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''^,-, a °'"Vti :' I *>;-? •.= * 4';lk4 Mr.' Chairman and (xEntlemen, I have already had the pleasure and the honour of addressing- more than one meeting of the English speaking electors ot Quebec East since the opening of the present contest, and at those different meetings, have covered the principal grounds involved in the present issue Eut gentlemen, we were exceedingly anxious, to bring together the whole of the English speaking people of this district who would respond to the call of the friends and suppor- ters ol Mr. Tourangeau (loud cheers), and this magnificent demonstration composed of hundreds of the Eno>lish speaking electors of the Division is the beautifuf and generous response that has been made to the appeal of Mr Tourangeau that his friends should make one grand rally m his behalf (Immense cheerinff.) «» - n» ?to?t -_4 — A few evenings ago, I promised you that I should take »n early opportunity of dealing- perhaps a little more fully with the political questions of the day, thar, I had done at any previous meeting. (" That's the talk.") "Whilst thanking you for the gratifying reception which you have given me, of which any man in this country, no matter his age, position, or name ought to feel proud, and of which I feel even more than proud (loud cheers) — I have, gentlemen, to request your attention that I feel aure you will give me though my remarks should be addressed to subjects other than those which are most exclusively interesting to the Irish electors of this section of Quebec city (hear hear.) You all know that for twenty years the old conservative party held the reins of power in this Canada of ours (" hear, hear, and they'll do so again. " ) During all that time we continually heard the unceasing cry from the Opposition of the day,— the self-styled liberals, — that we were a set of corruption ists ; that the Conservative party was a corrupt party, who retained control and managed the attairs of the country through bribery and corruption, driving this country to ruin and degradation, (" shame ! shame ! ") 'vVell, after this had been their cry during their twenty years in opposition — after they had combat- ted our leaders and succeeded in arousing suspicion in the minds of the people— they at length succeeded, one fine day, in obtaining the reins of power, and then became the government of the country (" Yes, bad luck to them !") I do not propose to go very deeply or extensively into the measures that were carried through by Mr. Cartier — MacPonald or the MacDonald-Cartier administration, but I will say one thing now, before going further — one thing which, I doubt not, will strike home to every workingman in this meeting (and 1 bt-lieve this meeting to be composed nine-tenths of workingmen) — that, during the adminis- tration of that conservative government until the last year of the reign of the party, it was not a question with the working-man, whether he could get a day's work, or . — 5 — whether he (^ould earn a loaf of bread, or his food, or clothing, but it was a question with hira, throughout tue length and breadth ot the land, as to how many hours a day he would consent to work, (cheers.) What is the state of affairs now V The so called Liberals, the Rouges, the Reformers, the Purists as they pharisacally style themselves obtained power, 1 need not say by what means. ■ ■ ■ •• -■■. ■ ■•■■■- ■ ■ ■-.-. , , A voice from the crowd, •' IJy htealing letters. " ■i.'f'i You know that nothing was sacred to these men. The post-offices of the country were not even secure against them and their agents ; the Post-office of the City of Montreal was rifled of a letter written by Sir John A. Macdonald to Mr. Pope. ("Shame! Shame!") That letter fell into the hands of the Hon. John Young (" an old fraud ") : a caucus of liberals, composed of the leading members of our original reform party, was held to deter- mine whether they should act as gentlemen and return to its rightful owner the letter which had surreptitiously come into their possession, or publish it to the world and at the same time announce their own dishonesty. (Hear, hear.) They decided to publish it. I need not go into the history of the Pacific Scandal, nor into the acts of those who originated that scandal (" No ! No ! ") You know that, v/hatever be the verdict of history on that question, at all events, the Hon. Lucius Seth Huntington who was found in possesssion of documents and letters which did not belong to him — letters stolen out of private offices by bribed secretaries — whatever I say may be the verdict of posterity, — one thing is certain — the name of the Hon. Lucius Seth Huntington will go down to pos- terity covered with infamy, as the perpetrator of these outrages. (Voices " A nice postmastei general be ! whose letters are now safe ^ ") Well this party came into power ; but before they had reached th(^ goal of their ambition, they had met in solemn council, and had determined upon what was to be the platform of their party (" Yet they've got no platform. ') They made promises of every description, .nul amongst thos«^ ]>romist»s was that (> we should have protection tor our native industrieK. Hon. Mr. Lauriur, the present Government candidate, was prominent in the Parti- National, and, as a member oi of that party, adopted Protection as the main plank of hin and their political platform ; (" What is his platform now?") When he was returned to the Local House for the Province oi Quebec, for the Counties of Drummond and Arthabaska, although that House had no power over the tariff, Mr. Laurier was so lull of the idea ol the absolute necessity of protection, that he one day consumed three piecious hours of the time of the House, making a tremendous speech against a governm«?nt that had no power to settle the question. (Hear ! hear ! ) They have taken Mr. Cartwright into the government, who was refused the portfolio of Minister of Finance by Sir John A. MacDonald (" Served him right!") What was the consequence ? He ( Mr. Cartwright) immediately inaugu- rated, not a protection policy, but one of uncompromising fren-trade ; they have adhered to this free-trade policy through thick and thin ; nevertheless, whenever this prin- ciple came into collision withthe views of a people whose votes they desired to secure they were protectionists. According to the constituency they were free-traders to the mast-head or protectionists as best suited them. At Montreal, they gammoned some munnfacturer, and sent Mr. Thomas Workman to gaininon the country with false promises as to what would be done for the people by this hermaphrodite government. When, however, tln'y were appealed to in the House to pass laws that would be beneiicial to our newly established manu- facturing industries — that would be the means of provid- ing work for those who had been thrown out of employ- ment by this want of protection, they said that protection would have no more to do with bringing back prosperity than would a lly upon the wheel (' Shame ! ") To this Sir John Macdonald replied, " U that is the case, the people who are i)ay in g thousands and thousands of dollars to you, are paying very dear for the lly." 1 need not, in addressing an audience of this kind, in Quebec — where every thing is paralysed under the effect of this free-trade policy, — where you, the o])eratives,are working at starvation wages — I need not, after the remarkH of the chairman, who has shown what havn been the effects of the policy of this government, go further in this question (" No ! No ! but please G-od we won't have it much_ longer. ") But I do tell you citizens of Quebec that if" you will only go along the banks of the Lachine Canal in the City of Montreal, where, a few years ago, the sound of the anvil and the hum of the steam-engine were heard on every side, when manufacturing establishments were at work on every side, — where you would have seen three or four hundred heads of families engaged in the sugar refinery of Mr. Redpath, you will find to-day the stillness of death, where prosperity and activity were every where manifest only a few years ago ; you will now clearly perceive what has been the effect of the policy of the present government upon the entire working class and upon those who employed them (" Shame ! Shame !") Although in Drummondand Arthabaska, Hon. M. Laurier and his friends, in stumping the county, affirmed that for country interests, protection was ruin, they come here to-day, to the city of Quebec and claim a verdict from you as full blown protectionists (" Never ! Never ! ! ") — They have told you, gentlemen, that the old government was an extravagant government ; that it was leading the country to ruin and to decay ; that under it there were too many ministers of the Crown ; and too many public employees. " Only give us one chance, " they said, " and we will show you w^hat we can do, " In showing you what they have done, I shall not say any thing, to night, that you are not eye-witnesses of, yourselves, without giving you the facts and figures, to carry out any argu- ments to the fullest extent (hear ! hear !) I shall quote from the speech of Hon. D. L. Macpherson (one of the leading and indeed most experienced members of the Senate) delivered in the session of 1877, a few figures to show you exactly what the progress of this country has been under its present government. I shall show you what we ow^e this government, and what they have done for us, in a very short time. The following statement shows the increaae of expenditure charged to the Conso- 8 — lidated Fund for 1875 ajid 187(J over 1878, under its appropriate heads. — The increase of 1876 over 1873 was $2.9H0,8a() ; the increase of 187G over 1875 was. $717,062 ; and the increase of 1870 over 1878 was $3,677,- 398L' Such was the result of the reti-enchment policy ot' this great Koform Government. These iigures were ffivea, in the Senate, with the Hon. Mr. Scott present to challenge every statement made. What do we tirid upon one item, of expenditure, the adminiscration of Justice i That the total expenditure on the administration of Justice in 1878. was $^898,966 ; in 1876, not !|i;392,000, but $497,0()0, m, inorease of % .00,000 in one year ; in 1876, not $898,000, as in 1878, ])ut #544,091. This, gentlemen, upon one branch of the service alone and with no greater elhciency,, (hear ! hear !) We have however still further evidence of the extravagance of the jjresent government. In the Customs Department, we find in 1878 that the total expenditure was $676,675 for collections in this country ;. in 1875, instead of |676,000 as in 1873, the same item of expeuditxire amounted of $682,000 ; and the total expen- diture for 1876 for the collection of this part of the revenue was $721,000, an increase of $200,000 over the expen- diture of 1878 and at a time when the amounts leceived from customs duties have been gradually but universally diminished throughout the country, (hear ! hear) Well,^ gentlemen, I shall refer only to one or two more items, and then, I think, you will be satislied. Let us take, as to (he correctness of what 1 say, jtbr instaaice,,t]ae excise, duties. ,M; :ii;i(-, I .mc. ■ •■r-.A : ■•'• *r 'f // .M; •u;ii-, I .'IK' ' •• In 1878, the totjil expenditure was $175,000 ; in 1875, it was $199,253. In 1876, instead of $175,000, as undeij, the old conservative government, the expenditure had, reached $218,359. These are figures which cannot be contested. Now, gentlemen, I will give you one more- item to show how these people have carried out their retrenchmtir t, — how they have managed their system of economy, i'ou know that we have an. emigration depart- ment. In 1875, when the conservative government was. in power, we brought into this country 36,901 emigrants ; they cost $277,868. In 1875, when these gentlemen, -0 came in.o power, did they hring in fio.OOO emij^runts '{ No, they brought 1(5,038 but at a cost ol" $302,700. But, if they call this a reform, they did still better the sueceed- ing year, ibr in 1876, they did not bring- in 36,000 people as the Conservatives had done ; nor 16,038 &f they did the first year they were in power ; but they brought in 10,900, at a cost of $383,000 to this Dominion, ,, ^ ' They made quit*' a new dej>arture, however, in the way of expenditures as the totals which I have given demons- trate. But to draw the jwint somewhat liner, a little calculation and a very easy one to make, shows that under the old gov(unmeni, each of those 36,000 emigrants cost $7-76 ; in 187;'), under the economical management of the ])resent government, each individual cost $18,110 ; and in 1876, instead of i)aying per head what the Conservatives did, $7.76. each emigrant cost $26.5/) (a voice, " a cabin passage"). These few facts, I think, will dispose of the loud appeals that these people are making to the country on the score of economical government (great cheering). But, as if it was not sufficient for them to have destroyed our infant native industries ; to have closed our sugar refineries ; to have shut down our factories ; to have driven our capital and the bone and sinue of our country into the land of the stranger ; to have strangled our shipping interests, and to have trampled the life out of every germ of prosperity that we had ; they went still further. When by their knavery, and their arrant dishonesty, they succeeded in reaching the objects of their highest ambition the Treasury Benches, they found the different sections of our people English, French, Irish and Scotch, living together as one greot brotherhood, as a United people, the bands of who ■ ronnection were daily becoming closer and stronger, ilut, as if their full mission was not complete when they had brought wbout tho?e evils which I have just described ; ihi-y threw the brand of discord into the community and terrible have been the effects. f-' . .' 4 ■* ''i' . I ' lis country cannot progress and i>rosper, unless the different nationalities who compose it are united in the ■u 10 — ll li' !!! <^oldpn bonds of brotherly love (hear ! hear), uulesa the Catholic and Protastant shake each other by the hand, a. id work for the general prosperity and material deve- lopment, leaving eaf'h man to adore his God after his own fashion and according to h|s own conscience (cheers.) But what says the record ? only a few months ago, the Hon. Lacius Seth Huntington, Postmaster-General (or the Hon. ' Copper-Mine Huntmgton) went to the county of Argen- teuil, leaving the side of the Prime- Minister, Mr. Mac- Kenzie, at Ottawa, with whom he had, no doubt, been in conference, with whose sanction be acted, there he did whut every Catholic in this land must have condemned him for. He sought to raise a sectional cry against the Catholic Hierarchy, more particularly of this Province, which, in its turn, raised a mighty cry of indignation throughout the length and breadth of the land. Every; Catholic newspaper that had the slightest spirit, in the English or French language, poured forth from its colun^-.is, the strongest protestations against the language used upon that occasion by the Postmaster-General, with the exception of a few time-serving sheets here in the City of Quebec, that tried to wriggle out of it ; (loud applause) men, liberals of the old school, felt it was their bounden duty to stand up and denounce the language that had been used by the Postmaster-General. I say it hers, to the credit of the Hon. Mr. Holton, that he stood up in Parliament and stated he Avould not sit there, as a member of that House, :ind of the liberal party, without raising his voice and strongly denouncing the imprudent speech of the member for Shefford ; that he, who had stood up for his party in the past, and who now stood up for it in the present ; who had fought the battle of Reform, as he called it, through so many years— that he was not going to have his old principles, his grey hairs, dragged through the mire to please the fanaticism of che Post- master-General of the MacKenzie government. Was there a nevrspaper in the land silent upori the occasion ? Did not the Irish-Canadian speak out the truth ? and the TTue-Witn';ss ? Even Mr. Anglin's paper called it an " imprudent speech. " Yet Mr. MacKenzie retained Mr. Huntington as one of his colleagues nnd it is his govern- — 11 — meni that appeals to you lor support (Shame ! Shame ! ! !) was there any excuse for the language of the Postmaster- General ? (No ! No !) There was no electioii ; the Govern- ment candidate had been returned by acclamation (Hear ! Hear !). There might have been a paltry excuse if tliere had been opposition- if Mr. Huntington had wished to appeal to the prejudices of the electors of Argenteuil, to bring them over to the government side, — but there was nothing of the kind, there was no election, gentlemen, the bill was there, the venom was there, the fanaticism was there — and it boiled over and pouiod itself on the Catholic Hierarchy throughout the land. (" We know Now, gentlemen, 1 know that the majority of you have followed pretty closely the policy of ihis great Gael government. I kno^v that each and every oiie of yuu has heard, year after year, on the public hustings in this city — at every church door throughout the Province, you have heard — their protestations ; you have seen the newspaporn teeming with their patriotic appeals ; and you know what has since happened : you know how they have carried out their promises. (Ironical cheers). Now we will see what they Jiave douj' for this country, and particularly themselves. As I told you on a former occasion, for iwenty years th*- Hon. Mr. Dorion, the leader of the liberal party of this country, and his followers, were all crying out to the people i'or a chanc(» to govern the country. Mr. Dorion r<^achod j)ower, his heart boiling over with love of fatlierhind. He had a glorious opportunity. There were questions to be settled at that time which required his vast experience There were questions of the highest importance to be regulated. Mr. Dorion reached power ; became Minister of Justice, attained the highest position in the Dominion, with the exception of that of Premier. How long did he remain there ? How long did lie display liis ardent patriotism ? He had been out long in the cold shades of opposition, and when he got into olfi.ce, he felt his I'mbs thawing out, and what ^v as the consequence ? He wanted to give / rs! •t; an everlasting example of his overflowing- patriotism (laughter) to show how he could sacrifice himself for his country ; and after he had occupied office for a few months he said : " Office is a magnificent thing for a patriot ; I have occupied it for a few months ; but patriotism must have its reward. It is now or never." So he made himself Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec. ,■ .; The patriotic wave was thus started on its onward course. We had a successor of the Hon. Mr. Dorion from this district here. The district has given one patriot, a great and bavning light, who will be pointed to by fathers and mothers, in future generations as an object of emulation for their children to follow (laughter). The Oity of Quebec sent to parliament, aft':>r years of toil and fifteen or twenty five defeats, Ido not know which, an honorable gentleman who had vowed, over and over again, to the electors of this City that he was anxious to show his patriotism and to give evidence of what he was willing to do for the advancement of his country and the love of the cause (hear ! hear !). The Hon. Mr. Fournier got to Ottawa and reached office. But the example of his noble chieftain was really too much for him. In spite of himself he felt that the time had come when he must do and die for his country, as his chief had done before him ; and so he sprang, with the agility of a circus man, from the seat he had occupied in the Administration, to a seat in the Bencii of the Supreme Court ; and became tinother victim, — a patriot sacrificed upon the altir of his country (cheers !). Well, gentlemen, this great movement, this wave of patriotism still conti- nued to swell and threaten»^d to carry everything before i+ ; it left the shores of Lower Canada and swept its way down the Gulf, until it kissed the shores of the fair Province of IS ova Scotia. Then, when it had reached its destination, the heart of another liberal — reform patriot was fixed. He said : " We cannot allow the standard to be carried any longer by those Lower Canadians ; it is time that another Minister of the Crown should lay down his life for his country ' ; and the Hon. Wm. Ross, like — 13 a lamb led lo the slaughter, sacrificed himself for the sum of $3,500 per year, in a snug little office in the Oustom- house of his native province (applause !). The wave continued to roll on, but, gentlemen, do not imagine, for one instant, that any particular province absorbed the patriotic ardor to itself. They all felt the burning desire. This time, the Province of Ontario claimed that it should furnish the victim to be offered as a holocaust for the safety of this unfortunate Domiiiion ; what was the result ? It was that we had another bleeding martyr in the person of the Hon. D. A. McDonald, Postmaster Greneral who sacrificed himself for the paltry sum of ten thousand dollars per year (hoar ! hear !). I almost feel like shedding tears over the fate of these sad patriots (laughter !). No *doubt, after leaving this hall to-night, you will make a rush for copies of the photogr^ phs of these people, that you may put them in your albums to be pointed out to your children as models of patriotism in the future (cheers !). But, gentleman, if you have any disposition of that kind, if you really and sincerely feel that you would like to have these photographs, just wait another moment, I have one or two oihers to commend to you. Now it is Prince Edward Island that has declared that its turn has come to do somt'thing for this sorrowing country — to supply a victim to his overflowing patriotism — to carry out the noble ambition of every great Reform statesman in the land— and the Hon. Mr. Laird seized th* flag that had been let drop by the Hon. M. McDonala, and he rushed from tho Treasury benches ; md bearing upon his back the sins of his colleagues, if not of the country was led out into the wilds of Keewative. (Applause H _ Some of the other patriots out in British Columbia, and dov/n in Prince-Edward Island, were just making ux> their minds to sacrifice themselves, on the same terms, lor their country's good, h:n they vv^ere not in the inner circle ; they did not seize their opportunity ; they were not fully cognisant when the day and the hour had come for some other victim to immolate himself Again, then, the patriots in this province were moved. They said, " we, of the Province of Quebec, must figure once more, \' Ilii — 14 — ! ^V i^mongst this array ol" martyrs who have eclipsed the gio rious deeds of the men who died in 1837 and 1838,- —who shed their blood for their country " — and hence the Hon. Mr. Letellier de St. Just from his senatorial chair, where we thought he was going to pass the remainder of his days as leader of the opposition — do not shed tears over his sad fate, — rushed forward, and for the miserable, petty sum of ten thousand dollars a year, consented to come and to live in Quebec as Lieutenant-Governor of his native Province. (Loud cheers) Well, gentlemen, one of the last, but not least, of this gallant band of heroes who have dared and done so much for their country — a man who was more vilified and abused by his colleagues and followers, than any other man in the Dominion ; who was accused of having speculated upon the poor victimil in Beauport Asylum ; who was accused of crimes which, according to reform paper cried to heaven for vengeance ; well, who, according to one paper (I think Hector Fabre's) deserved to be hanged ; and who according to another actually smelt to heaven, so great were his iniquities — well, wh«n he had arrived aithat ripe stage of perfection, they seized him in their arms, pressed him to their hearts,. the Hon. Mr. McKenxie said : " Here is the stuff of which to make a genuine Reform martyr. " And they took him into the Grovernment and kept him there until his turn came to sacrifice himself amidst the tears of every m^ in Quebec who knew him. ^Loud cheers !) "Well, gentlemen, Mr. Joseph Cauchon made the sacrifice for the paltry sum of nine thousand dollars — was it not too bad they could not give him the other thousand dollars. (Cheers.) The Hon. Mr Laurier who, as a member of ihe Government, is equally responsible Avith the whole of them, says : " Oh ! he was an awful dirty fellow, it is true ; he did stink ; his corruption was great ; but he wars a great patriot, and, at all events, if he was not very clean, he was cleaner than when we got him. '' Him, they sent out to Manitoba, that he might purifiy himself by bathing for the next five years in the limpid waters of Red River. (Laughter) lVjUX •J -/IS J. ; uit: -:.\ . j; ^ti; s^ b against Catholic, and which had one Province in the flames >^ of revolution.-— That great and primary cause was the <^ sectionalism, stire up by Messrs Brown, Mackenzie and '«i their friends. (Hear ! hear !) I ask you^ if our French friends had not had fifty five morabers, bound to act as rt one man, what would have been ;he fate of their fellow- '>f countrymen in the struggle ? Itiel and Lepine were con- '>i demned, one of them to death, both to exile for a time, il But there was another man who had no hand, no act, no oi part in the death of Scott — against whom a whisper ofb suspicion, in connection with that offence, was never f J breathed-and that man was 0'Doi\.oghue. (Q^reat cheering !^ fi What did this liberal government do for him ? ("Nothing"). Sx> He had committed no crime ; but, being an Irishman, he ttr was condemned forever, during the whole course of his oi natural life, to live out of this country, and his land, io which he had acquired through his industry^ was confiS- w cated — not regularly confiscated— ^but the friends of the w reformers pitched upon it, like so many hungry hyenas, ^j and hold possession of it lu the present day, — and"! !P - ,11 •? I;-; l-V I ,' I.-" I j,:,.. I ,, t«1 — ..1«^-^. :-?;.. V.T'fi /t. 0'I)9UPghue isi still to exiie sJiiiddu outlaw. (SliaJTiie Jiit " sh^ijSfte.".). I think that thw.BVkbject is worthy of some^ •' coiji^jid«i?j?ation. (Cheers !) A£ter this iuiquitous act had hee^ili(g^potrated l)y Mt. Laurier aad hiS' party, what next do wf 1 iHiicl ? We jRnd as disinterested, as honorable, and as pui[e aiV'Irifthman as ever breatlied, either in this country or any other—we find the Hon. Mr. Costigan (immense cheer-- ing),iviitl)»ie House of Assembly, doing-*-what ? He know the peQpJf he, had to deal with ; he, theorefoio approached the subject >'ery ca-ro fully, and did not ask too much at onoe ; he ri^Uiied that he need not expect to get an amnesty, but he Wieait as far as he thought their liberal fcinaticism would allow ith^m to go. He asked what he thought no reasojaable man could reiuse ; ho sked the government, with an humble prayer, merely to take the question of . rO'J)onoghue's ; outlawry into consideration. Mil Costigan moved, " AVhereas ,thi« House did, on the iJUhS'ebruary 18*75, vote an address to Her Majestyj praying thftt a full , fttdnesty be granted to all persons; concerned V hi idie North-West* troubles, ; for* all aotsi donei by thwi, dtiring these troubles, saving only lliel and Lepine and O'Donoghue, and that aninesty be granted to liiel affkd Lepine, on condition of th«ir leaving the oountry for five years -thus excluding O'Donoghue from the benefit of such amnesty, and whereas the said O'Donoghue has written the following letter ". The. letter of Professor O'Donoghue, is to be found in the journals of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada. In this letter, he begged to state to that Honorable Body, that a great injustice had been done him by the late parliament in excluding him from the amnesty ; that he did not propose shouldering the whole burthejL of the responsihdlity of the inSmTebtioii,' of the executiou of Scott, and the so-called Fenian ijoid,' 7', in order th^t dll those who were responjsible might go It: forth spotless at his ©xpeinse, purified by the resolution '/• of parliament i; ithat Gfeovernor McTa^vish was the man u who had advised the insurrection ; that lie, (O'Dotioghtie) / was not a party to the insurrection until the 15th Noy. ,•> 1807, four weelts after it had occurred ; that the case of .; Thomas Scott was never brought before the Provincial . n. .'?"•• i 1 — 10 — IT |tl Governinent, either before or after the iusurrectiou or murder ; that he was entirely clear of the charge ; and that he took no part, directly or indirectly, in the execu- tion of Thomas Hcott ; that the so-called Fenian raid was misnomer as Feitianism had. nothincc whatever to do a with it ". These were Mr. O'Donoghues words, despite the '^.ssertidn to the contrary of the Hon. Mr. Laurier, Minister of Inland Revenue, for the time ])eing-. After having read this letter, Mr. Costigan requested the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, to look into the matter. Thatwasdvei^ iiimple request. (Hear! hear!) If your old friend, Mr. Tourangeau, were asked that question, what do you tliink would bo his answer 1 what would be his vote ? "Well, the Hon. Mr. Laurier was there, and what did he vote upon that particular question ? He voted against any investigation into the case of Prafesscr O'Donoghue. (Shame !) The matter was again brought up ; Mr. Costigan again ma4e an , application ; he moved, seconded by Mr. White . of Hastings, a'l^rotestant, " that, in pursuance of an address passed by this House in 1875, a full amnesty was granted to all persons concerned in the North-West troubles, save only Kiel, Lepine, aiid O'Donoghue, and a partial amnesty w^as granted to Kiel and Lepine, that this solitary exception of O'Donoghue has created dissatisfaction amongst a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, of the same nationality as O'Donoghue, and that, all disquiet having long since ceased in the North-West, it is just and proper that Mr. O'Donoghue, be placed in the same position with regard to thos'e troubles as Riel and Leipine ". Well, gentlemen, if Mr. ToUrangeiau had a vote to give, he would have said, yes. But Mr. Laurier who now asks you for a vote— when wc wanted a vote, then ■ fot .Q^Donoghue, he, voted' against him f'^'A^yicB/''/ What vote' did Mr. Devliii give buy- • , ■ ■ •. ° '■ '^'^'Mk' \)4\in will have to gve stewardship, one of these days, and we shall be there to ■'•; ft ns r an •*;V/ OT»rtt accoiint oJ his ask him to give an account, (Hear ! hear !) Well, gentle- campaign began ; since men, let us go on. Since this f ■■ f-r h;, )!; 1 ■ y^''. Mr Lanrier put his loot into this constituency it appears that a sudden change has come over the spirit of his dr»!am, and, therefore, a certain number of persons who are particularly anxious that Mr. Laurier should obtain your votes, and knowing full well that there is not an Irishman, bearing worthily an Irish name, who would not feel that he, himself, and every one belonging to him, ■\Vould 1)6 disgraced, and would go down disgraced to the grave, if ho were to vote for Laurier after the way he treated O'Donoghue — knowing this full well, a certain number of people, not authorized by an assembly like this, but authorized by whom, we do not know, waited upon the lion. Mr. Laurier, Minister of the Crown, to ascertain what would be the policy of the Government with regard to an amnesty to I*rofessor O'Donoghue. (That's a fraud !) I do not th'uk it was at all necessary to ask a man who had twice voted, with his government, against O'Donoghue, what his sentiments were on that question. They did go and what answer did they get ? Mr. Laurier told them, in the first instant, that if he stood before them, as an ordinary member of the House, he ' w^ould have no hesitation in binding himself to comply with their wishes regarding the amnesty. ' It would be a very fair exchange, if he got the chance, ' that he should give one vote for O'Donoghue, for five hundred Irish vote.^ in this cQiistituency. Eut he goes on to tell you that he is not a private "ihember of the House, that he is a minister of the Crown and a junior member oi the Government. Now, g-entle- men, here comes the richest part of all. It is worthy the study of an artist to look at this document. It is so consistent, so magnificent, got up so that after he has got in, he can tell you, as it suits him, that he told you there was going to be an amnesty, or that he did not tell you there was going to be an amnesty at all. Because, said he since he has been sworn in as a member of the Cabinet, he has beeii busy in his county, and he had not an opportunity of speaking oil the subject with his colleagues. This is v^ly serious. I consider this a most llagrant .) UC' :.r:? >W'Ul.i..^^' — 21 le to )t re lu Id t, In outrage against the Irish people, almost as flagrant an outrage as the rote against O'Donoghuo, himself. (Hear ! hear !) This man Laurier has come before you and asks for your rote but declines to give you straightforward answers. In the counties of Drummond and Arthabaska, however, where there are five hundred Irish votes, his friends made outrageously false statements on his behalf, that the government were going to amnesty Mr. O'Donoghue ; he however never mentioned the subject himself ; he never pledf^ed himself to an amnesty ; he left that to Mr, Devlin to do, who was not a responsable party, who did not belong to the Government, and, consequently, could say what he liked. But, Mr. Laurier has grossly insulted these five hundred voters, since, that whilst he had gone through these counties soliciting theii* votes on the strength of Mr. Devlin's assertion that an amnesty was contemplated — he admits here, where there arc an equal number of votes, that, although his question has been ringing through the length and breath of the countr}-, that he has not thought it vv^orth while to communicate with his colleagues on a matter of such vital importance to Irish catholics. (Hear ! hear !) Why did he not speak to his colleagues on this question, when he went to be sworn in ? why, when he was defeated by the Irish votes in that county, as he will be defeated by the Irish votes in this^ — why, only last week, when he was closeted in St. Lawrence Hall, Montreal, with Mr. MacKenzie, did he not have an understanding with him ? But he slights and outrages you to the extent of showing that he never thought it worth his while to talk to Mr. MacKenzie as to what will, and what will not, be the policy of the (Tovernment on this point. ,• ' n ^ ' ' in ' r ' ■>ft*" '*Mr. Laurier however continued that he might tell them, that the Canadian government had talvcn steps for the relief of O'Donoghue. What steps ? One moment, he tells you that he had no time to consult his colleagues, imme - diately afterwards he states that his colleagues have done someting, but, unfortunately, he does not know any- , thing about it. (What a humbug !) If the government do not bring in this amnesty under the circumstances, he ' —22 — can tpU yQU he never mufl^' PJ^y P^ptl^*?- UpntleruQfi t^e fact^yo^r ,J^yf lijmd^ed .yotps a^(;ixpt,,'i>i^ ;Wr. Xp.xirWs estimation, actually -vyortji twe^t^j'-^ye cefl^ts, thoco/sf of,^ telegram, to (>ttawa to ascertain wuat tU(^ flrovernineni intend doing. (Hear! heajv!) I^M|r, Lauriv. wii^hed t9 co'i^muniir>nfrl»f nlv-inf rVllminrrTnVo i:.j. .-,,,, , h^e ihouffht about O'Poi^qdbii^, and ho, in, plain fa,ot, told them ne did not think about him at all, arid they told him they were perfectly Batisified. Lei 'any man, rea,d this dociimpnt and judge for himsel^of the correct'nesws oif ]m,y romarKs.^ J think, I have pretty weU ciisfipsjed' of this question. (Ilea): ! Hear!) I will refer, ho\yever, to tne last parajji-aph. Mr. Lau^'i^^r, havinn^ been requestod to state what efforts ha^ '^^^A made m behalf, of Ji^r. O'pbnoghuo, prefaces, why should he preliice, at all, why should he not tell them what steps had been token but he i)re faces his remarks by givm^- a brief liist'ory of the whole troubles in tjie North- WesJ:. Wsjis not tills very consoling'— was it not aji act of kinduess to give a brief nistofy of this litile matter, showing also the action taken by the liberals ipi the connectipn, j:^u^ the difficulties with which they had to contend ? M;ii. Laurier was rec^uested to state what efforts had been made in behalf of O'Dono.ghue, by the Canadian government, iTflid all he gave theiu was a brief history of the troubles in the North-West, and the troubles the Liberals had to contend with. But he never told them w^liat/ig l^ad doii,^. Yet we find that Mr. Laurier concluded h^s. remariis' amid the deafening' applause pl'thi^ mutual a4mirati9n society. Lot me tell, this de^Diitat^pn tUat if they are satisfied, you are iipt! (Cl^eeris.) . We. have discussed this very remark!a^l<^ document that , lias been tl^rpyvfii upon the world by this Minister ^ p^ tjf|9 , (Jro\yh, lAyhfpse^ —,23 — brilliant talents and over\\h('lminff g^niuH are going io reVo^utionizo ^ho country^' but, if lie cannot ad better tb^ii tW, 1 46 .nqt thinjc^ wc sjialj. g|; 'M^^ py^^ svipi^t^.rt. ,_ ou 'f<>l .^!i!7/ or iiii.ti .>ii I lot think wc shall ffi ^"ftefoi^^'l re^fiietejf:Ut, I Hli^ffsii^V^yW^i^^^tli reference; to ceil^ain thing* t|i{i^| haiV^, ipi>ea,i'f^ public. pr^^s,^ I ^^ay say Oiat the pr0s8^, liv VJiic^j ^^,9^*"' things have appt^ared, in not a very eXt9hsiv^o oiie. 1 wil'i rosid oUQ little extract to show what ono piapPT^^ it^adeof. I was going, tl^e otliyr day, to taikq the trouble of md,kin!^ some replies, to certain qu9ric« tWt liavfi pc^A rijade in this journal, butjrealiy, it, is noi.wbj'th theyhile.| T^iero is one I may refer to ifor a moment. I r^ueet f^MX atfen- tiph to tl^i^ paragraph ! " various moctiiijgs w.era keld'ip. diftereni part^ of the city, whi^c^ wore'^'^^P'^^^^' ^J su(^h excellent men as Mes.si|S. ' Fabre, Xaii^eHer ' and others against these men, we see arrayed, the sj^otiting Thibault, the hired Currau, ilio, demagogue Valli^e, and th^ AyyRocr/V^ Tar^e." It; is well tb at hard "vvords break ne^l Uostigan ' {cri«| never deserted bis post, who, wbethef Cdiiseryative ' _br Keforiripr w^as in poweri nqver swerved in the performanco of his duty-r-^and yet this vile, little, wretched rag dares You will find those people trying to blindfold you, by telling you that the Conservative party have done nothing tor the ,I|rish people. I am freei to ?idmit that, perhaps, th^ Conservative; X)arty lia.s not done all it shojuld have dj^|i^j bui, I ^ay it has done a hundrpjd! per cent mpre ' than the lieforra party has done. (Cheers!) Curing the, twenty years, the .Conservative parly was in jDOAver, we were never, for more than a few mohth^, ^^fithput haviipg, at least, one Irish Canadian, a member of the Grovern- iiii^i « — 24 men^, tp sustain our cau8€i, , (CjiiedtP Need t Mention their names ? Th^y are faimliir ^6 you. Nee^ I mention the 'name of your reispected feliow-citizen, the Ijt6h. Chs. AUeyn, who was, for years, the representative of the Irish C tholics in the Conservative cabinet, and, I am proud % say here amonsrst, his owh. fellow-citizens, that the IrisJi peoplcj npl oniy in Quebec, htit in Montreal, should Ipoj: u]^ iio him as a man upon whoni ithey could depend oh ^very opcasion. Subsequently !^ff . McGee, and subse- qij,ently Mr.: l^ehhy, sat ot the couucil board of the ConsfJrvatf y6 Governinent. Arid the Conseryative Grovern- nient'did jbr Mr. Kenny what ' llhis government have net'e^ .donb for an Irish Catholic — they made him Lieut.- GrOver&br of his own Province. (Loud applause !) After h^ had left the Cabinet, we had the Hon. Mr. O'Connor utitil the last day of the Governmeht. Now, where is the Irish Catholic that' has ever been taken into the Grovernment since the day it was forihed "i They had the Hoii. Mr. An^liu who was entitled, as a leading repre- sentative man, to take his seat in the Dominion Grovern- ment^ but the lion. Mr. Burpee and those who came from his Province, tol "! Mr. McKenzie, " If you take Mr. Ahgllji into the G-overnmeUt, we will vote against you ? And Mr. Ariglin was Lhrowli overboard and made Speaker of the Assembly, w'here he cannot raise nis voice in behalf of O'Donoghue or any one else Do you. suppose that if we had an Irish Catholic in the governrlent, durfn^ the deliberations in O'Donoghue' s case, that, if he were a man of soul, of hohor; with one particle of the fire that invigorates' the Irish heart— he w6uld not resign' his office, if the Government did not support an amnesty to, O'Donoghue ? (Hear ! hear !) «■)»<»;(» hi*f\ ;if Quebec East' fee ferfeant to the duty tliat ifi iiotppsed: n^on theirt f .G-tol6iiieii, 'a;t tlie n^xt' geiierki elecxibn tn6 Irish i^eople -Will b6 as one man, lipoh this question. (Cheers !) Thely will adopt the ni6tto of the JnVA C(a«rtrf«t to rerttembei* £ihd aven^ this insult ' vijp6i!i ovLt i^eo^f e: ' This recreant miiiister M^'ho ' cbtnes h^re, hoWrwith'his igaihmbniiig wor;^^ to tll^s tdiock d> -aaol oot hhuiol. •rmti 1 ; daum ooi '>Eji 'in'i lo 'maia il^ai^ ecffog batnaB GVjEJd I • .Ijiij/fjiriqn bfrOkl) .sS.'^u-Y'rhUfO'j '»rr 'io ■to tiioKiroU.'U tfi^tlp oxfi 'io yoiiol'i; '.m;,. iu /;!;ytj--, I'j ««W J; ow f»7i;f) y^oiiy/' ,i*.,fot-£],f;q iwng oil j *io thr 'to 'lo ,*>iooMlo -ii^hit) aiioltummiri') '(ViflUo^ ^rfibnoiii? Tjlt^rJw Mn'^hh-j fr.ff-t f>rkrp'>i} oi iiv* »l Mfl) (),t if 'Jiioll f) y;..u .4. .ytl^i ;/ ,.f)0*>'ii '.'•-'•, ' '•ffof>'>/(,i{ I irwfj ]■. ■> I f'tf;r,trl ' TriMir ftied ' I •'