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' '^* ^^^ «♦- * My Dear liiu : — • ,,,,-,,, ^ „ -^s I was instrumental in enlisting the support of several friends in vour ncighborhocl for the Toronlo Freeman, I take this means of informing you of facts which have lately trlns- pne.1, in reference to that newspaper, and which, in the interests of public justice, you are at liberty to communicate to any one you please, on my authority. , y i^i^. ai iiutriy w When the types and subscription list of the Catholw Citizen were purchased, in 1858, it wat in orde- noisTn.^ 'J^t most objecfonab e paper, which had used the cloak of religion for all the commonest pur- ZZu!\ p'^f'"''^'^''''- -The tunds by wh.ch this purchase was made we?e, in part, contributed by some K,Tt w,""' '''"^ ^.^^ prospectus of the new paper, the Freeman, was drafted by a Committee, of nf rilnr' T\ When question arose as to the Editor, I suggested the name of Mr, J. G. Moylan, Teacher, now Si' ^ P uJ .'"Sgestion he was sent for. When the arrangements for tiansferring the bonus to the ZlhtZ ""n ^""^^'f^'''^'^ ^-f ^"""«h advanced for action.jt was proposed to bind the Editor under some J^nv !S. !^ r? f'^'^/^l""y.^« ^'^« non-partizan clause, and other conditions of the Prospectus ; but I resisted ^vJ. nl K P"'^^""" J^"'"» imposed, because I contended that with the example of the late Citizen before his eye-i, our bes. guarantee for the new Editor's independence would be found in his own interest. At two subsequent periods, T again interposed, as you know, to obtain aid for the journal, without ^vhIch I was assured it could not possibly go on ; once when Mr. Mallon, the original partner of Mr. Moylan, nTirt^ out and his share transferred to the latter gentleman, an.I again uT.der !he threatened crimina prosecution of the Orange Grand Master, Mr. Hillyard Cameron. ....rtJ nf ' ^^ !t'^ *f ^'' '*'''^\'' ^'^ ''>^^ *•" ''"'''' *^*' ^ ^'^'^ ^'^^'^ "g^'<^ to ask from the Freeman the r an nnrf»f"J '. ■ 'jf ?°"^^^'^ ^^"^I^^, Written ovcr my own signature, and for every sentence of which ip« H I ^.d' or .^vould be necessarily respo):sible. During the past two months, once before and once w?r.^ 1 1^ i^t? T' '"f^' '"°^ ^ ''"^"'''- ^" ^^'^ ^^^"^^^ ^^««' "^y I«"er to Mr. Macarow of Kingston, Sn^/. nf'l'?^?'^ .• ""'^^•^"^ P^«t«'^f «!- 'another, and more recently, a temperate and measured dis- claimtr of any participation in the recent electioneering tactics of the Freeman waV, after a fortnight's de." tention, returned to me, with a note, as deficient in candor as it was barren of gratitude. The subttance of he jinmunication, thus suppressed, is all tliat I will trouble you with, in order that you may ful y under- frlS 'Tirivln ^''^^^'f.^''^^"^^ f"^l '^ Iialf, perhaps, of that Journal. It contained just six para! graphs. Ihe A rs/ briefly alluded to my well known public interest in the Freeman ; the second referred to the policy ot concthation towards the reform party of which I had been an advocate in the House of Assembly! and the i^,, man one of the organ.s m the Press ; the third deprecated in mild but explicit lanC^e the sudden desertion o that po.cy, without sufficient public cause sholvn, on the immediate eve of the la?c"genera elec ou the/o.r//.and.A//A Illustrated the folly aod danger of fickleness and disreganl of prinapio h pol teal crises; and the .ix//. expressed my personal gratitude to those communities of our fiends '^suih as Lanark, Victoria, Ilaldimand and Perth which honorably adhere 1 to the concilitation policy of the last tour years, and to pi-ominent individuals who had p-escrved the same consistent course. This was the whole sum and substance of the communication which Mr. Moylan refused to permit me to publish ove my own The personal wrong, however, is but a small part of the far greater public wrong, done by the Free- man 8 perversion That paper was not a private ..hattel, of which t",. gen !.-m.n i^. chu-e couM !y M have a riL'ht to dn .as I I.L'« ivitl, ,«.r ,>,.„." i^ v. i^^j .^^^j ^^^ A j , ..■ .^"''|t-^ tuuiu .-.ij . i Cathulie electors in Upper ami Lower Canada. It had lb' by itions of ponsibility. The Toronto Conference 11 rej)resoiitativc character and a representative res- immediately preceding the Baiujuet of the 29th of September, 1859 jomposod of locally influential men, Reeves, Councillors, Aldermen, Presidents of Societies, and Cliaiiincn of numorous MjJtings, had giv3a it tbat char.icter, in a saries of resolutions, explicit and unoquivocil Tiiat Gunforoncj was held more thin twelv3 months after the Brown-Djrion crisis of July, 1858, and no now facts have sinco been publicly elicited, so far as I know, which would justify a total abandonment of the under- standing then entered into— an understanding cordially accapted by the Elitor, (to use his own words at the subsequent Banquet), "for weal or for woe,"— words which for more than a year afterwards, up to the very day of the late general election— were never once ittempted to be explained away, still less withdrawn or retracted, or denied, as they now are. If there are good and sufficient tjuSZjo reasono for such a summersault being performed, they have not been stated m the Freeman's apology, so far. The pretext that it was to punish Mr. Brown, personally, is inconsistent with the facts which have come to light. The olTences of Mr. Brown were before the Editor's eyes in 1858 and 1859, as fully as in 1861, but then he contended for giving him, in the spirit of conciliation, " a fair trial." It could not be " to punish Mr. Brown," that Dr. Connor, one of the early benefactors of the paper, was malignantly attacked ; it need not be io punish Mr. Brown, tluit the liberal and upright Adam Wilson was opposed ; it need not be to punish Mr. Brown, that the " come weal, come woe," Mr. Moylan, of 1859, presented himself side by side with Mr. Alien, the Jailor, to glorify the alliance of " Or3,nge and Green," from the balcony of the veteran head of the famil} compact. Chief Justice Robinson. Whatever motives have led to this perversion of the paper from the purposes to which its Trospeutus, and ihe resolutions of September, 1859, bound it in honor to adhere, those motives, so far, are of a private character, and have never been, as, perhaps, they cannot aiTonl to be, made public. The guilt of the FreemaH, then, is this: that publicly its conductor gave his adhesion to a line of policy, from its inception to the very eve of a general election, wliich line of policy he suddenly abandoned, without any sufficient ;)«iKc justification for so doing. That in onler to mislead others to take tlie same course he returned to old outworn controvrrsios dating so far back as 1851, controversies which had been, in our own interest, decreed to be closed forever, when the policy of conciliation was inaugurated, on the suppression of the Catholic Citizen. That being bound to independence as between Canalian partizans, his attacks, public and personal, were all delivered on one side of politics, and his advocacy all on the other side. Tliathe used, in this way, the authority, and abused the confidence placed in him by many zealous friends and supporters, who, he right well knew, utterly disapproved of his making a Mirror or True Witness of himself and the paper. That, moreover, he concealed his proposed change to so far advanced an hour, that these consistent friends and supporters, were unable to counteract the mischief done by his desertion of his independent post, until the contest was past, and the mischief in some instances beyond" repair, for the present ; in other words, the guilt of ingratitude, deception, and insincerity, are clearly fastened by his own acts upon this gentleman, whom you and I, and many others, have for the past three years exerted every effort to sustain in this position, so abused, and so dishonored. His new friends may, perhaps, do more for him in that way than his old ones, but they cannot do it more ireely, or with better hearts. These are the facts, my dear sir, which in the interests of public justice, I feel bound to communicate to you, in the present circular. I cannot conclude without the expression o'' a hopj that we shall have, ere long, a press governed by higher motives than have swayed our former friend fiom his allegiance to his prin- ciples and his supporters. _ As to him, all that needs be said, is told in the proverb : " If a man deceives me once^ it is his fault ; if twice, it is mij own," I have the honor to subscribe myself, Yours very truly, K \ THOS. D'AIICY M'GEE. Montreal, Aug. 5th, 1801. « # I may be obliged, from time to time, to send circulars to you on this and similar subjects, in which you will hi good enough to excuse the i)rinted form adopted. '■■ ^ w^^ V *v ^ \ \ V m