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 THE LETTERS OF '^ A CONSTITUTIONALIST." 
 
 ., , No. 1. 
 
 TO THE PEOPLE OF NOVA-SCOTIA. 
 
 . . , " For, 'tws.s your lealoiis iranl of sense, 
 
 And sanctiHed impertinence, 
 Yuiir carryin; biiaincss In a huddle. 
 That fiirced our Uulen to remodel ; 
 , ^ Olili^ed the Stale to tack about, 
 
 And turn you, root and branch, all out." 
 
 Hi'DIBRAS. 
 
 " For, ai infection apreadeth upon that which ii sound, and taintetli it, so, 
 Xrhen •nry has gotten once into a State, it traducoth even the be>t actions, and 
 turoath Iham Into ill udour."— Uacon. 
 
 GlNTLEJtlN, 
 
 T<he institutions of our Country, under the improved pracf.ioe 
 which hM resulted from your combined and persevering exertions, 
 guided by men of public spirit «nd intelligence, render the eonfi. 
 tknee of the people, the only secure foundation upon which any 
 govern nent, or uny party aspiring to influence the local adminis- 
 tration can safely take its stand. With that confidence, it has 
 been shown, an opposition can overwhelm an unpopular Govern- 
 ment; with that confidence, a Government, actinf^un sound prin- 
 fnples, and doing its duty to the Country, may defy and put to 
 shame thd most virulent and fiictidus opposition. To win and to 
 preserve your confidence, then, would seem an object of laudable 
 ambition to those who aim at the direction, or take an interest in 
 the progress, of public affairs. During a quarter of the year, the 
 constitutional mode of communication with you, is through the 
 Debates, addressed to your representatives, in the two Houses of 
 Legislation — during the other nine months, The Press offers a 
 ready mean of operating upon your feelings and appealing to your 
 judgment, 'i'hose who fail to satisfy I'arliament are already 
 defeated, those who fitl to satisfy the People themselves, may be 
 ultimately, Itecause the Parliament is made by the people ; hence 
 the necessity that exists for keeping the Country accurately inform- 
 ed, upon all those points, the decision of which may influence the 
 Representation, and mould and ountroul the policy of the Govern- 
 meat. For nearly eighteen months' the leading minds of the Con- 
 stitutional party have made but few appeals to the people through 
 the Press — they have contented themselves with aiding the new 
 Government in the passage of good measures, and in making such 
 explanations in the Legislative Branches as were necessary to guide 
 their deliberations, and preserve their confidence. In these res- 
 pects they have been singularly fortunate — having met every clinr;;e 
 — -carrieo almost every measure, and disarmed, by tlie frank 
 avowal of sound principles, and the manifestation of an anxious 
 desire to do justice, even the few who, in the Legislature, for vari- 
 ous reasons, gave them opposition. They have triumphed in tlie 
 open arenas, where public men meet ea'.h other without fear, and 
 without shelter. They have concealed nothing, shrunk from no- 
 thing, and carried with tliem Parliamentary support to an extent 
 rarely exceeded in any country. It is not to be wondered at, then, 
 that they should, while engage') with inure iniportdiit objects, have 
 scorned to notice a thousand dastardly attacks, which concealed 
 parties, too feeble, and too cowardly, to take the open Held against 
 them, have ma<le from behind sueii shelter as is supplied by the 
 use of the anonymous in the pages of an unscrupulous and profli- 
 gate Pres*. By the coolness and steadiness they have displayed. 
 in this respect, they have shown their strength, their moral cou- 
 rage, and their wisdom. But the time has now arrived when even 
 these bushfir^ters should be dislodged, — when their own weapons 
 should be tuiiied agaiust them — when the jungle should lie cleared 
 of the handitli that infect it, and a few salutary examples made by 
 the Provost Martial, in order that the onward march of ihe Con- 
 stitutional forces may no longer be impeded by this nuisance. 
 This task I assume as a volunteer. Others have more grave and 
 raspon hie duties to discharge, in setting the heavy squadrons in 
 the 6«ld, and conducting the main body — this light infantry ser- 
 t'ice is quite to my taste. I enter upon it con amurc — and if I do 
 not bring the scalps of some of the more notorious of these lurking 
 savages into the Constitutional camp, h,inging to my girdle, then 
 
 has my eye grown dim, and my hand forgot its ciinning. I invite 
 you, my fellow rountrynlen, to witness this "wild hunt," pertly 
 because you have un interest in the result, and partly because you 
 will find in it instruction as well as elciteihent. 
 
 To drop tho figurative, however, and speak in ptatn English^ 
 my intention is to show up the characters of the worthies, who. 
 through the Times, the Pictou Observer, in the City Counetl, 
 the P' )lic Offices, and Charitable Societies of Halifax, as well u 
 in some of the Country Villages of Nova-Scotia, haVe eatned for 
 themselves the title of OusTHuoTrvES. That these people deserr* 
 merciless castigation, and full exposure, no mfln can deny— 
 they have sowed the wind, and must expect to reap the whirlwind. 
 They have spared neither sex nor age — from the Governor and hiA 
 amiable Lady, and the members of their household, down to the 
 humblest individual in the Constitutional ranks, none have es- 
 caped. For the last eighteen months a system of organized and 
 unprincipled defamation, aimed at the destruction of the public 
 and private characters of every man that the people of Nova Scotik 
 esteem, has been carried on. In the prosecution of this object, every 
 wretched scribbler has been pressed into their service — and the looks 
 and gesttiies — the public acts and private sentiments — the most 
 hallowed relations of social life, have been paraded in the two vile 
 prints they patronise, with every abuse of the malignant art of 
 scnrrillous distortion. All this while I have had my eye upoa 
 them, and hundreds ut times I have asked myself the question— la 
 it possible that these men know how vulnerable they are ? — how 
 perfectly naked and defenceless ? — how completely at the mercy 
 of the feeblest pen in the opposite ranks ? And the only answer £ 
 have been able to furnish, has been the old adage — " that those 
 whom Heaven intends to destroy, it first makes mad." 
 
 The reasons for my interference are soon explained. Thotigh a 
 humble member of it, I have been one of those who, for many 
 years, have acted and sympathised with the great party in this 
 Country by whose exertions nearly all the important improvement* 
 in its condition have been wrought. I am personally acquainted 
 with the leading men of that party — 1 have mixed with them ia 
 their public and in their private relations — I knov their worth-u 
 their talents — their integrity ; I have been a witness to the steadi- 
 ness, the good humour, and the delicacy of feeling, they have dis-^ 
 played on the most trying occasions, and I will no longer submit 
 to see such beauties as the Cogswells and Belchers criticising 
 their person.tl appearaance, and the irregularity of their features— 
 William Lawson, Stephen Deblois, and Martin Wilkins, lectur- 
 ing them on their want of regard for moraltiy and decorum — Billy 
 G jsiip on their want of courage ; nor such worthies as Bob Clarke* 
 Jim Crosskill, and Jim Scott, finding fault with them for not pay- 
 ing their debts. In the course of these letters I will neither spare 
 the miserable tools who have been thrust into the front rank oC 
 this black brigade, nor those who guide its movements, influence 
 its detiheratiuns, countenance its worst acts, and infuse, through 
 their children, connexions and dependents, much of the venom 
 and bitterness which defile its published effusions. Some of tha 
 latter imagine that their doings have been shrouded in darkness— 
 that, while they have supplied the hint, or proffered the tempta- 
 tion, to the literary and social assassins who have done the dirty 
 wor!: of their party, they have managed so adroitly as to be able 
 to say to their opponents " whicii of you can accuse us of Ihe sin ?" 
 Their copvealment might have been complete had their minda 
 been cast in the same mould, but some of them nre as remarkable 
 for their want of caution and prudence, as others are for having it 
 ill excess, 'i'he cackling of some has betrayed the hiding placesof 
 all. They have been hidden as the bird is hidden, whose head is 
 thrust into n crevice, but whose posterior and most ignoble parts 
 are exposed to the eye, and lie at the mercy of the hand. Whe- 
 ther the vigor of my wrist be equal to the extent of ray informa- 
 tion, will be shown in the sequel. I think there will be feathers 
 for sale before I have done, and that some foul birds, who are se- 
 cretly hatching mischief, and others who are crowing lustily on the 
 Pictou and Halifax dunghills, will be screeching for shelter, and 
 flupping their shattered wings, before they are many weeks older. 
 
/ will not do thit work by haluti. I'he names of tho Governor 
 4nd his Lady— his Secretary, and his Aid— of Mr. Hobie, Mr. 
 .fohnston, Mr. Stewart, Mr. McNab, Mr. Unlucke, Mr. Oodd, 
 Mr. Dewoir, Mr. lloim, Mr. Youn);, Mr. Ucll, Mr. Stairs, Mr. 
 Annand, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Henry, Messrs. Chipman, Mr. Wliid- 
 den, Mr. Wightmin, nay, of every man at all conspicuous, either 
 as a member of (he present Government, or as a steady and con- 
 sistent supporter of it* measures, and of the new Colonial Syetem, 
 has been paraded, week after week, in the newspapers, coupled 
 with every vile charge and foul insinuation, which could undermine 
 their public characters, or wound the feelings of th«ir political and 
 personal friends. These men I hold to be second tu none in this 
 country, for weight of public reputation and high attainments. It 
 is my intention to contrast some of tbem with those by whom they 
 havtfbeen reviled, and I want you, my countrymen, to weigh the 
 amount 0/ the provocation, whenever you fancy that my strii^tuies 
 are too severe. 
 
 If, in showing up a certain bloated buffoon at Pictou, who, 
 pipe in mouth, has for months defamed these men, I lay bare the 
 motives of his family, but mercifully spare the vices of his private 
 character ; if, in rummaging roughly through tho purlieus of the 
 Customs aud the Treasury, I make their occupants wish they had 
 not turned their offices into centres for petty intrigue against the 
 Representative of the Sovereign, and of heartless defamation of 
 men who have tpartd them a thouiand times, let no man say that 
 they have not bad more warnings, and more forbearance, than 
 ever "vere given to Sodom and (jomorrah. Neither will I spare 
 the mischief manufactories on Collins's wharf, nor fail to toss, like 
 frostflsh, every now and then, a string of the small fry of Hares 
 and Marshaws, in the political frying-pan. All these worthies 
 have desurved well at the hands of the present Government and its 
 supporters, and verily they shall have their reward. 
 
 Before commencing this good work, let me ask you, my Coun- 
 trymen, to turn over the pages of the Liberal Press fur the last 
 four years, and, after noticing the immense amount of original 
 writing which has been addressed to the public during that period, 
 remark how little of personality and invective are n.'.xed up with the 
 whole. Having satisfied yourselvs* of the moderation and good 
 taste displayed by the men whose pens might, every weeh, have 
 wounded the feelings of their opponents, but who preferred calm 
 reasoning, and gentlemanly satire, to coarse epithets and slander- 
 ous insinuktion, then open the volumes of the Times and Obser- 
 ver, and wade through the scurrillous slanders which disfigure 
 every page. I have taken the trouble to measure the extent of 
 this nuisance, for thi last five months, and find that the party who 
 lay claim to all the patriotism, refinement and gentlemanly feeling 
 in the Country, have vomited forth, through the Times and Obser- 
 ver, alMut one hundred cnlutnnt of misrepresentation and abuse, in 
 that comparatively short space of time, to say nothing of the effusions 
 of some half bred legal limftirs, occasionally oozing througha portion 
 of the Penny Press. With thix filth, almost every man of influ. 
 ence in the Constitutional parly has been bespattered — their fami- 
 lies have been assailed — and evidence given of an (>rganized lyitem 
 iif defamation. When you have reflected on all this, you will, I 
 think, come to the conclusion, that merciless retaliation is the best 
 and only mode of abating this nuisance. When w^ntries are shot, 
 women and children murdered, and the usages of honorable war- 
 fare are disregarded, the only way to put down such practicea is to 
 gibbet those who are notorious offenders. T intend to give the 
 Obstructives the benefit of Martial Law, I will give them, as 
 long as they like to continue the system, shot for shot — blow for 
 blow. If the ladies are to come in for their share of the pleasures 
 of polities, the petticoats on their side shall be rumpled a little. 
 We shall then ie« what the country think of the relative claims of 
 the supporters of the present Government, and of their opponents, 
 to respectability, virtue, and refinement — for never will I hold 
 my hand, until I have not only scattered their arguments to the 
 winds, but driven every arrow they have fntcnea, through their 
 folds of triple brass. 
 
 To one other class of facts, I wish to direct youir attention, my 
 fellow countrymen — because I am most anxious that, at the outset, 
 you should feel that the Obstructives have deserved all they are 
 likely to get. You are aware that there are in I (alifax three ot 
 four National Benevolent Institutions, some of which have existed 
 for half a century. These Societies have done a great deal of 
 good, formed delightful itiunians for all ranks aind classes, and 
 have never, within the memory of man, until very lately, l>cen de- 
 filed by politics. The first attempt to turn them into pol'tical 
 
 clubs, was during the latter part of the adreinistratioa of Sir Colin 
 Campbell. When \,\\a Legislature of the whole /Vovtnce declared 
 asainst him, then his friends curomeuced stirring up th« Charita- 
 ble Societies of the Capital to negative the voice of the Country, 
 Now that the Legitlature has declared in favour of Lord Falkland, 
 the same attempt* are making to get those Institution* to declare 
 against him. The result in both case* will b« the same. But 
 what shall be laid of thostt who liava dared to violat* these oanclu- 
 arifs of the best feeling* of the community 7 To drag these Socl- 
 ties, which each man should endeavour to guard from pollution as he 
 would his Church, fur weeks at the heel* uf the ex- Mayor, and who 
 have recently made ono of them resound with insult* to the high- 
 est personagvs in the land, and with ribald exhibitions of political 
 buffoonery of the most unseemly description ? Who ever heard 
 of any liberal, at one of these boards, refusing to hear a member of 
 Sir Colia's (iovernment return thanks for his health f — or when did 
 members of the Constitutional party refuse the honors to Miss 
 Campbell, even in the most stormy pel iods of political excitement ? 
 Never ;— hut yet these things have been done of late by tboM who 
 boast of aN the refinement and good breeding of the Town, and it 
 is but right that the -rorthies who do them should beheld up to 
 the wiorn and contempt of Me Country. 
 
 Another point, to which I wiih to liirect your attention, is tba 
 couduct ol' the Obstructive* in the working of the new Corpora* 
 tion. You are aware that these people for year* opposed th« paa> 
 sage of the Act. When it was carried, however, by the combined 
 action of the new Government, the liberal* were dispMcd to for- 
 (tet the past, and were anxious that a system, whieh was intended 
 fur the benefit of all, *hauld be worked out by the united exertion* 
 uf the best men in the different w.-irds, without reference to party 
 politics. Some attempts uf u few of their number were made, but 
 were discountenanced, the liberals acting upon no organised plan, 
 and voting, generally, with reference to no other coiuideration than 
 the persuiial qualifications of the different candidate*. Not 10 
 their old opponent*. Hating and contemning, (torn it* fir*l incep- 
 tion, the uhoie measure, because it broke up the monopoly of mu- 
 nicipal puwer and influence which they had long enjoyed, the** 
 people availed themselves of the good natured supinenets of the libe- 
 rals, to secure a majority in the City Couneil. That majority se- 
 cured, Me Cotporction was at once turned into a political maehina to 
 annoy the generol Government ; and, of late, it has been used for tha 
 purpose of breaking through the Act itself, disfranchising one of 
 the Wards of the City, and bringing the institution into eokitvmpC 
 In fact, it has now become quite evident, that the Obstruelivea 
 deliberately coutemplate verifying their own predictions, — that tho 
 Curpuratiun would be a failure ; and that they care not one far- 
 thing about it, further than .is a meant of personal and political 
 annoyance. Tut Ki.ectohs ok the Citv will phohablv aenacs* 
 THIS ORiEVAJitE before long, but, in the meantime, I wish the 
 people of Nova Scotia to thoroughly understand tho real cha- 
 racter and manccuvres of the faction who are disturbing the City 
 of Halifax, because I am quite assured, that when unce they 
 fathom the designs of these men, they will heartily enjoy the 
 merciless castigation which they have so well deserved. 
 
 For three all sufficient reasons, then, my Countrymen, I intend 
 to give these worthies a dressing : 
 
 1st. Because they have, fur months, overloaded two profligate 
 Presses with abuse of my principles and my friends. 
 
 2d. Because they have attempted to turn the Charitable Socie- 
 ties of the Town into hot-beds of political discord ; and 
 
 3d. Because they arc trying to destroy the Corporation, and 
 make it a curse instead of a blessing to the community in which 1 
 live. 
 
 These are my motives. Of tha manner in which I shall per- 
 fc-m my task, you are excellent judges, and I canuot doubt but 
 that you will take a lively interest in this discussion. The m.!n I 
 intend to expose are your old enemies — tho«e who, in variou* 
 modes, and under different disguises, have inught for yean to 
 mislead you, and to obstruct every change and every measure in- 
 tended for your benefit. To lay bare their character* and deaigne 
 would seem to be n duty which the friend* of the existing order of 
 things owe to you as well as to themselves. For years, by combi- 
 ned ctForts, and the advocacy of sound principles, we have defeat- 
 ed these men ; and now, having lef^ them no resource but apleno- 
 tic and intemperate opposition, I think I shall convince tbem that 
 one pen, among the host that the supporters of thu present Go- 
 vernment could wield in defence of their characters and principleii 
 is sufficient to make tbem ridiculous. 
 
r rh« writrr of " A Cunitttuttonaliit" prticnli lili complioirnti to Mr. Nu- 
 rent, and ngrtu ettreiiieljr that thp puliliLatluii uf hiH flrit li'H !ia> nuh- 
 jTClcd him to th* annoyance uf a pcnoiial auault, allhoiiL'li Ut it plpated 
 to baar (bat U>e gtnttemaH took nuthiug by hlii iniitlon, exiept—a HngglnK. 
 Ha alio underitandi tbal f indry other dlitlnfulslird uniaiiiPiilt uf tlir Ub- 
 itructlr* party hare been pii'|ulrini{ vrry poiiiiiniitly for hi* name. " A 
 CoDftltutioiialliit" begi tu enclinp it, and Mr. N. in quite al lihiTly tn rom- 
 munieate II to all rumeri, whenever tlie Kritem of the prerluiis productiona 
 in tha Times and Ubterver, tu nliicli he ha* referred, give tn the pulilic 
 (ha lama Information, and tu th<;ir upponentt Ihu inmeadvuntHge. While 
 thay prtacrve and cnuntenaiire the anoiiymoui, he will maintain it— when 
 thay throw olT Ibeir matlin, hia thall he thrown aside ; in the meanwhile 
 they may aa well iiepu tliptnaclrea cimiI, and iwallow their " hriniHlone and 
 molanet" ai the ladAiaad to do at " Uo tliu lloyt Hall," for fear of toma- 
 thinf wone.] 
 
 *■ •■ No. 2. 
 
 " Brave undertakers to restore. 
 That could not keep yoiirselves in power, 
 T' advance the Intereats of the Crown, 
 That wanted wit to keep your owr.." 
 
 IIliniBRAS. 
 
 " Surely every medicine Is an Innovation, and he that will mil apply new 
 remedies must expect new evils ; for time ia the greatest innovator ; and if 
 time of course alter things to the worse, and witdam and council shall not 
 altar (ham to tha better, what shall be the end V" — Bacon. 
 
 Having explained to you the reaaons whicli have led to the pre- 
 parktion of these papers, I will now, fur a few moments, turn 
 your attention to loine of the leading points of dilFurence between 
 tha Conttitutionalifta and the Obstructive faction. Lucking back 
 to tha hittorjr of these parties, we find — 
 
 lat. That the Constitutionalists advocated the retirement of the 
 Judges from the Legiilature, and their exclusion from the hcnts 
 and Mnimoaities of party politics. This improvement in our old 
 conititutiun is entirely BrilUh, and wai lanctivned by lltr Mtyen- 
 tif'i Government. 
 
 The Obstructives opposed the change, and have ever since howl- 
 ed over the injustice of it. The best proof that they were wrong, 
 and that we were right, is, that while Chief Justice Halliburton 
 haa led a life of more dignified independence of late years, than 
 ever he did formerly — the Chief Justice of New Brunswick, who 
 was not removed, is still trailing the ermine through the mire of po- 
 lities, and is at open war with the Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 2nd. The Cunstitut.onuliiits denounced the absurdity of the 
 Legislative Council silting continuatig uilh closed dimrs — they 
 declared that the Peers o( England dared nut to do this, and that 
 scarcely any Legislative Chamber, in any Country pretending to be 
 free, sras chargeable with such an absurdity. This change is en- 
 tirely Britis'h, and was sanctioned hy Her Mujeftg'i Government. 
 
 The Obstrtictivea opposed it as a dangerous and unheard of inno- 
 vation. They accused the leaders of the Parliamentary majority, 
 who moved resolutions, and wrote addresses about it, of wishing 
 to eicite tha populace to burst in tl'c Council duors with sledge 
 hammers ; and, in fact, held out the idea that the niomunt the 
 public were admitted to listen to the debates, there would lie on 
 end to British connexion. 
 
 3d. The Constitutionalists denounced the practice nf mnking 
 Iht entire Legislative Council, who held their seats fur life, the en- 
 tire Executive also, with a right to govern the country in defiance 
 of Oovwiiors and Parliaments — they contended that the memlMtrs 
 of the Executive Council, who were to be the Guvernor's advisers, 
 and to aid him in conducting the administration, should be distri- 
 hutsd through tlu two Legislative Brannhet, at in England, without 
 tha power to controul either, hut depenilent upon the co-operation 
 and coofidenee of both. Need I say to you, that this practice is 
 entirely British, and that it has been sanctioned hy lltr Majesty's 
 Goeemmsnt f 
 
 The OlMtructive* worshipped the old system as the perfection of 
 Colonial Govemtnent, and tliey denounced as disaiFectiun, radical. 
 ism, and rebellion, every attempt which we made to cast olT its 
 moostrous anomalies. It waa in vain that we pointed to the Ame- 
 rican Revolulioo — to the Canadian insurrections— to the constant- 
 ly recurring collisions between the people and the Executive in 
 New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island and Newfuundlund 
 Thajr oared for itone of these things, but clung to the belief that 
 twelve old gentlenien must stilt continue to govern the Country, 
 after their faculties were gone, and they had sciirci-ly strength 
 enough left to draw on their own breeches, leaving their seats to 
 their hairs with the rest of their personal property. This is the 
 beautifMl Constitution to which Me present opposition wish us to re- 
 turn. 
 
 4tb. The Constitutionalists contended, that, while iier Ma- 
 jestjr'i Representatives should, in every Colony, firmly exorcise 
 
 the prerogative, ai.d maintain a position of dignified independence, 
 his advisers ouffht to bring with them into hif> Council the same 
 pledges, as I'li England, of public confidence, from Urge bodies of 
 the people — that the»e pledges should be revoked, or retnwed, at 
 every general election, and that, when withdrawn, the parties could 
 no longer be useful eitl't-r tu the Governor or the Province, and 
 that if they clung to the former, the Governor must share their un- 
 popularity, and ultimately come into collision with the people. 
 These opinions are British — no ministers presume to surround the 
 Sovereign in England who cannot obtain seats in either House of 
 Parliament. The sanction of Jler Miyesty's Government, as well 
 as enlightened public opinion, have lieclared that henceforward the 
 practice of the Mother Country is to prevail both io Canada and 
 in Nova- Scotia. 
 
 The Ohstiuctives vowed that there was no necessity for this mark 
 of the people's confidence — that an old Revenue ofiicer with ona 
 idea — an old privateer's- man, who could not spell — or an old mi- 
 ser whose God was gold, not one of whoiTi could get a seat for a 
 Tuwn or a County of tha Province, or hold it if he had it, were 
 (he best possible advisers a Governor could get— nay, that they 
 were the only ones he could get, — that, once taken, the Queen, or 
 her Hepiesentative, could nut dismiss them, and that the whole 
 country would go to destruction if they were put aside. 
 
 5tli. The Constitutionalists contended, that, besides the check 
 of re-election, upon the Members of Council individually, thera 
 should be the further check of a general vote of condemnation, upon 
 the whole body, hy a majority of the Representatives of the Peo- 
 ple, whenever the conduct of the Administration was so slovenly 
 or unprincipled as showed that the Governor wis evidently ill-ad- 
 vised. In asking this right fur the Commons, we never droamed 
 uf divesting the Representative of Her Majesty of the means of 
 defending himself and the country from factious or unconstitutional 
 aggression — by changing or dissolving his Council without a vote, or 
 dissolving the House, and appealing to the country, should his advi- 
 sers be unfairly attached. This is tl e back bone, the leading prin- 
 ciple, the sum and substance, of what is called in the Colonies 
 " Responsible Government." Need I say that sill this is British, 
 anH that the interested knaves and fools who contend against it, arc 
 traitors to the Mother Country in the keenest sense, are disloy(d to 
 the whole genius and spirit and practice of hernoble constitution. In 
 Canada and in Nova Scotia this system has been introduced — its 
 value is fully comprehended by the people. I do not believe that 
 in any Cqunty in Nova Scotin, not even Pictou, a majority of the 
 Constituency would he got to yield this privilege, if the question 
 ' was fully understood. By whom has this great change been 
 wrought ? 13y the Constitutionalists. By whom has it been 
 opposed ? By the Jeflreys, and Cogswells, and Collins's, who in- 
 sisted upon their right to govern the Country, when the Country 
 had deliberately declared them incompetent — who refused to retire 
 from Her Majesty's Council, even when Ilei Majesty informed them 
 that she wanted no more of their advice. By these men has it been 
 stoutly opposed, and hy a motley and roiiirellaneous fragment of 
 the population, who, fur various reasons, disliked the change, or 
 were pressed into the ranks of the opposition. Into the composi- 
 tion, conduct and motives, of these people, I shall enter by and bye ; 
 at present it is only necessary to say, that it is not to he wondered 
 at that their leaders are very savage. The privile'je they have 
 lost — that of governing for life, whether the governor or the peo- 
 ple required their services, was a great one — if is one that has not 
 existed in England since 1688, — it is one which, thanks to the 
 Constitutionalists, and in spite of their oppjiicnts, no longer exists 
 in British America. 
 
 Gth, I'he Constitutionalists contended that the natural tenden- 
 cy of an immovable, irresponsible Executive Council, was the 
 hereditary transmission of oflice. and influence, and emoluments, 
 from father to son— <Aerel!iy creating a narrow, exclusive, social and 
 political clique, at war with the people, hampering and controlling 
 fuccessive Governors, and enjoying and bequeathing offices and 
 honots which they never earned. These cliques existed in all the 
 Colonies, and in some were familiarly known as the Family Com- 
 pacts. They have hfcn smashed in several of them, and will be in 
 all, for no Briliih people ought to tolerate such a nuisance. Un- 
 der what is called the " Responsible" system, none such can grow 
 up. I'he people having the right, every four years, to get rid of 
 bad Councillors by refusing to re-elect them — and the Represen- 
 tative Branch having the right to review and condemn the acts and 
 appointments of the Governor, and to compel him to change his 
 policy when these are not satisfactory, it is quite clear that no per- 
 
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 m 
 
 maMHt clu/ue or eompael can hold po$tettinn ofoffleeifor lij<; mucli 
 IcM trantmit th«in to lli«ir relative* anU descendanU. 'I'lio vibw* 
 of the ConttitutionalUi* on thew points, are Britiih, and hav« been 
 «uw(iofi«rf 6y Iltr Maje$ty'$ O'urtniment. 
 
 The Obstructives of course opposed bII tliis — it was contrary to 
 their system : under that, the Liind office icas continue! in tliu 
 aame family for Ihree Renerations— the Secretary's Office and Treu- 
 sury, for two — and, from the nature and spirit of a certain memo- 
 rial, of which more anon, it is quite clear, that if the same pruc 
 tiee has not been applied to the Eicise, it is only because the up 
 portunity, and not tlie will, was WHiiting. Hence the dislike of 
 the Wallaces, the Binneys. the Wilklnss, and some others, in 
 Town and Country, to Lord Falkland and hii Administration. 
 Not satisded with bein^ left m their places undisturbed, during 
 their natural lives, they are indignant that they cannot btqiieutti 
 them to their children ; and hence the intrigues, which they and 
 their family connexions have fostered, in concert with the connexi- 
 ons and dependents of Collins, Cogswell & Co. and these two 
 together, combined with a few peisons who call theniselves Con- 
 aervatives, merely because they are geese, una have not brnins 
 enough to comprehend a political principle, make u|i the nnighty 
 opposition, whose doings and sayings are bragged of in the Times 
 and the Observer, and whose powers have been so often tried by 
 the Constitutionalists, that really beating or laughing at them 
 has ceased to have any novelty in it. 
 
 7th. The Constitution8li*<ts contended, that to liiivc eleven out 
 nf twelve members of both Executive and JA•gi^lalive Councils 
 taken/rum the Town of Halifax, was wrong. They insisted that 
 the intelligence and wialth of the Country Towns and rural districtn 
 entitled them to a fair proportion. Instead of one member, which 
 ■wu all the Country had, to represent it in these bodies, when the 
 Constitutionalists began their lalmurs in IS'M, it has now thirteen. 
 Th^se improvements hrinrf ti« nearer to the Jiriliih modtl, and have 
 been tanctioned by Her Aliijeity'i Oovernmtnt. 
 
 The Halifax Obstructives opposed this change stoutly. A 
 merchant, who had grown rich by accident or parsimony, or a 
 
 saved the Town from ths tnis/;ry ond disgrace of Uvpublican etivn- 
 pie in lt):i7. 
 
 Collins, Cogswell & Co.« through their mouth-pieeet the Vice 
 President of the St. George's Society, used to declare, that no 
 Uanh could do liutlruu in Ihii Couidry, that paid its notes in spe- 
 cie, and that paper, redeemable in nothing, waa an excellent thing 
 for the Hlue Noses to conduct their transactions with. It is need' 
 le«s to add that our views of this question were Britiih —those of 
 the Obstructive.*, the same that have ruined the United Statea. 
 
 1 Ith. The ('onstitutionalists have ever beM iu favor of opininff 
 the Outporli to the binrjitn offoreiijn Trade, They have not feared 
 competition, and have felt, that while seeking their own righ(i, 
 they should respect the rights uf others, The Delegates settled 
 this question, with the entire eauction of Her Mnjuly'i Gootrn- 
 ment. 
 
 The Obstrui'tives, almost to a man, stoutly opposed the coneet- 
 sion, and Uiutvby prored their intinie affection for the people of the 
 acaport Townt, and of the Province at large, whom now, for their 
 own selKsh purposes, tliey are seeking to delude. Coneervatiim, 
 in Nova Scotia, means, conjining the Trade nf the Country to a 
 few ports — education to one denomination, and honors and uiiicCi to 
 a few families. 
 
 1:2th. The Constitutionalists carried the Quadrennial Bill, by 
 which the Constituency have an opportunity of approving or con> 
 demning the conduct of their llepresentatives once in yi^ur years, 
 instead of once in seven. This change brings us nearer tu the Bri- 
 tish practice, because, although not provided fur by Stntute, Parlia- 
 ments rarely live, on an average, over four years. Her Majesty* 
 assent has been given to this Bill, 
 
 The Obstructives opposed it from the beginning— delayed it for 
 a year or two, but at length were compelled to yield. 
 
 l.'Uh. The Constitutionalists carried the Bill by which it way 
 provided that any member of the House, accepting any of five cf 
 six of the most lucrative offices in the gift of the tiovernment, 
 should vacate his seat, and appeal to his constituents for their de- 
 cision upon his conduct. This practice you know is British, and 
 
 banker who had fattened upon nule shnviiig, or (jerungenients of i y„u are also aware that the Bill has been sanctioned by Her Majtt- 
 the Currency, thought ho was .-nlitled to a seat in the Council, j^', (jovernment. 
 uhelher he had any capacity for public business, or eiijoytd the confi- 
 dence of any portion of his fellow citizens, or not. Subserviency 
 to tlie clique, was the passport to the Council, not knowiedge of 
 the Country, or the confidence of Towns and Counties. Of the 
 twelve men who composed the Executive and Legislative Councils, 
 when the Constitutionalists began their attacks upon them in IH.'JU,^ 
 
 Tjot one was in the Hepreserdative branch, — hut thne had ever been 
 
 there, and of these three, at least one had been kicked out by the 
 
 people for tortuous and selfish legislation. The cry of the Ob- 
 
 atructives was — " there aie not fit men in the country." There 
 
 ■re now in the Executive Council si.e men representing large con- 
 
 i^tituencies in the most important sections of the J'rurimc, and, in 
 
 the Legislative Council, seven who have been repeatedly elected 
 
 to the popular branch. 
 
 jth. The Constitutionalists contended that to put hut one Dis- 
 inter, and eleven Churchmen into the Council, which embraced 
 
 Legislative and E:;t!cutivu functions, whenyi^ur-yi/ilAsof the whole 
 
 populatiuit were not of the favored vummuniun, was absurd, unjust 
 
 and impolitic. They asserted, and proved the fact, that the teii- 
 
 flency of such a system was, to give a bias to legislation, and the 
 
 distribution of patronage, which was altogether unfair tu the mass 
 
 of the people- 
 
 14th. The Constitutionalists have ever asserted a confident rili- 
 ance upon the loyalty and true British feeling of the Lower Provinces 
 — upon their intelligence and capacity fur self-guvernment, under 
 Representative Institutions, moulded to the same form, and ani- 
 mated by the same spirit, as thus>! uf the Mother Cuuntry, and 
 worked in suhoidinatiun to the pr imount contruul of i'arli4ment, 
 and the higher interests uf the euipire. 
 
 The Obstructives have been shrieking disafU'Ction and rebellion 
 at every corner, whenever any of ttie rights were demanded, or 
 grievances complained uf, which I have shown, in the above para- 
 graphs, have all been sanctioned or removed by Her Majtsty's 
 f.'oceriimcHt. They hate and distrust each other, and have no con- 
 fidence in the mass of the people. They have no comfort in the 
 pi>.,t — little reliance on the future — no system, and no principlei, 
 upon which public men can take their stand, or out of which a 
 popular Uovernment, or even a decent opposition, could be formed. 
 1 have numbered these fourteen paragraphs, my fellow country- 
 men, because they will thus be more easy of reference, and more 
 readily preserved in your memories. They contain the main 
 grounds upon which the two parties in this Country have differed, 
 and will serve to show you whether the men who wrought these 
 ..-■,, . 11.U..1 /.I . •• . II I .J 1 r changes, or a rumn of the party by whom they were opposed, are 
 
 It IS needless to add that the Obstructives talked a great deal of ^^ l^^■^^ ^ ,„ (j, c„„ndence. I do not speak now of the Go- 
 
 nonsense on this point, called their opponents iiilidels, and swore 
 they wanted to destroy the Church. It is apparent, from the fact, 
 that Dissenters have now no reason to complain, that Jler Majes- 
 ty's Government have approved our views — discountenanced theirs, 
 and removed the grievance. 
 
 9th. The Constitutionalists were in favor of conferring Corpo- 
 Xate privileges upon the people of Halifax, believing that the practice 
 of the Mother Cuuntry, and of must others where there was much 
 of liberty and civilization, sanctioned their views. 
 
 The Obstructives fought tooth and nail against the measure — 
 0wore that no decent man would accept office under it, and yet, have 
 been scrambling, ever since the Bill passed, fur every place uf ho- 
 nor or profit which it created. 
 
 loth. The Constitutionalists have contended for a sound paper 
 Currency, and have invariably denounced and opposed the practice 
 of Usuing Bank Noted not redeemable in specie. One of them 
 
 vernment, as such, or of its acts, but of the nature and composi- 
 tion of the party by whom it is assailed in the Press, the .Societies, 
 and the City Council, and of the party who constitute its real 
 strength, in the contest which it is carrying on for its own views.mca- 
 sures, and principles. Rly object now is, to show, that the people 
 who at this moment are opposing Lord Falkland's Government, in 
 the Times and Pictuu Observer, are precisely the same people who 
 have earned fur themselves the title of Obstructives, by opposing 
 every sound principle, and benefitial change, included iu my four- 
 teen paragraphs, sanctioned by the example of the Mother Country 
 and approved by Her Majesty's Government. Fix your attention 
 cm these paragraphs, my fellow-countrymen — recall the atrugglefl 
 of the past — the lies so often told, and so often refuted, and', when- 
 ever you hear Cogswell, Wilkins & Co. howling at you through 
 the Times and Observer, just wink to them, and ask—" Oh I itt 
 you, is it ? Do your followers know you are out f" 
 
 
 
lublicao etaw 
 
 \eet, the Vie* 
 iclnre, that tto 
 s iiolci ill spe- 
 ixoellent tbiiiK 
 It itneed- 
 ilith —those o( 
 itvd StatM. 
 ivor of optninff 
 luve not feared 
 ir own righ^i, 
 legiiie* settled 
 juiy'i Uovtrn- 
 
 led the conoff- 
 e people of the 
 iiuw, for their 
 Voneervatiim, 
 Country to a 
 « aud uiiice, to 
 
 innial Bill, by 
 iroving or con> 
 i mfour years, 
 ir«r to the Bri- 
 itHlutv, I'arlia- 
 Her Majetiy'i 
 
 -delayed it for 
 
 r which it wa« 
 any of five or 
 GoveVnment, 
 
 I for their de- 
 t'< Uritiih, and 
 by Iler Miyt*- 
 
 x conjidtnt rtli- 
 Mwer I'rovincei 
 rnmeiit, under 
 lurni, and aiii- 
 Country, and 
 of Parliament, 
 
 n and rebellion 
 demanded, or 
 he utiove para- 
 ller Mtifeity't 
 id have no con- 
 comfort ill tlie 
 no prineiples, 
 out of which a 
 luld be formed. 
 fvllow country* 
 nee, and more 
 tain the main 
 • have differed, 
 wrought these 
 re oppoiied, are 
 ow of the Go- 
 e and computi- 
 I, the Societies, 
 stitute its real 
 )wn Tiews,mca- 
 that the people 
 government, in 
 lime people who 
 en, by dppoiiny 
 '.d in my four- 
 Vuther Country 
 your attention 
 
 II the struggles 
 :ed, and', whcn- 
 it you through 
 nk— " Ob I its 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 fn ruin leilitlnua KriliPt wllh llbi-t drive 
 
 'I" Inflame llic crowd, while he, Willi wilclil'ul eye, 
 
 Ubwrvet, and tliuutt llivir trsasoiit ai thty fljr. 
 
 Urvulm. 
 
 '■ They uliall ho frnnrrt, for Ihrr* th» mm «hall %xtri them 
 
 And draw tlii^lr hunom reekinn ii|> l<> livuvvii. 
 
 SlIAKKHPIIARR. 
 
 In my first letter I dvitcrihed to you the nature of the provoca- 
 tion which indutu'd me to lake up my pen, — in my second I 
 brought under review the main grounds of dilU'ruiice l>vtwi>en the 
 Constitutional party, who sustain the presuiit guvurnnuMit, and the 
 Ubstructives, who oppose it. 
 
 From what hus lieen said you will have pcrcuivud that the 
 sources of the opposition iiru two-fold. 
 
 1st. It comes from Ji-li'rey, Collins & Co. who were dlnmimed 
 from the Council hij poailiie inniruvlionii from Home, who refuM'd to 
 retire when her i\laju!>ty informed them that she no lunger requir- 
 ed their services, and wlio insisted upon their ri;;lit to hold their 
 seats for life, until Lord Falkland was compelled to turn them out, 
 almost by main force. 
 
 3nd. From certain persons, who wish to trantr,\it their officer to 
 their children, whether the yuunij hupefuta have earned youi coiiji- 
 denee and retpeet or not, and tliuir friends. 
 
 Out of these materials has sprung; u party, very didi-rent from 
 the old one, which opposed many of the cliangi-s that have since 
 been sanctioned, and which supported the Uoverninent of .Sir Culin 
 ('ampbell. The old party was rospectable in point of nuinlivrs — 
 it had a representation of at least one third uf the As<>cinhly — it 
 was led by Uniucke, Stewart, Dodd, men uf talent, eloquenue and 
 experience — it had support from such men as F lirbanks, Dewulf, 
 and others, who gave it weiglit in the House and in the Country. 
 It had the Government in its hands and the Cuhmiai Ollice at 
 its hack — it had the monopoly of otiiuial inlluvtice and information 
 —it had the usages of half a century, and the syinpathius of all those 
 who dislike change of any sort, on its side — it had a common bond 
 of union, which was to defend thing', as th<'y were, and resist 
 every kind of innovation. It made a gallant and a good light, and 
 it maintained its ground hantlsomely, until marly till the old eaiises 
 nf quarrel had been swept awaij, and then the best materials of 
 the party shewed their sense, and their true [atriotisni, by combin- 
 ing with the leaders of the old majority, to work out a new sys- 
 tem, which required, on its lirst intruduclion, the united skill and 
 prudence of the most able men the Country cnuil furnish. Vou will 
 perceive, then, that there is a marked distinction between tlie old 
 yovernt'tent party, and lim beautiful assoeiation of yennine patriots, 
 formed by Jeffrey, Catlins if Co. out of its rump. Contrast the twu 
 for a moment. Let all Nova .Scotia look on and laugh >it the spec- 
 tacle which these people exhibit. I say noiliiii(; of tne old Reform- 
 ers now: whatever talent t. 17 have, whether direetly aiding Lord 
 Falkland or not, is ready at a moment's uantiny to lio battle ayninst 
 THE HU.Mr — I am merely showing up the materials of wliieli the 
 party that now troubles the 'I'uwn, and seeks to mislead the Coun- 
 try, is composed. 'i'lie old party was leil by Uobie, Jolinstnn, 
 Uniacke, Stewart, Dodd and Fairbanks, men confessedly at the 
 head of the liar, and the brigbest ornaments of the Senate, All 
 thtie now tupport Ijtrd Falkland, and by whom are they opposed ? 
 Just look at the ragged regiment : 
 
 Sandy I'rimrose, nieiuber for no-where, with a most extraordi- 
 nary looking pail of tartan truwscrs on, donned to make the mem- 
 bers of the Scotch Societies, and the Fietliolilers of Inverness, be- 
 lieve, that the Lowland son of a decent old .-Vntiburghur and Cler- 
 gyman, is a great Kirkmaii and Highlander.* 
 
 Andrew Uniackc, wliu has neither the gait, manners, features. 
 nor brains of the family. JMucIi more might be said, but I respect 
 the feelings of others, apd wrapping their mantles round him, pass 
 him off the stage. 
 
 Hilly Sutherland. This liright luminary began his career as a 
 flaming democrat — a scribbler in the I'icton Patriot, and a warm 
 supporter of Jotham Ulanchard. He is now a great Conservative, 
 and whenever there is any little odd jobs to be dune, for the benefit 
 iuf the party, Hilly Sutherland is alu;aya to the fore. 
 
 Henry Pryor. This is 11 sly fellow, with spectacles on, who is 
 Broker to Coyiwell't Insurance Office, and married to the daughter 
 of a Canada Judge, just laid on the shelf by Sir Charles liagot — 
 
 * This gentleman has gone to llritalnslnrp the above ,..'« writtpii I shoiiM 
 have struck it out, but happrnrd to rempinbor that tho Ohnnictives never 
 reased abusing Young and Howe, when thejr were in Canada «r in England. 
 
 so that ho has sundry motives fur his little dislike (.f tiic new syir> 
 tein. He may have had a cause or two, and •miy have made .1 
 speech, hut never having heard a rumour of sin-h improbable 
 events, 1 can give no information,— ('u^«ui«/< u'uuM insure him for 
 half a per cem. from ever sctliny the world nnfre. 
 
 Charles Hill Wallace. Another bright luminary, whose grand- 
 father having left him a Nova Scotia fortune, i. e. enough to live 
 on and keep a horse, spends his time in various genteel amuse- 
 ments, too tedious to mention, lie does a good deal of the his- 
 sing and hooting at public meetings, and is supposed to have been 
 exceedingly disappointed, in not receiving Ibe appointment of 
 Commissioner for Indian Affairs, from the intimate knowledge he 
 had aojuircil if the more attrit'.tii'e members of the tribe. 
 
 Nepean Clarke. Son of Davy Shaw, who, considei!')g that the 
 most unpopular acts whieh the mf.mlii.is if the present Government ecer 
 dill, were pensioning Ids father, and providing for his brother, 
 might have the decency to l>u grateful. 
 
 John C. Halliburton. Son to the Chief Justice and brother-in- 
 law to Collins, This young gentleman is too well known, for 
 variuus reasons, to require a siieclal notice. He holds the ofHce of 
 Clerk to the Legislative Council, by appointment from the (iover- 
 n'ir. 1 will say no more barm of him than this, that I am at a 
 loss to conceive how a man of proper spirit can keep a commiision 
 in his pocket, and yet oppose a Oovernment of which he it the servant. 
 
 Leonard S. Shannon — a sprig of the Law, conceited but harm- 
 less; son of one of the old !Ma<i;istrates, that Howe laughed at on 
 the trial for libel, and who has ever since disliked every thing that 
 Howe had a hand in, whether good or bad. 
 
 There are some other small fry of young lawyerlings, but thcfe 
 are the best of them, with one exception, of which I shall speak by 
 and bye. These are the choice troops of the new paity — the prime 
 men of Til K rump — the lusty leyal warriors, that "Collins, Coys- 
 well §• Co" have sent into the Jield to redress their wrongs, and to 
 battle against Lord Falkland for the lost seats. Don't you wish 
 they may get them? Now I ask you, my fellow Countrymen, to 
 look at these people, not through the trash they scribble in the 
 Times and Observer, but as they are, in their own proper persons, 
 tvith all the weiyht of their tilents and aeiptiremcnts upon them. Are 
 they not a beautiful cutlection ? Suppose such a tiling as John- 
 ston, Stewart, or James I'niaeke, let loose upon them — either nf 
 these would tr.imple down the whol>' batch like grass-hoppers. If 
 they were all rolled into one, would there be talent enough to make 
 a Crown Ollieer ? Snpposi; these bright youths, instead of wast- 
 ing their precious brains, scribbling letters for the Times and Ob- 
 server, were to spread themselves over the country, and meet the 
 members of the Gorernment, and their supporters, on the hustings, is 
 there a 'i'own or County in Nova Scotia that would turn out even 
 the least competent, or least popular, ineniber of the Executive 
 Council, to put in one of these great statesmen ? 
 
 Itut there is one other legal champion of the IluMi-, who re- 
 quires a more extended notice : it is Beamish Murdoch. Thi* 
 persun I wuuld gladly pass over, fur the blunders and failures of his 
 career have been a suflicient punishment for his sins, whatever they 
 are ; but it is now pretty well understood that "SI urdocb is a constant 
 contributor to the Halifax Times — that if he does nut write all tbu 
 scurrillous and defamatory articles, he writes some of them ; and 
 gives, by his contributions, and by his association with those who 
 write others, open and positive encouragement to the manufacture 
 of the worst libels upon the supporters of the present Government. 
 Over and over again has this person been spared, liecause he has 
 some good points about him which excite compassion. He is a 
 hard student — good heaited, and amiable in his manners, but fee- 
 ble in body and mind — his stomach don't appear to digest what be 
 has eaten, nor bis brain what hu bus read ; and be has lived so 
 much among old wom':n that he has become very like an old wo- 
 man himself. He is one of those persons of whom it is said 
 
 " Sonip, whom kiml ho,ivpn has blest with store of wit, 
 \Vaiil jual us mueh again lu iiianaKU it." 
 
 Murdoch's career has proved his lamentable want of judgment. 
 He once got in for Halifax, in opposition to an old man who could 
 not speak, and against whom the coarsest outpourings of the popu- 
 lace were excited — he now appears to have a great horror of mobs 
 and democratic license. At that time, there being no great union 
 or public spirit among the natives of the Province, he went to the 
 hustings with a huge shamrock in his bosom, boasted of the Irish 
 blood in his veins, and told the Irishmen of an altar-cloth which 
 one of his grandmothers had worked for a Catholic Chapel. Nov 
 
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It* !• ■ grrat Novascot'itn, i!»y< notliinjr atiout tlic nll.ir-cluth— 
 •lin«« villi St. Gvurge iiiiteaJ uf St. I'atrick, and iilliicU tu huts 
 • papUt M h« doei the dwil 
 
 Murdoch, tnkinfC part with tlie country in the Urandy qurstiun, 
 the Halifax compact, wlio were tli«n all powerful, ami wlio wieUI< 
 rd immenae influcnc* throiigli tliennly Dank tlii-ii oxittinK, cruth- 
 vd him. £ven liivowii relatives turned upon, arnote, and denoun. 
 ced him. Murdoch, Mime time h^Oi culled the preient n mongrel 
 Gov«rnment, liecaune the memiiers uf it had furnierly dill'ered, 
 ■nd acted at opposite sides. Hut who dne« he net with ? With 
 old Debloia, the Vice IVeaidcnt of St. Geor^'e'a Society, whose 
 anceilori he called the icum of the ciirth, and who opposed and 
 lieat hitn on the Halifax llustinx*; with JellVey, liinney & Co., 
 whose whole olliciul influence, and Collins, CuKswell & Co. whuae 
 paper money influence, were employed to prostrate him in IHJO. 
 He was then their victim — he is now their tool 'J'wice have they 
 thrust him forward, as a dernior resort.'when all other attempts to 
 divide the forces of the Constitutionalists had failed — and twice 
 have the people of Halifax oast him aside. This has been done 
 more in sorrow than in anger ; and now, nothlof; hut his partici- 
 pation in • system of organized defamation, would tempt me to 
 p.irade his follies before the puhlic. 
 
 The heartless and cruel conduct uf the Halifnx faction, towards 
 their dupe, is really enough to excite compasiiun. From 18.36 tu 
 1840, a period of four years, from the time when he was put fur- 
 ward, with Starr, to oppose Bell and Forrester, though that pnrty 
 were in possession of all the patronage and influence of the govern- 
 meot, and although they well knew that Elections had impaired 
 Ilia means, they never gave him a scut in Council, or an ofTiee 
 worth one farthing. This was bad enouKh — hut, at the last Elec- 
 tion, he was again brought forward to oppose Howe and Annand. 
 Keith was !ms partner in the war, liinney, Collins, Dehlois, &c. 
 his firm supporters. One would naturally suppose, that, bavin;; 
 twice induced him to make a fool of himself for their amusement, 
 they would have had some gratitude, and have seized the flr^t 
 opportunity of making him some amends. Hut, whoever will 
 trace the history of uur clique, will find that they never had much 
 gratitude. Mark their conduct to Murdoch. The Ilecordership 
 of Halifax was in the market — his dear friends had a miijority in 
 the City Council, and could have given it to him — hut no — a 
 number of tlie liburals, whom he helps to malign, voted for him : 
 but his dear friend? — Keith, ISiiiney iV Co. voted against him, 
 thereby thowing their love, hy heepiny £'100 a year oiil ofhn pocket. 
 In dismissing, then, this person from consideration, I mny frankly 
 nckno»led:;e, that he is the only Lawyer, of any talent or standing 
 in the Capital, who will stoop to defile his lingers with the rump ; 
 but ( t' ink you will agree with me that at least a dozon, of infi- 
 nitely more ability and discretion, may be found in the opposite 
 ranks, and that therefore it would be a pity to deprive the H>uia- 
 ble confraternity, of whom he is confessedly the best man, of the 
 only one they have. 'I'hey are welcome to him — he may continue 
 to rake their nuts nut of hot ashes, till he has not a claw left. 
 The Constitutionalists have dune their work without him — much 
 of it in spite of his puerile opposition, and are perfectly indiflferent 
 whether he spends his time weaving fabrics for the Times, or in 
 working altar-cloths, as some other old women of his family did 
 before him. 
 
 I have devoted this letter, my countrymen, to a review of the 
 composition of the legal material with which the new opposition 
 of Collins, Cogswell & Co., and Jeffrey, ninney, & Co. have 
 taken the field. I have paraded them before you that you may 
 weigh and estimate their combined talent. Judgment, and claims to 
 public favour. Look at them — did you ever see such a troop ? 
 Would you march through Coventry with them, even if Sandy 
 would consent to wear kilts, i.nd had a bag-pipe under his arm? 
 No, my fellow Countrymen, I know you too well, and you know 
 them too well — and the history, principles, and designs, of the 
 people by whom they are moved. Whenever, therefore, you take 
 up the Halifax Times, and read some monstrous falsehoods — some 
 gross mistatements of facts — sjtne horrible charge against the 
 Constitutional party, or the Government which they support, just 
 glanoe your eye along the picture gallery I have sketched for your 
 amusement, and you may almost detect the writer, by the' few 
 oharaeterestic touches with which I have endeavoured to confer 
 upoo these worthies a degree of immortality that each and all have 
 to well deserved. 
 
 My object, in this letter, has been, to shew that the old Gnvemmrnt 
 party, and Ihtprtttnt opposition in Halifax, are not the same ; to 
 
 show that the Lett malrrtittt at wli.it used to be called the Conser- 
 vative party are now with the CoHititvtionaliitB and with th* Go- 
 vernment i and to let the Country see that, shutting Howe, Young, 
 and all the old reformers, entirely off the stage, the eontraat which 
 must be drawn between such men as llobie, Johnston, Stewart. 
 Uniaeke, Uodd, and Falrbnnki, and the Shannons, Pryors, and 
 .Murdochs, the run p of their own old party, whom Collins, Cogs- 
 well ft Co are hallooing on their heels, is so absurd, that one can 
 scarcely allude to it without laughing. As respects law, some 
 members of the (Government could say, with truth, that they have 
 forgotten mure than live out of six of these lanies ever learnt i and 
 Hs rrtpeols politics, there is nut one of them that has the tact or 
 discretion to lead a pnrty in the Legislature for a single week. 
 The Times, a month ago, declared that the Conservative party 
 had rait off Johnston, Stewart and Unincke. If this be true, the 
 Country, with the information I have given them, can duly esti- 
 mate the idols which they have set up in their stead. The faet is. 
 that these gentlemen have cast of a wretched fragment of their old 
 party, who had not brains enough to understand the difficulties ol 
 their position ; and, while their talents are employed in the ser- 
 vice nfn Government conducted upon Constitutional principle*, 
 they will have the support of the great body of their Countrymen 
 l>y whom those principles are revered. 
 
 No. 4. 
 
 Had ihPT not lieinin the nar, 
 Tliry'd ne'er lieen sainicdas tliey are. 
 
 DVTLia. 
 
 There Is no mora faith in thee, thin in a stewed prune ; nor no mare truth 
 in Ihi'u lh.111 in a drawn fox 
 
 .SIrrali I thiTu'n no rcmni fur faith, truth nor honesty. In this breast of 
 thine, it i.i all llllpd up with guts and midrifl'. 
 
 KnAKUPaaai. 
 
 Having, in my first letter, explained the nature of the provoca- 
 tion which induced me tu write — in my second, given you the 
 greiit leading principles which formerly divided the two parties in 
 tliis Country — in my third, shown that Lord Falkland has got the 
 ./est materials of the old Government party to assist the Constitu- 
 ti.malists in working nut the new principles, and that the Hali- 
 fax opposition is composed of hut the rump of that party ; I will 
 now turn your attention to the precious auxilia, i which these 
 people have pressed into their service at I'ictou. 
 
 Let it not he supposed, that, in travelling east, I am loosing 
 sight of the drunken doctors, orange haberdashers, and slovenly, 
 or short inemoried knights of the hammer, who deserve to be im- 
 mortalized among the other worthies in the metropolis. Tlieir 
 time will come by and bye ; when I have to descrilic to you the 
 unique assemblage of gentlemen* who his.sed Mr. Uniaeke, and 
 refused to drink Lady Falkland's health, at the St. George's din- 
 ner, if I don't make these, tlie dirtiest, and least symmetrical links 
 of Cogswell and Company's tail, rattle, like the tail of a snake, 
 then say my pen is nought. Gentlemen, forsooth. 
 
 hy thn fame uf granny i'an, 
 We'll see whu'se liic gentleman. 
 
 Enough of these people fur the present, turn we now to Pietou. 
 
 You are aware, my Countrymen, that the County of Pietou 
 has, for many years, been the scene of most unseemly strife between 
 two bodies of Presbyterians. Fur a long time, the majority in 
 the County belonged to what is called the Presbyterian Church of 
 Nova Scotia, having a Provincial Church Government, in con- 
 nexion with, but independent of, the Secession Churches of Scot- 
 land. These people were supporters of the voluntary principle in 
 religion, and generally acted with the liberal party in politics. 
 The Pietou Academy sprung lip under their auspices, and was 
 supposed to be coloured by their opinions. That Institution, it 
 was apprehended, would grow into a dangerous rival to the one at 
 Wind.sor — and the politics of its founders were distasteful to the 
 officials in Halifax. Hence two parties became interested in stir- 
 ring up a division among the people of Pietou — those who wished 
 to destroy the Pietou Academy, and those who feared danger from 
 the professors of liberal political opinions. These narties united 
 against the Presbyterians of Nova Scotia, destroyed the Pietou 
 Academy, and have been rewarded by the growth of three other 
 Colleges in places they never dreamt of — they also succeeded in 
 securing a majority against the liberals in the County, but fuund, 
 — "^ — . I ■ I ■.i.i.fc.i III f 
 
 • Vide Obtervor. 
 
to thair attunlihmeni, llmt lib«rul polUioi liad become the urder of 
 iIm day throughout Nuvn Scotia. (Jircuitiitanoc* fuvorod tht-ir 
 vitwt in this County. Vnit immbfri of Ilighlaiiderii, many of 
 whom eould not apeak th« Kngliali language, hut who livlongad to 
 tiM Kirk, and not to Iho 8«o«Miun Church, went pouivd into I'ic- 
 tuu from Scotland. Sorat of thcw joinud tlia lattvr, but the ma- 
 jority, ai loan ai thry could gat praachcrt, paiticularly thou* who 
 ■poka Oalic, prcfvrrvd adharmg to their own Kirk. All this wat 
 c|uita natural, hut there was no more reaton why th« Prmbyieriam 
 of I'iatou thould Aghl like cats and dogt, merely liecause they 
 went to different churches, and paid diflitrent pnators, thin that 
 the Baptists ana Presbyterians in Cornwallis ihuuld, nor half so 
 luueh. Neither would they, had they heen let alone. Hut cer- 
 tain paople in Halifax wanted the aid of the 8aotvli Kirknien to 
 further their own viewK, and have never ceased to fan and keep 
 alive a bitter spirit of animosity, among the Presbyterians of that 
 Hna County, ami which, upon every occasion, whenever their own 
 schemes, ai>d their own interests, with whic'.i the Presbyterian*, 
 there, or elsewhere, have really no concern, renuire them to cull 
 in the aid of auiiliariea, is sought to be revived and directed for 
 the basest of party or personal objects. Let it nut be supposed, 
 that I wish to palliate or defend the conduct of the leaders of the 
 other Pictou party, at all times. They may not have exhibited 
 towards the Kirkmen, the charity, forbearance and brotherly love, 
 which would hava been commendable — they may not have received 
 Christian Ministers, who happened to differ from them, with the 
 respect to which they were entitled — or, they may, while they had 
 the political influence, have been ton exclusive in the distributicm 
 of patronage — but, whatever may have been the faults and the ful- 
 lies of either party, in Victim, I am content to pass them over 
 lightly, fur this reason, that, while in the strife hotli hiivu been 
 the greatest suiferers, both have, in reality, been the least to blutne ; 
 both are jjetting heartily ashamed of their divisions, and have met 
 over the ruins of an institution, which might have been u blessing 
 to the Cuuntry side, if not to mourn its fate, to discuss their in- 
 terests like gentlemen, and try to found anuther. So fur, so well 
 — but their old enemies like not these symptoms of reconcilement. 
 There are always • few worthies in Hulilax, and elsewhere, who 
 want the Kirkmen of Pictuu. Collins, Cogswell & Co. want 
 them now— hence the revival of the Pictou Observer — thi Hump 
 not only lend it patronage, some of thum subscribing fur several 
 copies, but they lend it an Editor too ; and this brings me to 
 
 ,/' THI WItKINS rAMlLY, 
 
 withoal a perfect knowledge of the merits, services and designs, 
 of which, it is quite impossible for a man to understand the Pictou 
 Observer. A good deal is said at times about the family influen- 
 ces which are brought to bear upon our public atfairs, but I am 
 not aware that the House of Wilkins has received the share of no- 
 toriety to which it would appear that it is so eminently entitled. 
 It has been for months pretty well understood, that one hopeful 
 scion of this illustrious bouse has been tlio real, if not the ostensi- 
 ble. Editor of the Pictou Observer throughout the winter ; and 
 as that paper has been pouring the most foul abuse upon every 
 man of intellect and influence in the Country, the Lieutenant Uo- 
 vernor and his Household not excepted, it is time to examine the 
 motives and designs of a person who has thus endeavored to per- 
 vert the press to serve his own ■eliish purposes. One would have 
 thought that the only member of a family yet unprovided for at the 
 public expense, might have the modesty to hold his tongue and 
 hide his time, and not publicly expose tho purity of his motives 
 for opposing the present Covernment, by bleating forth the wrongs 
 of ** my brother Ixtwis," who would no doubt have ordered *' bro- 
 ther Martin" to write editorials iu praise of the Administration, 
 if the Secretaryship of the Province had only been added to the 
 rest of the family inducements " to be good boys" and " take care 
 of tittmt^vu. " 
 
 The Wilkins family consists of four members ; it is very fortu- 
 nsta that it is not more numerous, for thrtt-fourtha of the whole 
 are provided for by the public, and the only one not paid by them 
 spends his time in abusing the Government, which maintains the 
 rest, for not doing any thing for him or giving them half enough. 
 You, my fellow Countrymen, already take care of 
 
 Judge Wilkins, — Judge of the Supreme Court. 
 
 Charles I. Wilkins,— Sheriff of Hant'K Tounty. 
 
 I.ewis M. Wilkins, — Judge and Registrar of Probate, Master 
 in Chancery, and member of tho Legislative Council. 
 
 'I'hosc are all pretty Well provided for, — they cost quite as much 
 as they are worth i but yet the House of Wilkins is not satisfled. 
 Their blood is up, and ilivir cry is that ot the horse leech, " giv« 
 — give." I have heard it said, during the winter, that brother 
 Lewis was doing his liest to embarrasa the Oovrrnment in the Le* 
 gislalive Council, and lending his aid to a certain personage theret 
 who likes the hereditary succession to office quite as well as even 
 the apostolic succession. I could scarcely believe this, but wae 
 told that one of the reasons was, liecause the new Probata Bill( 
 brouiiht in by the Government, snparated the offices of Judge and 
 Registrar ; and, as brother Lewis held both, this was ■ reason 
 good for his disinterested declumation in the Upper House. But 
 it appears that there was a stronger motive. brother Merlin has 
 let the cat out of the bag in the Pictou Observer ! 
 
 " When Sir Rupert Opnrfe wns alwut IcsvlnK the Province, he expreised • 
 wUh to appiilnl, u his ufflclal sulmtltute, s gentlemsn of Mhat Mr. Howe calls 
 the Conservslivu party. Now, no miiii will pretend to tsjr, Ihat Mr. Wllklos, 
 who, for 11 nuinlier of jrean, lepreaented a part of tlio puople In the Assem* 
 l>ly, and now oicuples « seat In one of Her Mujeitjr'i Counclla, and whose 
 rdurslion, abilities, and Inlegrltjr, In every respert qusllAcd him for th* situ- 
 Btioii, would not lisve Hllsd It without discredit or damage to the Province, 
 But no, lie did not hall under the llHg of Keiponnllile Gorernmtnt,— he did 
 not lielong lo the Governor's party, and therefore .Sir Rupert (irorfe's request, 
 rgaiunabttf lu tt certainty wat^ was dertied, and we presuini: he left the Pro* 
 V line with feelings of disappointment and annoyance, and, when he left II, 
 he did not leave a more gentlemaiily and boDourakIa man behind bim — uot 
 even with one exception." 
 
 This is very rich. Brother Lewis, who, in addition to other 
 pickings, hud just fobbed i:500 as a Delegate from tha 
 Council, wanted to fob jt'dOO more for playing Secretary for 
 twelve montlis — but Lord Falkland, having a pretty shrewd eon« 
 viction, that, to appoint to the most important office under hia 
 Government, a man who had contrived to render himself obnoxi- 
 ous by his outrageous ultraism and vapid deelamntioii, would not 
 he a very wise set, civilly declined. He probably thought that it 
 was not H very " reasonable request," for an officer who had just 
 obtained a year's leave of absence, and who was to receive from the 
 public during this lung holiday ^i'lOOO for doing nothing, to ask to 
 appoint the person, for the correct performance of whose duties tha 
 Governor, uot he, was to he responsible, during his absence ; who 
 wns to hear all the delilierations of the Executive Council, and ba 
 brought into constant and confidential intercourse with the Gover- 
 nor himself. Perhaps he thought that a man like Mr. Whidden, 
 who had never been much mixed up in politics- -who bad never 
 come into violent collision with either party— who possessed the 
 confidence of both, and who was, moreover, a thorough working 
 man, which is much more than can be said of any member of the 
 illustrious House of Wilkins, would suit him, and suit the Coun- 
 try, a great deal better than the ex-delegate. Is there a sensible 
 ■nan in the Province who does not thing be was right ?--is there 
 a man who does not acknowledge that Mr. Whidden has done cre- 
 dit to the discernment displayed by His Excellency, in making tha 
 selection ? But, then, brother Martin cannot forget the slight to 
 brother Lewis. The family exchequer is minus just £500. Me- 
 thinks I hear him, oiicu aweek, at least,exclaim to the ostensible edi- 
 tor of the Observer, " Roderick, my boy, chop up a piece oi your 
 own tobacci) and till my pipe, I must have another slap at Lord 
 Falkland, Howe, and the Kesponsibles. Responsible Govern- 
 ment must be a humbug, when my brother Lewis, ^who wai quite 
 toilling to have taken office under it, J is not appointed Secretary — 
 the Province must be going to ruin when the House of Wilkins 
 has lost £51^)." 
 
 I have said that the House of Wilkins consisted of but four 
 members, but some of the editorials in tlie Observer have remind- 
 ed me that there is 
 
 THR BINKXY BaANCH. 
 
 Judge Wilkins and the Hon. H. N. Binney, married sisters ; so 
 that the editor of the Pictou Observer, and our Ex- Mayor, are 
 own cousins — the Judge being uncle to the Mayor, and the Col- 
 lector being uncle to the Editor. The simple public, never, per> 
 haps, thought of all this, but it has heen quite understood by tha 
 knowing ones for many a month past, xhe fact will, perhaps, 
 explain how it haijpened, that almost immediately upon the dis- 
 missal of " my cousin Stephen," " my cousin Martin," broke out 
 so fiercely about the inmates of Government House, in the Ob- 
 server. It will also explain the reason why the ObserTer has been 
 of lato so furious, because Lord Falkland did not, on the 6rst ap- 
 plication, pass over all the leading men in both branches of the 
 Legislature, many of whom have served the Country for years gra- 
 
 ill 
 
V. 
 
 I 
 
 .1 
 
 \uiloutly, tthJ aru known and uppreciutoJ ull over tlic Province, to 
 itntow una oJlIm btiit ollic«» in liif ({ill upon ■ younK nun, wliow 
 luinu Imrdly ii duivii peuplu out ol'tliu Town ot Halifax vvvrliearil 
 <>t— wliu h»» puMiil tlirouuli none of the Iriulu of pulilic or private 
 life, who ha« IwfU paiil for i-virjf liour'» time given t» tlie pulilic, 
 unit wliu, however amiable, \uin no inure claim to lii.i falher'x ollive, 
 than any Itaiik Clerk lii«!i to lie ita I'rexiiient— than any clerk in the 
 I'oit UlHie has to be Tost Matter (;eneral— than Alarlin Wilkiiw 
 has to nucceeil hit father— than J<ih i llallibnrlon hat to he ('hivf 
 JiiKfice, or I'eter Aruliihahl, Master of the UoIIh. 'I'liere it no 
 reason why a nian'N ton thoiilil not tucceeil hit father at the head of 
 a public (lepaitmeiit in a Cxlonv, if he li.ii passed lliroU){li thote 
 );radet which place him in the front rank of itt public men ; but 
 thire is certainly no reason *liy nil the clever men of the Country 
 hliould lie tet aside, to make w.iy fur » pei<iiii in 1:0 maimer di^.tin- 
 iriiished from (illy other clerks in public olllees, merely because his 
 father held the place befoie bun. This woulil he rank injustice to 
 the fifty other clerks whose fatliert had not been so fottiinate — to 
 the men of talent and enperieiiii-, gratuitously servinn the (ioverii- 
 nient and the Country — and to the Soverei^jn, the Colonial .Secre- 
 tary, and the Colonial (iovernors, who, under such a system, would 
 he expected to make bricks without straw, or to secure theussistanre 
 of the leading mindt of Dritith America, to aid in governing it 
 satisfactorily, without having any thing to ^ive them. The natural 
 tendency of the hereditary succession to odice, is to foster a clii|ue 
 — to deprive the crown of all real patronage, and a tiovernor ofal' 
 real fiower — in fact, to surround him with imhccilet and red-tape 
 men, and to array against him every man of energy and talent, who 
 chafes at a system of unjust and iinpiditic exclusion. 
 
 All this bus been transparent fur several years : Lord Durham 
 exposed thesNslem — Lord .Sydenham scouted it — Sir Charles Hag- 
 got gives the highest oliii-es tu men o( high talent ; nnd, in fact, 
 there is no dogma of the olden time which has been more completely 
 exploded, than that iihich tolerated the hereditary succession to 
 oIKce, upon the ground, that the son of a man who had been all his 
 life handtomely maintained out of the public revenues, bad a better 
 claim to the f.ivour of government, than the sons of all the other 
 nien who had sup|iortcd it by their contributions, but bad never 
 drawu from the 'i'reusury which their resources maintained, one 
 farthing. The case may lie stated thus : 
 
 A. diaws, in .lO years, from the public revenues, .€ -10,000 cur- 
 rency. Juri/o, U, his SOI), has a better right to a good oilice than 
 C. i). K. and F. the sons of all the other men, who have paid the 
 4.*4U,000, without ever receiving a sixpence. 
 
 All tliisis now understood to be good Colonial nunfeiisc. In Kng- 
 land it has been nonsense for centuries, — of all the men now at the 
 beads of important depaitmeiits in Lngland, I scarcely know one 
 who hat succeeiled his father. Ask Sir Hubert I'eel to make a 
 man a Lord of the Treasury — of the Admiralty — Home, or Foreign 
 or Colonial .Secretary, merely because bis father had held the 
 uRice, and employed him us clerk, and what would he say ? It is 
 folly to speculate on what he would say, because there is nut a man 
 in England who would he simple enough to put such a ijuestion. 
 
 But, to Ibis, the sheet anchor of their admirable system of Ciovern- 
 ment, of course the cliijiie in Nova .Scotia cling — give them this, 
 and they know you give them, from generation to generation, the 
 public chest — tlie ir.oney influence of the government — substantial 
 power. ClI this, their best cable, and you set their barks sailing 
 ovor the stormy seas of public life, dependent upon courage and 
 science ; and they know that while others proudly ride the waves, 
 they will go down to the bottom, " unwept, unlionouted, and un- 
 sung." Hence the strong clFort' made by Cogswell & Co. to co- 
 erce Lord Falkland back to the old system, in the matter of the 
 Excise ; and hence the piteous lucubrations of the Observer, on 
 the same subject, to which the near relationship between the editor 
 and the aspirant, has given peculiar fervour. 
 
 Into thii particular case, it is not my intention to go much at 
 large at present. I would not have toucl.?d upon it at all, but for 
 the monstrous indelicacy that the Obstructives have shown ubon 
 it. I have taken the trouble to inijuire of those, who, after what 
 hat been published, felt quite at libeity to aiTord information, 
 
 know tomuthlng of the facli, and, having italed tlirW, will teitf 
 thppubliu to judga for thamtelvei, >Sume four iiiunthi ago, an 
 ufllcur in the Kxcite Department waited on Lord Falkland, anJ 
 apprised nim that old Mr. Uiiiney had not been at Ilia utilce for 
 weeks, and wasexpe.-ted to die, and asked the ulfloe, on the ground 
 of lung tervice, fur hiinself. This was the Hrst intimation Ihatlho 
 tiovernor received of the uftlce being likely to fall into hit gi(l« 
 not from a " hungry expectant lletponsible" — not from ■ aelf* 
 seeking member of his (.'oiincil, hut from an ullicer of Mr Hinnejr'a 
 own Department. Sborlly after, a Clerk in another Department 
 claimed the oilice, nn the ground that it wat promised to him Uy 
 Sir Colin Cainphell* — but, lo I a third Obstructive appeared, who 
 asked the oflice because he had been a member of the Hoard of Re* 
 venue, 'i'u all these npplicantt, I believe. Lord Falkland oivilly 
 replied, that, in the event of llie contemplated contingency occur- 
 ring, he would consider (heir several claims. liy and hya the 
 Kx-.AIayor arrived from Fngland, and, at he did nut bring a new 
 Ciovernor out in bis pocket, it wat thought bett to tee what 
 could he done with the old one, and .Mr. Edward Ilinney 
 wat sent to (Jovernment House, with the mnilvtt requeit to 
 Lord Falkland, that he iliould show hit sense of the hitter hofti- 
 liiy, and personal iinnoyance, which the family had exhibited to> 
 ; wards him, by giving them an oHit-e worth X'OO a year. This 
 . WHS pretty cool, but the public will mark llio fact, that, up lo thia 
 I moment, there were four Obstrnclivea who " stood in need of 
 ' money, "t pressing for ibis oilice, iieek and neck ; not one Heipon* 
 ! sihiu iiaving yet appliiil for it. There wai a beautiful scramble 
 among these refined and gentlemanly people, for the lick nian'e 
 I oilice — his shoes were on him, yer there were four Obstructive* 
 si|ualibliiig to know who should wear them, (vheii Mr. liinney 
 was desd. Thus far they had it all to themselves — and "every 
 j man for himself," and the " devil take the hindmutt," wat the 
 I cry ainoii); the Oiilruotives. When Mr. Uiiiney applied, 
 I Lord Falkland, thinking, perhaps, that it would be unfair 
 I to exci:e hopes, which might nut he realized, informed 
 him that, accoiding to the policy he had laid down, Uia 
 public depaitmeiits were, as they became vacant, to be given to 
 men of talent and influence, who had served in the Legielature or 
 were meiubers of his (jovernmeiit. This niinuuncement had an 
 extraordinary eflect on the Obstructives, who, fearing somebody 
 I not of their set might get the oflice, a " consummation devoutly tu 
 he dreaded," immediately ceased contending among Ihemselvet, aiid 
 united against the comiiion enemy. A memorial was got up, and 
 circulated slyly, addressed to the Hoard of Uevenue, and then 
 Cogswell, Chairman of said Hoard, and one of the leadari of the 
 Obstructives, wrote a letter, which was signed by IL II. Cogswell, 
 L. llai'ishorne, W. Lawson and Charley Wallace, not one of them 
 a supporter of his (iovernment, civilly telling Lord Falkland how 
 to dispose of patronage which had not yet fallen into his handa. 
 All this was of course delicate, gentlemanly, and highly constitu- 
 tional, particularly when accompanied by several bullying editorial!! 
 in the Times »■.<! Observer, threatening his Lordship with the ven- 
 geance of the Obstructives if he did nut do their bidding, or dared 
 tu bestow un olhce in the gift of the crown according to hit own 
 independent views of the claims of public men, and the exigencies 
 of the public service. These are facts. The Obstructives cannot 
 deny iliein. Having them before you, my Countrymen, you ean 
 duly estimate the delicacy, decency, and disinterestedness, of the 
 opposition on this score. If they are not successful, no man can 
 accuse them of not having taken time by the forelock, and attempt- 
 lug to carry the Executive by storm. F'ortunately, Lord Falk- 
 land is a cool sort of a person, not easily frightened when be 
 knows he is right, and he takes it all very easy ; believing, with 
 most of the Constitutionalists, who have looked ralinly on at 
 the meanness of their opponents, that theiu is no absolute necessity 
 for filling an oflice, until the occupant has had n decent time to 
 try the strength of his constitution, and ascertain whether or not 
 lie is likely to recover. 
 
 • •' The Conservative!! deprecate intrlRiie anrt privol* Jobbing, and ptomuti 
 nf rrvertinn (tf public offlcft, OS all leading tn mystery and llie promotion «* 
 knavery."— '/■imps, Jul]/ .'>. t Vide Observer. 
 
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 nutt," wai the 
 
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 to be given to 
 
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 fas gut up, and 
 
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 lot one of them 
 
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 ThaN ba man that ran psik Ihs narrii, ami ;rt rannot tiUjr »*U i w thrm 
 •OMthM are luuil lu csafuui aiiJ fitrliuut, (list artf uth«rKU« Hcuk 
 
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 Tbrriiifh lir<- iliailmiiH tin- iImiiIiIh pari | 
 II* ni-rBr niHt'U the %nn-\t iif llri, 
 Nil Inil«ri1 l>n<imi to iliaicu uir. 
 lu «iiin reiill'iiiu* iiiiisiicii iumII i 
 l.i-tviiv^ misrl. In >l.in>li>r rail, 
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 Ttii-lr hliinlH vpnnmM that'll) rrlmiiiij, 
 Boahlnci lili Hitht ticfiir* iiiaiikliul, 
 lilt aitloiis pruvr III* liiiiM'kl iiiiikI | 
 If In hlf) I nniilry'ii ittix. |ii> rite, 
 I>*h4llnit Rpnalri In mlvUp, 
 llabrilieit, iinawnil, hv iIih-> Impart, 
 Tli« honeat dktslei uf hi> luail. 
 
 UtY. 
 
 ttavlng enlightened you a little upon tlit natitro of the nppoii- 
 lion to tlie present (Suvernmi-iit, iniiniri".<i'il ut I'ictuu, and hhiiwn 
 up the character anJ design* nf the VVilkinn riiinily, by it seiun of 
 which the seurrillou* I'reM in thai pUci- ii condiicte>l, Ift :ne now 
 Inelte you to turn bHck, fur a few inomi'nl^, to the fuiirti-eii niiin 
 bcrtd |>er*graphi which appvar In my Ri'cnnd It'tiur. 'I'lii'ie shi>w 
 that tl«« measures pressed and carried by tliu Cunstitutioiulist^, in 
 this Country, were t 
 
 lat. The retirement of tlie Judgei from the Li'i»i<la»iire, nnj the 
 vlevation <>f the liench above the hlrifo of party politiis. 
 
 Sd. Optning of the doors of the I.t-cishitivv Council. 
 
 3d. Tlkc separation uf the entire l.i'ijisl.itive from llie entire 
 £l«cuti«e Council, and the distribution of tiie infinliers <>f tiip 
 Utter through buth tlie I,egi<iliitive brHiidiv!!, «h in Knu'l'iml. 
 
 4th. Theebvek upon a majority of the iiu-inlier*! of ijif Kxecu- 
 tire Council, of re-election by the people, every four yciira. 
 
 0th. The greater elieck of the vote of ci'iiMire, by llie iiiKJority 
 of the lupresenlMtitf blanch, upon tlie iiu-mbiTs uf Oovfrniiiriit 
 
 Cth. The breaking up uf the ay^tem by which cliifiM^ were 
 fjrined ill all the Culunies, by the hereditary trinsinisNion uf ofice. 
 
 7lh. Jtedueing the numbiT of Ui.'preM'iilutiveH which Ilalilui 
 
 tiad in the two Councils, fruin eleven twi'lltlu tu sumulbiiig nearer 
 U fair proportion, 
 
 8th. Reducing the number of K|>i<eopalians in the CoiinciU, 
 (Voir eleven twellkh*. and givinc to tbu I'uur great leligious budivs, 
 formetly excluded. • stmre of inriuence. 
 
 9lh, IiMorporatiug Ualifai, and smashing a miserable municipal 
 feyalem. 
 
 loth, \ sound pvper currency. 
 
 I'th. Opening the Outports to tlieadvantngosuf fureign Trade, 
 .Jith. Passing the (liiadrenuial Dill, niid obliging Uepresi-ntn- 
 tive* of the people to return to their cunstitucnts tvery fuur, instead 
 of rrery sryan years. 
 
 13th. I'assing the Hill, by which ncce|iturs <>f certair, udices, are 
 compelled to vacito their teats, and a^k, from tliuie they reprervnt, 
 A sanction or disitpproval of iheir conduct. 
 
 I4th. Maintaining the cbamcier of the Country, by steady con- 
 duct, and muniAcent grantii, in tryiii;; and dillicult times. 
 
 These have l>een the great leading men^ures, which, .^ince the 
 Reformer* of Nova .Si-mia obtained a I'.irlidinentary iii<i.jority, 
 have been carried There mny In* utlu<r principles and impruvv 
 mcnt* flowing naturally out of thene, but Ihtir main eurrfntu nj 
 tktught and aetion mny be gathered from the above. lii/ t/iit luhlr, 
 nt a party, must tht Jit/urmers r.f the Camitrji, ttaud or fall. If 
 theae changes are improvemtiUt — if, by pressing them, u miserable, 
 proerustian and anomalous system of government, neither Munar- 
 ehlal. Republican, nnr Aristocratic, nn.! known only to these 
 Colonies, ha* lieeii swept nwsy, and Brilhh Reitrt>r>i>athe litsli- 
 ImUmu h*Te been established in its steiid, then du '.!>. c men de- 
 serve well of their country — of the Itritish people, : i<l, (so far as 
 the elample of Nora :icutia, if the new policy succeed* here, iis I 
 hare no doubt it will, must estonJ to Colonies in every clime,) of 
 the f rest family of mnnkind. L.ioking through the mists uf (be 
 present time, I believe, that, long b fori, the grave sh»ll have clos. 
 •d over ihiNe men, a grateful countiy will h'lve 'corded 
 their nervie^s ; and that their exertions to lay the foundatinns ul 
 Iraf t.i liberty broad and deep, wiH be m highly apprecistecl 
 It.'-vf'^' '/, M though they were iaid ii. blood. Tho names of these 
 r^'t, <<'' I am much mistaken, will hy and bye be cngnren on 
 tMoa i).i> vtii, Mtd repeated on annivertaric* ; but, in the m.;antime, 
 ^'^i"; '-'tT era bustling about among u*, let v* judge tlmm, and 
 
 those by whom they have been a<ulled, without enthusiasm, Mid 
 hy the ordinary rules uf evidence. 
 
 'J'b* Koripture* tell us, ■• by their works ye shall know tliem." 
 These are the wurks of iJoyle, Young, lluiilingdun, Dell. 
 Howe, Annand, Forrester, Ciiipnian, uiid their compatrluts. |ly 
 lliete w<irks they must he known — by these niukt t'leir conduct Ik> 
 iippruved or condemned — it they have not done these, they have 
 done nothing, anil they have ilune vrry litllv else. J-'ur thr-i tliu 
 (loiilical and social asnahsins of the 'I ioies anil Observer, have 
 hinjH-ii «j)o» thrill fvrrii lilir rpil/irt, and sought to break down their 
 ebaraclers, and wound their feelings, hy llie most diislurilly tricks 
 of party warfare, and personal insiiiuatiiiii. Verily, they •ball 
 have Iheir reward. 
 
 Mark, now, my cotintryinen, these facts — it is for itomrf and 
 hnrinij liiinr. t/irir thinijn that the old llel'orin [inrty were, and tl at 
 those of them who now support Lord Falkland, or are memhera 
 nf bis Government, arc abuse<l. ^'ou will observe that I separate 
 liiintingdon, and the two or three meiiibcrs uf the Iteform party, 
 who iirt with liiin, eiitir>-ty from the Itiiinp. ilnntiiigdoirseoursu 
 anil ohjecls ore rlhliii-c and tiiffiiivntli/ hiitilHblf — tt} those 1 may by 
 and bye devote some space ; meanwhile, it is only necessary to 
 say, that if he' wishes to draw the coach on more r.ipidly than 
 others think safe, the lliimp wish to ilrag it back— he n/i/inn'r* ami 
 plorii» in rifrjf principle ami chani/f inrluiletl in mj Jnurli'en punt' 
 iiriiph»~\\w Kump bate and .iIiIiki' tliein. It is i)iiile clear, then, 
 tiirit whilrver may be liuntingdon's views .ind uhjects, be has no 
 sort i>f eoiiiiection with the Times iiid Observer folks, nosyfti|iniby 
 with them, mid wmild nti more stoop to do the iliity work of Col- 
 lins, ('ugswell <le Co. and Jeffrey, WilLuis dt Co. than he would 
 try to thrust bis insnly limbs into Keamish .Murdoch's hreeche*. 
 
 You will bear this in r,ind, then, that while Lord Falkland hat 
 giiiied the siippoit ol'the leaders, iiiid ufall the mudurate men uf 
 the old giiverninent parly, tlie Uinnp /i«ic nut ynintiJ nnr niiii/le man 
 fiiiin Ihf ranks of the 0»»oi^(7M<io(i«/iii7)t— the great majority siipport- 
 ng his Lordship, and the hnluiwu hnlilin;/ iin imteiirnilinl jxr^itiim, 
 hut ready, at any inomenr, to prevent any relrogide iiioviuu'iit of 
 the giiveriimeiit in the direction indicated hy Co;;stei'l| ft Co. Ask 
 liiintingdon if he is HgifMling lieciiuse he waiita tn thrust (^npnu-tU, 
 CiiUini lf( Jiffrty, hiirii liitii the f'niiiuil without lUr Mnjeitly't con- 
 ■■cnf, and wh,it would be his answer ? " No — 1 agitate because I 
 want the Civil List settled, and because 1 think, nut that thnj 
 h/iouIiI lie rr.storeil, but that one i.r two, wliom 1 distrust, shoulil 
 he put out also." This brings me to one of the main charges 
 ■vliicli the Times and Observer fulks are constantly urgi.ig against 
 the present jjuvernmeiit. 
 
 Over nnd uver again, the question is asked, how can Johnston 
 and Uniacke act with iluwr and McNab— how can Young sit at 
 theauine Council Kuard with Stewart and Uohie, without a mon- 
 strous dereliction uf principle ? May I nut ask bow it is that Sir 
 11. I'eel and I.,ord Stanley, wiio, un many of the great leadin" 
 ineaKures of Earl Grey's Government, were sto'itly and often bit- 
 terly opposed, should now be niemhcrs uf the same Cabinet f 
 Simply becau.se, the circumstances uf the times forcing new puli. 
 tical combinations, it so happened, that these two statesmen, and 
 their inuliial friends, approached nearer each other in the views 
 they took nf public affairs, than any other uf the parties out of 
 which either n Guvernnient or an opposition could be formed. I 
 • ould give dozens of similar illustrations from the history of Eng- 
 lish parties ; and, as to thoso of France, there are scarcely two 
 men of any eminence, in either uf the French Chambers, that have 
 nut, at some time of their lives, served in the same C'lbinet with 
 men whom they have at other times denounced as blunderers in 
 policy, and blind guides to the nation. I will not deny, that, at 
 times, there may be treachery or corruption in all this — but, in 
 the great majority of cases, cumbinations of events which neither 
 of the parties ciiiild have fursetn, or cuntrolled, shiver old con- 
 nections, and compel men to form :iew ones. The setthnient (if 
 important qvettionj often paves the way Jor hin innnious action be- 
 tween public men. The Jtefurni Jiill, and a lew uthcr great mea- 
 sures, being disposed of. Lord S'anley, who had supported, and 
 Sir 11. I'eel, who bad opposed them, lupan to agree more nearly 
 upon the policy of the future, although dljf'erinff so strongly as ta the 
 past, than they did, perhaps, r.-ith some ul their own triends whose 
 views were more decided and extreme. I am not now approving 
 or censuring any thing which has been done in England, I am 
 merely giving the Rump, an illustration, the full force of which 
 they cannot dispute. Johnston and Howe, Yoiing and Uniacke. 
 
10 
 
 
 hatt don* nothing mart in Nova Scotia, than lho$* grtat Constrva- 
 tivi ttatumtn have done in England, they have comhined upon 
 common niew$ of future policy, after nearly all the great <puition$ 
 upon which they differed have been diepoied of. 
 
 The Rump ailc how can thene men agree ? I ask how enn they 
 differ ? /FAi/ u there left for them to -quarrel about 9 The utter 
 alwirdity of this charge, perpptuuHy in the moutni of Collins, 
 Cogswell & Co, will he best sliewn hy i ref I'ence to my table of 
 fettled qupitinns. 
 
 Can Johntton and liowe fiftht about thereliiementoflhe Judires 
 cr the opening of the Council duurs? Certainly not — tlieie sub- 
 jects are dispiised of — the one cannot undo what hrti been done, nor 
 the othvr find a grievance where none in reality exists. 
 
 Can Young and Uniacke quarrel about the opening of the Out- 
 ports, or the passage of the Quadrennial Bill? It is imposMhIe — 
 , these questions are settled, as decisively as are the Reform Bill or 
 Catholic Emancipation. Uniacku cannot close the Ports or repeal 
 the Quadrennial Bill, even if he would ; and Young would he 
 laughed at, if he sought to deny Uniacke's capacity to serve the 
 Government or Country, in all time to come, merely because he 
 had happened to differ with him upon these, and other almost ob- 
 solete questions. 
 
 The aame may be said of every one of the topics included in the 
 list from 1 to 14. They can no more be fought over again, than 
 the oattle of Worcester, or the battle of Cullod"u — and it would 
 be about ai reasonable to expect these men to hate each other all 
 their lives, merely because they had differed on particular questi- 
 ons ia the early part of them, as it would to charge the people of 
 England and Scotland with cowardice and corruption, for combi- 
 ning under one government, and living together as one family, 
 after fierce party struggles and bloody civil wars. 
 
 Besides, upon sume of these questions, there never was, between 
 the members of Lord Falkland's Government, any great differ- 
 ence of opinion. Johnston and Uniacke fought as stoutly m 
 Howe did against the rotten paper system, the common enemy 
 being Cogswell, Collins & Co. and their financial Jack Pudding, 
 the Vice President of the St. George's Societv. As respects aU 
 that clan of questioni which affect tlie civil and religious rights of 
 the four great religious bodies, which make up four fifths of our 
 population, Howe anil Johnston, Stewart, Young and McNab, 
 enttrtain preciidy the tame opinione, while the great leading princi- 
 ples of Jeffrey, Collins, Cogswell, the Bishop, and old Stephen 
 Deblo , are distinction, supremacy, and exclusion. 
 Beaidek, 
 
 The stem Jof that warriors feel 
 In foemen, worthy of their steel, 
 
 would of itself, naturally, after all their manly encounters, draw 
 such men as surround Lord Falkland together, if there were, (old 
 causes of strife being removed,) common objict* and common dutiei, 
 to form • centre of action, and to afford honourable employment 
 for their powers. It is impossible that such men as Uniacke and 
 Howe, Johnston and Young, can have crossed swords so often, 
 without a:!mirih)( each other's nerve and science, while it is equally 
 impotnble that the CK>Htervative memberi of Lord FalUand'i Council 
 can eter have gone into action with Colline, Jtffrey and Company, 
 incumbering their line of march, without heartily wishing such 
 impracticable and imbecile leaders at the bottom of the sea. To 
 these men it must be • warrant of the succesn of Lord Falkland, 
 not to be doubted^ when they jee their old " lumber troiop'" oppo- 
 sed to bim ; tbey know that the fully of these men would render 
 numbers, and discipline, and a good cause, of no avail, and when 
 they see them at the head of the Johnny Baxalgette's and Billy 
 Gossip's, in a eruotde against Lord Falkland, Sir Charles Bagot, 
 and both the great parties of England, hy whom the new Colonial 
 polijy has been established, they must laugh in their sleeves. 
 Vht, Hezekiah might as well bring an action against the Apollo 
 Belvidere, for frightening women in the family way, or Jeffrey at- 
 tempt to bully the Lords Commissioners uf the Customs. 
 
 I have now shown you, my Countrymen, bow it is, that the 
 men who surround Lord Falkland can act together without any 
 taerijiee of principle : 
 
 1st. Because most of the great questions which divide them 
 have lieen settled, thereby iweeping away motive* to further conten- 
 tion I and 
 
 2nd. Because, in view* of the future, there is a general accord- 
 anet, and, growing out of the past, more of personal respect, than 
 ever can exist Iwtween either section of the present Cotinoil, and 
 
 the ultras, led by Cogswell & Co. and whom I have designated aa 
 the Rump, 
 
 This faction, if they want anything, want to return to the old 
 staleof things— to re-establish the old Council of )3, and the old 
 Colonial policy — to shut the doors — turn o"* ;'i e Dissenters, elosa 
 the Free '^orts, to re-instate Jeffrey, Collins ft Co., repeal the 
 Qiiudrei i.iMl Bill and the Copurstion Act, give the Crown Coun- 
 rilltirs that it cannot dismiss, and deprive it of all the patronage hy 
 eilablithimj thv hereditary tuceeieion to offire. These are the favoO' 
 rite ol'jectsof /A« Hump — the facts may be gathered from most of 
 their published effusions : Ilobie, Johnston, Dodd, Uniacke, &e. 
 know that thit is impotiible — they believe that the men who eaUt 
 in the pr"seiit day, seriously make such propositions, must be moc> 
 strous knaves or monstrous fools, — they knew, that if these men 
 had the government in their hands to-morrow, they would b« 
 beaten out of it in three months ; and they know also, that the 
 system which the Rump denounce, is safe, practicable, and infinite- 
 ly preferable to the old one, and that the tales hourly tdid of the 
 gentlemen with whom they are associated, are base and disingeru- 
 ous sluuders. Having been swamped once by their Nly, these 
 men know that no boat can swim with the lubberly crew of (be 
 Rump in it, and they prefer • longer Toyage, with men, who can 
 hoist a sail or feather an oar, rather than haviiig to break their 
 hearts, in pulling through dangerous seas, those who lie like dead 
 weight in the stern. 
 
 Out of this Junction, then, of the best men of the old Govern- 
 ment, with the members of the old Reform party, with but one at 
 two exceptions, has grown that new anU more extensive combina- 
 tion, now known as thi CoNsriTUTioNAi.isTs, embracing grekter 
 numbers, and more of talent, than either of the old parties nut of 
 whose materials it has been formed. Upon this party, my Coun- 
 trymen, the men who surround Li rd Falkland rest, and, so long 
 as they preserve its confidence, may rest securely, defying the as- 
 saultsofthe Rump. This{;rcat party embraces four-fifths of your 
 representatives, and my belief is, at least five-sixths of those they 
 represent The capital of the Province, by two elections, has so- 
 lemnly recorded her adherence to it — Hants, King's, Annapolis, 
 Dighy, Shelburne, Queen's, and even Lunenburgh. are with the 
 Government — Colchester, Ciimlterland, Sydney, Richmond, In- 
 verness, Cape Breton, havo declared in favour of the new princi- 
 ples, and their contempt for that precious conglomeration of hete- 
 rogenious political materials, which torms the tail of Collins. 
 Cogswell & Co. Whence comes the opposition ? From the mi- 
 nority in Halifax, whose character and objects I have deserilwd — 
 from Yarmouth, for reasons which are understood, and which giite 
 no itrmgth to the objection* of the Rump — (Vom Guyshorough, where 
 I have reason to know the real lentiment* of the people have teen 
 misrepretented , and from Pictou, where a precious scion of the 
 House of Wilkins flourishes his grey goose quill, in the hope that 
 be may he able to establish a government, which will not commit 
 the unpardonable sin of expecting even one Wilkins to bt quiet, 
 until he ha$ got hi$ hand into the Province cheit, 
 
 ,«, • ", '^-''■■•.- Si ^>^»f> M9it 
 
 If yiiu suspect my husbandry, or fnlsohood, ,, <^ « 
 
 Ckll me before thP ttricteit niiaitnrii, j"*:.<'-«.i ij. 
 
 And let IT on th« proof. So the (Sods bleu me, ■"><>"' ■^"''•'J 
 When all our ofllces hnve been opprens'd ii'noS f\n'tin 
 
 With riotous feeders ; when our vsults have wspt v,„-, s-.u-,niA 
 With drunken «pilth of wine ; when »v'ry room ^' ^ '»'*^ 
 Hath blazed with lights and lirst'd with miaslrelsy, -V'^ '\ " o^" 
 I hare retired me to a wsfteftil cock, >.i.>'l '.-iit} 
 
 Andset miue eyesat llow..,;,.v> ijf. ;Ani> 
 
 ' • ' , '".. TiMON o» AvaiNS. 
 
 No. «. 
 
 TruUi I— raise some genuine Bard, and cv4a Us band 
 To drive this pesliUnee from out IJie land. 
 
 Bti'oif:' 
 
 Before we proceed further, let us, for a moment, turn to the steps 
 by which we have advanced thus far, because > .-nt most anxiotis 
 that you should never, for one moment, doubt ;' «> t; '.ire cohesion 
 and f»rce of this argument, and that all those wiio cHoose to follow 
 me may find the tracks measured, distinct nna indeiiible. 
 
 I have shewn you that the conduct ol the Opposition, in the 
 Press, in the Charitable Societies, and the City Council, has drawn 
 upon them this exposure. 
 
 That fourteen great questions, pres^ied by the Refomersr fnd 
 opposed by the Obstructives, Indicate the main distinetifiipii.lieti^eea 
 the two parties — that the views of my party, in feery.fiuf^af^ihave 
 
Tt dntgnited u 
 
 turn to thtold 
 
 12, and the old 
 DiasentefSf cIom 
 
 Co.i repeal the 
 le Crown Coun- 
 Me patr.ma^t by 
 He aie the favoU' 
 'ed from moRt at 
 A, Uniacke, &e. 
 
 men who can, 
 i)i must be moc* 
 at if Ihete men 
 
 t*ief would b« 
 alKO, that tha 
 ble, and iiilin|te- 
 uriy Idid of lh« 
 « and dUinger u> 
 heir Nly, ih««« 
 riy er«w of tbt 
 ilh men who can 
 
 to break their 
 rrho lie like dead 
 
 the old Govern- 
 with but dne of 
 tennive comhina. 
 mhraeing greater 
 old parties nut of 
 party, my Coun- 
 est, and, so long 
 r, dffying the as- 
 bur- fifths of your 
 iths of those they 
 elections, has so- 
 ing's, Ahnapolit, 
 rgh, are with the 
 . Itiehmond, ln> 
 f the new prinei- 
 tmeratinn of het«« 
 r tail of Collin*. 
 I ? From the mi- 
 have dexerilied — 
 id, and whieh gi\te 
 iTshorough, where 
 ptnple have 6etn 
 lous acion of ihm 
 , in the hope that 
 will not commit 
 tint to k^ quiet, 
 
 Hkilt .O il<)tJ>4)K» It 
 
 i!ju. .'^ tw.n itaaif 
 
 >'■ ■■■ 't.-iMiv^iiU 
 
 iine, < r-v! >^v^r! 
 
 •Wilts Mtfun 
 
 rtrelsy, .V^-^n t< »w- 
 
 •r.n , -ijjnfil : mMiU 
 
 rl' 
 
 .TIItN* 
 
 11 
 
 TiitoH or , 
 Us band 
 
 t, turn to the steps 
 .'(1) must anxious 
 ' » t : lire ooht^sion 
 i> r^itoM to foll,9V 
 deliible. 
 
 >ppo«ition, in the 
 lounojili has drawn 
 
 e Reformsr««' #nd 
 •tinctioipii, bat wesa 
 
 11 
 
 betn *ou«d and BritUh, and have been approved by Ilir Majttty'i 
 GumtrwMut. 
 
 That tha present Halifax opposition is very difleront from the old 
 Govammsot party — that the lient materials of that party stand by 
 Lord Falkland, and thai its Rump, only, adiieies to Collins, CogS' 
 well tt Co. 
 
 That, to ray nothing of the Keformors ot all, the contrast between , 
 tha Conseitativvi who support, und those who oppose, the present 
 Government, is so ridiculous, that uo man can make it without 
 laughing. 
 
 That the state of society in Pictou has been produced, and sus> 
 tained by, the contemptible intrigues of persons who have sacri. 
 Seed the best interests of the County tu suit their own objects, and 
 who now seek to continue the system, utterly regardless of the 
 peace and advancement of those they wish to mislead. 
 
 That all tha declamation in the Observer has its origin in gross 
 lalAshness and disappointed ambition. 
 
 That tha coalition, formed by the two parties who have united in 
 Lord Falkland's Council, is sanctioned by the example uf Peel and 
 Stanley, and by British and Foreign Statesmen of every party, and 
 every order of mind. 
 
 That, in fact, the fourteen questions being settled, it was almost 
 impossilile that these men should not unite, if circumstances favored 
 a eoalition } becMise, some of them having too much honor, and loo 
 much aante, to attempt to dhturb what had been done, and others, 
 properly appreciatini; their talents, and proposing, for the future, 
 molkiug bu4 what they could approve, there was everything tu induce, 
 and nothing to prevent a union. 
 
 That neither of these parties could have acted with Cogswell, 
 Collina & Co. and JvflVey, Wilkins & Co. nor been successful, in 
 rastoiing and keeping up the old system, if they had. 
 
 That Huntingdon has nothing tu du with the Rump, being only 
 divided from the Administration by one or two questions, while he 
 would aot touch the Times and Observer gang, even with a boat 
 book. 
 
 Having, I trust, my countrymen, made all this sufficiently ap- 
 parent, let me now address myself to another ground of attack, 
 which theOppotition have taken. They think it a strong one, we shall 
 sea how much of it 1 will kave under their feet. For many years, 
 in tha Times, and fur m»ny months in the 0))server, the Obstruc- 
 tives have accused the Constitutionaruts of teljiehnesit, curiuptioH 
 and an inordinate deiire to fill their own pnchett at the eipenee of the 
 poopU. Over and over aKHin has this vilu slander been circulated, 
 through the prints fostered by the Jeffreys, Wallaces, Morrises, 
 Hallihuitons Binneys, Wilkins's, and the whole tribe of people, 
 who have grown so fat upon llie public purse, that they think they 
 «an not only intrij^ue against the Representative of their Sovereign, 
 who spares, and the Government which pnys them, but even put 
 down hunesty and common sense, by dint of unblushing and slan- 
 derous assertion. 
 
 They shall not put it down, but mark how I will put them down. 
 Nay, gentlemen, no wriggling and wincing — as Dick Hatteraik 
 and Sir Francis Head say, " you will have it," and you ehall to your 
 heart's content I would gladly have remained quiet in my study, 
 but whan 1 have seen the public money, which the generosity uf 
 my country has poured into your pockets, employed to maintain an 
 organised system of slander — when I know that one of the Presses 
 from which these falsehuuds emanate was purchased, and. I am as- 
 sured, is at tliis moment owned, by one of you, while 1 know that 
 others sustain these engines of nefamatiou b^ double and treble sub- 
 scriptions. I will give you the benefit of tiie contrasts you provoke, 
 and which will enable tho public to jud^re correctly between you 
 and tha men you defame. 
 
 Corruption, venality, wasting the public Revenues t — these, my 
 Countrymen, are the vbarijes which those men bring against us— . 
 turn over their amiable effusions, and you will find them written 
 on every page ; turn to the facts, with me, and these will put them 
 to shame : 
 
 Tha old Reform party consisted of: 
 Alexander Archibald, feter Spearwater, 
 
 Hugh McDonald, 
 Lawrence O'C. Ooyle, 
 Alexander M. Upham, 
 Peres M. Benjamin, 
 Hugh Bell. 
 
 G. W. McLellao, _ 
 John Morion, ."^Ts ' 
 John Young, 
 
 ''•^j^'Benjamin Smith, 
 Ileitry Goudge, 
 William Holland, 
 t Gaius Lewis, 
 >' J. B. Holdswortb, 
 ' Simon D'Entremont, 
 Thomas Forrester, 
 Richard Forrcatall, 
 
 George Smith, 
 Zenas Waterman, 
 Herbert Huntingdon, 
 William Young, 
 William Annaiid, 
 Joseph Howe, 
 Reuben Clements, 
 
 F. Robicheau, 
 Andrew McKim, 
 Thomas Dickson, 
 W. F. Desbarres, 
 Alexander McDougall, 
 Samuel Chipman, 
 Richard MoHeffy. 
 
 There may have lieen some others, but this is as correct a list as 
 I can make, from memory ; if I have omitted any that ought to ba 
 included, or put down any gentleman's name, that did nut belong 
 to the party, 1 beg his pardon. But assuming this list to be cor- 
 rect, let me ask you, my countrymen, to run your eyes over it, and 
 inquire which of these men can be accused of venality and corrup- 
 tion, of serving himself at the expense of the public, of taking mo- 
 ney out of the Treasury without giving to the country an equiva- 
 lent ? If the charge can be brought against the Reformeis — " tha 
 Responsibles" — as they are often called, here they are— these ara 
 the men that the Rump are continually accusing of selfishness a..d 
 rascality of every kind. Shall I, who knew them well — who know 
 most uf them now, sit quietly by, and hear their good names sported 
 with, week after week, by a parcel of people, fed upon the public 
 treaeure ; and who, like crows fattening on a carcase, croak their 
 hoarse throats and flap their mournful wings, at every bird that eoart 
 above them, for fear that ha may descend, and claim a portion, of 
 what is the common property of the fuwU of the air, but which tha/ 
 hope, hy clamour, to monopolise. 
 
 I have said, my countrymen, that I knew these men well. 
 Some of them were wealthy, but they had accumulated property by 
 honest industry, without ever drawing one thilling from the Province 
 cAcft— others of them were poor, and I have seen their honest pride 
 and manly independence struggling with, and overcoming, the dif- 
 ficulties of life — some of them, unpaid by the public, unpurchase- 
 able, hate gone down into the grave and ran no longer defend their 
 charartert ; but their memories are dear to you, my countrymen, 
 and dear to me, and as long as 1 have a pen to wield, 1 shall con- 
 sider it a duty to flay the wretches by whom they are traduced. 
 
 or these thirty two gentlemen, who composed the old Reform 
 party, twenty-nix never have received one farthing of the public money, 
 and nercr held any place of profit or emolument under the Crown. 
 Mr. McDonald, Mr. George Smith, and Mr. Desbarres, hold, or 
 held, I believe, the local offices of Judge of Probate, worth, to them 
 all, not much over £150 per annum — Mr. Huntingdon is Protho- 
 notary at Yarmouth, which may yield some jSlOori:l2 — and Mr. 
 Dickson is Collector of Excise at Pictou, worth, perhaps, j£lOO. 
 \ot one uf the others have received, during the many years that 
 »ome of tliem have been in public life, during the four years that they 
 acted together at a party, one single farthing, nor do they now receive 
 one, for I put out of question the allowance to the Speaker, which 
 is barely sufficient to defray the expenses of the office. And yet. 
 strange to say, these are the men against whom the Jeff'reys, Wil- 
 kins's, Wallaces, Binnirys, Cogswells, and all their scrilies and 
 whippers-in, dare to bring the charge of venality and corruption— 
 of serving themielvet at the expense of the Province. 
 
 These are the men to whom the people of Nova Scotia mainly 
 owe the fourteen important changes and improvements recorded in 
 my second letter, and yet tix-mnd-twenty have never received one 
 shilling's worth of advantage from their services, and the whole 
 thirty- two together do not now receive as much as one of Mr. Jef- 
 frey's Clerks would think a moderate reward for his set vices, in 
 making entries from ten till three, hearing him talk nonsense about 
 politics, and assisting him to insult his brother-in-law, and bis So- 
 vereign's Representative, occasionally, at a public dinner. So much 
 for the old Reform party, or " the Responsibles," as they are some- 
 times styled. 
 
 Turn we now to the Parliamentary supporters of the present Go' 
 vernment, the Constitutionalists, as they are entitled to be called, 
 and let us see if the Hump, and its shameless organs, the Times and 
 Observer, can make out 4 much better case against them. I tak* 
 tha list as I find it in the papers : 
 
 Messrs. J. R. Dewolf, Messrs. 
 
 McKay, 
 
 Holdswotlh, 
 
 Fulton, 
 
 Comeau, 
 
 Rydar. 
 
 Homer, 
 
 McKenna, 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Palmer, 
 
 Young, 
 
 Fairbanks, 
 
 DesBarrea, 
 
 Forrestall, 
 
 Annand, 
 
 Martell, . 
 
-Tr««wm«fr*"w 
 
 ■■ 
 
 » 
 
 Sliiirii ' '< 
 
 V,r6w, 
 
 Hpeiirnrnter, 
 
 iCwicker, 
 
 Archittald, 
 
 Ditnock, 
 
 (iatCH, 
 
 Del.^ney, 
 
 Dickey, 
 
 Jiiliiistuni 
 
 Hcckinan, 
 
 M'Lellan, 
 
 T. A. S. Uewoir, 
 
 ('rcifthton, 
 
 Uniackr, 
 
 Hawv, 
 
 Dickson, 
 
 litckwitli, 
 
 S. H. Chipman, 
 
 M'Xub, 
 
 Payzaiit, -, i 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 S. Cliipma.1, 
 
 Turnl)ull. 
 
 Here we have Coimervaticex and Ile^ormer^ those mho, inde- 
 pendently diHerinf; with the members of Lurd Falkland's Adminis> 
 tration at times, still, have recorded their approval of their princi- 
 ples and conduct, and iiptin whose support his I<ordship iki douht 
 relies, to ennhU* him to tarry out the new Colonial I'olicy, in defi- 
 ance of the Hump. 'I'hcse are the men who have been purchaieri .' 
 who have sold their Constituents ! t who have <leserted the people I ! ! 
 who have ruined the country ' I ! ! whitse selfishness cupidity, and 
 corruption, have hr<iuf;ht hlushes into the faces of the Co);s\velU, 
 JefTrcys, and V'ilkins's ! ! ! ! ! Now, how many of these forty men, 
 whose public services and privxte virtues you know, my country- 
 men, nnw fluid, or Itave erer held, any oftice of profit or emolument 
 under the Crown? liut six Thete are three Judges of I'lohale, 
 two Collectors of Kxcise, and one Solicitor Cieneral, among them, 
 tlie tntire emnhnnenU of the five oltices not exci'edin)( ^-'500 This 
 is rather a small sum, to purchase forty men, freely chosen by the 
 People of Nova Sootia, from tlie elite of its several Towns and 
 Counties, ^'500 I this sum u-ou/(i scurcWi/ A«e/) un« IHlkiniqiiitt — 
 whHt a dreadfully corrupt government it is, which scatters tlie 
 public money with such profusion I Lurd Falkland beats Sir 
 Hobert Walpole all hullovr — when he pays such enornwut sums for 
 support to his Adiuinislr. tion I 
 
 But, to be serious, let me ask you to pause here, iny country- 
 men, And contemplate the spectacle which Me /lump eihihit, thus 
 detected and exposed. Are (here a pack of more t,hauielestly moii- 
 dacious slanderers in the whole universe? Is there a man of ve- 
 racity — of candour — of inle|{rity — Ibiit would, after this triumphant 
 refutation of an argument ever upon their lips, allow himself for an 
 hour to bo considered a joint of Cu);swell & Company's tail? I 
 tiBVe siiewn you that twenty-scvtii members of the old majorily served 
 their country, and that thirty-four of the supporters of the present 
 {government are content to serve it, without drawinj; from its Reve- 
 nues one thillinp — that but fire Ueformers tn the old house, and six 
 Constitutionalists in the present, held or hold any description of 
 office to wliicti emolument is attached, and that ^oCO per an!:um 
 is the very outside fij^ure that the majority of the lust House, which 
 supported the fourteen great measures, or the mnjority of the pre- 
 sent, who sustain J.urd Falkland's government, ever had to divide 
 among them. 
 
 Now, my countrymen, let me ask you to look over ihese lists, 
 and see if there are not men on them, that you, in your deliberate 
 judgment, believe are entitled to something mor" than slander and 
 misrepresentation fur their labours ? Old Mr. Young tailed in the 
 public service, both us u member of Parliament, and as an able 
 public writer, and yet Mr. Edward Ducket, the Treasurer's Clerk, 
 has received more in_four years than ever Mr. Young received as 
 Secretary to the Central Hoard — more, in one year, than ngricola 
 received tar fifteen or sixteen years of larborious Parliamentary and 
 other public service : and yet Air. D. sips bis wine under the ban- 
 ner of St. Georjje — hears the Ilepresentative of his Sovereign, and 
 111!) Lady, insulted, and sneers at the " Uesponkihies," who perform 
 the intellect .al and onerous work of the country, but leave him his 
 share of the pay. 
 
 Herbert Huntincdnn has been some ten or twelve years in the 
 Legislature, spending hundreds in contested elections, giving his 
 time, his information, his talents, to the country — nay, to my certain 
 knowledge, oflen hreakin-! Iiis health and shortening his life in its 
 service; and yetsli'ilc 'I'ouimy J.imes, another of the worthies, who 
 sipped his wine, and sneered on the sly at the Responsibles, hasre- 
 ceivd, in a single year, more of the public treasure, than the country 
 lie h.i« Willed for ever bestowed on Herbert Huntingdon. 
 
 Take Doyie and .McDongall, two men of the old majority — who, 
 us Lawyers, Wits, Poets, Patriots, may well challenge comparison 
 with the wretches who traduce them. These men faithfully, ho- 
 norably, suceessfully, served their country from 1837 to 1841. 
 Neither of them arc affluent — both of them have retired from tho 
 
 12 
 
 I^egialature — wi„;t have they ever cost lbs eounlrt 7 yfhf, Mr. 
 Cogswell has put more money into his pocket, as clerk ta th* Ko» 
 lation Court — Deputy Secretary of the Province — or R»gi*traf of 
 the Court of Chancery, in one year, thin ever Doyle or MitDbtt|pllt 
 received in the whole com si of their public litis. 
 
 But these are men of the old House, how fares it with thoM Df 
 the new? >Vhat have Lewis, Howe, R. Smith, SAm ChiptWan, 
 Heckman, Fairbanks, Creigbton, Spearwaler, Archibald, f1dld»< 
 worth, men who have been honestly and conscientiously Aer*trit'th'« 
 public, in two Parliiiments, received from the Country in retitrli? 
 AW one farthing. They have askeil nothing, many of them ^X|<eet 
 nothing; if the country has any thing to give them, they will priv' 
 bably take it if it is offered ; if nut, they will live, as they havk done 
 hitherto, by their own industry; these men are as much above eor'- 
 ruption, as the Hump is beneath contempt i and yet they support 
 I,nrd Falkland's Urvernment, not l>eca use they have sacrificed (heir 
 independence, but because they approve ofiti and because they bc> 
 lieve that the fragment of a party who abuse and mallgtt that 
 nobleman, because he governs the country by iti Legislaturt, «iic( 
 not by a faction, arc a pack of incorrigiltip ultras. Here are fe« 
 •nen, who have probably iprnt thousands in Elections, and wtroftue* 
 given many of the best years of their lives to public bnstntu-^ntlm 
 avsuming responsibilities of the must weighty character, and yvt We 
 arc to he told, that the Ned Ducket's and Ned Btnney's, fth«nenr 
 did an hour's vorh for the public which they were not veil paU f\tr-— 
 who have never buen elevated to the Legitlature by a Town or a 
 County — who have written nothing, spoken nothing, carried ho 
 measure, run no risk, either to give them a claim upon the OoVemu 
 ment or the People, are to be promoted to the highest titHtfn as 
 they become vacant ; and that those who have earned ho*lotirable 
 notice from the Government, and respect from the people, by their 
 talents, are to he passed over, and left to enjoy the barren honers of 
 public life ; while those who slander them whin they irppou agovttm* 
 nient, and sneer at and intrigue against them when they ftppM Met 
 are to be handsomely provided fur at the public expense. No— • 
 tliank Providence, that day has gone past — neither the hoftours, 
 those dii. ictions which a wise government should hold ont to e>* 
 cite the emulation of the whole people, nor the offices, which ought 
 to he the reward of high talent, patriotism and experitnte, can anjr 
 lunger be connnfd to a clii]ue. The principles of the Conititu* 
 tionalists are in the ascendant, and the iltimp are irt desfNiir. 
 
 I trust, my fellow-countrymen, that I have now redeemed my 
 pledze, and that'I have left the Gossips and Murdochs and WiU 
 kins's, not an inch of ground to stand on. Their prooh againat th« 
 " Uesponsibles" of (he last House and the Constitutionalists of lh«t 
 present, are gone, — they have vanished, like the haselvss fitbrie tif • 
 vision. The charge, however, remains, and is giHxt evidence of th* 
 unr.crupulous malignity nf those who made if, and whb will toutinut 
 to make it, wetk nfttr week, in the Times and Observer, this tritlUk* 
 phant refutation (o the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 In Siam the punishment f<>r lying is sewing up the month— it is 
 I lucky that these worthies do not 'ive there. In my nest 1 sh«H 
 probably overhaul a few of the Huinp, aiid sea Mom mveh 6f puhKtt 
 plunder I can Jind upon them, I will search the sack, not only of 
 Benjamin but of Hezekiah. If I do nut And some euria»i» things 
 under the galxrdines of tht genHen.en who have come int» Court 
 to give evidence against us, and claim all the patriotism and ilisin* 
 terestedness in the world then shall I he much mistaken. AddiMii 
 says " it is ridiculous tiit any man tn criticise the works of another, 
 who has not distinguished himself by his own perforintpet'S," and I 
 no man will l)e disposed to deny that the Rump ha*e qualified 
 themselves to discuss the distribution of loaves and fishes, by gteedi^ 
 ly fobbing every fragment which they could ever lay their bandi bn. 
 
 No. 7. 
 
 
 " There is, in tliis City, a certain fraiemitv of chemical op«rat«n, who 
 fforlc uiidpf griiiiiKl, in holes, corners, and dark rrtlremenu, to conceal (heir 
 mysteries frum the eyes and obtcrration of mauliind."— ADDIsoii. 
 
 I trust that, in my last letter, I entirely overthrew the charge of 
 selfishness and corruption, brought by the Rump, against the Ue- 
 formers of the last House aud the Constitutijiiatists of the present, 
 by showing, 
 
 1st. That 2G of the 32 gentlemen, who composed the old ma* 
 jurity, and 36 of the 41* who support the present Government, 
 
 ■ Mr. Dndd's name was omitted bi the Uit of last week, be hariu becniU 
 wbeu the division took place. > UItIV ' 17^."> ,, 
 
y? Why, Hfr. 
 I«rk Ui th« Km 
 'or R»irigtr«# of 
 M>r>I«DidU|^l| 
 
 it with th«Ma of 
 
 Sam Chipfrinn, 
 ihibAlii, n^M*. 
 u»ly (tetTtng fh« 
 iitry in relarn? 
 
 of them «x|teet 
 , (hey will pro*' 
 
 they hiive domf 
 nueh above eor>' 
 et they support 
 ' Mcrifieed (heir 
 ecaute they be« 
 <l malign that 
 -rffiilaturt, andj 
 Here are ten 
 *, and whoftttee 
 bHsintie-^itftta 
 rter. and ytt Wt 
 ney'ii, wknnntr 
 
 veil paUjhl'-^ 
 by a Town or a 
 iiig, carried nu 
 on (he Oovernw 
 ghett off?ees as 
 nrrf honourable 
 )eopte, by their 
 Mrren honen of 
 rppnu a govern* 
 Sty fipport M«i 
 ipense. No— 
 it the hofMNirt, 
 bold ont (o e<- 
 )> which ou|tht 
 rlenee, can aitjr 
 ' the Constitii* 
 < de«f»aif. 
 
 redeemed my 
 iieh* and Wil. 
 oof» aitaiitat (ho 
 tii«nali8(a of iho 
 tUn fabri* of* 
 evidence of tho 
 ho win tontimt 
 let, thU tritink* 
 
 le mott(h— it ia 
 •y next 1 ahali 
 muth »f puklio 
 ik, not only of 
 
 euridiia things 
 me tn(» Court 
 !»»m and diiiiir' 
 ten. AddiiOit 
 rks of anotheri 
 inapeta," and I 
 
 ha*e qualiBed 
 ihet, by gieedhi 
 thttir handt On. 
 
 !' .ofi'.ifrtuiuft.^ 
 
 ..'■': I... ,,jiii 
 
 I operatan, who 
 to conceal (heir 
 
 IfOt. 
 
 the charge of 
 ;aiiist the 1U> 
 of tbo present, 
 
 i the old ma> 
 Govt riiiaent, 
 
 13 
 
 never liatd any puUio office, and do not now hold any placu of 
 profit or emolument under the Crown. 
 
 3d. That all the uflice* hvld by the remaininj^ 3 or (> memlierH 
 of either Houae, did not, and do nut, yield uvok' ^."iUO ourreni-y 
 per annum. 
 
 The facts disclosed appear to have n\pst ai;reeal)ly surprisud ma- 
 ny Worthy |>euple, who, from hoarinj; tliu mcist unhlusliinj; false- 
 hoods cunAdently aswrted, wvek aftvr wcvk, niid chiy nfier dny, 
 began almnU to waiver in tlieir fiitb, and lu fancy tlml all the vir- 
 tue and disinleresledne«s must he upon the opiiuslte side. 'I'lie 
 Clique feel that the defence hns been trluini'lmnt, mid ilvcisive — 
 that the body of public spirited and indc|iviiiicnt f^entlenuMi, wlioin 
 they have attempted to mali;;n, iitand a);ain liefurc their Ci>iiniry, 
 and in the midst of their friends, and nei>;lil)iiurs, and cunstitiieiils, 
 who respect and esteem them, with clean hanil i and hrows erect, 
 smiling at Cogswell, Wilkins & Co with iiieffable .scum and de- 
 fiance. The opposition fancy that, even the spirits uf the dead, 
 whose memories they have insulted, hover over their beds at night 
 to reprove them for their slanders. 
 
 There never was a more homely and familiar illustration of the 
 adage, that truth is powerful aiid will prevail, than the elTects 
 wrought by that single letter. There is notliiiig in the style uf it 
 to command attention, but the truth, a simple statement of facts, 
 has put the opposition down. They have toih i for years to rear 
 a pyramid of falsehoods, and lo I it is shaken to its centre, and is 
 tumbling aliout their ears. I will now endeavour to raise a munu 
 meat to their disinterestedness, patriotism and public virtue, which 
 cannot be so easily overturned. The VVilkins's may hluw upon it 
 'till they crack their cheeks, Jeffrey may summon his Allisons 
 and Debluis's to undermine it — Hare may try to cast it into deep 
 kbadow, by getting between it and the sun — the Bishop may 
 apread his apron upon it, — the Wallace's may try to hide it in the 
 chest, but it iiliall stand before the country, immoveable, indestruct- 
 •ble, not " lifting its bead and lyinj;," us was said of a monument 
 elsewhere, but lifting its head and telling the truth— u/(u/t t/iv 
 Rump. 
 
 jC&OO I currency, my Countrymen, is the outside figure of all 
 the sums which the majority of the last House drew, and the ma- 
 jority of the present llousa draw, from the Revenues of tliu coun- 
 try. This is the evidence produced, to prove corruptiun, and 
 aelRsbiiess, against ^be supporters of the present Government. 
 Now, I have taken the troulile to run my eye over the list of the 
 members of the St. George's Society, and uf ilie guests, who, cm the 
 U'ii of April, sat round their Board, sippcil tlieir wine, and smil- 
 ed when the Governor and his Lady were treated witli Hisresi».-ct 
 •—or hissed Mr. Uniacke. and slmweil ilieir uhliorreiice oftlie llts- 
 ponsible Hydra :* I pass over the military officers, of whieli there 
 were about twenty, and who. Iiein^ strangers to the tricks and 
 manoeuvres of the Rump, and supposing they were among gentle- 
 men, never suspected what was ^;uiiig on around them, nor that 
 any attempt would lie made to draw them into party politics — 1 
 paaa over some twenty others, who were either liberals, or mode- 
 rato supporters of the present Government, and who should not 
 hare remained one moment aAer Mr. Uniacke was put down, mid 
 who Would not, had that gentleman left the room, as he probably 
 would have done bad any body else been in the Chair — I pass over 
 aume half duien flunkeys, brought to hack their masters, and 1 
 come at once lo the 60 or 60 persons who remain, out of the nuii:- 
 her who attended the dinner, or are known to entertain the sime 
 polilieal opinions ; or, whatever may be their real sentiments, to 
 act, fur various reasons, with Me Hump. Among that 50 or 60 
 persons is lu be found the nucleus uf all the opposition to Lord 
 Falkland and bis administration, wliich has been bitter, spiteful, 
 personal. Almost every joint of Cogswell, Collins & Co., and 
 Jeffrey, Wilkiiis & Co.'s tail, from the thickest and dirtiest, to the 
 amallestand most elastic, may be discovered among the lot. 'J'liese 
 are the gentlemen, who, through the scurrillous organs they 
 maintain with the public money, charge your Representatives, 
 week afler week, with selfishness and corruption, and prove it by 
 allowing that forty members, distinguished for experience, elo- 
 quence, ability, anil faithful public st/vice, divide among them the 
 mi^-hty sum of ^500 currency. Now, uiy countrymen, will you 
 do mc the favour lo stand by, and see how much of public plun- 
 der theso worthies have got concealed about their persons — stuffed 
 into their pockets, hidden in the crowns uf their liats, and sewed 
 up ia tho waistbands of their breeches. Nay, gentlemen, don't 
 
 * Title Obnnictire aecount of the Cisoer. 
 
 struggle and kick, you cannot escape if you would — *' no inaiden'f 
 arm is uround you thrown." besides, what have you (o ftar / 
 Vou have come into Court to give evidence aiiains( the UesponsibI* 
 fiydra — no doubt, your bands are clean : You are too pure, tou 
 high-minded, too virtuous, to touch a farthing of the public mo- 
 ney — your love for Nova Scotia is so great, that to serve it for 
 nothing is a pleasure — you have so deep an interest in the pros- 
 perity of the City of Ilfilif.ix, that lo tnncli a farthing of its reve< 
 nues would give you inliniie pain. Sulilime patriots— disinterest- 
 ed men ! how fortunate it is that Nova Scotia possesses such ■ 
 hand of self-sHcrilicingand incorniptihle worshippers of the ancient 
 system, under wliich tl,eir budding virtues uere nourished by 
 Danten showers, that the rude breath of the Responsible Hydrs 
 may possibly waft to freshen distant pastures, and flow into other 
 channels. 
 
 I have given you the lists of the majority of the last Mou<e,'and 
 of the present, who are eternally abused in the Times and Obser- 
 ver, and I have shown that the whole umour they receive from 
 public employment is i'uOO. Turn we now to the men who 
 grudjjethtm thin sum, and are fearful of its cornipling their integrittf 
 and etidunyerinii their independence. Look on this picture, and 
 on that. All the persons whose names are here set down, ara 
 either members of the Political Club called St. George's Society, 
 dined at its table, on the ^3d of April, or are known to be secret- 
 ly or openly intriguing against Lord Falkland. 
 
 Thomas Nicholson Jeffrey, Collector of Customs, ^2,500 
 Richard Rest, Clerk do 312 
 
 Jidin Ijlackinore,* Landing Waiter and Searcher, 437 
 
 Robert Cleghorn, do do 1»7 
 
 .Tames Duggs, do do 187 
 
 •Tames .S. Richardson, Clerk, 100 
 
 Jjhn Oarhy, do 125 
 
 J. J. Morris, do 100 
 
 Abs. Hav, Locker, 96 
 
 James Wall, do , "® 
 
 John Spry Morris, Commissioner of Crown Lands,' 
 
 Surveyor General and Judge of Profiafe, 850 
 
 Thomas James, Clrrk and Deputy Registrar, 600 
 
 S. liinney and E. liinney, representing a family 
 
 drawing, 700 
 
 A Rieliarilsi>n,t Uim<;er, 600 
 
 Cliarlis Wallace, Treasurer, 700 
 
 Edward Diickett, Clerk, Keeper of Savings' Bank, 
 Clerk to Ho:ird of Revenue, and Commis- 
 sioners of Sable Island, 400 
 Edward Wallace, .Adjutant Gener.il, Cmnmissioner 
 of Sable island. Agent fur Revenue Gut- 
 ters, 300 
 Judge Sawirs, Pensioner and Recorder, 500 
 James S. Clarke, City Clerk, &c. &c. 400 
 Lawrence llartshorne. County Treasurer, and Clerk 
 
 of Licence, Commissioner of Revenue, &c, 400 
 
 James Treinain, Overseer of Itoads, &c. Pickings unknown. 
 Doctor Almon, Surgeon to tho Poor House, 150 
 
 J. J. Sawyer, City Marshall, Sheriff, &c., Usher 
 
 uf the Black Rod, 
 Col. Creighton, half pay, 
 Henry Lice, Ordnance Clerk, 
 James Gossip. Lumber Yard, 
 Beamish Murdoeh, Clerk Educational Board, 
 John C. lialihurtun. Clerk of Council, Secretary 
 of College, &c. 
 Do. representing a l''amily drawing besides, 
 Stephen Deblois, Marshall of Admiralty, 
 A. M. Uniacke, Judge Advocate of Militia, pick- 
 ings in peace, great profits in war. 
 John Bazalgette, Representative of a Family which 
 
 receives about 
 The Wilkinses, 
 John Wallace, 
 
 500 
 300 
 200 
 100 
 150 
 
 300 
 1 30 
 pickings 
 
 800 
 1000 
 1000 
 
 Carried forward,... 15,140 
 
 » I Insert tho name of this gentleman, and of some others in this htl, be- 
 cause I find tliem on that of the Society, but 1 must do them the justice lo 
 say, that I have never heard of their mixing themselves up offaDsively with 
 politics. 
 
 t This gentleman, it is laid, had Uie good taste to retire, the moment in- 
 suit was offered to the Government, 
 
14 
 
 Drouglit forward,. 
 *Ltwis BliiSi nt'prcscntJlivo of n Family which re- 
 . : 11, ceivi'ii iihout 
 
 .£15,110 
 
 900 
 
 .f 1 0,040 
 What do you think of thifi liitt, my Cnuntrymi'ii '/ One tlinii^ht 
 I* prubahly ii)))ivrriiust in nil your niii\(l'*, that xuiiie ul' the );cntle- 
 tneii whose naiiii-s fl^uru in it. Iiml much licttvr liavv " Ivt sleep- 
 ing dofjs lie." They winilil nut, howt'ver, they would return with 
 treachery the kiiidiit'ss and lorlKMriuice ol the Governor wlio could 
 cruih — uf the adininislriition which spared ihi-in — of the Constitu- 
 llonalists wjin usked noililn^ ul' Iheiii, Init the h<nioralile discharf^e 
 of their uOiciul duties in return tar tlio ital tries they received. 
 'J'hey would set up papers to compare their disinterestedness, with 
 the selfislmi'ss and corruption of the old llefurmers, nnd oftheHiip- 
 portera of Lord Falkland— they would attract nttention to the 
 orgies at which they );lorilied each other, and sneered at the Hes- 
 ponhibles — they would, liy their " Halifax Correspondents," and 
 other precious productions, invite even the most searching 
 scrutiny into the doings ot their *■ conkeibines,"t as well as the 
 amount of their spoils, and now — what hat hecome of it ? One 
 letter is suflicient to shake to its foundation, and .scatter to the 
 winds, the mountain of falsehood they had rea^-ed with so much 
 carp — and one other to show the extent of the confidence to which 
 they are entitled, Trum the people, whose revenues they almost 
 inonopolice, and whose judgments they seek to mislead. 
 
 Let us state the matter in the forcn of a dehtor and creditor 
 account, for the amusement and instruction of the pidillc. 
 
 The People nf Sm-a Scotia in account with the Hrformert and 
 Conitilulioiialii.ls of the Assembly, from I83() to 1S42. 
 
 1)k. 
 
 t: 
 
 To (U years public service, and 
 carrying and perlVctin;; 14 
 importfint measures, such as 
 were never secured in any 
 Country, in so short a time, 
 by peaceful and Constitution- 
 al means. 
 
 Ry this iimonnt, divided among 
 the I'leoly chosen Uepresen- 
 tatives of seventeenTowna nnd 
 Counties, being at the rate of 
 ;i'6U0 per annum. 
 
 £3000 
 
 Errors excepted. 
 
 ('UART.RS Wai.LACR, 
 
 Treasurer ami Auditor of Public Accounts. 
 August 1, 1842. 
 
 The Ptiiple of Sova Scotia in account with the St. 
 eietg, otherwise culled the Hump, 
 
 George's >S«- 
 
 1)k. 
 
 Ca. 
 
 By this amount, divided among 
 tliem in six years, being at 
 the rate of X'ili,040 per an- 
 num. 
 
 £90,240 
 Errors excepted. 
 
 Chaki.ks Wai.i.ack, 
 Tredsurrr nnd Auditor of 
 Public Accounts. 
 
 To discharging mere offii-ial du- 
 ties, opposing every gooil mea- 
 sure for four years, and bring- 
 ing the Queen's Uepresenta- 
 live into collision with the 
 People — during the other tivo 
 insulting the Governor who 
 spares, and intriguing against 
 the government which pays 
 them. 
 
 There is nothing like putting things in black and wMie 
 6gures of speech, in which the opposition deal very often, are apt 
 to mislead — arithmetical figures aie more to he relied on, nnd when 
 addressed to a thinking practical people, like the Novascolians, 
 carry a weight and authority which cannot be gainsayed. These 
 accounts will be read and examined all over the Province, and the 
 icribes of the Times and Ohserver will have to write a great deal 
 Ikefore they get out of the heads of the people, the simple conclu- 
 ■ions to wjilch they inevit-il>ly lead 
 
 Ut 
 
 2nd. 
 
 That the amount which the Rump have drawn 
 out of their pockets, in six years for ob- 
 structing the passage of every good mea- 
 sure, is , 
 
 That the amoiuit divided amont; the Itespon- 
 sible.s, for improving their Institutions, 
 and supporting good measures, is 
 
 £06,240 
 
 3,000 
 
 Difference in favour of the Rump, £93,240 
 
 3rd. That if th ere is any difference in the wordly circumstan- 
 
 »• •The hst might have tiecn very much extended, and niado to lncluile~Go- 
 vemment Contractors, ami various other oftlccrs of diSerent (trades, until 
 Uie amount was laruely increased. I rai((ht ilso have slio-vn that at least a 
 doten persons pre.senl, Here sinm, or relatives, or under the influence, of the 
 alwve. It was only necessary, however, to give names enough to mark the 
 atrenfth of the contrut. \ Vide Times. 
 
 ces of the two pnrtici, the Sintty-SIx Thousand Pounds given to 
 the one, and to which the other contributed its shart, hat materially 
 assisted to create the distinction. 
 
 4. That AO men, who, with their fatniliei and friends, anntutty 
 coHSMtnr more money than, on an average, can be apared ybrlAt 
 entire Cross Hoad and Uridge service of the Country, should be 
 the last to boast of their disinterestedness, nnd cry selflshneu and 
 corruption at the members of Ibj Government and of the Legisla- 
 tute, who receive nothing fur their labours, and the responsibility 
 they assume. 
 
 5. That it would bo monstrous injustice nnd folly, any longer 
 to leave in the hands of a clique, who have neither the talent to 
 sustain a Government, nor to win the oimfidence of the people, 
 this monopoly of the resources of the Country, to Iw used against 
 one or the other, and occasionally played off against both. 
 
 Now, my Countrymen, aye, and Countrywomen, for all have 
 an interest in this discussion, let me, in view nf the facts discliMcd 
 in these two letters, give you a few specimens of the mode in 
 which the opposition papers argue from premises which would ap- 
 pear to warrant any other than their conclusion. I cut the fol- 
 lowing modest surap from the Pictou Observer : 
 
 " We hold that there are two part les In Nova Scotia,— the on* inhtHtml, 
 loyal, and genevou;—the other ianorant, reitlesi, and unprincipled,— the one 
 a parly of genllemtn ; the other a party uf knaves and fooli." 
 
 To understand thii, one would require a new dictionary, eon- 
 striicted after this fashion ; 
 
 /n<W/i^ei)(— shrewd enough to get a good office. 
 
 /yoi/(i/— true to the Crown, when those who are paid to senre, 
 are allowed to rule ller Majesty's Representative. 
 
 (7enerouf— pocketing £96,240 in six years, and crying thief at 
 thoi'c who got but £3.000. 
 
 Gentleman — One who assails private characters in the Newspa« 
 pers, and refused to drink a Lady's health because ha differs in 
 politics with her husband. 
 
 Take another specimen or two : 
 
 " When Mr. I'niarkc was silenced on the occasion alluded to, it was not, 
 vp take it for iiranted, out of any dinrrspect for Lord Falkland, ai Ik* Sf 
 jirtan.liiiHe nf ihe Queen, hut in contempt and deritlon of a tysten of (uvrm- 
 inent ImsfMl un fhf mtidy fuuntlatiim nffai-imri.um. partiality and eorruption.*' 
 
 " What liriiiight the majority round to expreiis their conRdrnce on that 
 memoral>le occation ? We answer Ihe venality of Ihe co^fldert, and th» e»r- 
 ruption nf the Executive Council. And does a Paper liearina the honoured 
 name of this Province, venture to give iu countenance and support to such a 
 system a.s thin ?" 
 
 " Dill Mr. Hone demonstrate the undsoundness nf onr arguments against 
 t'le vile Mt/ttem nf purchaaing Ihe Uailing membert of Ihe House into Ik* lettie* 
 t^f the littvenimfnl V 
 
 " What mutters it that the'c Is no immediate ground of complaint against 
 Ihe acts of the Kxeciitivn Council ? uill that Justify the (Jovernment in <i<- 
 temptini; to ute the patronage of the Croun to inftuenee the independence ef 
 the home of Aittemlittt t" 
 
 " Thus the relationship of the Colony to the Mother Country exhlldt this 
 simtt'lar phenomenon, that a most re<pertable, and decidedly Me mow in/<J- 
 li'ctuiil and irealihy portion of Her .Majes;y'8 Nova Scotian subjects, arc held 
 in ),;nominiiius lioit'iage l>y a Whig Governor." 
 
 ' Th>? fact is, th a the House of Assembly Just loict Height to the exact 
 •moiurt of the influence of the Cxivemmenl servants over its deliberation ; for 
 1/ tt in vain to expect that men eiJ.er paid, or promite'i a reward^ by Ike Oo* 
 remment, will nut sometimes />i#i^/ their duly to their cuiiktiluenls, from 
 vhcim they receive no emolument, and with whom they have generally no stns- 
 pathy, when the d«2<ling prospects of office and salary are exposed to their 
 eager and admiring gale." 
 
 "How hare we been treati d by the Whigs ?— A Printer, feeling some 
 miai countalile aspirations after greatness, invents a list of imagiiurjr grievaa- 
 ces, and, Hher pursuing the ordinary steps towards Ihe acquisition of a vulgar 
 popnlHrity, otitams a majority in a moul contemptibly ignorant and beggmrtff 
 llouxc of Atiembty if fifty membert. 
 
 These are all from the Oliservcr Press, originally purchased by 
 INlr. .lelfrey — never paid for — and, if report speaks true, still 
 owned by him and under the management of the Wilkins family. 
 I make no comment on these passages — they will speak for them- 
 selves, when compared with the facts which I have already record- 
 ed. I give them to you, as evidence of the folly and madness of 
 the Rump, and as warranting every line of this straightforward 
 :ind ample exposure. 
 
 No. 8. 
 
 •" There is a history in -ill men's lives, 
 KiKuring the nature ot the times deceased ; 
 The which observed, a man may prophecy. 
 With a near aim, of the mafn chance of things 
 As yet not come to life." 
 
 " Better is a little with righteousness, than great reveouea witliout right." 
 
 PaoTtaas. 
 
 It was Sterne's opinion that our sympathies are not so powerfully 
 
 ^Ki--»- 
 
 ■1 .> j re, .»T I 
 
 *»■* >•» 
 
 V.ti li^-ss 
 
 tbii 
 
 ^^ .-/»:' 
 
 ^M.-5: 
 
 ,<>3ftA4>i 
 
 ■ ■■:-%} 
 
 - -f^f.'^J>^ 
 
 SHAKSPIAai. 
 
Poundt given to 
 hM matorialiy 
 
 iriendt, umumffy 
 
 dpared for M« 
 
 itry, should b« 
 
 (vlfitlineu and 
 
 of the Lcgida- 
 
 i« rctpontibilitjr 
 
 >lly, any longer 
 ler the talent to 
 ' uf the pwiple, 
 he used against 
 St both. 
 
 en, for all have 
 
 facts dUclusad 
 
 >f the mode in 
 
 irhich would ap- 
 
 I cut the fol* 
 
 the one itOtttigtnl, 
 incipled,— the one 
 li." 
 
 lictionary, eon- 
 
 ! paid to icFTP, 
 
 crying thief at 
 
 n the Newspa< 
 e ha diflera in 
 
 >d to, it was not, 
 lUnd, <u tk* Hf 
 ijTHtrni of futrm- 
 y and eorTuption." 
 oiiHdfnce on that 
 Ideri, Knd lh» Mr- 
 inn the honoured 
 tiipport to such a 
 
 srniimrnti ■(■Inst 
 tit into M« t»rvict 
 
 complaint afainst 
 lorernmcnt I'a <i/- 
 I indtptndtnct tf 
 
 iuntr; rxhihit this 
 ^cll^ the mott intti* 
 aubjecu, are held 
 
 ight to the exact 
 I driiboraiion ; for 
 ^ward^ by tk» Go* 
 ?uiiktilurnlf, from 
 generally no srm- 
 » expuied to their 
 
 15 
 
 ter, feeling 
 raagioarjr grie?aa- 
 licition of a vulgar 
 rant and ktifmrlf 
 
 J purchased by 
 i>iiks true, still 
 Vilkins family, 
 leak for Ihem- 
 a I ready record- 
 and madness of 
 Lraight forward 
 
 -:..vr\T-a t-f, .-srrfis-jsi 
 ^-■■s>* fillil it-^W 
 
 . ..-. ,,J, 
 
 SHAKiriAai. 
 
 IS without right." 
 FaofaaBs. 
 
 t to powerfully 
 
 
 •letted, by the contempUtion of the great sum of human misery, 
 as by selecting and dwelling upon particular instances uf wrvtched- 
 netii and misfortune. It is quite possible that the rule may hold 
 good, in estimating the extent of liuman happiness and proxiivrity 
 —of the combined results of good lurk and goud inunii){vmfnt. 
 Having set liefore you, therefore, in gross, the great sum uf the 
 disinterested patriotism of the Olistructives, let ma now svltct a 
 few conspicuous instances, by wliicli the purity of niotivu — the 
 personal sacriflcos— the disdain uf filthy lucre, ever cvincud Ity 
 that party, is brought out in strung cuntrnst tvith the sclfislinvss, 
 cupidity, and corruption, of the " Uespmisiblvs." 
 
 I will take two men whose names and pusiti(ms iiri> pretty well 
 known to every body, so that h few ulifjht tuuches will »( uncv fix 
 public attention upon the strong points which I wish to ilUistiute. 
 ThcM are 
 
 Thomas N. JcrrRcr itNn Jusei'ii Howe. 
 
 The reason why I begin with these, is, because both of them 
 have been connected with the Press. Mr. IIowu purchased, with 
 the produce his own industry, printing inaterinis to carry un the 
 businesa to which he was bred, ho placed his own name at tlie hend 
 of the paper he published — and, however he may have attacked 
 the system with which Mr. Jeffrey was ccmnected, always com- 
 mitted iha unpardonable weakness of doing justice to that gentle- 
 man'a public and private character. Mr. Jellrey purchnscs print- 
 ing materials with the overplus of an enormous ofiiciul salary, 
 withholds bis name, hut encourages others to scandalize and defame 
 all thoae with whom he may happen to differ in politics. In un 
 •speeial manner does he repay the simple candour and magimni 
 mity of Mr. Howe, by causing that person to be sti;;matizfd, week 
 after week, by every vile epithet known to tlie English language. 
 These little points of contrast will at once su^rgest tlie propriety oi 
 tha sort of financial parallel which I am about to institute. 
 
 Joseph Howe came before tiie pulilic in 1827, has l>ern on the 
 atage about 15 years— and has, during that period, given his entire 
 time to the country. In the discussion of public quustious lie lias 
 written and spoken a good deal — has had his share uf responsihility, 
 anxiety, and labour, in suppurtintc what he believed to lie riglit, 
 and has drawn from the Frovinciui Heveiuius, the enurmous sum, 
 fur two years allowance as speaker, of .4'400. This vast amount 
 of public money has of course fully justified the charges uf venality 
 and corruption — wlfishness, and wasteful disregard e( tlie resources 
 of the country, showered upon him in the 'I'i'nes and Observer. 
 
 Thomas N. Jeffrey was a member of Council in I till, and 
 I presume, was at that time Collector of the Customs at tliis port. 
 For many yean subsequently the officers of that department were 
 paid by fe?s, and, it has been conjectured that the Collector's sliare 
 oecasiooally yielded from jt*3000 to jtViODO per annum. Since the 
 paasagvof the Colonial Act, .Mr. Jeffrey's salary has been fixed at 
 JEMOO sterling, or .i*2,.'i(M) currency, and I am willing to take that 
 aa the maximum which be has received every year since IHI I, and 
 then it will appear that this great man has only drawn from the 
 Revenues of the Country, in 31 years, the moderate and trifling 
 aum of ;£77,500. This is really a very small amount for so dis- 
 tinguished a patriot— so able a writer — so eloquent a speaker— so 
 •eeomplished a statesman — one who has done so much to advance 
 the interests, elevate the ' 'elieetual character, and improve the 
 institutions of Nova Sooiia. The injustice done to this individual 
 will be at once perceived, by placing his name, and earnings, side 
 by aid« with those of the man who has nearly ruined the Country 
 by awallowing up all its Revenues. 
 
 Joaarn Howe, 
 For fifteen years 
 aerriee. 
 
 £400 
 
 T. N. 
 For 
 years 
 
 jErrhxT, "i 
 tliirty one > 
 > service, j 
 
 £77,500 
 
 Now can any body wonder that Jeffrey buys a Press, and puts 
 it into the hands, now of a Parson, and then uf a Lawyer, to ex- 
 pose the nefarious designs of a man who swallows up so much of 
 the public revenue, and leaves him so paltry a share. 
 
 Let me take two other tolerably well known characters to form 
 a aeeond historical parallel. 
 
 HuoH Bill and Henhv Hezekiah Cooswkll, 
 
 There are various reasons why I make this selection. Both have 
 sprung from the humblest wnlksof life — both represented the Town 
 of Halifax — both bear the title of Honourable—their ages are about 
 the tamo, and both are very well known to the Cuiumunity, for 
 varioiu reasons. 
 
 I have said that both sprung from the humblest walks of lif^. 
 Mr. Bell's father was pour, and he was bred to a mechanical em* 
 ploymunt, and had to educate himself. Mr. Cogswell's origin was 
 nearly, if nut quite, as humble — but he contrived to get some edu- 
 catiun at Windsor, and studied Law, — his brother kept a butcher's 
 shop fur some time in Halifax, and his relatives are chiefly farmers 
 in king's County. It will be seen, then, tliat in point of blood, 
 and liirtli, and family connexi'ins, tiiere ih no great difference be* 
 tweeii the two, and tliat tlio.se wlio blame Lord Falkland for select- 
 ing Mr. Hell, lieciu>ie lie was not ■'liurii great,"cun .scarcely approve 
 of the conduct uf tiiuse wlio selected .Mr Cugswell. 
 
 Both represented the tuwn uf Halifax. Mr. Cogswell was once 
 elected, but, after one trial the people laid liiin aside, for reasons 
 wlilch were considered (juite sufficient at tlie time, but which need 
 nut he gone intu here. Mr. Bell was called into public life iis 
 1830, by a numerous and mo.st respeclulile deputation of his fellow 
 citizens, and elected without opposition. At the general election 
 which followed, he was again returned by n handsome majority, 
 and wnuld have been triumphantly re-elected in IH40, but retired 
 to make a vacancy fur a personal and political friend. 
 
 Both bear the title of " Honourable." Mr. Cogswell was elected 
 to the Cuunuil after tlie people were tired of him, and, the Sovereign 
 getting tired of him also, lie was subsequently again laid aside. 
 .Mr. Bell was elevated to the Council while possessing the confidence 
 uf the people, and siill retains his seat and the confidence of the 
 Crown. 
 
 Both have been industrious men, yet there is some difTerenee in 
 their worldly circumNtances. Mr. Bell having had to encounter 
 the ordinary risks and diihculties ol business, and having "a heart 
 open as day to melting charity," and exercising to all who had 
 claims upon him, an unostentatious and generous hospitality, is de- 
 scending into the vale uf years with Imt a muderate independence. 
 .VI r. Cogswell, pursuing tlie safe business of an attorney, enjoying 
 peculiar advantages, and giving his whole soul to the beautiful sci- 
 ence of accumulation, has hecume, it is siippused. immensely rich : in 
 the eyes uf tlie world, therefure, he has some advantages, in tite eyea 
 ot him who "loves a clieerlul givci," and who has declared that it 
 is dilheult "fur a lich man to enter the kingdom of heaven," the 
 distinction may not be so much in his favour 
 
 In one other respect, these men's fortunes have been very unlike. 
 .Mr. Bell has all his lifi! lung discharged his unties as a citizen — 
 paid taxes, and contributed his quota to support the Government of 
 the Country and the institutions of the Town ; he has served five 
 years in the Assembly, one in the City Council, and two in the 
 upper Brunch of the Legislature, hut has nefer held any office of 
 profit or emolument, nnd never drawn from tlie Jitvcnucs of the coun- 
 try one farthiny. .Mr. Cogswell was called to the Bar in 1798. 
 Shortly ul'ter he was appointed Clerk to the liotation Court, some of 
 the Justices of which used to allow him to collect their fees in ad- 
 dition to his own, so that, ahuoU from the commencemtnt of hi» life, 
 he tasted the aweet» nf office. Mr. Cogswell wa.4 sulist'qu>.-ntly em- 
 ployed as Deputy Secretary and Reyistrar of the Province, and after- 
 wards received the appointiiient of lieyistrur ofthe Court of Chan- 
 cery, which he licid until a few years ago. H'hat the pn^fits of 
 these offices were, in the hands of a man like Mr. Cogswell, it is 
 impossilile to conjecture. All the community know is, that a poor 
 attorney, never distinguished ut the Bar, but who nearly all his life 
 contrived to he in un office of some kind, has grown enormously rich, 
 and they are disposed to judge the streams by the character of the 
 pasture which they have fertilized. I li contrasting, then, the two 
 men whom I have selected, this fact stikes the mind forcibly — that 
 while Mr. Bell has never bein in office, Mr. Coyswell has rarely been 
 out of one. Had they changed places — had Mr. B. been the lie- 
 gistrar, and Mr. C. taken to the shop, it is quite possilile that the 
 wealth which is bragged of on the one side might have belonged to 
 the other, altbnugh 1 a little doubt whether Mr. B. 's generosity 
 w'juld not have increased with his me.ins. 
 
 There is another i iew in which the characters and public services 
 of these men shoulo he considered. Mr. Bell,, whatever good be 
 may have done to the City of Halifax, and the Province of Nova- 
 ■Scotia, has done neither cintj evil, while Mr. Cogswell has been a 
 chief party to one if the widest spread and most nffiicting calamitiet 
 which has ever fallen upon both. You are aware that the Legisla- 
 ture, many years ajo, made a small issue of Treasury Notes — these 
 were inci eased, from time to time, as the exigencies ofthe country 
 re<iuired ; but the whole Revenue being pledged for their liquida- 
 tion — the amount in circulation being definitely known, and' the 
 management controlled by the Lrgislature, whether the policy of 
 
 \ 
 
16 
 
 i«uing thete notm wai sound or not k '» cirar that, linil they ncvvr 
 been tampered with, nogrent mischief would hnvo arisen from their 
 circulation. Whatever the minchivf wai, even ndmittiri); for n mu- 
 nipiit that th« policy wai unbound, it vraii Kimred liy the whole pco. 
 pie, who alwiKut tie henefit of the itaup, and whose united resour> 
 e«a Were pledj^ed to maintnin the character of this Paper. In nn 
 •«il hour, Mr. Coj^swell. having riittened on offlcinl employment, 
 •olleeted around him a f>!W wealthy merclmnts, nnd established a 
 Bank. An ingenioui note was devised, " pnywble in gold, or silver, 
 or Province Paper," the simple public liclicving they were to have 
 which they chose, hut finding, in the 3i.'qu«l, that they were to linve 
 Ju*t what the Uank chose tn give them. .Slowly anil smoothly the 
 work went on, until the Provinces were flimded with Co|{swell & 
 Co'i notes. Money, that is, paper money, hvcumv suddenly nbund. 
 ■nt : Quire after quire, and ream after roam, of it, were manufaC' 
 tur«d at the Halir«i; Bank — any body could get as mucli of it as he 
 wanted, hy writing his own, nnd getting one or two olhtr names, 
 nn a piece of paper. These pieces of paper were (;iven to C"gswell 
 & Co. who gave theirs in return, then; being just this triHing dis- 
 tinction between the two, that, while upon every hundred pounds 
 borrowed from the Province tht> Hank paid nn interest, for every 
 hundred pounds lent, the people of Nova Scotia had to pay (ij^ per 
 cent. In process o( time, by these suhliine operations, Cogswell 
 ti Co. became enormously rich, nndevi.-ry body elte became vvretch- 
 •dly poor. Almost every man in liusiiiess, and all their friends and 
 connections, were i?ntangled in the net — by those "sudden con- 
 traetiont and expansions" which the Pictou Observer considers a 
 
 Sam'i, he would not probably havo over rltrn much aboT« (ho •tr* 
 menti by which he was surrounded. Alike in loine thinga, how 
 diH'crent has been the fortunes of these two men. Mr. CInpman'a 
 father, old William Allen Chipmnn, a alaunoh old ConttitutionaU 
 ist, still living, represented the County of Kinga for many yeara 
 in the Legitlature, faithfully, laboriously, aenlouily. Uut bia 
 opinions were liberal — he was in favour of free education, and fair 
 play to all riassps — was not ushiuned to be called a llcfurmer, and 
 often set his face against the powers that were. lie haa pasaud 
 through a long life, and a long Parlinmrntary servitude, holding 
 no office hut the iniigisteriai one, and never cost the cobntry a 
 lartbing, living in oomfoit and independence in the midst of • large 
 circle of connexions and friends, and prepared to lay down hia 
 head in peace amidst the scenes which his labours have embellished, 
 lie is one of those fine old yeoman, of wh>)m thousands arc to lie 
 found supporting the new principles, but who are called beggars, 
 and people of no character, in the Times and Observer. Mr. 
 Cliipma^'s son has followed in the footsteps of his father— a frlcxd 
 to free education and fair play, be has always l>cen a Kefornier 
 and • liesptmsible — be was not afraid to oppose a tiovernmi'irt 
 which he dibiik' d, nor is he afraid, openly, steadily, and with bie 
 whole heart, to support one of which he approves. For about ten 
 years he bus represented his native Country, never having held • 
 pui'lic oflicc or costing the Province a furtbing. He helongnd to 
 that "contemptibly, ignorant, nnd beggarly ilouse ot Asteinbly," 
 which carried the fourteen measures. 
 
 Mr. Michael Wallace was also a member of the Assembly, but, 
 
 modern feature of our commerce, but which originated in " the good [ fulling in business, was appointed Tieasurer of the Province, Iba 
 old times," every i.pecies of property was raised or depressed in ; former Treasurer having fortunately cummitii^d suicide about the 
 value at the noil of the wily Presidi>nt. Whatever the Hunker* time, in consei|iience of his salary being reduced, tn p/at,!nt ate* 
 
 wanted to buy suddenly fell, and wluitever they wanted to sell, ns 
 suddenly rose. The precious metals were driven from circulation, 
 and, indeed, an idea was fast taking hold of the public mind, that 
 
 petition of which practice, that uf the new incumbent was imr<ie> 
 diately raised. Mr, W. passed a long life in the enjoymenii of 
 iillicial salary, a seat in the Councils, and the control of the Pto> 
 
 this was a country which could do without them, and in which they , vince funds, after he was a Hankrupt, and during all which time 
 eould not lie retained. If any man ileinanded specie he was can- 1 Mr. Chipinan was living on bis means, and serving thepublie for 
 tioned — if be persisted, be was quieted, but marked — if it was a | nothing. Jn process of time, .Mr. Wallace's family grew up — tk»y 
 person whocould Ixf bullied, he was reftised. Thu» king ilczekiah educated on the Windsor fuiindalion, from which Mr. Chipman'a 
 ruled the land with bis rod of paper — five partners, out of the eijrbt | sons were excluded, by tests and restrictions, — one of them was ap- 
 who were concerned in the Hank, were members of the P^xecutive I pointed Comptroller of the Customs, with a salary of ^1,000 a 
 and Legislative CojnciU, forming, with their relatives, n majority j )car, another to several smaller sources of income, and his young- 
 in both, the town sras represented by a creature of the Hank, | est born, the fortunate youth whose conduct has prompted Ibis pa- 
 jCSO,000 a year of the labour and swi^at of the people flowed into I rallel, wus sent to Scotland, to study medicine. He returned 
 its vaults, and sound principles, commercial security, and political i about the time that Mr. Chipinan had won the confideiiee and cs- 
 independence. appeared to be banished from the land. teem of a noble County — and, without official income or Collegiate 
 
 By and bye the bubble burst. The people began to feel the i advantages, had shewn the •' metal of his pasture" sulHciently to 
 
 miwrable state of thraldom and degradation to which they had de 
 seended — a few energetic leaders rallied them to assert their inde 
 pendence, and that long and fierce struggle commenced, which 
 only terminated when competition in Hanking was secured — when 
 apecie payments were enforced by law and public opinion — when 
 the Representation of the Town was purged, and Ilezckiah and all 
 ht« troop were swept from the Councils of the country. Hut who 
 can forget the wide spread suffering and misfortune that this war of 
 independence entailed — when llalifix resembled a " Deserted 
 Village" — when half the shops were closed — a third of the houses 
 unoccupied — when unsaleable country produce wus thrown over the 
 wharves — andwben our people, in thousands.were emigrating to the 
 ■wampsof the South, and the wilds of l:he "far west," there to pluck 
 the name of Britton, and the thoughts of childhood's home, from 
 their aching hearts, and to rear a race of young Republicans in a 
 foreign land, who should have " grown in beauty" beside their nn- 
 live streams, worn the May -flower on the 8th of June, and stood, 
 in lime of peril, " a wall of fire '' around the soil against whicli. 
 whei* thoroughly denationalized, they may live to draw the sword. 
 Hugh Bell, whatever may be his faults, had iio share in this 
 blessed work —it is therefore quite ajiparent, and here I shall finish 
 my parallel, thnt thoiie who abuse him. and praise Mr. Cogswell — 
 who descant on the wealth and public services of the one, uiid the 
 poverty and vices of l;he other, have u great deal uf reason on their 
 side. 
 
 Samuel CnirMAH and Charles Wallace, 
 
 far oomc reasons, deserve to be compared. Their abilities are 
 about equal. Education, and opportunity, have given some offi- 
 cial 4eater!ty to the one, which the other does not possess, but 
 -wMah ii more than counterbalanced by natural shrewdness of in- 
 telleel and firmneta of eharaeter. If Bam had had Charles's adv.in- 
 tafea, bo would have been an able man. If Charles had had 
 
 prove bis title to the suffrages of hundreds of his Countrymen, nnd 
 his capacity to enter upon the honourable, but barren path of 
 public life, where his father had found nothing but thorns !but 
 v/hich, when tiod by his more fortunate contemporary, seemed re- 
 dolent of perfume, and paved with gold. About the time that 
 Mr. Samuel Cbipman was preparing fur the Legislature, in wltiob 
 lie has served ten years without receiving a farthing, Mr. Cbarlea 
 Wallace came from Scotland, a young inexperienced Doctor, with> 
 out practice, influence, or anything else, to give him a claim u;M>n 
 the Guvernirent t.>t the people, yet the Iron Chest was handed 
 over to him, and be has ever since rejoiced in rank and afflucneo 
 which be never earned, but which enable him to encourage libel- 
 lers to Ktigmatizu Chipinan as a Hankrupt Ueaponsible, a rebel 
 and a scouiiilrel. 
 
 " History" is said to be " Philosophy teaching, by examploe." 
 Sn fir as these sketches iiiuy be coiisidcreil historical, I have endea- 
 voured to make them accurate, and at the same time inttriiclive. 
 1 could continue these parallels for weeks, setting in humorous and 
 graphic juxta-position a score of Constitutionalists and Obstifuc- 
 tives — of the supporters and opponents of the present Governm>int ; 
 but enough bus lieen done to teach the enemy a useful lesaon — to 
 show the people of Nova Scotia who th<>y fed until they " have 
 grown fat and kicked," and who have served ibein failhruUy, disili-' 
 terestedly and lung, " without money und «vitboi't price." 
 
 No. 9. 
 
 l,-o 
 
 Come, here's the map ; shall wa divicle our right f 
 
 Saaanpuu. 
 But \et me put an end unto m; thame. 
 There ii an end of iiinall. BtMN. 
 
 My labours are drawing to a close. There i« but one of the 
 strongholds of the Obstructives left standing, all tho ethers, upon 
 
VI 
 
 ell Above (tio tit* 
 uinv thingi, ho'«r 
 
 Mr. Cliipman's 
 1 CuiutitutionaU 
 fur many y»»tii 
 nuily. Uut hif 
 iriitioM, and fair 
 I llcfurmer, and 
 
 lie has pawtid 
 rvitude, holding 
 : tlie euOntrjr • 
 ! midst of a Jaritti 
 tu lay down hia 
 av« vmhtlliahed. 
 usanda arc lo lie 
 1 called bcggavs, 
 ()l)*vrv«r. Mr. 
 father — a frieud 
 ten • UefofiBcr 
 
 a Uovernmi'irt 
 ly, and with Ma 
 For about ten 
 !r hHTing held • 
 He belonfinrt to 
 e oi AsMtinbly," 
 
 AnntmXAy, but, 
 e I'riivihce, lb« 
 Liicide about Iha 
 to piret ent a i^ 
 hent was imrie- 
 ie enjoymenii of 
 tvul of the Pro. 
 ( all irhieh time 
 g the public for 
 r ffiew up — t!l»»y 
 
 Mr. ChipmHn'a 
 of them was ap> 
 iry uf jC 1,000 a 
 , and his young> 
 rompted thia pa- 
 lie returned 
 nfideiue and ca- 
 me or Collefjiate 
 " sulHeiently to 
 nuntrymen, and 
 barren path of 
 but thurits but 
 rary, leetned re- 
 lit the time that 
 lature, in whieb 
 g, Mr. Chatlec 
 id Doctor, with- 
 im a claim upon 
 rst was handed 
 k and afflurnec 
 rncourage lilieU 
 Dnsible, a rHbel 
 
 , by evamploe." 
 I, I hHveeiidea- 
 line inttriictive. 
 n humorous and 
 :s and Ul>st!fue> 
 tt Governm'int ; 
 sefiil lesMU— to 
 III they " fiave 
 raiihruUy, dtsicw 
 J rice." 
 
 t ? 
 
 Sauiisnuu. 
 
 but one ef th« 
 he others, upon 
 
 which they so confidrntly relied, are level with the ground— lot ma 
 for a moment try whether they can rely upon its extent p.nd dura> 
 bility, a^ a plaoa of shelter — upon the strength of this last " refuge 
 fur the destitute," worsted as they are on every Aeld of argument, 
 and driv«u from every jungle where they lurked. 
 
 **AVe have all the wealth of the country on our side — the men 
 {if. property are opposed to Lord Falkland — the Conttilutiunal- 
 istii, rho sustain the new policy, are men without means, rvpre* 
 •«nt«d by acontemptibly ignorant and beggarly House of Assem- 
 bly," is the impudent iNuist, made l>y the^e Ubstructiveii, in almost 
 every sh<«t they publish, and at every corner wliero the, jngrvgnte. 
 This monstrous lie they have told sooften that they almost believe 
 it themselves, and the complacency with which those of them who 
 have one shilling to rub upou another strut about amidst the 
 admiring glances of those who have not, whenever Murdoch and 
 Wilkios, both of them rolling in riches, administer the grateful 
 flattery through the Times and Observer, is very amusing. 
 
 The wealth of the Countrv against Lord Falkland, against the 
 new principles I ! that would indeed be a misfortune ; fur the Con- 
 stitutionalists admit that those who own the property, generally 
 possess much of the intelligence, of a country, — and, if assured that 
 those who really own this Province, were opposed to the princi- 
 ples tbey advocate, they would prepare for the triumph uf the 
 Obstructives, and the restoration of tlin ancient regime. But the 
 Constitutionalists believe that their right to the positions they occu- 
 py, is based, not only upon the soundness of their principles — 
 upon their intelligence and capacity — but vpuu thr. owntr»hiii of 
 the Country in u-hich they dwell. In their name, I make the 
 assertion, and am prepared to prove it, that the wealth uf Kiwa 
 Scotia If with Lord Falkland, and nut against him, and that the 
 Obstructives, who claim tiie whole, own but u fragment of the 
 property of the Province. 
 
 The mistake which the Opposition full into, is, in supposing 
 that, because they have a few wealthy men i.i their ranks, thoy arc 
 ail rich — because they have a few overgrown fortunes to point to, 
 that thry possess the entire rent-roll of the Province. I admit at 
 once that tbey have two or three wealthy men, some of whoi. liavc 
 so acquired riches as to forfeit all personal respect; I admit, that 
 much of the wealth which has ^rown out of public employment — 
 the boarded sweets of office, is on their side ; but I dony their 
 right to coDtroul the government, upon this ground, and 1 assert 
 that, even putting the ca -« upon the sordid argument of proper- 
 ty alone, they are entirely in the wrong. 
 
 Rothschild was a very much richer man than either I\Tr. Collins 
 or Mr. Cogswell, but I never heard of his being a member of the 
 Cabinet : fai« property has descended to his son — yet he is neither 
 in the Lords nor the Commons, the Ministry nor the Privy Coun- 
 cil—is neither Governor General of India, Lord Lieutenant of 
 Ireland, nor Governor Gsneral of Canada. Why? Simply, 
 because, in England, a mere miser is never suspected of being a 
 statesman, and because, in the high political and intellectual com- 
 petition of a free country, a man must rise to those elevated 
 stations by tbo exhibition, not of a sordid character which repels 
 his fellow creatures, but of rare qualities that win confidence and 
 command respect. Sir RobcrtPeel and Lord John Russell, Brough- 
 am, and Lyndhurst, have distanced, and would again, all the mil- 
 lionaires of England— and the audiences that hung enraptured 
 upon poor Sheridan's brilliant oratory, would have turned with 
 disgust from the pompous declamation of a fool who could pay the 
 national debt. We must be prepared, in the Colonies, then, for 
 what constantly occurs in England, for having richer men out of an 
 Administration than any that are in it, without admitting that any 
 argument can be drawn from the fact that injustice has been 
 done the excluded, or that the principles of 'the Government are 
 unsound. 
 
 But is the wealth of England against Sir Robert Peel because 
 Botlischild i* not in the ministry — because a verylarge proportion 
 of the manufacturing and commercial classes are against him ? 
 No. Those who own the largest portion of the soil — the real 
 eatate— ' broad acres of England, ate in his favour ; and upon 
 their support bo comes into power, and would smile at any clique 
 who denied his tight to govern, even if one half the wealth of the 
 country was against him. Upon tha broad acres of Nova Scotia — 
 which (lave been cleared by the labour and toil of its people, 
 and which, with the wealth accumulated and accumulating upon 
 them, in buildings, stock, and annual increase, Lord Faklland 
 mi|>ht safely take bis stand, even if all the other classes were 
 againgthimi for these vastly outweigh and cast iuto the shade all 
 
 other descriptluns of property which exist in Nova Scotia— but 
 while four fifths of all thi; acies, and the independent owners and 
 ocuupyvrs who live upon tliem, are in his favour, a vant majority of 
 all tha other classes are ilio cither supporters of his government, 
 or friendly to those broad and liberal principles upon wjiich it ii> 
 administered. 
 
 Let me glance over the Province, to ascertain where all this 
 property is that Wilkins and Gossip «ay tbey posseu. Turning 
 east, I find the whole Island of Capo Breton against them — they 
 do nut own a stick of it — there are not fifty freeholders in their 
 favour — there is not a single man of any standing or influence, 
 and I know most of them, who calls himself an Obstructive and 
 openly avows the opinions of the Rump. The meml)ers from the 
 Mining County of Capu Breton, the Commercial County of Rich- 
 mond, and the fine Agricultural County of Inverness, support 
 Lord Falkland, and openly avow Constitutional principles — there 
 may be opposition to Mr. Uniacke, on tli'groundof iiun-residenco 
 — to Mr. Delaiiy, from those who profess to be still mure liberal, 
 but there is no opposition, and can be none, on the ground that the 
 Government is badly administered, and that the old system is bet- 
 ter than the new. 
 
 NoNr, then. Messieurs Obstructives, mnrk this fact — the whole 
 Island of Cape Breton is against you, and in favour of the new 
 principles, and Cape Breton is rather a large slice of the wealth 
 and property of the Province, which Lord Falkland has been 
 sent to govern. 
 
 Let us step over into Guysboro', and what di we discover? 
 For four years its former Representatives acted with the Re- 
 formers — one of these represents the County yet, and supports 
 the present government ; the other is opposed, and therefore it is 
 but fair to give the Obstructives some property in Guysboruugh, 
 although I shall wait to see a man mount the Hustings as an 
 avowed opponent to the new principles, before I decide whether 
 there is enough of it to make a mcmlier of Parliament, even 
 there. In the adjoining County there never has been, and wu 
 hojic never will be, a member avowing the political crfed of Col- 
 lins, Jeffrey & Co, I do not know a man of any standini?, or 
 political influence, in Sydney, who thinks with ;hem — both its 
 members are Constitutionalists, and support the present govern- 
 ment, although one of them declined voting for the contidciicc re- 
 solution. In this fine county, then, teeming with agriculturul pro- 
 ductions, with hundreds of thousands of acres of the finest upland 
 in the Province, where is the wealth, the property, of the Ob- 
 struc iives ? echo answers where ? 
 
 In passing into Pictou, it must be acknowledged, that a portion 
 of the property and population are against us. The reason of 
 this has been already explained, but it must be borne in mind 
 that the oldest settlers, and .-i vast number of the most indepen- 
 dent men, whether doing the business of the towns or improving 
 the Agricultural settlements, are in favour of the new principles 
 and with the government. Hundreds who are agoiiist us cannot 
 read English, many of them cannot speak it. and we must wait 
 untilintellectual cultivation prei.aresthe way for political enquiry. 
 In Cvlohester I look in vuin for the property of the Obstructives. 
 There may be a party here opposed to a non-resident Candidate 
 — there may be many who wish tu break down old family influen- 
 ces, or who desire that a main road should run on one side of a 
 river instead of the other ; but there is no party worthy of the 
 name opposed to Constitutional principles. Every township 
 returns a Responsible— the County is represented by another, and 
 the (candidate around whom the opposition to Mr. Dickson 
 rallied, pledged himself to the new principles, at the Election, be- 
 fore a vote was given. I do not mean to say that Cogswell j< Co. 
 may not have a handful of admirers in Truro, but what I say is 
 that their wealth, their property, whatever it may be, is but a mi- 
 serable fragment of the whole. In Cumberland, su far as I know, 
 the Obstructives are nearly as bad off. All its representatives sup- 
 port the Government — the people, I believe, approve of what they 
 have done. The partythat acted against the old Reformers, did 
 so, partly from attachment to Mr. Stewart, partly perhaps because 
 the new principles were not Cully understood. The events of the 
 past two years have reconciled many to the new state of things. 
 and, although circun[istances have given tu the liberals no local 
 victory, they, like the liberals everywhere, rejoice in the adoption 
 of general principles of government, beneficial to the whole coun- 
 try, and ask only that they should be fairly carried out. 
 
 I run my eye over the noble Counties of Hants' and KIng'.s 
 and find every Township ond every County seat filled by a Con. 
 
 C 
 
m 
 
 it{(u(lon«IIit. T1»c OUlructlfH li«»« not n rapr«MnU(l<r« of th«lr 
 opinion* from Ardoiw HJIIt to tha CarrilMo Bo|C. In all M* 
 bvHutlfiil tract of country, thtaarden of Nova Scotia, our opinl- 
 oni liave talcvn ili'cp rout, ond tiia ilavith doctrinca of the Hump 
 ar« utlrrly dopiied. ' do not mean to *ay that in tliia wide re- 
 (•ion there are not torn* Obatructivea— that there majr not lie lome 
 determined partiMni, ard aome men of lubttanee and property 
 againtt iii i but I Imow that llit great mnM of the wealtli, intelli- 
 pence, i-neerprite, and publijapirit, of thi« l>ea«tiful region, are 
 with u«,and that many who formerly feared that the Ilvfurmer* were 
 rushing on tu extrenici, aru delighted that the Government of the 
 country ban leltled down upon ao broad and liberal a liasi*. 
 
 Incrotsing to Annapoli*. we have to ride through theeiten- 
 sive, lieautirul, and populou* Townthip of Wilmot, embracing 
 one half of the whole, livfuru wo ciin And aliove four or five Ob. 
 itructive«. At Uridgctown there wai a knot who used to uphold 
 the old system very flereely, and another at the village of Annapo- 
 lis but many, fvan of these persons, are, I believe, now that the 
 battle is over,' disposed to live at peace with their neighbours, and 
 give a fiir trial to the new state of things. At all events I have 
 not heard of their having given in their aillierence to the Rump. 
 It is prohnhio that some of them ihinic Unincke,flnd Dodd quite 
 IIS safa guide* as ^Vilkins and Gossip — and, nt all events, even 
 admitting that they doni>t, they are entitled to but half the Town- 
 rhip of Uranville, and even a smaller proportion of the Township 
 of Annapolis, in any estimate of property which statistical politi- 
 cians may attempt to frame. 
 
 In Digby there is no opposition to the present Government. 
 Its united representation is in favour of the new principles, and 
 nppruves of the munstirvs and conduct of Lord Falkland. To 
 fay tlint there are not conflicting family and local interests here — 
 that the struggles of the past have left behind them no jealousies 
 and animosities, would be saying too much — but really I am at a 
 loss to know who aru the adherents of the Hump in this County, 
 and who have taken service in Collins & Go's corps. Yet there i* 
 good deal of property in Digby — to say nothing of the Villages, a 
 traveller rides almost through a street from Dear River to Mont- 
 cgan — the fertile fields of the Constitutionalists are spread on eit r 
 liiuiil, but the wealth of the opposition it would require keen eye* 
 to discern. 
 
 With the south'wetitern Counties of Yarmouth and Shelburne, I 
 am, perhaps, more familiar than with many others. In each of them 
 there has been for many years a little clique, similar to that in Ho- 
 lifiix, who monopoliaed tlie Provincial and County offices, and, 
 maintaining by scrupulous devotion the oonfideno* of the old 
 Council, did Just what seemed right in their eyes. Possessing 
 unlimited and irresponsible power, which they suppoted wa» to 
 last for ever, these persons paid little reapect to the increasing 
 numbers, the accumulating wealth, and the growing intelligence, of 
 the people. Uy and bye they began to find that those who bad 
 subdued the forests — who had cleared farm* and built brigs, and 
 made both the land and aea tributary to their intelligenoe and 
 enterprize. were disposed to assert their right to manageiheir own 
 afi'airs. This was of course resisted, but with poor sucoein. The 
 people rose in their strength, and the power of the eompaots was 
 destroyed. From Port Hebcrt to licavcr River, the** ancient 
 Dynasties, like that in Halifai, are without a Representative in 
 I'arliament. To say that there are not tome very worthy people, 
 who still cling to the agreeable delusions of the olden time, when 
 they belonged to a privileged class and had every thing their own 
 way, and wlio dream of the restoration of influence and power, 
 by some miraculous interposition of Providence, would be to 
 III is. represent the real stole of the ease— to assert that they own no 
 property, n'uuld be unfair— but when I assure you that the great 
 aggregate of thp wealth, aa well as of the numbers and intelligence 
 of these counties, is in favour of the new principles of Colonial 
 Government, I only assert that which those who know any thing of 
 tbein know to bu the fact. 
 
 Lunenburgh and Queen's, in farmer times, went with Uniarke and 
 Dodd — they do so still, and I have no reasrm to yield to Cogswell 
 and Co. any property in these Counties, until they have ascer- 
 tained how many of the freeholders intend to march under their 
 flag, and call themselves by their names. After the next gene- 
 ral election, if they set up Candidates to oppose tha gentlemen 
 who now represent them, and who they assert have bartered away 
 their independence. I will give them the benefit of all the wealth 
 they may bring into the field. In the meantime, I must confess, 
 
 thnt, in looking over theia Counti«*i they appear tob«>'poor 
 inde«l." 
 
 Having thu* nude th* circuit of tht Provinee, I enter the Metro* 
 politan (>iunty withoutany misgiving*, because, even if every mM| 
 and every stick of property within it, were oppoaed to our prinaU 
 ple«, and to Lord Falkland'* Administration, aupported aa theae 
 are throughout the country, neither would have «ny thing lo tHt^ 
 Hut do the Rump own all the property within the County of Ha« 
 lifax ? You ahall Judge. I have ahewn you the eitntonlhiery 
 scheme* retorted to by tome of them to make money out of Uit 
 misfortune* of their fellow creature*. I have ahcwn yoa hovr 
 abunitnnt and ateady have been the ttreafni poured froa tho 
 public treatury into their pockeu. I have not shewn you halt tb« 
 advantages they have had, f^om Contracts and CommiMion*, embrm« 
 cing, for years, the expenditure of almost every pound, Imperial tiid 
 Provincial ; and, therefore, if they do not own the whole County of 
 Halifax, it really is a matter of *ome *urprise. But do they ewa 
 it? No. The industry, capacity and intelligence of the Comti. 
 tutionalistt, have acquired for them, without any of theae advanta* 
 ges, a fair proportion, and, the wall of pirtition once brokeit doWn, 
 and the good things of the Government fairly divided, the Rump 
 will have little to boast of. How little they have, even now may b« 
 seen from these facts, that in 40 settlements outside the town of 
 Halifax, embracing the entire fishing and agricultural portion* of 
 a County a hundred mile* long, they have only the prrponde* 
 ranee in one, the "ebony" district of Hammond Plains,^while in 
 many they do not own an acre or influence a mnn. In Rallfiiit 
 proper, they are more fortunate — but even here a vast proportiott 
 of the solid, substantial wealth, of the community — of that which 
 ha* been acquired by honest industry, flrugality, and well uirectad 
 enterprise, is on the siile of the new principles, and in favor of tha 
 Government, In the central ward of the City, Mr. Bolton had a 
 majority, with a twenty pound .franchise — and, withoutany com» 
 hined action, or great effort on the part of the liberali, tha 
 Mayor, and nearly one half of the City Council, are Aleodly to 
 the new principle*. Many men of wealth, and a majority of that 
 substantial middle class, who are above the world, vrithout btmg 
 above their buiinesa, are Constitutionalists ; and yet a )wrecl of 
 needy scribes, who have been half their lives preying upon their 
 fellow creatures, without one shilling to rub itpon another, attt 
 all the time representing those who own one half the flredhold* on 
 the Peninsula, and seven-eighths of all the landed proti«Hy«itbin 
 the bound* of the County of Halifax, as pco(>le without Intelli' 
 gence, respectability or means. 
 
 Let me *um up thi* review, in *uch a way that pcraonai at booM 
 and abroad, may clearly understand it. 
 
 Premising that our representation i* based upon prcpettp, upon 
 that best and most permanent kind of property real *«/a/*-~apd 
 that 2d,000 freeholders are entitled to vote : what do we find? 
 That 21,000 of these are in favor of Lord Falklaad'a Adaainiatia* 
 tion, and 4,000 againit it, and, separating the four " Rcaponai 
 hlea" from the representative* of the Hump who voted againtt tbo 
 confidence resolution, what do we find ? Why, that there era 
 33,000 freeholders, or oieittr§ of landtd prcptrtg, in Nora Scotia, 
 lit favour of the new principhs of Colonial Govtmmtnt, and 8,000 
 against them ; and yet the scribes who admiaister to thu bad pa»i 
 sions of thi* slender minority, continually insult the maforityt by 
 descanting on their poverty, and declaring that tboaa who ««B 
 33 part* out of 25 of tha entire (urface of the Proviaoe, aia mea 
 without intelligenoe, property, or independence, who ahouU ainro 
 render themaelve* to the guidance of a few peraoae who have giowa 
 rich by battening on their vitals, and of a fcw others, who haea not* 
 for yeara, while they have been bragging of their fnean% had on* 
 shilling to rub upon another. 
 
 Here, for the present, my fellow-eountryttien, I ahall eloae thi» 
 (eries of paper*. When I commenced them it wes Wt i n t ett tl o ri 
 to havo scourged, unsparingly, a greater number of tnoie whotk 
 folly had compelled me to take up my pen. In laying it down, 
 I am eoniaious that many are reprievedwho onghtnot to be allow, 
 ed to escape. But all wars— even defensive oae»— ■honld b« 
 prosecuted only so long as is neeesmry to redren inmilt, atid to 
 exhibit decided mattery over the aggrcasor. All beyond ttila i* 
 sheer cruelty and oppression. Though I may not, then, hate 
 done all I MMliied, 1 have done all that ia requited. If I hae» 
 given the Obalruetivei more of argument, and fen of penonality, 
 than they expected, ond if a good many find themaelvea more 
 frightened than htirt, it i* because they did not coit^e irttlllli tli* 
 
ir to b« •< poor 
 
 Iter lh« Mttro* 
 n if tTvrjr nuui( 
 I to our prineU 
 portad u thcto 
 r thiiif to (SMir. 
 County of Hs* 
 •itrtonlbMry 
 1*7 out of tiM 
 icwn yoB hotr 
 urad from th« 
 rn you half tb« 
 Issionf, onibni« 
 I, Imporialtntf 
 hole County of 
 It do thoy own 
 i of the Comti* 
 thme wtTanta* 
 • brokm doWn, 
 led. the Rump 
 ;n noir iniiy b* 
 lo the lonrn of 
 ral portion* of 
 the prcponde* 
 >lain*,>hne in 
 I. In RaltfiiX 
 a«t propottioh 
 ■of that wliieb 
 1 well «iireeted 
 in fsTor ofth* 
 r. Bolton had a 
 houtany com- 
 I liberali, th« 
 tre Aiendly to 
 laJoHtyoftlurt 
 without beiafr 
 et a ttareel of 
 ing upon their 
 n another, aria 
 le flreoboldt on 
 ropeHy within 
 ritbout intclll- 
 
 raona. atbooM 
 
 jtvpeitf, upon 
 al €$falt—imi 
 it do we find? 
 ■ Adminittn* 
 ur " Reeponti 
 ed againtt tb« 
 tbat there era 
 Nora SeoUa. 
 tnt, ami 2,000 
 
 tbtt bad pa»< 
 
 1 mafority, by 
 iioao who wan 
 iaee, atamea 
 
 ihouUaiirK 
 ho have grown 
 wh« hare not, 
 1000% kadoM 
 
 ball ehMe thi» 
 
 1 WIT fattetttioit 
 f thote whoik 
 tying it down, 
 t to be alhnr. 
 »— ihonld b« 
 innitt, atid to 
 beyond tbit b 
 it, then, hare 
 d. Itthm 
 if penonallty, 
 naelvea more 
 it^e witMh tiM 
 
 10 
 
 exaet number which were thought naeetiary for aialutary eiample. 
 Let the pa«t teach thvm a umIuI feeton, to keep thomMlvee out of 
 bad eorapany, rememberiag. that, aa tlie law don not only nuniah 
 thote who eommit a orime, but all who are found aiding and abet> 
 ting, a gentleman who it villiiiad and tiandered hat the right to 
 take hit choiee of the eirole from whence the nuitanoe prooeedi. 
 The pettieoati I have left unrumpled— theto are the only Obttruo- 
 tire argumenti for which I havo any retpeet — the only onet that 
 are not torn to piecee. 
 
 For the pretent I lay down my pen. Whether or not it will 
 be returned, at any future timu, will depend upon the conduct of 
 the oppoHitinn. It h not probnblo that I ihall mind, for months, 
 any tiling that U written or said. If I find that time correct! the 
 
 tone of the ObtlructiroPretii that tboie who write for it are 
 learning to reaton like gentlemen, and not vituperate like blaok- 
 guardt, it it not likelr that I thall appear in print again, or at all 
 eventi, if I do, it will bo to tbow that the Couititutionalitta are 
 able to hold their ground, by the lawt and with the weapona of 
 oirilited warfare, however chivalrout and refined. On the eontra> 
 ry, tbould the Rump continue the tyitem which provoked the te- 
 vere letton they have now been taught, upon their own head* bo 
 the contequencet. They know that the publither it not afiraid lo 
 print, they know the weight of my hand, and thejr know not the 
 day nor the hour when they may find in their midat their old 
 friend and lervant to command, 
 
 A CONSTITUTIONALIST. 
 
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