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Th« copy filmad h«r« hat b««n reproduce thanks 
 to tha ganaroalty of: 
 
 Douglas Library 
 Quaan's Univarsity 
 
 L'axamplaira fllmA f ut raproduit grica i la 
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 Quaan's Univarsity 
 
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 posslblo consldaring tha condition and laglbillty 
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 da la nattatA da l'axamplaira film4, at an 
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 fllmaga. 
 
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 baglnning with tha front covar and anding on 
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 la darnlAra paga qui comporta una talla 
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 entirely included in one exposure ara fllmad 
 beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to 
 right and top to bottom, as many frames as 
 required. The following diegrams illustrate the 
 method: 
 
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 filmis A dee taux da reduction diffArants. 
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 reprodult en un seui cllchA, 11 est fiimA A pertir 
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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE 
 
 SOUTH RIDING OF LANARK : 
 
 ( i<Mitl<aium, 
 
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 ^ Sight years have passed since you first spontaneously 
 
 inviltMl iiic to become your represeiitativ<'. and extended to nie a generous 
 i'onfidenee. which I trust I still retain. 
 
 'I now again come before you, in consequence of having 
 
 a«'c«?]»ted a seat in the ( ■abinet of the l)<Hniuion. and the ('hari','e. of th«' Kxcisr 
 Ifevenuesol' Ihe country, and ask your rtttiticatioii of the a|)|iointni<>nt which ha> 
 been conferred upon ine by the Crown. 
 
 I need scarcely remind you that I was an early advocate 
 
 Ola Union of the Hritish >'orth American Provinces, and that both in privatr and 
 ' public* litfe for luring- years pust, 1 have..^boured for Uie aiMMfn^plishmeiit of so 
 desirable an object. • •• 
 
 I believe that the time in which we live is a momentous 
 
 one for Tanada. Its people and its (Tovernnients — lieneral and Loral— luivca 
 a orcat work before them. The ( onfederation so hap|)ily established is yet to be 
 extended and thoroughly consolidated. lnuni<;iation to our sh(U'es must be 
 fostered and encouraged: the j^reat North Western Provinces are yet to be opened 
 up. and made a<'(es^ible so that they uulv speedily become the home of a larj^e 
 population: and withal, while these imp(Htanl measures are bein«»- eared for. the 
 l)ublic.s<'rviee ef the Tounty recpiires to be so administered as to se«'ur«' the utmost 
 (M'onomy I hat can be practised consistently with true efficiency, and the revenues 
 reoiiire to be husbanded, and the (\\penditure conlined within proper limits 
 
 The work of development and consolidation, to which 
 
 the statesmen and people of Tanada are called, is. I am persua<led. one that may 
 well aroiis(» thi' (Mithusiasm of every lovt^r of his ('onntry in view «)f that future 
 which patriotism h'ads us to hope for the Dominifui. risinj;. as it will do. to 
 power and strenuth imder the plot ectinj? sway of the British Crown. 
 
 Should you again, then, confide to me the trust of repre- 
 
 sentiic von in the House of i'onunons. anil thereby enable me to take part in the 
 iiovcinmeiil of mv native coniitry. you may rely that my best <'\ertions will be 
 .^iveii In tin- rijihl discharii'c (d' the (Uumous ilntics that will devolve upon me. and 
 that 1 willcontrilMile my lioncsi efforts towards solving- the liieat pnddems that are 
 preseiiled to us. 
 
 One of yourselves—a native of the Riding—bound to the 
 
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 VKU li:i\i' ill till- I'li-I \ oiii-li-.iifi'il lo 
 
 I liiiN !• till' liiiiior to Im- 
 
 Your fiiitlirnl •■••rvniit, 
 
 ALEXANDER MORRIS. 
 
 |'..|lll. Nov 20. IHli'.J 
 
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