^: .o.,\t IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /. S, t,^^. W$^ / / ie^ #5 "%• /M :/. i/.x & 1.0 I.I 1.25 M~ 112 u Hi 1^ u& IIIIIM 1.8 U 11.6 V signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbole y siynifie "FIN". IV4rieur gauche, de gauche d droite. et de hajt en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 / i To the Electors of the Co. ofJVorfolk. Gentlemen— I would Jearnestly draw your attention to a few facts con- nected with the present Parliamentary Election. It is undoubtedly the most important contest in which you have been called to exercise your rights as electors. The candidates before you are both home men, brpd and raised in the County, and as to private standing equal in all respects. But at the present moment they occupy a public position, and must be dealt with ac- cordingly. Mr. Po-'ell is among you asking re-election after /our years service as your representative. Mr. Walsh is ambitious to occupy the posi- tion filled by Mr. Powell. Mr. Powell is in opposition to the present Ministry, who have perpetrated such gross acts of injustice towards Upp^ar Canada. Mr. Walsh is in favour of continuing the present state of things for four or ten years longer. Under these circumstances the election is a most important one for the whole Province, and Upper Canada more es- pecially. In 1857, Mr. Powell was returned under well defined principles and pledges, all of which he has faithfully carried out according to your freely expressed wishes. He now comes before you to render an account of hia stewardship; and I defy the man to point, truthfullv', to a single instance in which Mr. Powel! has not discharged his trust according to the pledges given before his election. Now, Gentlemen, if you elected Mr. Powell to carry out certain mea- sures which you deemed necessary for the good of the country, and during the four years iie has been your representative, you have ever found him doing battle in behalf of those measuies, faithfully discharging the duties you imposed upon him. — Then, if this is the case, and I say it is, and a large majority of the electors will carry me out in saying so, by their votes at the polls. — Then, gentlemen, is it wise? is it fair? to condemn Mr. Powell for not doing, what it is clear to us all, it was impossible to accomplish. The fact is plain, you either voted wrong in 1857, and did not know how to exercise the rights of freemen, or you must sustain Mr. Powell and place him at the head of the poll on the 8th and 9th insts. What, Gentlemen, is the prospect "^^ould Mr. Walsh possibly gain the election ? In the first place he is not< ously a novice in Parliamentary business ; he may be an efficient Registrary clerk, but outside that ofllce he is completely afloat. lie is evidently a bad subject for Parliamentary honors; his father is an office holder; his brother is an office holder; and he is an offi<^e SEEKER. Is it natural, 1 ask you, gentlemen, for Mr. Walsh, who expects an office from the present Ministry, to say — "' Gentlemen, you have expects an office from the present Ministry, to say — '•' (Jentlcmen, you have ftioctioir? in tlie first })lace he is notoriously a novice in Parfianientary business; he may be an efficient Hegistrary clerk, but outside that office he ]s completely afloat. He ia evidently a bad subject for Parliamentary honors; his father is an office holder; his brother is an otHce holder; and he is an office SEEKER. Is it natural, 1 ask you, gentlemen, for Mr. Walsh, who expects an office from the present Ministry, to say — '•' Gentlemen, you have not my confidence, you have sunk the co'untry 'into bankruptcy by your ruinous ..nd dislion^st course, you are sacrilicing Upper Canada at the shrine of office, aided by French domination; you nmst give way for men who will respect the rie^hts of the true and loyal people whom 1 have the honor to represent." No, gentlemen, it would bo madness to suppose it. and you will not be alive to your true interests if you allow Mr, Walsh the opportunity of duping you. ^ On the other hand, Mr. Powll has fulfilled the pledges made previous to his eIection,has refused a luc.ativc office at the hands of the present cor- rupt administration, and is now before you with a renewal of those pledf^es, to carry out to the utmost of his ability, those measures which the counm-,' and you too, gentlemen, so loudly calUd for. Under these circumstance how is possible for you, consistently, to change your vote from 1857. If you do, electors, you will regret it \vhen too late, and lay yourselves open to the charge of assisting to subvert the constitution, by keeping in power men who do not hesitate to set aside all constitutional considerations in order to obtain their object. In my own sense of the fair play loving electors of this County, I have confidence in the result being a glorious triumph of principle over cupidity, and that Mr. Powell will be returned by a handsome majority, notwith- standing the efforts of those engaged, in the most despicable manner, making all sorts of false assertions prejudicial to Mr. Powell. If Mr. Walsh does not approve of this he should come foi ward manfully and put a stop to such base slanders made use of in his name, and by his supporters. The efforts on the part of Mr. Walsh and his friends to secure the show of hands at the nomination, were superhuman, in the face of which he failed to get more than the mere decision of the returning officer; had the large crowd of school boys, ])urposely mustered to swell the crowd, been withdrawn, Mr. Powell would beyond a doubt, have had the majority as he assuredly Jiad the largest number of bona Jide voters present. This little trick, and bringing up the ex-Hev. Bombastus Turncoat, from Brant, to tell hundreds of the most loyal subjects under the sway of our beloved Queen, what loyalty is; the inconsistency of whc^e position was such as to cause disgust and pity for the poor old man, tottering on the brink of the grave, prating of loyalty to an earthly king, five days after he had proved a traitor to the King of' kings, had its momentary effect. Well the School boys and the ex-Revernd's sensation speech, gave Mr. Walsh the show of hands;— the result at the polls will be as much in- fluenced by the boys as by the speech. With a liearty desire to see " Glorious Old Norfolk" true to herself, and the glorious cause she has ever sustained, afW a full conviction tliat if every lovor of right and justice, will do his duty, Mr. Powell will be trium- phnnlly returned, i I am, Gentlemen, '% Y