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JtTthe request of the Friends of William Lyon Mac- Kenzie, in the District of Niagara, Mtice is hereby gi- vei*i that a Meeting tviu takeplace on Saturday, the 3U/ ofMarchy instant, at the Exchange, in the Town of Niagara, at 12 o^clcck, noon, to take ikio considera- tion the present state of the Province, an^ to adopt an Jiddfrn to Hif Majesi-/ -^X JViMam the Fourth, ex- pressive ofpubUc opinion ok patters "emmets wtitfxht^^ ^^^^, propptrity and welfare of tUsViolony. ,^ Stagara, 24th of March^ 19^2. *' Bill Boiler,^* Ex. m. p. ipai^ted upon acting as chairman, and Ned Temperance, another Ex. m.*>. aBsumed the appointnent of Se- cretary : The chairman, fundamentally qualified for filling any chair, with that inoffensive ambi^'an peculiar to him, ecrambled intr the Jttdiciar^ Seat in the Court Uaom, where the Secretary perchei himself at his eIbow-«-A(ler smoothing his plumes (^somewhat ruffled by' grasping at the chair) and assj^mine a mimic di^rnity and grace, the chanfman locked down opoh his friends, (M^KensieV dupes) and addressed them in the following il%gA preaeure tone nadflour-y strainN| — ,, / '^ 'My Discontented Frimds i^ Rejormtrs: ^ ' « THIS WBETmQ^ KiMieUIiMMt ^ Notice, wan eatted by the i'VMtuir of Wn. LVon M'Kms^ ifrm«1BxehanfB (tojie called Ralbnn CoSee House here^afleri : much agaiiMt Jiurr indinatitni we ^ygiiqm Ii«rt;— we ewe the|d«ce • grudge erpr sincf fi#|^owB •.* t .v| ,^^..A- "U^', ^^ '1 •r-' •fit m MMting-Uay. I need not tdverl to the fact that attSt. Davids hai tikracd o«iU and that omt vr two of ua rouat auflfer for the expenao iti" curred io their trina^rtaticffi iief>e ; that we^paaaed throuah Claeea- aton without oppoaition. We arrived in aafety at the *' Exchanjge" about 11 o^clnck, a. m. Not finding M'Kenxie tliore, nnd auapicioua ofbeing duped, w^ adjourned to ihTa place ; to shear fight at the meeting called by the Sheriff. We are„here aasembled with our op> ponenta to contend against jM'iCuMJe'a foet within their own walla -~H>n their own ground;— we will make them ajeard of the dagger f iht bludgeon/ or \\iit firebrand ! But, now they aee Diana ia in danger ! aee them ! f*e9, how they shrink ! sec, terror atrikea them ! Diana ia in danger !— Let the Officials come on : Iteform ! Reform, we will have in aonie ehape and some where : M'Kenzie fur Sir John Colborne ; Lawyer ** Bdn^i you £fee" for Chief Jualice ; or thia Court House at Davida ! ! Gather together your Grievance* ! rake up and bundle your revenge ! call it loyally ! call it what you will ! frightedi^ the women nnd the ignorant ! gull the simple ! aston- ish the credulous ! threaten tlie dubious ! aHsume sanctity ! ! It will help much. Lfp ! and be doing ! ! Now, heap up and throto in your Resolutions with the BolUicAl Pitchfork. I feel whlttt I say : Attttongh my Speech is unmncocled, my argumenta are pithy, yet not fiour-y. 1 know you can $ift the eliorta from the bran and the middlings from the chaff: Turn over and examine my ideas in your own vacant coo/er«.— — If in my Address I should 60//, pardon me { and attribute the digression to the disorderly gearing of my reform- ed brain. ^To conclude, Sai^t Daviditea — ^If we don't, in the pre ' gresa of this Day's Proceedings, grind the opponents of Wm. htfon^ , ■M*Kenxie in the Political Steam Mitt of Democracy, may I suffer ' myself to be run over, put thrnugh the horrors of a smut machine, or have my clapper silenced. Then^re up, my boys ! excite and kin- dle ! raise steam to ^summit level / (but watch your safety valves; I onco buret). A Poli tical Explosion in this District, which you knoV M*Kenzie thinka the Apple of his Eye, would make an aw- ful exposure. Here the Chairman called for water and a white pocket handkerchief, and the assembled friends stood with hair and MM erect ; eyea starting from their aoeketa ; and their finger* ■traighteMd ! I The few mmtenlt-lhat elflipiHi) to ciwble the Cbairnian to^rc "¥B ligiiitkm||eadJM>wa<' > < "-^..^ yi ^ z r ) " [^] \\ ? " . w -. 9tA. Tim Crystal, once Cheater Tick Tick'a main-spring, Uo- iiMt Ud, jiiMrf«rotlier of Apple Tree, ireg there too, mad to the oyet, and with bit Oz gad kept himeeli ready to hate or gM, ao eircumetflncea ofthe case required. 11 (A' Bill Barrel Bulk, picked up at Queeiiston, aa the pro- ceeaion came through, that he might paj part of the expense, looked aa if ha wished himself working at the assesment roll, or any where elac, but ID the apace he occupied io the Court room. I2ik. The last ofthe Group, and not least among them, in his dim imafftnation, was David Rail Road, Ex-P. M. not M. P. — he rose up, looked round— aaid, *'Mr. Chairman"; sat down, then rose op again, speechleas, and almost motionless, evinced every incliaa- tioii to cry I but refrained, on being told that Suffering David waa k«fl|^ard by to act that pari:— Other prominent Charactera might be IMntioned, whose attitudes, actions, and expressions, might do JBiltce to Ho|[arth ; but the limits of q Picture like the present, will not admit of increaaing the group — aufflce it to say ; the meeting 4iiaperaed, to meet outside* by order of the Chairman ; on arriving at ihe fiMt «f the Staircaae, the Chairman was seen erect in* a wagon ; «imI it is said that Nm Temperance was seen beneath with pen, ink and paper in one hand, and in the pUier the resolutions, acting ea Wider secretary. Here Bill Boiler, in the exuberance of his loy- alty, raised hia hat to hurra tor HHlliam the Fourth and the Reform Miniatry, when the wind and the inclination of the ihorsea made bin incline forward, and in the act of falling from the atage, waa heard to utter the word ** rcfono," in articulate accents, but was not aeea after. WAG. :«?v: 1 '.ijii . . (. ; -I J ..".i.i'.l" '^mv-xt » ■^•v. ■■T^-«(^