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Every Senator is entitled for every Session to $1000 every Legislative Councillor of the Province of Quebec is for every session entitled to six hundred dollars. Such (without remark) is the fact. Now one Senator at leasi, being both a member of the Senate and of the Legislative Council receiving both allowances, both stipends, pockets annually $1600. I speak of Mr. James Ferrier, bred a grocer, who representing the division of Victoria in Montreal sits at the rate of $G00 in the Legislative Council, now in session, and also as representing the Division of Shawanagan sits in your Senate, now also in session at the rate of $10G0 annually. It is certainly more profitable than dispensing gin and brandy over a counter, but is it consistent with the respectability and efficiency of the Senate, with the honor of individual members, with the interest of the Dominion, with the peace of the community ? Whatever may be your answer to these questions, in fact Mr. James Ferrier has, during the whole period of the existence of the Senate and Legislative Council, always been,and still is, a member of the Upper Houses both of the Dominion and of the Provincial Legislature, and thus acquired a title to both allowances. You know the part that he plays in yoUr House — his vote V l»tit yo»jUn'cl;iy iv;*i>rilol ;i;;Miiisi tlie IJill lor pi-oinotiiii>; union uiiioii!^ thu I'reshyloriiui cliiu'clu's is u notorious proof of tho course wliicii lio pursues in llio Lcgisljilive Council, now sittinjLj in (^uobec. Whatovor may bo the grounds up)n which this cxcollont judge of treacle has boon so favored 1 avail myself of tho occasion to recall to your recollection tho question solemnly propoujidcd in Parliament by ^[r. Disraeli, lie wished lo know why tho Americans hated the Englisli. Xow had ho been acquainted with the ])re-revolutinary history of the thirteen colonies, ho would have known that the partiality to Europeans by which that period was cursed excluding the natives from every hope of distinction, excited the detestation of tho English wliich culminated in tho revolu- tion, and, descending traditionally from sire to son, is felt to this day. And the same causes always produce the same olfocts. I am descended from an oHicer in Wolfe's army. His services after the conquest being required by tho ofllcors in command in this country ho consented to sell out, and he applied tho price of his commission to tho purchase of the fiets of Granpro, Grosbois, and Dumontior. Those became mine by inheritance, and lying within the Division of Shuwanegan conferred on me a right to be called to the Senate. A right, I say, founded on my birth in Canada, on my capacity and education, on my experience and rank as a representative in Parliament during 12 years. I can also not only iuvoke tho fluency with which [ speak two lan- guages, and a career of fifty years at ihe Bar, but my claim is supported by the well-known facts that I have shod my blood in the performance of important military services, and have preserved order in the City of J\Iontreal undor circum- stances of great peinl to its citizens. Indeed since George Washington saved the wreck of Braddock's array, no Provin- cial has had tho opj^ortunities of which, by God's blessing, I have availed myself. But it may bo said that I have ceased to possess political influence. That may be accounted for by B^¥^9 3 I tho fact tliat tliose estates are in wliat is called the French country t\s is also my other property in tho environs of tho City of Qnohec. Tliis, however, in nowise detracts from tho hencficial intliionco wliich my local knowled^'e mi^dit enalde me to exercise, cspoclall}' as a medium of cornmunif-a- cation between the unrepresented Protestant minoritv and the Government. Eeing, unfortunately, what is liere called a heretic, I can not hope for tho favor of tho Priesthood, a class who control and govern all the others who, in tho interest of their caste select the i-eprosontatives and dictate to the Covernmciit. I am, nevertheless, qualified tositin the Legislative Council, but the pi-eference was given lirst to 3Ir- McCiroevy, because he was a Papist, am\, upon his resig- nation to Mr. .Sharpies, a European, because he al.so waw a Papist. But tho three nominations to tlie Senate ai-e even more full of signilicance, the first, Baillargeon, being the brother of a Bishop, the second, Panet, the nephew of a Bishop, and uj)on the hitter's appointment to a lucrative office, the third, Fabre, another brother of another Romish Bishop. Those preferences are not accidental, and the excitement caused by the murder of Scott and the pretensions of his co-religionists as well as the recent murder in Xew Brunsivicic, and the war Avaged in Montreal against the followers of Chiniquy, must convince the least ])reseient of you tliat within fifteen years tliis eommuniry will be, must bo, involved in civil Avar. Ultramontanism Avill be satisfied Avith nothing less. Then ours is a system Avithout adhesion — avo have tlio forms of monarchy Avithout its essence. In the interest of his dynasty, a resident sovereign Avould by Aviso precautions (among others by rewarding loyalty) ensure the permanence of order, and a natiA'e Viceroy attached to his country Avould, by controlling the ecclesiastical element, as is done in most Popish countries, conduce to the same result. At a time during Avhich tho profession of the reformed faith Avas not a ground of exclusion my father Avas a Legis- latiA'o Councillor, as his uncle, one of the conquerors of Canada, hn.d been — and none but iboso who affect, gratui- tously affect to hold that man degenerates in America can doubt that I ought to have been preferred to Mr. Ferrier — preferred, I say, on principle as a matter of right without exacting ft*om mo or expecting an approach to a genuflexion. But a European, clothed for a few years with a delegated power, feeling that the receipt of his salary and the other attributes of a representative of royalty will always last his time, need not and will not trouble himself about the future- All men, aye and all women, are fond of power and of the court which the multitude pays to power, and so long as human beings can be found in Canada to offer a sort of adula- tion which could scarcely be expected from the dusky war- riors of the Punjaub assembled in Durbar at Lahore, Gover- nors General will condescend to pocket their $50,000 and perquisites, without being inconveniently solicitous con- cerning the future condition or probable fate of the Protestant minority in Quebec. Now, hoping that the foregoing lines may not bo quite overlooked by my co-religionists of Ontario, of New Bruns- wick and of Nova Scotia, I will state another fact: — The city of Quebec with a population of 59,000, of which some 4,000 are Protestants, returns three members to the House of Commons, three to the Provincial Assembly, and it has successively by quasi Hoyal mandate had two Legis- lative Councillors as well as three Senators, the whole eleven, members of the Church of Rome. The Protestant population is thus altogether as much ignored as it was on the eve of the massacre of St. Bartholo- mew ; but, as the poet puts into the mouth of the gladiator, " butchered to make a Roman holiday" an invocation to the Goths, so the Protestants of Quebec may, and probably do, indulge in the hope that their descendants may eventually be relieved by the generous intervention of a kindred people. My excellent constitution and life-long abhorrence of vice have enabled me to speak and act with vigor in my 79th year, and, as I cannot derive consolation from the profes- Hion of two religions like McNabb, or find solace in drink like McDonald, I require some mental occupation. Hence that position, (my rightful position in the Senate of which I have been deprived in favor of an uneducated European) would have enabled me to diffuse valuable information touching this section. Without such information the most patriotic, disinterested and efficient administration cannot successfully govern a people composed of heterogeneous materials of various origins, professing different creeds, and speaking ditteront languages: and the dissensions and the crimes of which Manitoba has been, of which New Brunswick is now, the scone, as well as the political complications arising there- from, might have boon much lossenel, if not altogether averted, by an lionest and judicious selection of means of communication between the Government and the peo])lo, and especially by the exhibition of some sympathy for the minority as well as of some regard for native merit. Bat in this mixed population, in which the Protestants arc disfranchised, the Attorney General who pi'osecutes, the con- stables who summon the witnesses and the jury, the sheriff who selects the jury, the majority of the jury, the witnesses to provo the charge, the clerk of the Crown who swears in the jury and records the verdict, and the judge who charges and directs the jury and awards the punishment might be, and at this day, on any trial, would all most certainly be Papists. But if the prisoner at the Bar were a Protestant, charged with any infraction of any rule in which the Pries .- hood were interested, the accused might bo unjustly dealt with. In this xjase, then, and in many others easily imagin- ed, a Protestant senator, possessing moral courage, might operate as a check on popish malice, for it would be known ihat from his place in Parliament ho could denounce all the wrong doors. Even in Mexico, the terror inspired by the Priesthood is producing a salutary effect. I did, therefore, hope that those who govern here would have extended some protection to the Protestant population, by naming at least 6 ono senator of that donomiiiation ; nor, seeing tlio lawloss- iioss of tho Pupiats of Montreal, shall we have Ion,<^ to wait for Hconcs and examples all tending to prove the wrong that its sy.stomriL'cally done to Protestants. Some duties requiring intellectual occupation in connexion with Legislative nieasures might thus have fallen to me. They would have tended to prolong my life, and I should gladly have devoted myself to their performance, gratuit- ously devoted myself, for unlike Mr. Ferrier, who draws two salaries for the pretended performance of impossihle oilieial functions, I object to stipendiary Legislators. But, the Viceroy and his advisors may possibly bo dis- posed to favor the extension of Republican institutions over tho whole continent ; or, while the}' enjoy present advan- tages, they may bo perfectly indifferent to the future ; or they may be ignorant of tho difference between after dinner cheer- ing and tho loyalty that entails tho cheerful sacrifice of life. Be that as it may, so long as the Senate connives at the grabbing of two salai'ies by ono of its members who affects at one and the same time to bo present and actively engaged in two Legislative bodies assembled in two different hidls, upwards of two hundred miles a]>art, no ono can wonder at the occurrence of Pacific Scandals or Tanneries Land Swaps, or at an}' kiiid of official turpitude. It \H thus, however, demonstrated that the post of honor is *' a private station " and I shall govern myself accordingly. A. GUGV. QuEiJEC, February, 18T5, it