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These extracts have been made with a view to shewing an historico- political fact, viz : that the friends of justice and fair-dealing to the Roman Catholics of Ontario have been Sir John Mac- donald and the party which he has led, with almost unvarying success, for ever a quarter of a century. The extracts speak for themselves, and require no further comment. Gtlohe [Article on "Roman Catholic Immigration" I2th January, 7 Al r>^ ,^:mr f:i^1fl}y^ [Article on " Peterboro Election" January 26th, 1856?)^ " Acted upon hy their clergy, the Romiin Catholics of Upper Canada are indeed to be feared more than they have ever been before." " Force the full scheme of Bishop Charbonnel for the destruction of the School System on the Ministry ; break up the nurseries of knowledge throughout the country ; bring in the hordes of Roman Catholics who are being driven out of the States because of their opposition to Liberal Institutions ; put down every Protestant who, in the legislature or lecture-room, asserts the right of speech. Such are the measures which Rome has in view to convert Upper Canada into a dependent province." GldbB.\ Article on "Peterboro Election" January loth, i8^6.'\ " There is not a man in the whole province who values Protestant liberty and who hates Romish despotism, tiiat will not mourn if the telegraph tells the Conger is returned." Scheme" "L( the Prot more Nii on every School 8^ such thii be arouse "W satisfied Messrs. ] servative iirst legis and a Po Books of ^R~ I ^ I nhaX'^'^''^" " -^^"^y ^'^"l^^i" February ist, 18^6^ " Hdw strange that Rome does not try a more straightforward plan of raising revenue. But it finds that this answers its purpose well ; 'that the fears and aflfections of mankind are most easily toucha'l ; that through them the pocket is most easily reached ; "•and 'so long as its votaries are credulous enough, so long will tha scheme be adhered to, and so long will vast sums be forthcomin to rivet the bonds of spiritual and temporal despotism which' through so many ages, Rome has wound round the neck of its disciples." Sep'r 2 8 nji inoh^ [Arii values hi our emp has no ii bounds ; ill tho/^' )iTiir!*o P»r S8 1II .:r=-?^?^lfe^ 8 [Article on " 77/^ Government Organs on the Popish Colonization Scheme,'' February ijth, iSjd.] " Let them (Conservatives) close their cyeo and go on insulting the Protestants of Upper Canada a little longer ; let them pass more Nunnery and Monkery Bills — squander the public money on every Popish scheme the priests present— destroy the National School System at the bidding of Count Charbonnol ; let them do such things, we say, a little longer, and our word for it, they will be aroused roughly from their dreams one of these mornings." Globd'^''^'^^^ " ^^'^ ^'^y Members and the Popish votes," Feb. 14th, 1856. " We are not astonished tiiat Dr. Lett should be perfectly satisfied with any flimsy pretext that may be put forward by Messrs. Bowes and Cameron (Hon. John Hillyard) — both Con- servatives — for having proposed in Parliament and carried the iirst legislative sanction for the establishment of a Popish Nunnery and a Popish Monkery thnt ever disgraced the soil or the Statute Books of Upper Canada." eec/t of George Brown, House of Assembly, February 8th, /i^c?.] " It is true that at the elections we generally have the Catholics against us. We do not expect to have their votes." rioOf-. \Speechof Hon. O. Mowat, Legislative Assembly, tith March, i858!\ " All experience proved that sectarian schools were impossible, and that they could not be supported upon the voluntary sj'stem. He was afraid, however, there was too little ground for believing that be was mistaken, because in a recent pastoral letter of Bishop Chorbonnel's, it was stated : ' That those electors who did not use 'their votes for the purpose of securing Separate Schools were ' guilty of mortal sin ; that those parents who sent their children ' to mixed schools were guilty of mortal sin ; and that those ' confessors who gave absolution to parents who acted thus were ' guilty of mortal sin.' Was it surprising, in view of these things, the Protestant spirit of Upper Canada was aroused ? " -^v \ 1 1 •■9. m fT^^T 1 . - wjiii »^fi»j|j|,^.j,i„.,.. .^mmt., ..,.-.•. ^%jP^'^ '■lOmi^\Speech of Attorney-General {Sir John) Macdonald, Legislative Assembly, I3th March, 1858.^ " Pie said that the defeat of his colleagues had been caused by the Popish cry. The real question upon which the members of the Government were defeated in Western Canada was on the Popish cry." yjcuOhi • [ Globe, July and, 1857- ] " The Orange Association " Purified from the mean and contaminating influences of hungry time-servers, and the hangers-on of worthless place-holders, who would barter the rights of the people for a mess of stipendiary pottage, the body could hardly fail to act as a breakwater against the mare magnum which, issuing from the Pontine Marshes, rushes against all that is dear to the patriot and the Christian." ;/,06t*.[" The Twelfth of July," nth July, iSs?.] " Rome openly threatens inroads upon our liberties, which ten short years ago she dared not even to hint at. From the past let us learn wisdom, and oppose a stern front to the machinations of the Vatican and its supple tools. Forbid it that the blessings purchased by our ancestors with the sword on the banks of the Boyne, and amidst the wild fastnesses of Aughrim, should be wrested from their children in British North America." fyl,OOv\'^igr"^'ons of Priestcraft," August 7th, i8s7-] " The Canadian Protestant has but to look back on the history of the province for the last ten or twelve years, and McHales, u part in attending Assembly attempted annually ( to enhuiic box with they have the Elector. " Fin public me institutioi sion. I laws, the regard to all sound handed d( to defend 1 \Speec I2th Decen "He John's) at of Bishop [Refe) December 1 "He very few ^^jsir'^ j9^ «■?; .M %. \'\ 10 Morrisons, Clarks, &c., &c. were found an the side of Sectarian Education. We can claim 19 of tlio 21 wlio voted Nay to the Bill. 'J ho Grand Mnster of all the Orangemen, as usual, voted for the Bill. Wiien will this absurd farce of a professing; Protest- ant Association giving its aid to the machinations of the Romish liierarchy come to an end? The following is the Upper Caiiada vote on Mr. Burwell's amendment : — Ykas. • Bell, Bjir^nr, Biirwell, Comero;i, M. C, Cockbiirn, Dickson, Dunsloid, Ferj^uson, Hamilton, Hooper, M " [ need hardly remind the House that I have always o|)po^ed, and continue to oppose the system of Sectarian Education. I toinisii isli r'mJ-an' admit that from my point of view, this is a Mot on the scheme before the House ; it is, confessalli/, one of the concessions from outside that had to be made in order to secure this great measure of reform,. But assuredly I, for one, liave not the shghtest hesitation in accepting it as a neccsi-ary conditi(jn of tlie scheme of iinion, and doul)ly acceptable must it be in the eyes of honor- able gentlemefi opposite (the Conservative party), who were the authors of the Bill of 18G3. At the Dominion General Election of 1872, the Conservatives placed in the field three Irish Koman Catholic gentlemen as candidates for the Dominion Parliament, viz : James O'Rielly, Q.C.. for South Renfrew; George Dormer, for South Victoria; and John Kidd, for South Perth. The two former were elected, but Mr. Kidd suffered defeat, mainly through a feeling aroused in the constituency antagonistic to his religious opinions. This was the tirst attempt made by any party in Ontario to render justice to the Roman Catholics in the matter of parliamentury representation. The example furnished by the act of the Conserva- tive party in 1872 has since met with imitation, but to that party is certainly due the credit of having first inaugurated, through a spirit of justice, the policy of giving representation in Parliament to that large and intelligent body of Canadian citizens. In 187-i no less than four Roman Catholic gentleuien were returned to the Ontario Legislature by the votes of Conservatives; and during that Parliament tlio Hon. M. C. Cameron (now Chief Justice), then ■'> opposition, had amongst his followers the majority of the Roman Catholics returned to the Legislature. Again, in the matter of appointments to the exalted and dignified position of the Bench, Sir John Macdonald has set the example, which will of course meet hereafter with imitation, of elevating to the judiciary mm wm HH f,^Vi . ^:^^; j 12 au Irish Catholic gentleman in the pereon of Mr. Justice O'Connor. And had it not been for the early death of Mr. James O'Riellj, Q.C., of Kingston, an Irish Catholic would have occupied that distinguished position many years ago. To Sir John Macdonald and the Conservative party is also due the fact that, since 1872, no Cabinet has been formed without due con&i deration being given to the representation of the Irish Catholics of Ontario therein. Throughout, the Conservative party has given the example of dealing with the Roman Catholics of Ontario in a spiril: of justice, while, as is clearly shewn by the evidence furnished in this pamphlet, their opponents first sought to deprive them of privi- leges wliich they held most dear — sought to prevent their coming into the country in the first place, and finally to ostracise them when they did come. The Reform p^'^y, in this matter, can claim the one merit of having followed a good example when they fonnd it to party interests so to do.. i.i \