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 Letter from S. Flemint/ to H. S. Aytoun, Esq., M. P. 
 
 Railway Office, ) 
 
 Halifax. April -ilth. 18> ;. > 
 
 R. S. Aytoun, Esq., M. P., London. 
 
 Dear Sir, — A gentleman who was recently in Entrlaiid as one 
 of the Delegates to promote the Contederation of the British North 
 American Provinces, received by the last mail a private letter 
 which rather reflects on my character in coimection with some 
 observations said to have been made ' on in the Honse of Com- 
 mons, hence the liberty I now take in addressing yon. 
 
 The gentleman referred to, vi-/.. the Hon. Jonatlmn McCully, 
 very kindly favored me with an extract from the letter referred 
 to, and allowed me to make nse of Ins name but tlie name of his 
 London correspondent T do not know. Tbe letter is dati^d London, 
 :K)th March, ISOT, and the extra(!t is as follows: 
 
 '• It is said liere that SamUonl Fleininj.Miis])ir(Ml Mr. Aytonii s.'vcral years 
 since ujiaiiist the road, and that he based his opixisition to it upon Flemin<r'< 
 eorrespondenee with hini. Yoii iiad better read this to Fleininir so that he 
 may know what is said of him. Aytoim. it ai)pears. referred to some 
 private man connected with tiie road, and in .h'l)ate slid to Adderly that if 
 he named the party ho (Adderly) woidd not di<pnte his capacity to judge. 
 T he: i i this myself, and several in my hearin<r said it was Fleming, and 
 referred to a conversation in the lobby the previous eveninii in which 
 Aytoun was said to have specially named Fleminjr as Wnv^ an acquain- 
 tance of his family and in correspondence with him. an<l was the party from 
 whom lie pot the information which induced him to oppose the <Tuarantec 
 for what he considered a worthless line goin-r throupdi a desert." 
 
 When 1 inform you thut I have occupied an important official 
 position in connection with the undertaking, you will readily per- 
 ceive how damaging tlu; charges implied in the ai)ove nuist he to 
 my reputation, and that I must naturally be desirous of exculpating 
 mvself. In this I lind it willFbe necessary to allude to the mly time 
 
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 I uxor liiul the pl(3iisiir(3 <>!' ine()tiu^ you, und to tlie iiature of my 
 l>usiiioss at that pLM-iod. 
 
 In tho s|)riim' of lSi»:') I visitiMl London, in ihcs interest nnd at t\w. 
 request of that isohitc^l Tohjiiy in the in(»;rior (if IJritish North 
 America, known as the Red Rivei- ScitthMnt-nt, and in orth'i- to 
 itromoto so fur as lay in my power the estalilishnuM)! of a lin(^ of 
 eommnnieation from Canada to the Setth>ment an 1 hence to l>ritisli 
 t^ohimoia. Learning- that I was in London on |)u'.)Ue husiness, aiul 
 tiiat I ori<»'inally hailed ♦'•■om the constituency wliich you repi'csent 
 in I*ai-liament. yow Vv.»^ kindly sent me a note of invitation to 
 lunch with you at your |)rivate house on a c, "tain day. On refer- 
 ence to my iliary I lind tliat on Tuesday, llUli .lune, I called in 
 accordance with this invitation at your house, at half-past one 
 o'clock, ha<i lunch with you, your mother, ami Miss Aytoun, and 
 left heforc four o'clock. 
 
 This is the only occasion, so far as 1 rememher, I ever had the 
 pleasure of meeting you, and 1 am quite certain that I never, 
 hefore nor since, (until the j)resent moment) wrote a line; to you 
 or to any meml)er of your family on any suhject whatev(U'. It is 
 quite possii)le that the project.'(l intercolonial Railway may have 
 l)een alluded to, amongst a variety of otluM' suhjects. at your tal)le 
 on the occasion referred to, hut I could scarcely have; said anything 
 respecting the country through which it is intended to run, to 
 which much importance could l)e attached, as up to that time 1 
 had never seen either Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, or set foot 
 on any part of the country between Quel)ec and Halifax. 
 
 My mind, at that j)eriod, was mainly occupied with tlie inmie- 
 diate object of my mission to London, viz., the opening up of a 
 road through the wild unoccupied districts between Canada, the 
 Rocky Mountains, and British Columl)ia ; and 1 think it more than 
 likely that I asked you to acce} t a copy of a Canadian Parliisnien- 
 tary publication on this sul)ject, and which embraced some rather 
 lengthy ol)servations on a proposed systtnu of constructing Railways 
 and roads, generally, through, unsettled districts.* In these oliser. 
 vations the Litcrcolonial Railway is alluded to incidentallv, and it 
 is shown that the j)roposed system for building lines through 
 countries in a condition of nature, might, with advantage, l>e 
 adopted, should all other means fail in securing this important and 
 much wanted link of connection between the several Provinces. 
 
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 It is just possible that your mind may liavo been impressed witli 
 some int'ormati(jn in the blue l)ook referred to, or it may be, some 
 casual remark, thouuhtlessly uttered at your tabic, and forgotien 
 the next moment, i can conceive of nothing else. If from the 
 idue book, you can have received no information from me in an 
 improper manner, or of an objectionable nature, iinismuch as it 
 was Inid before the Colonial Secretary, Hi' Grace the Duke of 
 Newcastle, as well as Itefore all the Provincial Governments, long 
 before it was placed in your hands; and some time afterwards 
 the Imperial Government, as well as the; Governments of Canada 
 and Nova Scotia, did me the high honor to a|)p()iiit me to the 
 office of Engineer, when it was first proposed to begin the surveys 
 of tliis important line of Railway. 
 
 Tlie above is a statement of facts, so far as 1 know or remoml»er 
 I them. If I am in error, will you kindly correct me ? If the state- 
 ment is correct, will you be so good as confirm it ? I am quite 
 ignorant of having done or said anything that I would recall, or 
 that 1 am ashamed of, and my main ol>ject now is to give an 
 emphatic denial to the charges l)rouglit against me, viz. : 
 
 1. That I insjiired you in your 0|>positioii to the guarantee for 
 the Intercolonial Railway. 
 
 2. That although tilling an imi»oi'tant official position in relation 
 to the undertaking, I liave lieen secnnly in correspondence with 
 you with the view of defeating it. 
 
 8. That 1 have actually furnished you, in an underhand way, 
 with information acquired in my official capacity as Engineer, and 
 which information induced you to oppose the measure. 
 
 These are the only interenco tliat can bo drawn from tlie lerter 
 recently received l»y Mr. McCyiiUy, from his correspondent in 
 London. I assure you they are utterly n>pugnant to me, and I 
 am perfectly certain, whatever be your views respecting the jiolicy 
 of l)uildint'' the Railwav. vou will readilv relieve me from all 
 imputation of a dishonoralde nature, in the very little intercourse 
 ;1 have had with you. 
 
 • Pardon me for this rather lengthy communication, and Itelieve 
 ine, 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 SANDFORD FLEMING. 
 
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 Lifter in re/)l// from H. S. Ai/tonn, Kftq., M. P„ to Sandford F/iminf/. 
 
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 London, .'{,S UpptT Brook Stivet, "^ 
 Park l,aiu'. Ktli May, lH(i7. y 
 
 Dkar Sir, — 
 
 T have received your letter of the 24th April, and reirret to 
 hear that ati imf)ressioii has been produced auiouir i^oine pei'sotis 
 eounected with tlie Colonies, that you had been in correspondence 
 with nie. and that it was in consequence of information I received 
 from you that I oj)posed the uuarantee for the Intercolonial Railway. 
 I never had any correspondence with you about the Intercolonial 
 Railway, and the only time I ever had the pleasure of seeing you 
 was when you were in London in 1863. You were then, I believe, 
 interested in the Red River Settlement, and I requested you to call 
 (,.. me here, which you did, and we had some conversation about 
 the Red R^'ver Settlement. I rememl)er also that, bcin<>' strongly 
 opposed to u'uarantees for Railways, or indeed for any otlier objects 
 in Canada or in any other Colony, I asked you some ([uestions 
 about the country through which the Railway would pass, etc., but 
 you came here to discuss the (juestion of a road to the Red Rivei- 
 Settlement, and not to discuss the Intercolonial Railway, and 
 anytliiiij!; you may have said about the Railway was only in answer 
 to questions from me. This was the only occasion on which I ever 
 had any conversation with you: and 1 certainly never corresponded 
 with you either before or since that time about the Intercolonial 
 Railway or any other subject. I think this is quite sufficient to 
 show that there is no foundation for the assertion which you sav 
 has been made, that you have been endeavouring to e.xcite an 
 opposition in the House of Commons to the guarantee for the 
 Intercolonial Railway. 
 
 I remain, 
 
 Yours faithfully. 
 
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 ( Signed ) 
 
 R. SINCLAIR AYTOUN. 
 
F/cniivt/. 
 
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 pci'sons 
 ipondcuce 
 [ received 
 
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 ercoloiiial 
 ceinji you 
 
 1 believe, 
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 ion about 
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 lei" ol>jecls A^ 
 
 questions if 
 ;, <fec., but 
 Red River rf 
 Iway, and 
 in answer s 
 licb 1 ever J 
 respoJKled 
 :ercolonial 
 flficient to 
 ii you say 
 excite an 
 3e for tlie 
 
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