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 y\ Voice fron] f(ova Scotia oij the Jesuit Question . 
 
 A DISCOURSE 
 
 Delivered in Fort Massey Churh, Halifax, N. S. 
 Sabbath Evening, 31sl March, 1889. 
 
 By REJV, R, f, BURNg, D. D, 
 
 2 Thcss. ii. 7 : " The iiiyjtery of iiiitiuity doth al- 
 ready work." 
 
 We are finding it so to our cost. It is 
 shaking our land. It is threatenini; tlio 
 integrity and independence of our larj^e 
 and f^reat Dominion. It has originated an 
 agitation that has stirred our Banner pro- 
 vince to its depths, and made the floor of 
 our Dominion Parliainont the arena of a 
 keen and protracted struggle. Its features 
 are uketched here,oryot more minutely and 
 grajjliiiMlly in a parallel passage in 1 Tim. 
 iv., which we ought to study, and which 
 't is the faithful pastor's bounden duty to 
 expound. I'aul brings out therein at verse 
 6 : "If thou put the brethren in remem- 
 brance of these things, thou shalt be a good 
 minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in 
 the words of faith and of^ijod doctrine." The 
 questions inxolved are essential, if not to 
 the Being at least to the well-being of our 
 rising nation. Thoy appeal to the piety and 
 patriotism of every lover of his country 
 and his God among us. They will toll on 
 the future of our land and the prosi)erity 
 or otherwise of all our churches. Tin; 
 mystery of iniquity which already works, 
 opens up a field of absorbing investigation, 
 even had it nothing to do (as it undoubted- 
 ly has) with our truijst interests So far 
 from a subject of tliis kind lying outside 
 the province of the pulpit, it comes directly 
 within it. Faithful witness-bearing on 
 such a theme, is one prominent mark of a 
 " goiid minister of Jesus Christ." All the 
 more is it uur duty in this case as the par- 
 ticular |>luuie of the generul question whicli 
 h.is originated so much talk, and temper 
 too, is entirely clear of the held of ))arty 
 IHilitiua the vast majority (>f the politicians 
 on both 8i<li'8, being for the present, op- 
 postid to what we conceive to be the riglit 
 view of the question and a vory sniiiU 
 remnant, with pur^y nllogiance about eipial 
 lydividi"' )i '!di; ,3 i.li^.ri;unto. Truth hasivl 
 
 ways been in a minority, but ' one with 
 God is ' a majority," any day. The vote 
 at Ottawa is very far indeed from settling 
 the struggle. It is but begun. The great 
 question, with whose origin we presume 
 you are acquainted, will doubtless be laid 
 at the foot of the throne, and in its con- 
 stitutional aspects submitted to Privy 
 council adjudication. In so far us we 
 citizens are concerned ; this is freedom's 
 battle,' and 
 
 " Freedoui'B battle once begun 
 Hetpieath'd from bleedins? Hire to Son, 
 Though baffled oft, is ever won." 
 
 Passing over all preliminary matter and 
 coming at once to the subject in Itand, 
 we object to the 
 
 JKSUIT E.STATES' ACT, 
 
 In the first place, because it involves a vir- 
 tual mal-adminidration uffvixf. There can 
 bo no question that generous, uiiauspt's'ting 
 liritain, at the time of the con(iuest <if Can- 
 ada, allowed her newly aciiuircil subjiu'ts, a 
 latitude of privilege not usual on the part 
 of the conquerors to the C)nqut;red— a 
 latitude which has been too often taken ad- 
 vantage of to our detriment, brought the 
 machinery of government almost to a stand- 
 still or deadhjck, and imperilled the exis- 
 tence of the union between Upper and 
 Lower Canada, and latterly of that Con- 
 federation to which many looked as likely 
 to su|)ply the way of escape. On this ac- 
 coum the position has been reversed, and 
 time and again the conquerors have had to 
 plead for their righiB in presence of and by 
 appeal to the conquered. Still, easy-goinu; 
 and from an overweening courtesy and 
 generosity, re»dy to make all manner of 
 conceesions, though Britain was, she grant- 
 ed no more privileges to the Roman Catho- 
 li<'s than British law sanctioned. The act 
 of capitulation Abrogated any special privi- 
 leges, and destroyed any titles to proper- 
 
tijs wliich the Jesuits may previously have 
 had. for it ln'in^s out tliat " thu Rouian 
 Catlioiic " church was U> he ri'coi;iii/.e<l iu 
 Caii.Hliionly "in so far as tlie laws of Uritaiii 
 racoijnized it,"— an arrani^eiiienl wliich the 
 " act of jNIontreal " j^rantini; certain rights 
 of |ir(H)erty to the Jesuits, could not alter. 
 The 1,'eneral act takes precedence of any 
 local ones. Hut, even supposinij; that any 
 autliority attached to this last, it ceased 
 with the existence of the order. 
 
 In ITlil the Society of Jesus was su]>- 
 pressed in France, and its property de- 
 voted liy royal authority to educational 
 purposes. 
 
 ,ti;.sl;it.-s .sii'pkks.seh. 
 
 T'.iirtoen j'ears thereafter (in 1774) the 
 royiil instructions to the GovernorOoneral 
 of Canada directed that " the society of 
 the Jesuits should be sujjpressed and 
 dissolved, and no longer continue a body 
 corpoT'atc and politic, and that all their 
 rights, i)rivilege8 and property should be 
 vested in the crown." The year before 
 177'! by papal authority the society had 
 been suppressed. WhiL in 1774 the local 
 laws of Canada were restored. Religious 
 orders were expressly excepted. No spe- 
 cial i)rivileges were allowed to the Jesuits. 
 They were subject to British, not to French 
 law. Consequently the act of incorpora- 
 tion, granted them two years since, was 
 utterly ultra w'n'.s the Quebec legislature 
 because it contravenes that British law 
 under whoso ojieration in such matters at 
 the conipiest (^)uebec came. Jesuits can- 
 not be incorporated in liritain, and thete- 
 fore cannot in Canada. The Jesuit pro|)erty 
 reverted to the crown, and it was e.xpress'y 
 stipulated tluit it should be appropriated 
 for educational uses throughoutthe province 
 as a whole without any reserve. Repeat- 
 edly, for example, in 1800, 1812 and 1825, 
 the L<iwer Canada legislative assembly 
 earnestly petitioned in favour of carrying 
 out this arrangement, but was balked by 
 the interventif)n of the Roman Catholic 
 authorities. 
 
 FOR EDfL'ATroN OSI.V. 
 
 These petitions mention expressly that 
 "the Kstates of that (the Jesuit) arder 
 were originally granted by the king of 
 France for the purpose of educating the 
 natives of the country," and that " the 
 Jesuits were merely depositaries thereof 
 for the purposes of the education of the 
 youth of the province." 
 
 The petition of 182") prays that the said 
 Estates might be devoted " according to 
 their primitive destination f<jr the educa- 
 tion of the youth of this country," and be 
 placed at the disposal of the legislature for 
 that purpose. 
 
 On till! 7th July, IH'M, a despatch was 
 addressed by the thon colonial secretary, 
 Earl (!o<lerich to the governor at Quebec 
 rapresenting His Majesty William IV., 
 urging atrongly that " the Jesuit Kstates 
 were, on the dissolutinn of that onler, ap 
 pi'oprlated to the education of*' e i)eople, " 
 
 and further, "that the revenue which 
 might result from that pio[)erty should be 
 rei;arded as invioLiblj' and exclusi\ ely ap- 
 plicable to the object' — and moreover 
 " that the king cheerfully aii<l \vith<iut re- 
 servo conlided the duty uf the ap|jliciitioii 
 I of those funds fur the pur[)oses of education 
 ' to provincial legislation." 
 I Let it be clearly understood, tben, that 
 i the jtrovince of Quebec had no peculiar 
 { rights depending on any treaty with France 
 ' — that Canada was ceiled to Ci'eat Britain 
 I in the most ample manner and form with- 
 out restriction. The king of (ireat Britain 
 agreed to "grant the liberty of the Catho- 
 lic Hiligiiui to the inhabitants of (^anada, 
 and gave orders that " his new Uouian 
 ('atholic subjects may profess the w/nr.-.hip 
 (jf their religion according to the rites of 
 the Rjuiish church as far as the laws of 
 Britain permit." The act of Parliament 
 afterwards passed (14 Georgw lii chap. 
 815) grants just the same powers subject to 
 the king's supremacy as are embodied in an 
 act [)a.sseil in the fir.st year of (}ueen Kliza- 
 betli. 'J'he Jesuits were never rec:ognized 
 in any form. It thus appears plain beyond 
 dis]iute, quoting as we have done from the 
 original documents. 
 
 1. That what are commonly known as 
 tlie Jesuit Estates were entrusted to that 
 Society not absolutely, but as a deposit for 
 the good of the countrj', educationally 
 and without any exclusive ecclesiastical 
 reference. 
 
 2. That, in virtue of the suppression of 
 the Jesuits first by papal, and then by 
 royal decree, these Estates were ren'oved 
 entirely from Jesuit control, and reverted 
 to the civil authorities, or, in the language 
 of the Canadian enactment declaring their 
 suppression that, hence forward nil their 
 " rights, privileges and property should 
 be vested in the crown." Conseciuently, 
 
 3. It is a mal-i«ltiii)ndmti()H of Trust, 
 for the Legislative Assembly of the Province 
 of Quebec, in the face of its own repeated 
 action in anti-ccnifederation tini 3S, to 
 abjure its own right to cu8todierslii|i, by 
 giving up said coniiscated property, or any 
 jiirtion of it, or funds out of the |)ublic 
 purse, by way of co-nmutation in lieu of it, 
 to a society that was abolished by its own 
 idiief, and by our own King, and for pur- 
 poses, alien from its origimil destination, 
 lie it remembered, too, that the amount in 
 ([uestion is ap|)ropriated but in part, ('\nd 
 that the smallest part), to its siupposed 
 owners, that others got the larger portion 
 
 j who have no claim to it, and that the 
 I appropriation is made not for the province 
 I H8 a whole, and for educational |)urpo8es 
 ' therein in particular, but for whatever uses, 
 : or objects the Pope may choose to prescribe. 
 I This last consideration introduces an ele- 
 j ment :'.t variance with British prec^edent 
 
 a;id prestige, which makes the measure, 
 ' not merely a virtual breach of trust, but a 
 
 violation of the British Constitution. This 
 
 brings us to our second point. 
 II. The measure is 
 
3 
 
 I'NCOXSTniTIiiNAL. 
 
 inasmuch as it niaki's Biitis'i Lcijisliitioii 
 subject to the burvi'illaiice- the .■ii^pnivjil 
 or rejecticm of a Foruijiii Pnwer. Wor'i 
 tlu! li^L'iise it i^raiits to this Ecclcsiiistical 
 I'otLMitato to be vested in the Aiiiei-ican 
 President or any European Sovereign, 
 there is no true IJriton aiiioiivst us, who 
 wouKl not resent and riisist i^. Wliat are 
 the terms of tlie Jesuit Estates' Act as we 
 h d it in tlie Quebec Statutes for LSS"^. 
 
 The prcaii'lile ti> the liill contains the eor- 
 ri'sponvljnct! between the r:ivi) authorities 
 of Quelee and the representatives of the 
 Pope. It records the confiscation of the 
 Estates liy His Majesty Oeor<,'o III., and 
 their traunfer to tlie Province of Canada. 
 The fir.st. letter of ';lie eorresiiondenee from 
 Preiiiier Afercier is to the Pope's ofHcial 
 Secretary, the I'rime Minister of the 
 Vatican, Cardinal Simeon, iiuotiiii; from 
 a letter (jf the latter in 1887 to Cardinal 
 Taschereau to the etl'ect that the Pope had 
 " reserved to himself the rishr of sc'ttling 
 the ((Uestion of tlie Jesuits' P^states in 
 Canada." 
 
 The Quebec Premior a.°.ks His Eininence 
 if he would have no oNjections to tlie sale 
 of the property, iiddiiin " tiie (ioverninent 
 Would looU upon the proceeii.iof the sale, as 
 a s|iecial deposit to bo dr^posed of here- 
 after, in acccjrdanoe with tlie at^reiMiient tc> 
 be entered into between Jie parties interest- 
 ed, with Tiii; a.ANCTioN or THK Hot.Y Skk." 
 
 Thus the Provincial asks the leave of the 
 Papal Premier, to dispose of lauds on which 
 the latter has no claim whatever — lands 
 that were confiscated by the constituted 
 authorities, and whose conliscation can- 
 celled any claim they may have previously 
 had. This radical dill'ereuce was dexter- 
 iously kept out c)f sii^ht by those in this 
 week's debate in the Dominion Parliament, 
 who (|uotcd the Clergy Reserve Commuta- 
 tion Act of 1854 as a parallel case. The 
 denoininationa included under it had not 
 been abolished as this order was, nor had 
 their pro|ierty undergone conliscation to 
 the crown. They were ackiiowledijed by 
 law, and the propeiy involved was indis- 
 putably theirs. They coiiiinutcd on their 
 individual claims wliose legitimacy was 
 undoubted, and agreed amonn themselves, 
 to jiut the amount so realized into a com- 
 mon fund, lietweeii the two cases, there 
 is not the slightest resemblance. 
 
 What ri'j}\t or necessity had the Pr-ivinco 
 of (^)uebec lo solicit liberty from the Pope 
 to disposi (if lands which, over a century 
 previously hid reverted to the crown i 
 How ^'rating to Hritish ears this telegram 
 from Rome, granting the leave asked. 
 " The Pori: .vi.i.ou.s the (loveriimont to 
 retain the proceeds of the sale of the 
 Jesuits' E.-ilates as a special dejiosit, to be 
 disposed of hereafter, WITH thr SANCTION 
 OF TMK Hoi.v Skk." 
 
 The " Fathers of the Society of Jesus," 
 are instructed from headipiarters, to treat 
 in their own name (through their Pro- 
 curator), with the {^ivil Coveiument, in 
 
 such a manner however, as to leave full 
 liberty to the Holy See, to dis|ioso of the 
 projierty .\s it ijke.ms .\iivis,\iii.k, and eon- 
 seiiueiitly that they should lie very careful 
 that no condition or clause be inserted in 
 the otticial deed of the concession of such 
 pro[)erty, which could inany mattkk .\ kikct 
 THK MliERTY OF TllK HoLY Sek. What Con- 
 ceivable lien, legal, moral or equitable, 
 could the " Holy See " have on property 
 which bt^longed to Her Majesty ! Is it not 
 humiliation on the part of a British colony 
 to subordinate itself thus to a foreign power 
 which has really no jurisdiction in the 
 matter— and to give over to that jiower for 
 irresponsible disbursement any ])ortion of 
 her public funds t Why should llritain 
 become trustee to the Po[)e, holding in 
 trustthe proceedsof a sale of lands, Ifoifeited 
 to herself long ago, and now made by this 
 complained of litigation subject to the 
 Pope's disposal ? The I'lifx- fainiri'i thi' i>ri>- 
 cecils ui the sale to be In hi for liim, and yet 
 the act declares that ho has no legal right 
 to any portion of said proceeds, and that 
 " the oiler of $400,000 is not made in sub- 
 stitution or satisfaction of the proceeds of 
 sale : " 
 
 A UII.E.M.MA. 
 
 Either the Pope has a nglit to the pro- 
 ceeds — or he has not > If he luw, why allirui 
 so positively that there is no legal liability. 
 If he has not, why, on the footing of a 
 mere moral cl.aim, concede to liiiu .so un- 
 limited a power i Does not this give to 
 the Sovereign P intilf now a ■/kcs; legal 
 claim, (hitherto confessedly awantiiig) of 
 which vigorous use will doubtUss yet be 
 made ill after applications. I5ut the other 
 day, in the Court of Chancery at Toronto, 
 in th« matter of an International Ihidge 
 Company, (a most innocent arraii^oiiient 
 in which there seeineil no risk of clashing) 
 each county having assented to the corpor- 
 ation created by it, uniting witli the 
 corporati(jn created by the other, and 
 bringing into the union the rights and 
 liabilities, conferred and iiiqK^sed upon it, 
 the Vice-Cliaiicelhu' declared : " Were the 
 Ciinadian Parliament to endeavour to do 
 so, to say that Canadian sul)jects and 
 Canadian coip.'ritions are to be sul'jcct to 
 legislation that iiiiglt be passed It}' Con- 
 gress, it would, I apiireheiid, be uiiconsci- 
 tutional ; it would be (iKtlini izimj >.( fureiyn 
 poiii'rto li'ijisloteftir its sul)ji:ii!i, aliabdication 
 ofKovi'irirntji iiicoHKintent irllh it.f relotion to 
 the Einjiifi' of trhivji it forms iijKirt." With 
 greater force of propriety may this language 
 be ajiplied to the Quebec .\ct against which 
 we protest-- for what does it aiiioiiiLt to ? — 
 Just this, as a distinguished legal authority 
 puts it, - " T'lie (jovernmcnt, recognizing 
 the property as belonging t(j Her .Majesty, 
 and forming part of the Crowu liaiids of 
 the I'rovince, have asked, received uud 
 acted on the permission of a foreigner to 
 deal with them : and, further, they liavo 
 placed at the disposal of the same foreigner, 
 ^!()0,000of the public moneys ; or, in other 
 words, while the exiienditure of public 
 
funds s)iouI<l be ('.irect(3<l by tlmse eitnsti- | 
 tiiti')iial iiu^thnils which every faithful 
 government is hound to obaervo, tlie luj^is- j 
 laturd has abdicated its functions in favor ] 
 of the Pope, and has unconstitutionally 
 committed to His Holiness, t'le clisposition ; 
 and distribution of nearly half a million in ' 
 the province" Recall to your reniembrance 
 such portions of the Act as these. 
 
 1. That "the Holy Father reserves to 
 himself the ri;,'ht of settlinjj; the question 
 of the Jesuit Estates inCaiiada." 
 
 2. That the i)rocoeds of sales are to be 
 disposed of " with the sanction of the Holv 
 See." 
 
 3. That the a£;re6ment with the govern- 
 ment is to be " binding only, in so far as it 
 ahall he ratified by the Pope." and 
 
 4. That the amount of the compensation 
 fixeii (8400,000) shall remain " in the 
 hands of the government of the Province, 
 as a special deposit, until the Pope h;v' 
 ratitied the said settlement and made 
 known his wishes respecting thedistribution 
 of such amount, in this country. 
 
 AN ABDICATION OF SOVEREICiNTV. 
 
 Does the law permit the Crown, its 
 ministers or subjects, or any colonial legis- 
 lature to grant or delegate any such author- 
 ity to any foreign power? We trow not. 
 This indeed is an abdication of sovereignty 
 inconsistent with "ourrelation to the em- 
 pire of which wo form a part." The Pope 
 might have objected to the arrangement. 
 What then? His veto would have prevented 
 the Act comina into force. Against such 
 Papal intervention we have protested from 
 of old. Britain's stout resistance in this 
 direction can be seen in Acts jiassed in the 
 25th, 27th. and 38th years of Edward IH., 
 and the 13th and 10th of Richard 11. The 
 statute 24, Henry VIII. ch. 12, prohibits 
 "any foreign institutic ns, appeals, sent- 
 ences, judgments, or any other process from 
 the see of Rome, or any other courts or 
 potentates," and proscribes penal ties against 
 "persons within the realm or, within any of 
 the Tvjng's domiiiions, attempting to pro- 
 cure any such from the see of Rome, or 
 from any foreign court or potentate." 
 
 I'AI'.M. INTERVENTION RF.PUDIATKIl IN OLDEN 
 TIME. 
 
 Any intervention, especially from the 
 "See of Rome," the entire course of British 
 legislation distinctly repudiated as " in 
 derogation of the regality of our Lord the 
 King. ' Another statute (still in force), em- 
 bodies the protest of Parliament, "that 
 the crown of England which hath been so 
 free at all times, that it hath been in no 
 earthly subjection, but immediately subject 
 to (jod, and none other, in all things 
 toucliing the regality of the same crown 
 should be submitted to the Pojjc," and yet 
 another (Henry VIII., ch. 21), expressly 
 prohibits the Sovereign from "procuring 
 licenses, delegations Ac, or any instniinent 
 in writing from tho Bishop of Rome, called 
 the I'ope." 
 
 These statuteB, says Lord Coke, are 
 
 declaratory of the ancient or common law 
 of the realm (Coke's Instit. 341, and 
 they declare that every encourageoKMit or 
 acknowledgement of the papal or a foreign 
 p iwer within the realm, ^is a diminution of 
 the regal authority of the Crown, and is an 
 otl'ence." (4 Bl. com. 110). Surely the 
 jihraseology of this .Jesuit Act, already 
 repeatedly quoted by us, in which the l'o|)e 
 so distinctly claim;, the right to setth^ this 
 matter, and which forbids its comint.' into 
 force without his permission, is an " ac- 
 knowledgment of the Papal power within 
 the realm " — an acknowledgment all the 
 more unmistakable, Jis it actually renuires 
 in onlor to its enforcement, an " i)istrH- 
 mi'ht in ivritiiuj from the Bishop of Poime 
 called tlie Pope," in direct violation of the 
 |)roliil)ition already cited (from Henry 
 VIII., ch. 21), an " instrument in writing 
 without the granting of which the law would 
 be of none etl'ect. " 
 
 PAPAL INTERFEUEN(;E KEPITDIATED IN 
 LEADINP, R. C. COI'NTRIES. 
 
 While the Roman Catholics of France and 
 Itr.ly have utterly excluded the ecclesiastical 
 power from the civil domain, this Act does 
 really bring His Holiness int'i that domain, 
 as one having no small measure of authority 
 in Canada. Be it remenib>.red also that 
 th'S government of the provir.ce of Quebec 
 iivjludes the (^ueen as its sovereign and 
 head. When the Lieut. -Oovcrnor signs 
 this act, he does bo in the name and by 
 authority of the <.^)ueen : — when the Oover- 
 nov-fTeneral-iii-Council assents, or declines 
 disallowing, he doe.i so in the .same name 
 and by the same authority, thus subjecting 
 her Jlajesty to the indignity of asking 
 permission from the Pojjo to give validity 
 and force to her own legislation. Is it 
 right, is it constitutional, in view of the 
 long course of British enactnrents to which 
 we have referred, that ourbelovod sovereign 
 should he so used. If permitted in this 
 case, and the precedent so established be 
 allowed to go unquestioned, will it not be 
 taken advantage of, in the future in other 
 cases where Romish interests are supposed 
 to be involved I It has been said that this 
 is meant to I.e merely a receipt in full 
 from the Head of the Roman Catholic 
 Church- for the money received, and to 
 ])revent the making of after demands, but 
 
 1. The language of the statute does not 
 bear this out. The exfiressions quoted 
 cover much more than this. 
 
 2. Far from 8top|)ing after applications, 
 it will tend to stimulate them, because it 
 gives a ijuasi legal claim, in circumstances 
 where ti.e very statute itseif declares there 
 is only a noral one. 
 
 Hints are already given that this may 
 be looked upon only as an instalment as 
 two million dollars are claimed as due. 
 Money is already asked for in other w.-iys, 
 and a valuable piece of land (Lapr.iirie 
 common) which the act cedes. And that 
 it will not stop here, may be gathered 
 from the letter to the Quebec premier from 
 
the Jesuit iirocurafor (if diite May 20'Ji, 
 18^8, will) suggests that now " the Jesuit 
 fathiTS in accordanue with tlieir deser's, 
 and if tliey ask for it, l)e allowed to par- 
 tici|iate in the grants wiiich thu jjovern- 
 meiit of this province allows to other 
 inetitutions to encourage teaeiiiiii.', educa- 
 tion, industries, arts and colonization 
 The meaning is plain. Principal (irant 
 interpretsit thus in a letter whieti ai)peaved 
 in a leading 'I'oronto journ.al of dateMaveb 
 0th : "The order () «'. of Jesuits) has 
 tasted blood and wants more already. 
 
 IT WILL BLEED yfEJJEC WHITE. 
 
 Quebec cannot be expected to resist very 
 stubbornly when, at any time, the story 
 of room No. 8, can be i-epeated at Ottawa, 
 and a Dominion government forced t(j 
 make us all pay in one shape or another for 
 annual largesses already expected by an 
 order that never learns and never forgets." 
 
 Pjven his Roman Catholic friends will 
 receive with respect what Dr. (irant says 
 in this matter, for he has ever acted kindly 
 and liberally towards them, and indeed 
 they need not feel sensitive as to the 
 severest strictures, for many of themselves 
 are of the same mind. 
 
 3. It is also to be considered that the 
 Head of the Roman Catholic churu.n claims 
 <]uite a difl'erent relatiim to the world and 
 the church from the recognized heads of 
 the Protestant churches.' But, e\en sup- 
 posing that the claim embodied in this act, 
 were conceded to the Moderator of our 
 Oeneral Assembly the IMetrojjolitan of the 
 Church of England, the general Superin 
 tendents of the Methodist church, or the 
 Chairmen of the Baptist <n' Congregational 
 unions ; we would be among the first and 
 keenest to oppose it as a dangerous pre- 
 cedent, and disastrous to the interests of 
 civil and religious liberty. Underlying 
 the Clergy reserve act was the solid sub- 
 stratum of a legal claim, while here, it is 
 admitted by the framers of this measure, 
 there in none. But, in that case, no such 
 conditions were specified, no such authority 
 was arrogated or acted on. 
 
 NO STATE CONNEXION. 
 
 Indeed, the very preamble of that act 
 asserted the desirableness of doing away 
 with even the semblance of n cennexion be- 
 tween church and state, a connexion which 
 still continues in the province that has 
 passed this obnoxious act, a connexion to 
 which tiiis act seemed at first calculated to 
 give additional vigor and vitality, but which 
 has evoked a Bjurit which may eventually 
 issue in its utter abolition. 
 
 JKHUITISM A MYSTERV OF INIyUITV. 
 
 III. We are opposed to the Jesuit 
 Estates' Act because we are opposed to the 
 Jesuits. We regard Jenuitism us the very 
 mystery of iniquity which already works in 
 our Dominion to its serious detriment, and 
 which neijds not additional latitude, bjt 
 the utmoHt abridgement " till it be taken 
 out of the way." 
 
 In .sjioMking against this system which is 
 evil, . nly evil and that ccnitinu;illy, we 
 havii t!ie most intelligent and in .ueiitial 
 Roman Catholics who agree with us tho- 
 roughly. They have no more symjiathy 
 with it than we have. To them as to us, 
 it is a "doctrine of devils," on w'lich they 
 indignantly frown aswedo Its principles 
 they repudiate. Its practices they loathe. 
 Our contention to-night is not again.st 
 Roman Catholics, r.it a few of whom we 
 esteem and admire, but against a system, 
 which, with "all deceivableness of un- 
 righteousness" works harm and loss to 
 them MS well as to us. 
 
 Indeed, did we wish ill to Roman Catho- 
 lics, we would wish the .lesuits to obtain 
 the ascendancy amongst them as they are 
 now fast doing. They have ever been as 
 the camel which got its head into the desert 
 tent eventually to oust the rightful oc- 
 cupant, or, as the frozen adder which the 
 unsuspecting peasant one cold day took up 
 into his bosom, warming it into life and' 
 activity till it stung the generous bosom 
 from which its warmth and nutriment were 
 derived. 
 
 B.'VNI.SHED FROM FRANCE, 1701. 
 
 Thus in France these evil men and 
 seducers waxed worse and worse till, in 
 17t>l, it decreed their banishment from the 
 kingdom. By several decrees of that 
 parliament, it was enacted that the books 
 pulilished by the Jesuits be examined care- 
 fully and attested by connnissiiuiers so as 
 to justify the aboliti<in of the order. 
 These were collated and published in a 
 ([uarto volume, in Latin and French, with 
 llie parliamentary decree of March .Tth, 
 1702, accompanying them which, after a 
 preamble continued thus. 
 
 JESUITS CONDEMNKP I!Y ROMANISTS. 
 
 "The subject having been duly investi- 
 gated and discussed, the parliament, all the 
 chambers being assembled, have decreed 
 and ordained that the aforesaid extracts 
 verified and collated by the commissioners, 
 and the translation of them shall be 
 annexed to the " process verbal " of this 
 day, a. id that the Attoriiey-Oeneral shall 
 bo directed to send without delay, the said 
 assertions to all the prelates, that they 
 may adopt all necessary measures ui)on this 
 important affair. The ])arliament also en- 
 joins upon their president to present to 
 the king a faithful copy of the said pass- 
 ages ; that the king may know the inis- 
 cliievoUB doctrines which are maintained 
 without interruption by the priests, stu- 
 dents and other members of the order of 
 the Jesuits in a multitude of works (if ten 
 printen, in public theses, and in lectures 
 dictated to youth from the first organiza- 
 tion of that society until this time, with the 
 approbation of their theologians, the per- 
 mission of their superiors and generals, and 
 the eulogy of the other members of the 
 said order ; c'octrines which, in their con- 
 8e(iuenceB, destroy the law of nature that 
 
c, 
 
 rul" of iiuinils vvhicli (••"\ hiis Himstflf iii- 
 siniliHcI upiin tli« ht-iirt of iiiiiii. Thuir 
 ilnuiiias also lireak all tlio hoiuls of civil 
 .siitit-t.y !'>' aiitlioi-iziiiic tlu'ft, fiilsuhooil, 
 pi'i'juiy, tliu lucist iiiorJiiiate a id ciiiniiial 
 irnpiiiitifs, ami i^Liiurally, all | assioii.s and 
 vviikiMlnoss ; liy tuai-hiuti tlie iitfaiioLls 
 |iriiici|)lu.s of siicn^C coiiiptiiisaUoii, iM|uivoija- 
 lion, mental resorvalion, iirobaliilisni and 
 |diilooo|)hiual sins ; by extir|)atini; every 
 \k Hcntinient uf humanity amon({ mankind in 
 tliuir sanction of homicide antl parricide ; 
 hy .sLibvertin>! the authority of t;overn- 
 incnts, and the principles of suliordmation 
 and oliedience ; by inculcating reuicido 
 anionj,' faithful subjects, and in tine by 
 subverting the foundations and practice of 
 reli;,'ion, and .substitutinc all sorts of 
 superstitions with inajiic, blasphemy, 
 irrilij^ion and idolatry. The kinji is also 
 rei|uested to consider the dreadful results 
 of those pernicious instructions, especially 
 when combined with the other aliomina- 
 tioiis which the rules and constitutions of 
 the said Jesuits prescribe res[iuotiiig the 
 choice and entire uniformity of sentiments 
 and operions throuuh<mt the said .society." 
 Tile volume iadiviib'd into 18 chapters and 
 i:ontains extracts from lodO different 
 autlii>rs whose writini;s stretched over 171 
 year.s from ITfUO to 17lil. This formidable 
 indictment was drawn up and passed, not 
 by fanatical, bigoted Pi'otestants, but by a 
 liarliament of orthodox HiMiianists who 
 bore with the Jesuits till they could do so 
 no longer, and "grown weary of the load. 
 They shook, their encumbered lap, and cast 
 theiii out." The ecclesiastical united with 
 the civil authorities of France in proclaim- 
 ing that the " society was dangerous to 
 the Christian faith, disturbers of the peace 
 and more fitted to c(jrrupt thai, to edify." 
 
 THEIR NlMliER \VHK.\ .VIIOI.ISII KP. 
 
 When sujipressed by Oanganelli (Pope 
 (-lenient XIV.) in 1773, they numbered 
 ■J2,787. of wlumi 11,010 were priests ; they 
 bad (il institutions for novices, i. e , 
 .Irsuits of the 1st class ; (iiill colleges for 
 scholars or Jesuits of the 2iid class; 17'i 
 seminaries for coadjutors, Jesuits of the 
 .'ird class, and 24 houses for the professed, 
 the highest and liliished class of the order. 
 The authors ajjproved by the .Jesuits who 
 have written in the outrageous manner in- 
 dicaterl so as to inspire the indignation of 
 g<iod Roman Catholics numbered ;i2ti ; 50 
 upon probable opinions ; o.'j on invincible 
 ignorance and an erroneous conscience ; 14 
 on simony ; 7 on bh.spliemy and sacrilege ; 
 '•')') on irreligion ; 17 on immodesty ; 28 on 
 perjury and false witness ; on prevarica- 
 tion of judges ; 33 on theft, secret com- 
 pensation and concttiilmeiit of property ; 
 ;i(i on homicide, and 08 on treauon. 
 
 rNIVER.SAI, CONDEMNATION. 
 
 These dangerous publications, many of 
 which have been ro-published and received 
 the highest endorsation in these last days, 
 have '.'.Lii condemned at Jirterent times by 
 
 41) universities ; 100 prelates ; 3 provincial 
 synods ; 7 general assemblies, and 48 de 
 creea, briefs, letters apostolic and papal 
 bulls from Rome, so that when we cry 
 alouil and spare not against the revival of 
 . Jesuitism and its endowment out of the 
 public I'urse, amongst ourselves, we are in 
 line with a long catalogue of the loftiest 
 dignitaries of the Church of Rome who 
 Vexed their righteims souls from day to day 
 with their ungodly deeds, and who. by all 
 the modes of protest available, test itiud that 
 they would liave no fellortsliip with such 
 unfruitful works of darkness, liut rather 
 reprove them. 
 
 nV TIIKIK KKflTS SHAM, YE KNOW THEM. 
 
 The Jesuits had to do with the issassiii.ition 
 of Henry III. and Henry IV. of France, the 
 .Spanish .-\rrnadn. the massacre of .St. Bar- 
 tliolomew, the (iuiipnwder Plot, the. KevocH- 
 tinn of the Kdiot of X.iiites, ami snuie of the 
 hlciodicat pages in the Book of Time for two 
 contuiies. For their liigli oriiiies and inisde- 
 iiieannrs, prior to the al>olition of the order 
 in I77.S. they were exprlled thirty iiiiii! times 
 from .'dl the countritsof Hurope, us well as the 
 regroiis lieyond. 
 
 THE lUt.I, WII.I, IllKT HOl'EUY. 
 
 In MKUiy respects nothing would subserve 
 the iiitei'L-sts of I'rotestautisiM lietter, and be 
 more injurious to Komau Catholicism in the 
 end, than the patronizing of this ordi-i. We 
 saw its working in Bost-in lately, where 
 through .lesiiii intrigue the entliu>)iasm of the 
 friends of liberty was evoked to such a pitch 
 that a l\oman Catholic mayor, who had gone 
 in liy a three thousand majority, found him 
 self in a minoiity of tin; same figure, and an 
 abnost clean sweep made of any oliice holders 
 that were suspected of the least sympathy 
 with the intriguers. History has so fully 
 shown in former as well as later times that 
 the Jesuit, however polite and plaiisil>le in 
 his maiinei's, is certain, wherever he can get 
 a favorable opportunity, to reveal his innate 
 character, that he inspires among enlightened 
 Romanists, and even the most liberal Frotes- 
 tants a wholesfune dreail. 
 
 We have already referred to our former 
 honored citizen and friend, the disting.iished 
 Principal of (Queen's University. Who lived 
 on a better footing with Rom in Catholics 
 in this community than he, the fast friend of 
 tlui late liberal minded Archbishop Connolly, 
 and the sworn foe of bigotry of every sort, 
 but, in that same letter already quoted, 
 he ilepicts the Jesuits in colors as dark and 
 forbidding as any, an<l suggi^sts an effort 
 to revoke the act of incorporation granted 
 them two years ago, addiiiir the riMiiark : 
 " Fossihiy some of our Roman Catholic friead* 
 may tliiuk that I am now writing rather 
 strongly. 1 work in the coniinon iiiter»»t. 
 Before they coiideiim me, let them c(mdennn 
 the long line of Popes tjiioted by Clement XIV, 
 — namely, Popes Uihaii VII., Clement IX., 
 Clement X., Cleinent XL, Clement XII., 
 .Mex. \'II., Alex. VIII., Innocent .\., Inno- 
 cent XL, Innocent .\'IL, Innocent .Kill., and 
 I Benedict XIII. The aliolisher of the order, 
 [ ((/'lenient XIV.), declares, "our predecessori 
 I had to undergo much vexation f)n that aecr' ■^t. 
 1 Indee.l, I'ope Innocent XI. driven by n^oet- 
 I aity, went so far us to forbid the Society to 
 receive and invest unviues. Further, Inuoceni 
 
XIII. WMS ooinpflled to threaten tluiii with 
 the SHPie pmiislurieiit, ■.'tc, fzc. Tlie histuiii: 
 (Meiueiit fh)S(!S the fiimuiis Urief siippiessing 
 tlie Siicit'ty, \>ith the sentence: It is setiicely 
 piJSKil>le lis hmg us it exists, to recstiihlisU 
 tine anil amiable pence in the uluuih." It 
 wonhl he well for those who " piuphesy 
 smooth things" eoucei ning this nniversdlly 
 cxeeriiteil Society, to settle tlie nia'tci with 
 the thirteen ilhistriovis I'opes, who so griev- 
 oiibly coinplaineil of the iirliiciph;s and prac- 
 tices of the Jesuits, and to explain wherefoie 
 it v.as that, so lately Canlinal Tascherean, 
 tlie hiL'liest Roman Catholiu dignitaiy in the 
 Dominion, tlirough his representative, resisted 
 the renewal of this long detnnct and nuicli 
 de'.esteij order" — and wherefore the infallible 
 I'ope Clement in his Bull of abolition, 
 declared : "After inatnre deliberation, 
 ami of our own knowledge of the order, we 
 hereby and lit rewith declare and decree that 
 the Jesuit order be absolutely and for ever 
 suppressed, to all eternity." ][t is for others, 
 not for us, to harmonize with the (iogma of 
 infallil)ility, the fact that the defunct order 
 was over 40 years aftervarda, in (1814), re- 
 vived by another Papal bull. 
 
 NO MOKAI, CLAIM. 
 
 What 'moral claim ' can be preferred in be- 
 half of so immoral an organization, andhowcan 
 there be any moral obligation to nuike com- 
 pensation foi- p'()perty,dulyandlawfully taken 
 by the crown to the extinction of all civil obli. 
 j;atiou '.' In all probability, too, in the long run 
 we shall have, to a very consideraole extent, 
 to "foot tlie bill." At all events, as Dr. Urant 
 suggests, the " l)oniiiiioii government (will 
 be) forced to make ii:i all pay, in one shape 
 or anctlier for annual largesses already ex 
 pectcil by an order that never learns and 
 ue\er forgets." And thus wo shall find to 
 our cost, that although, in a sense this is 
 Quebec bu.siness, it is ours yet more, and 
 that, in a variety of ways, to our sore detri- 
 nient this mystery of iniiiuity doth already 
 work. 
 
 Under the legislative union which existed 
 between Upper and Lower Canada from 1840 
 to 18()7, this was the principal trouble, and 
 confederation was sought by what is now 
 Ontario, in order, if poesiLle, to get rid of it. 
 But if it fails in this respect, if the old annoy- 
 mice arising out of clerical interference, is to 
 be experienced in an aggravated form — once 
 n-ore, you can easily see how there may be a 
 tension to the point of snapping and some 
 other means of relief may be sought. 
 
 NOT .\ VUEBKC MATTER ONLY. 
 
 This is no mere local or provincial tjuestion. 
 Though nominally a (,)uebec matter, it raises 
 questions which all'ect the entire Dominion. 
 It puts the very existence of the Dominion 
 on a needless and most undesirable strain. 
 It is also a slight ottered to our nu\ch-love<l 
 sovereign, making her action in this matter 
 dependent on a toi eign power. 
 
 i'he llev. I). J. iMaciionnell, in moving a 
 ringing resolution recently at an im- 
 mense meeting in Toronto, said : " With 
 whom are we contending? Not with 
 our Hoiiian Catholic fellow citizens. I would 
 like to emphasize this, We are not con- 
 tending with our Koman Catholic fellow- 
 citizens, but with a band of ecclesiastics, of 
 no country and of no home, with a band of 
 
 men who h^.ve no H tg, for « hiiji they care, 
 who have no altars, tor which to right, whose 
 only object is tl'e assault nt Ireedoin, civil 
 ami religious, wherever tliey rind it ; whose 
 only aim is to bving tlieir fellow men under 
 their tyiaiuiy for tlie satisfying of their in- 
 satiable anibi ion. It I know my.selt I am 
 not a bigot. If lliere is any one element that 
 has been lult out in my make up, it la the ele 
 ment ot bigotry " 
 
 * * « * • 
 
 " Hilt when men come, and in the name ot 
 religion trample on my civil rights, and 
 I when, in the name of freedom, they cn;sh out 
 freedom, asking tor tolerance, in order that 
 they m ly use the most exceeding intolerance 
 all the wot Id over ; when men eome in the 
 name of .Jesus, and make conspiracy against 
 all the dearest i iglils of man ; then, I say, it 
 is no longer bigotry, but the simple duty of 
 every Christian and of every citizen to pro 
 test, and you are citizens, and we are here, 
 too, in tlie capacity of citizens who wish to 
 preserve what is best for ourselves and our 
 children. We are here to protest against and 
 condemn the Jesuit Kstates' Act, and the in 
 corporation of the Order, too, which was the 
 thin edge of the wedge. It was put in long 
 ago, wlieii you and 1 were asleep, and it has 
 been driven so far in the good stout timl)erot 
 Confederation that it has neatly split — and 
 what you ami I have to do is to loosen the 
 wedge, so that that good old timber iiiay be 
 kept whole. .Some people may say that this 
 is locking the stable door alter the horse is 
 stolen, but I tell you it is not stolen yet — the 
 horse of British freedom. This has not been 
 stolen, although they have very impudently 
 opened the stable door. It is not too late, 
 and so we are here to protest, and I hope we 
 are going to do something else than protest." 
 
 STRrtlGLE ONLY HKlifN. 
 
 Surely this struggle which has been pre- 
 cipitated through the avarice and ambition of 
 this crafty foe ol our country's peace and pros 
 perity, cannot cease till not merely the act 
 now complained of — be revoked, but the pre- 
 vious one giving corporate existence to this 
 anti- British order, passed in opposition to 
 British law, and everything wearing the 
 semblance of an Established church, or the 
 endowment of sectarian institutions, be 
 erased from our statute book. If we allow 
 this mystt-ry ot initiuity which already works 
 — in our Dominion, to keep working — giving 
 " aid and comfort to the enemy," instcail of 
 simple toleration as the law allows, we shall 
 rind it true of our country, what Clement 
 A'lV. affirmed of the existence of this order 
 in his church. " It is scarcely possible as 
 long as it exists to re-establish true and dur- 
 able peace." It may be deemed Cassandra 
 prophesying, but unless all history is a lie, 
 and the tealimonies of the most trustworthy 
 in the Roman Catholic church be gratuitous 
 slanders, this " mystery of iniquity " in our 
 Dominion will work as the horse surreptitious- 
 ly brought into the Troy of classic story, or 
 the sowing of the teeth of the fabled diagon 
 to be followed by a bristling harvest of armed 
 men, We would be as anxioHs as any to 
 preserve the autonomy of the several pro- 
 Ninces, but has any province the right to 
 alienate funds from the purpose, for which 
 they were appropriated, and to divide them 
 
8 
 
 
 nil. fill,' Ik variety of pdrtiew, not coiitempLited 
 in tiie ui'iginnl triibteeahip. Hm any pro- 
 vjiioM tlie right tu endow at pleHaiire sects 
 »ii<l purties, and to apply to oUjects eo- 
 cle.si'i>-ticul what was designed exclusively fur 
 ol>jti:ts e(liu:ational. Have provinces tin; 
 right, to estahliali and endow religious orders 
 thiit are f'irhidden by British law, and to 
 ni lU; the suprernaoy of the Queen, be siibor- 
 liiniite in civil natters to any ecclesiastical 
 dii;iiltaiy, and her legislation subject to the 
 coiiijeiit of fiireign powers. Are not these 
 and such like beyond the proviiicinl jurisdic- 
 tii>ii. and wh ranting the intervention of the 
 c'liiicderated provinces, or even a direct ap 
 pc.d to the Quein or the privy council, in 
 which direction in all probability, the whole 
 niHller will be taken. Under confeueration 
 the interests of all the pri/Vinces are insepar- 
 ably connected. In matters of much inferior 
 iiiiin ent, e. g. , the streams and timber limits, 
 milters of boundaiy and finance, such dis- 
 all'iwance has been exercised, and such ap- 
 pe.d.'s have been niiide. We hold it to be the 
 duty of all good citizens, irrespective of creed, 
 to (jppose measures which seriously threaten 
 the peace and perpetuity of the Dominion, 
 ami to use all legitimate means of preventing 
 such legislation ironi being finally sustained. 
 Let us concede the power claimed by the 
 I'ope in this act, and we may be by and bye, 
 viink-r the operation of the Papal Syllabus, 
 (the NJttgna Charta of modern ultra-moiitan- 
 Imii), whose 77th, 78th and 79th articles, 
 " c(judenin those who refuse to the Romish 
 chuich exclusive recognition as the state 
 relij;ion," "denounce all who permit to 
 foreigners residing in Catholic countries, the 
 piib!ic exercise of their own worship and 
 doctrine," and declare that " civil liberty of 
 eveiy mode of worship corrupts the morals of 
 the people." 
 
 If the power conceded to the Pope in this 
 "Act" and which the Minister of Justice 
 contended was vested in him, not in the 
 l'io\ ince of Quebec merely, but in every part 
 of the Dominion, be ddmitted, then within a 
 certain sphere he takes precedence of all 
 arlhoiity and power, " civil or ecclesiastical," 
 and the recent uttorances of the ultra-mon- 
 tiiiHb of the Provin-e of Quebec, which now 
 piuwike a smile of credulity, may prove a 
 redity, as when Father Brauii preaches 
 tliiit Protestantism has no lights, it is 
 nil leligiiiii," and Mr. Hinan insists that 
 the Catholic church alone has the right 
 t'l liberty, and that "only where it i.s 
 impossible to do otherwise, may liberty of 
 wiiiship be tolerated," and Abbe Piinuet 
 in.structs the students of Laval University, 
 Iwiiich is compai.itively liberal) " that those 
 « l.o reproach the church with being intul- 
 eiant, reproach her with nothing less than 
 her right of existence," and assures them 
 that when the State " allows civil liberty of 
 w .iship it usurps a right which belongs to the 
 .xpii itUHl power." 
 
 T.iiely submit to the "Jesuit Act" 
 — rtH I we shall discover the truth of what 
 the Vicar General of Montreal, stated upon 
 oath, — that " the Church regards as tlnme 
 over whom she can exercise jurisdiction 
 »ll persons who have been baptized," and 
 th>iC ihe oath of supremacy paused in the 
 lirst year of Queen £iualieth, and still binding 
 III. all goveruiiii.'iit officials, and \«hich the 
 last LliU.. '; \\.r.ivr of {,;uebeo took under 
 
 protest, is made of none effect, that true 
 Protestant oath, the result of a bitter exper 
 ience of Papal misrule, which declares that 
 no "foreign I'riuce, person, prelate. State or 
 potentate hath or has a right to have, any 
 jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence 
 or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within 
 this realm," The position we have contended 
 for, is vigorously inaintaiiieil by some of the 
 calmest and most oomprehensive thinkers iu 
 the Dominion, such as our own Principal 
 Caven, whose mind is eminently judicial, 
 and who is at the very antipodes of tne fiery 
 fanatic. Uu the same platform, meet and 
 move in tl>-: inaiter, distinguished brethren, 
 politically and ecclesiastically opposed. 
 We have been much impressed with the state- 
 ments of Sir Alexaiuler Gait, well-known 
 here, when in 1877 he presided so successfully 
 over the Fisheries' Commibsiou— a man now 
 long removed from the exciting arena of party 
 politics, and like Dr. Caven, thoroughly 
 judicious and, statesman like. Writing 
 some time ago in a tractate on " Church 
 and State," he shows, iu the complicated 
 condition of parties within our Dominion, 
 what a safety valve is the veto power vested 
 in the Cabinet. When a question is uniiiis- 
 takably ultra vires (beyond the power) of the 
 Provincial authorities, the intervention of 
 that power isuotsunecessiry, for the Judicial 
 courts, can then determine it. It is with 
 matters of "doubtful disputation," or which 
 may be iulra virex, (within the power) of a 
 Province, but objectionable ami likely to 
 work injuriously to a minority in that Pro- 
 vince, or the general peace and prosperity of 
 the Dominion. " We have, says he, the 
 guarantee that all local legislation is subject 
 to revision and veto by the Governor (ieneral, 
 or rather by the Federal Government." 
 
 It is as if Sir Alexander foreshadowed so 
 long ago the scene enajted on the floor of our 
 Parliament when 1 88 opposed the employment 
 of the veto at this most critical emergency, 
 and but 13 desired it, giving by antici))ation 
 the rationale of that otherwise unaccountable 
 vote, where he goes on to say. 
 
 "If no voice of warning be raised, and noth- 
 ing can be heard but adulatory picans to the 
 hierarchy to obtain their political support and 
 influence, how can we expect to receive at- 
 tention when we appeal to a government at 
 Ottawa, almost all of whose supporters from 
 Queliec owe their seats to the clergy, and of 
 wluise opponents a like proportion are also 
 hopelessly entangled." The chivalrous knight 
 of Montreal, himself the embodiment of 
 courtesy and charity, is nut " mad" as those 
 b.idly abused " clerical agitators," who now 
 wisely sound the note of needed warning are 
 counted, but " speaks (as they do), the wordv 
 of truth and soberness," when he goes on to 
 say, "-(and it is the beat justification of the 
 present movement, for which, not they, but 
 their traducers are wholly responsible.) "The 
 veto by the Federal Government is the real 
 palladium of Protostant liberties in L iwer 
 Canada. * * The educational rights of the 
 people of that Province are only sale under 
 its shelter. • • • Their representation 
 guarantee will gome day dissolve into thin 
 air without its exercise. * * * * It ii in 
 the tirin but mod^rat^ use of this vast pnwur 
 that safety may yet be found from undue 
 encroachments to >"hich both Prot-8tant» and 
 Cklhulics are exposed."