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 yki • respectable majority (yf |rtm have alrsidb-' 
 .-— Mnn hoiwrcd me with your support when a Coi 
 f|p4 IMI ia tin Hoase of AsaetnU^, add having beeiv li^lt 
 Dolicitwl by Maoy of high reapectatMlity atnong jom,^1»i§lt 
 tnyself tor your choice at the approaching Election, aM Ifil 
 Iromliydft hirirg offered his servkeitO yoki and daiii^ 
 «i jfour Suffrages in opposition to me, and put^aheii m 
 mimfltiik t Ml oif wand and fury, |t)t only against mytelf 
 fcifpktiinHj . but against the Govetilment of which I Mri 
 k tf&ib^, I an tempted to give thatipersoit the gentle casti- 
 Mba which he has heon earning for hhoeelf ^idi rap|t 
 ilHjpvlk Mr. Hfde, though a aerfimt of t^e Gotremmiali 
 iteiferto act Hflwi ue principle thatle is privileged to bvlf 
 iMi abuie its ihflfi^irs whenever and upon whatever occs^ 
 «l«l iM flMflti ; ftnd it is quite tim^ that he wtb mm ' mm t i 
 ot hit etmti^M made to undent^ his position and tho 
 estimation in which he deserves to be held. -^^^b 
 
 Mr. Hyde makes gr^t profcssidns of disiiiterestedafess 
 Mil p«tri<nisni. Lei us examine his ^sims to these aiitkbl# 
 qMymcations. He is, as I believo, a Tfaakee, not of the o^ 
 heroic rao», whose high standard of inoial excellence^ &■§ 
 whose puni and lofty affections won thera a fame embalmad 
 m as ever enduring fragrance, aud^whdse alehieve^ent» 
 iMflMwl even Ymikee Doodle bearable^ but of ^t mo^biil 
 tlWi^irlMl Sim ^ick so weti desciibes, w .ofatift BMt^ 
 WflM chaibring and scheming, bo^ai md !»ttyiip«i 
 AMV 9ti |iM up with vanity as whiifley have talDii 
 »fillli|in: itVtr 10 indignant as when thery meet antott 
 «Pf^|iiflO#^^n^ to i^ cheats. 
 1 ihi«f9 fOan are to be found in all the Southern and Wee* 
 flllNWiilKtlRg Stages, trading hwses, and willing te^ 
 
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Ihcm as have beet: protUable have Ixitimes found their war 
 intovariou? parts of this Province, in which may be included 
 the most of the Settlements in the County of Colchester, 
 and those who have purchased Clocks »and paid somethmg 
 rwore than ten times their val6e, and ^Vho have been ruined 
 by cosily iitij^aiion when they resisted the fraud, will require 
 BO further illustration of their habits and propensities. 
 
 Mr. Hyde comes of this stock ; every movemen.tjie nj^kes 
 shows the strong family lijvcness to scheme, to boast, to bully; 
 and always lie ridin;- about at somebody's expense, 1% M»« 
 business of his life, lie tells us that he was brought into this 
 Province by a very respectable man, but he forgets to' men- 
 tion that the coFcof the importation was rather heavy ; from 
 1841 to 1845 Mr. Hyde drew £19.37 lOs. per annum from 
 the public funds, during the four years that his Contract con- 
 tinued, he pocketed ovei^ £7000, a sum quite as large as all 
 the «* sapheaded'' members of the Government have r«»i 
 ceived since the Liberals came into power. - ■ ^* 
 
 When this extravagant Contract (entered into with but the 
 consent of the Provincial Government) came to a termuia-- 
 tion,^ Mr. Hyde was left in the enjoyment of a very liberal 
 appropriation for conveying:; the Mails, which has given him 
 a monopoly of the passenger traffic on one of our most 
 productive line of roads ever since. His charge for cor^ 
 veying a passenger hence Uj Pictou, for a long time, was 
 ♦hirty-five shillings, at itrcsentit is 25s.— while a passenger 
 on the western line can be conveyed to Windsor and back, 
 about the same distance, for ten 
 
 It is quite evident then, that Mr. Hiram Hyde has been 
 to tkis country rathi a costly importation. It is likewise 
 Equally evident and cldar that he has been maintained by 
 the public from the day he honored us with the. light of his 
 countenance. How well he has thriven and managed his 
 own business, with alUthese advantages, may be gathered 
 from the position he occupied about a year ago, when it 
 appeared that some persons got rather suspicious ol his inr 
 tegrity and good faith. . , 
 
 Sometime ago Mr. Hyde manifested a very disinterested 
 and patriotic desire to make our roads as well as drive over 
 them, not satisfied with the skill and integrity of such inea 
 
 *By a clause ia the Contract, ifi the Government «^J A' '« 'i'«^°°'i""° '' '" *°^^^^^^ 
 _;.(.::„ -,,:2.ht Vicars from the dat^/of it. thfi sum of £775 sterling, or_£96S 158. currcy. 
 
 WM to be' paid to the Contractor^ This sum was paid in 184i>. 
 " " ■ I benefit of that. 
 
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 form us who received 
 
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at Scott, Shultz, Dowling, Parker, Smith and o^^ers^ 
 commenced a crusade in th« newspapers Which every botfy 
 
 interpreted to moan just this : , , ■,/• i j 
 
 . Here am I, Hiram Hyde a most disinterested, skilful, and 
 patriotic person, who w lid like to expend all the money 
 on the Eastern Koad it" the Government and the Legisla.. 
 ture who appear quite blind to my eminent qualifications 
 would onlv let mo.— This scheme proved a failure. 
 
 Mr. Hyde's next exploit wa8 to erect a Telegraph from 
 Truro to Pictou, in conjunction with a Company whom he 
 induced to subscribe a large portion of the funds. Here again 
 he was a Contractor, and his disinterested labors closed with 
 his pocketing a considerable sum of money, while not one 
 of the Shareholders has received a Sixpence down to the 
 
 present hour. , n c a ^ 
 
 liiLast winter Mr. Hyde came be/ore the House of Assera- 
 blv with two grand schemes, one of which would secure to 
 him the Carriage of all the Mails on the Main iloutes to 
 the East and North of the Capijal, and by the othei* he 
 expected ho doubt to get the control and management ot all 
 the Telegraph wires in the Province. A modest Yan-keo 
 this, verily, is he not? ^ ..'_ 
 
 V To enable him to carry one of these through ^.ommittee, 
 Mr. Hyde engaged to secure thecon<i€ntol all me Coutier^ 
 now in the employment of the Government. This he wall 
 unabla to do ; some of the Couriers protested against such 
 a disregard of their equitable rights in favour of a strange^. 
 The Government were compelled, therefore, to do an cct ot 
 absolute injustice to these men, to hand over their lines to 
 Mr. Hyde or to put all the lines, his own included, up to com- 
 petition. They determined to adopt the latter course, and 
 then Mr. Hyde's patriotism and sense of fair play wei^ 
 tairly tested. He came whining to the Government^ about 
 thu injustice of putting his line upUo competition ; atthd 
 he thought it perfectly allowable to seize upon every -body 
 else's line without any competition whatever. " ' 
 
 Yielding lo his importunities, the Government issued- anf 
 order directing the Postmaster General to renew the CjjHfJ 
 tracts of all the Couriers (including Mr. Hyde' ^ provid^ 
 thev would carry out the Service in the modft s.^gested 'by^ 
 the' Post-office Committee. Subsequently, strong reHion- 
 strances came from the people of Pictou agauasttheicfcei»e 
 
 
 * See aia JUeUOT at'a May. 
 
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ilielf, unforseea difficuhiei having presented tltomsutvee. 
 Tbe Government were compell ^d to pause, and according* 
 \y ordered delay :— -nothing more, and in the meantime Mr, 
 Hyde flings himself into personal opposition to me and be- 
 •patters the Government with abuse. My first duty then, 
 with your aid, vnll be to beat him soundly on the Hustingi 
 •—and then to teach him a lesson in Besponsible Govern- 
 Dient of which he appears to be profoundly ignorant — to 
 ihow him that though he may be at liberty to ride over the 
 roads of Wova-Scotia at the public expense, he cannot with 
 impunity ride over its Government. 
 
 Mr. Hyde has for some time past been engaged in getting 
 up Subscriptions to build more Telegraphs. His motive ii 
 most patriotic. Others are to supply the funds, bu'.. by • 
 thoroughly Yankee proviso in the Subscription paper. Mr, 
 Hyde constructs the Telegraph at his own price. If the 
 Jines pays no dividend, being as remunerative as tho Pictoa 
 line, what matter ? The Contractor will make some hun- 
 dreds, perhaps some thousands, whoever is out of pocket. 
 «« Heads you lose, tails f win." The Liberals in' this Cit^ 
 have mt been green enough to give their money to Mr. Hyde 
 to make ducks and drakes of— not so with the Tories, they 
 have Subscribed largely^ How much they will pay up after 
 tiie Election is over, and Mr. Hyde having made a fool and 
 H tool of himself, remains to be revealed. What the Go- 
 vernment may do, also remains unknown — but if they say 
 ^oMf. Hyde as Othello said to Cassio, " Never more officer 
 of wine," he will have but himself to blame. 
 
 Mr. Hyde, like many of his friends, professes gre it admi- 
 ration and regard for Mr. Howe; but whore was Mr. Hyde 
 in all the more trying and doubtful periods of Mr. Howe's 
 Juijblic life ? When the men of Stevviacke and Shubenaca- 
 qie gathered time and again to cheer and to sustain Howe 
 19 ihie dark days of poHtical persecution and unbelief, when 
 Vas Hiram Hyde seen in the midst of them ? when did hia 
 voice mingle in those days with those who shouted success 
 tfii Howe and Responsible Government? Never. He was 
 v4mg MP and down the Truro road with his £1900 a year 
 i^ bi« pocket. When Mr. Howe is entrusted with a mission 
 t0 England, Mr. Hyde is seen lobbying about the Committee 
 BoofiDs, tampering with the officers he had left in charge of 
 ti»# Telegraph, or abusing and pouring out his malignity 
 
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in Canada the same game is played over in thevarimis settk- 
 »ients of the Soiilhern district of Colchester. VV hat is your 
 opinioo of a peraon who was capable of offorifig a direct 
 bribe of £500 to the Superintendent of the 'leiegraph to 
 induce him to hold his toi^gue and permit Mr. Hydetowtee, 
 io Mr. Howe's absence, on the work which he and his col- 
 kagues had added to the public property of the Province ? 
 Mr. Hyde's •♦ uprightness" did not prevent him from doing 
 this. Let him deny it if ho dare, and the most ample evi- 
 dence shall be forthcorains; in proof of the fact. 
 
 There i^ a Law of England of which Mr. Hyde appeara 
 to b« profouadly ignorant. It is that by which all Govern- 
 ment contractors are excluded from Parliament.* ShouW 
 you be simple enough to elect Mr. Hyde, (but of this there it 
 bitte danger,) he might find that a constitutional majority 
 would compel him to choose between his contract and his 
 
 ftCfct. 
 
 A foa' wcris relative to some of the remarkable paltagetf 
 14? .Mr. |ly<le'» " address." In page 3, it is written, " Be it 
 \myi:y Xn all, ^ ^ave no claims whatever, except the reapeot 
 Oi a^"' n»on; aid tAis i intend to command by bold, energetic, 
 ft'^d Ujwigfcit oo»«d»ct. I do not nsi the result on either the 
 perfecticns or imperfections of Mr. Creelman or any ow* 
 else, bL soleiy on my own merits, rough and unlettered as 
 they may be, conscious of honesty of intentionr—unshack- 
 led and independent I stand or fall." 
 
 Surely this is modesty, if not the very essence of humility 
 and the spirit of lowliness. Plain language this, not difiS- 
 cult of interpretation ; as much as to say, 1 Hiram Hyde, who 
 have heretofore been like unto other men of Adam's rac©»> 
 having my faults and faihngs, not being universally respect- 
 ed and beloved, fihall remain in this state of mediocrity no 
 logger, henceforth I am to become a great and mighty £x- 
 csPTioN among the sons of men. My conduct hereafter 
 shall command for me universal respect, i intend it. The 
 result of my election, 1 do not rest upon any thing good ot 
 bad in or about any one else. My own intrinsic merits are 
 my hope. The principles and pledges of my opponent are 
 nothing, I do not intend to make a slave of myself to yoUr 
 whims and opinions. I shall make no pledges— I must remain 
 "unshackled and free." No matter gentlemen, what opi- 
 
 • By tin 22nd of Ghorge ni. ch. 45, no person who shall hold or ^^ ^T 
 fytract MtAred into for the public service, shall be capable of 9Wag •iteWi V f» 
 ■ittiog or TOtiDg u a member cf the Kouse of Coounons. 
 
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nii'ihi ynu mny form, or what conclusions you mt.y arrive at 
 r«!<[K'ctiii!: my Wuw^h to'sorvc ymi ns your rrpreHi»niative, I 
 will kre|rcon»tantly iiLlori; my own vyaa my own " mertta" 
 *« fjt«nd or fall." 
 
 Verily tho •• good time" is nt hand, " wo will surely live 
 to Bee it." More than a njodern Job has nnnoimced hirniell' 
 as about to nppcar amon-isi uh, and the wickt-d mm ol this 
 woild, who have luMeiofoie hated the good and persecuted 
 the just, are from this time iorih, universally to yield the ho- 
 mage due to this hitherto iinKNoww and " uprijjht" man. 
 
 Let us enquire how Mr. Ilvde has carried out his ♦•hones- 
 ty of intention." After the nnnouncement of this copious 
 effusion of modesty he pens but a lew paragraphs until he 
 writes, '• Tlie offer made by mo to do this work for the satne 
 sura that is now pjid for a very ineflicicnt mode of doing 
 it, was accepted by an unanimous resolution of the House 
 of Assembly, the work to commence on ihn Gth July, 1B51." 
 In reply to this, I deny that any such resolution ever passed 
 the House. Let Mr. Hyde prove his assertion. ! will state 
 the facts. The Post Office Committee in their report say, 
 "that after deliberate consideration they have adopted 
 scheme." (for the transmission of the mails,) ♦* copies of 
 which ar ^ also annexed, ifiarked A, B and C. This arrange- 
 ment the Committee have reason to think will be very ac- 
 ceptable to the community, and recommend the adoption 
 of them." And again, " the Committee recommend that 
 all contracts hereafter to be made for the transmission of 
 Mail conveyance or Post Office Printing, should in future 
 be open to competition, and entered into by the Post Master 
 General for a term of years, say five years for the first con-' 
 tracts, and four years subsequently with proper guards for 
 their faithful fulfilment. See Jour. app. No. 55. 
 
 On the Report of the Post Office Committee being readm- 
 it was ordered that the Report be received, and such parts 
 of it as recommend money votes, be referred to Committee 
 of Supply. Jour. p. 722. Report adopted, p. 796. 
 
 The scheme marked B, is Mr. Hyde's— to which is pre- 
 fixed his explanations respecting it, and then he adds :—' 
 " I will contract to carry all the Mails this side of tlie Gut, 
 viz. between Halifax and Pictou, Gut and Guysborough, 
 for the sura now paid for the service, viz. One Thousand 
 and Twelve Pounds per annum, and to'-.ontinue for a peri- 
 od of five years.'' licre the action oi the ilouae ccaseu, 
 
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 tndvmMr.llyJeulUyfiihnt.onilie «lrm.sih of wlut 
 MMod in ho Homo, h,: <>r.lore<l cov. rc.l t.mchoi, co.iiiig 
 S^.it hu,.ar..d p.mnd. covered «" ?S""»', *tj; '"n 'S" 
 fulfilment of iho contract. Do you l«!.;e».- that Mr. Hjdo 
 » such » uinnv-hmnmer ai not to know thnt it «>V"">* '^^ 
 conxnt of two purtic, to form a contract > I don' , but ih.ii 
 h« wai, or he h». aiatod what is not true. It i. clear, then, 
 that the Hou»e did not int«n.l to bind the Government W 
 contract with Mr. llvd..,aBtheConiinmceonlyrccomme*J. 
 ,d Khonios not llm iicciMnce of an,, offer. And it li equally 
 clear that had the Government acted ui)on the rccomi^enda- 
 tn o the Committee. Mr. Hyde', line would ...ht, .lay 1|0 
 upforcomnui.ion. But instead of that, by the Govcrn.nan 
 yielding to 'hi. iuiportuni.y, he is in the .,u.el po.se.s.on o 
 it, and he, like th' petted child, .» scowlmK at ,t, nurao for 
 her kindness. L.a us sec in what wa, h« i. wronped llei. 
 now receivins iho same sum lor the same service [hat he h.., 
 been in receipt of for the past six year,, and 1... could at 
 any time tormiuate the .•-..tract by sivins; three mm. hs . o- 
 tice. If it would pay no better to cnvey ih.^ mails to I ic- 
 ou according to his own Scheie than u dcies at presem. 
 then he is m. h-ser. If it would, then it can bo <ione for less 
 mo^ey, and why should it not bo coii-.petc.! lor.' Ihoi^ 
 unt 1 Mr. Hyde il actually dismissed why shouM he squeak 
 and squall so. If the Gov.^rnmeuthad given Mi. Hyde a 
 monoTw of all the mail lines licnc. to Amherst and he 
 GuJfor five years, and placed at his mercy all the other 
 8oi/rers oy„.„s.: routed you would .''-- >.-" »« -- 
 plaints Irotn him. He pr-leases to bo a Libet-al, lj» '' '^ ° ^'^ 
 leared that the contii;ui,y ol Toryistn.aiid t''« »■ «"'° '^'^^ 
 of monopoly have had an inptrious ctlect upon liin , he has 
 the diseise, taken the natniafway or by ■»»<';"""<'".;''" 
 lims is it. iiim, and there is evry symptom o the malady n 
 its most virulent form. He is traiisloimed, il ho .oes not 
 dlffi-r from a Liberal in species he docs in genus. 
 
 Mrllyde tells you that two schemes were snbm. ted to 
 hitTby Mr. WoodgHte,o„e of them, which ho describe as 
 d awn up by me, ?i.d says that it was only his own rid.- 
 clusly m-"ila'»d." I deny that such a scheme was eve 
 submitted to him by Mr. Woodgate as my scheme but he 
 forcot to tell you that both the schemes submitted to him ny 
 Mr^ VVo^dgatl, diffeied ficm his own in one very esse-Uial 
 point, and that was they avoided alldrivmg tho mails on the 
 Sabbath, and his did not. 
 

 Soever lm..l.l« •"•.P"" !" "J M^ H^o c.mebef-- 
 
 ""of'r«in S'.ay >>'.. little, » .elf t-ught Coleh«W 
 Of inyscli I '»<"> •"? , , , , ,jo .,aw when 
 
 Yeoman, born nmong yc • ""\°" ""•\V' fl,«,i,hcJ th. 
 
 where the l-.rcb. /h^^-.^^ ^ "loL'chTa^ea ono d.y.^._^ 
 vear orovious. MiWo laugni yuu. . betot«i 
 
 ^pUkcd the -oU th« neM ; p ^ir '- ,„ 
 neiehboarhootl, «olKlling no "'K™ eleTeted me to the 
 
 junction wuh o.':cr part^f ''>«. i^^^^^^j .„" le»»t 5^ 
 iho A»«.bly, where ' ''";""'*f;°" "eon ad»anced I «>- 
 faithfully. The offic ^ *'''^j,'i,\^* Je^^n the GcerB- 
 cepted from no lovool luete, h"' to sire g j ,a„ce !o 
 Jat i» H<«e;. al''eace, upon aq— M^^ .^ 
 
 you all, whe.. Hiram Hydo was d^.ng ^>i°^^ Howe and 
 ??S.t,oa W.U .t tbiscntical ™°"^"'vr''^X Stew'^c''" 
 hi, friend, «« '0'"g.<«^''"f ''''C'lriA^THalifa., by 
 and tho Shubeuacadte *",'''•"*'' ^^^'J^^.thi, acbemer 
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 will be obrolnte, and hence Mr. Hiran» njuc 
 
 patriouc ini'ignation. 
 
 ^ I have the honor to be, 
 
 Gentlemen, your mo* obedient end 
 
 Much Obliged Servant, ' 
 
 SAML. CRiE^MAW- ^ 
 
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