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MR. McQEE'S ADI 
 
 TO THE CATHOLIC PUBLIC-MORE ESPECIALLY TO THE IRISH 
 
 A maa who for the first tima cater i public life as one of the legislators 
 of a country,— who is expected by his constituents to represent them on 
 every question; by his co-religionists, at large, to represent them on cer- 
 tain groat questions as fully as his own constituents— who has been indus- 
 triously misrepresented before entering on the stage,— has a difticult part 
 to play He has to demonstrate his fitness to fill the seat to which 
 he has been chosen; he has to show cause why pre-eonceived prejudices 
 ao-ainst himself and his electors should be abandoned; he has to reconcile 
 h?s peculiar obligations as the representative of a class, with his general 
 duties as one of the legislators of the country. This was the arduous 
 problem set before me by my kind confiding friends of Montreal in Ue- 
 cember last, on the demonstration of which I entered in i^ebruary, and 
 from the continued close pursuit of which, a temporary interruption made 
 in your name, but without your authority, prompts mo, at this moment, to 
 
 jaddress you. , , , , , -. e ■> 
 
 After the adjournment, my friends, I would probably have found some 
 means to place before you a retrospect of the session. To review it now 
 is rather to report progress than to announce results, though some little 
 cood has been done, and one great evil at least, averted But the inter- 
 ruDtion to which T have alluded has been accompanied by so many mis- 
 statements and misjudgments, that perhaps, it is better I should address 
 you at once, and in this manner, for with the two newspapers, referred to, 
 I can have no discussion. j- i • iU 
 
 I felt it to be my duty, in my place in Parliament, to disclaim the wri- 
 ter of one of them, for foisting into the House a most imprudent petition, 
 whi;;h._wa3_ne£eAsatil? J:aiftoAe4^^«4.te-^'2A^ ^^^^ 
 ''other, in playing the henchman at Leeds and GrenviUe to the father 
 and founder of Orangeism in Canada." , • •. j i^„„„r 
 
 It was, is, and shall be my duty, so long as you desire it, and no longer, 
 to take cogniiance of your Parliamentary interests which, in both the in- 
 Btances I have cited, were endangered and betrayed ; but, as regards the 
 newspapers themselves, you must decide whether or not you will permit 
 them to assail me in your name. That is your affair rather than mine If 
 vou approve of their conduct in those cases, and towards me, you will sus- 
 tain them as before; if, as I have every reason to believe, you totally dis- 
 approve of that conduct, you will adopt the only other alternative, in 
 that resort, I have every assurance that you will not be many days deprived 
 of the serv ces of a really independent and unpurchasable Toronto organ. 
 
 I assume that you can all feel how difficult a task I have to perform a« 
 your special reprisentative. L. lly, men elected by the confidence of 
 their class, wheS they get into Parliament, finding their «i'f^'«f '« ^f hj-« 
 to them like the shirt of Nessius, take the very farst occasion to throw it 
 off This act is often performed with ostentation and vightly punished as 
 treason. Many a bright promising career has been blasted by candidHtes 
 under?aking what they ha'd no intention of performing, and nowil to at- 
 tempt after election. I need not mention names; you can rocal some 
 auch instances. Now I say for myself, I undertook nothing which I do 
 not mean to perform, and therefore I claim to exercise in is lull plenitude 
 the Jower wi?h which I was invested by the Montreal election, and the 
 reception of that event, by the body of my co-rel.giouists n^ V^ e^i^rn 
 Canida. And if I have my part to perform, you will permit me to lepeat 
 that you have yours. Yours is, not to allow me to be caballed agams o 
 be deliberately misrepresented and misreported ; to be obstructed and be- 
 lied in your iKime, by the paid writers and advertising i^ents ot the j e- 
 seiu M nistry. Tliis justice I claim at your hands, and, if it were possible, 
 or even probible, that it could be refused to me I would then have sen- 
 ou4 to consider the akernative of witlulrawing from public l.fe without 
 further loss of time, and devoting myself, in future to my own private 
 
 *^i"pass now, at once, to the state of parties iu the Province; their re- 
 specUve reladuns towards us, and ours towards them, as I understand 
 fLm That the, present Prime MJni.ster may be personally, and in his 
 secret heart, a truly liberal man, is one of those suppositions wluc i any 
 one c - -ke, but which no one is bound t. believe without evidence 
 I deal with facts, and will quote a tew of quite recent da e he hi t 
 fact ' 1 stiall iS rr ntlon. is Mr. Ma cOonald's own letter ol ihu dale ol 
 January 18th, 1858, addressed to Mr. Do Grasse, Secretary of Orange 
 Lodee No. hn, (Gowan, Master,) beginning and ending "Deal Su 
 and IkoVher.'' The second tact is, Mr. Macdonald's response to my 
 l„n OH the debate on the address, as to his patronage of 
 
 certain to wii 
 Canada maja 
 
 We havo 
 parties. Ou; 
 French Cana 
 fully two to ( 
 of whom all 
 speech. On 
 somewhere al 
 it impossible, 
 without us, c 
 West, and iti 
 didates. 
 
 With our 
 promote a m 
 that among 
 very determi 
 Mr. Cartier'f 
 " did not wa 
 spirit not to 
 known and i 
 French Cans 
 selves respec 
 able and enli 
 Laberge, an 
 
 S' "" ut w 
 i ire obta 
 of French d 
 Of the di 
 as yet very i 
 a Colony ar( 
 For the trut 
 those who 
 Province, h 
 Englishmen 
 and Canada 
 and have so 
 could see th 
 a body; anc 
 self-respect, 
 to 8ubstitut( 
 •IlFor the 1 
 I trust do f 
 tholics of Ii 
 liberal Prte 
 of Grattan i 
 lon-ed. T: 
 friends and 
 which you 
 mony throu 
 the last ant 
 Governmen 
 bear off the 
 This shoulc 
 your own c 
 through yo 
 above all tl 
 to speak, ai 
 pay them, 
 of other m 
 every way 
 to procure 
 of the who 
 I havo n 
 sailed nic, 
 of Mr. RroA 
 has endless 
 formation, r 
 his youth a 
 But before ! 
 
 January I8th, lS5x, addressed to Mr. Do Grasse, .Secretary of ()range | has endless c 
 
GEE'S ADDRESS 
 
 PECIALLY TO THE IRISH CATHOLICS OF WESTERN CANADA. 
 
 lefrislators 
 it them oa 
 em ou cer- 
 een indus- 
 fficult part 
 t to which 
 prejudices 
 
 reconcile 
 lis general 
 le arduous 
 •eal in De- 
 iruary, and 
 ption made 
 moment, to 
 
 *ound some 
 iew it now 
 some little 
 t the inter- 
 many mis- 
 ild address 
 referred to, 
 
 m the wri- 
 nt petition, 
 Eto'uTi xfi Vne 
 ■' the father 
 
 d no longer, 
 both the in- 
 regards the 
 will permit 
 n mine. If 
 ^ou will sus- 
 i totally dis- 
 •nativo. In 
 lys deprived 
 jnto organ. 
 ) perform as 
 jnfidcnce of 
 ialitc adhere 
 
 1 to throw it 
 punished as 
 y candidates 
 10 will to at- 
 
 rocall some 
 
 which I do 
 
 all plenitude 
 
 ion, and the 
 
 in Western 
 
 no to repeat, 
 
 1 against ; to 
 
 cted and be- 
 
 3 of the prc- 
 
 'cre possible, 
 
 m have scvi- 
 
 lifo without 
 
 own private 
 
 2(i ; their re- 
 l understand 
 , and in his 
 IS which any 
 out evidence. 
 ,e. The lirst 
 
 Lho (liitc of 
 ^ of Orange 
 " Dear Sir 
 jnse to my 
 )alronaf'o of 
 
 certain to win converts for all our reasonable demands, among the Upper 
 Canada majority, as well as among the minority 
 
 We have complicated political relations to Upper and Lower Canadian 
 parties. Our proportion — I speak of Irish Catholics only — is to the 
 French (.'anadians as one to five, and t« " the Lower Canadian British " 
 fully two to one; in Canada West there were in 1851, 107,695 Catholics, 
 of whom all but a mere moiety are Irish by origin, though English by 
 speech. On the Provincial population we are, or were at the last census, 
 somewhere about one fifth of the whole. Our political distribution makes 
 it impossible, as they found formerly, for our Ikiti.sh brethren below to act 
 without us, or against u? ; while our groups of settlers throughout Canada 
 West, and in the cities, often hold the balance between contending can- 
 didates. 
 
 With our co-religionists of French origin I have all along desired to 
 promote a mutual good understanding. But I will not conceal frojn you 
 that among a portion of them— T believe a minority— there exists a 
 very determined prejudice against us. Not to mention less known names, 
 Mr. Cartier's insolent declaration in the Montreal Election debate that he 
 "did not want and would not have the Irish," was an exhibition of this 
 spirit not to be forgotten. In old France our kindred in a past age were 
 known and respected as men of high courage and capacity; among the 
 French Canadians of the present day Irish Canadians must make them- 
 selves respected, before they can enjoy like consideration. With such 
 able and enlightened men as Mesars. Sicotte, Dorion, Thibadeau, Langcvin, 
 Laberge, and others, on hoth!^a^noji^^i^vxopstts±VfP.,J93Sji^&mra€e€:s^ 
 
 S'^ut with many it is nt^ my, and its repetition will be called for 
 I fie obtain freely our full moc e of consideration from, our co-religionists 
 of French descent. / 
 
 Of the disposition of the Enj ;lish population proper towards us, I have 
 as yet very imperfect informatio n. The pretensions of an Engtishman in 
 a Colony are always the highes t, but this class is not often organized. 
 For the true English character I have and always had a high respect, as 
 those who remember some of raj early Irish speeches, know. In this 
 Province however, I have com( i more into contact with Scotchmen than 
 Englishmen, and the Scotch are the controlling element, at this hour, in 
 ancTCanada West. Some of our friends have a 7nojiomania on Scotchmen, 
 and have sometimes given impn ident expressions to that feeling. I never 
 could see the wisdom of making enemies of so numerous and respectable 
 a body; and I have, without departing one step from the line of rigid 
 self-respect, endeavoured steadily to diminish that bitter antagonism, and 
 to substitute in its stead a bettei and friendlier spirit. 
 '^ For the Protestant Irishman, 'not an Orangeman, we should feel, and 
 l"trust do feel, precisely the sariie as for one of our own faith. We, Ca- 
 tholics of Irish birth or origin, sihould never forget how much we owe to 
 liberal Prtestants of past and pr/esent times in our native land. _ The glory 
 of Grattan should ennoble in oilir eyes the whole class to which he be- 
 longed. Thus would I, ou evbry side, and without compromise, make 
 frioiids and disarm enemies ; tljius would I employ that intluonco with 
 which you have invested me, toi strengthen your position and promote har- 
 mony tlu'ouizh all Society. At 'present your influence is loss than that of 
 the last and~least Orange Lodge in the laud ; in any rival Application to 
 r.ovornment, the latest offshoot of the (J rand Lodge would be certain to 
 bear off the prize from the 400,000 Irish Catholics of United Canada. 
 This should not continue— need not continue another year— if it be not 
 your own choice, if you wiH not allow yourselves to be degraded and .sold 
 through your own "organs." To develope and direct your influence, it is 
 abovc"all" things essential that those agents of others should not continue 
 to spoak, as iFfur us, instvud of speaking for those who both prompt and 
 pay thoin. With them, no unity is possible, for they arc in the service 
 of other masters. Among all honest men, unity is highly desirable— is 
 every way essential— and that it may be had and held, we must endeavor 
 to procure honest organs, who will have no other gain at heart but the good 
 
 of the whole body. , , • , i 
 
 I have not spoken of that fa M|j|^bug-oear of the press which has aa- 
 
 sailcd mci Mr. G^orm I'm h BBi ) of you arc vcjxjii]ich_jixaii 
 
 of Mr. nrowrT T never felt that felir, and I do not no^y. Mr. Bxovrn 
 has endless energy for business; grelit earnestness, extensive political in- 
 formation, and indomitable perseverance. These are qualities which, with 
 his youth and constitution, must alwnys make him a power in our politics. 
 But before he can ever form n Cnbinet which cculd be rc-e!octod, he must 
 
 'f Orange | has endless energy for business ; gre/it earnestness, extensive political in- 
 
January 
 
 ISth, 'IH<)X, iiJdre.-'Si'd to Mr. De (rra.^sc, Secretary ot Oi-an^^o 
 
 Lodge, No. loT, (Gowan, Master,) beginning and eudiug " Deur Sir 
 and°lirothcr." The second fact is, Mr. Maedonald's response to my 
 direct question on the debate on the addressi, as to his patronage of 
 the order, in this Province. "I acknowledge the fact," were the 
 precise words of the Hon. Premier. Equally clear is the evidence of 
 the Orangeism of the new Post Master Greueral, Mr. Sydney Smith. The 
 resolutions passed by the Cobourg District Lodge, on the 10th of Febru- 
 ary, 1858, sufficiently proved that : and Mr. Smith " proudly "announced 
 it from the Treasury ^benches, in the debate on Mr. Benjamin's bill, with- 
 out rebuke or comment from his colleagues in office. Equally authentic 
 is the somewhat older fact, that Mr. Vankougnet, another member of the 
 present Cabinet, at a dinner given to Mr. Gowan and others, at the St. 
 Lawrence Hall, Toronto, February IGth, 1854, declared his "iris/i that 
 all Protestantism nn';//it become one vast Oranyeism, and all Oran<jeism 
 one vast Fruttstantism." If, then, this dangerous Institution has,_ within a 
 few years, grown so bold, that a Governor General officially receives, and 
 a Prime Minister officially patronizes it ; if it has grown so bold as to 
 march to the very door of the House playing its most offensive airs and 
 to flaunt, unrebuked, nay, applauded by the Ministerial side, on the floor 
 of Parliament its most oftensive emblem — who, but the Goveriiinent of 
 the day — its avowed patrons and abettors — are responsible ? 
 
 Let no honest man talk of the " private opinions" of this or the other 
 Minister, in presence of such facts as these. Here is the evidence to 
 prove that three, at least, of the Upper (jauadian Ministry, including the 
 Premier, arc Orangemen, and sworn patrons of their " Brethren ;" and 
 therefore, can, on no pretence whatever, while continuing to b(! such, merit 
 the support of an honest opponent of the Orange institution — least of all, 
 of any Irish Catholic who knows what is, has been, and continues to bo, 
 the spirit of that Institution. 
 
 No doubt, there is bigotry on both sides ; but bigotry dissi,cialrd can 
 never be as formidable as bigotry associated. It is the si/stem, in this case, 
 which gives longevity to the spirit. llow many individual prejudices 
 at^ainst Roman Catholics, have been conquered in the Anglican v.'orld the 
 last sixty years 1 yet tlie 15cllevilIo organ of Orangeism boasts that the 
 Brethren are to-day " what they were sixty years ago." I can well believe 
 it. I can well believe that Mr. Ogle K. (lowan, is in this respect, 
 the true son of that Hunter Gowan, at whose name every Wexford 
 Catholic shudders with horror. Observe also, that the aggressions 
 upon us, in the present session, have all come from Ministerial sup- 
 porters. Mr. Benjamin and .Mr. Ferguson are two of their most steady 
 supporters, and Mr. Gowan, after a charming display of coy aversion, has 
 naturally relapsed to his old employers. I do not say they have all the 
 bigots on that side; by no means ; but I do say, they have the power and 
 have taken the best means, to foster and encourage this monstrous evil 
 in Canada. 
 
 Let me next call to your attention that the Opposition benches, where 
 I sit, are filled with all shades of opinion. Consistent Conservatives, like 
 Wallbridge, Burwell, and Fogan j ex-ministers, like xMessrs. Couchon, 
 Lemieux and Ross, — who, however, border on the cross-benches; old 
 Reformers like Sandfield MaeDonald, Mackenzie, and Foley ; liberal 
 French-Canadians, like Mr. Dorion and his friends; and the new Western 
 members who have chiefly come in under the lead of Mr. Brown. To 
 confound all these sections under one sweeping anathema shows great 
 ifrnorance or great folly : in dealing with them, it seems to me, we should 
 .he liberal with the liberal, and firm with the hustile ; that we should not 
 suffer ourselves to be outdone in courtesy by any; that we should be just 
 to all, running amuck against none. By this course I do not despair of 
 seeing as sound and just a spirit finally prevail in the opposition ranks, on 
 Catholic questions, as now exists on most national subjects — such as the 
 Hud.son's Bay territory, the Seat of GovernniGnt, and the maintenance of 
 the Union. A representative of your interests, cheri.shing such a hope 
 must patiently labor for its acconipli.shment, for, assuredly, it is not to be 
 eftected in a day, nor in a single session. But I think I may, with confi- 
 dence report, that a better spirit than that shorn in the general election, 
 has made some progress in the Ilou.sc during the present year — and this, 
 mainly, though not solely, among ilie Ojiposition. The U)\iv. taken 
 towards our religious orders, and the Orange Incorporation bill, are jiroofs 
 of my assertion 1 am satisfied that a firm and conciliatory comluct is 
 
 has endless e 
 formation, an 
 his youth anc 
 But before he 
 give convinci 
 during the la 
 need not, my 
 formed in sue 
 remember ho 
 name. To g: 
 in the Provin 
 by which I h 
 Mr Brown b 
 would be gla( 
 
 It seems tc 
 be done, wit 
 dulgence in 
 cannot be — i 
 the antipathi 
 common sens 
 wo held befo' 
 ality, from M 
 more and no 
 
 To conelm 
 geons call, " 
 in 1841, but 
 and the most 
 setting in. 
 remedy. Ai 
 can Contincn 
 presentation, 
 be far olT, an 
 equal represe 
 admit, that i 
 branch at al 
 co!if;tituti<'i3a 
 be under a 
 and my hum 
 on the fact o 
 Canada. Tli 
 it^ those fr 
 political prop 
 and Irish mo 
 it would, on i 
 Nationality, 
 
 Towards tl 
 I am to act f 
 But that I ni 
 niated, by p 
 of one wing 
 
 TOUONTO, 
 
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 oRercd the use 
 country witho 
 alion, [lublic o 
 that liaviiig re 
 whole pages o 
 his " rule in r( 
 view? oftyirfil 
 newspiqiers, ai 
 o\it ehaiigc oi 
 genersilly. lu .' 
 
ot u rail no 
 ' Dear Sir 
 isc to my 
 tronage of 
 
 were the 
 fidcnce of 
 iiith. The 
 
 of Febru- 
 announced 
 
 bill, with- 
 j authentic 
 iber of the 
 
 at the St. 
 '•' uHiih that 
 Orani/eism 
 IS, withiu a 
 jeives, and 
 
 bold as to 
 re airs and 
 in the floor 
 Drniuent of 
 
 r the other 
 videnco to 
 ludin^ the 
 roll ;" and 
 >uch, merit 
 east of all, 
 lues to bo, 
 
 .ciatcd can 
 n this case, 
 
 prejudices 
 1 world the 
 ts that the 
 veil believe 
 is respect, 
 7 Wexford 
 !i;_'_<iressions 
 ■terial sup- 
 lost steady 
 ersion, has 
 ve all the 
 
 power and 
 strous evil 
 
 :hes, where 
 atives, like 
 , Couchon, 
 nches; old 
 y ; liberal 
 iw Western 
 Irown. To 
 bows great 
 
 we should 
 should not 
 uld be just 
 
 despair of 
 n ranks, on 
 ich as the 
 itenance of 
 ich a hope 
 :s not to be 
 with confi- 
 il election, 
 — and this, 
 uiii; taken 
 , are proofs 
 e'^iiduct is 
 
 has endless energy for business; greiit earnestness, extensive political in- 
 formation, and indomitable perseverance. These are qualities which, with 
 his youth and constitution, must always make him a power in our politics. 
 ]}ut before he can ever form a Cabinet which could be re-elected, he must 
 give convincing proofs of a different spirit, from the spirit of the Globe 
 during the late election. That spirit never can rule in Canada, and you 
 need not, my friends, have the least apprehension of a Min'stry being 
 formed in such an aggressive spirit. To give Mr. IJrown his due, wo must 
 remember how ferociously he was assailed by organs speaking in your 
 name. To give him his due, wc must treat him, like all other public men 
 in the Province, impartially and according to his actions. This is the rule 
 by which I have been governed, and if, without compromise, I could see 
 Mr. Brown back on the old Baldwin platform, I confess, for your sakes, I 
 would be glad of it. 
 
 It seems to me, it is much better have such a man for a friend, if it can 
 be done, without violation of principle, than for a foe, by a foolish in- 
 dulgence in wild denunciations of " the Clear Grits." If however, that 
 cannot be — if Mr Brown should unfortunately prefer to rally and rely on 
 the antipathies of religion and race, rather tlian on reason, justice, and 
 common sense, it places me and })laces you in a still better position than 
 we held before, if we show our willingness to welcome any act of liber- 
 ality, from Mr. Brown, just as if it oouie from any other man or party ; no 
 more and no less. 
 
 To conclude : our Politics at present resemble a good deal, what Sur- 
 geons call, " a compound fracture." The bones of a great state were set 
 in 1841, but are not yet well knit. Some soreness and swelling remains, 
 and the most patriotic viligance must be exercised, to prevent mortification 
 setting in I do not believe a dissolution of the I,'nion to be the real 
 remedy. And I do not believe that, under our system, and on the Ameri- 
 can Continent, numbers can bo steadily ignored, as the prime basis of re- 
 presentation. A revision of our whole constitutional system cannot be 
 be far off, and wliile I would resist, and Ifhvc already voted against an un- 
 equal representation under the present Union act, I am quite ready to 
 admit, that in any new arraugeineiit, the representation in the popular 
 brsnch at all events, must be proportioned to population. Abundant 
 
 co:ir;tituti('iial .safeiruards U<\ il,: ri^.u,.'^ of j^.owcr 
 
 di — .s(>fnring if need 
 
 be under a Fedral pack tlie autonomy of Lower Canada can be found ; 
 and my humble adhesion to any such arrangement, would mainly depend 
 on the fact of its being sanctioned by the majority of the people of Lower 
 Canada. This change, I believe must come, aud I do not anticipate from 
 it, those frightful consequences which till the imagination of certain 
 political prophets. I would rather expect, that by rendering the French 
 and Irish more necessary to each other, and the British more just to both, 
 it would, on the contrary, tend to hasten the advent of a genuine Canndinn 
 Nationality, co-extensive with the country, and enduring as its hills. 
 
 Towards the construction of such a Nationality, I would fain hope — if 
 I am to act for you. which is for yourselves to .say — I may do something. 
 But that I may do it, I must not be prejudged, counteracted, aud calum- 
 niated, by persons unwarrantably using your name, but really in the pay 
 of one wing of the party at present in power. 
 
 I remain ray friends, 
 
 Your faithful aud obedient Servant, 
 
 THOMAS D'AllCY McGEP]. 
 
 ToHONTO, June 12. 1858. 
 
 ^■"j^. I luiiy here state, that the Toronto Mino- of the 7th of May, voluntarily 
 oRered the use of its colums -'Jto ilissctninate • '>i)inioii,s, and pive them to the 
 country without cimnge or nmtihition,' but suppressed withoutaword of e.xplaa- 
 alion, public or private, a siiort note wliieh 1 sent them the following week. Also, 
 that having requested insertion for this a<ldres.s in the Catholic Citizen, after its 
 whole pages of attack, 1 was answered by its editor, under date of June 12th, that 
 his " rule in reference to comuiuuii'iitions is to jnihlish them or not, aceorcliiu/ to his 
 view? of their fit n ens." Under the.se eireuinstanees f hav{> not troubled either of those 
 newspiqiers, aud they, of eourso, will/uir give ibis doeunient •• to the country with- 
 o\it eliauge or niulihition.'' I expect greater fiirneps from the Canatlian press 
 genersilly, to whom eordes of this broad slit.et have been scut.