of late, we ob- serve a connivftnce at these designs, if not a collussion with their au- thors and abettors on the part of, at least, the colonial governments, which augments our alarm, and urgently enforces upon the country the necessity of a prompt, united and determined resistance. It might have been easily seen long ago,on the part of both the home and colonial governments, had they been willing to see, that there was a deep and general antipathy, throughout these Provinces, to the erecting of a do- minant church or of dominant churches, or to the existence of any in- vidious preferences on the score of religion, and — the slight regard, nay the manifest disregard, had to the loudest and most vehement utterance of this feeling — which has been elicitecl,whenever the high church party, more zealous than prudent, have allowed their movements and designs to come into the light of public observation — appears to us, we are constrained to avow, both in sorrow and in indignation, to afford no very favorable omen of the popularity, efficiency, and stability of the gov- ernment, if they do not hasten to repair so fatal an error. Can there be a doubt that a virtual or rather an express pledge had been given on more than one occasion from the Colonial office,* that nothing would be done on the part of the Executive Government to give just alarm to those who suspected a design to favor the gradual introduction of a dominant church into these Colonies, at least, until the opinion of the Colonists themselves should be ascertained through the Colonial L?gislature8. And such a pledge having been given, what language of reprehension, nay of abomination and disgust can be too strong to be employed in characterising the act of Sir John Colborne, by which fif- ty-seven Rectories with one stroke of the pen, were established m Up- per Canada, in favor of that church, which in proportion as it is the object of jealousy and alarm to the people, becomes it would seem, the object of the partial and almost exclusive bounty and patronage of the government. Has not the establishment of the Rectories, so far at least, saddled the Colony with a dominant church, with an exclusive reli- gious establishment. Could they have possibly contrived to fly more palpably, more directly in the face of their own assurances, assurances most perfectly satisfactory had they been sincere] This vxt has shaken to the foundation, our confidence in their liberal professions. And are we now called upon to give our confidence to the government un- der whose auspices this measure has been adopted, to the government which, in such circumstances could act with such fatuity by surrender- ing to their absolute discretion the disposal or the distribution of the Reserved Lands] Can it be supposed that this augmentation of the wealth, of the influence, of the dignity and authority of the Anglican Church in the Colony, this infeoffment which gives a sanction to her extremest pretensions, which in a manner realizes her own most selfish interpretation of the Constitutional act, by giving her the exclusive benefit of it have any te tory adjustn of the confi ant church?- dealing? The signa sensitively j( tie enhance( doing it. T for ought we of the Chur posed to the going out of excitie a stor of honest ai brought out, coction. Vi stances of tl con8ummati< was enactec Swedish stat little wisdom We hesil such as thes by the roots ny ; and, we equivocal ev sels, andunc ores have be or to relax tti and proceedi I to understan< : stuff which t tentoobliter timed and u not at this m of our rulers .J,: citing of all i l We woulc f actual positi< I insidious mei ful, the ignoi ; terly incomp extremely re of the popul portion who in attonishm "See nolo A. benefit of it, do we suppose that this procedure of the government will have any tendency to render the way more open or easy to a satisfac- tory adjustment of the question 1 Are we to accept this as an earnest of the confidence due to its professions, not to force upon us a domin•^ ant church?— In fine, does this look like juggling or fair straight forward dealing? The signal imprudence of such a measure in the very excited and sensitively jealous state of public feeling in both Provinces, is not a lit* tie enhanced by the seemingly unmanly, and pusillanimous manner of doing it. The late governor who had been popular up to that date, and for ought we know justly popular, and had contrived to inspire the clergy of the Church of Scotland at least, with the opinion that he was op* posed to the erecting of a dominant Church, set his seal, just as he was ' going out of office, to a measure which he must have foreseen would excitie a storm of public indignation, a measure which shows as little, of honest and magnanimous dealing, in the manner in which it was brought out, as it savours of sound and liberal policy in its first con- coction. When we consider in what time and place, in what circum- stances of the government and in what mood of the popular mind this consummation of political blundering, to call it by no harsher name, was enacted, one feels all the emphasis of the exclamation of the Swedish statesman Oxenstiern, " my son, thou knowest not with how little wisdom the world is governed !" We hesitate not to proclaim our conviction that a few more act^ such as these, would inevitably, and we will add, most justly tear up by the roots all confidence in our rulers both at home and in the Colo- ny ; and, we speak it solemnly — ^indignantly, we shall require very un»> equivocal evidence of a very different spirit in those, by whose coun- sels, and under whose auspices, such foolhardy and evil omened meas- ures have been passed, ere we feel it safe to give them our confidence) or to relax the most jealous vigilance in regard to their political views, and proceedings. If they were wise to discern the signs of the times, i to understand the nature of the ground on which they tread, and the i stufi* which the people of these Colonies are made of, they would has- ten to obliterate the dangerous impressions, which such exceedingly ill- fimed and unwarrantable acts have necessarily created, and it would not at this moment be left in duubt, what are the views and intentions of our rulers, in regard to the most important and certainly the most ex- citing of all subjects connected with our Colonial Politics. We would earnestly adjure the country to mark and ponder well the, P actual position in which we stand at this moment, and the artful and I insidious means which are employed to steal around our necks the hate- S ful, the ignominious fetters of ecclesiastical domination, a thing so ut- .; terly incompatible with the circumstances of these Colonies, and aff: extremely repugnant to the spirit and sentiments of the vast raajority> of the population, nay, may we not add, to the majority even of that portion who are members of the Church of England, that one is lost in astonishment at the more than folly — at the infatuation which pes- ^efl«e» our eltatesnien on both sides of the Atlantic, in not proclainrinf at once their conviction of the utter inaptitude of such a sytHeta to our Aate, and in consequence of such conviction, their frank and final re^ niinciation of all views of this nature. Lfet usicompare the undisguised pretensions of the Clergy of the An- S'ican Church, and of the abettors of her exclusive claims — with the nguflge of the ordinance establishing the Rectories in the sister Prov- ince*— with the tenor of the Constitutional act of 1791 — let us compare thfese with th*? actual power and influence now vested in her Bishop ilnd Clergy — with the rapid strides which they are making, in defiance of all opposition, through the undisguised partiality of government, whose patronage, exclusively exercised in their favour gives them, in Moint of fact nearly all the substantial advantages of an established Church— compare all these vvilh the vast dscendancv of their party tff head-quarters, where their influence is all inall: — a party not* th€ tefis zbalous, active add indefatigable that their own hop^s of ambition or interest, individually and collectively, are bound up with the suc- cess of the project for creating a dominant Church — and if to all this you add the growing influence which, with all this patronage, with all this powerful and zealous support, with all these acquisitions and ad- vantages, to extend, confirm and perpetuate which, we need not doubt' the utmost exertions of all the allied powers and parties in question, will be put forth and strained, we shall perceive at once the magnitude of th^ evils, the imminency of the perils with which we are environed. , Put in apposition with all this, the followihg facts, that the Bishojpr and Clergy of the Anglican Church have had hitherto an almost ex- clusive atid unlimited control over the pubilic funds, and institutions for edtication ; that, in consequence of this paramount influence, it was preposterously attempted to erect Provincial universities upon the exclu- sive principle^ vesting the whole government and instruction in the^ hetnda of a body, who form only a fraction of the prbtestant pdpulatloh) that the vrtice of the country having been strongly ahd generally declar- ed against this most preposterous and insane attempt to inti'bduce the curse of Ireland into the Canadas, the system is still continued in practice — though the principle has been most reluctantly abandoned, (inly in despair of being able to hold it fast — ^by the establishment of the minor College at Toronto, under the auspices of Sir John Colborne, who— in perfect consistency, we own, with the last act of his adminis- tration, which converts, we deem, suspicion into certainty as to the mo- tive — placed this Provincial Seminary exclvsively (is it not so stiH ?) under the administration of Church of England Clergymen — no very prudent or politic arrangement— even could we absolve him from all suspicion of an insidious design to pave the way for the last memora- ble «et of his government — in a Province which had been s6' much ex- ited and agitated by previous manifestiatiohs of similar designs on the jjftrt of some of his predecessors. thk charter of the University of Upper Canada, it may be hnie, ier now liominally purged of all its init)eral and exclusive clauses, but'hbvr if Jittk wdl 1 Br. Strtct church api of one of t pretension governors, < with fenr e •oimaledb ooftoftheii M^n9Sfii.9n«,..,,i M*Gili College in Lower Canada^ in consequcmceLpf g mqsMniom- atous statute, concocted, it has been said, by the late- Bish^^lifouiHaiB, erecting a Royal Coqporation for the advancement of leaniingi i[^v<^ ed with an alraolutsand lumversal coatn»d, ov^. all public. fi)ndf(aiMi seminaries^^ education in the Province^ is virtually. undei^^eie^^u^liB controul of ^e Bishop of Quebec, and bis cleigy or partizans^i-4V^ai^ not- chargeable with/ &e^ slightest disrespect to the. ^glican Olei]gy, when we say that, Hke all communities^ they will«,if i^Iow^d to poosefi this paramount, authority and influenoe,.>:jBacerc}fe^i| 199)09, or. iMp,|^ thenr owitt aggrandizement. . i^ ^> ^ 7 , . -; ; .'t-,.i p, li,"!'-'/,' «.•?. r: Is it hot a fact, at this moment, that Govornment patronqiBpi anid bounty have been in a manner exclusively lavishe4. upon thon^i a<^ w«L really wish thataome friend to the liberal cause, would tak^^l^ trouble to draw up and publish, a ,«mple statement of idlcthe IQ^PI^^ hmunrs, emdumeht^ anid gcantf^ «if various, hinds and fiom :>H||fj9ae ■ourpes) mule m their favor* to stop the moutiis of those 11(^9^^^^^^ Uemea who ris^ up gravely to teU. us. that we have no relinpiiLfliie^ aaces^ no preferences or partialities to coniplain of! What wilUjiql some men deny I ~^r s It is k fact not very honorable — ^we gjtiieve that we are compelled to adopt such laaguage—to either the Home or the Colonial GfpverniiMa% that, with all this lavish expendUure and libiH«l patronage to the C!hiunB^ bf <.Eni^andi Clergyj numeKous peti^OQs from their Scottish faretfnen in >LoHvec Canada, though n^resenting a popidiati^n: 19^ lessnuf neroua, knportant, or deserving, have been ma^ unwisely and slifi^ fnllyonei^ected— r^ldedges,,express and solemn pledges on the part oC.tj^ flbvernmenty to comply with their just and.io^ileirat^i^ims ^|ive ^m fixgotten. and lUsre^rded— jiot one fraotioor pf the thpusandf vo^ b]^ the JBfitish' Parliament has been extended.to tluem ; and-^-^Iy a j^ tiijvmcialTreaiui^ hiBs-h&enig^n to two. of their number, the senior ministers of i^uiejb^ and Montreal.* ...:,;,-...; .:..;,••,■ y;. '.-: i-L-^iic^ Wei^caU this, and whoshidl deny ^a| there is much t90ta.ilx,ji^ prehemioiiiand disbrust, until we obtain someUiing. n^lKe satisf^i^ci^ t|ian mere i»rofbssioa»«^4hus notoriously mi scai^lq^lf vM^.% tots-o^hat tiie Goyernmenthave Eelihquia^ .Allyie,w4 t/t^yytaiia jiaif eieotioa of a dominant chitfeh, and. are^ not Ohly 19 {^cffessi^ Jttiii in pr9ctice„|Kepared tunraeforthi to hnOw^ ao dist\ii|i^ensJi|tiiii(fSii! <>nf;«Y nonunatbtt of their subjects an4 another^. x-t ^«;t no.'u *See Note B. B 10 ' tetnt infer from thwalanmngview of th6-«itttation of mto tfitiy^ bow mueh it is the dutf. «f dl the (Kends df either our civii or our rs- I^M ifghtiand liberties) to be on the alert. This is no time to sleep ii|6on ^eir poex. Let one unanimous voice be lifted up, one simidta- ^ibmtedffort made, and we shall heaveoff this incubus from our eoun- kft aht'dpen a way for ^e free growth, the fuil expansion) of these ^lditi6ll-^we shall sweep away sll that now reprfwses the initting forth liiP^i^ ianergiet of our p(^ulation, the first, thaonty original ispringt of nations lii^ Kberty, proeqperity $ and thereby we shall most e£&ctinUy "pi&nSii for the permanence of our connection with the Parent State, >i eonttiectien which, if it be suddenly and violently burst asunder j' we 'ite t^riuad^ it will be, not through the direct and immediate agency 'oF-the- Radioala or Republicans in Uppev 'Canada, or of the Clique 'ftdticKti in this Province, but through the mischievous inihienoe and '^dtf&BBons acts ofydurHagermans and Strachans— of those fools who "will rush in where angels fear to tread,'* and whose shallowness «f 'Mderstanding, accompanied with a reckleas selfishness, a low said «kdid ambition^ render them Mind and insensate to the volcanic de>- mentis which a little spark may kindle into combustion— which may eomtnitnieate with a train whose explomon would precipitate theoeun' fry inlo r^evolidion, and the Gcvemmeni into ruin. Of such acha*- tacter and mould, both in heart and head, were the men who feat iifiiM into most unwilling dysaffection, and by their bKnd and ;incor>' l[plly drove atlengdi into open revolt the C(4omei to the sosttb a mighty and independent nation ; and there are ^irits ati^l^'iiSj who ai^ hastening to put the finishing hand to the^dismemt- behfteht of the British Transatlantic empire. The rev«4ution wUlend where it began, in the evil councils and evil influence of men who, in spirit, principles, and character, bear one express image and liken^s, leSebt in every part and feature a common nature^ as far sa niera change of costume may not vary or disguise the points of similitude., i Will it be'denied that the exclusive claims of the ChurtU of En^aild stand oppdsed to th6 wishes and interests of the great body of the'Cot t^nists T Win it -bear a question afler the exposi which has been. msde more than once of her exorbitant pretensions, in tho face of the coimv try and of the woiid, that it is the duty of every well-wisher of thift Colony and of the Parent Country^ to stand iforth at once iwopen avowed detennihed resistance to such prepciiterous and oveitoained pretensions 9 Shall we allow ourselves to be insulted, bullied and. bio^f> Deaten by the hirelings of office^ by the creatures of a court, by ^ •elfish needy time-serving vtrmin of dependants who swarm ai head* i^ivters, whoj like carrion crows, are gathered together wherever the urease iij who, (^times without one partideof private or ipiridio vie- ttae, virithoiit6ne manly trait of character to command tespeotior con^ fiden^ j contfivo to turn to their advantage the wedmesi or the faop> St^fof their better!, and to cover over the virus, of their Omageism (diat iff iti proper name) by an affected and exaggerated »a|,. in oppo- sition to the Radical or Revolutionary party, who, but for them, would either have MRbkth tlieii life) wAo w\ or rather^ y their declin 'Such are eimen.. . ,« he has unvi withering fq I009 erenow of all the exorcised 1 learned Sol affini(hr or a anilities ha^ have no otl enable us t( all the rest < vidence, to We will to proclaim Hagerman, nected with more reser^ real sentimt mon interes the spirits o drangs in ti shsdow of feeling ; at apt and ea to go all I of his pro] amidst the 1 moral paral; not; have s licy-^they but will unl of their coi tage. Thei and self int( i* the bud, Govemmen nisters and fered much fluence and longer, eithi It Iff ftfiaif^ NT (furie- i toideep Bimvdta- Nir couu' of the«e ting forth spnogtoT Sfectuallf snt State, indoT)' vrm teogeney te Clicpw lenoe and roots who tninesa of lovr «n4 »nicel0>> biohmaff theceiunr ah a ohao who &8t nd iAcor>> the ira wpaiiat idisRienv- I will' end n who, in i liken^ M xftOn lUituije. } fEn^atld if the' Cot eenimada thecoimv ler of thib _ iwqpen oibtrained ind.bfoinrf iDl» h)r the n aihead* )rever < the n^io vii>> lotior oon^ irlhefaob> Ormgeiim |,.in:oppo- NB, would 1 I I eiflier have. had no l>eM)g at all, at V70idd hi^ve b^n;Ut(eri^ invigiMif cnnt*'-who have grown out of or rai^r^ if we may hope better 4hing6, are doMined qteedily ionltw^ their decline nnd downfalL -Stioh are the men, of whom Mr. Hdgerman serves as a goodly sper » citnm^ " Ex WHO disce omnes,** In a numient of outrageous iptnaAw, he has unveiled the nahed deformity of that party sellishneBS) of that withering jE^irH of jreligious intolerance and exclusivenees,, which mint loof ere now, in British North America, have ^'descended to the grave of all the GapulelB," had it not found a fit resting place, like the exorcised demon in the. Gospel, in such bosoms as those of the learned Solicitor and his fraternity — ^had it not been for the elective affinil^ or attraction, to adopt a chemical figure, which such antiquated anilities have for minds, constituted like Hagerman*s. Such men have no other, use in nature, unless it be to serve as land^maika to enable us to determine the rate of that progressive moment by which all the rest of the world is carried onward, in the course of Divine Fto- vidence, towards the gad of perfection. We will not dissemble our conviction, however perilous it may be to prodaim it, that this spirit, that these principles are common to Hagerman, with the great majority of ofiicial and influential meit con** nected with the Executive in both Provinces.* Others may act widi more reserve and self-command, may succeed better in veiling their leal sentiments and designs, but they have all a common cause, a com- mon interest, a common ambition ; and no one who is a discemer of the spirits of men, or who has paid any attention to tlieir sayings and doings in time past, and even at a very recent date, can entertain a shadow of doubt that they are all baptized into one faith, into one (eeling; and when time and circumstances serve, will be found apt and eager — ^will be found— every man of them — nothing loth to go all lengths with Mr. Hagerman, allowing him, at the peril of his proper neck, to save their putting their own in jeopardy, amidst the rocks and precipices of their Alpine ascent. Cursed with moral paralysis, a dead palsy of selfishness, such men will not— 'Can- not! have sympathy with any liberal j enlightened or generous po* licy-^they have no compunctious visitings, no remorseful ^rinkin^ { but will unhesitatingly sacrifice the greatest and most precious intereali of their country and of mankind, for the least personal or party advan- tage. Their only balance for weighing all measures, is that of patty and self interest. Such men are the rottenness in the bones, the worm i* the bud, the corruption in the very heart's core, of the Colonial Governments. And if such men shall continue to be the chosen mi- nisters and confidants in whom our rulere take delight — if they are Buf- fered much longer to hold their places, and to retain their undue in- fluence and ascendancy at head-quarters — if they are sufiered much longer, either through the tameness of the people or the connivance of *Sf* Note r. ~ " 12 tbe Croveniniientytdr Weigh ckMMt hs credit and irespeeUibility ^J ^ {ftdHbiMi of thJeii^'^reiMMil ftlid party wlfishneM-^nd if the Govern- teefjrt do^i^' of wHl hot 8^ the odiiiAti^the danger vi^hleh they incvr, MixMf h' 'pirompt ^tid effechial r(»Aedy, they will go down witha«it «yln{>afiiy'e)r''yg|re(j Withotit the least hope or chance of Deden^liDn^ If such scenes, if such doings, as those by which His Majeaty^a SdK- ■ei|Or<€t«[tet^ dtegraced iA^fiMe//, at least the honorable ojgUce which he h^difiMiltftmbortkilyf we deem ; the Gowmment whose servant he ^aiid ^6Hou8edfJlssembly^ which he and his allies converted, on «llofe than one occasion during the late session, into a bear'^iden, iVhos^ debaties, through hia defiance of all sense, decency and aiannen* i(9enied to partake all the wild licence and disorder, without the spirit tofburanctent Feudal Parliaments, whoae mail-clad barons did not long idf^ the tame war of fierce words, but passing from hot arguments to ^d irdn, proved that, if they lacked the cod wisdom of legidators, they were not deficient in the courage of warriors — it is easy to see thai— if such doings are connived at, if such men are patronised and Crusted by Government — ^it will inevitably become identified, in the jMlblic opinion with its ministers and confidants; and with good reason it will be inferred that our rulers sympathise with iheir spirit, •entiments and bearing. ^ Now is not a time to tamper with the feelings of the people of Canada, much less to insult, lacerate and outrage these feelings on points' in respect to which they are sensitively alive. The ques- tion of Church domination is one with respect to which no candid inti^igraft man can doubt, what is the sense of the vast majority of the 'Qdonists : it has been fiequently, urgendy expressed — strong symp- loitis have been most unequivocally manifested, of irritation, impatience, disgust J and yet the Government continue as in a deep sleep— they cannot see, they will not hear. The very fact that the question re- mains unsettled, operates to the disadvantage of the Government ; and the' longer the worse — it cools and weakens ita friends, emboldens and ■trengthens its enemies, and would do so, were there no manifestation whatever on ita part of a disposition, of a leaning in favor of the un- popular-side. It is the interest and must be the wish of the enemies of British connexion that the government should persist in this course, that it should continue to favor the designs of the would-be dominant ;Ohuroh, as the surest means of rendering itself odious, and paving the (way for its own subversion — that it should give all its confidence and all its patronage to those who are the advisen and abettors of the system of governing the Colonies by influence and who for this purpose are pre- posterously labouring tocreate a State Church, no doubt, as a fulcrum for a puppet aristocracy, composed, forsooth, of such materials, men mould- ed ot such clay as Solicitor Hagerman ; — a goodly project whose con- summation may be expected at the Greek Kalends ! It would be a needless waste of time and of breath to reason with the poHucal owls and bats who hold and avow such Quixotic doctrines, in wilful igno- rance of the popular disgust and antipathy with which such pretensiouN m f hj ike Govern- sy ineoT) V without le«qiten« ity'tSdK- wrhicK'he ervanthe erted, on ir-gaiden, monnere^ the spirit i not long amentt to egidatora) isy tosee nised and id. in the irith good «tV spirit, people of selings on 'he ques- 10 candid rity of the mg symp- ipatience, jep— they lestion re> lent; and Ident and nifestation >f the un> • enemies is coane, dominant laving the ice and all system of e are pre- ilcrum for en mould- rhose con- >uld he a iiical owls ilful igno- retensionn '4 X, are regarded, in Mind and ibot-kardy defiance of tKe spirit ioif die agei and we add, with emphasis, of the- spirit of the ColbaislB of &itiih North America. ' ' v At the hazard, peradventure, of being dehoanced as Benutcrats aitd vepuUicans^ the usual salutation with which <* hoc genus omne** greet Ul who oppose their bigotry and excluJaiven^s, we openly and unhes- itatingly prodaim our conviction of the utter fallacy of their maxims of government, and of the extreme hazard of giving in to them in Kny degree. It appears to us, that if there be a rock on which mote than any other, the vessel of the Colonial State is likely to sufibrehipwreek, if there be a plausible form of false policy into which the British Gov* emment may be liable to be beguiled'AroUgh guileful misrepresentations, it is none other than that of opposing to the Democratical tendency of the Colonies the feeble, futile system of a government supported by the influence of a dominant Church and a bastard aristocracy. We shall be happy to be mistaken in our suspicions and alarins, but we re- ally do not know on what other principle we may account for (he fatu- ity with which the Government have persisted, tand do still, amidst loud, general, vehement reclamation, persist to fiivor the high Church party. If they entertain no such views.^then their conduct is still more unwise and unaccountable, in not hastening to remove all appearances and thereby silence every murmur and extinguish every suspicion. " Hoc Uhactu vtlit el magno mercetUw Mrida.^* Those who are desirous to he sev- ered from the British connexion, who seek the subversion of the only remaining monarchical government in this Continent, those who Idng to see the star striped banner floating on the whids of Canada, could not desire, could scarcely imagine a posture of affairs more propitious to their wishes and hopes, than a government in the false and unnatu- ral position of struggling against the spirit of the country and of the age, and patronizing and fostering, or which is the same for their pur^ pose, seeming to do so, a system of religious and political inequality and exclusion amongst a population whose attachment to Britain can only be secured by the most liberal and equal treatment, by suoh a treatment, we repeat, as will leave no room, no, not even a pretext for drawing comparisons between themselves and their neighbouHt of the United States, to their own disparagement. We would ftgaih and again urge upon the government that the reverse of these views and meas- ures, is the only true and saving policy for their American Colonies. We appeal to all honest and enlightened friends of the Parent Country and the Colonies, who have had an opportunity of becoming sufficient- ly acquainted with the circumstances of the latter, who arb not inocu- lated with the virtu of High Church prejudice, whether there be any other possible way of promoting the mutual interest of the Colonies and the Parent State, of cementing their attachment and perpetuating their union, than that of accommodating the Government, so far as circumstances will allow, or sound policy warrant, to the wishes of the population, that of giving free and full scope to the developement of our resources in such a way a« nature indicntes without impeding her course, «r obeirueting pur ffe0i,gr4»i>M^(and pidgteflMon by needless' restrictionr, aiid e > . Let the government this day compute how much of aU the odium tbev have incurred, how much of aU thai has afforded ground or odotir to the discontents and the dissensions, by which we a)ce agitated, how much of all. the. embarrassment and , perplexity in whieh Canadian ti' '*;.v«^r .r ''"ff #.\ i hiiujjfii!'^. : '^ »<:•;/. f^^' 16 polHicvare now mvolved, wotdd have been preventok or counteracted *f*haliihed these odious rectories in defiance of public opinion, in gross and scandalous violation of public faith, will not be less zealous, or less pertinacious to follow out their design. " Obsta principiu^ is a ♦See Now D. -,w. rule most if we sut advantage however; of precedi to carry 01 No ma This is on ly establisi demanded to exist he It is in cause the the grant faith of thi be done 1 Churches, latures. of which t home gove honor, in e can wipe c If there tion rest w lisAing thi or of theg the Colony restdring th maintain, 1 should decl question 1 \ by the autl forsooth, a the Le^sl and clandt tion ! Ho themselves can be fori glimmering sions of pi It were pi the iniquitji tract, that the full exfa entiousnese tltia, ruat c The appi of a violati '^tt? I rule most atrictly opplicable to this case, and we may rest assureil, that if we submit tamely to this infringement) to this usurpation, every advantage will be taken of it, at a future day, and upon this foundation, however narrow it may be, they will contrive— r-in victue of the principle of precedent right which it involves in favor of the endowed ChuEch-r- to carry out their claims to Uie full extent,* in No man in his senses can believe that the matter will stop here. This is only the prelude. Let the present recUnries be firmly, and final- ly established, and who shall doubt tluit the same endowment will be demanded a« a right by all the successive clergymen and congregations to exist hereafter in communion with the favored Church. >- v^f^ It is in vain to tell us, that these endowments cannot be revoked, be- cause the faith of government is pledged to the party in whose &vor the grant was made. We deny the validity of the act, because the faith of the Metropolitan gpvernment was pledged, that nothing should bo' done towards the erection of a dominant Church or dominant Churches, without the consrat and concurrence of the Colonial legist latures. The mimster fx the agent can never have powers or rij^ of which ike master or priticipeu has voluntarily diveirted himself. The home government must feel that this act has compromised their faith and honor, in such a way that nothing short of its absolute revocation can wipe out the stain. If thoe be a violation of faith, does not the original Mn of that viola- tion rest with the government ? is it not involved in the ordinance eaieJh- lishing the Rectorits — and in what other way can tiie faith and the hon- or of the government be effeetually redeemed, and the wrong of which the Colony indignantiy complains, duly expiated and repaired, but by restoring that state of things which that faith was publicly pledged to raaintaih, until the united voice of the two branehes of the Legidi^ure should declare thesmse of the country in respect to this long agitated question 1 Oh ! it is a fine thing to hear the mighty ote^erjp-^that is made by the authors and instigators of this shameful infiaction-"^^ ^^oiMfnwt forsooth, and breach of faithy when we demand that the sanction of the Legislature and government shall be refused to the stealthy and claindestine usurpations of an. ambitious and encroaching fac- tion ! How eagerly, hbw zealously do the high Church party avail themselves of the solemn sanctions of justice and morality, when they can be forced into their service, while they cannot catch the slightest glimmering of their light, when it shines to expose their palpable' inva- sions of public right and to point the way to restitutibn or reformation ! It were pity, since their eUiics go so far as to enlighten their eyes to the iniquity of violating faith — of retracting or annulling a pledge or con- tract, that these zealous sticklers for political morality shouki not go to the full extent of a perfectly impartial, irrespective integrity and consci- entiousness — of that sunerlative righteousnew whose motto is *^Fiat jus« titia, ruat caelum." ii-iUiif ,'t\■•;.'. . ni^hiiimUnn iG(iii'^&^f lithnmn^rfnnsf^^^^^ It is the indispensable duty of all the friends, of liberal govern- ment, in the sister Province, to press upon their rulers their determiila- tion not to submit, patientiy to such mdignityyto such an iniquitous im- positiodas this establishment of Mctories. They may be assured that it ;]»' only a prelude - to further invasions y to more bold and extended usurpations. It is a; feeler put forth to asdertain how far these liberties may be ofrried, to what extent patience, or rather pusillanimity, and ap- athy on thie part of the people will bear with these encroaehments. Whal is now only a prelude^ will be converted, by and bye, into a j[>rece- dent^;into:il principle, to which appeal may bemade in order to enforce fujRtbeir iinposition.- Future advancement will be easy^ now thtit a breach is once made-t-4n entrance once secured. The little fing(er is ii| -Hihe whole corporation will soon folloW' — in the ample rotundity of its endre dimensions. The body and aJl its members witt soon be hf— and challenging for the tohdle ai they new do for the. fracHony the sacred' neis of the public faiths and grasping that possession wMchisnine poiriisof thelaw — ^they will easily resist any attack which may 'be founded upon; the. miseraA/e tithe point that will! remain to the Colony, ii| seeking redress. Like the weasel in the fable, . however lean and slender and feebid, they will — fed and fattened by this, ample provision^ — 40on attain a growth, a strength to bid proud defiance to eyery ef- fort to die^rassess or reduce them. The sister Province is infatuated—- is blind to her most vital interests, if she does not put herself at once into an attitude of stern and determined resistance to this inwdious movement of a restless, insatiable, intriguing faction, who manifestly contemplate nothing short of a complete monopoly of ecclesiastical property and power, and who in the most daring and insolent maimer, scruple not to outrage the feelings of the country, and to trample on ♦See Note F. ^1 every princ sel^pi^. end mosttiuneqi nes9 of inff these C(4oi of ferinent be deluded, or cease fn or the leops that remaii the govern n of Bri,tiBh s aration of Let such shall convin to be thua 1 cred rights, to the Imp4 done to the people of fi naciously ui letthe whol nicious pysti siopj.prayii into the orig whi(:f)i>y^.n< Governors ir iniquitous pi duct themsel room for coi prejudice of The expe ance can b< GovenrnorSj their high ol evitable leai startle at ou maxims of < challenge ac men who co both in Parli unscrupul(H] tendency of in the oondi the general < the analogy^ theOrftngef sayings and Id ,* eyery principle of justice, ffiith and honor, in the prosecution of their sel^ph. end^; They b^ve not beeQ:di9cour«ged i>y the fs^ronge^ ,ai)4 mo«l(iunequivqcal expressions of public indignation. Wi^h theblin4'*' ness of inff^tuation they persist to Vfge their measures, ala.crisis.whi^n these Colonies, through their evil ctmneehmdi^fiusncei are , in a state of ferment and agitation, bordering op revolution. Let not the country be deluded thy the vain . hope that thija parly , will eyer change its spirit or cease from its machinations. "Oan the Ethiopian change. hiP P^in cnr the leopard his spots ]" Their destruction is the lOnly hope of safety that remains tQ the Colony. If they continue m^h longer, tpswi^y the government as they have done^ «U the wisdQtQ; and all the address of Briitish statesmen will be impotent to avert the^speedy aad.final ps^ aration of British North America from the Empirer* Let such, a remonstrance be laid before the House, of Commons, a^ shall convince |hat body, that the people of Canada are not in a humour to be thu» tampered with, in the matter of their dearest and mostsar cred rights. Let a full and unreserved, statement be submitted forthwith to the Imperial Pariiament, of all the grievous complicated wrong, done to the feelings and rights— to the civil and sacred interests of the people of ficitish North America, by the long continued; and still perti^ naciously urged endeavour to elevate. one Church t to a Bominanpy, and let the whole spirit, tendency and effects of this most, impolitic and pc^r nicious system be clearly laid open and es^posed to m^|itedV!e now denounce, andthi^t peremptory injuivctions be given; to Goveritors in all time coming to put a final stop to all such partjal and iniquitous proceeding|9, on the pact of the executive at least, and to con- duct themselves, in their administration, in su(;h a n^anner af to lei^ve no room for complaint, that jc^ligion creates any bias in fiivor— or to the prejudioe of any individual, ^ect, or party whatever. The experience of the past has too sorely taught us how little reliT. ance can be placed upon the wisdom, impartiality, or firmness of the Goyeirnors, who too often bring with diem into the administration of their high office, religious or political prejudices which give them an in- evitable leaning in favor of the Ultra or Orange faptionv Lc^t ,no one startle at our use of this term, as if it were inapplicable to the spirit or maxims of the Aristocratic or Tory party in the sister Province. We- challenge any intelligent observer whedier—-lool4ng at the views of U)e men who compose this party — their sentiments and doctrineS) asi avowed, both in Parliameot and through the medium of their many active i^nd unscrupuI(His organs and enginies of the press and — the character and. tendency of their actual measures, as manifested, for a length of tinij^,. in the conduct of government — in the dispensation of its, patronage— an4 the general exercise of its influence— it.be possible not to be s1;cuc^ with the analogy, which they bear, in all their leading and peculiar features, to the Orange faction in Ireland. Those who have paid any attention to their Kayings and doings, will not, we are persjoaded, accuse, us of misrepre- 20 senting thdin, when we say that they lack little of the full gt^owh pro- portions of that monsteTf (to make a still more just and striking applica- tion of the memorable and emphatic epithet by which General Jack- son stigmatl^d the United States' Bank) which has btm, and, though much shorn of its portentous strength, still is the plague, the cume of unhappy Ireland. Nay, we are well informed that there are not on- ly some notorious Orangemen in the present House of Assembly in the sister Province^ bat we have good reason to believe that there is a\se- cret compact of these illuminati, and that a bond of fraternisation has been clandestinely entered into among the choice ^irits who pos- sess those intellectual, moral and political qualifications which fit them for such an initiation — which render them worthy of the bad emi- nence, the base distinction which such a matriculation confers ! We remark that the Roman Catholics of Kingston have presented a very moderate, but manly and impressive memorial to Sir Francis Head, complaining of this pious and patriotic association — of this liberal and enlightened movement, worthy of the heads and of the hearts of those ■tatesmen and l^^slators who have long held the chief sway, in Little York and Tijronto. This holy League or Alliance are piously invok- ing the Alecto of Ireland into Canada ; and if they durst, would, in the Sstusof their Party fanaticism, raise openly, their war cry of Protest* ant Ascendancy, and let loose all the hellhounds of political and reli- gious discord, amongst a peaceable, loyal and happy population.* It is fortunate for the Colony and the mother country that at this moment, Oran^sm is so well unmasked — its features are so well known, its spirit and fhiits so thoroughly dreaded and abominated in Britain — that there is no chance whatever of its escaping ^e that destiny which is meet — we think its doom is sealed — and we trust that its reign is now about to close forever— that it will fall like Lucifer — never to rise again, i^^ ^ »•'•' But to return firom our digression. These and such as these are the men by whom our Governors have hitherto been surrounded— with whom they have been in the constant habit of almost exclusive inter- course— -of confidential intimacy from the first moment of their as- sumption of the government. In fact, these are the men, that have hitherto filled the councils— monopolised the offices of government, who have principally ori^nated public measures and almost wholly gui- ded aiid administered Colonial affairs. How is it possible that looking through such a discoloring medium, our rulers should have obtained a clear, or steady view of the state and interests of the Col- ony, or of the wants and wisheis of the population. These are the men, with whom, until a new and better system shall happily be organ- ized, our governors are necessarily united in their warfare against the common enemy, the Radical, Republican, Revolutionary Faction. — The necessity under which they are placed, of employing the one extreme party to put down or counteract the opposite extreme, is the natural bond of union between them. The remedy is of that sort which aggravates the distemper, and will render it in the end incu- rable. The Tory party come into power through the unwarranta- ble and revolutionary violence of their antagonists, and arc no sooner in posed as meats.* M possession men, who breeding, a their orde their dreai and are c( and as we the contra Until v( belonged ^ merits in popular s very little least in o population tion to all ots in relig Dr. Stracli life, has, the discon tendency c es of the p and — to pi the Colon] perfect re Archbisho picture, su men, who^ are extren: indefatigafa honor rath inasmuch lightened a the ilfoss o ♦Sec Nolo H. mti pfo- app}ica- •al Jack- I, though le cune B not on- t)ly in the i is a se- ;rni^tiun who pos- vhich fit bad emi- rs! We (d a very is Head, beral and s of those in Little \\y invdk- Adf in the (fProtesti and reli- ion.« It is I moment, I, its spirit that there is meet — r about to rt. '^^•' "-'^ B are the led— with ive inter- their fls- that have nent, who rhollygui- Bible that >uld have f the Col- e are the be organ- ^inst the action. — I the one e, is the f that sort end incu- warranta- » sooner in I j)ower, than by some outrageous proceeding, tltey create a reaction which hurls them down again to pave th6 way for the triumphant re turn of the R&dicals — and the last state is worae than the first. Is this fact ? «Ask of the years that ate past and they will tell you !" It requires wonderful little sa^city to perceive that as long as a course is pursued by our rulers which is narn>w, illiber^ and exclusive, they de- prive themselves unavoidably of the confidence and support of the peo- ple- — are, in a manner, compelled to form this unworthy, impolitic, and fatal alliance — they are drawn, or rather driven into a league with men of this kidney, the ultimate efiect of which is, to establish " Imperium in imperio," investing these toorthies with an ascendant influence — at least — in the Executive Department, and in the Le^slative Council, com- posed as it has been, and still is, almost exclusively of the same ele- ments.* Nor is it to be wondered,if— with the natural and hereditary pre- possessions which must be expected, more or less, to be inherent in men, who are themselves, with rare exceptions, of aristocratic birth and breeding, and therefore, not always without a tinge of the prejudices of their order, — our governors allow themselves to be carried too far, in their dread of— and antipathy to— the self styled popular or liberlal party, and are consequently prone to fall in too much with the equally selfish, and as we deem, even more dangerous deigns, of their antagonists,^ in the contrary extreme. ' Until very recently too, our governors have with rare exceptions^ belonged to the military profession, and whatever may have been their merits in other respects, they have not inclined too much to the popular side. The maxims of their administration have savoured very little of the liberal or coflpatory spirit, which is essential, at least in our American Coloni^ and among the very heterogeneous population subjected to their rule. Some of our governors, in addi- tion to all this, have been high church men of the Orange school, big- ots in religion, as well as in politics, and passive tools in the handd of Dr. Strachan, who, whatever may be his estimable qualities in private life, has, without all question, been the prime agent in creaiting all the discontents in the sister Province, and in neutralizing the natural tendency of things there, to promote a growing attachment of all class- es of the population, to the Provincial and to the Parent Government ; and — to produce general harmony, contentment and prosperity within the Colony. The venerable Archdeacon of Toronto, is, in our mind, a perfect reflexion, in his moral and political character, of the famous Archbishop Sharpe, and would make a capital subject for a graphic picture, such as Gait has drawn in his novels, of a certain class of Scots- men, who, actuated by a pride and ambition, not of the noblest order, are extremely supple, shrewd, canny as well as active, persevering and indefatigable in their eflbrts to get on ; that class who seek dignity and honor rather from the toorld mthout than from the world within ; and inasmuch as self respect, independence, disinterestedness and an en- lightenied and enlarged spirit of liberality— purged to the uttermost fr6m the dfpss of selfish, low ambition — are the qualities that form a wise and ' ■!< .'iiM' •I 't >;'.ii?{t(; *See Note I. (•m'.r;? '•'of-jfr;.''- <^ .70'> tz patriotic statesman or legislator, wq conceive tliat there are no men sa mischievous, so dangerous, when po68e88e4 of power ai;id inB^jsnce over the destinies of nations, as men ibrmed in sucli mould a^dof such ql^y as Dr. Strachan. Their views are shallow;, tb^ir aims, are low, thi^ir measures weak, their motives selfish or .factious— and their pref^umptiop, is in proportion to tlieir incapacity, tt js lamentabie, it i^ |]^9^i^i;ii)g to think how much , government is peryeiled by mien of mean,i|aincb,^d narrow views, whose only npierit is uidustry and party zc?l— aiid,Yvho— wanting those endowment^ intellectual and moral, which yvoi^^ fit them to tread the lofty path of a. noble and generous ambition, cany witK them— wh^n the caprice pf fortune elevates them, above their iiatural sphere—" the meanness^ that soars, and pride that licks the dii^t/^ all those arts and qualities which render them actively and obstinately mi^ chievous, with a se|f conceit which leaves no hope of their ever coming to an ingenuous feeling, of their unfitness for the plape which they oc- cupy, and consequently to the wise and virtuous determination of sac- rificing jo their conscience or their country, their selfish and party in- terestf. . But to proceed-^when it is considered bow short is the period, gene- rally speakiijig, of the residence of our successive governors in the colo- ny, and how superficial and imperfect, in most instances, their know- ledge of the people and of parties, when they enter upon their adminis- tration, it will not be difficidt to account for the fact, that hitherto, they have oflen been little better than tools, and puppets, in theha^dsi^f the officials in Toroi^to and Quebec, and this we have no doubt has been the real, original ground of disaffection, to the government, and of dis- sension, distrust, and division in the,jB||pny. Nor ^ill the eflect cease, until we shall have the most unequi^|»l demonstration that the cause is finally and forever taken away* Here the blow must be struck, pther- vvise, our political, Hydra will continue ta shoot forth new heads, and abuRe^ and discontents will be produced and reproduced, untilpatience i^ exhausted, and the complete alienation of the afiections of the colo- nists fi^om the mother country, shall issue iii,^|he finf^,and speedy dis" solution of our union. ! .i . , Sir ^rancis Head, the present governor of Upper Canada, appears to be now generally popular, but " let him that standeth, take heed lest he fall." We would not bid him reckon too confidently oijk the continu- ance of bis popularity; — if he do not exert all.hia authonty and influ- ence, to, effect with promptituyrong them — are a sort oi political non conductors between the governor and the col- ony, obstructing rather than facilitating the communication of that mu- tual influe fween the sions, that tfct ground m#nl be a culiar eirci Thrown iij emment^ tbeiir print which jwc ant — an ai measures, we deem, implieitly i men as Hi i«8uhbe n lean ever 8( tiitm whiteh until losing High Chut" wherever t disaffection embarnisiB will afford t bemadefiy ulariiy. , IfSlrPn I velutidnifljn ; anrfdistif^ I topoig^Ms angisni. T ; the Mostes ^edandf^c and^ou mi from the ppj suspicions t fettenr arou tentou6ton **alienoloc< most ittiiuen sufficierit to *incon|i|i«3ti ' festationrdf the Hmm o most formidi common dis< eraH^cohne at least of tb mens* ceover ch ql^y IT, th^ir naptiop, ids, fji4 i^ho — oy^i. fit rry with natural ii^t," ail dy m^. • coming they oc- of sacr »d, gene- the colo- ir knbw- adminis- Tto, tl^ey ids cfC the hasheen a of ais- ctce98e» he cause ;k,p^er- afdS) and patience he coio- ;edy dis- jpears to lei^d lest continu- id influ-; it of the beneath lalsq.^^ — ner^ to edit' and whiphj, recalled, ht^iriain Bn. Yet ; them — thecol- thal mu- tual influence and intelligence, which it is so* essential to maintain be- 1 tween the rulet* and his subjectsj we must riot disguise our ftppreheii- I sions, that, -pteced in tbese'tirdimstances, he may not be duly aWiro of tli« ground m whieh'hie treads, of the spirit of the people, whose gbyerh- mwrt be adcfrinistei*, 'and of the liberal course pt policy Which the 'pe- culiar circumstances of Our American Colonies, absoltrtdy demfltid.'* Thrown iiito collision— almost iait the moment of his assuming lh6 gov- emmdntt— -with the lead^ts of the self styled liberal party, we fear that theiif principles and proceed! tigs may have created— even in his mind, whichi we ar^ not unwilling to believe, is strong, manly and itidepend- ant — art antipathy to then* and their parfy^ and all their views and measures, which may cdrty him !6o far" towards the opposite, and as wB deem, ^ill'more dan^eirfoB^ extreme. ' And should he be induced too implicitly to trtiW, and too pafteivdy to fall ih with the counsels of such men as Hagermsn, Drsiper, and Strachan, we ai^e no prophets, if the vesuh be ffdt speediljr fatal to his popularity arid usefulness. Let him lean everto httle, in the firet ihstaHoe, to this side, he will create a refac- tion whiteh mii^ force hitti to go furthet than he wist of contemplated, untillosirtg all «onfidence and attacihment except on the side of thei High €huWjli,''of tlfrti party, he Vnir have no choice but to follow, where^ver their rash ^ouh^ls And blind bigotry may lead ; a growing disaflfection, a gttywing bppd^fifon ih>m every other quarter, will first embarrass and perplex, and at last paralyze his g6yffiicious loyally; Beware of these' men and their measuresi^ and yon may sleep irt peace sis to any apprehensions of serious danger from the oppb«tte ^tlttrtbi^. We wiU noi suppfeSi^'Or disBeiiiUe oDr strong suspicions that the dominant Chuifch party are already^ winding their : fe(tsn» arouAd the rteek Of Sir Francis. Ills i*eally alarming and por- tentouis to read sortie o^thoi recent appointinents^^hich he baa mtide ^'alienolocoet tempore,'^ (to adopt Ctesar's phrase) to the highest iind most ittHuentiai ofllbes.' Hegefm^n, Draper, Jbnes ! — ^^^ names atw sufficiertt to discredit the governments-Hand such appoirtiments— taken I in conjKrtetiort with the ertdbwrtient of the rectories, and the late nsani- $ festatiorts bfhi^h Chiitt^h bigbtfy, by a numerbus and powerAil section of I the House of Assembly— -have begun ahready to erdate a reaotiort of ^e > most formidable nature. It is a precious specimen of die trtteir lack of* commort discretibn^^which by a. kitadbiiaw bf PrbViderice'ift very gen- emttjr cortnected vvith the lackef integrity' and vfrtti6---^irt the kajCHrity at least of this party-^Aat almost at (he vetfy coniMteiieetnent oi* a ses- ■- • ■ •'■■ -■ ' — ~" — — ■-- ■ - — — '" • u."- *See N6te K. sion, in which had they not been blind, they must have perceived that the eyes of the whole province were earnestly fastened upon them and their proceedings — in which they were entering upon their probation and their first movements would necessarily be regarded as a pledge of their principles-r-they should, all at once have declared themselves — in many instances, in violation of express and solemn pledges wrung from them by the Electors — the very antipodes of all that their constituents had reason, not merely to hope, but confidently to anticipate. Their first act may be said to have consummated the demonstration of their folly — ^and to have sealed their fate, by precluding the possibility of their ever regaining public confidence. They have in the mo^t wanton man- ner disgusted and irretrievably alienated from them and their faction— for which, no doubt, the Province owes them thanks, as one of the few services unwillingly rendered by them — ^their once faithful — we had al- most said devoted allies, the. Scottish party. With the most egregious and preposterous folly, they have alarmed and aroused a sleeping lion. The members of the Church of Scotland, and the Presbyterians gene- rally — in number, weahh, intelligence and energ}', second to node- nomination in the Upper Province — had been lulled into security by the prospect held out to them of participating equally in the reserved Lands, and of being placed on the same footing in every respect with the sister establishment. The endowment of the Rectories has awa- kened them — blind as they had long been to many unequivocal signs and omens, significantly declaring the real designs of government— to a conviction of their error, and their resentment, as might have been foreseen, is vehement in proportion to the great and unexpected disap- pointment which they have experienced. In thus setting at nought the claims of their Scottish subjects, the government are chargsable at once with injustice, impolicy and ingratitude — for we believe Uiat they have been among the foremost in loyalty and attachment, and have mainly contributed by their industry, intelligence and worth, to the prosperity of the Colony and the exten^on and aggrandisement of the Empire.* The loss of the attachment of this portion of the Colonists would go a great way to break the bond of union with the parent Stdte. The government will soon find to their cost, that what might have been their strength and security, will not only be taken from them, but, if they persist in the same partial and iniquitous course, will be thrown into active opposition and hostility— and this opposition, formidable enough in itself, especially when we take into account the present unsettled state of both Provinces, will be only a prelude to a general league or combination of all the other religious denominations, which feel them- selves aggrieved, and, we have no doubt, will end at last in a compromise between those who advocate the appropriation of the Church Lands to Roligion, and those who contend for their diversion to the service of General Education. It is easy to foresee what jealousies, bickerings and coHisions will necessarily grow out of this attempt to make a distribution of the land among the leading sectB. Each, in the spirit of that selfishness which ♦See Note I.. is ihsepar for itself The Chui inehtjiwil go hard b much the fusion wo and vidlen paramoun will be th( activity ar weakness practical c sacrificing ai»d we V high churc ed and has dot nounced as sacrile^, and spoliation — ^may noli have the^efiect of, direct- ing the battery of the combined powers at no. distant daiyi again^ their own influence and privileges. We would v^arn them of the{ possibility of their being trodden down, under the feet of ^n indignant popylatic^ with whose feelings and rights, they have unwisely aiui selfiiphly pr^ sumed to tamper. ; ,, .>, We really wondei' that even selfish eagerness to get posseeisipn otilf^et loaves and fishes, can blind men^ to what seems to u^ so plajn and pah pablc) as the utter impossibility of disposing of these lands, in any .wajt-^ that will not involve inextricable perplexity, on Ae one hand, or dptWfft right revolution on the other — save that very, simple, safe,, and -naw^ popular one, of dedicating them to Education, a purpose so much,8!^iQ to their original destination, that it can scarcely be considered as- an alienation or diversion of them from the appropriation desigped by the^ constitutional act — it could scarcely be considered as a departure firquqt the general spirit and principle of said enactment. it As the Scottish party have generally united with the advocates for a dominant church, in the opinion that the Reserves should not be withi^ timwn from the support of Religion-r-we would respectfully invite th^is attention to a few remarks, which may serve to evince to them, hovv little probability there is, that their hopes will be realized, under any arraA^^^ hient, which can be expectedj under the existing state of the goyernmeijit, to be adopted — or— if adopted, to be fairly acted upon — in conforndiy, with their mews. We would adjure them to be guided in thejr judginei^t of the future, by their uniform experience of the past — we wouldim^ke our appeal to their good sense, to their moral feelings, in such terms as these. „, . " The experience of the past, must have taught you how, little you, are in favour with the government } how feeble is your inAuepce, j^t. Head Quarters, and how impotent, wh6n it is not supported and en- forced by the general voice of the Province, to carry any point, which your jealous rival thinks it worth while to oppose : you cannot be igno X ; rant thftt you are cordially hated, by the now dominant party in the Le- gislature, who, if they durst, would t^rn and trample upon you. They hate you, and Would make no scruple to shew how much they hold you in aversion, if they did not fear you. Yes they fear, and well they may, your ntrnibet^ — your energy — ^your determination-^— should you rise Up united, like your forefathers, with the unwelcome conviction impreiMed upon your mindsj that you had nothing to expect, with all your loyalty and devotion, but what your own resolution and q>irit, should extort from a reluctant government — less grateful for all that it owes to your support^ — ^than irritated by your present opposition. What' ever has been vouchsafed to you hitherto, (and you can best tell what cause you have to boast of the favors conferred upon you) has been given, manifestly less from favor, than from fear — from a political ne- cessity — it has been a cake to Cerberus — you have been treated — and think not that this has been done without preconcerted design— as dis- senters. Whatever has been given you, has been given out of the same funds, and precisely on the same footing, and in the same proportion, as to other dissenting bodies, who have shared with you. Nay, you have been told by that wise, moderate, discreet and amiable person- age, his Majesty's late Solicitor and now Attorney General, that your church is to be treated, as any other sect of dissenters, in a Colony — in which the Soman Catholic Church is pronounced, by this high le- gal authority, to be an Establishment, — and he breathes forth his threat- hings, that should you dare, in one instance, to champ the bit — or to kick your rider — he is ready, in the true spirit of persecuting insolence, to prosecute, as the first legal officer of the Crown, any minister of the Established Church of ScoUand, who shall assert his constitutional rights, who shall manfully resist Colonial tyranny — legalised iniquity and oppression.* Your present precarious allowances, were a bribe to make you sit still, and wink at such movements as were, no doubt, contemplated from the first to be made, under the auspices of Sir John Colborne, for the purpose of putting the favoured church stealthily in actual legal possession of her utmost pretensions. And doubt not that you are de- nounced as an ungrateful, stubborn, unmanageable race, stiff necked, like your fathers, who would not bow the knee, who would not bend the neck, to the gentle and easy yoke of Prelacy, in days of yore. Be assured that it is not from any love or tenderness to you, that your gov- ernment allowances are not revoked forthwith, since they have failed to induce your silent tame submission " to a yoke, which neither you nor your fathers would bear." Flatter not yourselves with the hope, that you will in future possess an equal standing, an equal influence with your sister Establishment in the Colony. Bishops are much more manageable for party and politi* eal purposes, than Presbyteries and Synods, which are too many head- ed, and too many willed to be used as a convenient or serviceable en- gine of state or of faction. Even should not the Church of England ■obtain — as in all hiiman probability she will — the lion's share, her *tlitical ne- ated — and n — as dis- f the same )roportion, Nay, you le pereon- , that your Colony — is high le- his threat- bit — or to ; insolence, ister of the nstitutional ed iniquity ake you sit ntemplated }lborne, for ictual legal ^ou are de- tiff necked, d not bend yore. Be t your gov- have failed her you nor ure possess lishment in ' and politi* nany head- 'iceable en- of England share, her ■■':v '*-■ share will be such as to make her Clergy iodependaht.of popular sup^ port. She will obtain; what Archimedes required for his lever, a solid foundation to stand upon, so aa to give her full scopey to extend, con- Htm and perpetuate her influence. She will posBest, Ihe chief weight in the councils of government, and will be felt an overmatdkfor all^r rivals — for all other sects united. She Will, through her preponderapit influence, acquire the chief direction of Education^ and the manage- ment of the Universities : she will monopolize in a manner, the bonofs^ offices, emoluments— Literary and Ecclesiastical-'-f-et the disposal of gov- ernment — she will maintain — it is scarcely possible for her to augmni — her vast ascendancy at head quarters. All official men, withaiew rare exceptions, will be of her party, of her communion ; and you will be jealously watched, carefully excluded from place and power, as her most able, ambitious and formidable rivals." Aie we borne out in what we now say, by facts 1 by the experience of the past 1 Have we ex- aggerated aught, or set down aught in malice ? We challenge the Scot- tish Clergy to declare whether we have written a syllable on this poin^ which their own experience does not amply verify. ^% h''Mt;fi '^Z : We would adjuhs this respectable and enlightened body to wdigh well how little they would actually forego, or rather how much they and their church would in reality, ultimately gain, were the reserves wholly with- drawn, and we put it to their wisdom, their virtue, their patri^Mism, to balance against any personal or pecuniary sacrifice, which such a resig- nation might be supposed to involve, the amount of public good, which will be secured, in the utter extinction of the whole groimd of controver- sy. This in fact would annihilate for ever, all the ambitious hopes of the Anglican Church, and of that political faction, which is desirous to a- vail itself of a dominant church, as an engine to perpetuate its ascenden- cy, and to propagate its principles and influence. The great monopoly being thus swept away, would preclude the possibility of any party hio- nopolizing civil or ecclesiastical influence. The different sects would all be placed on a level in their competition with one another^ Badi would enjoy all the credit and respect, to which it is naturally and just- ly entitled, and would retain it — in the same proportion— '^s long as it should continue, in the public esteem, to merit it. There would be peace in Israel ; and religious peace, is a gocd security for political unity and concord. If the Clergy, le^ to depend upon the voluntary contribu- tions of their hearers, would have a less secure, or a less ample provis- ion, it would be enjoyed with a good conscience, without the painful reflection, that the price paid for it, was — nothing less than the peace of the Colony — nothing less than religious concord, and social confidence and good will, throughout the whole community. Whatever the amount of their temporal [vovision might be, the average rate would be the same, or nearly so, to the Clergy of all denominations ; varying only with the varying wealth of the flock, and the measure of qualifi- cations of the Pastor. The relative standing and respectability of all the diffSsrent Churches, would thus depend— ^not upon extrinsic or ad- ventitious circumstances— but solely upon their comparative worth and uiofulncss, ascertained by public opinion — unfettered by prejudice-^un- 28 iAfltieiice4 b/ 'political pavtyti Inequality : in. theii: t^poial proviaioih, or ecclediasticftl aiid poKt^I standings 'would noiideratogethe natural order^^wduld m^ 4i8(urb'^e> natural couneorthaigiyiunder the.'Volunr tavy e/^itemy white the tite would be dntwIiioloBet b^ween tb^ iBastarfi and the peopl%>and the latter, disburdened of the charge of Education^ by'Uie>«^pn>pnatioa of thei<^urdi Lands tOHthie ofc^ectyi would have lUWfe meanH, and better diaposltionj it is reasonable to suppose^.lo! make provision for the support of an enlightened Gler^i Nor does' Ihete appear to be any just ground of objeiMtion to the extensioa of aid, on the part of the Legislative or Govemnient,. to the different religious bo- ditets, in the infant state of the. colony, for Inulding bhurches, and slip- porting ministers and missionaries ; .while the spirit of the constitutional act might be fulfilled, by makitig liberal appropriations of money or lands, to the endowment and maintenance of iTheological Schools or Colleges, '60 as to ensure an abundant supply of Pastors, well qualified ih all divine and human learning, to di^chacgei, effectively , the office of Belig^ous instruction to the.several Sects. - v.!m i. mi rt ♦?> -i r We would earnestly entreat: the Clergy of the Church of Scotland, in the Colony, to weigh against all the more than doubtful advantages of a governnient provision, in circumstances wbichj in consequence of the vast pivponikrance of power and influi^nce Oti the. side of the. fa- vored church, would-r-robviously and inevitkWy-*-lead to extreme ine- quality, andproduce.all the real evils of domination, in respect to them- skves ^d all other denominaticMOS ; i atid let them pause before they re- solve to persist, in a course, which will, we are persualded, lead to : re- sults that would iendang^ the peace and tvell being of the Colony^ and plaoe^ in the hands of Uie adverse party, to be wielded for their depree- sioii^ and that of aU other denominationehr-a permanent power, to which their united strength — upon the most sauguine caloulationST-rwould be an inadequate counterpoise. : i Were all placed upon an equal footing, and the possibility of erecting Any^cclesiasticali dominancy thereby, effectually precluded, the chair- ULci^v and qualifications of the Scottish Clei^, Iwould neeessarily secure them m standing sec,ond to no other Clergy in the Pi^ovjinoe. ' They ^ould, in this events have an equal chancer-^with mainifold advantages !in' their fttvoi>— for, the attainment of their juKt and merited influence, in the direction of Education, and-rfbr particlpaticn, in due measure, of. the honors and advantagee-r-Literary and Ecclesiastical— which 'woul4 thus become open to free, equals and universal competition, and .whiohy;on the other supposition, we conceive, will be all but monopo- lized, as they now are, and have heretofore been,, by the sister Eetab- 'lishment. ■ // .•■;,■,,:.; .,.:. : ■■,>>:,;: •,t;i h i"i!ri'..i(- .'' < : ,■ . , i' We submit these reflectionsito the dohsideration of the Scottish painty, AS an ".argiaiuntum ad hominemt**) nor wilili thejr be offepded, we flat- ter ourselves^ by this franknesa and candior» in deaUng/ wi!bh< them, as 'kaen liable to be biassed, and determioied by inotives of. perbooal op pro- fessional interest. Itii necessary to clear away themists^of pn^udice, and self love, in order that truth may be distinctly seen, and higher and better motives may have free scope, and unimpeded operation. We tvoi al chartoi ly, not onl being of tb It is to 1 adopt the 1 Cirvumslaf with their against !th( consistent tronof that Itiis a li crisate a di or institiitii To none, 1 and place, degree, of TheSc( tal fathers enlightene( which is n selves ! and very unlike should thej of Canadit the exigent tude of No a Colony ,^i ■ We woi Chttr6h in gious worit feeling, to c the faith of worid-^-wh tertuned of Vexatao[ great tniajoi adjustment placBf it is: mining the several seel hendedintl short of uni attempt to i selfish inter aroused, an Scottish Clc He spirited I 4 ,1 29 rovisioiis B natural ie;Volunr ^Pastors iucatton^ uld have i>to than f aid, on igiouB bo- andsUp- stitutional money or icbools or I qualified } office of Scotland, dvantages quence of ofthe fa- tiienie in6- ;t to them- ■e they re- eadto're- lony^ and sirdepreB- to which -would be jf erecting tbechnr- ly secure They dvt^ntages influeiice, measure, —which ition, and mono^- len EBtab- tisb paiity, , we flat- Hhem, as lal om pro- pn^udice, nd higher peration. e. We would fain hope^ that the aagacityand good sense of their nation- al ehavfticter will not desert them at this on8is—tacri9is-T-in.ToIvingd^ep-t lyynotobly their own intereste and leBpeelal^ty, but the future well being of the -Colony at :iaii^.." -rnU hid'}-' -vihiirr.-) L'Ucfiuii:' is.-; i;r'ni;q Itis^lo no purpoHO^ at! this moment, td turii tibeSr eyes to Scotland, to adopt the language on the views of the Chui^ch in the parent land, whose leireumslaniiesj irt almost every respect, admit of no just xomparison with'Uiefp ownt^ It is mere ignorance and senaelesanesB, to exclaim bgainstuhe 86ntimenls and doctrines, which we. now advoc&te, as in- consistent' with, w subversive of, the fundamental laws, and c tion of that ancient, and venerable establishment. iiMorif'! Itiis a law of God, and nature, that diversity of time and space shall create a diversity in the civil and ecclesiastical state. No human laws or institutions are^ in their nature, perfect, or incapable of amelioration. To nohe, hath God given a charter of immutability. Change of timf| and place, and circumstance^ geneirally implies a change, in the same degree, of law and order, in every social constitution. The Scottish Clergy are only treading in the footsteps ofthe immor- tal fathers and founders of their Church, they are only imitating their enlightened and magnaninlous wisdom, iti searching out that order^ which is most suitable to the circumstances, in which they find them- «elves ; and their church now placed^ And they will act in a mtintier very unlike the wisdom of our great reformers in the sixteendi century^ should they — blindly and preposterously— seek to engrail upon the stock of Canadian society, institutions which, however happily adjusted to the exigencies of the parent land, are utterly out of place, in the lati- tude of North America— -are utterly out of season, in the infant state of a Colony ,^ in the middle of the nineteenth century. We would beseech the Clergy and Lay adherents of the .Scottish Chnrdi in Canada, to open their eyes to the actual ^te of the Reli- gious worid around them, to allow their own sound sense, and christian feelingjto operate without heat or prejudice. We challenge them upon the faith of christian men, of christian ministers, to declare before :thQ worldr^-^what hope^ in their honest and deliberate judgment, can be en- tertained of the final success of any scheme ef adjusting the QwsHq Vexataof the Reserves, vvhich shall not be satisfactory at leasty to the great majority of the population i And bearing in mind that such an adjustment is, in a manner, utterly impracticable, because, in thejkst placBf it i» premature, in Ae ihfancy of the Colony, to think of deter- mining the relative proportions, and thereby the rightful claims Of the , several sects, which, in order to satisfy the majority, must he compre- j bended in the proposed provision ; ahd because in the next place, nothing [ abort of universal dissention, inextricable confusion, can result from the ■ attempt to apply the ride of distribntive proportion, ih. a case, in which selfish interests and religious prejudioes. and antipathies, wiU be at once aroused, and put intU violent action. We would therefore conjure the Scottish Clergy, as they value the rqjutation of an enlightened and pub., lie spirited body— as they tender the first and most essential element of I ' io the cbriitian character namely, "to seek those things which niake for peace, and things wherewith one may edify anothei^ — as they ten- der the dearest and most momentous interests of religion, and of their parent and adopted comitry — that they would in this crisis, set the exr ample of disinterested and enlightened patriotitoi, as well as of chris- tian charity, and self denial, by renouncing for themselves, all claim to the reserved lands — ^provided the government and legi^ture, shall consent to the only simple, safe, and satisfactory settlement, of this most perplexing, and exciting question, by withdrawing them from all denominations, and converting, what is now an apple of discord, into the means of placing education on a footing, which shall enaUe ub to rival the nations which stand foremost, in their encouragement of this first and noblest of the arts ; or, which shall advance us at least, half a century, in the progress of our internal improvements : and let the Cler- gy be assured that as " in the peace of the country they shall have peace," — so, if they be faithful in their office — " in its prosperity they shall prosper*' — and we are persuaded that their disinterestedness, in making and recommending the proposed sacrifice, while it would con- ducts to the best interests of religion and of the countr}', would be found, in its ultimate result, litUe detrimental to their personal and secular in- terests. Whatever may be the sentiments or the conduct of the Clergy, we shall wonder very much, if the lay members of the Presbyterian Church, and indeed, of all cuu.'ches, have not their eyes opened, now, ai the eleventh hour, to the fierce and interminable dissentions, which must grow out of this question, if the decisive remedy, which we recom?- mend, be not speedily adopted.* " The beginning of strife is like. the letting out of water." And we are only in the beginning of this con- troversy. The flames are kindling; they are blazing forth; the con- flagration is spreading — it will soon be universal — ^inextinguishable.—^ The popularity of the present Governor and House of Assembly will be irretrievably ruined, should they persist in their present views. The further they advance, the more perplexing and inextricable will their difficulties become. It is almost impossible, that any arrangement-— however wise and impartial, that can be made for their distribution a- mong the leading sects — should prove satisfactory. A storm of popu- lar indignation, awaits the consiunmation of any scheme founded upon this basis. Were it possible to content all parties, by any present settiement of this question ; who does not see that it must prove a fruitful source of disun- ion in the Colony, trid of disaffef tion to the government, in time toi come. In the progrc '^ vtf .ne Colony, and the rapid growth of its population, the relative proportions of the several s^cts, in regard to number, wealth and influence, will be continually changing. Any permanent arrange- ment now made, would therefore exclude, perhaps a few years hence, a numerous and important body of the colonists. Without presuming — what we fear is too likely to ha[^a— that the sects provided for by the *Ses Note N. State, sha of those t vision mil governme that shall unhappy sighted an so great ai once — dei If the Go approprial ters, Uiey weight of lar storm i It may came befo eration, o\ the presen t^^mplateal ernment, a ces, and c gun to ma extreme cs delicate, in adopting permanent not be divi age — in wl to our calc to do wror We trust t be their s the Icgislat least avert church — a great and s estimable and surest pledge for tellectual, tion's po>vi <^i&ij^Ut--} , 91 ^h m&ke they ten- I of their t the eXr ofchris- all claim ure, flhall t, of this 1 from all cord, into ible UB to nt of this Lst, half a the Cler- hall have erity they sdnese, in ould con- be found, ecular in- lergy, we I Church, iw, at the lich must re recom?- is Uke.the this con- the con- ishable.-- mWy will >W8. The will their igement— nbution a- of popU- ided upon tent of this e of disiln- B to come, opulation, er, wealth it arrange- BTB hence, isuming — for by the state, shall abuse, or employ in any way, to the vexation or detriment of those that are excluded, the power, and influence which such pro* vision must throw into their hands — it is impossible not to foresee — that government must either make new allotments of land, for the new sects that shall spring up, or — growing discontent and disaffection will be the unhappy result. Future generations will rise up to denounce the short- sighted and impolitic Legislators, who shall have entailed upon posterity, so great and incurable an evil. We can see no way of escape save in at once— decisively and boldly — cutting this Gordian knot in our Politics. If the Governor and Legislature moor themselves to the resolution of appropriating the lands to the direct support of religion, and its minis- ters, Uiey will find, that not all the strength of their cables, nor the weight of their anchors, will be sufficient to hold out against the popu- lar storm that is impending. It may be confidently affirmed that there is no question that ever came before the Legislature, that calls for more grave and earnest delib- eration, or of which the decision will produce more of good or evil, to the present, and more especially to future generations. When we con- t<^mplate all the difficulties which, in the parent country, disturb the gov- ernment, and divide the Legislature — arising out of religious preferen- ces, and exclusions in Britain and Ireland, and which have lately be- gun to manifest themselves in the Colonies, it ought to inspire us with extreme caution, how we legislate on a subject so momentous and so delicate. It will be allowed on all hands, that there is infinite danger, in adopting rashly and without profound deliberation, any general or permanent scheme, of which the final issue and practical working, can- not be divined by the most sagacious and far sighted statesman — in an age — in which so many new and ill understood elements must enter in- to our calculations. It is much better to do nothing in such a case, than to do wrong — when the error must be at once great and irretrievable. We trust therefore, that the friends of the liberal cause, whatever may be their shades of difference, will all unite cordially — next session of the legislature in Upper Canada — to obtain such a decision — as shall at least avert the misery and degradation inseparable from a doniinant church — and that they will strive with an energy and zeal, worthy of so great and so good a cause, to ensure for ever to these Colonies, the in- estimable blessing of equal and universal religious liberty — as the first and surest bond of internal peace, and harmony, and — as the best pledge for the purity and efficiency of the institutions and means of in- tellectual, moral and religious improvement — the mainspring of a na- tion's power, prosperity and happiness. ' 'I r' : -^ ■»•,«• (•1 «•.)} ■rt'>Tt'r''^ ; ,«'it'r**?:.' »*{ nv.m^< •n- "•■{>' 'f(\' «>'»iiiiv»r! -h !if f>u '1? .'Hi:- •■,:•■ •:> ; NOTES I'l-./ V M!''il' ^^' •v^fn\et M^hHfv,ai>fiii»c«^^^-% 'we NOTE. A.i.it •n ftl«u;i BnitaMgbt!t0 m<»d* die in the political quarrels of factions apd parties, and of their ^adetrs,bung •* accommodated with seats in the political councils of the Stated and of the Government keeping in pay a jiolitical priesthood." It 'wonld sun^ty have been as impressive and more useful to hav6 stated that th6 Bishop arid the Archdeacon are both on the list of the Legislative Council, but that it iii«x. pected of those gentlemen that they should altogether Abstain from interfe^T ence in any secular matters which may be agitated at that board. Whether even under this restrictioii their holding such seats is really desirkble, is a question upon which I am fully prepared to listen with the utmost attention to any advice which I may receive from yourself, from the House of AssmU' bly, or from any other competent authority. I have no soliciludo, foe retain, ing either the Bishop or the Archdeacon on the list of Councillors, but aiti^ on the contrary, rather pre-disposed to the opinion that by resigning theif ^eatii they would best consult their own personal oomfott, aiid th6 success of thdl'r designs for the spiritual good of the people. But ainy such resignation ma'st be voluntary, since the office is held for life, and were it otherwise, no con^ sideration could induce me to advise His Majesty to degrade the Q^hop ortho Archdeacon from the stations they occupy, except upon ihe most conclusive proof of misconduct. But even Mr. Mackenzie does not IfApilte any' violation of duty to them. With retpeetto the ehargt of $hewing dn uHdiu pri/ennee to preuckert of rdigion belonging to the ettablished churnhet of thfa.eountru, it it to utterly at variance with the whole, course of policy which, it hat been the object of any dispdtchet to yourtelf to pretcribe, that I cannot pauie to repel it in any formal manner." The same inBtructions are adopted, and reiterated, in the mo$li einphav- tic manner, by Lord Glenelg, to Sir Francis Head — and it is therefore difficult to believe that Sir John could have bad the sanction of the Co^ lonial Minister, in the endowment of the Rectories, or if he had, it must have been given inadvertantly, or through some mistake — for that it '* shews an undue preference to the preachers of one of the established churches," is undeniable. "The next topic of complaint is that many of the recommendations con. tained in Lord Ripon's despatch of the 8th November, 1832, have not been carried into effect. Amongst those are especially mentioned such as relate to the amendment of the Election Laws : — the non.intorforenco of His Majesty's Officers at Elcclions ; — necessity question a actual stal rial Legist sy. The i as it is to I and preseu fairs; alth tion by the which, in | general go on either a cilable. •• Until < ■hall have nwnt will i ing that in constitutio "These .ing His M that the au ^^, those Bubjc cognized a r'ot the loca inade to di the aoquiei "Itisn( 1791, to special deh •▼ision by a vPleasure, s nefore that entile a 8our( out a large with precis ^nadians on means of precaution Btages of a could divin lisfatiDouB ibie tothe thfed— ^ill i^ie should might ihav« gbt>t0mo Will it be believed, that the statute book in Upper Canada, contains at this moment, an enactment so degrading and iniquitous, to the people and Clergy of the Church of Scotland, as that which His Majesty's first Law Officer, in the fa se of the Legislature, with the insolent baseness of a mean mind, scoiHngly appealed to, last session of the Upper Canada Parliament, namely, that which obliges their ministers to appear before the Court of Quarter Sessions, in order to obtain permission to exercise the pastoral functions in a British Colony — won in a great measure by their valour, enriched by their industry, enlightened and adorned by their talents and learning ? By another statute, their Clergy are prohibited to marry, unless both the contracting parties are Presbyterians ! Until within a few years ago, there was a statute of the Provincial Parliament, which cast a doubt over the validity of marriages solemnised by ministers of the B'iriT in Lower Canada ! — ^This stain was wiped out only upon the ex. press application of her ministers, settled in that Province — afler it had been allowed to stand for many years. That such statutes should have been passed — ^that they should have been tolerated for a single day, re. fleets deep and indelible reproach upon the government, upon the Legis. lature, upon those official men, who, like Hagerman, have been promin* ently and ingloriously active, in advocating such iniquitous leg^islation — and most chiefly are they a reproach to those leading and influential Scotsmen in these Colonies, who — if they had possesseo one grain of self respect, of national spirit, of generous pride or highmindedness, of fi- lial affbction, or reverence for their country, or the venerable Church of their Fathers — would not have lefl it a question at this moment, whether they and their countrymen, have equal rights and privileges, civil and re- ligious, with their brethren to the south of the Tweed ! Who does not know that their influence has been, and yet is such, that had they not proved— worse than recreants— traitors to their own, and their country's cause, there would have long ere now been an end of all these unhappy dissensions, on the score of religious rights. Are Scotsmen to be told to their face, is it to be proclaimed before the sun, and before all the world, that they have not, may not have equality of rights and privileges with the most favored of Britain's sons ? what would these Colonies, nay, what would the British Empire, have been at this hour, without their energies, without their intelligence and enter- prise ? Were honors and advantages to be dispensed in proportion to ser- vices and merits, who, we demand, would be entitled to the largest pro- It can a enced in t miscondui the concli Report on historian • tions, whi( licate and have been issued in ti that the oi et origo) of the Legish ^ vested m t ■■tl As a necei 1 aristocracy I and Counst if bore no m^ ^; Ahitophels 5V tunately, from the s —much as French an that nothii 4 nation, sin , which has ,. deep, and the fury of . hilated the facts. Am( the sympa Canada an those who mittee of t Clergy, &< elusive pre ill affected 'of hope, fo til new am of this Bo( cess, in the salvation erality and 35 govern- Dt of the Dadas." , as well itational I, respec- jr adher- le degree ar, of the id bouDty could be red on all e govern- ler Coun- , contains he people isty'B first , baseness it Canada ear before exercise neasure by ed by their Dbibited to fntil within ent, which linisters of )on the ex- ifter it had hould have le day. re- ithe Legis- en promin- gislation— influential rrain of self ness, of fi- i Church of It, whether sivil and re- 10 does not ad they not ir country's ise unhappy i before the ave equality sons? what lave been at and enter- )rtion to ser- largest pro- portion of the dividend 1 '* If these things are d 'in the '-en tree what shall be done in a dry V* What have other m^ is to hof* dr, when such is the treatment of tne Church of Scotlanr who wo A not des- pair of the future, if the government of our Coi oies were to be con- ducted by such men, and in such a spirit, in time to come ! Thank heav- en, we trust, we may now hail *' the beginning (f the end.** NOTE C. It can admit of no doubt, that the difficulties which are now experi- enced in the government of the Canadas, have had their origin in the misconduct of the Executive and Legislative Councils. Such in fact is the conclusion to which the Royal Commissioners have come, in their Report on the state of Lower Canada. It will remain for the impartial historian to trace the rise and progress of the discontents and distrac- tions, which now agitate Lower Canada, and form perhaps, the most de- licate and perilous question, which the Legislature of the Parent country have been called to decide upon, since the unfortunate disputes which issued in the American Revolution. We have every reason to believe, that the original and capital error, which has been the fountain head (fans et origo) of the whole mischief, was the admission of Ecclesiastics into the Legislative and Executive Councils, and the power and influence vested in them with a view to the establishment of a dominant church. As a necessary part of this Utopian scheme, the creation of a colonial aristocracy, was without doubt, one of the day dreams of our Officials and Counsellors. Fortunately for the Colony, their wisdom and abilities bore no manner of proportion to their ambition, and the policy of these Ahitophels — Laic and Ecclesiastic — has been indeed foolishness. Unfor- tunately, however, the most serious and threatening evils have resulted from the shallow machinations of this Politico-Ecclesiastical Junto — and —much as we must bewail the animosities which at present divide the French and English Races, in the Lower Province, we verily believe that nothing less could have sufficed to rescue us from a factious domi- nation, similar in kind, and not much less grievous in amount, than that which has afflicted Ireland. That the foundation was laid broad and deep, and that some progress was made in advancing the structure, until the fury of our civil and political dissentions, has, we trust, finally anni- hilated the project — it would be easy to demonstrate!^ a reference to facts. Among many other documents, which might be adduced in proof of the sympathy which exists between the Legislative Council of Upper Canada and the High Church party, we recommend to the attention of those who feel an interest in the matter — '* a Report of a Select Com- mittee of that Body, upon the provision made by law for a Protestant Clergy, &c." which is a piece of special pleading in behalf of the ex- clusive pretensions of the Anglican Church, under the flimsy veil of an ill aflected candor and impartiality. There can be no reasonable ground of hope, for the satisfactory adjustment of our religious differences, un- til new and very different elements shall predominate in the composition of this Body, which, we believe, calls more loudly for a regenerating pro- cess, in the sister Province, than even in Lower Canada. In fact, the salvation of these Colonies mainly depends upon the independance, lib- erality and vigor of the Governors— and wc could wish that Sir Francis m Head had given some better pledge or his regard to the instructions of Lord Godnch to his predecessor — renewed and enforced in hii own, by Lord Glenelg-— "to show no preference to the Clergy of any church"— than he seems to have done, m sanctioning the assumed title of** the £s- uAlished Chureht** in his answer to a late address of the Anglican Cler- gy. Even ambiguity of lar^uage on his part — supposing it to amount to no more — is manifestly mconsistent with the letter and spirit of his instructions — instructions which — we have no doubt, if th< jy are faith- ftilly adhered to, and put in practice — will effectual W compose all our dis- sensions ; but we are not unaware that fierce and formidable opposition, will be encountered in the Colony, by the Governor who shall honestly, and fearlessly set himself to this Herculean labour. See the following NoteD. • .'s ..; h;;.: f...-.- .',..: .■■%■■ NOTED. ':■' ft'^- •ivJ;.-.■'U--.- We were forcibly struck with the following remarks on the concate- nation of the ties of affinity and consanguinity, which in concurrence with party and political interests, and prejudices, cooperate to throw up no slight barrier, in the way of any Governor of Upper Canada, whose spirit and measures shall render him obnoxious to a confederation, so extensive and so firmly compactipd by such various and powerful ties. We quote the article for the sake of the facts which it states — ^without adopting the sentiments, or approvins of the language of the writer — who is evidently a violent opponent of Sir Francis Head. •* Jonas Jones, a native of this Provioise, r/ent, as is stated to us, to the United States during the late war, and remained there till peace was pro- elsimed !— He is brothsr>in.Iaw of Judge Sherwood— do. of the late Attor. ney General, now Chief Juatiee of Newfoundland, who is the brother of Dar. cy Bonlton, the brother.in.law of Chief Justice Robinson, whose niece (the G. J's.) is married to Judge Maoaulay's brother-in-law, Clark Gamble the So. lioitor of the Upper Canada Bank. Judge Macaulay was brother.in.law of the present Attorney General Hagerman, whose present wife is related in the Bseond degree of affinity to the Chief Justice Robinson — Jonas Jones was also a contemporary pupil of Dr. Strachans with Chief Justice Robinson, Judge Macaulay and Archibald Maclean. Speaker. — He is also connected by mar. riage, with W. B. Robinson, member for Simcoe, and P. M., and the honora. 1>le Peter RobinBMk|late Commissioner of Crown lands. W. B. Robinson is brother.in-law of^Plmuel P. Jarvis, clerk of the Crown in Chancery, deputy nsiatrar of the Province, and director of the Bank of Upper Canada,<^who is brother of W. M. Jarvis, SherifFof the Gore District, who is nearly related by consanguinity to W. B. Jarvis, Sheriff of the Home District — who is mar. ried to the grand.daughter of the late Chief Justice Powell — whose (PowePs) son is clerk of the Legislative Council, judge of the Home District Court, of- ficial Principal of Upper Canada, and Commissioner for administering the oath of allegiance &c.— The aforesaid relative of Jonas Jones [Sheriff Jar. ▼is of the Home District] is brother to George S. Jarvis of Corawall, M. P. P. for that town, Judge of the Ottawa District Court, collector of customs for the port of Cornwall, and late half pay officer— also son of Steven Jarvis Usher of the Black Rod in the Legislative Council. Jonas Jones is likewise brother of the honorable Charles Jones member of said Council, and to AI. pheus Jones Collector of the port of Prescott, and has several other relativea holding other minor offices. Mr. Jones resides at Brockville, and has been for several years past occupied in business foreign to his profession — except the discharge of the duties of a Judge of three minor courts called District Courts. !f .*i Ho is also i extensive h ment. He excepted) o lage lawyei Jonas Jo Allan N. IM of AssembI gistrar of t1 District. I clerk of As orable John Bank, a lai Elmsly is bi brother-in-Ii sioner of th Province, w ter Sessiont Dr. Geddes Hallowel, o the present eil. It should the Commei whose broth in-law to Ju family comp in-law to M, trict Court, of Niagara, fbr that Dial ily junto — s Grant Powel len's wife is ell, Inspecto sons is clerk Sheriff of til ' ThefbUo^ dom with v Glebe lands question of put in actua and this ace Bishop of Q is not so bai the smalles what have v tion of sucti left as a sub rian rivals, being corruj ratio, she mi When the d portion of tl h. 37 ictioDt of • own« by hurch"— '**tlieEi- can Cler- amount )irit of his are faith- til our dis- pposition, honestly, following e cone&te- mcurrence 3 throw up ida, whose oration, so ful ties. 8— without le writer— ,0 u», to the ee was pro> late Attor. ther of Dar. e niece (the able the So. Br.in.la«r of slated in the les was also lion. Judge ted by mar- the honora. Robinson is ery, deputy nada,— who tarly related who is mar. (Powel'8) it Court, of. istering the Sheriff Jar. [wall, M. P. of cuetoniB ;even Jarvis I ia likewise , and to AI. ler relatives lae been for izcept the rict Courts. Ho is also Commiisionsr of the St. Lawrence Canal, is a farmer, miliar, «..-: eztensiTe land speculator, and resides about S50 miles from the ssat of govern, ment. He is the only instance known to us (Judges Sherwood and Maclean excepted) of the local government travelling out of the sapital to make vil. lage lawyers and land speculators judges. Jonas Jones has still further family connexions. His niece is msrried to Allan N. McNab member for Wentworth, late Serjeant at Arms to the Hoaae of Assembly, who is brother to David McNab, present Seijeant at Arms, re. gistrar of the county of Wentworth, and Justice of the Peace for the Gora District. His nephew Henry Sherwood, son of Judge Sherwood, late his clerk of Assize, Solicitor to the Farmer's Bank, brother.in.Iaw of the Hon. orable John Elmaley, Executive and Legislative Councillor, President of said Bank, a large speculator in U. E. Rights, and general Justice of the Peace. Elmsly is brother-in-law to Captain Macaulay, late Surveyor General, who is brother-in-law to Mr. Executive and Legislative Councillor Alien, commis. sioner of the Canada Company, Justice or the Peace for every district in the Province, who is brother-in-law of John Gamble, Esq. chairman of the Quar. ter Sessions and Magistrate for the Home District, who is brother.in.law of Dr. Geddes in Kingston, whose daughter is married to Parson Macaulay of HalloweU one of the newly created Rectors, who is brother to John Maeauly the present Surveyor Greneral of U. C. and member of the Legislative Coun- cil. It should not escape observation that John S. Cartwright, the President of the Commercial Bank at Kingston, and M. P. P. for Lennox and Addington, whose brother was lately chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Quebec, is brother- in-law to Judge Macaulay and intimately connected with Jonas Jones and the family compact — that the Sheriff of the Gore District, Mr. Jarvis is brother, in-law to Myles O'Reily, who. it is alledeed, is now Judge of the Gore Dis. trict Court, and that Thomas McCormack collector of customs for the port of Niagara, agent for the Bank of Upper Canada, and Justice of the Peace fbr that District, is brother-in-law to Samuel P. Jarvis, one of Mr. Jones' fam. iVf junto — son-in-law to the late Chief Justice Powell, and brother-in-law to Grant Powell aforesaid — also, that Exebutive and Legislative Councillor AI. f len's wife is niece to the Honorable Legislative Councillor Alexander MoDon. ell. Inspector of Licences and Magistrate for the Home District, one of whose sons is clerk in the Government office and another, it is said, lately appointed Sheriff of the Gore District." NOTE E. The following statement furnishes a pretty good specimen of the wis- 'l3om with which the Colonies are governed ! The best portion of the ^Glebc lands, are forestalled by the Church of England, and while the question of their appropriation is *' adhvc svh Judtce" she is stealthily put in actual possession, or has set apart for her use, nearly 30,000 acres, and this accompanied or followed up, with an application from the Lord Bishop of Quebec, for 235,206 acres remaining unselected. This truly is not so bad for the first slice ! but this is only the first, and no doubt the smallest fraction of the Lion's share ! When such is the beginning, what have we not to apprehend from the progress — ^from the consumma- tion of such ambition ! A few such slices more, and there will be little left as a subject of contention between the State Church and her secta- rian rivals. Her sister Establishment the Kirk, will be in no danger of being corrupted by her endowments— if her portion be not in a greater ratio, she may as well retain the merit of primitive apostolic poverty— When the dominant Church is satiated with the far larger and b^ter portion of the spoil, the pitiful residue will be handed overi to be a bone 3» I of contention between the other claimants, and the Church will mean, while, look on with perfect security, and smile serene *' amid the war of elements." General Statement shewing the total number of Acres set apart for the Clergy in the Province of Upper Canada, and their aj^ication, to the 23d day of November, 1836. DISTRIBUTION OR APPUCATION. Provincial C'y, No. of Acres. Total No. Number of acres of Clergy Reserves in the qf acres. Surveyed Townships, and Blocks of Cler- ., , i, . ,, „'-; {^Reserves, as returned by the Surveyor , ' V Generars Department ^ < - . ; i' 2,197,526 Number of acres of Clergy Reserves in the ,.<;'" Block set apart in lieu of the Clergy Re- serves not appropriated in the Huron tract. . 157,142 Number of acres of Reserves sold by the . , j , Agent for the sale of Clergy Reserves to the 23d Nov. 1836. The average price be> ., >^ ing ISs. 7-4 currency per acre 368,423 } '^ ' '. Amount for which sold to the above period .jC250,655 16 11 Amount received as instalments to the above period 59,597 10 - ' Balance appearing due on the Sales to the aboveperiod 161,058 6 11 ' " , '' Amountof principal paidintotheMilitary chest by the Hon. ,,•= ., ,,-,> . Peter Rooinson, on account of Clerp Reserves. ,, , • .. ,, Amountof Interest paid to the Receiver Greneral by the . ;^,. ' ''\^\ Hon. Peter Robinson, on account of Clergy Reserves. ' ' ^ ' * Amount of disbursements paid by the Hon. Peter Robinson, ' ^r on account of Clergy Reserves, from 1828 to 1835. ' < > ■'' Number of acres of Clergy Reserves leased 361,000 •„ < ^ : Number of acres of Clerffy Reserves granted as endowments to the i^hurch of Engund—Clergy patents for which are completed 22,951 Number of acres of Clergy Reserves granted as endowments to the Church of England— Clergy patents fur which are not completed 4,118 Number of acres of Clergy Reserves set a- . ; , 1 ; partasGlebes 21,057 ,.t Of these are included, in the return of En- ■> ■■ > .,1 ■ ' ' dowments 8,832 Difference carried out : ' - " 12,725 Number of acres of Clergy Reserves recom- mended as Glebes 85,000 Number of acres of Clergy Reserves appli- ; ' ed for as Glebes, by order of the Lord ' •'-"•• Bishop of Quebec, remaining unsettled. . . . '' 235,200 Number of acres of Clergy Reserves grant- , , ' -, . t ed to the Clergy of other Denominations, . ■:,..,., . > ■■ ■■ than Uie Church of England, under the .' ^/ ' authority of orders in Council ' 2,999 Number of acres of Clergy Reserves re- -.;•>> . ,- ( maining disposable at probable value of lOs. per acre, would amount to 631,125 1,262,250 T" ' ' ■ "'" '■' 2,354,668 2,354,668 Interest received on Instalments to the 23d of November, 1836 6,946 14 9 ,,. , ... (Signed) R. B. SULLIVAN. Comi^sioner Crnwn Landti OITicp, ) Toronto, Dec. 1, 1836. S We hav tions, spo. . the advoci not merel} [goodly wo [ son with t I all other ( I trust by th ; will be not ' become th( discontent, and confuB rent Count adopted thi of the a^e the presen lodged it, ( stitutional : act, for _„ [The endow [a cruel grit [their apath Ito be broug' twill rise up< [inheritance 'seci 1^4 Never wil pntil the Ex ptituted of I lends upon '|nitherto cor ^utly to be ()|br such a ti ^Inight add— #d to belie V Sonera in L eir uncom inflexible di Kvernment- treme par , IlieaBured as lot in any n itnd it is no i cordially abo ia ! Praise a Iter of their a * will raean> the war of Clergy in the emberi 1836. t. Total No. qfacret. 2,197,526 157,142 39 NOTE F. We have no hesitation to aver, that of all grievances, abuses, usurpa- tions, spoliations, the most enormous and intolerable is that with which the advocates of a dominant church are threatening the Colony — na;^, not merely threatening — but rather having already, in effect* carried their goodly work to no inconsiderable extent — What a bagatelle in compari* son with this monstrous monopoly of property, power and influence, are all other dilapidations and abuses 1 The Reserved Lands are held in trust by the Parent Government, for the interest of the Colony, and it will be nothing less than robbery or spoliation, if they are permitted to become the prey of a Faction. It will lay the foundation of universal discontent, of inflnite corruption and mischief, of irretrievable disorder and confusion. These Colonies are precisely in the situation of the Pa- rent Country, when the Legislature, at the period of the Reformation, adopted that Ecclesiastical order, which was found suitable to the 6pirit of the age. This is the unquestionable right of the people of Canada at the present juncture — the parent government have distinctly acknow- ledged it, (see Lord Glenelg's despatch. Note A) the framers of the Con- stitutional Act, have anticipated, and made provision in the body of the act, for securing this all important right of the Colonial Legislature. — The endowment of the Rectories is a gross violation of this right — and I a cruel grievance inflicted upon the people — and deeply will they rue their apathy and blindness, if they suffer themselves and their posterity [to be brought into bondage to a dominant Church. Future generations (will rise up— iu< not to bless us — should we bequeath to them so fatal an linheritance ! I •-";>-■ 2,354,668 NOTE G. XIVAN. .!' Never will these Colonies enjoy the blessings of tranquillity and repose .until the Executive and Legislative'Councils, in both Provinces, are con- tLituted of new and better elements. The salvation of the Colonies de- ends upon the thorough purgation of the vicious elements which have itherto corrupted the administration. And this consummation so de- ^#outly to be wished, must come from the Governor, who would reouire i,^|br such a task, no ordinary measure of wisdom, energy, virtue ; and' we ^tpight add — ^with strict truth — genius and magnanimity. We are inclin- id to believe that much of the mal odeur in which the Royal Commis- S oners in Lower Canada have been held, is to be ascribed to the fact of leir uncompromising hostility to all the Cabals and Juntos — and their inflexible determination to recommend the introduction of a system of fovernment — most perfectly impartial — at an equal distance from the two txtreme parties ! The abuse with which they have been loaded, as un- ftieasured as it has been unmerited, begins to recoil — their Report has lot in any respect fulfilled the charitable auguries of their maligners — tnd it is no slight pledge of their honesty and wisdom, that they are as eordially abommated by the ultra partisans in Upper, as in Lower Cana- da ! Praise and censure change their nature with the spirit and charac- ter of their authors and dispensers ! r> / 40 NOTE H. The Orange party of Ireland are made up of the same elements, and animated by the same spirit and principles, which have been very une- quivocally manifested by the High Church party in the Canadas. How could it be otherwise. The same end is embraced by each — as the dar. ling object of their policy. The parties in each country form a small minority— -invested with ascendant power and influence — ^their circum- stances are very similar — ^the elements with which they are brought into conflict, are in a manner identical. What criterion applicable to the one, does not equally suit the other ? Are the abettors of our Protestant Epis- copal ascendancy in Canada, men more wise, moderate, humble, or are their pretensions urged with a milder spirit — restrained within bounds less disproportionate to their number and importance in the Colony? If you turn to the Canadian Press, what damning proofs of Orangeism meet your eye — sufficient to match the most extravagant and unblushing Toryism of Ireland — ^nay, positively outheroding Herod ! and this too, not in a few Journals — but in the ffreat majority? What then 1 you will eay the bulk of the Canadian population are Orangemen ! no— the vast majority of them are Roman Catholics, and of the remainder, nine tenths are at a great remove, indeed, from Tory principles—- and rather in the process of receding from— than approximating them. How then do you account for the strange discrepancy between the spirit of the people and the spirit of the press ? Nothing easier. The people leave public affairs to the official men — and are too busy in the forests, to have leisure or inclination to mind politics, until some pinching grievance enforces their attention to them. In the infant stage of any Cdony, the people are su- pine and indifferent, and abuses have grown to a head, before they are roused to any lively interest. We perceive that O'Conniell has denoun- ced in very strong terms, the Irish Catholics in British America, who have identified themselves with the Constitutionalists, whom he brff-nds as Tories and Orangemen. How wise was the counsel of those who urged upon the Constitutional party, the extreme importance of adop- ting such a decided course upon the' Church question, as would have ren- dered it impossible to impute such principles to them. There are symptoms at this moment, of approaching changes in the state of par. ties, which we fear will afford additional evidence of the wisdom of this neglected counsel, and will convince the Constitutional Association, how necessarv it was, for the purpose of giving unity and stability to thiBir body, to have planted their banner— to which men of all races and sects were summoned — upon the common around of equal rightsi to be- in the very first instance— Maenei and vindicated in behalf of all. r-'»Si: NOTE I. •r-'T' We do not know a greater service, which in the present crisis, could be rendered to Canada, or to Britain, than a manly, faithful, unflinchingly honest historv, of the origin and progress of the difficulties and embar. rassments, which have become so'formidable of late in both Provinces— S'ving an impartial view ot the character and state of parties, tracing to . eir authors and sources the various political excitements and commo- tions, which have agitated the Colony, or influenced the Qovernment ; with a review of the various measures of the successive adminstrationi, m We obs ferman, a nd Clerg; is quite in ' insolence. his speech Temembrai ■^of the spii l^'^lieve, that -■which he i , gas he alleg ■Tf! avail to re '' insolence torney ge Kirki who 41 lements, and m very une< adas. How —as the dar. form a small heir circum- brought into le to the one, bestant Epis- imble, or are itbin bounds Colony 1 If f Orangeism d unblushing and this too, enl you will no— the vast r, nine tenths rather in the ' then do you ie people and public affairs vo leisure or mforces their leople are su* fore they are has denoun- imerica, who )m he brands )f those who mce of adop- uld have ren> There are state of par. isdomofthis Association, stability to all races and ghtSitobe— ■all. crisis, could unflinchingly B and embar* Provinces- is, tracing to and commo* government ; minstrationi, [.Mid shewing how far they have been productive of good or evil. We jcannot help thinking that such a history, written in a lively and popular Ifityle, would prove highly Reryiceable in communicating to the Colonists, |morc just, consistent and satisfactory views of what constitutes a sound iand enlightened policy, and in qualifying them for the better discernment [of their real interests, and a better appreciation of the merits or dem^- iits of public and influential men. NOTE K. We look with extreme distrust upon the party who now ii rround Sir iFrancis Head, and we are persuaded that unless they have *eally cbang. fed their nature, which is only not impossible, or unless Sir Francis pos- leases the very highest measure of wisdom, energy, and self decision, they will prove an ignun fatuus to his administration. Certain popular leasures of the last session— with the flattering prospect of prosperity land improvement, which the liberal appropriations of the iiegislature Ihave opened to the country, may maintam a temporary calm, which may l^inducea too secure confidence of the permanent popularity of his govem- Iment. If our apprehensions are well founded of the ascendency of the *old regime, we are confident that new and greater embarrassments are [preparing, which it will be impossible for Sir Francis to overcome, and twhich will entail upon his successors, a task more arduous than that up- »oh which he himself entered. It is credulous weakness to believe that the radical or democratical party have ceased to be formidable ; certain land fatal will be the disappointment that awaits the governors, who, trusting to this hope, shall follow the counsels of Stracnan and Hager- man. Now is the precious moment to extirpate every root of discon« tent-^and upon the basis of an equal, impartial regard for the rights, civ> ^il and religious, of all parties and denominations, to erect a popular go. vernment, and to inspire all the Colonists, with one feeling of equal con. .fidence and attachment. Great and truly enviable will be the glory oi^ "^^^Sir Francis, should he accomplish this happy consummation V* NOTE L. . We observe that attempts have been lately made, to vindicate Mr. Ha. german, and to represent his language in regard to the Scottish Church "and Clergy, as inofifensive. He lias published a letter apologetic. This is quite in keeping with the character of the man — ^to add meanness to insolence. We have seen Messrs. Cameron & McKay who declare that his speech, as published in McKenzie's paper, was to the best of their remembrance, substantially correct, exhibiting a faithful representation of the spirit, sentiments, and diction of the speaker. Were we to be. ' lie ve, that there was no insult intended, by the term "contemptible" which he applied to the court of Quarur Sessions— that it was adopted P|as he alleges from one of the petitions before the house, what will this ^ avail to redeem his Majesty's Solicitor from the charge of indiscretion, f insolence and vindictive feeling, in the wanton threat "that were he at< torney general, ho would prosecute unrelentingly, any minister of the Kirk| who should dare to marry, or exercise the functions of an ordained / pastor in the Province — without obtaining a licence from thia court. — Thia we have no doubt, is a fair average specimen of the character and tendency of that pure zeal which his Majesty may look for in such ser- vants. It is the malice and the bitterness of a factious selfishness, of sectarian bigotry — not the fidelity of an upright, honorable and patriotic spirit ! God help his Majesty, and the Colony, if this is the kind of zeal with which they are to be served ! There has been a little too much of it in time past. The cup is nearly full. A little more will make it to overflow. It would be easy, were it worth while to stoop to such a quarry, to in- flict an exemplary ciiastisement upon this hireling eulogist of the Church of England, this Bombastes Furioso rhetorist, who praises without meas- ure, because he praises without principle, feeling or judgment — The peo- ple and the Church of Scotland, may congratulate themselves, that they have not been bedaubed with his venal and fulsome adulation. In adverting to the language and sentiments of a man, thus prostitu- ted, soul and body, to the servility of faction, we do so — not for any im- poriance that we attach to his character or opinion, but in the sad and mortifying conviction, that such is a faithful reflexion of the spirit and principles and aims of his party — now we fear in the ascendant, in the sister Province — We cannot but feel misgivings in respect to the govern- ment which, even for a day, lends its confidence, its countenance tosucU men. We would conjure those Scotsmen who have any respect for them- selves, any reverence for their country or their Church, any sympathy with the rights and interests of their much neglected and much wronged countrymen, in British North America, or a manly and enlightened re- gard to the prosperity of the Colony, to open their eyes — which have been too long closed — to all the demonstrations of hostility to them and to their rights, civil and religious manifested by the very party whom they have been foremost to support. They have been in close league with their most determined and inexorable foemen. They have been uphold- ing and strengthening a power, which will not make the smallest con- cession in their favor, which will in return for all their services, add in- sult to ingratitude, and iniquity. To realize the truth of this statement, they have only to keep their eyes open, their senses awake ! NOTE. M. The contemptuous tqne, in which the learned Solicitor has presumed to speak of the Scottish Church and Clergy, will no doubt recall to the recollec- tion of many, the impious extravagance uf his language, in his speech in support of the exclusive pretensions of the Church of England, in the session of 1835. It afliords an illustration of the common adage, that *' oxtromes meet." Mr. Hagarman betrays not more in his affected disparagement of the one, than iu nis hollow, heartless, panegyric of the other, his utter incapacity, both moral and intellectual, to appreciate the realexoellonoe, ofeither of these venerable and distinguished Establishments. It is amusing, and in fact, ridic- ulous, to hear the strain of adulation with which men like Hagarman, com. pliment the Church of England, for all that she is not — and to her intelligent and judicious friends, such ignorant and bungling eulogists, must needs ap. Se&r as the most severe of all satirists. They will perversely contend, in de- ance not only of the history of the past, but of the experience of the present, that our liberty, our constitution, all that forms the political, intellectual, and moral superiority of Britain, is.the fruit of the happy union of Church and State, and Oraelea, that and the guai ular instruc cafe, from t friendly cou services renc the more ere And we hesi moment, to (Church of S provoke the stir, we plod of the presei is exclusivel and liberty, for hv3r pairo such Philipi prudent silen Ham, in poi brethren, to ■ympalhy of gyric hereaft can Chni'ch- 'er of her gre ountry, and anlism — in o pay most icore of her lO secure her hat she suffe ery frequen f panegyric, hese offioiou itand, that tl miration or v datory mood- which have b Mticai syslen Ihoir wisdom tnent, which gndnotsligh S gendered i Btructions r connnctf ir an immec ftr from cor to either Chi from ailmitti 'live. Wo pc iiist consult oy an exclus to alarm us 1 Jighta—of Mil be withdraw! •;• A 43 *■ court. — icter and 9uch ser- iness, of patriotic id of zeal much of lake it to ry, to in- e Church out tneas* •The peo- that they prostitu- r any im- e sad and spirit and it» in the e govern- ze to Bucii forthera- sympathy 1 wronged itened re- hich have them and rhom they igue with in uphold- .llest con- !s, add in- itatement, resumed to le reoollec speech in the session •• extremes lent of the ncapacity, lor of these fuot, ridic man, com. intelligent needs ap. end, in de. le present, ectual, and huroh and Stale, and you would believe, if you could only take the word of tueh Sir ^ Oracles, that the Protestant Episcopal Church, had been the mother, the nurse, and the guardian of our Constitutional Liberties, and that education and nop. ular instruction, had been the peculiar, and supreme object of her maternal care, from the beginning unto this day. Now we would just whisper a little friendly counsel in the ear of such bepraisers, that the less they boast of tlie services rendered to the cause of liberty and education, by the State Church — the more credit wdl they deserve, for consulting her real interest and honor. And we hesitate not to tell them, that in this respect, she will not bear for a moment, to be compared with her humbler, (not less meritorious) sister, the Church of Scotland, and we would warn such indiscreet eulogists, that if they provoke the further discussion of this question, which we have no desire to tir, we pledge ourselves to demonstrate, in the history, both of the past and jf the present times, that, for whatever liberty Britain enjoys in our day, she B exclusively indebted to the Puritans and the Presbyterians — that education _ nd liberty, have small thanks to render to the Protestant Episcopal Church, Pfor h'3r patronage. Wo are tendering very sound and wholesome counsel to •uch PMlippizing Oracles as Solicitor Hagerman, when we recommend a V prudent silence on these points, and caution him not to imitate the v "dutiful I :Ham, in pointing the eye to the nakedness of a Parent, but rather like his brethren, to throw the veil of »• expressive silenco" over it, and seek for the •ympalliy of the wise, and well informed, by confining himself, in his pane- gyric hereafter, to what constitutes the real and sterling merits of the Angli- an Chni'di — t!iu learning, the liberality, the eloquence, originality and pow- r of her great divines, and the real services which she has rendered to her ountry, and mankind — in the general defence of Christianity and of Protes- aniism — in the propagation of divine truth, at home and abroad. AVilling o pay most cordially the fullest tribute, to the Church of England, on the core of her real merits, which, soberly speaking, are abundantly sufficient ,0 secure her a high and lasting reputation in the christian world — we do think hat she suffers much more than she gains, from this overstrained tone — and ery frequently — most injudicious selection of the grounds — and topics — Jof panegyric. We shall content ourselves at present, with simply hinting to* ^1: these officious and indiscreet admn-ers of what they seem so little to under- stand, that they would do well to sober down the feverish pulse of their ad. miration or vanity by keeping sight — when they happen to full into this lau-Jb . datory mood — of the incidental and not altogether trifling inconvoniencies, tRrhich have been found inseparable from the practical working of the occlesi- ^ijqticai sy'slem — so marvellously perfect iu their eyes. We would impress upon ^^eir wisdom, a prudent temperance in extolling the merits of an establish. ^vvient, which has embroiled and embarrassed the government successively, . ^d not slightly, in England, Scotland, Ireland — and even in the Colonies, has libgendered already some heats — and presents not one of the least formidable ibstructionsJo the establishment of internal concord, and to the security of tuat connecttVh with the mother country. Without being prepared to contend ^r an immediate or violent separation of Church and Statu, we are equally , ftr from considering it as a demonstrated truth, that there is any advantage to either Church or State, in the Parent country — (still loss in the Colonies) — from admitting ecclesiastics to have seats in the legislature or in the oxecu- 'ttve. Wo perfectly concur with LordQodrich, (see Note A) that they would Ittat consult the spiritual interests of the Church, and the good of the state — by an exclusive devotion to their clerical functions. In fine, we see nothin^r to alarm us for the safety of the constitution, or of the empire, should all the %Ught»—of tnilered and aproned wisdom — of Right Reverends and Venerables — j'jbe withdrawn /rom civil and secular, to be purely concentered in spiritual things. »i. pi m ' * f*m^ * 44 NOT£ N. ,^< h It if° ur.furltfnatc for the best intoreets of Canada, that there is such a gene- ral apathy, and consequently want of information, in regard to the candiiel if the government, and the character of parties, among the great m'ass of our population. We have enough, God knows, of party spirit — enough of heat, intemperance, animosity — but where shall we find clear, consistent, enlight. trned or disinterested views-<-and how rarely do we meet, in a community far tVom being unintelligent, teith even individuals^ who have taken any pains to tbrm wise, sober, and impartial judgments, with respect to the great questions in which we are nil so deeply interested ? The whole fortunes of the country, 2iave been hitherto consigned to the care and keeping of a few official men-— composing at once, the Legislative and Executive Councils, or bearing chief 5way in them — while the public attention and interest, have only been called forth on rare occasions — when some present interest or prejudice happened to f>e touched. It is easy to understand, in this state of the public mind, how little sensation may be produced by meosures of government, which deeply involve rhe most .vital interests of the Colony, where they do not immediately touch the grosser and more palpable interests of the mass. The disposal of such an immense property as that of the Reserved Lands, is a question of vital inte. rest, and fraught with more important consequences than most of those which are now most keenly agitated amcngst.us. (See Note £) What trifles do all our temporary expenditures and appropriations appear, when we compare them with the -permanent disposal of such a vast property— vesting an equally vast power and influence, for good or for evil, in those who shall be endowed there, with ? And yet, were it not for the selfish interests immediately involved in tlie settlement of this great question, we believe that it would scarcely excite any general sensation ! Did the Laity of Canada see, or feel, as they ought, the effects which this appropriation will have upon the administration of the ^^rovernment, the independent power which it will vest in the Clergy, its ten. 'Icncy to create jealousies and divisions among the different sects, and to inju.'e ^Ue interests of Learning pnd Hducatitn, by giving an undue nrepondafance to one or a few sects, in the patronage and administration of their institationF-~ they would, not look with such tameness, as they ftavo done, on past or pre. ent proceedings, affecting such mighty and essential interests. We tell he A^icultural and Mcrcilintile bodies, -that their most precious interestSt are in direct opposition t(9 every exclusive, and illiberal measure, toall-paN Mai and factious legislation. This qi^estion touches the very spring a^d fcun. tain of our prosperity — and if ii^ is mismanaged, it will paralyze our *v.l- tal powers — and wither or eneltvate the whole social and political frame. It 'will never be well with these Colonies—there will be no vigorous action of ^overnment-o-until the people shall awake from their lethargy, and exercise a just countroul over the rulers, by the influence of a free, manly, enlightened public opinion, , % i^ * •4 «• • r";-?f^''">T- , ■♦^ .i i fiNIS. '^, .A >•' 1 X < %• / • • • > * • t.