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 "Tu'IHTHEN a i)e()ple get into a difticulty which is apparently .sunuountable, 
 
 T "V^ common sense and self-preservaticjn, as in an individual case, is 
 
 ""^ tlie Hrst law of nature, wliich law dictates the getting over the 
 
 matter or putting it aside in the easiest manner which circumstances suggest. 
 Now, in the year of Our Lord, 1887, we, British Canadians, have, not solely 
 by our own mistaken ])olicy and want of forethought, been brought face to 
 face with one of the most gigantic (jf ditticulties — 
 
 ROMANIS>r, 
 
 that fell and fearful sj'stem which our ancestors were com[»elled to crush 
 as a power in (Jreat Britain and Ireland, during the memorable and <Jod- 
 directed Reformation, is gradually, silently and stealthily encroaching upon 
 our Free Institutions, and will in a few years, if we do not check it by legis- 
 lation, be too strong for anything but driving the French Canadians and other 
 Romanists into the St. Lawrence at the i)oint of the baytinet. May a 
 merciful God direct us to such wise, legislative policy as will preserve the 
 freedom of our institutions, and forbid such a dire and dreadful necessity. 
 The encroachments of Roman Catholic Ecclesiastics nuist be stayed, if we are 
 to continue a free people. 
 
 ThK F'ROVINCK of QlKlJEC 
 
 is at this time prostrate at the feet of J{ome, or, to speak more correctly, at 
 the feet of the ''^ irorsf ,siicl<'fii or conijjiiii>i <>f trll //(e/*'" which this win'ld has 
 ever known, " The Jes)iit.s,". — that engine of Satan called tlie Society of Jesus, 
 Oh, what a superlative misnomer I From all countries in Europe, from the 
 City of Rome itself, has that Society been driven asdangennis to public weal; 
 yet here in this Canada, in the l'.(th century, it is incorporated and accorded 
 the rights of good citizenship, which Society has driven the English language 
 from the schools in that Province, in wliich no language but French is taught, 
 except in such schools as are supported by Pi'otestants. The same encroach- 
 ments are progressing in some three (jr four of the eastern counties of ( hitario. 
 In a few years the Protestant schools will disai>pear. The cunning and 
 serpent -like 
 
 ASSI'MPTIOXS OF THE JksIITS 
 
 are so grasping and so bigoted that Protestants will be compelled before many 
 years to leave Quebec to the Romanists, if they are not dei»rived o| their 
 local legislature. The Toronto Mail during the winter of 188G-7, with com- 
 mendable zeal and energy, exposed the game the Jesuits are playing in the 
 eastern part of Ontario, which game may so far be called— "the insertion of 
 the wedge." 
 
 Frexch is the LAN<;rA«}E 
 
 used in the Quebec Legislature. Btj n-lmt aiithorifii; And the .san\e may bo 
 said of the Courts in that Province, notwithstanding express legal enactments 
 to the contraiy. The laws enacted by the Dt»niinion Legislature are printed 
 in French as well as in English. This point is conceded by the British North 
 
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 Anierica Act, dictated by mistaken liberality on the part of those wht- got up 
 that Statute, which must and will in time be corrected. It has been said 
 that the 
 
 Tkkaty of Paris, 
 signed lOth Februaiy, 17<i"i, is tlie great foundation of the deadlock which 
 confronts us in Canada. That is not correct, however; there is nothing in that 
 Treaty which British Canadians at thistime would objectto. Itsecured nothing 
 to the French Roman Catholics but the peaceable enjoyment of their religion; 
 in fact there was not a word said about their laws or j)eculiar institutions by 
 any one of the Commissioners at the execution of that Treaty, nor was there 
 in the terms of surrender proposed by the 
 
 FkENCH GeNKRAL VAlI>REriL 
 
 when he surrendered at Montreal in 17*»0 to the British General Andierst, 
 immediately before he was allowed to leave Canada, and from that time 
 Canada became a dependency of the British Crown. The words of 
 
 (iARXEAl , THE FrEN"( H CaXAI>IAN 
 
 Historian of Canada, nd. 2, hook 10, chap. 2, pwje 77 —regarding that Treaty, 
 are conclusive on the point, and are as follows: "The only other stipulation 
 "in the Treaty regarding Canada was that Britain bound herself to allow the 
 "Canadians the free exercise of their religion, i^itlence was maintained on 
 "the subject of the Canadian laws, probably because in becoming Bi'itish 
 "subjects they were made participants in legislative institutions.'' Further, 
 there is not a section nor a part of a section in any one of the statutes passed 
 by the British Parliament resi)ecting Canada, to wit. Chap. 83 of 14 George 
 3rd; Chap. 12 of 18th George :3rd; Chap. 31 of 31st George 3rd; Chap. 
 35 of 3 and 4 Victoria; Chap. 3(i of 11 and 12 Victoria; and Chap. 118 of 17 
 and 18 Victoria ; in which reference is made in any manner to securing to 
 the French Canadians the enjoyment <jf any peculiar laws and institutions. 
 Section 133 of the 
 
 British North America Act 
 
 concedes to the French Canadians the having the laws ])assed by the Dominion 
 Legislature published in French as well as English. The British Canadians 
 regard the concession to the French Canadians of the enjoyment of their religion, 
 as conceded by the Treaty of Paris of 1763, as an act of simple justice. At the 
 same time, if a Roman Catholic power had subjugated a Protestant country, 
 irJiot irunM lutce been tJie eo\irse. pursued ^ 
 
 Old En(3lani), 
 
 dear old Protestant England, never did trample a fallen foe, and never will — 
 the assertions of Iri.sh agitators, who make livings by asserting and inventing 
 falsehoods, to the contrary. England would now have elevated the French- 
 Canadian habitant to the positi(»n and status of a freeman had it not been for 
 the successful opposition of Romanism. 
 
 Experience is Teachixg rs 
 
 British Canadians that the effort to amalgamate English and French in this 
 country — to make one people of Anglo-Saxons and French Romanists, with 
 their language and religion determinedly against us — is a failure : it cannot 
 be done, and we must give up the attempt. RomanisT", especially when 
 manipulated by the Jesuits, is the same to-day that it was centui-ies past: 
 there is no change in either the dogmas, the assumptions, or the policy of that 
 system. How good is the Eternal Father in dejiriving Rome of the fearful 
 power she once possessed. "Yes," said a divine of some 150 years past, "the 
 wings of Satan are indeed clipped." 
 
 A short time past in Montreal, a priest (a Jesuit, no doubt) got up a table 
 of statistics to show that God is increasing the numbers of the French- 
 Canadia'^s for His own good and wise purposes. Like the greatest number 
 of Jesuitical statements, it was not correct. 
 
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 "The Exk Jistifies the Means" — 
 
 H maxim of Yolola. The ]»riest attempted t<> show from the last census of 
 ( )iitario and (^)iiebeo that the French-ranadians liad increased in far greater 
 ratio thari had the British in Ontario, and that l»y natural means. He said 
 not a word about 
 
 Secret 1.mmi(;kation 
 
 from France. He evidently thought that no one knew anything about that 
 immigration, which tlirough Jesuit intriguing has been going silently on for 
 years past, and is known to sov/ie Protestants in the Province of Quebec, who 
 think it safest to say nothing about it, since they cannot stoj) it. Never- 
 theless it is going (juietly on, and perhaps watched. 
 
 A French Savant. 
 
 Sometime in the beginning of the month of February, 1887, M. Pochard, a 
 member of the Academy of Medicine, Paris, delivered a lecture at the Sar- 
 bonne, in which he referred to the decression within the past twenty years 
 of the population in some parts of France. He showed that in those parts 
 in which the people still continued bigoted adherents to the Church of Pome 
 the depopulati(m was almost entire. Where the people had gone, he was 
 unable upon enquiry to ascertain. The persons whoiu he found in those parts 
 seemed or pretended to know nothing about where they had gone: ■"■Cione to 
 Frtris," was a reftly he sometimes got to the question. Had these people gone 
 to Canada t(» swell the number of the poj)ulation of the Province of Quebec, 
 and help to work out a deep-laid 
 
 Scheme ok the Jescits, 
 
 suj»plied with money by the Canadian Roman Catholic Church, which could 
 well atiord to s{)end millions of her ill-gotten gains upon such a scheme, got 
 up for her own aggrandizement and ior the injury of England:* Ah, yes, 
 "f/x' viid j»sfijiis the tneifiiit." 
 
 Two Instances 
 
 of this secret innuigration came to light a short time past, vouched for by 
 gentlemen who j)articipated in the scenes described — gentlemen (,f undoubted 
 veracity. The tirst instance occurred in the autunm of 188'i, when live 
 gentlemen ha})pened t(» be in the neighborhood of Himouski on a fishing and 
 yachting excursion. One evening they noticed a large French ship anchored 
 in the river. They, in yachtsman style, hailed the watch A man in [iretty 
 good English, though .somewhat sulkily, replied they had '"''fmt li, forsupplii's/' 
 Save the mark! All the way up to Himouski for su})i)lies only 1 The yachts- 
 men camped for the niglit ; and next nioniing when taking to their yacht 
 (which it apj)ears was not a large one), one of the })arty asked: "Where is 
 the French shipf The French ship was nowhere to be seen. Again, as 
 they were still conversing, one of the gentlemen called attention to a iong 
 line of habitant carts, and .some waggons laden with chests, b<»xe.s, etc., 
 wending its way inland. Had the French ship landed a cargo of immigrants 
 and gone off during the night ? That's a (juestion as yet unanswered. 
 
 Again, two gentlemen during the Autunm of 1885 left the Citj^ of Montreal 
 for a week's recreation and campnig out near a village about 30 or 40 miles 
 north east from that city, in which village they had been when upon such 
 trips several holiday times in years gone by. In the village they found a 
 number of strange people who spoke a French j>atois different from that 
 spoken by the Canadian Habitant. Who were these peoide:* Those whom 
 the gentlemen had formerly known in the village seemed disinclined to say 
 anything about them ; they said, however, that they had come up from Quebec 
 (city). Were they Immigrants from Old France i Echo answers, they irere. 
 
 The above hints are given for the cogitation of those who think about 
 Romish encroachments in this country, and those who do not. The lecture 
 
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 ofM. Rochard, tlie Frencli Ship, hikI Habitant Village incidents might as well 
 be thought (»f all ut once. Then the (juestion 
 
 Why St ( h Sk(|{K(Y? 
 
 forces itself forward. "Verily Jesuitisn; is a wily serjient." .Another question 
 comes to the front : Is it a scheme of tlie Jesuits to transmigrate, so to 
 speak, all the Romanists of Europe to the Province of (^Miebec, and thus 
 consumate Senator Trndel's dream, referred to below '. 
 
 The Statistical Priest above referred to tells the simple, semi-savage Hab- 
 itant that Ciod is working for him, and that he is destined to overrun ( )ntario, 
 The (iieat North- West Territories, and New England. We shall see some- 
 thing diflerent from that 1 ti'ow, and that perhai)s in (piite a few years. 
 
 Sknator Tridel 
 
 And his able correspondent "Frontenac" are somewhat preniature in picturing 
 the restoration of New France. "■'A splendid Empire,' writes the latter in 
 "<me of his flights of ijciiitis, extending from ocean to ocean, ruled by the 
 "^ French Canadian race; subject of course t() the lliv'nir ijuhhuirr of the 
 "Church of Rome, which is to be mistress of all British America and the 
 "Eastern States (»f New England." Almost as bright a future for the Hab- 
 itant as for the Irish when they get the u/iin'r IkukI, as prognosticated by the 
 old crone, Bridget ( )"Carrolan, some 100 years past. 
 
 LOKM DiKHAM 
 
 in his Re])ort to the Home Government upon the ccmdition and causes of 
 discontent in this country, Canada, seemed to des])air of such a consununation 
 as the formation of a unity between ])eoples of Anglo-Saxon and French 
 origin. The French laniruage, said his Lordship, is of itself an a]>parently in- 
 surmountable barrier: but when that is backed by the ])()wer and bigotry of 
 the Roman Catholic Church, it will become absolutely so. At the .same time 
 British pluck has never been known to succund) to ditticulties. The question: 
 What is to be done :* How can we surnutunr our dithculty with Romanism 
 blocking the way ? How can we convince the French Canadians and other 
 Roman Catholics that Romanism is the 
 
 Worst Despotism 
 
 that ever existed, and the worst ajxistacy from the Church (if Christ that 
 ever appeared in this w(;rld, that the cunning and ii.genuity of man ever 
 invented? The root and foundation of that great Apostacy is the perversion 
 of a text of the Holy Scriptures, 
 
 The Falsifvixo of the Words 
 
 of the Apostle Matthew, one of Christ's own called and ap})ointed Apostles. 
 Iji the version of Matthew's (ios])el, printed in the English New Testament, 
 under the auspices of England's King James I, (the translator having no 
 means of maintaining its truth or falsity), from the 13th to the 20th verses of 
 the l()th cliai)ter, it reads as follows : — 
 
 " /.v. When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesaiea I'hilippi, he a«ked his disciples, 
 saying. Whom do luen say 1 the Son of Man am?" 
 
 " /^. And they said, Some say that thou art .lohn the 15a})tist: some, Klius ; and 
 others, Jereniia.s, or one of the prophets." 
 
 "i.-J. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 
 
 " /6'. xVnd Sinictn Peter answered and said. Thou art the Christ, the Son of the 
 living (Tod." 
 
 " 17. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Plessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona; for 
 flesh and blood hath not revealed it unt() thee, but my Father which is in heaven." 
 
 " IS. And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will 1 buHd my i 
 
 church ; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."' | 
 
 "/.''. And 1 will give imto thee the keys of tlie kingdom of Heaven: and whatsoever 3 
 
 thou shalt bintl on earth shall he bound in heaven : and whatsoever thou shalt loo.se on \ 
 
 earth shall he loosed in Heaven." i 
 
 '■'■20. Theii charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus 
 the Christ.'' 
 
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(iAVASZI, 
 
 the Italian Christian j)reacher, once a Romish priest, in several of his interesting 
 discourses, t<jld us of his conversion, aa he said, from Romanism to Christianity. 
 The commencement of which conversicjn, or that which tirst opened his eyes 
 to the great deception perpetrated by Romish ecclesiastics during the tifth 
 and sixth centuries, was the discovery by him in the librarj- of the Vatican 
 of the oldest copy of the Gospel of St. Mattliew which was then and has ever 
 been in existence. It is a Gospel which the Papacy does not acknowledge, 
 and to which the endorsement of the College of Cardinals of the Church of 
 Rome has not been given, though bearing date in the 3oth year of the tirst 
 century, or about two years after the crucihxion of the Redeemer,— at least 
 4U0 years before the date of the copy which was used by the Bishops in King 
 James I. time, when translating the (iospels to form part of our English New 
 Testament, and which bore the endorsement of the Papacy as authentic. Of 
 course the Protestant Bishops had no <jption — they were compelled to use 
 the spurious copy, having no means of ascertaing its truth or falsity. 
 
 " Father" Gavaszi, as he was called, gave us the translation of the passage 
 above referred to as written by the Apostle Matthew in the old hidden-away 
 gospel which he had found, and which translated is as follows —which must 
 be read instead of the 17th, 18th and 19th verses of King James' version of 
 the Gospel by Matthew, as above is (juoted : — 
 
 'Thou art Simon, but thou shalt be called Peter. What do the people say of me, 
 whose Son am I? One of the disciples answered, Some say Thou art Elias; and soimi 
 say, John the Baptist come again int© the world : but what sayest thou Simon that 
 I am? Simon answered, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Paternal Father. Then 
 said He, thou sayest it ; upon this Rock I build my Church and the power of Satan shall 
 not avail against it." 
 
 What, then, is the Rock upon which Christ has built his Church ! Upon 
 Himself, and Himself alone— the Rock of Ages. '''Thou art the Chriat, the 
 Son of the Eternal Father," — that is the Rock upon which the Church is built, 
 and not Peter his apostle, or any other mere human being, — but Himself, Jesus 
 Christ, the everlasting Son of the Eternal Father —(we may add other texts 
 in connection herewith):— who was cruciiied, died and was buried, and the 
 third day He arose from the dead, to be the propitiation for the sins of His 
 people; He ascended to the Father, and ever liveth at His right hand, the 
 one and only Mediator between the Father and the children of men. 
 
 The Mother of Jesu.s. 
 
 The Blessed Mary is not mentioned in the Word of God as a Mediator 
 between God the Father and the sons of men; nor is any other saint, Jesus 
 Christ is the only Mediator. He tells us to pray to the Father, and, said He, 
 "whatsoever you ask the Father in my name. He will give it you." Those 
 who read the Word of God understand to whom they ought to pray, as also 
 the difference between the Gospel by Matthew as above referred to and the 
 other three gospels ; but Romanists who dare not read that word cannot know 
 anything about it; they are all, however taught the version of the l()th 
 chapter of Matthew as given in our translation of that Gospel, and above 
 shown to be falsified by their own Church. Speak to any Romanist upon this 
 vital point — 
 
 The Rock upon which the Church is Bcilt; 
 
 his first sentence in reply to you will be a repitition of the above-perverted 
 passage in the said 16th chapter of Matthew in the 17th, 18th and 19th verses. 
 His Church being founded upon the Apostle Peter, whom, he thinks, holds the 
 Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, to admit or exclude whom he may see fit, 
 ia quite enough for a Romanist ; he will also assert a fact of which you are 
 already aware that "Peter" means a Rock. Yet he is to be pitied rather than 
 blamed ; how can he know anything about the Word of God when he dare 
 
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 not read it ^ Could the Apostle Paul have referred to Fiomanists in his 2nd 
 Epistle to the Thessalonians, 2nd chapter and 11th verse, in which he uses 
 the words, '' And CJod shall send them strong delusion that they should 
 
 "Believk a Lik.' 
 
 The passages hereunder set forth in the (iosj»els by Mark, Luke and John, 
 describe the very same scene between our Lord and His Disciples as that 
 above quoted from the lOth Matthew, 13th to 2()th verses, as given in King 
 James 1 version of that (}os]>el, the l.'»th and lOth verses and 20th verse are 
 in no manner changed from the original Gospel as written by Matthew and 
 found by Gavaszi, but the 17th. iHth and ll>th verses are entirely changed 
 from the original copy as found by (Javas/.i. The Version issued from the 
 Vatican as authentic, and represented as having been written by the Apostle 
 Matthew, which the translators in James I time used, was not authentic and 
 was never seen until the end of the Fifth century, 400 years after the Apostle 
 Matthew's death, when the Church of Rome succeeded in gaining supren)acy 
 overall other Churches; the 10th verse is from the first to the last word of 
 it false, and foisted into the original text found by (Javas/.i, in which there is 
 not one word about Christ building his Church upon Peter and giving to Peter 
 the Keys of the Kingdom, n'.)r is there in any other part <jf God's revealed 
 Word anything at all about such a dogma. 
 
 The Point to be Gaineh 
 
 by such a perversion of the original text of Matthew's (iospel was to make 
 out a clear case in favor of the Cluirch of Rome attaining to universal 
 supremacy over all other Christian Chuiches in the end or conclusion of the 
 5th century ; hence, at the instigation of Satan, the Word of (iod was changed, 
 and upon that changed and falsified part the Church of R(jme was built. 
 
 The same scene as given between Jesus Christ and His Disciples in the 
 English version of Matthew's Gospel, IGth chapter, l.'Jth to 20th verses; is 
 given in the 8th chapter of Mark's (Jospel, English version, 27th to 33rd 
 verses, which are as follows : — 
 
 "J7. And Jesus went out, and hi.s disciples, into the towns of Ciesarea Philiitpi : and 
 by the way he a.sked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that 1 am ?"" 
 
 "s?c^. And they answered, John the Baptist : but some say, Ellas; and others, t)ne 
 of the Projjhets." 
 
 "-^.'>. And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am ? And Peter answereth 
 and saith unto him, Thou art tin Ckrint.'' 
 
 "f?'A A.nd he charged them that they should tell no man of him." 
 
 "SI. And he began to teach them that the Son of man mu.'^t suffer many things, and 
 be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and Ix' killed, and after 
 three days rise again." 
 
 ".f2. And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke 
 him." 
 
 '.?c^. But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, 
 saying, d'ft ther fiehind inc, Sfitan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but 
 the things that be of men.'' 
 
 Not a word in the above Quotation 
 
 from the Evangelist Mark's Gospel about Peter being a Rock upon which 
 Christ would build his Church, nor about Christ giving the Keys of the 
 Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, to bind and loose whom he thought fit. At 
 the same time it is undoubted that the Evangelist Mark, the writer of that 
 Gospel, was the intimate friend and confidant of the Apostle Peter, and wrote 
 his Gospel under the guidance and dictation of Peter. Let it not be forgotten 
 that in the 33rd verse above quoted, the Lord calls Peter " ^Sctfax." 
 
 Again, in the Gospel by the Evangelist Luke, Chapter 9, from the 18th to 
 the 22nd verses, the same scene, though slightly varied in the description, is 
 recorded; which reads as follows ; — 
 
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" IS. And it came to paH«, as he was alone praying, his disriples won- with him : and 
 hea-iked fhoni, sayint?. Whom say the peoplf that I am '"' 
 
 " /''. They answering saifl, John tht! liaptist; hut some say, Klias: and others say, 
 that otie of the old prophets is risen atrain." 
 
 ",''>. He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, Thr 
 Christ of iiixl." 
 
 " .'/. And he straightly charged them, and coumianded them to tell no man that 
 thing ; " 
 
 ",V. Saying. The Soii of man must suffer many things, and he rejectecl of the ciders 
 and chief priests and s Tihes, aud h^' shiin, and he raised the third day." 
 
 Not a work in Likk kithkii 
 
 abitut Peter being a Rock ujton wliich Cliiist was t'* build liis Church, nor 
 about his giving the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, not a word. 
 There is but one passage in the (iospel by the Apostle .bdui which at all 
 approaches the puiut at i.ssue, from the 0(»th ver.se to tlie 71st, which concludes 
 chapter <i, in the English Version. It is written as follows: — 
 
 "'/■'>. Prom that time many of his disciples went hack, and walked no more with 
 him." 
 
 " ti7. Then said Jesus unto the twelve. Will ye als(» go away? " 
 
 '■'lis. Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the 
 words of eternal life," 
 
 "0''^ Aud we believe and are sure that thou art the C'hrist, the Son of the livinir 
 < lod. 
 
 '"7i>. Jesus answered them. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of yon is a 
 devil?" 
 
 " 71. He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Siuion : for he it was that shotdd betray 
 him, being one of the twelve." 
 
 Not .\ AORD IX the (!o.><1'KL by John either 
 
 about Peter being the Rock upon which Christ was to build His Church, nor 
 about His giving the Keys of the Kinirdom of Heaven to Peter. Not a word, 
 not out' word in those four (iospel histories of the sacred words and actions of 
 our ble.s.sed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, about His Apostle Peter beiuf a 
 Rock upon which would be built His Church, and that to Peter Christ would 
 give the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, except that one pas&ige, the 17th 
 18th and llJth verses of the Kith chapter of the (icjspef by St. Matthew, as 
 given in the English Version of the New Testament, and above set forth 
 fully, and which is shown by the good and truthful Oavaszi to be utterly 
 false and not in the 
 
 fiOSPEL AH written BY St. MaTTHEW. 
 
 T}te Roman (Jetholic ropif of St MaWnncs (ro.ipd was got up by the Church 
 of Rome, endorsed by that Church as authentic, and upon which falsified 
 copy that Church, I say again, is built. 
 
 The Bishops and other learned men who translated the 'Gospels under King 
 James 1. had no meiins of ascertaining the truth or falsity of the "Roman 
 Catholic Copy of St. Matthew's Gosjiel," they could not have had any cause 
 to so much as 
 
 Suspect the truth of it. 
 
 At the same time they knew that the date of it was com])ai-atively recent. 
 Somewhere during the ti.ne the Bishop of Rome began to assume authority 
 over all other Christian Churches. The true copy which had been written 
 by the Apostle St. Matthew in the year 35 A.D., had been long before put 
 out of the way or concealed in the Vatican, — never cfime to light until 
 found by Father Gavasj^i; and which was, under God, no doubt, the means of 
 
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 his conversion to Christicanity, as described by himself. How was it that with 
 all their 
 
 Cunning and Deceit 
 
 the Romish Priesthood did nf)t bum it ? God no doubt overruled it should | 
 
 remain concealed and be found by Gavaszi. His description of his finding « 
 
 that precious (iospel was noticed by the papers at the time he was in America. 
 YcG now his words seem almost forgotten ; and are now, and were, when 
 uttered, thought by many i)eople to be of no mateiial consequence. Romanists 
 may traduce the character of the pure and upright Gavaszi, as they have done 
 and will do when his name is mentioned ; but let any man who saw and heard 
 him, who has had exjjerience of men and made the human countenance a 
 study, and who dare reason and think independently of priestly or any other I 
 
 influence, and wlio noted the workings of truth and purity upon his noble 
 and intellectual face, answer this question : — 
 
 *'DiD Father Gava.szi 
 
 tell the truth ab^)ut finding that precious old Gtjspel written by St. Matthew 
 himself," above referred to^ Such & man will reply, / believe he did. For if 
 the human countenance can express truth and pure Christian piety, it was 
 Gavaszi's ; notwithstanding the assertions of the Romish Ecclesiastics to the 
 contrary. Hence so many attempts by Romanists to murder him. 
 
 Auain, 
 
 In the Acts of the Apostles there are many scenes described in which the 
 Apostle Peter took part. Yet not one word did he or any other person utter 
 which in the most remote degree can be construed to bear upon the Apostle 
 Peter being a rock, or being anything else upon which the Church of Christ 
 was to be built ; and that he was to receive the Keys of the Kingdom of 
 Heav'en, to admit into Heaven or exclude from Heaven whom he thought 
 proper ; for Romish interpretation of the passage is to that effect. Not one 
 word in the Acts of the Apostles, nor in any other part of the sacred Word 
 of God can be found a word bearing upon such a dogma, except chat per- 
 verted and falsified pH,ssago in the 16th chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew, 
 above referred to. 
 
 The Christian Fathers. 
 
 Origen. AdamatitiiDi, who lived and wrote for Christianity in the beginning 
 of the 2nd Century; Glemetitus Alexa)Ldriniis, who was cotemporary with 
 OrigeiM also a teacher and writer among the Christians ; Dyonysins the 
 Areopaqite, the friend of the Apostle Paul ; Gregory Thanmatiirgus, who lived 
 in the 3rd century ; and the three Tlieologians named Eusebius, all cotem- 
 porary with each other, in the end of the 3rd century and the beginning of 
 the 4th. All of those were Christian Bishops or Teachers of Christianity. 
 But not a sentence, or so much as an allusion, is made in the writings of any 
 one of them ahont, or to, the Apostle Peter being a Rock or anything else 
 upon which Christ would build his Church ; nor his having received the Keys 
 of the Kingdom of Heaven. Not so rnvch as one vord — in fact it is quite 
 evident that that dogma was never heard of by any of them, nor by anyone 
 else, "until the Papacy began to crawl across the-world and the souls of men," 
 toward the end the of 5th centurj-. One would be led to suppose from the 
 character of 
 
 Julian the Apostate, 
 
 who lived in the 4th century, that he would have taken some notice of the 
 dogma of the Church of Christ being built upon Peter, and he having the 
 Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, in some one of his satires, had such dogma 
 
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 heeii ktiomt or ihou(fhi of in li'm da]i. Nothing escaped him. He wfts most 
 in<'eiiious at turning to ridicule the many superstitions and foibles of simple 
 and illiterate Christians of his day. 
 
 Honest, reasoning Rcjman Catholics will ask why was such a perversion and 
 falsifying of those three verses of the Kith chapter of St. Matthew's (iospel 
 made/ That it was made is certain, and the reason for making it must have 
 been this, and this alone: — 
 
 The so-called Catholics 
 
 in the 5th and Hth centuries had a long and bitter c(jntest with all the (jther 
 Christians throughout the then known world, for the establishment of a 
 dominant Church at Rome. 'They succeeded at last by various means and 
 the getting up the invention of the perverted three verses, 17th, 18th and 
 ]!>th of the l()th chapter of the (Jospel by St. Mattliew, to read as in King 
 .James I version of the English New Testament, was their great strong jxiint, 
 and which in fact carried the day in their favor. The dogma was asserted to 
 be correct, and shown by antedated and falsified copies of St. Matthew's 
 (Jospel ; and it appears that no body of Christians were in a position to refute 
 the falsehood. What could be done :' Rome was growing powerful, and con- 
 versely all other Churches were growing weaker. 
 
 Acacias the Patriarch, 
 
 of ConstJintimjple, in the end of the oth century and beginning of the 6th, 
 opposed with all his force of character the insolent assumption of the Bishoj) 
 of Rome. However, after many years of c(jntroversy and disputation, he w^as 
 comj)elled to submit to the superior power of that Church, 
 
 AccoRuiN(} TO Gibbon, 
 
 the building and endowing of monasteries about that time became the rage 
 J with those who could command the means to do so; and those who earnestly 
 
 '^ felt and professed Christianity, in numberless instances entered those houses 
 
 to seclude themselves from the pride and insolence of the then Roman 
 Catholic Ecclesiastics. Others again seemed to fall away from the faith, or 
 retired into quiet caves and huts in remote places, disgusted and frightened 
 by the Catholics who adhered to the Church of Rome, Then again, one of 
 the Bishops of Rome put forth 
 J 
 
 A Pretended Heavenly Vision, 
 
 to the effect that he or some other person had seen the Virgin Mar}'(the Mother 
 of Jesus), whom he asserted commanded all Christians throughout the world to 
 build a house in the City of Home for the worship of (iod, which would 
 eclipse all other houses of the kind then extant. Hence, by Peter's Pence 
 and other impositions, St. Peter's was built. 
 
 Thus the Great Apostacv 
 
 took root, strengthened itself, and became a most fearful power ; and Python- 
 like, crushed everything that dared to oppose its assumptions. 
 
 Those are the conclusions 
 
 which history and reasoning sense lead us to, as the cause why the Church 
 of Rome falsified that passage in the IGth chapter of the (Jospel by Saint 
 Matthew. 
 
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 Had the Lord .fesus Christ intended to build his Cluirch upon his Apostle 
 Peter and to give to him the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, it cannot be 
 possible that a matter of such vital, daily and hourly imj>ortance to the 
 Christian world, never would have been uientioned under any circumstance, 
 or in any way st) much as hinted at, by any one of the Aj)o8tles, in any of 
 their writings, epistles, iV:c. ; es|)ecially by the 
 
 Ai'o.sTLE Pkter HIMSKI.K, 
 
 who wrote two Epistles; or by any one of the Christian Evangelists or 
 Fathers who lived, taught and wrote for the Christian religion in the 1st, 2nd, 
 3rd, 4th or 5th centuries, some of whom are named above. But no; not one 
 sentence did any one of them write about such a dogma. In fact, they cvAdd 
 not, for it was never heai'd of until it was got up -invented by some ingenious 
 and zealous Catliolic at the the time above named, about the end of the 5th 
 century or the beginning of the <jth. It does not appear that any christian 
 writer was able successfully to contend against the dogma. Acacias, above 
 referred to, showed that it was an innovation, but his exertions were useless: 
 he was compelled to yield to the asswiiiption and insolent power of the Bishop 
 of Rome. 
 
 The Ch( rch of Rome 
 
 acknt)wledges that the auth(jrity of the Scriptures is required for the estab- 
 lishment of that Church. Yet the College of Cardinals claims that the 
 Church has the undoubted right to say what bocsks of Scripture are authentic 
 and what books or writings are not authentic. Let us fancy, if we can, a 
 County Council in this Province of Ontario refusing to acknowledge the 
 Munici{)al Act i)assed by the Legislature of Ontario until such County Council 
 which is created by that Municipal Act, had endorsed the Act, in token of 
 their ackno>.ledgment of it. The one position is as tenable as the other and 
 just as irrational. What will not Rome assume for self-agrandizement !' 
 Another of Rouk^'s assumptions is the word 
 
 "Catholic," 
 
 which may be said to be the most prominent, as it comes to the front on all 
 occasions. No one except a Rt)manist will for a moment suppose that the 
 religion of the Romish Church will be the religi<m professed by Christians 
 at the Second Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ. No ; Romanists are 
 deceived on that point also. They comfort their intelligence with the reflec- 
 tion that because Protestants use the word Catliolic respecting them it is one 
 j)roof of their being undoubtedly entitled to it. They never seem to think 
 that we use the word because we wish to be civil, polite to all, and not by any 
 means because we hold them entitled to the term. No, Romanism will not 
 be the religion which will meet with the favour of our Lord Christ at his 
 ai»pearing, because the almighty fiat has gone forth, 
 
 "She shall be Utterlv Destroyed." 
 
 The Prophecies are perfectly clear on that point .o tho«e \ \\o make them their 
 study. 
 
 In the 16th century, durir the commencement f)f the 
 
 Reformation is Great Britain, 
 
 a rinninetdanj or desertation on the Apocalypse appeared in England, which 
 was supposed at the time to be written by a well known priest, whose name 
 is forgotten ; which desertation foreshadowed the success of the Reformation, 
 
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 which was styled the great Heretical Apostacy. It told Romanists thai they 
 were to be punished for tlieir want (jf zeal for the faith ; but that tlirough great 
 tribulation, about the year 18<)(> they would reign triumphant and put dov n 
 hersey tliroughout the world. Hence tlie conviction in the minds of Romanists 
 that they have nothing to do but 
 
 Assume the Ascendant, 
 
 and God will secure them in it. Then again, the Canadian Habitant is to over- 
 run the whole of British America and New England, by what, he thinks, will be 
 the special interposition of God, and that their increase in numbers is owing 
 to natural means aided by (iod, for his especial benefit. Its a (piestictn, dees 
 the habitant know anything about the seci'et innnigration going on from 
 Europe, above referred to. Through the manipulf\tion of the Jesuits, tlie 
 whole of the bigoted adherents to tlie Romish faith are to be transferred from 
 Europe to the Province of Quebec. The liabitant moving ofi' West and North- 
 west to new localities, and the innnigrants taking their places in Quebec, 
 Church money being liberally used, is a reasonable conclusion. 
 
 A Ship Cahco of Italians 
 
 bound for some place in America (wliere.^) was cast away near New York but 
 a short time past. If the wreck of the ship had not occurred we never would 
 have heard of the ship cargo of Italian Romanists. They would have dis- 
 embarked at (iaspe or Rimouski, or some other port in Quebec, in the night 
 trme — thi' ship puff ii({i In for siipfAie.s, as (m a former occasion and above 
 referred to. 
 
 Then again, think of the 
 
 PHtENEciAX Irish 
 
 Romish Slaves, almost as contemptible as the French Habitants, governed 
 more by the dreams and fancies of an old crone in a chimney comer than by 
 reason. They have for generations been expecting and ccmtidently looking 
 ffTwaixi to a time when they will have what they term 
 
 The Uppek Ham> of Us. 
 
 Bridget O'Carrolan some time about 100 years })ast, fell, or pretended t(; fall, 
 into a trance ; out «)f which she awoke, and told a tale which set the whole 
 country-side in conuuotion. The burden of which was that in Ninety-nine 
 years the Irish were to exterminate hersey, chase the English out of Ireland 
 and rule the whole world. Such childish nonsense is fully believed by the 
 Irisli, with the addition that "fA^;/ on- (t««/'.s otm people." How like the poor, 
 simple Canadian Habitant 1 A case in point, as to the Irish, occured and which 
 was published in the Irish Times, during one of the famines in Ireland, some 8 
 or iO pears past. Thus : — An English ship had arrived in the harbor of one 
 of the stricken districts with a load of food for the starving people. The 
 poor creatures seem disincHned at tirst to eat the English "male." At length 
 the priest said to them, "Eat it, it will feed you, but don't thank Mic Eng'^sh. 
 God kiious hiti own!" They, the Irish, are his peculiar people. They who 
 think they are doing God's service when they murder, burn at the stake and 
 destroy in all other ways those who ditter from them in religion — tliose whom 
 the Church of Rome denounces as heretics. A pleasant time it will be for 
 the Irish when they get the upper hand, and the Canadian Habitants overrun 
 British America and New England. Thank God they are not able to work 
 out their bloodthirsty schemes; nor, through our Lord Jesus Christ will they 
 ever be in a position to do so. No; the Fiat of the Eternal (iod has gone 
 
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 forth many a long century past, against the great Apostacy, Rome. "She 
 shall be utterly destroyed, for strong is the Lord God wh) judgeth her." 
 Not yet, however, for there are prophecies to be fulfilled before the fud of the 
 1 ivpi cy. 
 
 The Agitation now going on 
 
 under the traitor Paniell in England, will soon bray its last. Parnell being 
 of Anglo-Saxon blood and language, he is an Englishman as thoroughly as 
 his ancestor, who crossed in the army of either King William III or CromAvell, 
 it matters little which ; for he is a traitor, and must know that his agitation 
 is a pretense. Yet, like most Irishmen of his class and political leanings, he 
 has more conceit than judgment; and he must know that the Irish tenant is 
 
 SCHEMEING TO ROB HIS LANDLORD 
 
 and separate Ireland from the British Empire. He also well knows that the 
 Irish tenant is in a better position and has easier terms than any other tenant 
 on the face of the whole earth. 
 
 "In the first place the Irish tenant is absolutely secure in his holding, and 
 " cannot be disturbed so long as ho fulfils the statutory conditions of his 
 "holding; paying his rent, which is fixed and regulated by an impartial 
 " court established for the purpose, is one of those conditions; which con- 
 " ditions are far from being harsh and unreasonable, and not fixed by the 
 " landlord, but by the Act of Parliament, which established the Land Court. 
 " He has the fullest property in all his improvements, and st> much does that 
 " amount to, that in recent years, even in these bad times, the interest of the 
 "tenant, the right and title to the land which he gives up, has been sold 
 " again and again for very near the whole value of the freehold of the land, 
 " He has the right to make this 
 
 "Sale in Open Market. 
 
 " He has in addition, the right to apply to the Land Court, wliich, as said 
 " above, is a disinterested tribunal, to have his rent fixed ; and that entirely 
 " without regard to the value which competition would give the land. And 
 "that is not all: In the subsequent Act, passed under Lord Ashbourne, 
 *' the tenant in Ireland, after agreeing with his landlord upon the price of 
 " the land, may become the owner of it, the furthest time, the end of 
 
 " FOHTV-NINE YEARS. 
 
 " By what means ? It seems incredible, but it is the law, by paying tu-entii- 
 ^'Jire per rent, letm thiDi t)ie fair rent, which has been fixed for him, not hij his 
 " lonillood but by the Land Court ; which, to repeat, is a perfectly and 
 " undeniably impartial tribunal. Really, said Mr. Chamberlain, when we 
 " hear of the frightful injustice connuitted by England upon Ireland; when 
 " we hear of the miseries which are endured by thefemial tenure, and all such 
 "rubbishy claptrap, at least let us have the common fairness to admit tliat 
 " there are tens of thousands of tenants throughout England and Scotland 
 "who would receive as inestimable benefits those opportunities which the a 
 
 " Irish tenant impudently and ungratefully rejects." J 
 
 The above quotation is from a speech of 
 
 Mr. Chamberlain, 
 
 a member of the British House of Commons and a leading man on the Liberal 
 side ; delivered at Wamick, England, on 3rd April, 1887, and published in 
 
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 the Toronto Mail. There are also other quotations in this Essay from that 
 valuable journal. A masterly and exhaustive editorial in that paper of an 
 issue during the same month, also lashes the Irish on the grounds above 
 stated ; and for their imnudent deceit and their mean despicable whining and 
 ingratitude. 
 
 Yes, thk Truth mi st be Told, 
 
 the Irish want to rob — rob is the v^ord—iho landholders of their property, and 
 pay no rent at all, and the severance of Ireland from the British Empire is 
 their scheme. That's the game they are playing. Bear in mind that the 
 Saxon Irish generally have naught to do with such rasclity. Instead of culti- 
 vating their holdings, the Ph(enecian Irish were and are for the most part, 
 sleeping off previous nights' debauchery, previous nights attending Fenian 
 Lodges, League and Moonlighters' meetings; held for drinking whiskey and foi 
 
 Plottixg and ExEci'TiNo Murder 
 
 and all other descriptions of lawlessness, against their neighbours and the 
 Government ; which enemies (to their soul's core) of Britain and British 
 Protestant freedom, can conceive and devilish ingenuity can invent, backed 
 and encouraged by the 
 
 Romish Priesthood. 
 
 And then with consummate deceit whine over pretended hardship, which they 
 have brought upon themselves by refusal to pay their rent, and being evicted, 
 and ji-istly evicted, in consequence. Then by misrepresentations, the most 
 villainously false, move the commisseration of kind hearted and manly 
 Americans. 
 
 What do the Irish mean ? 
 
 What can Mr. Paniell and his following expect to gain by attemj)ting to 
 deceive England, as they are doing ! Separation from England they will never 
 succeed in accomplishing. They had best waste no more time and bring no 
 more contempt upon themselves, by attempting to bring it about. The liber- 
 ality and respect for the rights of free speech, observed by the British 
 Tories under Lord Salisbury, the Irish evidently caimot understand; but 
 comfort their intelligence with the conceit that they are feared, and the 
 English are 
 
 "Thrimlin" in their Shoek, 
 
 They also seem ignorant of the manners and customs which obtain amcrngst 
 civilized men ; say nothing of the urbanity and politeness observed by gen- 
 tlemen in their intercourse with all persons. Are they still, these Irish 
 agitators and these several foUowings, are they still semi-savages — are they i 
 Are they still so far sunk in the depths of Romish superstition and barbarism 
 as to not be able to understand what is going on in the world around themV 
 Do they think of nothing but gloating over Biddy O'Carrolan's dream of the 
 upper hand. 
 
 Ye«, Heparation from England is the game of the Irish, under the hope that 
 " Uncle Sam" (brief for United States) will aid them. But that old fellow, 
 
 The King of Birds, 
 
 is not going to wait until the Irish put salt on his tail. Throwing dust in his 
 eyes would be worse still, for he is a tartar when his dander is up. Uncle 
 
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 Sam will stand on his sunse of honor, which oiir friend Pat will find will 
 he stiff and stubborn for what is right; and Pat's lying stctries about V)eing 
 down-tr<K' len by Ilngland, and all such rubbish, may as well be 
 
 Whinei* to thk \Vim>. 
 
 Facts, undeniable facts, must be laid before the people of the I nitod States 
 before they will stir themselves in any way. All experience of them shows 
 tliat there are in the I'nited Statos as well as in Canada, politicians whi. use 
 and flatter the ignorant Irish for their v<jtes. P>om that fact, nothing of 
 serious import will ever arise. 
 
 Mk. Chamiskrlain, 
 
 above referred to, one of the cleverest members of the British House of 
 Cunnni>ns, has been travelling through the Northern pait of England and South 
 of Scotland recently. During his tour he described the Irish question in all 
 its phases. At Ayr he said : "'The Liberal I'nionists art resisting 
 
 "DoiBLE Deali.n«;, 
 
 "They are resisting outrage; and they are sui)porting remedial legislation for 
 '•• Ireland of a drastic nature. What he meant by spying that the Liberal 
 " Tnionists are resisting double dealing, is that whilst the Nationalists are 
 " pretending to work for land reform, their real aim is 
 
 " Separation from the Empire. 
 
 » k T, 
 
 Tt> establish this point, he quoted from the proceedings at the Nationalist 
 "Convention held at Chicago in the summer of 1880. Mr. Redmond, M.P., 
 " Parnellite, who attended that c<mvention, said Mr. Parnelland his followers 
 " were not working solely for the removal of grievances, not simply labt>uring 
 " for the amelioration of the physical condition of the country. The prin- 
 "ciple, said Mr. Kedmond, at the back of this movement to-day is the same 
 "• principle which formed the soul of other Irish movements, as in the 
 
 "Last Rebellion, 
 
 " against the rule of strangers. It is the principle which Robert O'Neil vin- 
 " dicated on the banks of the Blackwater; which inspired Wolf, Tone, and 
 "for which Fitzgerald and Emmet sacrificed their lives. I assirthere to-day, 
 ".said Mr. Redmond at Chicago, that the government of Ireland by England 
 " is an impossibility, and I believe it to be our duty to make it so." And this 
 idea he reasserted on the 16th April, 1887, in the House of Connuons. 
 
 Let us fancy an impudent rebel and ti-aitor, Redmond, being English by 
 descent, daring to use such treasonable language during the time the 
 
 Iron Dike was Premier. 
 
 Verily the forbearance of British Statesmen of this day to Irish disloyalty, 
 is surprisifig. 
 
 Profe.ssor Tyndal writes to the London Times: "Your colunnis already 
 "conta'ii the expression of the views which I venture to entertain regarding 
 "Mr. (Gladstone's Irish Policy. It is a mad, foolish and wicked policy; 
 "fraught, if successful, with unutterable woes both to England and Ireland. 
 " These are the deliberate words of a man, prepared whenever neceusary, to 
 " fight the battle of oppressed tenants against o^jpressive landlords ; who 
 
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 "knows Ireland and its people better than Mr. Gladstone can know them, 
 "and whose love for the land of his l»irth is free fniiii the taint of party 
 " politics.."' 
 
 One OB hies, 
 
 tlie editor of a rebellious Irish nevvsj>ajK'r, has arrived inthi.o country for the 
 purpose of vilifying- his E.xceliency, tlie (Jovernor (Jeneral, Lord Liinsdowne. 
 What can such a pestilent niisrepresentator ex«)ect to gain by this visit:* He 
 ^ will say nothing ab» ul the liberal terms accorded to Irish tenants by British 
 i Acts of Parliament, <is shown above. No, not he. He will whine over the 
 misfortunes wliich the tenants have brought upon themselves by paying no 
 i rent for their holdings, in obedience to the mandates of that curse, the land 
 ! league. Let us hope that this man O'Brien will be permitted to leave this 
 \ countiy, and that he will not be pitclied into one of our lakes. His paper 
 i shows him a blatant, blathering boaster, who cannot conceal his hate of 
 4 England and everytliing English. Let us hojie tiiat by the time he arrives 
 1 in Toronto he will have gathered sutticient connnon sense to keep his treason 
 ■i to himself, and not give us the trouble of his arrest, trial and execution. 
 We, British Canadians, are freemen, and take pride in conipelling the lawle.ss 
 to be law abiding. Mr. O'Brien will get some hearers. There will be some 
 talking and speechifying by those who know nothing at all about the Irish 
 question, nor ubttut Irish histoiy, and the pretence of her woes and pains 
 inflicted by England. Who will speak from the broad principle that all men 
 ought to be free aiid ecpial.^ All men are ecpial l)ef<jre the law, excej)t where 
 the Irish are favored above all others in the Empire, as shown above; ])ut all 
 men do not know how to be freemen, nor understand the meaning of true 
 liberty. If a man is a votarj- of any superstition, the great Apostacy above 
 described, for instance, who cannot or who darr not flilnl. independently of 
 priestly dictation. u]>on the relatums between 
 
 (Jon AM> Himself. 
 
 If he is compelled to depend uj)on another man or body of men in matters 
 of faith, instead of being guided by the living Word of the Eternal (Jod, the 
 Scriptures, he is not a freeman ; he is a slave and naught ]>ut a slave ; and 
 mental slaverj' is of a lower tyjte, an immeasurably lower type, than mere 
 physical slaver}'. ^ 
 
 Bit to the OrE.sTio.v, 
 
 How are we British Canadians to clij) the wings oi our dragon i' Uow sur- 
 mount our ditticulty with Jesuitsand millions of Uomish slaves, irlm/iacf luArs, 
 in the way '. Tvro courses pi-esent themselves to us, one of which we must 
 (mi ST is the only word here) follow. We uuist eitlier annex this countiy to 
 the United States or unite this British Empire under a Federal system. The 
 Btatute for such a Federal I iiion would in the tirst }>lace be passed by the 
 British Parliament, after which it will have to be endorsed b} all the Legis- 
 latures already established throughout the Empire. The Federation Act will 
 then abolish the lt»cal Provincial Legislatures in this Dominion. 
 
 These Local Legislatures 
 
 are the worst feature in our governmental system. They cost many millions 
 of money every year, irhicfi /.s, in fact, all tlieij do, the laws passed by them 
 Would much better emanate from the Dominion Legislature at Ottawa, in 
 which we must have totjilly new parties, Protestant Freemen against 
 Romish Slaves. There is no way of getting at the truth of this matter 
 but by plainly speaking the truth — so the truth must be told. If we 
 British Canadians are to remain freemen, we must check the encroach- 
 
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 ments of the IloniHiiists. Tinlo so, there is in fuel Imt one course oi>eii to 
 us — the unity of the Empire All Protestants must unite and form one 
 j)arty against the Romanists, and have but one Legislature in this country, that 
 of tije iJominion. If we were States of the American Tnion, we would be free 
 from Romish encroachmen*^s. The style in which ecclesiastical interference 
 is kept in olieck in the Tiiited States is truly admirable. The late affair 
 of Dr. Mc(ilynn is the b' ginning of something new, or Jesuitism is in its 
 dotage. We shall see. 
 
 Being annexed to the United States we might be better off than at present, 
 ;ind we might not. At the same time it is the destiny of this Empire 
 
 AnI> the rNITEP StATE.S 
 
 of America to be one people. Every day brings us nearer t(» that ultimatum. 
 May the eternal disposer of all events foster and bring about such a union. 
 
 We, British Canadians, 
 
 under our present governmental system, cannot stop the encroachments and 
 assumptions of the great enemy of civil and religious liberty. Our leading 
 men in both the Dc^minion and the Ontario Goveniments, no matter irhieh 
 /jditij yiiiileH the ship, must of necessity, to keep themselves in power, work 
 for the v«»te8 and influence of the Romanists, who hold the 
 
 Balance of Power ; 
 
 and well they know their advantage, and use it for the benefit of their 
 Church. How are we to pluck that advantage from them :' That is the vital 
 <juestion, and it is a problem which we can and will solve. Romish domin- 
 ation in this British Canadian Dominion in the 19th century, is a blighting 
 and bJistering disgrace to us as freenien, and we must crush it or submit to 
 its dit tates. 
 
 Confederation 
 
 of the whole Empire under a single Legislature is our only refuge if we would 
 avoid civil war. Our Local Legislatures can be abolished by an amendment 
 to the British North America Act by the British Parliament. Undoubtedly 
 
 it is competent to the British Legislature to amend any statute passed by that | 
 
 Legislature; at the same time that would not be done without a request by I 
 
 the Legislature of the Dominion of Canada. Upon the introduction of a Bill | 
 
 asking that to be done by the British Parliament, the "Balance of Power" | 
 
 would turn the scale against Protestant freedom, and such request would not | 
 
 be made. % 
 
 Some will be led to think, reasoning irom a point of honor, that we cannot 
 consistently 
 
 Abolish the Lo(;al Legislatures. m 
 
 Let us ask who are the people benefitted by the Legislature of Quebec? 
 Who are the people who will oppose the abolition of the Legislature of 
 that Province ? The Jesuits and other Romish Ecclesiastics are the people 
 benefitted by that Legislature; by it they have such laws as they wish 
 enacted ; by which laws they keep the Habitants in ignorance, in fact, 
 they are sinking deeper and deeper year after year into ignorance and 
 superstition. They are the people who will oppose the abolition of that 
 Legislature, and they will no doubt be backed and aided by the Irish 
 Romanists. Why should we hesitate to do away with a system which is 
 sinking our fellow nien, although they are aliens to us, deeper every year 
 into a slavery of the most degrading description? Yes; Romish Eccle- 
 
 
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 siastic8 iire the i>eoj)le, and *he (iul\ people, l)eiU'htte<l hy the keeping in 
 existence the (j>uel>ec Legislature, a/nl no otliers are. Suppose we leave 
 that (juestiou out of considerat'ioi ;Jto<;ether, we should not hesitate to 
 abolish the (Quebec Legislature; . I if <ve alM)li8h the C^uebcc, we nnist also 
 abolish the Ontario and all the otiiei Local Legislatures; in fact, we will 
 be much better ofi" without any of them: they are innuensely costly and 
 we can ill atf(»rd the expense of them. Tlie French Canadians and their 
 Irish Romish allies a"e all aliens to us, and daily becoming more alienated, 
 both the clergj' and laity — enemies in fact, as yet comparatively powerless. 
 We cannot forget the bitter hate evinced by the French Canadians and 
 their Irish confreres in the Province of (^)uebec during the Kiel embroglio, 
 which they did not attemjit to conceal — in fact, they boasted of it. 
 
 A Cask in Point, 
 
 A mob of semi-savage Habitants parading in procession, from the jxdling place 
 in a village about ten miles from the City of Quebec, during the last election 
 in December, 188<), carried a p<jrtrait of our beloved and matchless Q'.ieen to 
 a pvddic place in the village, then after a harangue in French, one of tin- 
 hal)itants 
 
 ToKK THK PoRTKAIT INTO PlECE.s; 
 
 at the same time a semi-savage, decked out in habitant finery, red liberty cap, 
 Biniiiet-Roiuje, red sash and pale gray cloth C(»at and j)ants, and saViots, mounted 
 upon a Canadian pony, trailing our time honoured I'nion Jack behind him, 
 and calling upon all whom he approached to spit ujion the 
 
 "British Rao;" 
 
 at the same time the French tri-color was carried in the wind by another 
 habitant closf* in his rear. Just then, a stalwart Englishman, standing six 
 feet and one inch, and proportioned like a combination of Hercules and 
 Appolo, dressed in English shooting garb (the weather being mild for winter) 
 and carrjdng a double-barrelled shot gun, was leisurely walking down the street. 
 Meeting the mob, he paused a moment, took in the scene at a glance, crcjssed the 
 street to a small shop where sticks and canes were sold ; he laid down his gun 
 in the shop, and without saying, with your permi.ssion, took up a heavy sti ;k 
 and rushed into the street. One shout, 
 
 "Enolano kok kvkk,' 
 
 and then at the crowd ho rushed. First he pulled the habitant oft" the jxn^y 
 and left him bleeding on the ground, then sprang to the flag, took it up, and 
 made for the shop where he had left his gun (which, by the way, he never 
 saw again). He had progressed some twelve or fifteen yards backwanls, 
 fighting the mob of habitants, when a 
 
 Villain camk hf.hino Him 
 
 and struck him on the back of the head with a stone, which felled him, 
 stunned to the earth. He had meanwhile buttoned the flag inside his coat. 
 The Englishman being down, stunned and bleeding on the ground, the 
 crowd rushed upon him, cursing the English. Fortunately they were too 
 many, for instead of striking the fallen man they in their eagerness and 
 blind intensity, struck each other. Then came to the rescue a good Priest, 
 indeed he was a good, kind, christian-like man, stepped amongst the mob 
 and ordered them to desist and not murder the fallen man. The English- 
 man, however, soon awoke and sat up. Who are you and what have you 
 been doing to these people? asked the good Priest. I am an Englishman, 
 replied he, and as to offence, I have done nothing but take this Jack, 
 
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 (opening his cf)at), a flag of my crmntry, from a crowd of people wno wer6 
 insulting it and my national feelings, by their conduct. ( )h, said the Priest, 
 what foolishness. Then took the Englishman to his own house, called in 
 a surgeon and kindly tended the wcjunded man until he got l)etter. Such 
 acts c;f kindness are not rare amongst the French Canadian Priesthood. 
 
 Johney Habitjint no doubt comforts himself with the thought that we, 
 British Canadians, know nothing about the above incident, and many sim- , 
 ilar cases of 
 
 Insult to our Flao. 
 
 Don't we Johney ? We shall see by and by. As to the pretence of some French 
 Canadians of loyal feeling to Her Majesty the Queen, now during the Jubilee 
 celebrations, we, British know, by experience, how to value such French 
 effervescence. It has been suuijested that the French Canadians look for 
 
 "oo"- 
 
 Aii> FROM France 
 
 when they c(mmience their attemj)t to overrun Canada and New England. 
 It is iniprobable that they will receive such aid, yet it is within the bounds 
 of possibility. The Romanists ai-o now a minority in France. At the same 
 time what would be the course imrsued by the Atheists in connection with 
 the Romanists and all other French Angloinvisists, or those who hate England. 
 Supposing the Vatican could compass terms advantageous to, and for the 
 aggrandizement of France, who can say what might occur. Jesuitism, it is 
 siiid, is to be let loose once more in Europe. It appears the Pope has 
 attempted to hoodwink the 
 
 Italian ani» French Governments. 
 
 Perhaj)8 he may succed. Who can say what such a move may ultimate in. 
 Who can say what political expediency and Jesuitical intrigue may bring forth, 
 with Italv and Russia to aid France, with the Irish rebelsand Canadian Habitants 
 (rebels also) might give us serious trouble. The Senator's dream of New 
 France, a splendid Empire, from t\e. Atlantic to the Pacific, with Nev 
 Eaqland ihrovin in, we cannot forget. Looked at from another point of view, 
 such an embroglio might be the best thing that could occur for us, British 
 Canadians ; for then the United States would unite with this Empire. 
 
 What Then? 
 
 The whole world turn at bay, except, l«t us hope, Germany. Yet the policy 
 of the Chancellor of that Empire, Prince Bismarck, is so complicated, so deep 
 laid, that it seems ditticult to form an opinion about it. 
 
 Baron Stockmar, 
 
 the father of the present Baron, and the friend of our peerless Queen and Her 
 Royal Consort, Albert the Good, was one of the most far seeing and wise 
 thoughted of the most prominent of the German nobility of his day, and who 
 wrote and worked for the unity of the German Empire ; strongly favored the 
 maintenance of close friendly relations with England. He also saw and spoke 
 of the immense advantage we, in this Empire, would grasp by a Federal 
 Union, 
 
 There is nothing more tiresome than arrogant assumption, especially when 
 the arrogant assumer knows nothing of which he speaks. 
 
 A Mr. Edgar, 
 
 an M.P. of Canada, is reported to have said recently in a speech on the floor 
 
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 of the Doiniiiion House of Coninioiis, that IinperiHl Fedemtion is h mere will- 
 o-the-wisj), an impracticable scheme. Let us suggest that it is neither the 
 one nor the other, and by no means im})racticable. There cannot be any 
 reason why the Federal Parliament of this Emi)ire would 
 
 Interfere in any Manner 
 
 with the Legislature of this Dominion. Suppose that the Fedei-al Parliament 
 be com|K)sed of the '^ueen, the House of Lords at present cf>nstituted, with 
 such gentlemen added as Her Majesty might see Ht to elevate to the Peerage, 
 residing in and representing the various Dependencies of the Crown. Fancy 
 Mr. Edgar a Peer of the Realm. His chances for such an exalted position 
 are not a total hlank. His innate disloyalty hisses occasionally, yet when ho 
 grows older he may have more C(jnunon sense than he displays at present. 
 As said by a gentleman, who read the speech above referred to, Mr. Edgar 
 has very little caution but an innneasumble amount of conceit. Nothing but 
 disloyalty would have induced him to voice the idea that the French Canadian 
 Habitants ought to have been represented at the Conference of Cohmial 
 Delegates, who met in L(mdon during A[)ril and May. 1887, to discuss the 
 preliminaries of Imperial Federation. No; men do not intentionally act 
 foolishly at this age of the world. Tlie few French Canadians who are Pro- 
 testant, we suppose to be, and no doubt are, for the most i)art, loyal to the 
 British Crown. Yet the great majority of them are en qui rire 
 
 For Another Rehellion, 
 
 to strut forth in the North-west or in Quebec. They try to smother their 
 disloyalty since their defeat at the polls last electicm; yet th jy have too much 
 faith in 
 
 "The Senator'.s Dream" 
 
 to succeed in the deception. Faith gives them, poor simple creatures, con- 
 tidence, perfect cimtidence, as to their future destiny. No, Mr. Edgar, 
 loyalists could not think «»f sending di8lo3^al men to such a Conference, for 
 such men would undoubtedly do all in their power to oppose suc'a a scheme 
 as the Confederation of this Empire, which might be the means of making an 
 end of Romish Ecclesiastical power in this country. Canadian politics are in 
 t<jo critical a position just now, 1887, to permit British Loyalists tosleej) over 
 eight hours in any one night. 
 
 It may be said that too much space is occupied by the above notice of Mr. 
 Edgar. True, yet it is excusable, as he is an average type of the iie)iius Grit, 
 or to use the old term first applied to that party by Sir Francis Hincks, Clear 
 Grit Repiiblica)!.. 
 
 Bit to the Fei»ekation 
 
 of the Empire scheme : Let the Empire be divided into Electoral Divisions, each 
 returning say, two members to, let us call it, the ' ' Federal House of Commons ;" 
 from the City of London, England, two members; from theCountyof York, Eng- 
 land, two; from the City of Edinburgh with a County, two. Divide England, 
 Scotland and all other parts of the Empire, into Electoral Divisions, each 
 sending two members ; England with about 22 members; Scotland, 14; Ireland, 
 10 or 17; Wales, (5 or 7; the European Islands, Man, the Channel Islands, 
 Heligoland with Cyprus, Malta with Gibraltar, say 4 divisions; then in Asia, 
 British India and Bumiah, say 19 divisions; then in Africa, Cape Town, 
 Natiil, Weso African Settlements, say about 3 or 4 divisions. Egypt is not 
 yet perfectly a part of this Empire. It cannot be a long time, however, until 
 it will be. Then Oceania, including Australia and the other Islands, say 14 
 or 15 divisions; then cross the Atlantic to America, the West India Island^ 
 
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 with Trinulful .-iiid Hiilise, say 7 divisions; CHiiiula. 2!> ur ,'U) ilivisions: }»lt<>- 
 u'etlicr iiiakin;; l.'JO Electoral Divisions, each sending two nienihers to the 
 Federal House of Coniiuous, composing; that House of about 2(30 members. 
 
 !.•: Parts ok Bkitish Iniha 
 
 and lUirmali, and in some of the Islands of Oceania and other remote corners 
 of the Enij)ire, in which they d(» not enjoy elective institutions, members of 
 the Federal House of Conunons could be appointed, as tlie members of the 
 local «^overning councils of such parts are appointed, for tho tirst Parliament, 
 at all events; when it may be supposed the people will have become sutticiently 
 acfjuainted with elective institutions, to attend polling bust int^s to reconl theii- 
 votes. Let the Bill f(jr such system of Ctinfederation be tirst passed by the 
 liritish Parliament, then let it be endorsed by the several Legislatures 
 throughout the Empire. The Federal Parliament would work quite inde- 
 pendent of, and interfere in no way with any Parliament now extant, having 
 l»ouer to legislate upon the following subjects: — 
 
 Lst. The Representation in the Federal House of Commons under all cir- 
 cumstances. 
 
 2nd. The amount i»f Sessional allowance, if any, to be j»aid to each member 
 of the Federal Parliament. 
 
 ;}rd. The Regulation of Trade and Counnerce. 
 
 4th. The Regulation of Navigation. 
 
 ,jth. The Regulation of the Postal Service. 
 
 r»th. The establishing, fixing and maintaining of Beacons, Buoys and Light- 
 luses. 
 
 7th. The Regulation of the Sea Coast Fisheries. 
 
 Hth. The Regulation of a uniform Currency and Coinage. 
 
 0th. The Regulation of uniform Weights and Measures 
 
 10th. The R(}gulati^)n and granting of Patents of invention and discovery. 
 
 11th. The abrogation and rendering void of Acts of Parlianient passed by 
 any of the Legislatures throughout the Enipire, Treaties agreed upon or 
 granted in former years, which mitigate against the well being and best 
 interests of the Enipire. 
 
 Pith. The Passing of bodies of Military from one part of the Enipire to 
 any other part. 
 
 Tctgether with such other subjects as the wise and patriotic forethc>ught of 
 Statesmen may suggest. 
 
 Ls .SUCH A SCHEMK 
 
 in any way '* Will-o-the-wispish" or impracticable. It seems much more prac- 
 ticable than the dream of Mr. Edgar's friend and confrere, Senator Trudel. 
 "British America" degraded into New France. "A splendid Empire," 
 stretching from New England to Vancouver, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
 
 RuLEj> BY AN Emperor 
 
 of Canadian Habitant extraction. I'nder the guidance of what:' The (ireat 
 Apostacy, the Church of Rome. No, Mr. Edgar, you may live to see a 
 different state of things for your French Canadian friends. 
 
 liouses 
 
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 Thk London Chambkr ok Commkrck 
 
 ottered a prize for tlie best essay upon the suhject of Imperial Federation. 
 A large nun)ber, no doubt, sent essays acc*-os8 to London on the snbject. 
 One essay left Toronto about thelJlst (»f .luly last(188H), enibinlying the ideas 
 above set forth, in a Bill ready for such alterations or amendments as the 
 Committee of J udges might think necessary, should they think well of the 
 ideas therein set forth. 
 
 It may be said h(»w will the con.sentof the Canadian Parliament be obtained 
 to the Federation of the Empire Act, with the "Balance of Power" deter- 
 minedly against it!* That is a vit«d question, and a serious ditticulty. At the 
 same time the consent will be obtained thus: All our Political parties must 
 sink their differences, and form 
 
 One Pakty ok Pkotkstant 
 
 freemen against tiie slaves of the Romish Apostacy and her Ecclesiastics. 
 There is no way to overcome the ditticulty but that way, and that is the way 
 it must be done, if doiut at all. Let us have no nonsense about 
 
 Stirring lp RELKiior.s DiKKERENrE.s. 
 
 We must beard the Dragon in his den. Would Romanists hesitate in the 
 subjugation of a Protestant community ^. Do Rctmanists hesitate in their 
 'l impudent assumptions now amongst us ;' No; the Church of Rome ' :)uld 
 I hold a votary of that religion recreant, cowardly and impious, who would 
 I hesitate in an assumption assumed by that Church, even if the lives of 
 thousands of those whom that Church denounces as heretics, were to be 
 i sacrificed. VVhom have we to deal with? Is it friends or foes, enemies to or 
 I supporters of our Protestant freedom? Ah I there can be but one answer to 
 I that question. We, Protestants, have been comforting ourselves with the 
 4 hope that Rome and Romanists are not so bitter as they were a centuty or 
 I two past; but recent events show to us Komish hate and intolerance in all its 
 I hideous deformity, to be as bitter as it was 500 years past. We have to thank 
 I Mr. Blake and Mr. Edgar, above referred to, for awaking us to that truth as 
 '^ it glared at us in the Province of Quebec during the 
 
 I 
 
 RiEL Embroulio. 
 
 Ah yes I Rome knows no change either in spirit or policy ; she is the same 
 cruel, bloodthirsty Apostacy now, as she was when the 
 
 Massacre of St. Bartholamew 
 
 was planned and executed. How many thousands of Protestant Christians 
 were murdered at that time in cold blood, simply because they were Christians? 
 50,000 at least. The mere thought of that cruel massacre brings a shudder 
 across a Christian's feelings. To this day the Church of Rome celebrates 
 that cruel and bloody massacre, by a commemorative procession and mass, by 
 the whole of the Church Dignatories, headed by the Pope, at the Vatican. 
 
 These are the people whose feelings we are to be cautious of wounding. 
 What have we become? Has our civilization degraded us below the status 
 of common manhood? Are we to sit still and allow this Apostacy to crush 
 Christianity; or shall we rise in our might, and as the Apostle Paul wrote to us, 
 ^^ quit yaurselves like men." The Romanists will call us bigots. The mere 
 idea of a Romanist calling anyone a bigot, is too absurd to be noticed by more 
 than a passing thought I Our Politicians must see 
 
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 The Deai>-l(kk Diffktlty, 
 iind Rojuisli uucroHchiiioiits ui»<)ii our institutif>iis, in their true light hikI 
 glaring insolence, and meet them like men; and give n\> their petty party dif- 
 ferences and unite for the good of Christianity and the connuon weal of our 
 c'ountiy, upon new leaders should it become necessary. There is danger 
 for us. Rome is as bloodthirsty and cruel as ever. We must not wait to 
 think of that, we must gi) on like our fathers did in times gone by. They 
 acquitted themselves like men, and so must we. 
 
 The Local Legislatures are absolutely nothing in tliis ref(jrm; the Dominion 
 Parliament is the held ni which we must tight. 
 
 Will Sir John A. Mackoxalu 
 
 take the lead of the new party which is now being formed, and let the I'ajnsts 
 go:* He alone can decide that point. Let his decisiim be known, let his old 
 friends write to him, let deputations wait upon him. It cannot be possible 
 that he does not feel the coming storm. He is shrewd and astute still, though 
 passed the ''threescore yeai"s and ten." It is possible that he miglit now wish 
 to retire upon his well-earned laurels from j)olitical life, rather than assume 
 the leadership of a new i)arty. He sees, no doubt, that the assumptions of 
 the Romish Priesthood have caused the dead-lock in the prt>gress of this 
 country, and that 
 
 A Chancje Must Comk, 
 
 ami flic' .,Oi>n. No man knows that fact better than Sir John; and no man 
 knows the temper of British Protestants better than he. He knows also, 
 that we say among ourselves, the limit of our forbearance is nearly reached. 
 Yes; let life-long Reformers as well as Sir John's old friends, write to him, 
 call upon him and ascertain the bent of his inclination in this vital and truly 
 great reform. If all partyism be not sunk, entirely sunk, in the coming 
 struggle, it nmst, it will fail. May our Almighty Father give us the wisdom 
 to act in accordance with His will. 
 
 Sir John Macdonald and all other far seeing politicians, must know that 
 our only hope for Canada is the formation of anew ])arty— a i)arty wholly 
 Protestant, composed of such patriots as have sufficient strength of intellect 
 to })itch to the winds such catch words as 
 
 Tory and Reformer, 
 
 Conservative and Grit, and call ourselves "Protestant Jubilee Freemen," as 
 this year, 1887, is the Jubilee, the 50th year of the reign of our revered 
 Sovereign, Queen Victoria. It will be extremely difficult to carry the Fed- 
 eration of the Empire without the formation, under staunch and true leaders, 
 of such a party. Party names, Conservative and Reformer, or any others, 
 amount to nothing with men of sense, when all are working for the advance- 
 ment of the ct)untry, and all must tight under the Br.nner of Christ for the 
 conservation of those free institutions, whi'^h. through God's favor, we have 
 been enabled to build up. How thankful we ought to be to him that 
 
 The Jesuits 
 
 are not permitted to override all law. Tliey teach and insolently assume the 
 supremacy of the Church of Rome to the civil powers, hence their expulsions 
 from all countries. They assume to condemn all national sovereignty and 
 responsibility, the exercise of the elective franchise, especially universal suf- 
 frage, also liberty of conscience, the free worship of (Jod, and the liberty of 
 the press, and that in (pientiona of nmrrlafje, death and burial and public 
 
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 clmrities, and in matters within the domain of the nH>ral law, the Spiritual 
 power may and has the right to ignore the Civil law; and, in fact, that the 
 State with all its machinery erected and built up for the well-being of man, 
 is, and must be, subordinate to the Church '»f" Rome, that great and hideously 
 magniticent Apostacy, built up and invented by cunning, designing and un- 
 principled men. Such being the undtniable aims, and the dogmas as taught 
 by the Jesuits, they have no right to acknowledgment in any civilized countrj% 
 nor should they be accorded civil rights, and to incorporate that Society is 
 simply an insult to the civilization of the 19th century, and a heaping of con- 
 tempt upon those who i)assed that statute. 
 
 Mk. Mkrcier, . 
 
 in a speech in the House of Assembly at Quebec, in supj)ort of his Bill for the 
 incorporation of that Society, stated that they had right to be incorporated 
 because they were the pioneers of " (■irili;:ation" in Canada, and that the land 
 was " iraterefV with their blood. Parkman, the Historian, shows Mr. Mercier 
 to be correct ; at the same time we shall reserve the word "civilization" and 
 use instead the words '"''French Jiirrmotium anfl French Cnntoms." 
 
 Ais TO Civilization, 
 
 what improvement in the mental condition of the French Habitants and the 
 Indians have Jesuits effected ? Let the clear and lucid pages of the above- 
 named historian answer that question. Although the Jesuits hav3 been living 
 amongst the Canadian Habitants as their teachers and pastors for over 200 
 years, yet, at this day, they are just as uneducated and uncivilized as their 
 ancestors were 100 years past ; then look at the Metis and Indians who crawl 
 around the City of Montreal, and ask yourself are such creatures civilized. 
 
 Again — Where are the Hurons ? 
 
 They were once a verj' large tribe of the most mentally advanced Indians, 
 inhabiting an immense tract of country centering ui)on the Ottawa River. 
 Parkman show's us that in the 17th century, over 100 years after the arrival of 
 the Jesuits in Canada and New England, that the //-of/ mo is caniiibals destroyed 
 the Hurons —utterly exterminated them — those whom they did not kill and 
 eat, they killed or enslaved, and this cruel killing oft" was accomplised over 
 100 years after the introduction of French "cn*(7/«af /on" and the coming to 
 Canada of the Jesuits; over 100 years after the '''"benifjnnnt (ouf holy order of 
 the Jetiiiits" had commenced to convert those same Iroquois savages to their 
 religion. " The beitirin and holjj order of Jesus ' to describe such a misnomer 
 cannot be done in the English language except we change the words into 
 "■ The executors of th<' poicer of Satan." Mr. Mercier is no doubt a Frenchman 
 of the French Canadians, and perhaps the grandson of a habitant half-breed. 
 Let us hope that he is not descended from the Iroquois chief, who after he 
 had knifed to death a Huron, aud then because the Huron had fought bravely 
 for his life, the doughty chief eat his lieart for his supper. No, we cannot 
 suppose such an incident in the most remote degree probable. 
 
 But to the All-important Question • , 
 
 of the new party, the formation of which must precede the confederation of 
 the Empire. Now, our old and time-honored leader, Sir .John Macdonald, 
 will you take the lead, of our Jubilee Protestant party, or must some other 
 person lead us to sunder the Python folds that are gradually constructing our 
 freedom? Sir John knows the merciless monster with which we have to deal. 
 He knows the kind of metal of which British Canadians are made, and he 
 knows thfkt oil r forbearance is almost exhansted, Tf Sir John will not accept 
 
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 the leadersliip, who then will we get ! Mr. Blake. No, Prutestants cannot 
 trust a man, who, though not bom in Ireland, yet, is Irish in mind, politics, 
 blood and lineage. Then again his Rielism. If he was led into that by party, 
 then he is an iwapahle. That manly Scot, Alexander McKenzie, a former 
 leader of the Reformers, he is Protestant, he is true as tried steel, and would 
 do as well as if John Knox himself were here to lead us ; let us hope then 
 that his present sickness is but transitory, and that he will be well again soon. 
 Then there is 
 
 McKenzie Bowell, 
 
 also well-fitted and true as truth itself. None could be chosen better fitted 
 for the leadership than Professor Goldwin Smith. He might not accept, never 
 having been in the political arena ; at the same time, such a man would have 
 little to learn upon the floors of any legislature. Everything in the upper 
 walks of life will be grasped by such a mind as his by intuition; the mere 
 routine he would be familiar with in a week. 
 
 What say Ye, 
 
 Protestant freemen, who shall we choose as leader i A leader in the House 
 we must have ; the loc^l leaders can be got with comparative ease. Let us be 
 up and doing, for the enemy is and always has been hard at work, and we 
 must " fight to win the day," we mast "quit ourstlves like men ;" who then 
 shall be the man I 
 
 Let us consult Sir John, says one ; let us consult Mr. Mowat, says another. 
 Be he Reformer or Conservative, Grit or Tory, let him first consult his own 
 accountability to God and his country, his own feelings as a man ; let him 
 recollect that he has a duty to do, a duty as a Protestant freeman, then let 
 him consult whom he may. Sir John, Mr. Mowat, his neighbors, but always 
 keeping in view the manly dignity and self-respect of Protestant Christian 
 freedom, and the stealthy encroachments of the enemy of civil and religions 
 liberty. No doubt Sir John Macdonald and Mr. Mowat will do the same. 
 
 Another Matter 
 
 it might not be out of place to touch vi\Hm in this place — the British Irish — 
 commonly by themselves called Irish Protestants, which cannot be said to be 
 an absolute misnomer ; at the same time Englishmen usually hold that as 
 descendants from the English or Scotch who passed over to Ireland at different 
 times (and Englishmen and Scotchmen who took service in the armies of either 
 the Protector Cromwell or King WilLam 3rd) crossed to Ireland and helped 
 England's battles in Ireland, the most important of which was the memorable 
 battle of the Boyne, which completed the conquest of that part of the Empire — 
 upon receiving grants of forfeited lands in Ireland, they settled there and hold 
 and keep to the manners, customs and feelings of their English and Scotch 
 ancestors to this day ; yet, these people, notwithstanding their British blood, 
 lineage, names, manners and customs, and their innate and inborn determin- 
 ation while life lasts to uphold the Protestant dynasty of the House of 
 Brunswick, think they are, and assert they are Irish, simply because they 
 happened to be born in Ireland. There cannot be an idea more absurd than 
 that idea, the mind, the bent and inclination of the intelligence is the metal of 
 which the man is made, and not the mere accident of birthplace ; it might as well 
 be asserted that a man bom at sea, on board a ship, has no country. If the 
 British Irish hold themselves Irish, we must conclude that water has made 
 them so. Suppose they had been bom 100 miles North from London instead 
 of 150 or 200 miles West of that City to the North, there is land and water, 
 (Rivers), and to the West land and water, (a Channel miscalled the Irish Sea, 
 not half so wide as Lake Ontario in this country. 
 
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 The Traitor Parneli., 
 
 nlthough of English blood and descent, is undoubtedly Irish in mental bias, 
 Irish in feelings, Irish in the lack of honorable feeling, Irish in hate and envy 
 of England and everything English, principally because he happened to be 
 boni 150 or 200 miles West from the old City of London; and to be patriotic 
 he fancies he must denounce his own kindred and blood relatives, and fav>>ur 
 aiiu support men whom he must know are his enemies, and thoroughly and 
 entirely unprincipled, and capable of any crime. How contemptible is the 
 vanity of such a man, the leader of a party forsooth, and such a i)ftrty as that 
 he leads. Rather, as Charles Lever in his Knight of (iuiinie, in anticipatiim, 
 puts it: "The sweepings, the o.Tacourings of a party of unprincipled 
 tricksters, falsifiers and demagogues." If the British Irisli will not allow 
 themselves to be called English or Scotch, as they may be descended, at least 
 they ought never to omit the word British or Saxon before the word 
 Irish. It is not a ditidcult sentence to voice "I am a Saxon Irishman," or "I 
 am a British Irishman." The case of a man of real Irish descent, whose 
 ancestors were Ph(enicians, and who has had sufficient mind, sufficient in- 
 tellect, to abjure the dognias of the Rc»mish Apostacy, he is properly an Irish 
 Protestant. All others are properly called either British or Saxon Irish. 
 "'Irish Protestant" can be applied only to those who are not of British blood, 
 but Protestant in faith. This may seem a trifling matter to write a page 
 about, at the same time, just now, in 1887, when the mere naming of Irish- 
 men or Ireland, seems to create nothing but nausea and disgust, the British 
 Irish ought, if possible, to be kn(jwn both in England and America, at a glance. 
 Some badge or token ought to be worn by them; in the absence of which, let 
 then* never forget to voice the fact in conversation with English or Americans, 
 both United States people and Canadians, who are their best friends, and 
 whose favor is of value. 
 
 The above expletives, applied to cei"t<iin pei'sons by Charles Lever, may be 
 a{)propriately applied to O'Brien in this Esssy, before referred to, who since 
 his coming to Canada has been elected a member of the British House <jf 
 Commons, 
 
 Another Insilt 
 
 to the civilization of the 19th centuiy. To copy tlie utterances of another 
 man in these pages may, by some, be held re])rehensible, yet a sermon deliv- 
 ered by Rev. Dr. Wild, on Sunday evening, 22nd May, 1887, is so perfectly 
 in accord with the views of the writer of these pages, that he concludes this 
 Essay with c(jpious extracts from that sermon, as published in the Toronto 
 Mail. The Reverend Doctor propounded the question: 
 
 "Wh.\t Shoi li> We Toler-ite!"" 
 
 and took his text from the 2nd Chapter of John's (iospel and 8th vei-se : 
 "L(»ok to yourselves that we lose not those things which we have wrought, 
 but that we receive the full reward." 
 
 '* In his opening remarks, the Doctor p(jinted out that the work of nature 
 was reproductive and eternal, whereas the wtsrk of nian required constant 
 attention and care to preserve it. The privileges and liberties we enjoy as 
 citizens of the British Empire are the result of centuries of effort and sac- 
 rifice; and like other works of man, they require to be guarded with watchful 
 care to conserve them. Freedom of speech and toleration, are correct as 
 principles; but cases might arise in which toleration should bd given with great 
 caution, if at all. A certain party, for instance, might ask for toleration for 
 they very purpose of destrjoing our liberties. .\ man wh' > has reclaimed a 
 garden from the wilderness, does not allow thistles to grow in it. The thistles 
 
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 might say, ^ we ought to })e allowed to grow," but the gardener would reply, 
 "■ grow somewhere else." The British Empire might be compared to a garden, 
 and the Govemmeut has a right to suppress anything which had a tendency 
 to subvert the prosperity of the Empire, even if such were in the name of 
 liberty. We are not English, Sc(jtch or Irish, but Britons. If any one of 
 these sections of the people wish to dominate over the others, they must be 
 told to retire. To the re^t of the world we say, "you are welctmie, we will 
 do more than welcome you, we will make you ecjual to ourselves." Did any 
 one ask anything more^ If they did, they should be denied. We 
 should not tolerate the destruction of our citizenship and the dismemberment 
 of our Empire, so long as we can make a bold stioke against it. We cannot 
 atlbrd to allow even the French in (Quebec and the Irish in Ireland, to do this. 
 That which we have wrought and built up has cost us great sacritice, and we 
 will do well to keep it. The long patience and forbearance of the British 
 Parliament has embctldened certain Irish agitators to go beyond reason. 
 These men are forcing the British (Joverinneut to join issue with them. They 
 are close on the verge <jf blood.<5hed and civil war; and when blotxl is shed, it 
 will be the fault of the Irish. Every man of k)yal intention and ordinary 
 foresight could see that it was the wish of the agitators to force the British 
 Empire to the wall; and the time would ccmie when they would say to such 
 agitatators, "keep (juiet, or you shall be (juieted in the grave." It is high 
 time they were i>ut down by the common law or by a special law, or the army 
 and navy nnist do that which peaceful measures should have suppress«id. In 
 years to come some of you young men who are listening to me, will remember 
 what I have sjiid on that point. We must tolerate and be charitable and 
 endure to the utmost, ])ut we must not barter our liberties to the demand of 
 any people or section of the people of any j)art of this Empire. In one resist 
 he could sympathize with the Irish agitators, because they had been deceived. 
 The resolutions passed by our Parliaments had increased their blindneia and 
 boldness. Those resolutions had led them U) think that we, in Canada, are 
 in favf)r of their plan of compaign. What other inference could they draw 
 from the res<jlutions passed by the 
 
 Dominion and Ontario Le<!Islatire.s? 
 
 By .such meddlesomene.ss our legislators have added fuel to the lire, and in- 
 tensified the strife between sections of the people. They had also risked our 
 peace, our prosperity, and the lives of our citizens. VVas Mr. O'Brien worth 
 a dozen lives, if such had been unfortunately lost^ We have had to tolerate 
 that in which we do not believe, and by such tolerati(»n have received a bad 
 reputation, and are now referred to as intolerant. He thought that O'Brien 
 would never have ccmie to Canada on such a mission if he had not been de- 
 ceived by the Parliamentary resoluti(tns; and he charged the members of 
 Parliament who had passed those resolutions with the responsibility of the 
 distur})ance in Toronto and elsewhere, and with the cause of O'Brien coming 
 here. 
 
 "The Rev. Doctor then proceeded to read from a speech of O'Brien in 
 Ireland, in which he announced that he would come to Canada to hunt and 
 hoot L<ird Lansdowne, the Govemor-(»eneral, from one end of the Dominion 
 to the other, and other like-tem|)ered and same language. Imagine the pre- 
 sumption of the man using such language when there were enough loyal 
 British Irishmen in Ontario to send him and all his gang to sleep. O'Brien 
 came to Canada to misrepresent and villify; he came with hatred of England 
 and disloyalty in his heart, and revenge in his intention. He questioned the 
 wisdom of and the right to receive him. They were expected to tolerate and 
 protect a man who came to this city to stir up strife and insult the citizens by 
 insulting their guest, whouj L^nd Lansdowne, the Chief Officer of the Dominion, 
 was. and because some could not suppress their rising blood and indignation, 
 they were cj^lled intolemnt. It is a question whether tliey were. Would a man 
 
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 permit his guest to be insulted in his own housed Just as strongly is he hound 
 to see that the rights of hospitality are not violated when the visitor is the 
 guest of the city. Had O'Brien come to speak of the alleged wrongs of 
 Ireland, he w^ould have received a patient hearing; but v.-hen he declared 
 he came to Canada to attack our Chief Officer, to hound him and to hoot him 
 from one end of the D<miinion to the other, we had a right to object, and 
 object strongly. One way to receive him, O'Brien, was that suggested by 
 him (Dr. Wild) at the first intimation of his coming, which was to treat him 
 with silent contempt both in the j)ress and as citizens. The otlier way was 
 to have met him on his arrival at the railway station by a deputation, and 
 then after refusing to allow him to go up to the city, put him on the tirst train 
 going East; thus we in Toronto would have got rid of him. 
 
 " Had O'Brien given any proof of the truth of his allegations, he might have 
 had some claim to our forbearance. But instead, two-third j)arts of his speeches 
 were given up to the vituperation of his audiences, except when addressing 
 his friends exclusively. He was simply abusive, using the vilest kind of 
 expletives, calling his audiences jack asses and such like terms. If any one 
 would father any argument or assertion made by O'Brien, he. Dr. VV^ild, 
 would undertake to meet him btfore any audience, and refute the idea or 
 acknowledge himself beaten. Toleration was greatly strained when such a 
 man must be received in .some of our ScIuxjIs, and an address gut up in the 
 name of the children in which words were put into the mouths of those 
 children laudator^' of his noble misnidu. We, as citizens, must bear a part of 
 the expense of these Schools; and yet the scholars must be taught to hold 
 their rulers in disrespect. Was it fair that these people should ». ive such 
 enlarged charity at tiur hands, that they should dare to train children to laud 
 and magnify such a disloyal and peace-disturbing mission as that of this man 
 O'Brien. VVhat would thtae children be as men and women if faithful to 
 their teachers — Ood only knows— the children are to be ])itied. It must not 
 be forgotten that what O'Brien complained of and denounced as infamous in 
 Ireland, is counted mere justice and a business necessity in this free Ontario. 
 In the statutes of Ontario of 1886, chapter 29, there is a clause providing 
 that unless otherwise agreed upon, there shall be tsiken to be included in 
 leases the right for the landlord to evict a tenant if the rent or a part of the 
 rent be unpaid, for tifteen days after the time such becomes due. Yet the 
 men who passed that statute had the stultifying folly and presumption to 
 vote for resolutions sympathising with the Irish in their pretended hardships 
 — which resolutions were sent to England. The Rev'd Doctt>r concluded his 
 Address by a reference to the significant utteninces of the Irish College on 
 Paniellism and the Land League, remarking that if the Pope n(»w saw that 
 if the Irish agitsitors got their way there would be an end in Ireland not only 
 to Imperial connection but also to the Romish Church. " 
 
 So nmch fnnn the Rev. Dr. Wild, Pastor of Bond street, Toronto, C«»ngre- 
 gational Church, and who is undoubtedly one of the closest reasonersand best 
 read theologians on this continent. If the * )rangemen in ( )ntario are the 
 kind of savages O'Brien has represented them, how is it that he or one of his 
 party is alive to-day ? — The simple tossing of a two-year-old paver is but boy's 
 play. It has been suggested that from the deceitful character of the man, 
 O'Brien, in the City of Hamilton, pretended to be badly hurt, playing possom, 
 as they say in the South, to gain the sympathy of Americans. Oh, Mr. 
 O'Brien, the descemlani of Irish KiiKj.s, and all such big greatness, you cannot 
 blind the 
 
 Kino of Birdh 
 
 by throwing dust in his eyes. Oh, what claws he has ! Has he not, Mr. O'Brien ? 
 It must be a hard struggle to keep your loyal blood down to the level of the 
 "common herd of humanity," and for you to submit to the dictation of the 
 
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 Imted Saxon in a penitentiary- or outside its walls. How hard it must have 
 been for your royal uncle, the "great Smith O'Brien," to be compelled to 
 hide his royal head from a sargeant's guard of police in a cabbage garden. 
 Then again, your cousin, "the brave, the doughty General O'Brien," the 
 commander of two thousand invincible fenians — near Montreal, in Canada, 
 you know — to be compelled to turn his war horse's tail to less than one 
 hundred red-coated Canadian Volunteers and gallop for his life listening to 
 British bullets hissing after him. It was inhnmati of the Britiiih, Mr. O'Brien, 
 was it not? Oh yes, the fortune «)f war,' you know, these red coats are so 
 "hard to whip.'" 
 
 A word in conclusion upon our sad subject, Romish aggression in Canada. 
 It will not be difficult to check it if we go about it in the proper way. Then 
 let us be up and doing as recommended above. The formation of the new 
 j)arty is the tii-st matter to be accomplished; then federate the Empire; and 
 lastly, abolish the local Legislatures, and the use of any language but our own 
 in public institutions ; then we will cease to be the laughing stock of our 
 neighbors to the South of us, because we seem to be asleep while the Roman- 
 ists are up and doing. The "ugly wrinkled front of Romanism" is indeed 
 staring us in the face ; with sinister leer her bigoted adherants, when we meet 
 them on the Queen's highway, seem to hold forth and hurl at us insolent 
 defiance, seeming to gloat over the conceit that soon they will have the upper 
 hand, and all Protestants be at their mercy. 
 
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