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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m*thode. 1 2 3 1 i- — I 2 3 4 5 6 h %b /. INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE Mr. Howe's Speech. [The following Speech was delivered in the Houise of Assembi)^, on the 13th February, in reply to one made by the Attorney General on the previous day :] Mr. Chairman ; — After the elaborate and extrdurdinar} ipeech, delivered yeaterday by the Attorney General, th. Cumniittee will expect from me a prompt an full reply ; and I ri^e to discharge t)iat duty, which I owe to myself to this House, and to the i^ ^untry. Before Members can deal with th? principles embodied in the Resolutions upon the table, thi> mass of personal mutter^* thrown before them by the Lieutenant Governor, and his chief adviser, must In ■wept out of the way. In addresssing myself to these, in the first place, the Committee will hear in mind, that while my assailants have had months to prepare the accusation, I have had but a single night to arrange the defence. When, a few diiys agOj I found myself denounced and proscribed, in the Oocuments sent down by the L'eutenant Governor, I felt like a Traveller overl:akon by a storm ; end who, with the thunder rojlinfr above his head, the lightning flashing in his eye, and the earth tremhiiat; beneath hiv feet, pauses to reflect why the Gods should be angry with him Fur a moment he is staggered ; but, looking into his own breast, where all is peace and sunshine, he views the storm with indifference, conscious that,howuver foul the vapors that surround him, the rattling of the elements will but purify the jir, and ensure health and safety when t.heir fury i^ ex- hausted. When the Attorney General ruse here yesterday, and, with all the malignity of a persuuil foe — all the orac tised wiles of an experienced advocate, and all the influence of the Government, souj^ht to overwhelm me, I would have doutted the security of my position, but that 1 lemembered, that when the Jewish lawyer Tertullus with the same insidious art, and the same pure intentions, accused the Apostle before I'elix, Paul put him to shame, by a simple narrrtive, remarkable anly for its truth — thai Othello, when accused by an intemperate and enraged man, before the Venetian Senate, of " spells and mighty majric,") told, even in that august presence, his own " round unvar-| iiished tale," and turned his Accuser out of Court. It i« thus that I shall endeavour, sir, to meet and to discomfit my assailants. They have all the advantages which pre paration, and patronage, and authority, give tliem. I have only the answer of a good conscience, and the humble abilities wherewith Providence has endowed rne — but I confidently rely on the goodness of my cause, and on the irresistable po#er of truth. Sir: a person less familiar than I am with ti.e past his'- tory of this Province, finding himself formally denounced by the Lieutenant Governor, would probably sink under what might appear, at first, the startling novelty of the accusation— but, relying upon the integrity and consistency of my past conduct, I am also reminded that this is an old stale tiick, often res.jrled to in former times, by men of small mind-), whose moiiopoty of power could only be preserved, by fomenting personal quarrels bet'veen their QueenV Uepresentative and some prominent individual, respected by the Legislature, and confided in by the People. This was the favorite game of a small Party in Halifax, .vhen Sir John Wentworth was brought into contact with Mr. Tonge — when Mr. (lobie was brought into ctdlisioii with Lord Dalh(msie. We smile at these things now, but can- not forget them. His Lordship sleeps in an honored grave in his native country, and ^1t. Kobie hjs long presided over the Legislative Council — it may be to countenance, il be cannot approve, of the same petty policy which he had ]ta encounter in early life. Again, sir, in the time of Sir "Perecrine Maitland, Mr. Archil aid, the present Master of ■he Rolls, stood in the way of certain parties . personal >lights and accusations becaine again the order of the day —and that gentleman, then and now enjoying the highest reputation for professional and political talen'i, had lo ■nake two voyages to England, to counteract, at borne, the criminatory accusation'; sent from this country, The men, ■lir. who have advised Lord Falkland to prescribe and to denounce me, are the same men, v/ho, in Sir Colin Camp> bell's time, sent homt charges of Republicanism and di».if- ifection against my friend the Me|^er for Yarmouth. ( Mr. Huntington), than whom there" not in this Province a oerson more generally respected by tlio People, It it true that none of these persons were connected with th« Press, and therefore there may have been some differenca in the mode of procedure — but the spirit, the animus, was the same ; and my countrymen, turning back to the past, will be more disposed to laugh ibis stale irick off the stage, than to despair of the fortunes of an old friend. Thb feature which mainly distinguishes the policy of the Opposition in Nova Scotia, from that of the gentlemen who now surround Hi- ' -cellenoy, is this ; we hold that the Queen's Represent: ~ ve, tesponsible to the Colonial Secretary for the due maintenance of the. Prerogative — for our obedience to Imperial laws, and for the good govern- nent cf the country— should yet be hp^d so far above the strife and conflict of party, as to seek cnly the geaersi '.;ood, regardless of likes and dislikes, of persimal cnmitien or predilections. Thus holding a high position, with tha balance of parties in his hand, a just and wise Governor would he powerful for all good purposes, and would find Nova Sootians.but too happy to rally round and to aid him. when appealed to, against factions on either side. Our 'ipponenis, on the other hand, charging upon us an exagger* ited application of the principle that the Governor can do no wrong, which we deny, are never so happy as when they can prove bim capable of wrong doing, by involving him n pcrstnnil conflicts with which he has nothing to do, and driving him into the mes^^s of their own party, by a CQursa of insult, or proscription, of those who, by nu CuDiti- tutional weapon, could the; overpower. The distinction was never more happily or unhappily illustrated, than by the i)ue.jtion raised in these Despatch- es, and by the style of oratory by which we were yesterday c-ntertained. When I lonk at the nature of the charges ••xhibited. and the mass of rubbish through which I am compelled to wadu, in order to meet them, I cannot but forjiet for the moment all sense of injur), and lament that Tiy Siivereign's l{epre^entative has been brought here be- fore the assembled Parliament, to accuse an individual of writing in the newspapers, and to peril his public charaoa tor on the point of a pasquinade, or the severity of a lam- (toon. Sir, th( ugh this may be an old Colonial ruse, I search in vain for any parallel in the history of the Mother CoHOiry. When I turn from the sorry specticle which the Refiresentative of my Sovereign is made to exhibit in this anna, with his Attorney General, instead of bringing us a good measure, coming down with an indictment 4>;ainst a joke ; to the position which he occupied, when, inly fifteen months ago, the humble individual now assailed, 'ihared his confidenoe and stood by his side, 1 canuot btit mourn over the i'olly of liia advisers. Tlien lie wai the lio- nured GoTi-rnur ot'uli Nova ScMtia — oppusitioii, \( t.UDn^ enough for watchfulness, was powerless to obstruct ; iinj lu man, or body of men, trammelled his freedom ot action, oi could extract the humiliating confession that hu CDuld noi 611 up his Council, or carry out tlie poiioy to which he w^^ pledged. Who then hejrd of public ollices left open for many months — two sessions passed •.v'thout a singlj mea sure — ieats i:i Council going begging for a year — propo- sitions to go back to the old Council of 12, to buy up the leaders of the opposition, and grave despat.;hes and speeches founded upon a pasquinade? Sir, when 1 look hack upoi. the pait, and address myself to the labors of this day, in self-defeuce, I would gladly hlot out this disgraceful page from our Provincial history. I confess I know not how to meet this singular attack with becoming gravity. Home Touke commences one ot liis letters with " Tragedy, Comedy, and Farce; Wilkes Foote, and Junius, all on one poor I'arson, are fearful odds." And surely I may say, a Governor, an Attorney General, and all theii' adherents, upon one poor Printer. are fearful odds — but as Tooke was a match for his foes, ] hope I will be able to cive a good account of mine. I trust 1 shall be able to'Wow, that I bore with exemplary patience much undescived provocation — that while I was for months only i-itent on serving and extricating Lord Falkland fium his emharrasraer.ts, a very dilFerent spirit was active on l!ie other side ; and tlmt when, for the dc- fence of my principles, and my friends, T took up my pen on the eth of May, it was not till the officers of his Go- vernment, and his intimate associates, had showered lam- poons and libels on me fur more than four months. If 1 can prove all this ; nay more, if I can prove that each several passage of which Lord Falkland complains, subsequent ti' the 6th of May, was called forth by some gross slander, or irritating squib, published at the time in a paper owned and edited by the Queen's Printer, then, whatever may bfe the judgment of this Assembly, where power and pa tronage aoay 8e.::ure a small majority, I know what must be the ultimate decision of my countrymen, and of Her Majesty's Government. After serving Lord Falkland faithfully for three years and a half, during all which time his administration was successful, and supported by powsrfu' maj irities in thit House, my friends and myself retired, si;nply because we I defy the Attorney General to put his hand upon an ar- icie, written by me against Lord Falkland, earlier thjn thu lith of May. But who gave ample provocation four months lifore? As early as the 28th of December, a person who liad long been a soirt of upper servant about Government House, commenced the w.r in a New York paper, under the signature of Scrutator. This person, well known at a friend and confidant of the Governor, has often given thu (leoplttof New York the benefit of state secrets that ought to have been known only to the Governor and his sworn Councillors, bifore they were revealed in the Province which they most concerned. Let us take up the December letter, evidently written for circulation in Canada, that it night meet the Governor General's eye, and filled with nisrepresentatioii of our conduct and positions. Asa spa- liiraen of ine historical accuracy of this household scribbler, let me take one or two pascuges. On the arrivil of Lord Falkland, bo says, " i egociations were opened with Mr. flowennd other leading Reformers, and with the Heads'-; the Conservative party ; and ut length, by the eierciso o? coMmendable forbearance, and by mutual concessions, a Provincial Administration was formed of the leaiJing gen-< tlemeu of both parties in about equal numbers." The drift of all this is to show that great sk'H was displayed by his Lordship, in forming the Council which carried him through from 1840 to 1843. when it was formed for him by Lord Sydenham ; and, -"s far as 1 was concerned, he brought out the Qiieen's command in his pocket to place me in the Council, So far from the numbers being about equal, Scrutator suppresses tlie fact, that the LiberaU, though forminjf a majority in the House, never had more tl-an three seats in Council out of 10, from vhe time they enter« ed, till they were diiven forth by a reckless attempt to in- urease and peipetuate the disproportion. Again, the Go- vernor's Physician, wishing to throw the blame of all the differences between Members of Council upoc me, attri« liutes to me a series of letters, unt'er the signature of " A Constitutionalist," and states that, in one of ihese, a re« ference was made to the debt due for publishing the Chris- tian Messenger, which was the origin (fall the troubles. There is not one word r' truth in this— no such reference iccurs in those leitei 3 ; and whatever appears in them. Lord Falkland and his Agents should be the last to complain. But I come now, to a passage so meanly false, yet so defa- , , , . , - ,. , - ^natory, that, coming from ;;uch a quarter, would, under could not de.'^end what we bei.eved to he an impolitic, and ill the circumstances, have juseiried prompt and unsparins knew would be an jnpnpular, ap|)ointmeiit to the iixecu tive Council. We had no theoretical disputes about gene ral principles — no personal complaints to charge upon liis Lordship : we parted as gentkiien should part, — we dis- posed to remember only what had been fjleasant in our in- tercourse, and his Lordship assuring us "that be would take care that our motives were not misrepresented ' This was in December. Hardly had we retired, when hi> Lordship addressed a Letter to us, and puhlisned it in the Newspapers, in which he more than insinuated that we. I ■who had served him faithfully, retired courteously, on a single fact, had forced party Government on him, when we had all consented to remain in a Coalition ; and had attempt ed to wrest the Prerogative out of his hands, when we had ever admitted and defended its firm and independent exer- cite. Nothing could be more unjust than those two impli- ed accusations — nothing could have been more impolitic than their publication. His Lordship himself thus sound ed the key note of defamation, and others were not slow to swell the strain. Every old Tory Merchant or Official, with one foot in the grave, was suddenly g: Biiu HIS Aominis'ration Misl^ady was coarsel./ assailed— he was accused of sendine his servant, to a corcert to insult the society of Halifax ■nd his secretary was daunted with robbing a Pawnbroker' •hop to replenish his wardrobe. I regret that I have nol the worst of these papers at hand. An extract or two will serve as specimens of the whole-Lord t<'alkland is described as a Wing deputy of Lord .John Russell, whom a Con jervative Colonial Minister is most unaccountably permit ti_ng to endanger the very existence of the affection of the ConservatiyeB of Nova Scotia, to the Government of the Uueen. The most respectable portion of the socie'y of this Colony are required by a Whig Governor to submit to every species of annovanceand degradation." '■ Surely Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley cannot think it wise tf U ,V ^ \^ ^''"'ernor to destroy the peace, and uliimafe- wri.lK .K^ ' ofth.s once happy Colony." This was written by the no party men, of a Coalitior.. in which the J^iberashadbuta faint representation. His Lordship i« Btyled "a Whig Taskmaster.- and those who boast of the Addresses he received laat summor, will fi„d great comfort Pa tt.n^ .T'"^ passage-" As to ihe Addresses to Lord Falkland, they must be viewed as a mere matter of moon •hine, since there are lunatics and responsibles enough in every village to get up an address to Old Scratch himself.' A Correspondent in the same paper says, "such conduct on t.ie part of Her Majesty's Representative has ceased to excite s-7prise here, as it is quite notorious that his Lord- ship has determimed to blot the sword of truth and the .calesof justice from the escutcheon of his government, and to be guided solely by party feel in.-r and prejudice." Thus wrote the party now in power, of the man they are sus taming in a vain attempt to crush an enemy f„r a political lampc -this was the style of remonstrance against an Administration, thst. sustained by a liberal majority, had hut three Liberals in the Council. But. hear what was widofthe Count deBarruel, the Governor's Secretary, „ gentlennan of classical attainments, polished manners, and guarded circumspection : *h» IJ'T T" '*" S'?"' ""•" '■'» "•«'«"•" *■'■''"' '"S to"r to the West. You would not know him if ho goes your way, by my former description of his habiliments. His late visit to the clothes shop has changed his outward man alto- hf^ h?rK ''• "' ^'»'.'?y? ' »>"' y" '^''" s«ill recognise him by the swagger which I endeavoured to describe on a former occasion.' 8 malist." which wore writfen. not for the mercenary and "l!?"uJ"''^''^ '""''"'*''■ ''"' «" "bste «he nuisance of *hich his Lordship complained. How must I have felt, then. sliorlly after the retiron;enta from the Council, to find my. ^elfopcnly charged with the composition of these letters. •y a I. ,„ger.on about Government Hojse, and mean, mer' i:enary motives, attributed to the writer ? Sir, if feelines 'lave been aroused, and arrows pointed, those from .he Go- verninent quiver, sent with deadly aim, were first di|. Charged. Scrutator, in this very letter, attributes all the i;/c ).• . ' •••.■.■ "'/ 'Encr, BiiriDuies ail ine difficulties to my "ambition"-! "could 'oear no rival All these passages are from n single paper. I could pile up as many, breathing the same spirit, ard evincing the same delicaey. as wcvld weigh down a fiftv six. Thus it was hat the loyal men. who are my denouncers, spoke of a Nobleman, around whose brow the royal halo was as plainly had been this storm of mvective, for twenty months prior to the preparation of the « Constitutirnalist's Letters,' that the Conservatives boasted that the Government was writ- ten down ; and Lorn Falkland deemed it proper to call the attention of the Council to the state of .he Opposition Press, and to iirge th.it some of the Members should enter the arena, and defend him and themselves. On one or two occasions, be called upon the Hon. and learned Speak- er, then the yonngest Member of the Council, to take up lis pen and defend the Government. The Speaker, I be- lieve declined ; but out of the feeling displayed by the Lieutenant Governor, arose the letters of " A Constituti- -' ■"«.. — «. i;uuiu uiiiUT no rival near the throne,' yet I went to the aid of the throne under most trying circumstances, and faithfully discharged mv duty until driven forth by manifest injustice. One •ruth Scrutator tells-., between the families of the Councillors md his Lordships, a cordial friendship had subsisted," but he fo ^ots to tell how that was severed by rudeness, which no sen leman can defend. ,1- ^1'/ ,'^"°f"«y General complained the other day. thst the Halifax newspapers commented on the negociations of July,_^\ by should they not, when the whole policy of the Government was disclosed by Lord Falkland's friend oa the 24th of June ? But, Sir, I have wasted time enough with this scribbler, having shown that he commenced the ^var with violating confidence-telling gross falsehoods- preferring mean charges, and misrepresenting my publie conduct. They began the system of which they now com- plain— one winch, if serious notice is to b° taken in grave despatci.es, will ultimately result in trying a Government, not by a good measure, but by a good article-not by the wisdom of IIS appointments, but by the pungency of a ioke. .^sScruiator sometimes says a good word of me, I'will not dismiss him wfthout bearing testimony to his merit.^. fn an ancient citj, where a funeral oration was regarded as a decent ceremony on the buriil of the dead, a body lav for a while above ground, because nobody could remember any good of the deceased. At last the Barber was got to bear testimony •' that he had a very easy beard to shave." Of Scrutator, . may say, that I believe, whatever his de- ments may be. he is a very good fisherman, but I have me piece of advice to temper the pra-se, let him hereafter .1 tend to Ins professional duties, and not be so fond of iishing in troubled witers. In passing along. I may notice, that although it is now laid that 7 stand in the way of a fair adjustment, in the Christian Messenger, the Attorney General's organ, it was proclaimed, just after the retirements. " that the breach was irreparable." It was not so then-it is so now, but hose who ihus propheci.'d, have done their best to verify 'he prediction. »«••■; I have said that Lord Falkland's own letter, insinuating that we had attempted to force Party Government, and "-rest the prerogative from him, was a breach of his own oledge to us when we retired-that it sounded the key-note ot detamation. 1 h.ve shown how instantaneously one of Ills suite followed up that authoritative assault upon our characters, by grobs perversions of fact, and the ascription jf unworthy motives-that the Attorney General's organ lid the same. You will hear in mind, that all this took place in December and January,—" the retaliation." of >vhicli I u-n accused, not having commenced till the follow- ing May. I have ref.;rred to the efTect which Lord Falk- land s in,sinuations had i- oon oi-r enemies in the f'apital — every man whoso path I had crossed in a life - I Jblic'la- i.or-every man who envied the talents .and in ,,end«noe of my learned friend from Cape Breton, or felt rebuked by he unobtrusive virtues of my hon. friend for Halifax ■aught up the cry thus raised at Government House, and 'a-/, with true Tory instinct, that his I.ordship had fur- oished exce lent materials for a row. We all know what olowed-thcy dared not call a public meeting, but thev ,rot up a pr.valeone at the Hotel, and a jolly time they lad of It, glorifying each other, and passing addresses and resolutions. At this meeting appeared alo-l.tVl X old ^i"WP"P th^Z \ I , "'"' 'J^""" "^ ^"''">'''' C..vfrnmrnt_«ll r •. '*''"""',»'«-««"'n, wl.ile there was a single Liberal in lt_who hati'd Die Coalition, hecRu^e it was not a • IVtv Uovernment.' and who raised the crv of No-party, that •neir own tni^ht once more monopolize power. For what purpose these people met, or what set them on. we nee.i net stop to enquire. In their addres,, they refer to the ttrmnessand determination displayed l.y the Governor l^eneral, in maintaining the Kuyal Prerogative from rtce-.t Mtacks made on .t hy » party in the Canada... whose oh- uhll'^.^T ""'"I'''"*'' '" prod"" present evil, and the Ultimate d.smemherment of that valuable portion of the Empire ■ •• We ha.e lon^," say they. •• watched with aeep anxiety, the movements of a party, wh.,, under the "pectous pretext of inc. ,si„g the privileges of the people. »>«ve endeavoured to undtrmin.. the Koval authoritv ■' _iney compliment the Lientenant Governor on his deter m.nat.on to '• preserve her M.jesty'. suhjects from the evils ot.^ party government," and hope the day will be Jl'u „"Idl: 'V-"'^"'"^''''""'''^^''"^'''^^" "^ '^^ (->«'--' u.u.ped by desipninpr ,„^„, ■• n^^^ „^^^ j „rj Falkland's own insinuations, caught up nnt: embodied in crave ad dresses coupled with a hold aspersion of our loya'tv «^Kned by members of his Kxecutive Council, and sent (Jr' ward with great complacency in January ; yet these verv mennowprofesstobehornfied, because in May I took WhT''<5''^V",^.""'^'".'-'P"""""' "'"' wantonly assailed. ll'l, 11 u""'*'^ """""«""">'«"'-"' "^y children — I should have been indeed a craven, to permit such ca- Jumnies to attach to my hon. friend Mr McNab, than Jhom the realm of Rngland dne, not contain a man more devotedly attached to British Institutions-or to my f^^eml mr Un.acke, whose ten .years' services to his Sovereicn as r stead, supporter of her Government in this Assembly -urely merited from her Representative a different return ™I; . fu v.""'' ^^"^ "' "'^ ""'"« "^y'^H^ "^ 'he sages who met at the Hotel, and contrast them with the acts of the Administration, I cannot but .mile they denounced " a party government," but have had one ever sinee-thev were so careful of the prerogatives of the Crown I vet have brought their Soverei^-n's Representative before Parlia went and the Country, whining over a lampoon, and mak- ing war upon a joke. -nmh' T r* "^'"""^ "'^ aHention of the Committee to another foul stream of defimation. turned by the Govern ment upon the heads of the Ex-Councillor.s' months be- r.'r ""t "! ,".'" ""'''''''' "'■'^ written, for which I am to he proscribed. On the .3rd of February, the person who On the 8ih February, the very day „n which the Hon.. met and h„e raonth. before I resumed mv con,"ex o' onVv r """? "■■ P?"'-'''^'* "" article of which th. A. orney General complains. Lord Falkland a friend and I rinter gave to the world a defamatory lampoon, pur, orting bealetter from Mr. Papineau. the Canadian'.,. Lh'.l h li "'*• r r'""''- «'»"">'"« 'ho former to be a lebel, he a.ldresses the latter after this fashion—" Our for- .ler poht.CHl intimacy, the similarity of our principle.. nd indent ity of our objects. &c.- Yet the men whow'o.e hesehbels. are to be held guiltles^ and I am to be pro! n kiss nir r"L'« ''"'^''y ""''" accusations of treason. Knd k.ssing the hand that directed the line of fire, and paid U the n..ss,les that rattled round my head, ft was nothing o accuse me of treason, but it was a crime fur me ,o df. olare that no one knew better than Lord Falkland that the charge was f.lse-it i, a trifle to damn a Nova Scotian'. character, out an unpardonable ofTcnoe to hint that a nob'a- man wears a shirt. f.ir?«,'h'""''^ Attorney General, with his cli.r.cteristi. Mirness, has passed over all these provocations, and has rea- oned as though the liberals had commenced an unhal- Icwed war upon Her Majesty's Representativ,. .Surely. surely, the learned and pious Crown officer, who pro -sses to be horror .stricken at my "coarse ribaldry." and breaches of decency and good manners." cannot have ^;>rgotten the bundle of lampoon,, that issued from the Government Press from February to April, under the signature o ■'Punch.- and which 1 hold In mv hand Cosrse ribaldry." '< breaches of decency and good man- ners. and reckless falsehoods, ar, ra.,c«/ among ills lellow rebel companions." , , . '^,. ^ " "■■■••■"cui lo prerer crave 'charges against an individual who had thrown a few paoer ipellets in return. ^ *^ This system of Executive defamation, said Mr. H con- tinued for four months, and the Liberals treated it" with indifference. From Da.-emher till May. the fire was in- cessant, when, on the Gth o( that nonth, I resumed my old Lditorial chair, and opened fire upon the enemy All that I have read to the House appeared in the Government Press prior to that date ; but something more hsd appeared. 1 he learned Attorney General, wtio .low complains of the Iress garbling public documents— who professes such anxiety to give the public full information, cannot have Forgotten the fer/ lines extracted from a Despatch, and pub- lished by Lord Falkland it. the Royal Gazette, on the 29th of February, t ,vo months before I wrote a lino of which he here complains. Sir, we never complained of Lord Stanley ieferring to "pretensions." that we never advanced, and which this House afterwards negatived by unanimous vote a lino of implained of it we never negatived hy jinion on the , i fXparU ease sent from this enuntry. and he was hound to believe and sustain hi' own officer — to fjive him every fair chcnce to recover his position. But we had n rijjhl t< onmplain, that « defamatory Despatch wns written to Lord Stanley — refused to P«rliament--his I.ordsiiip's answer also withheld— and three lines extracted from if, and pub- lished in the newspapers, conveying a censure we had never deserved, and accusing us of 'pretensions,' which, if f.ord Stanley had had the whole case hef.)re him, he W(,uld have aeon we had never advanced. For more than two monlh-i Messrs Uniacke. McNah, and myself, had cherished the most friendly feelings towards Lord Falkland— had treated him with th* o..-.:rteiiiis observance due to his high slatlor hadattributi ' to others, and not to him, the slanders which assailed us. Before the House met, Mr. Mo Nab had offered to withdraw his claims, to rescue His Lordsliij from difficulties — do.fn to the very day on which this stab was given hy his own liEnd, 1 had but on"? thought, how 1 could avert the evil I saw clouding the horizon, and rescue. Sv any personal sacrifice, the man whose tempera- iT.ent and whose advisers I knew too well, not to nntici pate tiie mischief which we have now to contemplate wuh no much vain regret. The m.iment that extract appeared, I felt ar a man migl-^ feel, nn finding a friend's knife be tween his ribs, on wlosr. •^J, ,re he was meditating, and for who ! r^ouriiy "le »•>•; prep&.ori to suiTer much — the old ties wero ■everer' by . .a? ^^'okiP; and tl'c^p wh,) advised it did more mi' i.-tf t' '..c > ')b;^'man they mi^l.d. t'lan thcli livep, de/oteu lO Mis serviofe, r'lold repair, it wav f«i!!owed up by aoi. her — by ■ t ;-.riional in-.iU — which nn p>entlemar ought tocffe", av. ,te..i cf nr C'paptr dp famnticn ejntinuid, ^f'at i .turned civ conneJion with the Press, and published some of the articles whicii h.ive been drawn into this del-ate. In approaching the charges which the Att'y. Genera' has brought i)efare this Committee, I am cnn'strained to •ay, that if he does not d'Rw up his criminal with morecarel than he does his political Indictments, there must bestranfje blundering in our Court-. Will it believed that the first three --^ssages he read, and upon which he favored us with an f. • declamation, appeared in the Novascotian on the 90th of April, when mv connection ith that paper only commtnced on the 6th of May [Mr. Howe here referred to and re id the passages, having reference to Lord F'.nlk- land's " political facetiae"- his "attempting to bow every body to his will, and being constrained to how to the will of others" — his '• appointment of Mr. Dewolfe to the Ex- cise, &c,] The Parsee<, said Mr. H. were constrained to attach their names to the arrows they shot; and I, durinp my public life, have generally done the same, though at every step I have had to meet cowardly assailants, shootinp from every variety of cover. If I am to l)e charged, with- out proof, of writing what I do not acknowledge, I may gather from the Press which supports him, a goodly array of paragraphs to attribute to the Atty. General. Bui pass ing over the paper in April, let me come to the Poetry of the 20th of May— to " the Lord of the Hedchnmber," which I am free to acknowled<7e appeared in the Novasco- tian nfier I resumed the Editori,il Chair. The Committee will remember that before this Pasquinade was published I and my friends had been ridirjuled and defamed in the Go- vernment Organs fornearly five months — that we had stooti this fire with infinite forbearance and composure — that thi Despatch had been published— that the Speaker of thi> House had been debarred the usu d official courtesies, dot to hii. rank, and never, for half a century, omitted : after all this had been done, and no pains spared to make the quar rel personal— is it strange that we should have determine(1 to retaliate, to show our opponents the blunder they had committed by forcing the Queen's Representative into the oolitical arena—to |«t them see there were toma wh and liumonron the o^jposite side ; and that iMhey monopoliied political power, they were not to have a monopoly of th« •lego.it manufacture of political pasquinade. The Lord of the Bedchamber descrifjes the perplexities and conflict. ing feelings of the Gove nor and his Aovijers, during th« fourteen days debate on the Address, in the winter Session. If the writer has gone too far, let Gentlemen bear in jinind the extent of the provocation. Let it not be said Ithat Lord Falkland and his Advisers were not answerable for what appeared i.i the Morning Post— that paper wa* ■ditet. and owned hy the Printer of the Gazette. The Go. vernment had tie command and the direction of both. If I person kept a BiotI.el, and a Boarding House, under the ■laine roof, and if the former was a nuisance to the neigh- bourhood, could those who frequented, and patronized, and encouraged the Proprietor, plead that they were only ac- countable for what was done in a single suite of apartments? I think not— and. ac'ing on this principle. I have claimed my right to hold the Lie-it. Governor personally rcsponsi- bio for all the defamation pi»blished by the Organs of hii Government— by his paid official Servant. I may have lieen right or wrong, but I tearlessly avow the fact. Mr. Howe here referred to and read the Poem,* complained of •The Lord of the Bed-Chamber. PYTTK THE FIRST. Thel.rn! of the iled-Chamljrr sat in his shirt, (And 1)— dy the pliant was there,) And hcs feelings appeared tu be very much hu't And his lirow overclouded with care. ' It was plain, from the fln.h that o'ermantled his cheel' And the Hustar and haste of his stride That, drownd and bewildered, his hra;n had »row\i weak trom tho blood puiiip'd aloft hy his pride. ' ' Vo answer !— the s(oiindreI«, how darethevdel.xv I 'Dothey tliinkthat a man who> a Peer, ' 'Can thus br kept feverish, day after day, ' In the hope that their Speaker 'II appear. The Goths I— has mt J- ' my leade •,' 10 cute. ' Stood Mp in his place, and declared ' Tiiat, u/ieni-ier it hippent my hum^r to luil, ' To iio justice to all I'm prepared ? ' How dare they delay, when a Peer of the Realm, ' And a I.urd of the Bedihamber too, ■ To Bovern them all has been placed at the helm ' And to order them just what to do. ' * Gn n— dy,— (TO D-dy, and tell them fr„m me, that like Oliver Croni. Ill come down, ' My Orderly .'^erKeant mace-bearer shall be, ' And kick them all out of the town. Then D— dy the pliant looked piiijled and grim. And he made a salaam with his head, Butventiiied to hint, that it might not, for him, lie quite safe to repea„ what was said. ' "They've pot some odd notions, the obstinate crew, ' That we are their servants— and they ' A Sergeant have got, and asl-.iit fellow too, 'Who their orders will strictly obey. ' Besides, thmigh the Leader and I fcave averred 'That justice they soon shall receive, ' 'Tis rather unlm ky. that never a word ' That we say willthe fellows believe. ' Their satire and arguments freely they pour, ' In thoir numbers and talents they (?Iory ' And your Uedchamber tiile they'llcaro for no more I ban they did for my Bedchamber story. Then the Lord of the Bedchamber stamped and he swore Fill 1) — d\ look'd pale as a sheet, ' And was quietly edging away to the door, In the hopes to ett'ect his retreat. ' How now," cries his L )rdship, ' deserted' by you, ' I hope you don't mean • to retire ;' ' Sit down, sir. and tell me at once what to do. For my blood and my brain are on fire. Then D— dy, bewildered, lilirank back to his chali-. And protested he'd dght till he died ; But he looked like a beautiful cast of Despair, With the Angel of Wrath by hii side. i V Jnc. to b, proJcmS nr..rj:r "'''''^VT" « «"-'/ «r 'h. B.dc...XV .ad ': ',hi^ '' ""'r "'"■'' """ '^"/.on hia nant.i .. "'"'"'' shir», or ihii« :. ...._i. .. ' We ihnll r,nw ,ir|. ... . . "hbI Attack,' „.|iicl, JJll """'"'■ '"O 0* to the • n«r V«Hk oul plainly ,„j d .i„e"lv W." ""'■'"' "* ••'««l •cm), «„ far «, to puhllclv «cr iV •■" " Governor dc- (c.u,e .h.y difn-r in o;M.*on^,ir , ' """ ^^^"'"•"vc.' |,e- Counc,l_^,„„ ,,, ncou",^ ,'""/?"'' '""ro frotn hi, ■ev c„„„,^,, ,.i^ fc^icslv ..,,": ' . 'Te.onsion,. when J - P.nt.,„„„.. .„„, ^i^,„ £': •H:;;j::,;-;;''el< U,rou„,, -..c,v couns^.To,' 3rr,ra;';r "' ' ''-'-li n^^^^^' A^.o.rriirsr:7f;„ »""be, no». that it h, "b- ? W„j.s,v, „h,ch . f,- - Win be e,ui,';'LtriVtrrtnAt i:: c"rb.,.y„, i^, "f oMyublt.do.y; and ,oek. ,0 ;c .on ,nd ,enei,nent in pol'ti", bo 'r*"*'.?" ^"""^"'^ of -)uch lower level than the I b.;! „^f m*"' 'r'''^ "P"" • Goveriior should .Uay. oecuny r ^"''" ^''"'i'' «hink . "o he,..ation in Myin/ fb«,?f j"' 0"r part we have 'habe -i-repre,e,f,s.t S veJei^ '''•*'7 ^^'•'«-"«. b"» n'.ketb«te,..r„ood bebin7»Tir ""'" "'« Proude,' "Nov, Scotia, without tinVb "f! WJ"' '""'' -""« ,'?;' ""f f''»°n in the Province a Ihu """l "'"" «"» •• >elf. nnd quite conscious tblt P'""''" "'•n him. tofulfilllhrpVdVeTiKhilr '"''''■• •^"-.-'1 -can As to ..t-"'- -" ^"M'r."-''- Coveinment. Tbi. »k- uV^ ''^ '''^ "^cial servant nf. if (I .«. have been mued from thp v! .'* ^'»'e P«per», t.on with the line'Lf rSnirl, "*'• "'''^" '" «=''nneo It;""'"''"' ""'"Mvej; on their T-aMit, '""'"""'"^^ "^ »•'« J"»t.fic.„oi. : '"'^»'". carr.es with it its ownlfni ,,7,'""""" "^ -"J" adhesion to^hese conHV ""•"I"'"" • To Ii:.'^'J:!Lf aforrfrre^^i;'?'"'"' '"' -^-t. J^ «o more than nhen aimed .t the hsad. JUDV. ,, Lord Falkland's Official C.-i. passage, had seid: ^'"''*' """"enting on tbi. P a.ned of by the At.orn^v Gen'e?aT%V;."^'^ ""^ «"""' pardon me for ,,uoti„g the' wbo"e " ^'"""'"ee will ■cre'?,r:;;inSand h,;bee„ required by U„i. fc'f-'"n-'«^«..» S;„,r:/^T:' absolutely t^o .h" ; patronage of Governmen?r,'l '^ f" "^"-lo bestow th« "'/>'-o«cni.M„> 0;,™ "S'r'y "" '"eir parti Jn^ l;S^-"« a complete ""ii^^^r^^rr^:}:-^ tueSartfci^^l'df a'rel^r-"' ''-''" «"- thTe ^xpreso.ons. when his paid Offl T^ """'^'"•''d in the r P.cce or bis Governmentr^t. i,; "V"*' "•» ""'u h "''^- ^"^ ^"''^ -^ ^n:;oS:tur'^ s^^'Sifr \ "rfwo a. to tho • per. I "f m«kina 'on Her .',," »"''J"t ye .hnll » I'en « Governor dc- ;n«r|,oh.vt.,ervedl,im ""■ i'rero«8tivc,' |,e- "• ""'' f«»iro from hit ' ("■"'Pinions' wf,en re «wo,n .0 do_»|,e„ '^<>ly the nffleial ocur. "»Ic-er acts indepcn- •''"«y; and seeks to "nent, «|| free,i„m of ;'""" ''i'^'Hf upon • , Nova Scotia think a •>r o.ir part we have >"K«T repreients, but «nd. so far as we are """«; the proudest » o play cuch amies Jel thai there wn, «| B prjuder tlian him. mp— '»h:p "hadwri-ttee 'fent. amoni>m«d withf! •curnluu, inTcclive in )»u W i»t hn, (.ro.luOL.I tli. clittiijo ? Am I ihri onl), mcomin-ant party of •,.« whiile ? iM»iiher arc uioi.ii,i,u..u-|. , I,orJi.hip li.» furtVit.;(l llie oonfl.lenoe of hU old fiiendn hy the v«ry policy which lia> d.ligl.i.d hi. old enami. s Circumslsnoe. devi-lupu oharw- Ur often fery rttpidly,— Siul w»h the lainj Saul .rivi h. bud l.uiiohed hi. jav.lin at Uavid tint he w«» l>«fore. A Irifl.t had toiici.ed hi. vanity, and arousi-.f P"de. Yei David could hardly he «MHOled to (>,v\ or ■ peak of him js hu lelt and .poke hcforc hi. life w ., mfn,i. ced. 1 h.- .Moor i'. the lamu man in tlie fidti thjt h, i. m the fir.t act of tl.o l'l..y_hut hi. whole charaL-ter ha, been olun|fed-.the wilv !,«„ ha, poured a leprous distilmonl info hi. ear, ha, ,o practiced on hi, nol.lu nature, that he Mnt. like a inaniuc, and deMry. the wife of hi, ho.om in nil rage A man may h,ve praised it line horse, th H he would hirdlyknow attain, when driven frantic nnd 1 ";. ?■ ? "V"'' ^""* •" '"^ ' '•'• ^'"' ' •"'V' «l*ay, d..n.i l.oru Falkland ju.iico— I w,|| do him jus.ice r.ow, thouifl: ' »«rnm»nf, mu,t b« takm hy th« B.>ytto\gr, or htr U»pr*. ,.iit«li».-.nd to bo.,., of taking if. i, ,bou. .. wi« ., j, *ouldh«for , B,ntUman. in a,kin„- . l.,|/, hand, to the (act of hi. '• takinK the initiative .lep." Then -vear. told that Hi. Kicellenoy I, apprehen.iv, -hat the P'ihhc good w.ll he ,acr.fic«d ■■ ,i the .hrino of party c.,.,H,ot. When Mr. Alraon wa, appointed, it wa. to prevent the introduction of " Party Government.- and w • ..lay Party (eeli.,„.- I, ha,, a, we warned Hia Kl. cellency, o,t„..l,.hed Party Government, und exa,perated |)artie,.»Hhoutbein« approved even by tlui.e who ba«« '.e..n induced to vinotion it by the pre.jure of Executive M.fluence. I know not how Driti.h In.tituiion. are to b« 'forked in thia or any other country, without Party feel, ing. and attachment.— and ,urely the noldeman at the he»d If Hie GoverninHni should reijaid these necessary eviU wit. mdulaonce, se.ing that he belong, to a Party that convuU. ocl all Kntfland to carry a puhlio measure, and gave Bristol 'or twoday- .nto ihe hands of a lawlt,, mob But if wn I know him. ,«:;,. p, ;";.;:. ; he ■ :.'l iTe r iT: : "r ■"" "" 'r' "•"'^'-d-' P-J^-cV, for ..e f 'rmatiro.- "Id ofl.,, relative, a -lioHt of passions" and hy plav,„g uponi and infiaming these.the men who surioun.l him. have in .ne Bhort year, led him from blunder to hlunuor, until the spec tacleof dearadation is compietid by this personal snual, bie. eioit.ng the oompawiun even of the individual be wouUl destroy. • '/?«'''' ""^ '"f"""*:'" *" "'e new appointment to the Ex- oise Office npp.'ared in the paner with which I had no con- nection the Attorn.y General has thooRht proper to „„ri. »)Ute :t t.. me, anc »o«,l, that he will justify the appoint -nent by ,t. fruit,. Sir. I neither complain of the appoint- fnont, iior Jouht that the duties have l).-.n properly dis- chargeu; hut, if the Attorney General wishes to discus ti.B past or pn-sent management of the OPAnt^, whtn tin! Papers are printed and on the table, I am ready to meeli y elded fruit abundantly, my hon. friend from Yarmouth the Speaker, and others, who duR around the roots, and! applied the manure, are entitled tc a share of the pr,.ise i J>ir, I have now got out of the newspapers hrouKht her. I ••y the Attorney General, anu turn to the D.-spal.hes and' •Ucuments laid on the table of the House by comm.nd oil IJis Exoe.lency the Lieutenant Governor. Thou.rh so;ni^ Of the;e, in accuracy and dignity of style, are beio.- the!] •He tried friend, of the New System 12 -that in no one proposition were the I/iber ds to have had justice Look to 'he appointments throuuliout the year : cvtry office of imolument given to their own Party—five JVIagis- trales commissioned in this County, fuur of them on the -ame side. Hut mark the stipulations demanded of ua : Nio Attorney Gentral, who set the exampln of agitation in 1843, required us to promise that we w,.uld not tvitata 'he country— all our mei-sur.s were to be •• pos poned till • ••guiued in ct.tain matters" by those whom we knew we.-e no safe gi-ides— we were " to state our concurrence on mat- ■ers of importance" very faintly shadowed forth— to giva •'a direct renunciation of a doctrine" which was utter noli. si>nce. and a "frank recotinition of the Governor', ridhf to sell. t a mixed medley of men from all sides, holding no •pinions 1 common, to sit in bis Executive Council. I'-uly. if we had accepted seats on such terms, we should nave irned the contempt and execr.ition of every man in .Nova Scotia. '1 neso stipulations cither meant something, 'rthey meant nothin-; if they meant nothi.-g they should Ss ;rpLS:::=:.:!:;:?;h:;i,':^:„:'?;--i|'r' ^-^ ;- -^ie-if th;;m:^u-;;;;h;ng; tz'z with squibs ind lampoons Le'ia.Trhu idJa Th 'i 'T 1'"' •"-"'-".""^""f "'"'' ^"'"''"''•- '••-'^ip'"' '"a. Ietterofthe24thof Februarv haule o ..rHitr , l' ^■"" ;:'"'''d *'" »" our lives. But, it is said, we cillors bv flir 1),, ,1 1 1 . "' '/'-■"f'-'d f^""" night have Mlirmed or d.nied them. We ,li,| deny them • -.guiaJi: JilpoSi: " L.J:i 'K^ik ai::, i :.. ^'::;\::M:ar'? ^^ 'rf '""- '"^ t^-^ —'^ - .m^iS'iiilr;; Lis ".Die object ;> to do en., .1 iost^ . . P '^m i "P" I'."* 'i*'"' '^''""''^ ""^'" »" ■"'•'H-pre .ent us. What the Leaders of the Lil.erul ,! , • ^ ""*•'' >'-' l'^^-""^'J ^ This very letter was sent to the Colonial Se- «ct ^'f,.o:X£icl' i^u/Xu^z ::::::.r'^^ "'"' p'"''-'-'*'- the wor!d.as evidence ::v^r -iMdcin^luenceofG^v"!" ,,;;!;: e^a^^^ majority of one. the terms ollVred wo uM Ll^ a -'rej y withheld. We were in the situation of gentlemen in- in a po'verless and conten" . , e T, 'J v It h ^'''•"', |-"^' ,»" »."""^'^ ,''"• ^^V^-'^'i '" I'l-'f-'e ourselves that ve Hoard. We might hl^e X e back " W c^^t^'" th i'l" '"^"" 'r'V'"' T'' "''"' ""^ ''^''"'' """"'' "" •>■« t.ruis and condition, of thrie .: -I Lt , we I f \ T'"^ 'T'^7'^V- ^ ''.f '"--'V '-"'WU^-g" of the invi- characters would have been w eek J and we wo |'| l ' ' .f'' Mil * T P'r''^''"'' "* "=> «=<=''P""'ee- •^'e hadasmuchinfluoncea,,hr.e,.dh Ws l7s K^' declineJ ; -but wher-.- is our answer ?_we ioncy is also induced to as ime,.Xt credit ^' ' t ^ '" ' T"'^'""- '"J' ' ^^''> "■"' '' "'" «'"' '" "'" t'- '•>he initiative ste ..•• h. h ne'^^oci nio W Iv „'h'^ Secretary? For the best of all possible reasons- should have taken t '-wl o c,>?dd have^^k, n i! ^' . ^^■ T""""^'." " '""^ ''^''"- '"-""''1 have been no longer possi. Excellency. Suppose an l' n f , au^. r o w V '"' ' " ''^^ '^ •"'^reprcse,,, the moderr.tio„ ,.nd cons.itu.ionality of the •• initiative step." and ;hr^. ir s lAnt^the 11 .l ^ "l "'"'"""" / ''• r "";''' ''''" '^""''''"^'*' """ '>« -- clo,et, desire leave to form a C mlt VV i i' ' ^';''"''" ''^ Lord Falkland to require a simple kicked out ? Sup ose w e. ha: n etired " u' r ""' '* "' *'" "\ r "" 7' } ^-'5* "''''" understand It when the let- before any neguciaion, had bee " 1 u d » i", h it nf ."V"'! T *«' ''"'-"''d-I ^ d understand that tfce learned gen- ed a pro/ramu.e of a Counci w a. wo 1 I li s I M '""" ""^ "" "''''''"'' '" """ '"'" » B*"""' "«g°«=i«- oi a council, what w,.nld Mis Lordshi, || .on, to propose, or to accept other terms. The best proof Ihe r ocpie not I wilt How I '^' I thelu [ 'erda; der pi the It nenic pose •: llou, sfrer.jj state I been ( slight rugati ■leral that ll s-sti'n< Govei iiiinisf ubviat our fei (erest. Wit applici state, t r;illy fi public always in 184 ment c mcrica sistcd I formcil .iny A( sess so suppor : tfairsi Wei have fi aware I of opin bave saio ? Sir, the " iuiiimivc step,' in f. 'urminj a Go ^'.tM we did not consider oiirielves debajted from -iving Ifthi could n iiig to " cise " o been ehi had dec: pearanci nished c the Cou year in I at Mr [ that gen for not f sidered I ges in tl were sin General, tomultii they con letter fro 8.i*eroi|tf , nr h*r livpr*. ( it. if abAuf ■• wJM HI it uliin^' a 1»,|^', h«nd, to proof of liii •ff«etioQ in li»c tleij." leulk'noy is apprehentiv* :rifio«d " ii ihu •Hriiio of noil w*n appoinleil, it wa« I'lirty Government," and IS 111 we warned Hi« Ki. 'rnmunt, and «ia«p«rateU even by Hume who ha«« le iiresisure of Ekveuliv* liili Sn^iituiion* are to b« "try, without Party feel . the nohieman at the heed thtse necestary uvili witi. 1 to a l-arty thvt cnnvtili. ni'«»ure, and gave BrittuI iwIl.h mot). But if wn ill parties" a littlecloser, ji?ct» for t!ie f rmaiion o» >at do we find ? — that '.ha !0 bfjats in Council, and I'stenn 12— that in no one ivehiid justice. Look to e year : every office of wn P«rty_five iVIagis. ity, four uf them on the lUtions demanded of tii : ! eiainplf of agitation in ; we wnuld not t ^itata e to be " pos poned till itive" Were a sposed of. ire sessions, knd not a Others would, then, I Hut we were tc oe ose whom we knew we.-« our concurrtnce on mat- ladowed furth— to givtt e" which was utter noMx if the fiovernnr's ridht" >m all sides, holding no is Kxeuutive Counci!. I such terms, we should er.ilion of every man in itiier meant something, lit nothi.^e- lliey should t anything, it was the valuable principle that es. But, it is said, we • Wu (lid dtny them ; -if we ofli.med them to tiisupre' ,;nt us. What n« to the Colonial Se- rld, as evidence of our answer being studious- laliun of gentlemen in- edge ourselves that vb le lories, nor spit on the 'J languiigo of the invi- f its Hccepiancc. tV'e ij our answer? — we it not sent to the Co- ull possible reasons— e been no longer possi- iiid constitutionality of xplaiiied, that he was i to rpqiiiru a simple irstand it when the let- that Ifce learned gen- ito a general negocia' erras. The best proof debarred from ^'iving iltere«Mr. of our rcfuial. i*. iliai •Utttr wu drafud, prei« them, wUh tha pcrmUtilon of iht Cummltte* I iliati ocpied, and handifd to thut gentleman. It U Mid it wat rcid them : not sh'twn to Lord Falkland — why? Th« Commltlo* I .lA-u-.i..^ / .1. o . • . . *.ll gue,, the reason, when th.y he.. ment communicated by yourself to the Assembly. •' Nu- nicrical representation,'* at the Council, has never heen in- sisled upon by us ; but we hold, that .e ofupinion. j Wo have the honor to be, Sir, | Youi Obeditnt Servants, J\.MRS W. Uniacfk, James MoNab, Joseph Howb. precalt. Two of us have never been parties to aay suoli movements, and the third was raluelanlly oompelltd (with his Excellenry's permissi.jn) to follow, upon the question of Education, ■ vicious •xsii pie, set for fourorHv. moTlhs, We have maturely wjighed the propoiilion made to us in f Education. ■ vicious .xau pi., set for _. .'letter from the Lieut Gcv.'rnor, put into cur hands yes- i '' • Pfomineni member of the pr.-sent Exicutive Cour-cil dny, and our deliberetejudumfnti. that w.ouahtnot.m-' . " *'""'' t-o'""'*! Ocvfrnor st...ids, in all respeets, in (he sane relation to the Assembly, that the Sovareiga does to the House of Commons, we believe ii not held to be sound doctrine by .iiiy party in our Asreinbly— tha» he "OHn do no wrong," in the oumprehensive sense applied to .the SoTereign, we iiave never heard advr.need. Acts of Parliament, Despatches, and Inst;uctions, must bind all Governors, independent of Provincial Legislation, and the reiponsihiliiy to his Sovereign, which a Governor osn de- volve on no man, includes tne possibility of wroi?g rioing, ot which li(^ from whom his authority is derived, only ,'sn judge. The ''ocirine, ar stated in the recent debates, we underitood '. !iis— that the members of Council ."re hound to d«K. ,4 Govor.ior's .icts, and, in Parliament. jind else«« here, .. -ght to he charged with whatever is wrong in thvoonouctpCiiK- Vdininistration, in order that the Re- presentative of iVijisty may be a; #11 times placed in the tnost exalted a.id gracious aspect before the people over whom he f .jcs. " Hire, then, . our view of tha doctrine of Executive responsibility— it coincides with the opinion of fll the leading Canadian Statrsmcn, on all sides of politics ; am' at the time i' «a! written, ws had in rut possi'sji < pamphlet, prepaud by an offloir of Sir Charles Mi.:alfe'a Gi)vernmeni, in which it was stated w.'th clearness and pre- oUion— a pamphlet said to have baen sent to England with his entire approbation. I put it io the Committer, then, if. under all the circum'.lances, we I'id net act with firm, nessand discretion — holding stoutly to our own rational opinions, based upon sousiJ principle and 'he best r.ufho. lity, and declining to swailow those of our opponenta, |whicli, from the exposition given of inem, no human be- ing could understand. I come now to a cireumstance, which I should never have men'loned, but for the very extr.iordinary course which l^otA Falkland has been advised to purs.ic. I en- tered his Government in If 40, iir.oer diilculties .-.•hichfew public men would have enco>-.ntered, with no other object Ijthnr. to assist in workinp out new principles, which I f believed lay at the (biindation of good Government, here, and the permanence of British Dominion on the I American Continent. I serv-d him two years without any ijfflce of emolument, or any pecuniary advantage. An of- Tfii«n«u..r h..l „ . .1 (^ 1 1 c Lfice fell vacant—ho offered, and 1 accepted it. He subse•. . ., IH nn/h . ?""'!"'''« Colonial Secretary, we quently committed errors which I cii.'ci not defend. I f,?i. In ul 7.b''p'""''r "'y;'"R'\'^"'."'- y«" "f «'»'•• resigned . v office, and retired from the Government All Z" wh?h J IT^"""' 'i'" '"^'''f'^"!^''"' oxer- this gave rise to no feelings of resentment on my J.rt- b^.n -lll^T iiTf • '' :."''R""'l-«'° «»" -^ "°' ''^veLa, the natural oneration of tie .system to which ™b! cen charged with forcing "party government.- when we lie life is pledged. Whatever may be thought or slid by had declared ours.'..;., only desirous to .. 05,, ,« the ap- my enemies it is not in my nature to h.ave confidence and pearance of party triumph. 'i hat etter would hive furs kindly intercourse with an J tnan, without feeling anTnter n shed our just.hcal.on to all the wo.ld and the House and est in his welfare. From what I toewof Lord FaTkland'i ear^n"the%oli'l::''r"' '»''"•"'. -"X •''>- slept for a peculiar temperament-from what I knew of those who »ri\rl A!lf. ^""T' V°'"'., ('^V """^ al«'. surrounded him-from what I saw in the papers, and in the tiaf ffe?t?«iV'r,'H'.,«:hTK •" ""-^ '--•'>« "''♦'' from le.tcrof the 04,h of February. I wa, qnl.e%a, sfied th. ? that gentleman, dated 28th Fcbij„ry. giving, as a rcasou'unlevs some vigorous step were taken to prevent it ha slre°d r/n ''■"'■ ^''''V"^^''"^?'''"''"'■■'''''^=°"■^'^"''^ "" "'""^ht into 'violent collision with the .0 Io itZtl^ '*^- I j°"r"'?!^\ ^""^ .".T, 'V :«"«' Liberal Party-and that, fiom that moment, the charuoter W.J . 7"*.'"". ?"'^' "^ l''^''!l'"• r} "' "• ''•"'='' »"<* ''«'^-i«"<'y °f his Administration would bo at an end. rl? i"'k °"' "f "•^'=.°Py handed to the learned Solicitor Down to the close of tne negociation with Mr. Dodd, and to muuLvrT "^ "°' 1'!'' IV"'^.'* negotiation, for ^orae days after, thoi:gh \ cuuld not sacrifice publio IhPvJn?^'""""'""''"'"^"''*"""''" ■"*""• As principle. I would have burnt my house over my ch 1° etter T, rr7r im"^"P°" "'" P?'"," *?"*'"'' '" *'"' ''""'' >'"'* '"^'"'^ '""^ o'»" have served Lord Falkland, letter from Lord Falkland, more concisely than 1 can ex- The nature of mv fprlin»» wa. vol! known to "" poUtical 10 and perional friendi. On tlie mnrning of ilie 2«ili Ftl)'y some days after the coniinuniciitidii h.is mii(ie ihriMi!.>li Mi Dodd. I met a pernoiiHl friend nf I.nni KiilklandV iitid im> own, in Dutch Town. We di^cu*st■d the stut-; of sfTjirs and expressed similar opinions, as to the perplexed aspec i which they presented. 1 had meditated on a mode of extri-| eating the Governor, by a sacrilice purely personal, whicl.l I then resolvird on. My friend consented to carry a not^ which was to be burnt if the proposition was rejected— to b. i returned if His Lordsliip declined to entertain it. The note, i which I hold in my hand, was written and sent that fori'- noon. The pledge of secrecy required, and which was es sential to the success of the measure, was refused, and thi' note returned : whether for his Lordship's adv-intage, or the pence of the Province, the Committee will judge by its contents : My Lord: — The small majority whicli supports your Govern- ment, and the strength of the Opposition, make it de- sirable, for the peace of the country, that there should bi- such an arrangement between the contending Parties a' will give thp requisite support to the .\dministration, and It the same time he satisfactory to the country. This could not be done on the basis proposed in your Lordship's letter, for various reasons. I think it may be accomplished if two individuals, one on eac!) side, to whom strong ex ceptions are taken by the adverse parlies, were to waivt their claim., for the sdke of peace — and then the diSiculties would be over. As your Lordship is awero of the dciic.iey necessa'y in making these suggestions, and as I have yet na assurance- that others would concur, I have taken tnis mode of ascer- taining, whether, in the event of my yielding any claims 1 may be supposed to have, to some other Liberal less objec- tionable, your Lordship vyould be disposed to consult the feelings of the Opposition, by a corresponding removal o( an individual on the other side. I trust your Lordship will do me no injustice, by sup- posing that I have any interest in this matter — as, in the event of such an arrangement being made, I have othei views.which v7ould preclude me rom accepting office in n Government, of which 1 was not a Member. I have the honor to he. My Lord, Your Loidahlp's obedt. Serv(. Yeh £'J. JoSKi'u lIowE. tccurit) and independent action of the Crown, would he Itstrovi'd. A Governor, wliose advisers huve ordinary tact ind tlifcretion, will conduct his negociatiuns in such u way that, if liis ditliculties aro not removed, liis emharrasMneiils will .-lot he increa'.vd. What was done in this case? Five notes were written to five different gentleinen, offoiing seats in Council, in which the n,-»me of a person was nun" oned, and marked with disapprobation, who sought no favor from the Governor, and whose common richts of citizenship were violated by this pratuitous attack upon iiim. Those who advi'fd this course had their own pecu- liar objects. To prcicrihe r.n opponent they iho'ight was to crush him — to break down the bridge behind Lord Falk- land, was to prevent the possibility of his escape. When liis Lordship put his name to these absurd letters, failuie was stamiied ii,ion the whole net'ociation — a crime was iin- outed which had been confirmed by no tribun.il, the Crown was made to accuse a subject without stating tho grounds of the accusation. A political party was asked to countenance, to be parties to this strange impeachment — to come into the irovernment, and aid their old enemies to plant their feet on the neck of an old friend. What followed ? I speak not now of the conversations which occurred between the Attorney General, and my friend Mr Uniackc — of these I know nothing, but I am talking of what passed when the liberal party met to consider the proposition, \yitli one voice they rejerted it. without my interference The whole aim, and scope, and object of this despaich, is nega- tived by the combined action of the entire nnrty The negncia'tion was at an end-— it had failed, and Lord Falk" land was still more deeply committed, without being re- lieved from his difficulties. What again was the conduct of the man be delights to denounce and proscribe— whose grasping ambition is the theme of bis household scribblers, who he proclaims to Lord Stanley his no influence, and yet will be da facto Governor, if he admits him to his Council? Finding this clumsy intrigue unanimously re- -isted by the Liberals, f thought only of the peace of the country. I then stated, thut though I cared nothing for the public proscription of myself, the precedent was dan- zetou", ami ought not to he sanctioned. That if it was withdrawn, and power given to tlie Attorney General and Mr. IJniacke, to form a Council of nine or ten from the >.wo parties, that my claims should not stand in the tv.iy of any fair and h"iiorablc arranjrement. From the treatment I had received from Lord Falkland, 1 had much to force! ,,l)efore I could enter his Government, bL'l that I woiilil This was the tem(>er and spirit in which I acted, with one!',uppoft it, eithe.- in or out, if my friends we-e sati-^fied. aale oidect, down to the 29lh of February. The • Fre-lon this basis Mr. IJniacke was empowered to negociate. single oiiject tensions' Despatch appeared in the Gazette that evening I'^nd, whatever may have passed between hira and others, [ The Note was read to Mr. Dodd the next uiorning — buf.i ^m quite salisiled that he acted honoi-ably up to the spirit after that ill judged publication in the (iazetle, the whole feeling of the Liberal Party was changed. With thesej plain facts before them, this Committee will judge whether f his instructions. Findine tliat the proscription was to be „dhered to, and that the Li'.ieral party would not proceed a step till it w,is withdrawn, he communicated the fact, and I have deserved, at the Lieutenant (Joveruot's hands, lliejl.ihan'doned the negocialinu. These are the facts, as far as treatment I have received — whether the charges of selfish.! ,|,pj, came to my knowledoe, and the Committee and the ness and ambition, showered upon me by the Govern-!Lo,i,,try can now judge wlietlur "the opposition were ment scribes, requira any other answer, "ready to agree to the cuchnion of Mr. Joseph Howe." ». /-.I • . .1 1 Mr Howe was Willi..", as usmi, to agree to his own ex- Let me turn your attention, Mr. Chairman, to the sub- -"•^' "O""^ »*^»^ "" - .A sequent negociation in July. The responsibility of re. jecting the overtures made rests not upon me. I do not ^ complain that, in this case, the notes which passed are pub- joountry. . , . , . t u <- i • i Jished— although I must confess that, in my judgment, the | Mr. Chairman, J fear not the judgment of the Colonial inode wiil be found strangely inconvenient, if it is to bt|i.Secretary, nor of the cotiitry, when my conduct through- elusion, but Lord Falkland's suae Countillors thought more of revenge, than of his honor or the peace of the followed hereafter. At home, negociations for the forma tion or strengthening of a Gocoiinlfnance. I conif into tlie plant their iwed ? I speak i bi'tvvccn the Ickc — of these patstd when isition. With fercnce The paich, is ne(r;i- pnrty Tlie id Lord Falk- out being re- as the conduct iscribe — whose lold scribblers, influence, and ts him to his lanimoualy re- le peace of the A nothing! for dent was dan- That if it was y General and ten from the in the wny of 1 the treatment Tincli to forcet ."t that I wonl represent the People. Who will go into a Governor'.'i Council, if, the moment he retires, h« it to have his loyalty Impeached — to be stabbed by secret d;.^ patches — to have his family insulted — his motives misre- presented — hi'i c'laracier reviled? What Nova Scotian will be safe — what Colonist can der<;nd himself from such a system, if a Governor can denounce thosb he happens to dislike, and f;et up personal quarrels with individuals ii may be convenient to destroy ? But, sir, the gross mis representation of my conduct and position, in the Des- patch of the 2d of August, is nothing to the dishonor it heaps upon the liberal party. It paints them as ready to SBcrilice me for defending them, — as without leaders, principles, or. union. Now, sir, is this true? Was it true in August? And if \vithoi;t a shado;" of foundation, should it have been palmed olT on the Colonial Secretary, under the sanction of the Governor's name? We are told that the government " had acquired additional firmness and stability, within a fortnii;ht," If so, bow did it happen, that, in the summer session, butone question was raised; and, upon that one, after a debute in which their leaders took the most prominent part, the views t,f the Opposition were adopted? But they have no ' acknowledged leader?' Have they not? Then let there be no mistake ahou' *hat point here- after, for the Opposition 'acknowledge' the Honble. 3nd li'arnad member for Cape Breton as their leader. Whether there is a want of ' concert' and ' determinate action,' this division will show. Hut ' Mr Howe's influence is greatly diminished !' perhaps so — but was tiiis proved by the Addresses preseul-d to his Excellency — or by the eight or nine public nieetin|;s subsequently held ? I think not. and if there is still any doubt, when the spring opens I shall have no objections to take my rod and go angling with Scrutator, east or west, and divide with the Govern- ment the suflTrages of any County we may visit, if I do not beat them in them all. Sir, the only ' influence' I have ever sought, or nosv pn<.sess, is the influence arising out of principles steadily and consistently adhered to. If the Liberal party had meditated, or done, wiiat is charged upon them in this despatch, the dishonor would have rested upon them, and not upon u But a cartload of despatches would not make mc believe it, or induce me to harbour » suspicion, that my learned friend from Cape Breton acted unfairly in the negociati^j,: into which he wasd/awn. That f cntleman i nd I started from different points in life, with different friends and adverse opinions — we contended in this arena, till we understood each other, and until the true principles of Colonial Government were developed by our collisions. In 1840 we embraced them in all sincerity — for three years we worked harmoniously in the same Go- vernment, retired for the same cause, and although I know and appreciate the difliculties and the arts by which my learned friend has been surrounded, I must have better cvi dcfiue ihan the testimony of our opponents, whose object is to sow dissention, before I suspect him of dishonor. To him, and to all with whom I have been associated, I am much indebted for the manly firmness thiy have displayed. T feel, sir, that I have trespassed too long on the lime of this Committee, and thank them for the attention with which I have been heard. Let me say in conclusion, that, as throughaut my life I have vtlued ollice .'id hoi>ors light |y_s(^ at this moment, there is nothing of personal interest that would induce me to oppose the Government for an hour. I have contended — I am vov contending — for Principles, for a System — which I believe, if worked out with discretion and good faith, will bind these Colonies to the Parent State for a century to corbie. It is because these principles have been violated — because their old 'ene« mies are in power— that I am in Opposition. It is by a departure from principles, and an attempt to pro- scribe a British subject, I have been driven to tiiis defence. The principles involved here, ore illustrated by the history uf our ra:e. Had Charles the First not acted on likes and dislikes — had he not yielded his confidence to supple favorites, and proscribed the men acceptable to the Nation, Lord Falkland's ancestor might have died a Minis- ter of State instead o'on the field of butila ; and the Monarch might have saved his head. Whet was the principle set'> tied in 1688? It was this : that nu man should thereafter be proscribed for opinions, or crushed by Court intrigue- that every British subject should be eligible fur office who possessed the confidence of the Nation. If the Sovereign were to-morrow to announce that siie would not have a particular Statesman in her Cabinet, the People of Eng- land would with one voice address her thus — *• Please your .Vlajesly, we care not for the man, but Uiere ia a principle involved in this proscription, which lies at the foundation of our freedom.'' It is thus I feel. 1 care not for my- self — but, let the People of Nova Scotia show less ti.mness and intelligence, and there will always be somebody to hate, or to proscribe — the Sovereign's Representative will never be free from personal squabbles, and Constitutional Government will be at an end. Sir, I deny not to Lord Falkland the right to govern this country, so long as a mi« jority, bowevor Gmall, sustains his Administration. I quis- tion not his right to use every Constitutional means to form t Council without me, or any other man, whom he believes ought not to be included. But I denyhis right publicly to denounce a British subject, within or beyond tlie limits of his Government. I question the policy of splitting Councils by injustice — propounding principles and de- manding stipulations, which nobody can understand — em- ploying Government scribes to defame public men, and then proscribing thera for manly self defence. I questii/ii 'he policy also of cont'uoting public business with slencJer majorities. We have he authority of Lord Melbourne, confirmed by Sir Robert Peel, that a weak Government is ia bad Government. A contrary opinion has been express- Jed here, founded on the belief, that from a weak Govern- ment any man may get what he desires: the same may be said of a weak woman — hut surely the strength of virtue >nd of piinciple is tn be preferred — strength to do what is right, to resist what is wrong. In conclusion, allow me 'o say, that whatever may be the decision of this Commit- tee, where I stand opposed by the whole influence of Ga< ver;iment, I biUeve ;at I have met every charge by a tri- umphant answer — that those who have forced this defence upon -ne, and not I, will live to find their conduct univer- sally condemned. For my part, I feel as a man may feel, icross whoso path a noble tree has fallen : though in its descent his garments may have been soiled, and his life endangered — be turns to gaze with regret on the pride of the forest, fallen from its high estate — its roots lacerated and torn, its stately branches crushed, and its foliage- flut- tering on every passing breeze. -J^