IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 1150 '""^^ 2.5 us u 2.2 2.0 U IIIIII6 , <^ V^ -^ / §!S. A / 'W w I iiUlUgiapillL. Sdences Corpcration 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 ,\ v ^r :\ \ ^9) V 1* %8 ^ 'b" • signifie "A SUIVRE ", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Maps, plataa, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratioa. Thoae too large to be entirely included in one expuaure are filmed beginning in tha upper left hand comer, left to right and top to bottom, aa many framea aa required. The following diagrams illuatrata the method: Lea cartea. planchaa, tableaux, ate. pauvent dtra film4a A dee taux de rMuction diffirents. Lorsque ie document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est filmA i partir do Tangle sup4rieur gauche, da gauche i droite, et de haut en baa, en prenant la nombra d'Imagea nteeasaire. Lea diagrammea suivants iiluatrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 wm 3^ REASONS ASSIGNED BY MR. SENATOR PENNY, Injudification of the Senate, accused of conniving at the drawing, by Hon. Mr, Ferrier, of two distinct salaries as holder of two incompatible offices. The intontionnl oniiRsion of llie prefix Honorable, charac- teristic, Jucus a non lucendo, of the gentry who organized the Pacific Scan.dal.and Tanneries Land Swap, will be duly Appreciated. {Editorial of " Herald " of dth March, 1875.) CoLONKL GuGY AND THE Sl_. E.— The gift wliich wisG men have wished for, of seeing themselves as others see them, would probably have made Colonel Gugy reirain from writing a pamphlet which he has recently addressed to the members of the Senate and circidated widelv among the pul Me. The great object of this pamphlet is to state the complaints of the veteran soldier, lawyer, and politician, on his enibrced absence from the field of active life. This he imputes mainly to the circumstances that he is neithera European nor a Papist, con- ditions which, according to his view of things, render him an impos- sible public man in Lower Canada, notwithstanding that he is a descendant of one of those whom he calls the conquerors of Canada, is the hereditary seignior of those famous fiefs Grandpre, Grosbois, .111(1 Dumontier, a fluent orator in both French and English, a lawyer, scholar, an old member of Parliament, and the eon of a member of the Legislative Council. Now it must be admitted at once that Colonel Gugy is a man whose talents and energy have alike fitted him for public life, but if he will peruse this last pro- duction of his pen with the eye of a Juan of sense and a man of the world, he will himself detect one main reason why he has now, at eighty-nine years of age, to sigh in vain after a seat in the Legislature, in order that, as he says, "he may have intellectual . occupation which would tend to prolong his life." This whole pam- phlet is filled with vitriolic insults, directed against men who are uni- versally respected, and who have never in any way injured Col. Gugy. He has again, at a time of life when most persons wisli to avoid con- 2 tests with their fellow-men, gone out of his way to stir up pnhlic strife, and so far as he can do, to wound individuals, without any hope in that way of promoting the object which he seeks. An Ish- maelite by choice and habit, however respectable his cripacity, can rarely expect to be associated with other men in any common object. We regret to say this of a man who we know on one occasion saved Montreal from very serious danger, and who we believe possesses many elements of public usefulness ; but bitter allusion to the fact that a city like Quebec, where, according to his statement, there are only 4,000 Protestants, out of 59,000, is represented in both branches of the Legislature by Catholics, just as a city in Ontario in the reverse circumstances will find itself us lally represented wholly bv Protestants, to the Chiniquy lectures, and to the New Brunswick School troubles, things which require the most delicate handling, we can regard only as wantonly mischievous. Just in the same way we are obliged to regard his allusions to individuals as wantunly insult- ing. Whatever Sir Allan McNabmay have been, he is now dead, and nothing but spite can be gratified by ghastly sneers at his death- bed behaviour. Whatever di.«iiust Colonel Gugy may reasonably or unreasonably feel at his absence from the Senate, his ill-natured remarks upon the present Governor General have not the poor excuse of being dictated by revenge, since Lord Dufferin can as a constitu- tional ruler, have had nothing to do with his exclusion ; and even if the Hon. James Ferrier occupies the particular seat in the Senate which the Colonel thinks ought to have fallen to his share, he should remember how easy it was to set forth his claims without descending to a sort of attack which is the mark of a base-minded assailant. There are me'' in large numbers, we have no doubt, v/ho believe that Mr. Ferrier, though not so accomplished in a literary way as Colonel Gugy, has, nevertheless, done quite as much service to the country, and is f:>till capabb ♦ doing so; and we might venture to say that there's nothing more truly vulgar than to exalt oneself and to depre- ciate another, not on account of personal merits, but because of those adventitious gifts of birth, which we should thankfully use and enjoy, but should never boast of. Mr. Ferrier might just as well throw his superior wealth into the face of Col. Gugy as Col. Gugy taunt Mr. Ferrier for the deprivation in his youth, not of an education which has fitted him for a most useful and prominent position in the world, but of those superior opportunities of higher education which it was his misfortune to lack. We may add that Mr. Ferrier's seat in the Senate for Shawinagan is a refutation of Colonel Gugy's state- ment that he is not in the Senate because he is a Protestant. But we have said enough on a very disagreeable subject. «i T i. T 3'/ ANSWER TO MR. PENNY'S LEADER IN THE HERALD, OF TPIE 9th march, 1875. Having accepted an annual retainer of a thousand dollar* payable during his life by the country, Mr. Penny haa attempted to justify the act of the Senate in conniving at the holding of two incompatible Legislative positions by Mr. Ferrier. Before Mr. Penny had reached Canada, this exotic was quietly selling liquor and indifferent wine when in 1S37 I performed a part to which, from want of local knowledge, no European would have been equal. But commercial pursuits fhowevei- debasing, like the slave trade) ensuring wealth, Mr. Penny holds that I, who merely exposed my life, am necessarily poor and inferior to Mr. Terrier. And he considers " Mr. Ferrier's seat in the Senate '• a refutation of my statement, that I am not in the Senate '' because I'm a Protestant." He overlooks the condition of the native Protestant, who, when fixed in the French coun- try, is like a ship pressed between two icebergs. We can expect no supjwrt from our Roman Catholic countrymen, while our European co-religionists entertain for us no good will. Indeed, they affect to have over us a natural inherent superiority. Hence the selection in behalf of Mr. Ferrier of a division to which I was known to have a claim. The European patrons of Mr. Ferrier (one of whom was BIr. Morris, his neighbor in Alexander Street, Montreal) were disposed to go all lengths for him, and making light o€ 2 my rights they conforred on him tho position to whicli I was entitled. They knew, too, thiit tho Eomi.sh French — although they owed mo a debt of gratitude — would nevei* evinre any sympathy for a native Protestant, nor ou^jht I, in this connexion, to refrain from remarking tliat I liad, b}' my loyal zeal, ensured their opposition, if not their ani. mosity. There were even many who evinced their joy at my disappointment. Being of opinion that, under existing circumstances, " the post of lionor is a private station," I propose to be here