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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 HCb "'^ \ \1 r{ ' li ^^^^^^^-'^^^f^=^-^^^=^'-^^^ f lr:~ Y/^tt -' siK^Jls TO 8 |)f hans and io tl]e :^eo|)If of l^aiuula : RKVEAL^Na ,^ BIGOTRY, PERFIDl, PERJURY, PERSEClTlO^i & PLl^DER(>FORPHA\S!! c^ AND Jl DICIAL JlG(iLERY AND MINISTERIAL ])ELI\aiIEN€Y m THE COUNTY OF OTTAWA, P.Q. -*■» -^^ ♦♦- X'J' JOIIJV MACAU Lin ► •--^^ ••♦- Price 25 Cents^ iji ^^ TampV Hch ^^■^^p Tamph He 5 L El T T im=l- £ — TO. — MI HOIELESS ORPHilS ANr> To ruK PEOPLE OF CANADA. V,v JOHN MACAIT].EY 'I \ -^y^lp b sO O T T A W A 1879. i""*: :,l INTEODUCTIOK. V To the Reader. Gentle Sir, — In presenting the following letters to your perusal I would assure you I am, at once, cogci- zant and appreciative of the great and serious risks whereto I subject myself, personally, by to doing. For whilst some people fondly flatter themselves, and try to persuade others, to believe that there is law in the Province of Quebec for protection of life and property, — many cases could be cited to show that such law of protection is mostly either mordacious mimicry mythical fraudulency or humiliating delusion —and especially so, in any case between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant of British origin, — at the disposal of the posing and evasive District Magistrate County of Ottawa, P. Q. Thus, just pee these three cases of failure of Justice in respect to three men — in no sense related to each other — but of the same name (my own name) : — Robert McAuley's body was found dead with a bullet hole through the head in the Ottawa River; James McAu- ley's horse was killed dead with an axe in daylight, in presence of several witnesses ; and Mr. G. H. JVlacauley was murdered by ruffians in presence of witnesses, and yet the perpetrators of those crimes are unpunished / IV tli(T, dear Header, to entreat you to cjri fully re:id the following letters and to conimunicato their contents as much as pos^^ible to other people, with the purpose of thereby doing your duty to Trnth, Country and God. True it is a few pusilanimous wretches who — " Living shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying shall go down To the vile earth from whence they sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd and unsung." Mendacious psychological excresences on society — will say to you and me : " ! quit the dangerous sub- ject of /Vo^<'5^/r<^ mlnorihj vtxatioHs, and the abuses, dees, immoralities, etc., of the province of Quebec." " Let the dead bury their dead — and the future take care of itself — enshioud your opinions, etc., in sordid mysticism of words and idioms, or terms of meaningless ambiguity and thus be a man of the world, or confidance man, and keep but retiring, incessantly, from that arrogant and aggressive exclesiasticism and its influences and myrmidons — and lex talionU and locnm tenens (the District Magistrate) — that tacit conspiracy of circumstances which is so scathing in efiect there — and 60 avoid the risk of personal violence." But, dear Reader, let us, a fortiori, remember that God is Eternal, and Truth is part of the essence of the I a a| Etcrn:il omnipotence df («od — ;ind pnlpibly it i' '^'ir duty to our.sclvi'S, our Country, our f'ollowniou ajid our God to m;.ko ounjclvos tlic n)cans, or a.trent.s of tho Allwisc in publishing the truths of the following letters as widely ms possible. And wo cm conscioniiously affirm thit in so doing we aim not, at oxt-iting any national, religious or race- rancour, but on the contrary, and as remedi dly thereof or aritidotally therefor, to excite and nourish such ethics and healthy public opinion as may so ameliorate exist- ing evils, now or soon, that civil discord, strifo or turmoil of races, etc., may remain hereafter unprovoked and inoperative. I am, Gentle Sir, Your obedient servant, John Macatjlf.y. Ottawa, 4th October, 1879. f ;i I x_,E3Ta?EaR 3 -TO- — *oo- Ottawa, 4th Noveiiibor, 1879. Ml/ Cliihh'fii and Covntrymr.n, On the 7th of list month \ issued a I'rospoctus in purport :is Ibllow.s, viz. : — '• As soon .-IS ;i sufficient number of suhscribors hns been jtrocurod I will publish in painplilot form, at ouly twonty-tivc cents per copy, — " Letters to my dispersed and houjele.ss Ot'phuiis nnd to tlie People of Cnnada." To tlie former, as memoranda of the vile motives of cruel persons whereby the desolation was sprung on, or deluded about them as helpless orphans. And to tlie latter as another index to the implacable spirit and untirinm ; the svibversion of civil and relijjjious liberty ; and the annihilation of the right of the people to appeal agamst Judicial injustice, such as was evinced in the Guibord Case, Montreal. Superadded thereto will bo notes, nnd -ilso copy-letters from the Hon. Attorney-CJcneral Ross, Quebec, and other perscns, to demonstrate beyond all ch-nicc of refutation, that uiisreprcsentation, falsehooi, slander, libel and 2 porjnry woro ciinunoijiteii v.m] circiilntcd by a wicked W'liiMi :iii!! Ill r stolid liusbnud to produce tlio desola- tion of the or|)h;inh and tluir ffillicr, luairdy because he ;;nd tlity had been denounced, by an impulsive and iuiskd )»ricst, as heretics or aposlatca. l-I. In tlie letters I will place before you. :uy Orphan Children and my Country men, Meioilcss Shuliiiiiu,' and perfidious duplicity, as pntcticcd by the Di:-trict Majiis- trate Ronlcau of tlie County of CHt'iWa, P. Q., and. the notorious Advocate St. dulien, and the Clerk of the ]\i a j-rist rates' Court at Wakefiidd. and the Bailiff AJoore. A;:. The letters will elucidate to you, my Orphans and my Countrymen, a vicious privilege which is as odious to you as it is superlatively baneful to morality and truth, viz. : Tlie leual right, or privilege or option, as claimed .-ind used by the said District 31agistrate, of- usinu' (i the hands of an old man, frail and deerepid — of tioaiiy ei'jhty years, in Wakefield, and he intimat^jd his wiiliiigu'.'^s to receive the names of subcribers for the pamphlet. And on that becoming known to the illuminated oracle, Clerk of the Majii?^trate Court at Wakefield, he promptly went to the fosilli/ed Magistrate Poster Moncreef, J.P., and the latter forthwith issued a Warrant for the arrest of the poor old deerepid niau William Upritchard, aud he was arrested ! '■And for what?" you will ask. I answer let the wording of the precious Wan-ant of the oetogeneriau and fosillized Magistrate dispel, if it cm, all mystifica- tion from your minds — T copy from the Warrant: — " Whereas infurmaticn h;ith this day been laid be- fore the undersigned, one of Her M.ijesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said j>istviet of Ottawa, for that William Upritchard, of the Township of Wake- field, in the County of Ottawa, faruicr, did on or about the twentieth day of October, instant, at the Township of Wakefield aforesaid, nuiliciou.sly j>ublish a defamu- tf>r> of J Cle| ina( inai Mai Wil €-oui Pe inf(| Gil of 5 >er, 1879, ' t'>i-^ ](3tter "Jed to in r>iso(iia] and w attempt '^'>^J'Jg and Mie and to tlie Pro.*. e liunds of Itgtl','?,'? to lil^'t. And icle, Ciork P'"Oinptiy the arrest pi-itcliurd, r Jet the r)goneriyn 'iiy«tifica- mt:— hi id }»e- •stiees of* "wn, for f VV.ko- >r about ^wnsiiip J of 'am u- t^iry lilicl. which was damaging to the private character t)t Adoiiiram (^atet^, of the said Township of Wakefield, Clerk of the Magistrates Court. And oath b ing now made before me substantiating the matter of such infor- mation ; These are therefore to command you in Her Majesty's name, forthwith to afij-ivliond the said Williira Upritehard and to bring hun belore me or f-ome one or more of Ifer Majesty's .Justices of tlie ]^e ice in and for the said District, to answer to the said information and be further dealt with according to hiw. Given under my hand and seal this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord o e thousand eiglit hundred and seventy-nine, at Wakefield in the District aforesaid." Tostb:r Moncreef, JA^. Now, my Children and my Countrymen, I would envite you to reperuse the Prospectus referred to iu the copy Warrant now before you and find out for yourselves, if you can, for I confess I cannot discover in, or by it, where or how poor old decrepid William Upritehard of Wakefield did either evince malice to, or publish against, or defame, or libel, or damage the character of the illuminated oracle Clerk, Adouiram Catcs. And yet the Warrant of the fosillized Magis- trate tells us that somebody has sworn that he, William Upritehard, did maliciously publish a defamatory libel (iimiaging to the private character — so sensitive, vul- nerable and fragile — of Adoniram Cates ! But pray, my Children and Countrymen, bear this ill mind, that if there was malice evinced, it must have been evinced by me, — not by William Upritehard; — i f there was aught published defamatory, then I (not William Upritehard), as the author of the Prospectus, mist have been the publisher and defamer ; if there Was anything libellous in the Prospectus then I, and not poor old decrepid William Upritehard, must have Lccn the libeller ; and fiiinlly if there was aught in the Prospectus clamaginji; to the fragile and sensitive cha- racter of Adonirani Cates, then I, as the author thereof, am solely responsible, and William Upritchard is not res}X)nsible. And yet somebody has sicorn (as shown by the Warrant) that it was poor old William Upiit- ch.'ird that did maliciously publish a defamatory libel damaging to the private character of Adouiram Gates, Clerk of the Magistrates' Court, etc. But, my Children and Countrymen, I may here inform you that there were several healthy and compa- ratively young laymen as well as clergymen in Wake- field who took interest in and were in posscgsion of the Prospectus at the same time that poor Mr. Upritchard was arrested. Then why was he chosen out for arrestment ? The answer is that he being the oldest and most helpless of them all, would therefore be the most likely to be intimidated - and that by and through the intimidation of him, intimidation might be communicated to the others and even to me. And in fact they — Adoniram Cates and the Magistrate — did intimidate him as is manifest by these fjcts : After his arrest he was told by them of the enormous sum of money he should proeuro to enable him to defend himself by law, etc., etc. ; and then he was told to give his promise to distribute no more copies of the Prospectus, and that he might go home and bo free. He therefore promised, accepted the Magistrate's condonement, and went off, leaving you and me to wonder at the freedom in which the actoge- nariau and fosillized Magistrate arrogated to himself the Royal Piviledge of condoning an offence anent which he had issued a Warrant only a few minutes previously ! I remain, my dear Orphans and fellow Countrymen, Very faitfully yours truly, John Macauley. m "gilt in the jsitive cha- lor thereof, '^rlicant for a position in the Department of Justice. I hivo known Mr. Macauley for many years as a steady, reliable and trnstworthy man; he wiites a good h-md, is well educated, and would, I am certain, ob gr( « 11 your favor- ynient will f'uJfil his ciety. In cicnce and of justise, )rt his ap. imes Cun- A. A. John A» -good; E. ock; Geo. uctioneer ; es Hope, Nt; J. B. f K'jssell Minister, Presby'u William ^x- Mayor, r. Kirby, Senator ; ^t. Jean, ^arleton." 1, hi me ug copy- ?S8ion : — 1878. thijt he tnient of ny years wiites a certain. discharge any duties wliich may devolve on him, in an able and trustworthy manner. 1 would take it as a j^nat favor if you could aid him in any manner. " iSincerely yours, « To "Alonzo Wright, M.P.*' '* Hon. J. McDonald, " AHnister of Justice, Ottawa." '' Ottawa, Auiiu^ 2!id, 1879. '* Hon. McKenzie BvioeU, " Dear Sir, — The beai-er, Mr, .lolui Maciuley, is an applicant for employment under you- -1 have known him in several positions of trust within the List (if'tcen years, all whereof he filled with credit and ability. (Should you be able to place him 1 feci satisfied he wiil give satisfaction to you and the public. «sSiu;ned, James Cotton." In conclusion I may say T am sure you, my Children, Coui tryinen and I'riends, will consider the foregoing throe (ro J ly "letters competent to convince you that in the fdllowin;: letters I shall state the " truth and nothing but the truth," and vilify no man or clirjue of men. I remain, my dear Children and friends, Vours faithfully, Jons Maiaulky. Ottawa, 7th November, 1819. 4 My Children and Cvuntri/m(n, In sunimcr last I wrote :i letter which appeared in a Toronto newspaper, and a.s all the (ontents thereol'are quiie ajtposite to this pl.ice (seriatim) in my letters to you, I will now herelnai'ter present to your considerji- t]')V the matter just alluded to— and incorporate there- with such other words and remarks as 1 may dicm ap[»ropnate to the present time and purposes. One of these purposes beinp: to exhibit conspicuously some of the stolid, yet dangerous bigotries existing at onr very doors And 1 may s.iy, this conspicuous exhibit in this phiee, of the Series, wiU be peculiarly prefatory to the lettcis succeeding this, as it will enable the discerning r(?ader to aec unt ri;;htly and logically for the whrcforc of ^onle of the utmcitU'n to be revealed in the narrative herein.iftcr and to under.Ntand the whole of it. '' Venostj, Lowe, Co. Ottawa. P.Q., 9th June, 1870. « To the Editor. " Dear Sir, — I would, with your permission, impait some interesting and useful information, through your valuable eolums, to all such as care and hope for the unimpaired ni.iiiiteuancc and perpetuation of civil and religious liberty, and material and moral progress and protection, by law, for life and property in this J)ominio?i generally, and in this unfortunate Province of Quebec piirticuLirly. ** Here, especiall}^, it is that the old, tyranica/, 13 18-4 a. )earGd in icreol' are letters to eoDsjderu- iite the re- in <«y deem One of y some of t our very ibit in this ory to the di.secrniiij< wh rcforc ; n.irrative a, 1870. permission, n, through I hope for 3n of eivil il proiiresri.s ty in this ! Provinee lyraoica/, J relentless and implaeable spirit which, in its Roman Catholic zeal, jiersecuted poor Gallileo and other pioneers of science, manifests itself often shamelessly, cruelly and with impunity, even whilst many Hlund J*iot(>tants, unnoticinmnipotcnce to the huma- nity of Europe in many thousands ot years. Here \a the asylum of the unfortunate or poverty-stricken of the British Isles ; here may be the homes of our progeny for many ages hence. Wc should therefore earnestly endeavour, by all moral means available to us, to really disable or impede the Roman Catholic Church from obtaining the po.sition of a dictatorial oligarchy here and in the United States, as she is visibly enough endeavouringly to do. " And here let us not forget this highly important truth that this Canada, this great America, of ours was discovered in direct oppositioiJ to the theory and teach- J»i 14 iiiL' of tlio w» :*«1!»* siinl In |m if'»ct accord :iim1 li.innony with til" t.'j.cliii j; <•!' ili:.t truly pirciit phildsnjiluT, (ia'lilco, ^vlM'lJJ she ^u ciuelly pi i>ccuti;d. Ami yet wo li.ive Ik lore us a |». ri.i»Ii.cl emanating, 1 V^eiicvo, from ?i liiiili llon.i^li auiln-rity. to cxultiniily hliew us how numerous .'•nil iiitiuciitial ;.r<; the noble and other converts to KdUian C.ithoiiciMii in Great Britain. C;iniHl.i, (tc. whilst our mnny colour* d. or several kinds of I rotcs- tants in ("anad;! rtiuain retiriiMi (mentilly) «.r blandly assenting (tJicitly; to >ncli platiiudes, s(»|)hisuis or syl- logisms as that bishop .-ind other apologists* and advocates of dc.--poti.-m I'liUi.ciate and circulate. But wo should keep tills in mind — that the pamphlet above referred to is only epln Uif nd fj[Kirtc evidence, and as such, is uncandid, and th»-nl«»rc censurable, as coming from a dignitary of the Church, who.-o c^ipecial duty it should be eitlier to sj>e k or write '* the trutli. the whole truth and nothing but the truth," or to speak or write noth- ing at all on the .'•ubject. But if he had wi'itten the whole truth he must have ccaced to be a '-.ojiliist chicanist and j>aitiz:.n.and' aduiit;ed. firstly, that though a few have, of iatc Vt-ars, gone from Protrstmtism in the higher .'^j^iiercs «d" .society in Great Britaiii, etc., many others liav*^ left Koman Catholicism. Nay, he would liave iiad to admit that he publi hed his pamphlet to influence the more vulgar of the people to believer th. t the tendency of the educated and intellectu 1 of tl e people w.s towaid the Romaji Catliolic Chruch i»i England, etti., .ind then by to influence thi; .ame vulgar of the people Uj think that they should follow such us are styled, by certain sophists, '■'■ the people's natural leader.-." And, .secondly, he would hove had to admit that some of the to called conversions and mi' eh of the encretse of Komau C-Jtbolicism have resulted from other I B >| oil le ot| n( 15 'lie Clmrch niioMV witli T, (ill'lilco. it we li.ivo i'oiii n liioji ' nu morons 'onverts to i'"if' ty /k r kc. H)it nL'ithrr of tlicst! two things could ho afl'niM to do. No, h<- is, for.-ooth, one of tlie iiaiur.ii. bir-iUM he is one of the religious leaders of the piople And his })iii)|i]i- Ict is mt'rely cyjvrite eviifemr, (<^n one si(U' oidy ). In other words, it is not " the truth, the whnlo trnth. .ind notldng but the truth." " Allow me to elucidate some of the repn'hensibfe ajrcnei' s and - lomentxi whieli have been inconte^t ibly used in this province (Qu; bee) for the purpose of con- version or proselytism. " Within forty miles of Ottawa are two eh ilybcnle or n.ineral sprio'; wells. The water of eaeli is.t'xeel- lent and differs from that of the other; cattle, etc., come from a distance to sip of the sweet water of the s.dine well ; they were known till recently as the spa wells, but now they are known, respectively, as St. Patrick's and St. Bridget's Well. How did this ehannre occur ? In this way : A certain hypochondriac priest w.:s informed of the medicinal virtues of the wells, and a thought occured to him to commit a '' pious fraud " in tlie promotion of piety and Catholicism. He therefc-re spent most of a half day in blessing the wells — making them holy wclls. A house, with many images of saints, sanctified names and litanies, etc., in it. has been built over one, and a wooden construction of another form has been placed around th<' other well, md there th(y re cow-St. Patrick's V\ 11 and S:. Bridget's Well--the di>tance between them b« ing ;.bout fony feet. And doubtless WP! shall in time hea of •' luiiaculous cures'* effectid at the wells alluded to. And to thtui pilgrims may be ht re fter wending their way, as they -ire now doing to St. Anne's and other places in this divinely iilumin.itcd provnu'o of Qno c lution any of them, and to direct public attention to the other questions just now sub- mitted, then and thereby one of my most h 'rished aspir.ttions will be gratified." Yours Ncry truly, John Macauley. 4. iiiplicitly I red for, hw.jrted ishment, and in mrnitted r >te who rjuiy in nf^Ucigos ; deplor- this has ;VOur to Lolicism. e battle are wo, •e? In us by we, the ! domi- 00 10 '10 12 00 , IH 50 9 00 , 10 00 6 00 $172 50 uplements, ves before .'ind niilk isiderjiblc, awa then, nary sick- extent of about $50.00 cash, on loan at interest, and the worth of $50.00 in store goods— $100.00 in all; and that amount could have been easily repaid from these four or five sources, namely: butter, pork, beef, ij;rain and h.iy. And we were to have in addition to the stock above Uientioned, foals, calves, lambs, pigs and fowls. I therefore went, personally, to Mr* David Maclaren, merchant, of Wakefield— your poor mother being still improving daily in hor health then and applied to him for the S50.00 in oash and $r)0.00 of goods— $100.00, or thereby ; that credit to be only for a lew Uionths — that is until the income referred to would be reallized 1o reply the amount then needled. And to socurtf the payment 1 ottered a ('battel Mort^ag.!. or a Bill of 8ale of all the animals alreadv mentioned, on the under- standing that they should remain at my place till near the term of expiry of the ipredit, as I had an abund,n«et^ oi' feed for th' ni the*', and 1 to have thj right of redeeming them all within such time as miirht be agreecd on. In order that no more than one-third of tlie value of the stock ^hould be* advanced to me I pro- posed — in a written memounidum, then in my hands, and which is now before me— that a competent person should be sent with me, in my cutter, to value the animals and tlut the credit should not txeeed the one- third of their value. Now, n y Countrymen and my Orphans, pray bear in mind why it became neoess:iry for me to obtain the credit : It was Uxiause, 1 . I had suffered loss on two occasions by fire on that f rm ; because 2. I had expended considerably on improving the farm ; and because, S. and of grave importance to me and my children, my poor gentle wife had been paralysed upw;irds af a year pre- viously, bui was then happily and eheeringly convalex- ing. And her extraordinary concatenation of nervous 20 (ienmgcnients or dii-ordors liad produced ciiibarrasscneni !iiid confusion in the Jiffairs of both the house and the farm, and had caused unanticipated expense of money, N: y, and as I had then comiuenced building a dwell- in;^ liouse, iitc, etc., I foresaw that unless I completed tlie buildings opportunely, my wife'« restoration to health would be probably more tedious or even preca- rious — that we should have to continue in a compara- tively miserable hovel at a rent as we then were — and that we should lose much butter, j;rain, pork, and ])i'rchance Jinimals, especially young oties, by our not having suitable plices for the preservation of all tho^e. And 1 be^-ides saw that part of the credit sought t;ien Vtould be needed to enable mo to put the crops in the ground in the then incoming spring. But before and above all these cogent circumstances was this one fact of ominous importance to me ard my suffering family, then — I owed ^iiO (twenty dollars) to a sordid and pitiless mercenary named Seth Cates, and piirt of the credit then sought was for the paying of that $20. l''or though lie had, by felinelike cunning, long kept his base nature and instincts, perdu from many people, 1, nevertheless, feared he would avail himself of my exiguuey and serpentlike spring upon me. And that he did so spring on me the seguel of these letters will shew. Weil 1 explained my c ise, as already stated, i'rom the written memorandum now in my hand to the Said 3Jr. J)avid Maclaren, and he replied " that u Chattel Mortgage is not deemed strictly and utieondi- tionally legal in the province of Quebec, and that a Bill of Sale of the animals would not be legal unle>s he would take them away entirely from my place and premises ; and thtit he could not take them so away because he had no places for, and did not reijuire, and could not t..kt' care or charge of them." '• But, added 21 arrassmcni io and tlie of money, r a d well- completed omtiou to ven preca- com para- were — .iml pork, um\ y our not ' all tlie>e. ui^lit tiien 3ps in tlje )efore and s one fact [)g fiimilj, sordid and iii-t of the that S20. long kept ny people, self of mv And that etters will :ly stated, md to the " that a uticoudi- h.it a Bill uiile.^s he place and !so away |uirc. and ut, added V..\ ns Thonr's Daly is a marital relation vf yours a- , no, but flouiish), the vin- a prima y a Pres- who, was an inter- n of the rhaps, .-IS of the in wine), to take 3 of the absence, 'ail him- anothcT convert and thereby securing for himself, selfishly and avariciously, and also for Charlotte Daly another inter- terr<)-celestial quid pro quo, ticket or trading receipt, or ♦'giff gaff," that makes good friends between earth and heaven, in order that their passage may be facilitated, in the afterlife away, or up to St. Peter with his key, just as a ticket from Mr. Taylor would entitle me in this life to a run down by the Intercolonial Railway to the Atlantic. Yes, my Children and Countrymen, it is too true indeed that jnst as society is afflicted with merely mundane usurers and misers, so too is it afflicted by such Ghostly-Goblin-Fathers (Priests), as is the anathematiser just alluded to. To convince yourselves on this point you have only to glance cursorily at what has occured only recently: The Ottawa Herald, newspaper, has been, as a Koman Catholic organ, denounced by the Bishop and a cabal at his beck and its very existence menaced, only because its Editor dared to express a manly opinion in reference to the identification of something said to be the remains of a .saint, ^milius about 1000 years old, in honor whereof a Novena has been just accomplished. Evidently the Bishop and his Rev. Secretary — the latter seenjinjily not very remarkable as an exponant of the truth in the case — are aiming to snuff out the unfortunate Herald. And unless a surrender he announced by the Editor I fear he is doomed ; perhaps it would be well for hiai to take a retrospect of an incident in the experience of the late Mr. T. D. McGee who, notwithstanding his undoubted ability, felt it prudent to surrender in a case not very dissimilar to this of the Herald's Editor. Promptly after that '* ISmith O'Brien Cabbage Garden affair" poor Mr, McGee escaped, as my readers know, from Ireland and came back to America, in process of time he got into a newspaper discussion with an :m- 24 jinonymous wiitor r{^ New York City, on flic p(il)joct of '■ Who AV.is tlic p.-irty proyu'rlj' ipsponsiblo for the f;iiliire of the eiitir))ii.-o (»f ill'- Young Ireland Party?" Ho lioldinir tli.it it w is the Pristhood, liis anonymous oppo. Dent maintaininiz: the neiriitivc thereof. The diseussi* n waxed Warm and Mr. >li(iee soon saw and complained of the unf.iir advantajre wliieh his opponent h d (in the facility lie had) of al'ndinLr to isome peccadillos— vainer- able oi as-;;iilable points — in his pergonal conduct, etc., whilst he, the op).oiicnt. cautiously held liis own conduct, etc., concealed behind tiie nse of ^ fictitious name; and Air. MeOre dial lei !i>e; .«o. And therefore whenever that subject is mooted again to me I must say of it i/i/ia ihijuitatim (below my diirnity), and if cli dlenge(i to discuss it, again I mu>t send the answer unit, csf invottus (he is not to be found." And so it was that he sur- rendered. Well, before us here now wo have from Vr. Waller a copious disj)lay of !iis sufierficialism, sophistry and twaddle. For instance see his twadillo about the Sco'ch and Bruce, -Tush ! The Scottish people reviie Bruce and the traditions of hlin. but they would indig- nantly retire from the sight of ar.y gross, vulgar, absurd or idiotic Novena to his relics, or hypothetical relics. But there is the Iliernrch — the little spiritual despot of Ottawa menacing the very existence of the IJendd and what will its spirited Editor do ? Ah ! what ? 25 aiKt I I Wuuld Siiy to hiiu : " lietter be a Oip-y's ' Judy,' or a ' tiuker's donkey,' tluiii au Erlitor subject to the uhiuis and uiir.icle-titiintious of j.ny .'iscctic, or the \vliinis of any rabble led on by a frw of such political aud voikcrs ', -is only a fuw months auo were (.|uanelioj;' with eav h other, as fiercely as Kilk. iniiy cats." It was on the same day that 1 left that the Pri(.:st eanii', and on u\y returning homo the next day, after a foaifid snowstorm and diseoveriiiii;' that ihe foruia'.ides of Ml! kinii a coLvert had been performed in niy ahsenee T, ofeoiave, rxj reused my indign..tioa at the decejttioti ]ir;iet:ei (1 on n y ever f.dthful and gentle wife. A'ld jironipily I'lmngh somt; biiybody informed L'harlotre Daly .-.ccordingly, and fslie immediately hastened, furiously to the death bed of the gentle sufferer. And there, :.fti;r her mad drive, of 12 miles;, she threw herself into a frantic fanaticism and ilireatened me with the violence of my Roman Catholic iieiL;hb'>rft around me — charged me to not dare to interfere in any way with my wile now, and stampingly vociferated tint. '' she is now a iiood Catho.ic," and fren/ied y warned me that if I dared to influence her away from the true lloniiin C.atholic religion, woe and personal violence Would befidl me, etc., etc.. etc. -f^ * * And all this >she said and done in my own house, in presence not only of my own ciiildren and their poor dicing mother, hut in presence also of her own daughter, a young woman of considerably above twenty years old. 1 mny say, briefly the scene made b^ her at that bedside was a stigma to our humanity, to womanhood, to Roman Catholicism, to Caristianity and to civiliza- tion in the provinc? of Quebec. But rather than pro- long iha nonsjating, anU savage, and bnsterous, and tieiee outr.iiic of bitiotrv, etc , and lest such a prolongi- tion .-^hoUid indwCJ or cause anolher attaek of cpiltpsy 26 and tetanus of the gentle sutf'erer, who was then fully conscious of every word and menace uttered by the feniiile daemon, I had to sit in silent astonishment and indignation at the mad superstition, and vanity, etc., so iiioreilesslj dif^played by her. At last her own daughter ashamed of her, induced her to leave the house, and the an>t;" and that "the end justifies the means," — to be used especially in punishing a contumueious here to or a}K»st:ite. 1 am, ray Dear Orphans and Countrymen, Yours faithtully, John Macau ley. Ottawa, loth November, IbVJ. Mj Orphana and Countrymen^ And forthwith, if not untect'deutly to the odious scene referred to, in my hist letter, of 8th itjstaut, com • menced by Charhitte Duly crpressia verbis (orally), «uch a i«y.stematic and Mibtle procedure of misrepresen- tation, and exaggeration, and falsehood against, aiid slancUrr of me, as baffles description by me, 1. Thus, that same Mr. David iNJaclaren, or one of his assistants, could if he would, tell that she, or one of her duped emissaries, conveyed directly or indirectly to him the falsehood thai i had then neither the numb<'r, the kinds, tlie quality, nor the aniount — in money value — of the animals as represented by mo. An(i h'lre, O ! my Orphans and Countrymen, let me ask you to think that whilst she was s<» doing, there on her death l)ed lay one of the best of natures noble women of the '^ Land of browu heath and sliMggy wood," and tliere, at our door, in the back woods of Canada were our animals — nearly $500.00 worth of lioraes, cows, she p, pigs, etc., besides our household funiiture and farming utensils or implements — and tliat noth- withstauding all that money worth*at ourjdoor,fwe were disabled, by the blighting and destroying influances of the procedure just referred to, and transmitted, as tho' flectricaily or telegraphically in all directions— fi'oni and by one oood Catholic to aiiothei' of thut ilk tmd so on and onwards ad-inn nliHtu— disabled iVomobtuin- 2^ wj: ii) till' »» ickwuriiN. in our nrt-d, llu' trivial croLlit. ol' ^fjO.Md c;i!-1j :in(i.00 \v<»rtli ol' <;()0'ls, which would not only liave itMcured the desirable eonif'urts — nourish- ment, njfdicini"!*, otc.,— for the gcntU' patient but have onabliHl me aUo to aceoin|)li«li all that is ref'errctiuiti«»n into the chariies niadc^ auainst the M.-.-i-trate. tla- A'lvceatc or the Bailiff, nor issu(! any 'Jiu ^iloI;^. iii>trucii«.nsT suujj,estions. or i.dviec. that J k\,i.\\ of, lor «'ither the arrest or tiiul on a eviminal chariie ci th' l^^•' p«rjurers or elthi r of them. iiut. my C iiiionii and Coiuilrymen, to uive you ;.h inkii:!U or \ista of rvm a few of the mon.' deleteri(jus il' the sl.iii ir.- iJii-.iiiV i.hiided to, 1 may .say it was falseiy yaid. 1. That I ha<. romp'i d niv uilV to i-o out on lUc 1 V O i I'J) li • \v i- \^ r;\- ivM'ii. ;iti(l th:it th.it ('«»:M|tu!Hl()ii mikI owl -o.iij; \v i-* tiio niisfot' tlie j);iiMlysis JJiit my own <1 i ulit t. Amiit' Ts.ibcll.i, ;im] nivotlur chiltlri'Ti iind scvi i- 1 ini-lilinrs ciri j»r()V(i ;ill this to h-; untrue. 2. 'I ln" o < iMtors ( o|* tlio { riiiciplf ol' the "cud justifies the uiciiis.'' ) Ciiir- iotfe \)'\y, etc., ciicidiitivl the t'alsi'lioeid tint ih"ie w is hiood nil my AV.fe.'s elotlu'S on tlio d-y she \v is jiar.ilysed — tluis leaviui;- it to be iuCerre:! tlu't 1 he! u>ed violcuee, wlieu out, to hor. Tliis could mIso l)e pi-ovt-d iieiiMtively by my dau^litoi' Annies J-.'ibv 3 i .-lud (he other oliildred aud by >ever;d iieiuhbor.s. And rem 'U>- bcr tiiat it is not iilvviiy-^ that ueiiativtN cae be j)rovod ."0. The s.iid oper.itors f'nlmin;iteoa, l*rofess)r of Materia Medica, in the University of Ktiinbuigh, Scotland, wa.-^ !is eminent for his exten^.ive professional Karninj and know- lodL;;o as he was revered lor his candor and benevolence to the Sutter iu<; and the sick. On Medical themes and matters lu; was and is still r'Coni;nized as n high authority of rare ability. And I will, therefore, now inisent for your consideration the followintjj copy of a letter written to me by him in 'ISSG, I being then in Edinburgh, and the original I have and can shew : — " Colinton, 30th December, i856. " Mr. Mncauley. " Sir. — I am really sorry that 1 cannot hold out to you any prospect of succeeding iu your present object, tlic -Medical Degree. That cannot be obtainod by the rn'e< of this University, or ,.ny other equally carefal of i..> ihaiML-ier, without 4 wii.teis of University atten- 30 dance, ind 2 of Hospital attendaDce, and whose Profes- can testify, or certify thai he has attended his Lectures, except, itidced, that he may in particular cases of sick- ness or of medical duty. h--ve been absent from one-third of them. As you have struggled hard for education, and parlieuiarly for medical information, I would strongly recommend to you to endeavor to make your- self known and where ever you have an opportunity to make yourself useful to some one connected with the profession, who is not bound by such necessary rules as a professor is. In an apothecary's shop, in an hospital, in the office of a charitable society — a man who has such knowledge, and is likewise accustomed, as you are, to the discipline of a bookseller, etc., etc , may make bimsclf useful and acquire a respectable character, and if so empicyed for a slmi t time in Edinburgh, a man who writts a good hand, as yoa do, and has tanding all the necromancy which was put into operation to thwart me. Now, my Children and Countrymen, there were 33 rujiny otlicr sijiously injurious slanders, etc.. onlly (M)unciat('(l .-luriin^t me by tlic J)Y pio{>:!u;an(list, nor a cons[)iea en(|uire, thnik. decide, and act in matters religious, for mysell' Ae.d to a mind intelli ndtinn^^' wroii!.:; in thi^i i submit. But to a censorious biuot th re is, or seems to be, r.uik wrong in becoming, in low and vulgar phrase, " a <^U!ncoat,' — copious ^0J!hi m- le educed from "turn- ■^m s"^7 Ti 3G coat," in apolc^y or (.I'ilV'iiee of malevolence fakehood, rilaiidor, etc. Allow nie to observe here, my Children and Coun- trymen, that the histories of societies, peoples, and nations for thous.-nds of years past would reveal many clianges of religious opinions, ete. And doubtless some uf those changes have been salutary to mankind. But, proceeding - iu 1870 I piocured u farm in Venosta, Lowt^ Before doing so I consulted one of the settler* there as to whether my religious opinions amongst that exclusively iioman Catholic poeple would be injuriously operative again.-t the material interests of niy family, and he assured me negatively After a couple of years residence on it a bush fire occurred about lliree quarters of a mile wx'stward from my house. Having noticed it for a couple of days, as if approaching our far»n and house, I. on a Saturday, at noon, about or on the 20tli May. sent for several neiuhbors, and one of them was this Nime James Mullen who in summer of 1877, with Thom.is Daly, made that monstrous oath (perjury) which jroduced the seizure of n)y crops of that farm for two ye.irs, and the spolia- tion of xiiy little innocent, homeles.-, wandertng orj)hans. \Vell, I went with those neighbors tlirough the bush to the creek, and thence saw the lire in ^ev ral plact-s, but in every mstance on the ground And those neighlx rs then said to me, ' O, make your mind easy. We know more about the bmsh than you do. 'i^hat tire is all auionust the leaves on the <>round. and will burn on till it comes to the creek and then on coming to tlie water it must (li(^ out." I therefore then returned to my Work - potato planting. Next uiorning I took one of my hotsos and rod; to !t;intly rode as fast as possible home, and there found sevoal nciuh.boTs endeavoring to s;;ve my house from bcirvi' burned. The tire had crossed the ereck come on through the ImisIi mto njy clearance and had burned ;s<'ver il of my foncs. Near'y, if not every stump in my clearance of 50 acres was on fire. And all the beds. clothint the dwelling: house should be burned. In the afternoon of that day the fire divided, one part of it uoing: throuu'h the bush, northerly, and menacing nt'iohbors in that direction ; the other part, easterly^ endanuerinu settlers in that direction, and endanircriuij also my barn which was u considerable distance from my house. At and about the b:irn was an accumulation of very dry winter oti'all, etc., of horses and cattle, fed and housed and yarded there throughout the winter, and fearing, therefore, that it might be burned by sparks from the bush an(t stumps south of it, and as our family were all fatigued by the great labor and excite- ment of the day, and, moreover, as our assisting neigh- bors were going away from us to assist other neighbors who had become endangered, I then, and therefore, asi^isted by others, hauled my mowing machine and other farming implenicnts nut of the barn and laid them isohittd 01 the fields, th it in the event of the barn bi'ing burned tli«*y, at lea>t. might be saved — night being tlien approaching. Now, both the implements and the barn weie insured, as al-o the dwelling house and its contents, Night cauje and I reckoned it would be enough for us, f .tigued as we ail were, to protect the 11 (1.1 ciniii'' lious( . And ill [-liort ;iboiit tlircu o'clock the i'u low.iit:' moniiiig the byrii was biiniod. Now all the circuii. stances just narrated can bo tes'ified to on oath by at least twenty per? ous, neighbors arid others. A coujiJc of years afterwiirds my dwc^lling house w s hurned, 1 know not how. It may have been IVou) t-onie defect in th(; stovepipe or a chimney wiiich had b:Hn newly built, or iVoin an incendiary. Itoceured at night and was noticed fiist by the light from the burning roof, as seen from the windows, as shid on the lield or garden. And here I may say it can be proved invincibly that a female neighbor had previously thereto stripped her knees, and on them so, had kuelt and invok<>d the curse of Gnd on me for having purchased that farm. Why my pnrcliasing it had oifendi'd her, my sp ICC in these letters Avill not allow of cxphanarion. But wi' can with some nasoj) admit that the burning of the dwidling house uiay have been the work of an incendiary, tho' I think it occurred from the stovepipes or the chimuey. Well the scene of the burned barn w'as visited by the Appraiser of the Insurance Company, and ihe insurance on it paid, but mark here, not of course that (Ttisurance) on the farm implements, because they had been saved, as already detined, by their having been hauled out of the barn. About two years afterwards the dweUing house was burned and the ground or fire ^cene thereof was visited by the Insurance Agent. He saw the ruins, the fragments, vestiges, etc.. of the things destroyed, — saw the books and other things saved, and a reasonaldc proportion of the Insurance money was paid. That was abjut five or six yiNars :go, in lS7;-> 1 think. And all this can be demonstrated by irieontrovertable testimony ; remember. :;i) lie And now, my clo:ir Orj)li;in8, ^cnttcred ;m(] lionioloss fui you iirc, and my Countrymen, jillow luc to ]MTsent to your notice tlio following copy of a letter, rkh tlio Inst words of my letter of yesterd;iy, iOth in.^tnnt, the ori.t;in;d whereof is in my posrcssion, in reference to tliat lire, etc. "Octr 28t]i, — 77 " John Macauhy. " Sill, — Your eliildren came to our pincc Wednes- day of last week, Mr. ])aly and niy self, reseived tlioni, not on your account it is on tlieir mothers And their own your daughter Anna tells us you had Ida with A person in portland that was vc; -y Cind in lier w-'iy still she lacked in respect to a (rentleman who iiad placed his child under her care her son your Dauj^hter Anna says would strike your dauuhter in the face and iorbid her to speab and there was no redress she had her sleeping up stairs. . . ." [For sufficient reasons I cannot quote all this indelicate and gross clause or reference to tho upstairs. — J. Macauley.] I proceed, J. M. : — " Anna you had lived in four places And she snys At one place she had to wait on a poor sickly Girl that had fits for over twenty years And cannot help her self the smallest w^■^y you left 1 her lustly at a favourite place iVnd she told you and us how she was treated tliere, not «ltpt down stitii's. and not ily or u)y>olf Kii(*w Also lliMt Mr. J>;ily li;is in lii-; Kocpinir tln-oo Afjiudofits one to tlio Buniiti:r of yoiu* f UMnin^ utensils" [Which wore nevor burnoij at :ill .is airondy cxphiiiicd iti tliis letter. — J. M.J •• bolore you l)uriiod your iiouse Another to the Burnino- your hotis ; in .sta<:; oreoK and one to (his effect that you said to ,i s(!rt.iin man if it is tlic J)cvil puts bad tliiniis in pv'oplcs lioads that you John Macauley would ii'wc. the l>tivil tiec scope over you to enable you John -^lac.luley to I'uinin' the craetor and peace of niind of Thomas l>.ily and his wife we Defy you to raise one word of dise-hious heart Ann.i too would like to stay with him but he would not Allow you to frequent his liouse therefore send her word immediately what she will do or fiud a place for her. '' now sir after your insane veling you send your children to my place and t( Id Anna that Richards would be a good place for her or Adaline this is your daughter Annas words 'o me and she would have a home with her friends ;.s your d.iughter xM aggie has if it Were not fer your vile and depraved heart i sent your Ada with Mr. and Mrs. McC.ffry Mr. McC'affry has Kead this letter it is from my husb ind And my self ii Thomas and Ciiarloite Daly 41 And luAv. Diy dear Cliildroji and Couiilr^incn. J>r:iy iviiKMiibt!!' tliat ;.}j(iut only uiie month bclorc; lliu INVO W'orthys, Tliouias a!i(l Charlotto Daly, wrote and ycnt nie that iettir, tho said Thomas Daly, with James iMullen, had committed tlie perjury, destructive of tlic intere^ts of tlie very eliildrtui (oiphans) alluded to in tiiat cruel and abumiti.iblv slanderous letter oi' com- mintiled men;ice, mi-represen^atiun und falsi hoods and libel. I am, my Dear Orphais and Countrymen, Your.s faithtully, John Macaulev. i\S. — The Bichard oi- llieliard alluded to is tiic oldest son of Thomas and C'h.irlotte l>aly; he was tlien a recently married man. J. M, -••04- Ottawa, '^ p.m., 11th November, 1879. Ml/ Of'jthans and Countrymen^ IVrsiuning in respect to your permission I would hero present to your notice a jtarenthetical note in refertmce to my letter of the Gth instant. Now, anent tlie unsuccessfulness of the letter, on mv behalf, as written by Alonzo Wright, Escp, M.F., I v»ould say tJKit a man whom I may denominate as C. CJ states : — '• 1 was at the i'uneral of ^ * ■'^ a few weeks alic't;dcn;cnt uj-de hy p(;tsoll•^ who well know ihc p..liiic, 1 WMcj.iill. r^, viz.;— Tl there is ;i vu.'-t «i!rrriuei. ii. the>e times of politic •.inectity. vxytv- diency rind (juack'ry. lMM\v;en the act and Jit ct vl' a M.P. wiitliu^ A letter of ri-coniniendrition, etc., and llic ;ict iiid elKjct of thit .-riiuc .M.P., goiri^' up {HT^oniilly to the Hon. .\Ji!]iter aiid s yir)'^ earnchtly : " Sir, I w.int th t this man shad he ar^poijitcd to eniployment." I -.n:. my I)e;H- Countrymen and (Miildren, Very fathf ally, i our oh«,'di'. nt servant, d ai V( n tl (. <\ h f f J.'OIN .M A(\\i:i,|.V. h;' iicli Ottawa, 12tli Noveuibi'i-, 1S70. Mij Oi'/thnuH and uii/ Countn/men, Ilore I uiiiy pr.'iiii^c lint soon tif'tor iiiy i^ontlc wife «JitMl my oldest (lauji,lit('r — tlicii about IT) yi-ais oM — and thou too uiidor (lu* comljinod iiiflueucu, 1. of the roiiiaiK.'t' of * '^ ^' who so hdtod Pi'otostanti.sin, as n'f^'Ti'd to in luy lotter of the KUli instant. 2. Under tli'.i poisonirii!' adviet^ of hv-r relation, the necroui nicer Chirloite 1.), y. and oi' fitiiou> z.ialot.s and bii:;ots, rlL-<4crted and fl mI from her litthi helril(!-:!s .sisters and biother and nie. N,iy. th it desertion occured within ten d lys after her poor inotiur's death ; and that is the «! ii'^hter .\i;iu'u'ie inenliijned in tht; aboniiuible Ictt 'i* vY Thomas mid Cli itlottt; D.ily ;iS havliiji- a home witli her fri<'nds. Well, .-m-ui .ifter tint d st^rticn I reiit'd niv firm on the siiares cind rosignini; my orliue its post- master of Venost:», went six u iles, thence, with my four younu'er cliildron. to teacli a seliool. at only ^14 per montli. Findiiiir tint that race of w iizes was iniidcquate to the payment of ]i<-use rmt, fuel. eloth;is and ]irovisions, 1 .-ifter about six months; brouL:lit my children down to Ott iwa, :ind by tbe ureat liod meri- toriot'.s iioodness of Mrs. B.'onson Juid the (»tlier hidy dinetress of the I'rotostiut Orph ins' Houje of Otiiiwa, rncceedtd in having t]jree of them received in' t.mtly ioto tint truly benevol'nt institution. And IIk n I commeiiced, mysi.'il'. w trkiiii;' in tho mill yard of the worthily rj.-pocted tiiin .Me^sr-. J'erly &j l*attee, of Ott.wr. And. once more in C) taw.i, 1 wi- un^u-pieious 44 of any further perfidy on the part of the Dalys, etc. But just then, James Mullen and Thomas Daly, went (all unknown to me), and consulted the notorious advocate St. Julien, then of Hull, Quebec, and they went, then, to the good Catholic, eflBcient Post Office Inspector T. P. French of 0;tawa, and to him paid unnecessarily — as Vr. French's letter (a copy whereof will be submitted by and bye) clearly demonstrates — a sm;ill b ilance of money which remained due as an arrearap'e by me, as Postmaster of Venosta, to the Post Office Department of Canada, when I resigned my otiice of Poe^tmastcr. -^nd bear this in mind too, that it was by a long and extraordinary sickness ^f nearly two years duration, and by cruel and deceptive persecution and slander, misrepresentation and libel, etc., by the Dalys, that I had been disibied, but only temporarily di.j:.bled, from paying that small balance of arrearagtj. Well Mullen and Daly had been sureti'js or bailsm.ui for me, as Postmaster of Venosta, to the Post Office J^epartmeut of Canada. And it was in that capacity that they unnecessarily paid the amount of my arrearage of money to the i^ost Office Inspector, whose Assistant Officer had only a few days previously thereto assured me that time would be allowed me till winter, when the then growing crops could be sold and money thereby reallized, to pay that balance uf arrearage. And, thus it was that they, Mullen and Daly, purchased the priviege of making me, unknown to myself, their Debtor. After their paying that balance, unknown to me, tho' I was, as they well knew, within 100 yards of them when they passed the Suspension Bridge, they returned to the great boa constrictor or cobra-capello Advocate St. Julien, rnd before him omitted a declara- tion which he wrote (mark) in French. And then by instruction of St. Julien, the Bailitf Moore, who should 4r) but did not know how to do liis own plain duty iu the case, as can be incontestably proved, was disp itched to seize all of my half of my then growing crops on my farm. And after all, but not until all those things had been done, I was documentarily informed that they had been done, and at the same time intimation was made to me to appear at the Dietrict Magistrate's Court, in September, in Wakefield. But to that Court I did not go. And why ? I answer, for some of the reasons, (please turn to and read my Introduction iu this pamphlet), my othc reasons for not going were that I had no confidence in the hone»ty of purpose of the Magistrate or Couit, that I had no money to employ a lawyer to go wit>h me, that I knew the pragmatic Magistrate would command me to speak in Court only through my lawyer, that I then did not know that there had been any falsehood declared by either of the two declareants, Mullen and Daly, because their declaration tho' made in Engii^5h — as it must have heen — had been written in French, and I was unable to read that written French well enoudi to understand it. Well for all these reasons :''d others too I did not go to that Court, and conf:equently judgement was given against me in default or of my non-appearance, and my crops were sold — about $14:0 worth -for not quite $90 to pay a sum of ^45.78. • ' That siezure and sale was in 1877. On the 19th day of July, 1878, the same buliff Moore, who had seized the year before again served documents on me notifying that he had now (in July 1878) again siezed all my crops for a balance of the sume debt of $45.78 and costs. Here is a sample, at once, of the civilization, mora- lity, religion and ethics and humanity of the province of Quebec. And notwithstanding that I was liying in IG the County of Ottawa, P. Q., /ind that the Civil Code of Law of Lower Canada distinctly specifies that the owner of i^ueh property shall be person illy notified of the time and place of sale of such seized iioods. yet knowing my residence they sold the goods perfectly unknown to me, gave no such notic^ ; s the law proscribes. As to the barbarous allusion in the vile letter of Thomas and Charlotte Daly, to my child Ad line, then about 12 years old, I explain that it was by a mere mistake of the lady directrcs-ses oP the Protestant Orphans' Home that rlie was sent to the Portland family. And I remedied that mistake as soon as prac- ticable after I discovered it. And the willful defumer Charlotte Daly knew that when she was writing. The girl who had, as the abominable letter states, the fits, was no otlier than the aged and venerable mother of Ilr. Horace Donnelly who is the manager of the important lumber establishment of AJessrs. Gilmour & Co., near Chelsea. 0, what a villainous misrepre- sentor is she not ? I never sent my two children to Daly's, as stated in the said letter. My dear Children and Countrymen, let me i^ow rereal another act ot cruelly indescriblc except by the relation oi' it. About two months before my poor wife's death I consulted her relative *o the better chance of a cure for her in the Protestant Hofipital, Ottawa. She absented to my proposal to bring her tluTeto, the next day she demurred, that she could not survive at any rate. However she approved of me going to Ottawa to find out whether I could get her into it. I went to the venerable M r, Workman and found 1 could be suc- cessful in getting her in. I returned home and, oh, my God I wliat was my horror to be informed by the gentle feuffcror that one of our owu children had been scut to 47 licr (dicing) to inform her that it was not on licr account at all that I had gone to Ottawa, hut to airanue witli a per.'^on in Ottawa to have a lady from Scotland in Ottawa about the time of the deatli of my wife, that the former and I might be tlien married. That is nearly four year ago and I am not married yet. I am, my Dear Orphans and Countrymen, Yours faith tully, John Macaulet. Ottawa, 18th November, 1879. Mif Orphana and Countrymen^ I stated in one of my letters that promptly after my fjjentle wife was attacked by paralysis convulsions, etc.. in i976, I drove, after a great snow storm, 30 miles over trackless l.ikes, etc., for my son to see his mother before hei death. Well on that occasion I over drove my mare, she gave up that night at the ahanty, and I was oblised to drive her home walking and to walk myself all the next day home. I had not seen my son, he had gone by another route to see his mother. The mare became .^ick and sicker; daily ; that sickness soon assumed the appearance of strangles or glanders ; soon afterwards my other two mares took the sickness. And there in the month of April were niy three mares sick in the uncomfortable stable and my poor kinuly wife dying in the uncomfoit.ible dwelling house, and my undutiful son away in Daly's place, and !«tolid bigots all round me, exulting in the misery which they ^aid was the sure result to any one who bad quancllcd as I had quarrelled against a holy Priest. Thoro I was, none but little girls to help me, and my oldest daughter, evidently to both her dying mother and to me, deeply under the influence of a halIucin:ition, which had originated at, and bren encouraged by the i)alys, in reference to the lloman Catholic young man who so much hated Protcstantcy. Indeed to be perfectly frank, so much was she under the influence thereof that she and the Dalys aimed at making it eftectual to coerce the poor mother and me and all the childrtn into 49 Roinnn C.itholicism. But so soon as uiy oldest daughter found sshe could Lot be successful in that aim she became quite negligent of, nay, oj>j>Dscd to the real temporal interests of the poor mother and the family — she is my daughter and therefore I must not now go into details to shew how useful ^he made herself to the cruel enemies of my innocent orphans. At the time now referred to, there was my wife motionless in bed, my horses sick, uiyself moneyless and friendless, — oh, I knew not what to do, I was amongst the breakers, shipwrecked. I may now refer to the exceeding cruel proceeding of Seth Catcs and his son, Adoniram Gates, resulting, doubtless, from the calumnies of Charlotte Daly. 1 owed Cates $40 on Promissory Notes, he pressed for payment, I replied that disappointed in getting the $50 cash and $50 in goods, as already explained, (see letter of 8th instant), and afflicted with sickness I was then unablr to pay him all. However I paid him $20 of it and said, in my registered letter, '* you must give me time for the balance till I see how this sickness will terminate." But to my amazement I received a summons about a fortnight afterwards to appear at the the iJistrict Magistrate's Court or to pay the balance. I had not one dollar then, tho' I had about $500 worth of stock (anim.ils) at my doors. Well I appeared in accordance with the summons, but there was no Magis- trate there 1 I enquired at the (>lerk, whose ethical statutes is not a very exalted one, why I was subpcenied when there was no iSlagistrate there'? " O, he rep'ied, it waa my mistake, I thought when I issued the sum- mons that this was the day of the Magistrate's Court, but the Court day happened to be last week " I responded, '* Well your i'ather has been very impatient with me in my affliction, and now fortune favors me in 50 4 giving mc tin time to p;jy, which I liad intended to nsk the i>Jagistrate to give^nic, sjo you must just sum- mons me fid thi.'n wrote an ackiiowK'dgjmcnt of jud'ie- ment for me to sign, I looked at it, and then said, "8ir, you cannot bo at on^e the Clerk, the Magistrate and the auditor of your own father's account agrinst me ; surely no country and no law would tolerate all that to you. I'll sign no such acknowledgement as is this." iie, ])retijnding am izement,^,sai 1, "I think what you have said is as good as signing." But protesting to the contrsry I left saying. '• You must summons me agun." About ten days afterwards the bailiflf came with a Warrant from said Clerk and seized my cattle, etc., for the amount :md costs. Promptly aficr th:* seizure I wrote a statement of the casj. to .Mos^rs. F. C. k K., advoeates,'Aylmer, Q., ajid sent with it ?M OH to pay for letter of reply and postage on it. la.^k'dthem to inform jne wlut they would do, ris my ! ;wyers, and wh it they wouM have me to do in coopjratiuu with them. I als > dircLtjd 51 that if they should from any cause find it impracticable to take up the case, in that event [ asked them to hand my statement of the case and tiie money to any other respectable lawyers there, so that time might bo econo- mized, for that the day of auction sale would be only tea diiys thenco. But several d.iys ptssed and uo answer came, xlence I went 7 miles a.id telegraphed to them ; I went on other 5 miles and wrote them; returned 5 miles of the way next day and received telegram from them s:iying " Have written you ;" then I travelled other 5 miles to the post office for their letter, which said : " Your statement of the case did not come to hand, send on another statement of it, as we do not know the facts." I hastened 7 miles home and sent them the new statement and registered it as b-efore. There was yet time enough to save the cattle from being sacrificed by auction sale. I waited rnxiously — no letter came iu reply to me. But I may here say that I also then wrote to Air. T. P. French, Post Office Inspector, saying that Messrs. F., C. & K. had not recevied my money letter, though ik had been registered to them, and I requested him to enquire after it. Well the day of sale came, aid 8cth Gates and the bailiff came, but no letter came from F., 0. & K. to me. And there and then, Seth Cates told. in presence of several persons assembled for the sale th:tt on the very day that my first letter and money hinl been received by Messrs. F., C. & K., he (Cutes) hud presented himself with certain influences— of two kinds — official and marital, to the same Mesirs. F.. C. <.V K. and he said chuckingly there's why Mr. Macauley was loft in the lurch. His lawyers were my lawytrs. Weil my fine cows, etc.. were driven by the biilift" and Gates to the very door of the house wherein lay my gentle" wife dying but pcrfoetly coiibcious of all the ruin H that WJis bt'injj; cifcctcd ; g;iinst our htlplcss cliildrcn at the very door. Nay, slie actiiully lieitrd every dcpreeiat- in^ word uttered by seJfi>li intending bidders or pur- chasers of tlie cattle. And tliey were sold by auction ! But two days after the sale of the cattle, etc., 1 received a letter from Mr. T. P. French, Post Ofllce inspector, saying: " We have made thej, enquiry after the registered money letter containing the ^1.03 and find that jMe:srs. F.. 0. & K. did actually received it." > And by the ioregoing part of this letter^we get a tUta of why ( 'ates, Clerk of the Magistrate Court of Wakefield, w;is so exceedingly active in' the attempt to intimidate poor old decrepid William Uprichard and to thereby smother truth — by preventing the publication of this^pamphlet I am, my Dear Orphans and Countrymen, Yours faithlully, John Macaulet. Ottawa, 21st November, 1879. J/y Orphans and imj Count ry men, Let us now review a little of the peristaltic and insiiiious subversion of my ridit and interest by this gorilla-padrone District Magistrate Rouleau, as implied by his own conduct . 1. He culpably permits a perjury — which destr(>ys the property oflittic innocent helpless orphans in the Protestant, Orphans' Home— to be concealed (in their autl my absence) in the French language, in the suspi- ciously nnnipulatod records of his Court — as formerly shewn. And of this we have the ofiiciul documentary proof here. 2. He is writteii to, and asked by me, for the address of some Liwyer that is in the h. bit of attending hi- Court at W.iki-'tield, P.Q., and he sends no reply at all. No. but ho hastens away in a manner and way quite urjusual to hinj, and on the Court day, has pro- nounced judgement (in the case of Brooks vs. Macauley) at half past 10 o'clock a.m. against me, tho' he knew by my letter that I had intended to be there, lie therefore anticipated and defeated me, and this notwith- ftanding that my lawyer assureil me that but for his sharp practice the jnJgement must have been in my favor. But 1 and my lawyer arrived ten minutes too late, and the heresy guilotinist was jubilant thereat. 3. Then comes iMacauley vs. Larmour. The Dis- trict Magistrate gorilla-padrone had the case called befoie him, and kvipt it dangling in suspnise daily, from Monday till the iollowing Saturday — the claim being 54 :;8; on'v ;il)ont Sl>5 of bnlnncc due as refurn.'ible — and T Idling (nciy diiy in jjjoing about it to Court in Hull City. And on that Saturday, it being the closing day of tlie Court there. . . . hark ! he announces that the cas«; of " Macauley against Larniour is to be laid over till next term." Three months from the time just referred to the District Magisterial Guillotinist of heresy held his revel (>ouTt of Justice again in Hull City, and there at last and with palpable reluctance enunciated judgement in my favor and against Larmour. Why did he not do that three months praviously ? 5. And here, my children and friends, you will curiously and uaturaliy enough enquire what became of the amount of that judgement in my favour ? In reply I would ask you to turn back to the paragraph of this letter marki'd 2. and there you will see again how acd why the said District Magistrate's judgement was given against me at Wikefiold (previously) and in fovor of Biooks, as J you will see that that judgement in Wake- field wa.« the outcome of the Magistrate's sharp practice and shuffling. And I may here tell you that the judgement so obtained by Brooks had rerauinod unpaid and unsettled against me. VV^ell the amount of the judgement in my favor was, subsequently, commanded by the said District Magisterial guilotinist of heresy, to be hatided over to sntisfy that judgtMiiont for Brooks who had so unfairly obt iiued the judgement against mo previously. Pray lend your attention to the following summary of facts in this epistolary exposition : — Previously to the Priestly visit, in February 1876, several mem employed at my expense, and by me, had made a quantity of building timber on government land for me. Antecedently thereto numerous other 65 n( i^^hbors of mine, fill Ronuin Citholics, had made such building timber and brought it to their respective places or homes from the said government land. liut I may here say that that land is unworthy the name of land, it being merely rocks, " Pile uj)on pile confusedly hurled The remnant of a former world." Well my timber remained (made) for some time in the bush. It was made in the sumujcr, and winter is the season for hauling sucli thence home. Now a man relutetl niaritally to the Charlotte Daly of the abomin- ably libellous letter, had also made building timber in the stiid government bu^hland, and he, knowing that my building timber was remaining iu the said bush, goes and locates the lot of land wherein my timber is, notwithstanding thit it w.is not legal for him to do so, because the said land (rocks) was unfit for cultivation. And in Febru.iry of that year (187G) he had really dmwn my timber out of said bushlind to his own house, and made his own of it. True he, in so doing, was virtually and legally too, a "obb^r or thief, and as such liable to arrestment on a Warrant. But then I, away iu the back woods, in an Irish Roman Catholic settlement, in the County of Ottawa, P. Q.. with my gentle wife frequently in the throes of agony, and I without money, and slandered and misreprnsented by the Dalys aiid others in all diicetions, so as that iho' there were nearly ^500 worth of horses, cattle and other aninials at my door, I could not obtain ten dollars worth on the credit of them, was [ to risque to bring the culprit before such a Gorilla-Judicial heresy slayer as llouleau ? Here I may remind you thit the Holland Brothers aud Mr. Bott of Ottawa, have by recent letters, etc., ■!■ sluwii tliut'tho province of Qutiltoc is not a pl.'ioo for any p T.son of Briti.-li orljiin and loyalty to .^vttlc in, and those (n)y) letterH are Jcnio.itritive of the tnitli thereof. f'i^ AnotlKr"'.lomafi Catliolie nwi-s iii'.^ for years past a balan<3e of the price of a wood sawiijg machine, but am I^,to f-uo him before such an An;ic(»nda as th(^ lieresy sliyer Rouleau, or the fo.-dilizalion Foster 3Jonereel', J.P. ? Tush ! And now. my ('hiMren and Countrymen, you have se:^!n by my lottor of 10th November, that in February. 1870, only a little more than three yeais ago, my horses, cattle, etc amounted to the value of . . . ^472 50 Since then my land was by competent valua- tors valued thus, bush land 130 acres, S'') JiC. 059 00 Cleared land. lO acres at §10 per acres . . 1,120 00 Buildiiiii' matw ilu'W bas been lost by me this whole amount of S2,442.5n, over and above ;i'' ' , labor of tra- velling on fo(>t hundred' '' V I 7 endeavoring to find souie way ot V\\ ui anger orphans, and over and ab\tjiii' II, Kl'll Pe)plc of CillKld't. Tlicro .-Hi' tlii'si.' two ^[uestlniis wliieli may be ndvaiKHid by you. vi;.. : 1. Is not llio pem-cutioii uu-iiiist lue liiore tliu iv>ul{ of family discord than oi' reii>i'ions Iji'-oirv and Si'ctariaii uidico? 'Hio 2. (|iUhtioii is. li.id not the persecution con.- TJ»enced betoro ihe i'li'.'.-tiy visit to my poor wife in I'^ebruary, ISVd, aiid were lluro not a few Protestants, — the (fh;rk iM;itii>ircit.''s (\)urt, {lie b;iiliff .Vloorc and !>iMiks,— mixed up in th ■ p''rsL(;ntion ? Nov/, as to t!ie last named (l>;('t;ks) 1 will say only this, that he, seein,i>' me bafVct^'d by posecution, took advuiitau'c thi.i\'of and (^brleily; •• made his hay when the sun sjiined."' 1. The ])ersi'cuti()n wis not inauunrated till imme- diately utter the l^riestly intrusion in Fi'brn.iry, l.s7(>. And it was then commenced by Thomas l)iiv rt \iilar (»f tiiat church in Wakcileld. 2. Soon alter that, anoiher devotee of ihe^lloman Catholic (Jh irch, 1». .'>'atth;'\vs. n I ii'-fd to pay mo a l.iuianct' due nie hv htm for a > oimI i^iwir.;;' mai-hiiic wliieii ho }iurchased ('.Mid has now) iVom^^me, noi- li c; Ije }Kiid mo yot, irnr will he. i>. It was j.i'tcr the I'ricstlv iniiaislon th.it mv 1 t;o building timber was tluf'tislily t.-tkeii IVoui the t^overii- iiicnt bushland by niiotlior Jitnunn Catholic. 4. I never heard of any slanders, libels or perjury as against me, as uttered by any one of the Daly f miily until after the intrusion of the Priest. And then the Dulys slandered, liboded and perjured (i1aced either movrey. nnini.-ds, furniture or effects in pc-^sesitiion or bunds of Thonvis Coyle. Nay, he has solemnly swore th t ] did n-it. He (Coyle) resides only .'ibout lOCO y.irds from Mullen Coyle is a res])cetable nian — did Alidlen ask Coyle whether it was true that he had in his hands and pos- session money, animals, etc., of mine ? No. eert.iiiily. And yet he (Mullen) swore that Coyle had in his hands and possession money, animals, furinturo and effects of mine. Perjury wiilfidly a.nd resolutely com- mitted for a vile bigot purpose. And now we proceed to Daly's perjury. Tfe swears ; — " Tli.it dejionent is infornud in a credible mnmier and liMS every reason to believe, and does truly b.'lievc in his conscience that the s;dd di^feniiant is on the point of concealing, and h;is already beiian lo enneeai his ( »-) L'oo'Js, (li.bts nntl effects with tho ohioct ;il' (lNr;ieu!:ir. Thtit lie ii!is paid ct'liLU'ts novr in llio can; nm^ [lov'-cssion of Tliom.is Coylc, of the Towit-hip of Jjowe. in lh<; District < i' (.)tt;;\vi niV)ic--iid, f';irnur, and 7'f^rs .s"/'.s/r, (if all Finns, inouios, aniniiils, lYirnituro and ciuctft bcltih'.iinL:; to the sii 1 (K fendaut above innied," ( le. My n])lies anent Midlen'.s [jeijuvy are ;.]>|)lie;ibl'.- to this ))erjury of D.dy's. And I say it is per]\,ry Aviil- fully and \vick( dly < oniinltted ior a vile bii^ot purj^nye. Well, my C!iiily (itMieral ]\o:s, Quebi'C. The followini; is a copy of Iiis reply to it : — . " Quebec, ISth Nov., 1878. '• ^Ir. .'lohti xM:;eaulcy, No. 4 School, JIull. " ^Si/\ — I have to ncknowled.;'e reeeijit of your letter of 1 -til ind l.")tli inst;.nt and copy of certilicate in vour favor, etc., ere,. Wiuie J. n^uvct tli-it from inability to p-iy your di'bts your property slionl! have been sacrifidtil, I uiiist inlbrni vou that it is not in mv jiower to interfere in suits in whicli the Crown is not eoneerned. You F^liould apply to a praeticirii' advocate, or should liave done so at tlie outset. As to tho wholesale dismissal oi" all the otlieers of a Court ;:nd the aholition of tiie (xuirl itself at tjie siniitic reipiest of nny individuol who may consider liimself auLrrioved, I can find no p(reco(hjnt ior such ;i coursp. If you liaye a complaitit to make ajzainst any individual druW up a petition with cliarjies clearly specili/d with full parti- culars, etc., ( tc., etc., and the government will adopt the proper course. " 1 am your obtMlieiit servant, " (Signed) David Ross, Attorney Gimtral." 64 On tho 23rd Novcraber, 1878, I mailed to the Attorney Cienera! my charnes as asked for in the above letter, to wliich charges he replied as follows : — •'Quebec, nth Dec. 1878. "John Macauley, Esq., No. 4 School, Hull. " Sir, — Mr. Rouleau hns explained 1st. th;it your case was called at the proper time, publicly and audibly and neither you nor your attorney, Mr. Roche, b inp: present a default was recorded whereupon the plaintiff tswore to his account and had judsrenient — that after judgement rendered your attorney sis^ted the case to be re-opened wh'ch proceeding being opposed by Mr. St. tlulien, the Judge had no right to accede to your demand. "These arc the facts which establish thnt Mr. Rouleau is not to blame. He can establish them by evidence of Mr. St. Julien and the Herk of the (!'ourt. " 2nd. As to the use of the French language — there is no law compelling any advocate to use cither language, and your advocate, Mr. Roche, understands both languages, at least so writes Mr. Rouleau, and the presumption is that he does. *' Unless you can clearly disprove what Mr. Rou- leau asserts .1 shall not interfere any further iu this matter. " Your obedient servant, " David Ross, Attorney GeneraV^ I answered ini rodiatnlv as follows: — " Hull, 13th Dec., 1878. " The Hon. Attorney (jicnoral, Quebec. '^ Hon. Sir, — Your f ivor of 11th in>rant to hand Hi (i5 last ui'-ht. For your atteutioti and promptitude I render you my hearty thanks. ♦' So Mr. Kouleau has explained quite satisfactorily to his own duplieitous mind, that my ca^e was called publicly and audibly, etc., etc. jp ^ * Amijible sophist 1 Why there is not even clever sophistry in his pMltry and shameless explanation. There is not even an attempt made by him to «^ct himself out of his odious positieu. My live distinct charges remain intact, untouched, by and invulnerable to him. But he has aggravated his culpability in this way : lie has shame- lessly endeavored to dupe and mislead even your Honor. Thus, he snys* that my advocate understands both lani(;ua.»es, thus leaving you to Infer that in that odious case of perjury I had a lawyer employed ! Now, in reply thereto 1 say I am able to prove that the f dse- hoods and perjuries occured in August and September, 1877, and that I was totally ignorant thereof till September, 1878, and that 1 had no lawyer at all employed in the cases wherein the French was used and the perjury committed. And that the lawyer employed by me was employed in September, 1878, not in the pesjury cases or case, but in another case — Brooba vs. -Macaul'jy — of comparatively little importance, and wherjii» no French at all was used. >k :[< * '• Your Honor may iguominiously cover your time lionored aanie. Boss, with obloquy by retiring from this case at the signal of the thing that is the Diatnct Mngistrate Kouleau. " But your so retiring (rom it will not be because 1 have not sutticiently explained it, nor for want of a shameless? oifender. And in the event of you so aban- doning it, then I'll throw the whole case before the public, hoping that in the vox popali will be found the vox Dei " Etc , etc., J, Macauley. (.() ^^m Mv f liildrcM .'iii'l ( 'oniiliviiKit), it li;is bi'cii st:it<;(l ill oil. (.i* iiiv Icttii-s ili.ti .Nliillt'ii and l):ily ittiid the iMoii' y itMii e ■-sn-.'i'y in Mr. Fiinjch, llu; I'ost Otiict' Tu-ji.'ctt.i-, .-.t Utiitwa. Ill dtjijjo.'^tratioii tlicreot' look at ilii' ]')!l(i\viii- : — • '• Po.ni(:o. •• Ottaw.i, oOtli An;iusl, 1S77. '' Ml-. Joi'ii I'Maoaiilcy, vie. utu. '• Jir.tr ,SV/',— I li.ive rceeiv. d your letter of 'Jfjlli instaiil Vou dr>ir(! t t km \v wheiiKT thecours - lln'y have taken is c.Mi.-rd by any further pressure; 1 liive |»ut u| on tliem. ! em di>li!ietly assure you tiiat, it i-i:ot All tiie et'iiiinunieatio,! that h; s been hat; with them iVoni tiiis dlHee li.is been, fir.4, a litter v/rittcii siioi'tly alter vnir retirement iVdUi the oiiicc!, and a second urmfin^' them the dehiy tlien asked for in uhieh to pay tiu; anj»>unt elaime h w/..: three me t'.s, ' 'I'll V did not ',v;it the full three mouths, Mil eiMie shortly ;,r(ii- your vi-it !iei'<'. and li,ii)!)ey .om! ;.s a inatlti' ( f !i;i<«i i;- I'l rii-iii'j. tla: payment " Your truly, '• (Si-ned) T 1*. r;u:Non, J\ U. /." And now, my Children and ( 'ouiiti-yim-n, tliero li hu'i- \'nii V'Hi hi '.'<,• the e.ise and tlu; t:videnee. 'i (iai> i'.iilh.uliv, JniiN >! AC.vri,i:v.