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Les diagrammes suivants illustrant la mAthoda. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 TO THE ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. 'I5j" 'Ik' KiLLOW COUNTRYHKN, Dr. Tuppcr is riding round among ;ou, cndcu- voring to pcrnaado you to vonSrm him in the appointment of Provincial Secretary, which he hon accepted in the new adminiHtrotion. You and I know tht! Or. pretty well, and, judging hy the absurd mia-Hlatcmentu which ho haa damaged hii> character by hatarding on the floorpf the House ol' Assembly, I can form a pretty good ostimato ot the niisreprviicntationa and mis-statemciitii which ho will ni.ikc on the Hustings, and in your village School IIouscK, if there should happen to bo no one there to confront and bring him to book. There are a good many things that I know he will tcl! you, uiid a good many more that he will find It convenient to forget. If vou keep this letter by you till atler you huvc hoard him, you will be able to tbrni a pretty good estimate of my knowledge of character and ot the Dr's. regard to truth. I. He will tell you that our lluilroad I'oliey liii.s created a flnanciul crisis. That the Treasury is empty — the credit of the Province exhausted, and only a few miles cf Uailroad lini,l liiii ill IS.M, tile (iiiM riimeiil wen 1 1 iblet ciiiiiiiieiiee l!.ii!r(iiiil> in ]>*'A. Tliii when ne {lel'oiileil me in l^.i.'i lie was powerle.-s I isljp lliulii, iieeause my IViemln were strnii;; eiio il'1> in tlie Leiiiiiliilure III pidlei'l diir policy. Tell liiin lliiil tlieie are iiww lillij iiiiK.-or ICailniail ai woikiiii.' oriler.unil Til more neirl, lliii«Iie,l, That the wliiile road I" Wiirl ir will lie eumpleteil iioxl siinimer, anil thai, wh ii il i>, a ('iimlierluiul man may emiie In Halifax froiii Anilier.-l. .\ilvueale llarliiiiir, or llie Two j-lainl-, in a ilay. Thai he (all come I'riim I'aiT'lioni ami irn I'ark mi lliu Mime ilay. Tell him that the road ■<< ('iiinlicrlnnd and I'ictou i,< loiateil III Truro, iiniler eonlraet In .Slewiaeke, tiiil iiiMrl\ linislieil In Ni'ImihV mi the .SImlieiiaeadie. 'I'lial beliire the end id' this year we shall go by Ituil In ttilliin 17 miles III' Triirn. and that Ihosesevenlieii miles will lie npeiied, (if ihe eiieinieri id Itailrnails eiiiiinl slnjithe wmk), ill Ihe spring of l**.")!^. Thai, when lliey ale, ('iiinbi'rland men fioiii all the ( iiilf and Mmiiilaiii selllements, can come In llaliliix i:i one lay, ami reliun the next. There will then be III part oi'diinilierlaiid, from which good rtage lines, and ihe Itail, will not bring you and your wives and d inghlers In the niclin|inlis of your own country in K day. .Vnother year or two will carry it to your c luiity line, and tenable me tu go to Wiwtmoroland ti) breakfast, and return to Ilaliliix to dinner, lleniind l)r, Tuppur how ho uMid to IVightun you ilHiiil the Tux (jntheror coming round the country to 1851 £107,014 1852 108,413 18r>:i 124,512 KM ,':157,17!) 1855 108,428 1850 138,883 jt33!),939 £438,730 339,939 Total increase, in three years £98,431 Tell him that, while those Railroads have been going on, you have had more money expended on your Roads and Rridgcs than, during any lliree years since the I'rovince was settled ; Road Votes in — 1851 £30,000 1852 32,500 1853 32,000 £95.000 1854 £43,000 1855 45,000 18.'>(i 42,000 J.' 130,000 95,- seiigers, 52'J horses, 8(l!l barrels, besides a great ilenl of other freight were earricd. Tell him that the old sinry alioul U.iilmads, in this Country, not paying working expenses, has been •xploded, every mile yet opened in Nova ,Seiuia iiaving paid them from the lirst day. Tell him that the nllier old .«.lorT, about Itailmad-^ being closed up by Ihe climate in winter, lias also been exploded; the Loeoninlive having been upiiii the track everyday this winter, and, with the ex- ception of two or three days (when ordinary travel- ling was interrupted by freshet^ or deep siinws,) neither mails nor passengers were delayed Ity the time you have beaten all these tacis iiito the Hoelor's head, he will imagine that a L'nnd deal of his eloipieiii e may be prnlilably liirned iiitn sniiii' other channel. He will then begin lo entertain you about the ex- Iravugam^e of the late t lover inienl, and tell you linw they created pensions, and perpetrated jobs III various kinds. He will not repeal lo yon Iho triumphant answer given lo these charges nn Ihe tlnor of the Assembly, when niiide by his learned leader. Mr. Johnston ihurgod upon the lale .\dminislra- llon that they had perpelralcd Jobs, and ercatml Pensions. I answered him, us you can ans.«er the Doctor, by showing : That tile only I'ensions, created by my friends, and now paid out of the I'ublic Treasury, are I'ensiiin to Hknkv Crawi.kv, £300 J. H. Morris, 800 Hon. .\lkx, Stuwakt, 400 £1000 While wo have saved, by redueing the salary and allowances of the Secretary of the Province from £1980 to £850, enough to pay tho whole of these three Pensions, and have £155 to spare. The saving then in this single Department, you will SCO, covers all that wc have agreed tu pay. — Let us start with that. Saving in Secretary's Office, (over and abovo al tho Pensions,) £155 Saved by abolishing the Chancery Court. Judge Stewart's salary, 700 Saved by consolidating two Ijand Departments, 1000 Saved by consolidating two Revenue Departments, CCIO £84(55 Deduct tho salaries of the Financial Secretary and his Clerk, (tho only new Offices created by the late (iovernment, 850 £7015 To this w'll be added (when the Pensioners die) 1000 £8615 with this statement before you, my friends, you need not by much frightened with the Doctor's alarming stories about the Jobbery and extrava- gance of Ihe late Administrations. You can shew him that, since Mr. •lohnston retired from the Un- vernment in 1848, an annual saving of £7015, which will by and by be swelled to £8015, has been effected by certain beneficial changes in the i Public Departments. This saving would make more I than a mile of Railroad a year, to the end of time, ; let the Doctor say what he will. Hut what else has been sttveovc,hcre is£7059 Ii llagoud round sum which this cminlry would have lost, h id the |)nelnrs':. friends had the inanagi iiiciil ofmir Public affairs. 'Ihe Dr. will, [iriibably, by this lime, finil llial ymi knnw rather more about tinaiieial alfairs than himself and will gel upon iilher ground, lie will lell yon that Mr. Jnhiistiin was enabled In nvertiini tin late (invernmcnl, because ciglil Kmiiaii Catlielics, in llic most innocent and natural way, went nver and joined him, withoiil any ellier leaseii lli.iii rei;ard iiir llie good of this ennntry. lie will nnl lell you the rea.suiis that indiii-cd them to go. 'I'lie.-e ynii will find, in my letter, addressed In the I'enple nl Nnva Scotia, on the 2nd nf Mareli. In which I refer you. Vou will al.so find them explained at large in an address put forth by '."J I'rnleslant gentlemen, nicmbcrs of tho llou.se uf .Vsseiiibly You will find that llr. Tapper received the appninimcnt which he asks you to confirm, because bis liuder and himsell defended, in the courts, and in the IjCgislature, the destroyers of tioulay's shanty. Reeanse lliey de- fended a person, dolccted in inrrc.spnndenco with banished traitnrs during tho late war, and because they ilciiicd to Protestants the right In retaliate upon those who " senfi al and revile" everything that Protestants and Inval lirilisli subjects hnld dear. With these facl,s Isdinc ymi, il will lie liir ynu In say, whether rint, blond shed and ilisloyallv, shall bo jii.vtilied ami screened in this country ; wlielher a Itunian (NUholie minority, who have proteeled riot- ers and cn-operalcd with Kngland's enemies, shall rule the Province, or whether an Administration shall bo formed in which Piolealanlsand loyal snb- Joots of tho Queen can have contldenci\ In the ineantimo, believe me, Vimr Obedient Servant, JOSKPH HOWK. lUi.ir.\x, March 10, 1857,