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DEMOCRACY OR DESPOTISM. 
 
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 WILL UK HUM) IN THK l,Ali(;E K(»OM 01' THi; 
 
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 ON MONDAY EVENING, Al»RIL 3(1, AT SEVEN O CLOCK PRECISELY, 
 
 I'OU THE I'lIUPOSE OK ASCKItTAININl) 
 
 Whether the People of Englund and Ireland will sanction the base proposals of the Whi<>\s 
 to destroy^ the Principle of Universal Sujjrai^e in the Canadas, and to compel the People 
 of that Country to he plundered and enslaved by a few ojficiul and irresponsible Persons. 
 
 WILLIAM llOARC in iho Chair. 
 
 By Order of tlic Committee, 
 
 TO THl HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF 
 GREAT BRITAIN AND U^ELAND IN PARLIA- 
 MENT ASSEAIBLED, 
 
 The Petition of the luiclcrsigncd Members of the 
 Working Men's Association and otliers, sliewelh — 
 
 That your petitioners are deeply impressed witii tlie eon- 
 viction that tlie colonial policy of England lius for many 
 centuries past been fraught with tyranny and injustice 
 towards the mass of the people. 
 
 That by far the greater nmnber of our colonics have been 
 originated ijy means noways justifiable on principles of 
 morality, and to establish and secure which, have millions of 
 money beeu wasted, and millions of our brethren been doomed 
 to an initimely end. 
 
 That when, by these sacritices, they have been secured, 
 instead of regarding them as auxiliaries to the progress nl' 
 civilization, and teaching them the most eflicient means of 
 developing their natural resources, so as to piomotu the 
 general welfare of Ininianity, we seem to lir onsidircd 
 them as legitimate objects of our prey, or as |;iaces where 
 the shoots and underlings of despotism mi<i;ht practice their 
 oppression, shameless, and regardless of consecpiences. 
 
 That the history of our colonial governniciil in the 
 Canadas is pregnant with evils springing from such a source ; 
 and now, after years ' '" complaints and petitioning for 
 justice, we find your honourable house about to stiHc their 
 supplications by us wanton and Hagrant an act of despoLisni 
 as that which, when imposed on the American peo])le, 
 aroused them to proclaim their celebrated Declanition of 
 Independence. 
 
 That, regarding the people of Canada as brothers in 
 interests, we have careiully inve«tigate(l into their grievances, 
 a brief outline of ■ which we respectfully submit to your 
 honourable house, in order that the working classes of 
 England may determine how far they will sanction the 
 outrage about to be indicted on their Canadian brelhren, 
 by your house as at present constituted; how far thi'y will 
 suffer a brave and oppressed |ieo])lf to be eili^ctnally en- 
 slaved, to glut the appetites of hungry odicials, ur the pecu- 
 lating delinquents of an iusignillcant parly. 
 
 The Car.adians inform us that though they possess an 
 extension of the sutlVage almost universal, and have; repre- 
 sentatives in the House of Assendjly hoiuslly seeking to 
 promote the welfare and hajipiuess of the whole |)e(jple — 
 that these inestimable blessings are' rendered nearly useless 
 by the intolerable despotism of the Legislative and Execu- 
 tive Councils, whose selfish powers are exercised in thwart- 
 ing the wants and wishes of the people. 
 
 That the Legislative Council is chosen Ibr life bv the 
 King of England ; that it is for the most part composed of 
 government otHcers, their clerks, thin dependents, the 
 clergy of the Established Church, ami a few suecesstiil 
 merchants; and that this assembly is responsible to none 
 but the King of I'^ngland, actint; through the officials of 
 th<! Colonial Office. They complain that this is ;\ body 
 fiictiously oppo-^i'd to the feelings and wants of the people; 
 that it ik the stionghold of op|jression a«d abuses, and that 
 all the beneficial measures of the House of Assembly iiic 
 rendi'red usrh s>; !>y this irre-pnnsillc body. 
 
 They comphiin that the Ivxecutive Council, oi privy- 
 council of the governor, being ccmiposed of the judges and 
 government odicers, responsible only to th<: King (or rather 
 the Coloniu.l Office), have taken all the waste lantls of the 
 colony, as well as the saleable timber found thereon, which 
 they dispose of for the personal advantage of their members, 
 their friends, and underlings; as well as for corrniiting the 
 representation of the peojile ; and, with the unjust plea of 
 their being the hereditary possessions of the King, deprive 
 
 W. LOVETT, Secretary. 
 
 the Canadians of the means of improving their country, or 
 educatuii; tlieu- children. 
 
 They complain that their judges are not made responsible 
 to the people, iior can they be impeached for misconduct by 
 the Honsi; ol Assembly, us I'nglish judges can by the 
 (commons' Hou.sc of Parliament; that t hay are only re- 
 sjonsibhao the I'Aecutive Conncil.of which<Aey themselves 
 Jorm apart, and that by tfiis irresponsibility the somve of 
 justice IS pr)isoned, and cases of the grossest peculation and 
 delnniueucy have received the countenance and support of 
 tins body. '^' 
 
 They complain that notwith.standing four-fifths of the 
 inhabitants are Catholics in religion, and that men o<' all 
 creeds and religious o|)iuions live hannoninn.ly amongst 
 them, that a dominant church is set up ; and leligious pre- 
 jndu'cs an^ sought to be engendered by the applicatioti of 
 oncsevcnth of the whole land of the colony to support ihc 
 clergy of the I'.stablished Church of England 
 
 They complain that the official party seek to foment the 
 iibsur< prejudices of country and religion amongst them ; 
 that the whole, administration of government is one of 
 favouritism and injustice ; that the revenues of tlieir country 
 are employed and s,|nandered awav by persons not respon- 
 sibh. lu the iieople ; that they arc unable to get accnra'e 
 accounts of receipts or .xpeiuliture ; and when delinquency 
 
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 And .low after Ixaring with these insults and oppressions 
 lor nearly lial a century-alter every effort to improve 
 their ,:ountry by wise and salutary laws, has been frus- 
 trated by these united aristocrat powers, and alter repeated 
 applicati,.„s and p.-titions Ibr jnstice-tliev have almost 
 unammonsly ,l,rlare,l that there is no hope fi'ir the adoption 
 of wise laws and just government, luifil the Lcrjislativc 
 Council be elected hij the people, the whole rcreiiue 
 placed under the control of the people, and their judges 
 mudc responsible to their ou-n Legislature instead of 
 the King of England. 
 
 These reas(niable rei|ucsts having been scorned and 
 scouted by those in power, the people of Canada have, for 
 the last lliree .years, leliised to sanction, by the vole of 
 their asseml.ly.the ajjplication of the public revenue towards 
 paying the salaries of those' ofiicial persons who contiiun to 
 mar all their benevolent exertions ibr the jniblic weal. 
 
 lu.-tead, however, of your honourable house honestlv in- 
 vestigating into these grievances, or conceding to tliosi;' just 
 and reasonable demands, we find you sanctioning ' his 
 Majesty's Ministers in setting aside the people and their 
 ivpresentatives altogether, dispensing with their necessary 
 v()le, as guaranteed by their charter, and payint;tlie salaries 
 of those official persons in spite of the Cauadiun people. 
 
 This conduct appearing to your [letitioners to be highly 
 lyiannical— involving the (piistion of liberlv for the inanv, 
 or (Icspotic rule lor the lew— and which iiijustice x.e l(.''pi 
 satisfied, will never be tamely submitted to by the Canadian 
 pcoplu, especially when they have the history of tli|. past, 
 and the bright example of the present democracy of America 
 to refer to, of what can be etK:cied by an iiiiited pcojile, 
 when free from tin; mercenary grasp of 'ari:it»cratic orkiu'dy 
 diimiuioii. Vour piaitioners,' tiierelbre, " 
 
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 lay your honourable house, that you will yield to the 
 wishes of the Canadians, and allow them to elect 
 the Legislative; Council— place the revenue of their 
 country at their disposal — and allow their pidges to 
 be made responsibU' to their own Legislature instead 
 of to the King of England. 
 
 And your Petitioners, &c. 
 
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