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SECIiET INQUISITIONS, 
 
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 NOVA SCOTIA AS IT WAS, IS, AND MAY BE. 
 
 
 ONE OF THE PEOPLE. 
 
 BOSTON : 
 
 J. FRENCH, 84 WASHINGTON STREET. 
 
 BOLD DY H OODPBKT, HAUPAX, NOVA 800TU, 23 BABEINOTO;^ 8T2Em. 
 
 TURBNOR & CO. 12 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, ENG., 
 
 1866. 
 

 Entered according to act of Congress, in the Clerk's Office, 
 of the Pistrict Court of Massachusetts. 
 
COl^TENTS. 
 
 Jesuitism and Religious Intolerance— Their influence in Responsible 
 Government— Punch in Nova Scotia. The Fishery excitement of ISSl— 
 Reciprocity— Annexation— Proof by analogy, that the influence which in 
 51 sought national division, has created the restriction of the Minerals of 
 the Colonies-Secret, fpies-Constant vigilance-Tb« Colonies an Em- 
 pire, or a Republic. 
 
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T^TT^ODUCTION. 
 
 A GLANCE AT A NEW PAGE IN THE HISTORY 
 OF THE BRITISH AMERICAN PROVINCES, 
 
 AND COMBINma 
 
 SKETCHES OE PROVINCIAL CHARACTER, 
 
 AS CONNECTED WITH THEIR SOCIAL ASPECT AMONG THE FIRST 
 AND EARLY SETTLERS, TO THE PRESENT TIME ; 
 
 BY A PROVINCIAL. 
 
 These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen, 
 Through which our policy must make a breach? • 
 
 • "iigutjr ...«,./ headed monster" will unaouotecuy uc giauiuu.,., „ 
 cently extended. 
 
 Newspaper critics and oppugners of a certain locality may undertake to 
 confute tlus last assertion, thereby provoking the retort that had the really 
 important portions of the work ever gained publicityin Nova Scotia, the press 
 of the United States might assuredly have claimed a debt of gratitude, and 
 those terntories benefitted equally with the northern districts of the vast 
 American Continent, if a concise and lucid explanation of peculiar inciden 
 be advantageous to thre. great nations, or provide for the protection, the 
 comfort, or the well being of individuality. * 
 
Fame, in the shape of " somebody, 
 By this time all the parish know it. 
 Had told that thereabouts' there lurked 
 A wicked imp they call a Poet, 
 
 Who prowled the country far and near. 
 Bewitched the children of the peasants, 
 Dried up the cows, and lam'd the deer, 
 And suck'd the eggs and killed the pheasants. 
 
 His highness heard the joint petition, 
 Swore by his coronet and ermine. 
 He'd issue out his high commission, 
 To rid the manor of such vermin. 
 
 'Gray. 
 
 In peaked hoods and mantles tarnished. 
 Sour Tisages enough to scare ye. 
 High dames of honor once that garnished 
 The drawing room of good Queen Mary. 
 
 Rrav. 
 
INTEODUCTION. 
 
 The numerous disadvantages besetting the pathway of the Colonial author 
 some of which the following compilation undertakes to elucidate and depict' 
 renders authorship an onerous and a wearisome task, rather than the li«,ht' 
 and pleasant effort. . 
 
 None ofthe many incitements which allure the youthful Citizen of the 
 American Republic, sustain the writer of the Colonial world in that com- 
 petition for the paUr. which is the reward of those who elevate a country by 
 revealing the value and the beauty thereof, or benefit society by exposing the 
 lurking evils which it is calculated too frequently to gloss over, or to shelter, 
 and leading on to a higher appreciation of moral as well as physical value. 
 
 Having been by untoward circumstances rebelliously drawn inkward it 
 becomes requisite in trespassing upon the "indulgent public," to state this 
 fact m exculpation ofthe crime of inflecfaig upon the satiated reading com- 
 mumty another book. 
 
 Irresistible contingencies may lead imperceptibly onward and accumulate 
 an irrestrainable tide, and not having rushed madly « into print." being no 
 apid enthusiast, bent upon the promulgation of novel or abstruse dogmas 
 but a simple and straight forward Provincial, collecting, and amalgamating 
 sketches of the day. and writing for the present time, the patience of the 
 mighty many headed monster" will undoubtedly be graciously and benefi- 
 cently extended. 
 
 Newspaper critics and oppugners of a certain locality may undertake to 
 confute this last assertion, thereby provoking the retort that had the really 
 important portions of the work ever gained publicityin Nova Scotia, the ,ress 
 ofthe United States might assuredly have claimed a debt of gratitude and 
 those territories benefitted equally with the northern districts of the' "t 
 American Continent, if a concise and lucid explanation of peculiar inciden 
 be advantageous to thre. great nations, or provide for the protection the 
 comfort, or the well being of individuality. " ' 
 
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 It is a (lelicatA 8ul)ject to contrast tho rapid advanee of civilization with 
 the 'lingerii.g tingo of despotism, still hovering over the whole, and, by the 
 irresistible chains of sclf-interest,(uiding the reinstation of that opacity, from 
 which it has so lately emerged. 
 
 To behold this relic of past barbarism wrestling wit? tho universality of 
 the mighty engine advancing earfh's progress in all holy and good things, 
 which, like the sensitivi cellular tissue of vegetab'o life, shrinks from partial 
 injury, suflering none the less in the entirety— has awakened tho encigy of 
 one of the weakest of her sex, and aroused that spirit of resistance to oppres- 
 sion which, self.expericnced, has placed a woman in tho anomalous position 
 of pleading for the freedom of the press. 
 
 By little elsa can evil ba suppressed, or good accomplished ; by nothing 
 else can be preserved intact, that rich heritage of British liberty, delegated by 
 British sovereignty to tho Colonies, and slight will be the security of the inhab- 
 itants of those Colonies, from religious intolerance, and a crushing rinathema, 
 if they contend not, boldly for ^he pristin' nd pern -<ent elevation of that 
 instrument which may in so many ways be exercised for righteous, or 
 iniquitous purposes, and which, like a sonorous and deep toned bell, rever- 
 brates at the touch of p pebble, and personal participation authorizes this 
 decisive asseveration as previously observed. 
 
 The Colonial authorities who have trespassed upon public notice, are few 
 and far between ; .therefore, must the present one plead guilty, that so 
 weij^hty a matter be thrust upon them, rather than that which combines 
 racy entertainment, or pithy and light amusenitjnt, but giving ai» utterance as 
 it were to the voice of the people, assuming to be the medium of expressing 
 the predominating tendency of mind, in one of its phazes. Being in heart and 
 life a Colonial subject of the British Empire, familiar with none other, 
 and experiencing in common, the peculiar wants and expectations of such 
 a position, the necessity of such a work as this now presented, and for the 
 free expression of a gradually formed and accurate opinion, can best be 
 approved by a quotation, not more ancient than classic learning may bestow ; 
 but from a volume far richer in aptitude, and glowing with heavenly senti- 
 ment. The poetical scintilations of which outvie, and the inculcated juris- 
 prudence of which has been the precursor of human institutions, and is 
 elevated far above that which aids, or assumes to do so, the public man for 
 present day eminence too /requently severally misplaaed 
 
 " Sufficitnt unto the day is the evil thereof." 
 
INDIRECT DOMESTIC INFLUENCE. 
 
 A NEW PAGE IN THE HISTORY OF NOV \ &COTIA. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Thoucli silver salmon gaily pky. 
 
 And glad our gilded seaf, 
 Thounrh health on every br zft is ours, 
 - Heaven's blessings what are these. 
 
 11 Unadas rough hand be raised, in remembrance of her alaia. 
 U IS ova hcotia break her heart against a grinding chain. 
 We are rising ! we are rising, 
 
 In intellect 8 bold power ; 
 Sv.nnle means great things are wori ■,*, 
 The ^erm, the bud, the fio\?er. " 
 We hear you oallrng Uncle Sam, your voice is on the hills. 
 And we knov religious tjTanny has created bitter ills. 
 
 Relations of facts and circumstances connected \vi^'- and 
 relative of, the position assftmed and advocated by the ' /ari- 
 ous circles and classes of social life, are unquestionably in- 
 teresting. These are welcome to the careless and superficial, 
 as well as to the philosophical reader. "And to many they 
 are the only history of their own times which is looked into 
 or explored. Little of this style of reading has as yetema- 
 nated froni Nova Scotia. It lies partially within the province 
 01 the daily newspaper, which lives by recording national 
 or mter-provmcial events, the boundaries of national poli'v 
 and general additions to local and scientific theories. And 
 occasionally does the jften issued pamphlet in furtherance 
 ot some pet provincial scheme of personal or territorial 
 aggrandizement, so constantly scattered through a country 
 new or old, tend to show how such scheme enters the domain 
 ot private life, and works, perchance, incalculable evil, 
 though unintentionally. ' 
 
 The romancer and the moral essayist must equally fail in 
 such topic as this. It is a thing of life, of feeling; and of 
 principle ; and truth can be. the only expositor. The expo- 
 
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 t IS the natural tendency of the timid to shrink, and un- 
 Jess some strong, overpowering grievance arouse an entire 
 country into resistance ! Casual and domestic occurrences 
 
 an to impress ver ■ strongly, connected with real evils 
 though they be, the man who boasts of high-toned moral 
 pnnciple, and whose position secures him from vicious acri- 
 mony, and surrounds him with powerful friends This is 
 more especially the case in the colonies, which seek for no 
 great standard of public excellence, but are content to take 
 the rough and the smooth cf circumstances in humble imita- 
 tion of thejr lofty and antique progenitor. Without oossess- 
 
 2Jnf t"r^"' '^¥"^ P"^"^ °f paramount impor ance 
 around which may culminate the nobler tendencies of na- 
 
 n/l«'^ •'.P'"'^''?''''^' ^""^ religious sociality ; a star which 
 of necessity must increase in lustre. The' observation is 
 tnte and commonplace — that trining circumstances create 
 important events. There are few who would willing y ac- 
 knowledge, however, their own accepted instrumentality, 
 lor human nature is ever willing to cast off the responsibilitr 
 incumbent upon action. So gladly do we fling from us that 
 Sv ;'^' that elevation, of feeling, renderin|life a Hnk of 
 eternity , something above a sensual and physical creation ; 
 a ransient period of idle indulgence; a busy mart for the 
 enterprising merchantman ; a canvassing around wherein an 
 eager placemen may search for constituents. Leben ist le- 
 ben says the solid, and .olid, and social-hearted German, 
 i^n^fh ti^ ^^" ""^ repeat whether with the wild man seated 
 
 mS\- li^'^;?^""™^^ "P"^"^^ *'*^^s of Nova Scotia, 
 making his old violin strike up a competition with the olue- 
 
 - Wnr"' ^""i^'^'^^^XP^^osophizing upon city life, where . 
 
 r.ZX <r'J' ^?^ ^^"^"g y^"^«^Jf ^" for nothing; " he 
 remarks ; - and when you die, you have ^ct no mo?e than 
 
 no^hint ""''"' 'V^'^'^'i anything." Life is still hfe, and 
 nothing more ; thougn the rich Southern planter lounges in 
 ihe shade, and watches the curling odors of his delicate 
 cigarette curving in the atmosphere, and schemes, and hur • 
 ries, and drives, at times, that he may secure his thousands. 
 
 th^^ ;\ K ^"^ ^'?T' '""'^^ '^' ^^^^^d associations, are 
 
 hey but the boiling of the tea-kettle in the pine forest upon 
 
 the hemlock bough ; the evening gossip and merrv satirp 
 
 upon me wiute ioiks ; or is it tixe united wealth of 'foreign 
 
lands ; the luxuries ; the perquisites ; the pageantry for 
 which peace af mind and a hope of'fu.ureVa spStua 
 happiness may have been blindly and madly sacrificed. A 
 simple flower, unattractive and unheeded, by the roadside 
 may become the medium of extensive influince ; it needs 
 not a mighty muscular energy to work out a pathway, for 
 God's Providpnce It is around, about, and forever nean 
 
 Needles and thread, pens, ink, and paper, these are sim- 
 pie nouns and m daily requisitition,*^ and with that sage 
 rS'' ?^^r^'. ^^'\^'' ^« ^^^«' ^hat would the wc^fd 
 hnm«n r- ^"""-'u^ '"^f*^°" ^"^ ^ trueism which every 
 amonnt T^ ""?^' ^' thoughtfully, and with as deep an 
 aniount of sagacity repeat, and while, regarding these little 
 
 t^^couZT °f.*^«.«°P»^--^«g ^ink. fn the ^commercial 
 intercour'^e oi nations m more ways than one, we hear with 
 amazement of the millions of human beings whose support 
 
 InTr. /'°"''^'''"!?"^^^'^^' ^°' N«^^ Scotia sK 
 aLo in thf ^' "^^^'^' mechanical or textile articles, as 
 W^ t^ *^\S^"^'0"s combination of purpose which liust 
 lead to such a consummation. Hitherto she has been a 
 mere recipient of the inteliectuel efforts of more favored 
 lands. A consumer, but not a producer. . 
 
 rennnrfnlK^^'f ""^'- ""^ l^^ ^^^'^^^^ °^ branches of trade 
 requisite to the formation of each individual article, whether 
 It be a household appendage or an intricate piece of me' 
 
 t!h^\^1T r'^'^f^^ ^«««tion ; but thosewho are fn 
 the habit of doubtmg the value of trifles, will slowly ac" 
 k..owledge to how great an amount, and ij how very many 
 peculiar degrees, and variety of incidents, a very tmeZl 
 su^erve the advancement of truth, the exposare^of erroT.^ 
 surmunld L h^ ""^^ .^"'^?^' T'"^" ^^^'^^ her stall, 
 
 Eh ! iT""'^' H'""? ^^' ready steel upon the coarse attire, 
 
 Tnd 1 nf"'^^'^ ^!5 ^"^"^'^^y ^"h ^ f«^ extra pence 
 Rri, ? g/^ttering emblem traces for itself a course amid 
 
 woZt 1 "' ^ K^- ?°T^ ^^ g^«««y «ilk ^"d glowT g 
 
 ZJ kIo "^"^""^ ^'t^ ^^^P^^^ «^ ""fading flowers, bud" 
 
 ee S drnr'!5^' T- ^^P^»di"g' ^vithout a%eedling or a 
 
 fero^Lno PP""^ '" ^^''' P"'*'"^ ^^°°"^ f^«"^ t^ands that have, 
 perchance, never ministered to the happiness of other th^.' 
 men wvvner. 
 
 An embroidered pin-cushion may work wondrous things, 
 
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 menrof 'h^nf^T^.""^^"'" perpetrators in this depart- 
 ment of handiwork have wonderfully eircumscribed fhl 
 
 3 i 1 "^' ?^ ""'^^ ^"^ ^^^id ««Joring upon the 
 mnrll /"/''' or saloon, enumerated upon whSh arose he 
 martml deeds or hair-breadth escape of a father, aTover or 
 
 mS''t' 7^^^^«r ^ ^^'^ apartment with ^efresh^ me 
 morials o be gazed upon for a life-lime, and handed doTn 
 
 hel.lr?dirr f'^ ^^ ''"^^^*"^^- ^^^ addiction t" 
 rnn»o,^K -^ ^^^''' ^^^^^^^er much decried by creations 
 monarchs, isnot, we are disposed to believe, altoithrrTeT 
 looked by them, nor is it probable that they altSer di'" 
 card an interest in the art which has made so ma^c, /ces 
 
 he'rSncrif n^ ^ T'' ^' ^^^^^ ^^^' an3 to ^S 
 ^1 '^?"^f ncers of past and present days owe so much of 
 
 historical record, so much traditional and social ncident 
 idle no?"'' /"°»«y-««.«'^-i"g and practical times of ours we 
 Idle not each mmute in empty homage, or vapid boastfulnelT 
 
 ivTfi ''h T'^T- The whee/rin swff fy ^nTm^^^^^^ 
 
 The e s'm,' to\^"'' "' ^'- "^^^' ^^'^^^^ co^rimenceT!: 
 nrp .i!.? • ^^ f'' ^"^'"g impression that the shadows 
 
 are declinmg upon the dial-plate ; ~ that the -'losing hm^r 
 
 llZToPon ^^"^--g^y :- -i- conct^inrihf o'r 
 
 dispensed far Lr T'^'^'f^ '"^'^^ '° amalgamate the 
 STe LmSr^ enterprise, that the motto 
 
 rftl-tralTl^ifm%S'^"''" ^'"^ '^"' ^"'^^^ ^^^ ^°' 
 
 the^ofTrJrfnrn ^^^^^^^^ f ^^^. g«' ^"d the remembrances 
 tnereot spring up around us in no visionary shape*. Our 
 imagery must be moral progress, for the signVof Th^ hoio 
 scope are marked and strange and overpower nrexcTte 
 
 TrS nt^n^dfTr'"^ ^"^ ^^-^^^^"^ beneath^he sufface fo 
 ftvTne sisatr/T'^P'^r- ^«^ "^^ ^nd then. Acquis- 
 form anr mn'r / ? f ' ^" '^^ T^^ ""'^'S^^ ^"^ ^^^ended 
 anc^'thron^hl ^"V"'" "'T^ ^""^^* """^^ obtain endur- 
 
 Product on ^of nt ""''^^'^ T^'"^' "^ expediency, for each 
 proauction of nature or of art is now valued not bv an 
 intrinsic es.mate, but according to what they «'wm brL " 
 ine world, m one wild race commindinff scarcelv nnw 
 s ops pantingly to study the proportions^of flatn^v'^T 
 giones 01 a painting, because, p'erchunce, the '•'-"-"''- 
 
 >ry 
 
 of 
 
I in this depan- 
 cumscribed the 
 1 has ceased to 
 ^ring upon the 
 which arose the 
 ther^ a lover, or 
 1 Befreshing me- 
 1 handed down 
 he addiction to 
 ed by creations 
 altogether over- 
 ' altogether dis- 
 many sacrifices 
 ,* and to which 
 ve so much of 
 ial incident, 
 les of ours, we 
 id boastfulness, 
 tly, and much 
 3ommenced. — 
 at the shadows 
 ? closing hour 
 •ning the occu- 
 id the philan- 
 nalgamate the 
 hat the motto 
 findeth to do, 
 
 remembrances 
 
 shapes. Our 
 
 i of the horo- 
 
 rering excite- 
 
 e surface for 
 
 hen. Acquis- 
 
 and extended 
 
 obtain endur- 
 
 ?ncy, for each 
 
 d, not by an 
 
 " will bring." 
 
 scarcely now 
 
 itnarv. nr fhn 
 ■ — »■ ' — ^ 
 
 very ideal of 
 
 the beautiful thereon still lingers. Neither will it pause 
 
 honrpd '^"''^ T^ '^'"^^^ ^P'^'^^^" of ancient sldirand 
 honored genms, because thereby an abstract idea is conveyed 
 
 to the mind. Even the embroidering a wreath of fruits cr 
 
 flowers must have a purpose, and whit is the good of it 5 
 
 That good will It do, too frequently resounded upon all sides' 
 
 reveals a mighty principle in the workings of society which 
 
 the hurry of the moment permits not thi explicatio/of 
 
 dre^m r?or if 7 ^T"'"^ ^-^""''"y ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ "ttle 
 dream it, lor the age of contention of physical strength has 
 
 passed away, and calm, soul-searchingf unpreiud ced intel 
 
 lect has taken her place in the lists. NatioLTf he world 
 
 and the powers of hell, rush to the onset. Bu all heaven 
 
 and the hosts thereof, are the witnesses, and God abovlis 
 
 the arbitrator. And will the result he uncertain ? Doe 
 
 evil always have the pre-eminence ? Whatever the earhe 
 
 history oi earth may reveal, the existing record of the iS 
 
 three centuries as strongly refute it. Three centuries ' I 
 
 s Wu] tnZ'a ''' ^^'^^-y,— And intellect pe";rted 
 IS learlu m the dominion, and remorseless in exercise And 
 pure and sacred principle must have its deadlXs Weak 
 lln":hty''- ^^^ ""^'-^^^ ^-^- «f this'in?trum^t:t 
 Where is the youthful heart which does not bound 
 at the mention of that magic and eastern-soundL co.- 
 nomen a bazaar ? A bazaar ! How deli^S s£ 
 
 helnfoft '' T""'' ^"^^^^ h^^ - rcqurshS Seethe 
 heaps of si k, and nett, tinsel and beads, and velvet and 
 
 dollT emerr f'^'^l^ "^' T'''^^' ^"^ -^-^ — ^of 
 dolls emerge from the combination. What say pictures 
 
 glitter also on tue mental vision of gas-lit hills ^ Fresh 
 flowers gay music, ices in abundance, lots of pleasant 
 sombUity, and affability, and not a small'degree of^Sy 
 among the weaker portion of the assistants, then the "an' 
 pearance behind the tables " is discussed A nH fn T 
 oompheated excitement how frequenUy is he worting pur! 
 CLr ^°'fl overlooked, or seen but indirectlyrwhifeTe 
 intricate influences may no on oxtendintr ^yj'll- , 
 
 LV.'"!r"f_?.^''?^°''' -herein by high and low tendenci^t 
 t?e'KZdom'o7Hrf "'', "■■ """" P™"le passions, m„s 
 earth ^ ^""^ "^ "'""^^'^ «"'' advanced upon 
 
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 The !wwr. ^ ""^ ^'"Wr.ation of feminine skiu', a bazLr 
 Thunders roar and lightnings flash around the dark hull 
 
 value'"^Thr.M™' ""''^'•'!'"' "'<^'' speculations of various 
 the retuJs when .heTn"',™''' "'"'' T'' "'" doubtless be 
 
 ?r i£ -^^ : -rt: aTeSeri„t i:^- 
 
 thesi are"*eT,l "Tr"^. '^ '^"^ white CesV By 
 Xr-'^r?''' '"T"" '" '"^ ""'J of Sett; mereham.' 
 
 preserved by its greaiest'enemres:'"'" " "«''' ^''""S^'^ 
 
 'S 
 
11 
 
 Go, herald, eo, no pageant thee awaits, 
 No fbttery thy self-love elevates; 
 Weak hearts rejoice, oh teach the fallen to soar, 
 liiou art thy master's servant. Be no more. 
 Far through the forest hoar thy horse hoofs ring, 
 IJreaks the calm grandeur of the stern frost-king. 
 Wide spreads the cabin door, 'neath green fir-trees, 
 Where anxious watchers thy glad coming sees. 
 
 The strife is over. Time with thee has fled. 
 Ana glory has another numbered. 
 High above thunders roar, the lightning's gleam, 
 . Heaven is revealed, thy hope is not a £eam, • 
 ^o thou encircled by the diadem, 
 ^t savmg mercy, and love's glorious gem. 
 
 The wide, white, snow waste of a new countrv Hp^ 
 around he pathway of the missionary. But his course I 
 
 herdd' Ni/h't'"^f '" ?^ not ^civilization^ honied 
 nerald .' Night sets in. Still, still, only that bleak whitP 
 
 waste, stretching out before, behind, besMe, he incidem 
 
 den^r ^ f !^^ '"^"^^^' ^^° ^h^^^^^««' «« appalling to he 
 tTTu^^v "'^^^"^ ^'''y But the message frU God 
 eve'n here! '""' '' ^'^ ^^^"^^^^ ^^k, aL some are 
 
 bilWs^'^T'hf roaWn'"' ''''''"l'' ^^' °"^ ^"^« ^^e tossing 
 Hmv ?J«i f u"^ ®^^ proclaims an approaching storm 
 
 7nnl i TV'' '^^ '"'^^ ^^^^^"^^ i« thrfire-gleam from 
 
 apprtche" ' ThT^'f .'r* ^^^ «^^^"' squre^vrnlw S 
 S and enPrJJ^ -"if '1 ^""''^ -P^'*^^^^ ^^ "^^ster's glad- 
 ness and energetically plunges into the deep and pathless 
 
 winM "? '^^.''■^'^ *° h'« f«^"i«' feeble efforts.^ Who 
 
 mmp^fTf *" ^'^l '^' «°""d of the violin, th; heavy 
 tramp ot fishermen's boots, in a real right down earnest iia 
 E T^ ^fl«°r fthat ? Who would^e p'rpared for /hf 
 piles of cards well thumbed, half-worn ? Who would ex 
 pect to see the blue delf saucer of half pence ^ Or the" 
 
 fe: -1 w^ tr? *'^ '^^^.^^^^^^^ amon^he oid -f e s 
 An..re is work here for a missionary And olentv of rnnn. 
 
 lined in thp r;"&^V ^^^^nger. For tne long, low bows out- 
 He has found a smuggier'Cd'er"' "' "" '"""'"' '"'""'^'"- 
 
i ' 
 
 fi ilr 
 
 12 
 
 And here may the work of civilization commence There 
 
 ^nme, as, are the poor of older countrie^i Vm ic fi,^.-- 
 
 acKnowJedge. And when at day dawn the missionary ind 
 
 thlZrV'^^'^''' '' '' ^^^^^ "^"t^^^' kindrSesf with 
 
 hanks for his warning even his reproof. But they drTad 
 
 no the consequence of his discovery, for many a^wearv 
 
 W "he tr.tr ^'"^ ^^^^h a jaded horVe, and thcUugglers 
 
 Bu .onfiH ' T'V" ''^''^' ^^ ^^°^«^ ^ path. ^^ 
 h..K ^°™^nce has been reposed. The pearl of nrice 
 
 un il " ernr T?,- Y *^^"^^ ^^^ ^^"^^ be IteE 
 knL Tat V .V 1 ^''^'' \" ''\^^'l'''^ the missionary 
 S and low K i "'T. ^l^^g^ther fail. For that by 
 thf Door bv^hP^ ?? f l^ °^ ^^"^^' ^"^ ^y ^he farthing o^f 
 nnfnS^ '^ -'l'^'^'^^'* ^""^^^ passions, and the glorious 
 ^tpourings oi the spirit, the Creator shall be glorified The 
 Bibles gathered by the bazaar table shall L their work 
 
 WeT orind "r ^'^ ^^f ^^^^^^^ cushion of Kuth 
 there with ft .u'''^' '" ^^" ?"^P °^ ^^^^ I^^^'^"' battling 
 unidnr\v:th P N ' ^^^^°»V^cal superstition so frequentlf 
 amS fhpfv i°Pf '^ u"r- ^' ^« "°t in the crowded cit/ 
 
 eTpecf'thI ain.ll^'^'tii""^ ^^^/^'^^ «^ b"«i"^«« that Je 
 w/.n !i K • PPl"'"^ fallacies of the heated mind, and 
 warped brain, where traffic writes strong lines upon hard 
 faces, where science lights her votaries t^o wealthra"id ail 
 unm. in pursmts calculated to elevate a country. 
 
 exert'ir" Jh'"'^ ^^f '"?.^^""3^ ^^ ^"^^tness, or to over- 
 dXin t' 1 ^ r .^°".^'^ ^^'"'^ that superstition has been 
 driven to lurk despised and disregarded among earth's dark 
 
 tm a Tvin P^"'''-- 1^^"^"^'^ ^'^"^^^ ^' ^4et that Fit 
 stiJl a living principle, capable of beincr brou-rht bv ablp 
 
 hands into the broad daylig'ht and set to 3o i s wtk. ^Th^ 
 
 po so" a? t"vT" T^ ""'' ^^^" «" --"g»^t «P«n by tt 
 
 SpT iourt. "r^^f ^_"^:P_^«^^^t-^, -! the bar of justiie in 
 
 f - ccurrs. ...t;,, uiidurmg aii liiat man could endure 
 
 Iti 
 
 of th( 
 
 Worl 
 
 aid, f 
 
 gratif 
 
 to rep 
 
 ed by 
 
 so adr 
 
 tion o] 
 
 ment ( 
 
 effect : 
 
 blindei 
 
 cy diff 
 
 inacndy 
 
 those r 
 
 Ho;i 
 
 to this 
 
 eager s 
 
 authors 
 
 A vain- 
 
 cessity, 
 
 small c 
 
 jects w 
 
 as the b 
 
 incomp; 
 
snce. There 
 food-natured 
 3lp pass the 
 impressions. 
 ;gle for sub- 
 fe they may 
 members of 
 id down to 
 ITet is their 
 will frankly 
 sionary and 
 A^ishes, with 
 they dread 
 ly a weary 
 5 smugglers 
 :h. 
 
 irl of price 
 unrevealed 
 missionary 
 »r that by 
 farthing of 
 le glorious 
 ified. The 
 hei;* work, 
 the church 
 m, battling 
 frequently 
 tvded city, 
 ;ss that we 
 m'nd, and 
 upon hard 
 h, and all 
 
 r to over- 
 has been 
 rth's dark 
 that it is 
 It by able 
 rk. That 
 on by this 
 justice in 
 d endure 
 
 fhnJ'r °^.^^P^^ persecution, and a domineeringly vicious 
 though rehpous /action, with resignation of foL loved 
 homes of clustering associations, of venerated and^Cost 
 adored usages, that it swept like a pestilence through libX 
 oving England, while vain-glorious and pedantic JamS 
 the F.rst celebrated his " wonlerful and mighVSrare '' 
 from Popish treason, to which he had been appmXd as a 
 "sheep ^o the slaughter." We read a proS writer's 
 account of the strange blending of ignorance in our North 
 ttjJ'InT- ^^V^"^^V^be of Inchans, with ancient superst 
 tion and modern Romanism. How the onp ar«f.l;i 
 tl. other, they flourished togethfrrVst^o^g 'aid ^^^^^ 
 and remarkable opponent of revelation. And we 3 
 not for a moment that it forms one of the manrfangs of 
 
 M.5'.'^^i''?°." °PP°«^"S "P°" ^a«h the kingdom of the 
 Messiah with indomitable, undismayed perseverrce and 
 an assurance which forbearance only increases. "' ^^ 
 of thpi TPT^-°/''^'^"S"P°^^ «"« passion or faculty 
 
 aid fnr 1 that-leading it on unsuspectingly to give an 
 Iriff u ^§^^"« '/onietimes with an apparent desTre ^o 
 gratify, when gratification is the object so^rLd aliV. 
 
 d bTSnr^r^ " 'r'. "^^" ^y^tem^tictU gof^^^^^^^^ 
 so ad^^hC- f""^ ^^ *^ be subverted, that this^power 
 so admirable in its united viciousness, works ! The perfic 
 tion of perverted intellect. In the female mmr^ thi .' 
 
 iects with PrS ■f"''."' s with a connection of local sab- 
 'Zt:Z^lFTTlS.'?'^''. -<! 'he^ prompt extinc™ „ 
 
 inoo.pa.iblep.oce;d^;7a;:XoVd:k'^1^:arSS 
 
ii:;ii 
 
 ,lih 
 
 1^!;!. 
 
 KM 
 
 14 
 
 may appear egotistical. It is but a supposition of the mo- 
 lives of continuous aggression. 
 
 The decision to submit these facts to the public is strength- 
 ened by a sense of duty to society, to the cause of revelafion 
 and humanity, as well as a conviction that greater securhv 
 lies in publicity than in silence. That vvhic^ re a es to th^ 
 well-being of life, must be known, that it may be apprecia! 
 ed and though strongly advised by the timid to desfs? from 
 such a purpose, the very singularity and triviality of the cir^ 
 cumslances g.ive redoubled strength to suspicion^ 
 
 ..y^f ^ T' ""^^ "^^^^^ 5 influential individuals may 
 control and subvert ; but the question still remains and be^ 
 comes one of moment, that vice should ever be permitted 
 the pre-eminence, while correct opinion, or that which ^ 
 
 confoundeS. ''''"'''"'""^"'' ""' ^'"''"^ ^^^^ ^^^'^'^ -"d 
 Be it then distinctly and definitely understood, that though 
 individuality m^y be substantiated, not a single ndividual is 
 decisively convicted of an agency in a system of esp^^^^^^^^^ 
 calculated to set at defiance all human ties, all sacredTondf 
 by a controlhng, subverting and established system. A svs' 
 em which has been the glory of dark and barbarous ages, 
 which may be at any time revived, and which might, in a 
 very transient period, totally change the tone of civilization. 
 vv,-tt '"''^^''^°" «^ Pe^"l^ar or distressing vexations arising 
 without any apparent reason, does not, though traced to the 
 originators, necessarily convict of a lack of principle. Prei- 
 udiced and erroneous partizanship will ever disown collu- 
 sion. The only remedy therefore must lie in an appeal to 
 tiTi '^"^^.^^^^"fd principle, to display in thaab- - 
 stract the binding and extensive unity prevailing, the Juiet 
 
 S;;!gaterevL" "' "'^ '' ^'^ P"^""^"^ °^ ^'^'''y -d "- 
 
 It may be about thirteen years ago that having visited a 
 friend residing in the city of H. I remained the greater part 
 of the summer of that year an inmate of her establishment, 
 and an associate of many of her acquaintances. Being a 
 distant connection of some branches of my mother's family 
 an intimate acquaintance had of course previously subsisted 
 or many years. A gentleman who has by Roman Catholic 
 liberal suffrage attained <he hiehest civil nositinn u i^ ,-. iU^ 
 
 i come 
 
 1 ^he m 
 
 > Little 
 
 % obtair 
 
 a:^ 
 
of the mo- 
 
 c is strength- 
 of revelation 
 ter security 
 lates to the 
 t)e apprecia- 
 desist from 
 y of the cir- 
 
 • 
 
 iduals may 
 ns and be- 
 B permitted 
 t which is 
 ibashed and 
 
 that though 
 ndividual is 
 F espionage 
 3red bonds, 
 m. A sys- 
 irous ages, 
 might, in a 
 3ivilization. 
 )ns arising 
 aced to the 
 iple. Prej. 
 OAvn collu- 
 
 appeal to 
 in thaab- 
 
 Ihe quiet 
 ty and un- 
 
 visited a 
 •eater part 
 blishment, 
 
 Being a 
 r's family, 
 
 subsisted 
 1 Catholic 
 
 it io in iV>r^ 
 
 16 
 
 f 1^1-*^'' ^T ^''°^'^" P^°P'^ ^° ^^«*°^^' ^°d who was also 
 a relative of the person above alluded to. was together with 
 his Wife and her fnends, a frequent visitor at theslme hVu e 
 Having been long an inhabitant of a country village upon 
 one of the sea-ports, distant from the city of H. some sixty 
 miles, the change to varied bustle andasucce. nof amS 
 ments, was, of course, exceedingly delightful to one who 
 had known much of monotonous seclusion and quiet attend 
 tion to domestic duties, while the quickness of observation 
 usually fostered by such a position, found endless occupat on 
 among the varied shades and diversities of character wkh 
 which It necessarily came in contact. n^racier, with 
 
 pnZ!lff^!!^' T ?°J ^ ^^'^^' dogmatical tenor may not also be 
 
 f hTf I ' '' ^"^' •^°'* '^^' '^'^^^' ^^ J"^g«- It i« very pos^ble 
 that a being so situated may possess ti.e purest tone of iat! 
 
 iT'^n.^^'"^''^"' T ^'r ''^^^^^^-^^> which humanity ^ca„ 
 ever possess or partake of, or association engender. 
 
 Ihis phase of feeling has been the precursor of advance- 
 ment in our neighbors across the tempestuous Bay of Fund v • 
 It has neither been comprehended or sustained in the gencr' 
 
 feied! '' ^'"^"'" '^''' 'y''^"^' h^« widely dif. 
 
 At that time I was as careless as are most other youni 
 women, of anything but passing affairs, and the amusement! 
 of the moment. And here I cannot but remark with r^gre 
 the pernicous nature of the system of female colonfa ffi 
 cation, having deeply and personally experienced it The 
 ZT.'rl ^^^ri"'" ^^^"^ ^^'^^^^^ble w^ithout mucii dTffi! 
 
 com^e Zn5 ^" ^"""' ^^^ "^^^^^^^"g ^1^««^^' ^ limited n. 
 come almost procurmg the luxuries of life, wimen have for 
 
 the most part, Iitt e cause for mental or Physical exertion • 
 Li tie mental cultivation is bestowed upon'them, and nothing; 
 obtams favor beyond showy accomplishments, and the verf 
 merest smattering of intellectual pursuits; and a woman 
 who evinces any desire, or a taste for litemture ha^ h^Pn 
 regarded as an anomaly, almostan absurdi" ^cVeat on 
 hA Tf T^?""^ ^^ ^^^^ th^" is thrown upon the hands to 
 
 Sy'lo^b/ T' '• '^ '^ .^P^"^ - ^-P'y «hit.cha 'Ld 
 \?ZThl '• u ''''^ "P ""° ^'^'^^ ^«^o-^g elderly ladies, whoso 
 !iYIli":!"^^^^^» P-««ed in a similar manner: thev ^a.'^fv 
 
 oPsod^ty! ""''^ '"^"^" °' innovation in the junior ^nembeis 
 
fl ,' ll 
 
 16 
 
 .^,y.^-^"?^ "°^ ,^°''' """^^ ^^"8e political men in older 
 countries have to dread female interference in their especial 
 domam There must be danger where a thing s so con 
 
 strong, singular, and extraordinary event which will draw a 
 woman of Nova Scotia sufficiently forward to even give an 
 opinion unreservedly, still less to undertake the responsibility 
 
 trv m^X"''"^ .°v '?• ^"'■^•^P^ '^ '' "^^'^ "°t ««' this eoun^ 
 try might, ere this, have attained a higher position : for there 
 
 I'LT^P^r ^-^ ^ '°P^" upon which a silent observer i^ 
 capable of forming a correct opinion, just from the fact 
 of being wholly and pecuniarily uninterested. vBut the 
 powers of the mind being totally uncultivated, or left in rich 
 but uncalled-for profusion. The habit of fascinating idleness, 
 becomes positively habituah The aversion to dwell for many 
 minutes at a time upon serious subjects, is indulged irreraed- 
 ably. The entire errors of a life-time inculcation, are hard 
 to overcome ; and if ever the hour of action aJrive, it is 
 more than dreaded, it has been totally unprepared for Of 
 what uae, then, is religious principle to such a person ? 
 fepeakmg of the young, they cannot bring it practically to 
 bear upon practical life. It must fall back and e:.pire. It 
 must become inanition, and not the vital gem of hallowed 
 hopes. It must shrink from collision with those very subiects 
 which it IS the most beautiful part of religion to elevate, to 
 mfluence, even to control. The race must be left to the 
 swilt, and the battle to the strong, and those must and will 
 stand alool whose dearest interests are at stake. For the af- 
 iairs of a country's advancement are not for a day alone. 
 Ihey spring from etez-nity, and go onward to meet one. 
 It IS not the struggle only of position, wealth, and authority, 
 it IS the contention of light with darkness; vice with holi- 
 ness. We do not presume to say that religion should be 
 taken Jrom its own domestic sanctuary to be tossed into the 
 ballot-box, but would not society be more generally im- 
 proved if this bright star Avere permitted to eovern it more, 
 and to culminate ? 
 
 My early training having been, then, upon the customary 
 code above elucidated, I think the only powerful tendency 
 ot my mind was a warm, devoted, and admiring adherence 
 to the Episcopal Protestant Church form of worship, and an 
 mtenae admiration of the beauties of Nova Scotia scenery, 
 
n in oldef 
 ir especiatl, 
 is so coa ft 
 niUBt \>e a 
 'ill draw a 
 ;u give an 
 iponsibiiity 
 this coun- 
 ; for there 
 >b8erver is 
 1 the fact 
 X But the 
 ieft in rich 
 g idleness, 
 I for many 
 iirremed- 
 
 are hard 
 rive, it is 
 i for. Of 
 
 person ? 
 ctically to 
 vpire. It 
 hallowed 
 y^ subjects 
 levale, to 
 h to the 
 
 and will 
 or the af- 
 ay alone. 
 >eet one. 
 luthority, 
 k'ith holi- 
 ihould be 
 
 into the 
 :ally im- 
 it more, 
 
 i 
 
 17 
 
 4 
 
 her system so antique and mnrtiir tE ^* ^"^^ ^" 
 
 a. wh chTl^s'a" tlr'fh"' '" ""^ '="y °f H ". ,he house 
 
 already alluded to B,rh^ ^"""^ ','"' eonnec'^d circle 
 u«erl/in"„r.o, fhe'vS, = L T"'"^ °'' '"' 
 on in the Province, i heede" 7tve?y ufg! i^' /"T ^"■"g 
 pres«onwa8 at that time experilnced ' " ''''P "^- 
 
 istomary 
 endency 
 iherence 
 >, and an 
 scenery, 
 
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 ^^H 
 
 ill 
 
 Hi 
 
 >T 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 There's nae luck about the huse ! 
 There w nae luck at a', 
 
 When the auld hat blink, in the window's hVht, 
 And the chimney'i stuffed wi'stra' 
 * Ihon Its hey up th<i chinuicy pot, hey after you 
 
 In scorch of an iugk bra. ^ 
 
 There is nao luck abou' the hu», 
 
 iirJ^^'^'? ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^'^ ^y^"^ »f e blinkin' ! 
 When the clerk an the parson die on the grate, 
 
 It shows that the times are o'er late: 
 An that folks must tak tothinkin* 
 
 When the spark has died in the ingle nook, 
 Then It s hey and away, for another to look. 
 '^ Iteligious intolerance will 
 
 " Piit a girdle round the earth in forty minute8."-SiLVK. 
 
 Nova Scotia being, as one of her most eminent and dis- 
 tinguished slatemen has felicitiously observed, "just l.ke the 
 nlaf;' %''r^' '"^"f"P^'"S a peculiar 'and importin 
 place upon the verge of the bhie Adantic, it i.as been a mat- 
 ter of serious mquiry why, with so many varied facilities for 
 trathc, commerce and mterourse, with ihe areat human 
 family ; so imperfect a knowledge of the internally workin" 
 organism of its social life has supervened " 
 
 di«?ri/'"''^"'"^u^'^u ^''^ ''^'^'y irayeller, and the gaun- 
 dised denizen of the burning possessions of the Eastern Con- 
 tinent paused upon her hill-sides, that his fevered brow may 
 
 ^rfn'lnvhhl ^ f' ?"^^''^^'"» ^'^^'^^^^^ ^nd his overstrained and 
 00 lavishly tasked energies be calmed and soothed by con- 
 templating the exquisite scenery for which she has been so 
 ce ebrated, said to be ItaliP „ in its soft insinuating "vei' 
 ness, its luscious reaction of cly.*- oi sure 
 
 Is it then all in vain, t' !,pr wJd pi'omontaries stretch 
 out far mto the turbulent sea, that her' rivers teeming with 
 tTJ I i'^yf^'^/f^^h', throw their silver tra'cery about, 
 around, beyond, and through everything, that her capes and 
 jutting peninsulas, and shady coves dotted with the birchen 
 «.amp of the Indian, and fringed with drooping alder in 
 
19 
 
 the friendly covert of which the privateersman of some liftv 
 years ago landed hi. ill-gotten Iveallh, and bes owed it n 
 some mossy nook, or buried if, deep beneath the sod And 
 wh.le these all speak loudly to the itranger^^nd thesoiout.r 
 ^f a day are those whose home associations arrprt and 
 
 mound, and green island, '^uttersTrth'a g o i^ous ' voif "?f 
 adoration to the beneficent Creator, - are%he Tvinrto hi 
 
 Italy's classic recollections have given bright constelht'inn 
 to an admiring world; and the wild "eSo Td 1 '^^^^^^ 
 
 rrdrciim:s^rGoV^^%'r ''^ Eehold^tc:;!^ ^t 
 
 thi o 1 ^'^"'^^V A Gocthe> a Mozart, a Handel, have aided 
 the advance of civilization. The Ranz Des Vaches of the 
 5>vv,ss Cowherd, has resounded through her fert le vnuJ 
 and among the snow-capped Alps, revX.; ng a'd ^ep^^^^^^^^^ 
 in the hacmatac shade of North Ameripn ^Z\ '^^P^^[^^ 
 rocky and storm-scathed coast The soT^s' o??h. P""" ^'' 
 and the heather have received af ndyZ 1 'e fTor\r 
 stirring memories of a thousand years And thn t a 
 and rural way-side cottacrf.« of Pn i a u ^ meadows 
 
 children their ^vJnLrSr^^ wT^ ''' 
 
 -n, u,o municipal enactment becom;; a ^^^i™'.^ ^™; 
 
m 
 
 20 
 
 tiolMKept.'''°.?^r^"^""'^ ^^ philanthropic institu- 
 ?afts invert hv"'^.^^ '^°"g^ ^he shoals and 
 
 aagress on^lll K^ T'^^ diplomatists, for the advance of 
 S in m ^Ith f ^°"''' '7"'* *^°"^^' ^^^" indeed incul 
 acientuatoT n'T;i;°"' -^"^ multiplied, and yet belove I 
 receTvpd h. ' /?^ "^''^'^'^ °^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ the ocean has 
 
 Of a sltf''^:;^ '""T\" ^^ ^"^y^^'^^d generations, 
 people who /nn?'^ ? ^"f^ ^"' ^f" heaven-inslilied, and the 
 greaT eve^ in^?J ''^^' '^'' '"'"'^^ ^"''"^^" ^^'^^ '"^y become 
 puS ktire trp«5 '"■ ^'^P^^^?.^^'?"' ^^o shrink not from the 
 
 SponThfsiri'Tmfarsm °f '^^^^ J"^§"-^' 
 
 affect, and E doXn T"^" -^^ '" ^ ''" paragraph, may 
 administer at^L ^ "" desperate grievance, and 
 
 pitrfrJr^m «^f^\^^n^e» a remedy; in%he terse and 
 
 fnTsarral^h^raX^;^^^^^ 
 
 in The' '^r'eceSln.'^V'^""? *^ which has been commenced 
 per od cff Pr3^- ?^u^P^''' ^.'^^'"g transpired through the 
 sTbWov.rnr"f K^ ^''^°'^' "' which the question of rlspon- 
 sible governrnent began to be agitated, and the appointment 
 
 andt"^;t:/^.^^^^"^^«^ °^^^^'^ ^° publicTevS 
 explaTatorrS- ^^^°"^^s necessary to enter into some 
 St hiv/h. r* ^l *^ '^^ supposition influence which 
 ^erm tted th! ? ^'^"g^^^«^« ^°"tact, had a free scope been 
 [udSs bm nn "''""^ perceptions of a competent and 
 jucucious, bnt unenergetic community. 
 
 adJan'oerent"" 'f ^''^ '? T^ '^ ^^^ ^^^^^ «^ ^ christian 
 -grasp of fhimn!t-^-^^'° be productive, in an unhallcved 
 S'as a thoTm 1J'''°"'-^"^ ^"^^"^^"^ transactions, inas. 
 Sder of^hiias 3^^^"'^?'^"^? ^^^^ t^^ generally existing 
 of r^en inhS' ^ ''''^^''' ^^^"'""' ^^^^'^^o^s and degrees ' 
 
 particularly if the intimacy have subsisted for a lifetime Tf 
 
 cornTouri t"'"'^ '' 'f''^^' social ''haferc;d a 
 continuous intercourse, and '' individuality" may thus 
 
 become fatally a masonic symbol. ^ ^ 
 
 alreadv^^hTv^h"' ™"'- °^'T ^^ '^^^^ «^^^^"«« ^^hich must 
 nim!r^ A ^^"^ suggested to the mind of my reader - 
 namely, denominational precedence. This fearful ard en 
 
 hrmanf a^Viml'^^^^'^^^^^^^^^ dogm^ticaToM England 
 
 "as many a time and oft rnshpH tr. th^ «„-^» :_.. ° . ., ^ 
 
 — ,,,^, .^.^.-^.^ jjgjj.jjgj^ ♦vniie fi 
 
 tnrv. 
 
 -—J 7 
 
thropic institu- 
 the shoals and 
 he advance of 
 I indeed incul 
 d yet belove I 
 the ocean has 
 erationso 
 istilled, and the 
 ch may become 
 : not from the 
 ilse judgment, 
 aragraph, may 
 grievance, and 
 the terse and 
 te "multum in 
 I sterling value 
 
 m commenced 
 through the 
 ion of respon- 
 3 appointment 
 lie elevations, 
 ter into some 
 iuence which 
 ee scope been 
 impetent and 
 
 jf a christian 
 n unhallcved 
 actions, inas- 
 erally existing 
 s and degrees 
 vast account, 
 lifetime. If 
 las erected a 
 ' may thus 
 
 5 which must 
 ly reader — | 
 rAil and en- | 
 old England I 
 juijisi, »vniie 
 
 21 
 
 cherishing internally on,' and violently entering the lists for the 
 preservation of the liberties of the world. Thfs overbalanc n^ 
 scourge which has impressed bloodshed and niutfonln k! 
 pathway, and bestowed upon the glorious western world of 
 iTJ!n^'n7r ^"^^"^^^"^^ ^"d swaying multitude, va ' a 
 unnn h r f """^^er, has taken a firm foothoW 
 
 upon the colonial soil unquestioned in priority, unheeded in 
 position, because a "small community could not but flinch" 
 from the expose of an indolent pliability, 
 thp l7«f f ^''^''' suffrages having increased so greatly, within 
 hini as t'^^S ^^^«^^"^^r-d it a rathe^r queVtionab e 
 fhi ^' ^f 1 ?• f^,^^^^' Nova Scotia is to be nothing more 
 
 nrorace tn^f "^ ^''''' V^" ^•^^^^"'" «^ ^ continenXate ! 
 mg.place, o the entire hemisphere, as some of our manv 
 
 very sa„gu.„e well.wishers,am ong the retired half-pay oS 
 
 drcle ^f f^X'^^T^^ ^'"r^ '" "^^^^ ^ d^^'ghtful hide 
 circ e ot 'just ourselves and two or three others'' mi<vht be 
 safely instituted exactly as we do at home, " A sor^of ore! 
 sidingcoteric of domestic deities self-elected." ^ 
 
 ; sZmi^TZAT''''' °^ marching and counter-inarching of 
 Xi- J^^ 1^ manoBuvering needful to the obtaining the 
 desired independence above referred to, was, it is to be 
 
 but Itlv a' "'"'^r^^^ comprehended by the masse ^a.^' 
 o? hiT ^ acquiesced in, save by the immediate dispeisers 
 of the delegated boon, or the more expectant recipients of 
 he benefit 'Tis true, the columns of the vveekirnewspaper 
 teemed with voluminous despatches to the motLrrount^v 
 combining the language of humility, with t^a o bravado' 
 
 ^ dei:?f r"''^"^"^^^^^^ ^^^'^'^^«^« "' self-compass on,' 
 
 ^ Son iVnr^T"''"fiT''' lamenting, meanwhile the derl 
 
 eliction from the well beaten path of love and murder- 
 
 ^ Srbrnoth'P^^^^^^^^P'?'?"^^-' B"^' "what all the 
 
 o affer al T^'^^^' '"^ ?^ '"' ""' ^^^* '' ^^^^ ^11 to come 
 
 selves to i,>7 """^^ "^'"^ '" ^'^ ^^^^^out troubling our- 
 
 w. V nf , ^°' ^" ?"'^^'- " Only hoping fervently, by 
 
 way of consolation, that we should not be given upTo those 
 
 fact un'tn r^?' /'' ^^"^^^«'' ^'^h°"^ being aw^ar of th 
 lact, until the deed was irretrievably accomplished." 
 
 ♦hose who hTl ""^^"^:i'"g ^'^^ t>'« wives and daughters of 
 ttf Z\l!!t^. ''J'^y'^ °"^" '^^ garden" for near half a cen- . 
 ci'atlin 'of ■;'hr'cr"'i ^ r^'^ currency, without any depre- 
 ciation ot the standard estimate, and as each year sped 
 
I 
 
 28 
 
 I ■ ^ 
 
 ill 
 
 Li:i 
 
 ,t i 
 
 15 I ■ •!»! 
 
 onward, the grand desideratum became ultimately attained ; 
 and Responsible Government has been amalgamated with 
 our now changing interests, and blended with our insti- 
 tutjons. In some measure it was acknowledged as altoge- 
 ther embracing the requirements of a new country, but 
 gradually, and at lengh definitely, tlie once ambigous ques- 
 tion became affirmatively responded to " may it not be ren- 
 dered a great curse." 
 
 A handful of interested individuals upheld and controlled, 
 by a denominational clique, may, by. employing and enforc- 
 jni: pre-eminence, possessing no scriptural basis, or one 
 which IS liable to daily and hourly misconstruction, become 
 the ineradicable originators and sustainers of a complete sys- 
 tem of espionage, and at once, and together, be the death 
 knell of Protestantism and freedom of conscience. 
 
 Bitter experience suggests these comments upon passing 
 thmgs; wherH defined division exists, not in the individual 
 mmd and conscience, there must be preponderating influence. 
 Slight diversties are a very nonentity, a constant succession 
 may be instituted as an understood thing, as a religious usage 
 in fact, and if those who are interested in sustaining so cor- 
 rupt a vehicle of injurious polity, take umbrage at such an 
 unrestrained invasion of their securely guarded domain, let 
 them not overlook the fact that endurance has its bounds 
 let them remember that the world, the wide spreading uni- 
 verse may be deeply concerned in such a subject, equally 
 with the httle territory which so firmly grasps the ocean at a 
 given signal, for it involves that which is by all, "but the bar- 
 barian, acknowledged as the only true standard of truth and 
 peace, and is, by its unwearying assailants, technically 
 termed the liberties of the people. 
 
 The vast and scarce developed countries, the wealth and 
 resources of which have formed the subject of endless discus- 
 sion and furnished material, for many works bearing upon 
 statisticts, upon physical characteristics, and great political 
 controversies, are still in their denominational characteriza- 
 tions, which have, for a period of time extending far into the 
 past, exercised an unsuspected impulsion upon other lands, 
 proudly and boastingly sustaining it as the premised basis of 
 loyalty. But in reference to an explicit comprehension of 
 such a topic, the colonies are an intricate, a complicated, 
 
 I 
 
23 
 
 an™„,i.y, and a c^fti^sLI^i^^'o^Tver/^S ™ 
 may not rapidly progress, which may sooner' ortter ^,7' "' 
 chmax, may receive the <lni>htf.,i ■'"'"'' °' 'ater attain a 
 tional crisis: ThiscrisL if kl»n ?°g"°™'" »f ad^omina- 
 the tenor of ]ocaUnTgeneaHE'^^'^7'";"'"y"^ 
 gifted with a voice, buTwTen Jvf^tffor, to ^fn't^' "' 
 explicat on is at once crnsh.H n^I^ .i. • "cilitate an 
 nafural to seek ne^ cha^f u oT? "" """'^ '»''' i' » but 
 world, and for necLuv"ve nl ,„"''T"5 '""^ ""' °°'" 
 more advanced"„d cuhivlted .1. \ land possessed of a 
 which the fates have denied U.^'u '^""'"^ "' """ance 
 
 silel'ed"; S riinra'sfnt'erPna'"" ">eir origination is 
 the publ cation thereof >Zf!' ^P?"'S'^PK is checked in 
 
 ance', concCon "ut'b: n',^ avoTafc.rh''' '" '"^"J'"" 
 opposition,the national integrrexMn^ L„ n'r"",?"^"'^ 
 the reiance of a neoole nn„„ » i .^ but nominally, and 
 
 learned, to revereSmmT^^.h™ ^f f" ""^^ ^""^ '^''% 
 
 come them, hastily renounce the hercnleaiHask »„4 7 °!f' ' 
 away to seek life's sustenance ,vi h™„ ! • ' "^ "'"'<'*'■ 
 for it elsewhere Amihv .?, ? ' ! • ^ g"evous contention 
 
 this, has the Unittd SK 1^! f h """^ "^'°"'' P""<^y "' 
 
 :?t;'rSte^??1?=r^^^^^^^ 
 
 w^Vol^.f r"L:_?/'/''^!/^strained from inserting inth^ Pp^. 
 
24 
 
 ;'J!!! 
 
 as the commencement of a series of articles, tending to throw 
 light upon the then absorbing topic of the day. 
 
 "It is not generally known that the late fishery Disturb- 
 ances were based upon a principle which more than two 
 centuries ago, then a little band of heart-broken wanderers 
 threw upon a foreign and inhospitable shore, there to endure 
 privation, suffering, and death, rather than the grinding 
 slavery of Religious intolerance and absolutism." 
 
 The whirlwind of excitement which followed the event 
 above alluded to, is now numbered with the past, as also the 
 
 faint counterpart accrueing in the city of H- , where the 
 
 originators of the scheme rejoiced with impunity. Stringent 
 measures had undoubtedly been called for, yet, few knew 
 why It so unexpectedly and violently arose, it becomes not a 
 woman, nor is it consonant with her tendencies to trespass 
 upon the subject of national traffic, her best interests, and 
 those most congenial to her nature, are incident with local, 
 domestic and religious sentiments. These arc dear to the " 
 vast human family, and when grossly tampered with, it 
 becomes a needful duty to step from privacy, and lay bare 
 the connecting link which so extraordinarily reacts upon that 
 individual comfort, and upon national greatness and inter- 
 course, and by which the balance of power may be in a 
 moment overthrown, and a way paved for aggression, and 
 thus regarding the passing and local interests of that period 
 in the light which should have been dispensed ; but the fall- 
 ing rays of which scarcely glanced along the darkness, and 
 only made it visible, the fact became but too ^^^areint^, that in 
 the armed force which Nova Scotia sought" and obtained 
 from the mother country, for the protection of her Fisheries, 
 there was no proof of the providing care which should have 
 guarded her interests, since her first settlement, but one of 
 the most complete Papal aggressions which England has ever 
 been the instrument of perpetrating against a free people and 
 a holy principle. 
 
 The resentment of a conservative nation has been fre- 
 quently aroused against the baleful inflt^ence which may yet 
 work her own destruction, and has undoubtedly involved 
 her in many vast and expensive wars, in this instance, an 
 influence little suspected was brought to bear upon her very 
 constitution, and desperate struggles might have supervened 
 
 
 
 
 uiu one-inira 
 
 01 
 
ing to throw 
 
 3ry Disturb- 
 e than two 
 1 wanderers 
 e to endure 
 le grinding 
 
 I the event 
 , as also the 
 
 where the 
 . Stringent 
 
 few knew 
 jomes not a 
 to trespass 
 erests, and 
 with local, 
 lear to the ' 
 sd with, it 
 d lay bare 
 :s upon that 
 
 and inter- 
 ty be in a 
 jssion. and 
 that period 
 )ut the fall- 
 kness, and 
 ing, that in 
 d obtained 
 
 Fisheries, 
 jould have 
 3ut one of 
 id has ever 
 people and 
 
 been fre- 
 ih may yet 
 r involved 
 Jtance, an 
 n her very 
 upervened 
 le-third of 
 
 25 
 
 pttbn onrh '^' '"k ^^"' '^''y P^^«« "^ ^'^her interested 
 portion of the hemisphere, teemed with allusions to the tonic 
 
 and expressions of irritation or wounded pride, that of No^va 
 bcotia was alone and utterly silent. ,"^^01 11 ova 
 
 5ut it is needful to return to the narration of the previous 
 chapter. During the visit to my friends house, I foundTa 
 most unpleasant circumstance, that a tendency of 3 with 
 
 XstrirrS'^'^^^^^'-^^^P' ^h°"^^ -nstamV^ro' 
 voke stricture and discussion, and that the Prayer Book of 
 
 met"s3d''h"".''r ''^.^'^ ^^^^^^"-^ anideeplylen! 
 erated, should be daily analysed and criticised with thp 
 
 01 opinion, which were duly repeated to the ffentleman fn 
 whom I have alluded, at each subsequent visit, fo be receded 
 by comments from him, by concise and curt, and Sed 
 ^T^^Vu""^' ^^'"^ exceedingly unpleasant 'that aTadv 
 
 wTf °^r'"''°"^^^'^^"g''^"d People, and character 
 was daily and constantly registered. This miJt have been 
 
 lnf'"^K"T°"°^^"""^«^'P'h«d it not been indubitablv 
 Zi ,^ 'a' "^""I "^^"P^^^^ ^"d ^^Pid surveillance '^^ 
 But I stood not alone in this subjected scrutiny, and manv 
 oUier persons, who little dreamed in which wa7their 3 
 tWhTr"f ' T'^ "Misinterpreted, while absem, and wh ch 
 tJiough carelessly and unheedingly uttered were trp Jnr«^ 
 
 explained ail. ' There wa, a gradnal divS l^Z'geSd 
 
26 
 
 v^X/^r^'*'''- ^"""*'^' ^ gathering of the dry bones in the 
 valley of indecision, and the absolute need of reliable cana 
 be and leading minds, wr.s daily and hourly exchin^ a con" 
 fidence wherever it might evidenUy be most securerTrlposeS" 
 
 seminary dedicated to, or known by the appelS^ ^ 
 Mary, was getting fast into efficient operatio^ and aid was 
 iT.uT'^r' 'x "^^^^ ^" connection with some of , he most 
 laiiiers ot that institution. Frequent opportunity was aForded 
 thet' n'"^'^"J'''"^'' "^ ^° '^' "l^i"^-te obje^c sougat by 
 ho4VaulCh\"''"^"^-^^"^ ^^^^^^^^ coLtantly^to th^ 
 Lrned hi I^rrvL^? visiting, and several of the Priests con- 
 
 house at^wh^Phf ^''^^^}'\'^'^'' resorted constantlv to the* 
 were preoar n^ J^^l '"''T^^ accompanied by students who 
 were preparing to take orders in the Papal Church Thpv 
 
 atrrnlaTclir^^t^ ^'^ ^^^"•"^' -^ made info^al'^anS 
 
 fonabL vlit.nL il'^' "^^^^^ tl^« "«»al fash- 
 
 lonable visiting hour, nor was this opportunity of eainina 
 
 some insight into character, as it exists'^LivXV,in\cTasf 
 hLSyregrdld"'^"^^^^^^ ^"-- <^^^^ 
 ffoSfo^mS/l ^ M 'f ^i 'l"'''''''^ ^"fl'"g ^hit chat, and 
 
 hm lit l/r ''^•^'^^'^^>' "'t'^« forte of these men, and 
 
 that elcaZrrK°" T ^IT'^^^^' '^^^^"8 *« ^he inference 
 and fer^lf 3 T^'" ^^""'^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ "P«» ^ productive 
 
 standardtwhinh '^'^''","^^" ^^' ^''^^^ t^^« Customary 
 standard to which Ave assimilate the Papal heirarchy, men 
 
 ?ammar'whh ^^^orous intellect, possesseS of subtle ^rii^ds" 
 
 tio^ .nZ h ^^ '"^J'"' '^'^' ^^^^ brought to their atten- 
 
 fancy ^.htdr'' ''" '"^u""^'^ ^"^^^ *°P^^ ^^ich chance or 
 lancy might draw upon the tapis. 
 
 courtrv'?n"l?i^ versed in the art of pleasing, courteous and 
 or an^alp^?? '' ""'^-'J '^^^" ^° "^^^« semblance of gloss 
 of a ^tPrl 1 ?' P^^^'^' ^"^ ^^« apparently the reflection 
 wh?oh c f ^"^^^^'/he condescending familiarity so assumed 
 which so frequently in other npr«nL ;^^„Z*.i.. ^:" " 
 
ones, in the 
 able, capa- 
 :iting a con- 
 3ly reposed, 
 lated, as it 
 md French 
 se stay was 
 gain. The 
 tion of St. 
 id aid was 
 f the most 
 's and sus- 
 as afforded 
 sougat by 
 Illy to the 
 *riests con- 
 'ing future 
 itly to the* 
 idents who 
 ch. They 
 ormal and 
 sual fash- 
 3f gaining 
 , in a class 
 the laity 
 
 chat, and 
 ire but too 
 men, and 
 5 inference 
 productive 
 customary 
 chy, men 
 le minds, 
 eir atten- 
 :bance or 
 
 eous and 
 
 } of gloss 
 
 reflection 
 
 ) assumed 
 .1.. j: 
 
 27 
 
 chants, wad, in this instance, doubly enhanced, neither 
 detenoratuig the respect which we anxiously profferi^ed them 
 or detracting an iota from their evidently great merit. 
 
 1 hey likewise possessed an agreeable and momentary taqt 
 of drawing forth playful discussion, quite consonant with 
 youthful propensities, and participating in the wishes or 
 attainments of those who are frequently passed by in eav 
 society, as bemg of a more sombre mood, and but slightly 
 given to l,v,ty. Light conversation, however, invariably 
 took a firmer tone, and assumed a graver import and a 
 species of argument, and fanciful controversy, which while 
 exciting reflection, seldom attained to definite^ r co 'c „ 
 
 ramwlni n'T"! ' ,!'^^^ -'"^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ restlessness, a 
 ambling oi the faculties as it were, a desire for some tangi- 
 
 be and determined end, a nervous doubtfulness, which wL 
 a^jvays ungratified, masmuch as having elicited 'this state of 
 mind the conversation was always broken through suddenly 
 by either of the gentlemen, suddenly recalling a presW 
 engagement at the other end of the city. " pressing 
 
 At other times we were indulged with delightful com- 
 ments upon our country, leading gradually to allusion res- 
 pecting individual and native ch'arlcter, and part"cu ar per- 
 sons, the.r names, their pursuits, their probable intentions 
 which was a marked proof of disinterested friendshL and 
 
 vtheyt^rclt';'!^^' ^"PP^^T -^^^^^ S-tlemt 'T'htve 
 
 olTrV ^ ^7? .''P°."^ ^^^'' ^^" Private and parti- 
 
 cular business. Domestic life in all and every of its colonial 
 phases ,ts intense destitution, its positive demLdrwai no 
 
 general ".'T''^rr'"7' ^^'•^"'"^t^"-^^ ^f local domesticity, o 
 general and political interest. Dissertations on character 
 u ere to a great extent mingled with these, but an adroi 
 checking of unguarded warmth, a ready capacity of chang 
 ng the conversation, a facility for soothing 'and stifling i^r!- 
 
 eas^ns fo/r^- """""' •' ^''T' ^^"^^^^' ''^^'^ additional 
 reasons for a rejoicing m such acquisitions to our circle 
 
 Tss&v J ^P^""'^' ^ , expensive entertainment, or a 
 possibility of proffering an elegant reception, lay not. 
 
 guarded vetV^' f 'T ''^^^ ^'' °"" °^ '^' uninitiated so 
 fachpov:/r'f?hP^^^^^ Ml ^^^'^'^^P^of^se a cultivation of 
 eacn power of the mind, will memorvand indgmpnf s« i„„.-.u 
 
 a storing irom valuable authors, and recondite" specuktor^; 
 
»':!! 
 
 28 
 
 f;ci7^'If ^ "'^'''^^ resemblance most extraordinarily sub- 
 
 Pv P?i'ni 7' ''^' ^'^ ^" ^"*'"'" diversity, and still while 
 
 exacting favor as it were, by main force, and eliciting 
 
 unbounded gratification and gratulation, by the bestowal of 
 
 their society upon u^, a sensation of distrust and uneasiness 
 
 was inculcated, by the zeal and officiousness in tracing out 
 
 of lr/,?'"h ^ very deeply sympathising in each predeliction 
 
 ?vV7^'T .""^ ""'T^^ °' ^^^^ '""^^^^ °^ the household, nor 
 
 TenZn wi-f ^ '" S'^^'^^"^ ^y '^^ observation that this 
 
 TZT^LZvu T' gratuitously bestowed upon the heads 
 
 iled%;tntys"rf"^' "" " '''''' ^"' unrestrainedly lav- 
 
 and t npvnr". ""^ '\^ ^^"^'^y V ^y '^^'' insinuating address 
 reslr ?i '""'^ '°°" ^"""^^ to repose confidence, 
 IZZT/ ^"T""^^^^ 'r^^^^^' ^^^'^^ each of the domestics 
 hfJhlv flit -'^^'^ '? ^^^ '^'"^ '■^tio with ourselves, this 
 eSelf ^nnTli ^°"d^/o^n«ion. "or was self-esteem to any 
 select on. nf'h ^l '''" ^^V^""' ^""^^^^ ^^^^ing matter, and 
 novP rpL °^' '^^'^''' their observation. a1 that lime the 
 nprflt I community was inordinately delighted by a 
 
 meraJurrwhf h'" "^ '^' T-^ ''''''' descriptions of 4t 
 iterature, which was poured in with unsparing hand, upon 
 
 vnnnT?l7 "^nT^' '^°'^^ "^^^h Standard works ; but few 
 L ""f K ? T'" "^^^^^^ "'"^^ attention to such, while they 
 are at liberty to weep or laugh over the imaginary joys o^r 
 
 vTth r. >TT^u^^^"«^' °^ eanamusethei? waiting maids 
 h! Ir r/5' '"^^^"l ^"^ '^^'^^ to keep them in a good 
 operative" '^°'^ ^'^ ^^'''''"^ more efficient and ready 
 
 hv^niVp '''T '*o"^^"ce.mania, was frequently adverted to 
 nnt hnmn.^P' K-^I!T^^^?' "' ^'~^ ^^«y Jo«"la' vein of pleas- 
 matron r'7^'5 Y'J"^ "^^*^* ^^ ^'^^^ting additional infor- 
 S^th nn^ ^^^\^^^ character, mental tendencies, and so 
 fpp L K ""^'^ ^^°""* °^ incautiousness and sociality of 
 era If r''"'' r^'r L^P^^ceptibly inculcated, though Lv- 
 \ihLJft T\' -^^^^'^^^ ^^^"g^t fro^ the circulating 
 voSu hp."f •'^''' ^^"'"^ instigations, and upon which 
 youthful heads m turn reposed upon at night for a week at 
 the^very least, were, most leniently speaking, unfit for waste 
 
 Again, conversiner withpvirlpntfroorior»i «»>«« ♦u,. i.* »..„ 
 
inarily sub- 
 ; still while 
 nd eliciting 
 bestowal of 
 uneasiness 
 mcing out, 
 predeliction 
 isehold, nor 
 •n that this 
 •n the heads 
 inedly lav- 
 ing address 
 confidence, 
 ! domestics 
 selves, this 
 em to any 
 natter, and 
 lat time the 
 ghted by a 
 ns of light 
 and, upon 
 s. This is 
 5; but few 
 while they 
 ry joys or 
 iting maids 
 in a good 
 i and ready 
 
 iveried to 
 1 of pleas- 
 onal infor- 
 9, and so 
 ociality of 
 lough sev- 
 ;irculating 
 »on which 
 a week at 
 for waste 
 
 lU — * 
 
 'Si 
 
 89 
 
 Unitd S^^tpf 'I '''''*'? throughout the British Empire and the 
 United States, from when.e a quantity of tracts upon infidelhv 
 and in favor of open discussion of the subject had emenated 
 the subvertmg eflTect of latitudinarian vievis, was louZ in 
 veighed against, while the matter was brongV hornet ^^i"' 
 selves quite gratulator y that we Dosse^^Prl n^t c . i ^^' 
 pernicious a flood of original tras^thTsTulrwhpn''^?.' °' 
 
 controlling mind, no swaying and reliahl,- ;„.!n . ^ ' ,".° 
 of revealing ,0 a syrnpa.hUg'Sni'rs^tur t slZti^ 
 es, our anticipations and projects our fesHn^lT,.^ J "' 
 tions, we must hope for the best' The beam of ,rPi!''\"- 
 particular star, the envied adven of vvhich w«. 1 "^''* 
 
 sorily announced by the deniSn of X-ZZ-^/'X" 
 
 doubt that either a Bvron a S,.ni. Z .1 peyond a 
 
 from the clouds, or poSv T'^^!,^ f "'"• ,"'§'" ''''''P 
 gnished trio mi^ht7ar!m^o the^hfartsK: p°eoX%^r 
 
 member of tl^^^Z, dot'n t^'thTdLtT caf L„d"l ^t' 
 
 grateful posterity '° ^ ^'^^^^ '"'^'^"^d and truly 
 
 sion upon tL'Slnd'of .rf'-^^^' '"''r '"'^^'"'l^ ™P-- 
 Theva^cuumoriterl'e rndTh'."""'' ''" ™7 ?«'«-?«"«• 
 thereof existing n Novt' S^,' 'T?^'*''i* deficiences 
 marked unoni^'".^!™^.",'";^' had been frequently re- 
 - , -., „ ■,c4m;imy lamented, not only by chance 
 
1 
 
 ! i I 
 
 m 
 
 rinlllo n"! ^^ '^"'^^ ''^? '^^''^ ^''^^^y ^^P^bl«' had the 
 requisite unity, energy, and enterprise, been forthcoming of 
 
 ameliorating our condition, and prospects. Considering tlie 
 
 numcTous and untouched resources, profusely scattered by 
 
 beneficent nature, the rich fund of local incident and histor- 
 
 |cal fact, that might be gathered from various sources 
 
 hroughout the country, the sylvan scenery, the then un- 
 
 touched natural history and botany, and recently explored 
 
 geology Its extensive species of algce, its lauded but sealed 
 
 r.^f'' .1? ' ^""^ ^^! .."'^'■^ ^^« Phy^^^^l Position which 
 iTrV t f °^^"^^' ^l^hile a participator of the natural his- 
 ory the botany and the geology of the whole continent in 
 what may be termed a distinct and original position, so that 
 a iterature for such a country, without discarding science 
 altogether needs but to be practical, and to the purpose, to 
 be^generally serviceable, and the vehicle of continuous ben- 
 
 This not having been the case, is an incontrovertible proof 
 
 that public mtercHt wherever such had been positively inde- 
 
 pendent ami influential, had been diverted into shallow or 
 
 pebbly channels, and a lurking exultation was at times alar- 
 
 •ngly evident, through the screen which policy drew around 
 
 It, as though the default indefeasibly worked by reaction, 
 
 while the laxity of principle at that time, combined with the 
 
 abundant originality of the United States, while openly con- 
 
 demned, evidently met with an equal approval, as thou-h it 
 
 were considered the precursor, and contained the active agent 
 
 of self-destruction. ^ 
 
 I cannot say but that the new ideas thus presented had 
 some effect at that time, as related to decisive action regard- 
 mg personal things, but some specimens of rhyme, wntten 
 and carelessly handed about, underwent the ordeal of a ri-jd 
 and raoical scrutiny, not in any degree pleasing to the au- 
 thoress, or calculated to add to internal satisfaction 
 
 It was at this epoch of our social life, that the slumbers of 
 the 1 rovmee were disturbed by a terrible vision of an inter- 
 minable railroad prospectus, and the cabbage tree, around 
 which our associations from early life had clustered, waxed 
 pale and wan at the zephyr-breathed murmur which moan- 1 
 through Its crisby-curled leaves, that the very ground frcm 
 wlH^nce Its sustenance was elicited, might, in unmistakabic 
 and positive and unimaginative reality be turned upside 
 
ble, had the 
 pthcoming of 
 isidering tlie 
 scattered by 
 it and histor- 
 OU3 sources 
 he then un- 
 tly explored 
 d but sealed 
 ition which 
 
 natural his- 
 eontinent in 
 tion, so that 
 ling science 
 
 purpose, to 
 inuous ben- 
 
 srtible proof 
 tively inde- 
 shaliow or 
 times glar- 
 rew around 
 y reaction, 
 ed with the 
 jpenly con- 
 3 though it 
 ctive agent 
 
 rented had 
 on regard- 
 le, written 
 lof a rigid 
 to the au- 
 n. 
 
 lumbers of 
 t an inter- 
 e, around 
 ^d, waxed 
 h moaned 
 und frcm 
 iiistakabifi 
 id upside 
 
 31 
 
 'Jo^^" by the ruthless plouchshere T^m *u 
 row that hath not a halmTuhZ T ^^^'"^ '^ ""^ » S"'- 
 the general distresLf mind'; V^^^^^^ r "^^^«^ -^ 
 
 our capacious harbor tnad^n heT "^t"'^ ^^^^^^^ ^" 
 regime " than the fleur dciL of a be, L S^^^^ ^^^f « «* " «- 
 ly and undeniably, the vital PlomJ / Yes, positive- 
 
 course and a genemllr^ileoLrnrM '"u"?"^ ^''^''^ ^^°"t^d 
 upon the landscape Z in llTf'7 '^T^ ^ ^"'^"'g^"^ Slo^v 
 Princeansvveringto the dtle of rfefn"^ -^l'^ '''''^' '^' ^^^'"^^ 
 our poor country with Lsnrnino'"^''^^''"^^ ^'""^ring 
 
 why^„e thirdVi^s x;T:;idte^^^^ 
 
 ting anodyne; but his royal sU lift o^^^^^^^ ''^^"^"^\^" 
 
 out ever once being broLht in^l » "^^''"^ ''"^^*' ^^^'^^h- 
 vulgar element froLvhenee r^u^r^ '''''^' '^'^ ^°^^««' 
 human mind al wav'^ nyZoffZ 1 ''"'" '^^^ '""^^' '^^« 
 
 ed such a decision doingLtmhomna^?''' T ^'^^^>^ ^^"^■ 
 conl'' net probabk endure^n J ^'^ ^° *^^ ''^^^"^^- that 
 
 or whether the royal presence a rr,V?. ^^'^ cognomen, 
 ships at once, each partic^nHn J .. ""^ ^" ^""'^ "^ ^^ese 
 
 my chronology is xfL^f:; i;"^,^, E-?"r''^"' -^ 
 
 true, notwithstanding The vp,v -^ • ^^ ' ^"^ '^ was 
 undertaken the humLtion o? ^ ^"«'gma which had so often 
 mothor,was peaceful «'^ 
 
 or other, without once aoS^^^^ basm somehow 
 
 roeks at FarqusAn's cC "or h T'"^" 7^'^^^^^ "PO" the 
 into Prospect Bay' ' °' ^"^"S ^^^«y^'d by false lights 
 
 owedTheTnfux teou^r?\'"^ "^ "^ '^ ^^^^ —re 
 
 -rved, and officers wit^ bit '^^^ ^^f't ^f ^^^^^^ "» 
 
 upontheircoats,andwhon r.^,f i^.'''^'' ^^^^« ^^^t^-hed 
 pleasure, exhibiting conn? ^"^^'''^ ''"' streets at their 
 
 sion of ielancT^^ a^l^a "o'nv" 1 " "'"'^ ^ ?""^^^'^ ^^P-" 
 -ith frowning and'scJ^wlinlSws^h'arir"'""^ L^^^'^^^ 
 dently scanned every window if !' f "^^^^ '"'^^^^^ ^^"Pu- 
 wilderness of un^emp tt "^^^^^^^^ ^ut'V '^^'^^'^^^^^ «»d a pcrlect 
 al, and all the n^i.?r!:'ZZ'!'V\^. ^ ^''^'7 moustache, imperi- 
 
 n, including 
 
a clattering poignard, a perfumed mouchoir, a cigar and 
 high heeled boots, and an atrociously enormous bouquet 
 with snuff-box to match. Though the possibility of our coun- 
 try's ever attaining the tea-garden position prophesied by the 
 retired navy list was yet in embryo, the certainty became in- 
 s'illed into our minds that an extensive celebrity as a " Bear 
 garden," ranged by the most vicious of the species, was be- 
 stowed gratis, by foraging parties of these animals, disguised 
 as above described, who wandered here, there, and every- 
 where, getting each other and all the " peaceful inhabit- 
 ants" with whom accident or circumstances brought them 
 in contact, into strange scrapes and unheard-of adventures, 
 mto unnectssary intrigues, and ruinous debts, and begetting 
 a style of fashionable life which our weak minds anxious for 
 universal equality grasped at as the ultimatum of quintes- 
 cence. But whether the conjecture be a wild, unfounded fan- 
 cy, that the conjoined presence of these various parties advert- 
 ed to were the effect of accident, or a design efficiently acted 
 upon, or the freemasonry which draws birds of a feather to- 
 gether, must be for subseqnent events to determine. 
 
 Balls, fetes, dejeunes and luncheons followed each other 
 in quick succession, and the railroad prospectus which had 
 terrified, while delighting us, waxed thin and thinner, figura- 
 tively speaking, for while it now fell upon the lower classes, 
 who eagerly grasped it as the embodiment of their saving 
 hopes, it received a desperate handling from the exalted 
 clique, who scanned it at their leisure, and laughed over it 
 with the foreigners. But public courage revived upon the 
 news transpiring throughout the country that " the gracious 
 presence," while doing the honors in propria personsB at one 
 of his most brilliant entertainments, had actually chosen as 
 his partner in the " virling valtz " the honored daughter of a 
 native of the soil, the first and only one said the gossipping 
 coteries during his extended hospitalities. The public heart 
 reverberated at the condescension, which however aroused 
 a mystified uncertainty as to its now probably evolving des- 
 tiny ! For was not this the symbol of unity, and when after dis- 
 cussing the routine of " toasts" at the conclusion of the 
 entertainment we fell upon those which over and yet again 
 lauded the land of the Mayflower and Acadia's fair daugh- 
 ters, the most desperate introducers of "Yankee Notions," 
 and Amufican common-places amongst us, succumbed with- 
 
a cigar and 
 mouB bouquet 
 y of our coun- 
 phesied by the 
 ity became in- 
 ty as a "Bear 
 3cies, was be- 
 nals, disguised 
 B, and every- 
 ceful inhabit- 
 brought them 
 »f adventures, 
 md begetting 
 Is anxious for 
 n of quintes- 
 nfounded fan. 
 >arties advert- 
 iciently acted 
 
 a feather to- 
 line. 
 
 i each other 
 IS which had 
 inner, figura- 
 oyrei classes, 
 their saving 
 
 the exalted 
 ghed over it 
 ;d upon the 
 the gracious 
 rsonsB at one 
 ly chosen as 
 aughter of a 
 e gossipping 
 public heart 
 ver aroused 
 olving des- 
 len after dis- 
 ision of the 
 i yet again 
 fair daugh- 
 j Notions," 
 imbed with- 
 
 the hand of Natiire. and th« hi"? lu^ ""^ ^^^ '"ar'^ed by 
 way of pro^resa,";rt"o^al'^^^^^^^^^ ^°"« ^^ ^^' 
 
 dily as possible, or throw ouraplv!! /!? l"" ^'^"°^ ^« «Pee- 
 and beg to be lifted upT ''"''^^^^« ^* ^^^ ^^ot of the throne 
 
 thrlugLurttVoV'inVhafh''''' ^T^^faction prevailed 
 ThatttwaabehlnSre tit, S ?m Vf ^^^' known 
 lazily Jaggei in the rear Then thVJ^'^'^ P'^^f"^^' and 
 
 presence, the cau«e was" n7ho"hf of ^?r,'^"'^ ^^' i»« 
 'n the tough rhind, sufficient hTr^J^^L \^^^^ 
 
 ually to chance upon theS^ "°^' '"^ivid- 
 
 Some time afte^thiii tL:n- • .^i*® integument. 
 
 was partially Sbrvilted Sf Znle'j'^ 'r ^ P^^^"- 
 a.village situated upon he baSks Tthl ^kk ^^'^n^^^^^g to 
 diately opposite the city of H T hll ^^^^"^^^ and imme- 
 tlemen whose patriotic vLshav^h"'^ T^'^ ^^^^ the gen- 
 
 and whose gigantic eLt/rtSrcaurnf'p'^^^ ^^^^^ ^^'^* 
 ernment marked him as a Snf«mT u- ^««PonsibIe Gov- 
 
 how or other won rVnAo7eCJo^'' ^'T' *^«^ «°°^« 
 among the prophets, peer ng into TZ^n^' ^"^.^^' ^'""'^^^ 
 give a first and friendly welcome ?o Ihi^T' ^"^ '"^^°"^ *« 
 zon, which did not take the trouble i/«! '^^!i "P°" *^^ h°"- 
 as possible, or as might be expected TT^l *^ "'" ^' ^^'' 
 to be our saving claL from down^^^^ then was 
 
 nations. The stron^ reed bv thr^^ perdition among the 
 
 with many volumes in fhefofdit ani' r''''' ^he ua^yrus 
 |;eneral at issue ready to draXm'h^S^ ^'^ was a selfelected 
 ing traitor to the trust, orThe Cvpi'''"'^*l'*'^" **^« •b«°on<l- 
 Literature was the theme uporalf?/ ^^ '^^^itating recruit, 
 "mainstay, our beacon,^ur Tndlv nhM^'u'* V' ^^ ^^ ^tir 
 up out of the gutter of LnoSi^^^^"i^'pP^'«*> *« Pi°k us 
 dry bank by the husym^&''Z Th"* P^'"" "/ "P°« '^^ 
 
 af ante.^-^^ at reason. 
 
34; 
 
 the country in seafch of coadjutors, while he, as master ol 
 the ceremonies, introduced each fortunate wight who pos- 
 sessed the art of stringing a rhyme together into every tea 
 party, of temperance demonstration, or po.tical gathering of 
 every description, into which they might be conveniently 
 dragged as a future Byron, Burns, and Scott, done up in 
 one. 
 
 By the instrumentality of this person, publications partak- 
 ing the uature and style of periodicals, were soon started, 
 with the desiderative full in view of fostering the timid genius 
 r -^ fifracefuUy and beneficently framing the bold and cursory, 
 nnd .. paternal care soon lured into the field a collection of 
 ^.•,-^0 competitors and productions, mediocre or otherwise, 
 4 A,,, .ns, many of them wielded by female hands, which 
 might then, had adequate interest been extended, have 
 created a decided era in our social world, and not a fictitious 
 or an an absurd one. 
 
 The mania spread rapidly, literature was all we wanted 
 to make us grea*; wise, wealthy and happy, but some how or 
 other it seemed to take a downhill slide, and seldom came 
 up to the point, that is to say, with a celebrated writer upon 
 the other side of the Atlantic, it met not " things as they 
 are," but modestly held back from giving notoriety to peo- 
 ple or localities, a; I dealt in epitaphs, epigrams, and mar- 
 riage epithaliums, or fraudulently appropriated confectionary 
 mottoes, and threw them into the market as genuine. To be 
 sure, we have all along been astounded and well nigh anni- 
 hilated at times by the oratory of our statesmen ; the rapid 
 declamations of the leaders of multitudinous gatherings, and 
 various societies, not to forget the^ long and oft-time threat- 
 ening epistles to my Lord this, that, or the other, the Sec- 
 retary of Foreign AtFairs, or a petition to be carried at once 
 to the foot of the throne, and compiled by the joint efforts of 
 the entire Legislature, both sides taking their turn, and act- 
 ing in unison, when any thing was to be got from the other. 
 But we diverge from the subject. These last lie not in the 
 domain of that expression of thought, that combination of 
 the ment. 1 powers, the judgment, memory and will, the 
 originality which speaks in a new sense, opening up occult 
 sources, of information, and displaying tangible purpose, ^o 
 that while yet eaferlv sei^inor nnon news from " TTf>rnf " b" 
 every arrival, and our own "land teemed with interesting 
 
IS master ol 
 ht who pos-. 
 to every tea 
 
 gathering of 
 conveniently 
 
 done up in 
 
 ions partak- 
 oon started, 
 timid genius 
 and cursory, 
 collection of 
 or otherwise, 
 ands, which 
 ;nded, have 
 It a fictitious 
 
 we wanted 
 lome how or 
 jldom came 
 writer upon 
 ngs as they 
 riety to peo- 
 ?, and mar- 
 onfectionary 
 ine. To be 
 tl nigh anni- 
 ; the rapid 
 herings, and 
 time threat- 
 jr, the Sec- 
 ried at once 
 int efforts of 
 •n, and act- 
 1 the other, 
 e not in the 
 ibination of 
 id will, the 
 f up occult 
 purpose, ^o 
 
 interesting 
 
 35 
 
 agitators kept tLTr thousaSnul'n'jf "'!i«"'" "'^"^'^ 
 no evident oWle e:.isted 7n eSr,hel'"'"1^."''"'' 
 thereof, this last ailusim. will h. , "^ accomplishment 
 
 have heard of ?L "ruSleTand irZ'?'"'''' "^'''^''.''y '^"^''^'•o 
 project of the British cf„adf»„r' ^y which the great 
 
 But talent oncetaxed"i„tr reXtTd"''"''' ""• 
 ter of course it soon took the nrinS„ ' • ^^ ^ "^^t- 
 
 share of laudation, Ld every H-^' ^"^§f "S ^" """^ual 
 brow of bold and' loft ZracLpr"'. T^^ ^sessed a 
 extremity of breakingTheir necTs ^hlr^^ ^ '^^ ^"^'^ 
 
 developed" to an adST nuhlt' uV j'^JS^^ ^^ "clearly 
 , the world was coming to ^fw'' '"•^'^ ^'^ "°^ ^^"°^^ ^^at 
 And poorignoraTce^a' edZ ^^'""^ '° ^" *^ «^^^<^r.» 
 became fashionable, ^sbeslotinlf'f? spectacles, suddenly 
 " fain to hide its blushes beh^Jh^ I T'^ ^'P^"'^'" ^^^^ 
 knife, at " pig kiE ttn.! ' J^ '^''f ^""^^ «^ ^he chopping 
 exuh^rance^?f hSrd anfmT ^^^^"^^^^^--t forthTn it! 
 and effective sarcasms whn^iuP-"*'' J^"^^^> but bitter 
 substantial sau4^e 'r pI, t ^•^^^^'f "^ ^" the form of a 
 thread, shininTSustron^/r/ ^"""'^^^ ^^ ^^hite flax 
 table ;vidrc^e of p"hy S It hir^^ ^hV'hacklen," indubi! 
 altogether overlooked ^^P^^^^ty, if the mental were 
 
 heJdfwre\fdV;i:errk1f ^"^ -^hing but 
 
 " Heady sciences" had a fine unT"''^- ^"^^^^ ^" ^^e 
 owing to certain gradon« .?. r""""^ ^''^ ^t that time, 
 
 Fundi., underrkfngre^KeTu/^ro'^ V'^ ^^^ «^' 
 yiece. And everybody went "bont I ^"^ '^'"" P^"^^ 
 of countenance, by wav of^^tlr ^" ' ^^'?? everybody out 
 ledge of PhysioWomy^llTS^^^^ '^ ^ l^now. . 
 
 determined mind, and decisTon ind^ "f"^ "P?" ^^^^^^and 
 itary deportment " ^ !, " 'ndependent, adopted a mil- 
 
 lifted up,^h was ;uni« fT^ "^""^*"^ demeanor, quite 
 
 exhibited' tt' 'o,roTm1nd r '"'^""^'^ things, ' wtich 
 degree ^ ""^ ""'"^ "P«» tatters, in S striking 
 
 th ™!,fe'i'^.^^t^« Pe/ceptible and distina„.«h.-.„ ..„:. .. 
 
 -intiiQ;;2:;iX^^iS,:r-^^ 
 
 lueraiure. Whom it was premised 
 
m 
 
 V n 
 
 i 
 
 with such a general in the van. Piekine up the dejected, 
 waiting for the meek, and even nourishing pencilled lines 
 of favorites of the mrse. Thus bestowing black leads upon 
 an ungrateful country gratis, would not only enable it to rise 
 even with the rest of the world, but make that world ashamed 
 of Itself, lor leaving us so much to our own resources. -— 
 Neglected bantling that we were. BAt no fear of us, when 
 we chose. Emulation thus fairly appealed to, arose to distin- 
 guish lis own attributes, and assume its position with aristo- 
 cratieal superiority, and poetasters abounded for a time, 
 blushing like the dawn at their own cleverness, upon 
 which the eyes of the universe were fixed, and criticised each 
 others productions with all the combined asperity of a years' 
 Blackwood. We had evidently not yet arrived at the pecu- 
 liar constellation by which future souls were to be moulded, 
 but we were not far from it, and we revelled in the blissfal 
 anticipation and each hoping himself might be the favored of 
 the muses; mean\yhile tidings of this progressive nature of 
 things reaching my rehire abode in the country, in connec- 
 tion with the circle of friends whom I had been so nearly 
 associated with some time previously, had a natural effect. 
 1 could not hear of hterary parties without a sigh of discon- 
 tent, at being among the absent, the outlawed ignorant, I 
 could not see with patience, giant strided progress drawing 
 up elevated taste, like the eastern gourd, which was to per- 
 fect Its form by some innate vitality, as if at the bidding of 
 necromancy it defied the laws of nature. And these com- 
 bined impressions acting in consonance with the beautiful 
 scenery around, anu a deep interest just acquired in the 
 History of Nova Scotia, by Halliburton, enabled me to over- 
 come timidity, occasioned by the little encouragement ever 
 given to the excercise of the talent, and the not pleasing 
 notice elicited, as before related. And writing out the first 
 chapter of what was intended as a poetical romance, illus- 
 trative of the local and traditional tales of the country, and 
 nothing more. I despatched it to the captain of the band 
 as I must designate the gentleman alluded to, but without 
 athxmg a signature. A condescending and kind notice from 
 his pen however, was convincing evidence that he had traced 
 it to the author, while a word of advice, respecting peculiar- 
 iti^ of style showed that it had not been unnoticed. 
 
 xiiough native talent had never levealed any great poetical 
 
be dejected, 
 ncilled lines 
 c leads upon 
 able it to rise 
 >rid ashamed 
 esources. — 
 of us, when 
 ose to diittin- 
 with aristo- 
 for a time, 
 mess, upon 
 iticised each 
 f of a years' 
 at the pecu- 
 be moulded, 
 the blissful 
 e favored of 
 s nature of 
 in connec- 
 i so nearly 
 tural effect, 
 of discon- 
 ignorant, I 
 iss drawing 
 vas to per- 
 bidding of 
 these com- 
 le beautiful 
 Ired in the 
 me to over- 
 Bment ever 
 ot pleasing 
 ut the iirst 
 ince, illus- 
 intry, and 
 F the band 
 ut without 
 notice from 
 had traced 
 g peculiar- 
 d. 
 at poetical 
 
 37 
 
 branches, had been iSted"tV/ ■^"' '" '" ''^™''' 
 Bat recnrrins 10 the MS ,h. V """"" seminaries.— 
 
 poetry for thf^oX brought to^.h"™£!" ^^"""6 '■>« 
 wkh which I b^came'aequaln ed t r^}" <=°g°i»^nce, or 
 when the topic was altS., FiA. aI ^^P °^ childhood, 
 w^pron,„l|ated by a^aged Serl'?' '^ Jig"" Powers' 
 productions under the titlelf Cowi.^'. d' '^^"''"'8 ''''' °™ 
 mischievous merriment wUhwMch.h.t ?°""'' \"'' ">« ^alf 
 was universally hailed, ogether wit' " ff'^. °^ R.rna«ns 
 ings" that gave" the miSlenU.!;' " ">e charitable feel- 
 sake," and benevolenaSic^d^^V '"'•P.™'=" ^°' ^ 
 umes for the purpose of ^eHin^^Sfu" PW^hase his vol- 
 foolish fellowZ'^ot trvinlK, V ""r' "^"<' ?"'«<! the 
 
 bMiness-like method," ^Alfthis!eemeH''T! '".*<""" ""« 
 gleam of sunhght upon half buriedfi,''''^ ">« ™°«'"''>g 
 , has been extin|uished from the rl^nT' "'''"" *« ^« 
 rams, that my own ambS £ ^ " '^"'"""s, by heavy 
 
 becomimg thlt unSd p?ecem a Z^''^^*''""'' ^°^ 
 as with the headings for the wood T.^'V"'' ""^ "<"'=«• 
 ehnrch-yard. a mo?P <hl, '™oden tomb sto es in the 
 
 ? sidered Synonymous wiU mal'^ '""if" ^ff"*'"" >™ con! 
 J diately consigLd The wIho " Ber*^ TS''* '■^^« """>"■ 
 I consonant wfth will "° " ^^'"»n>. had capability been 
 
 ' No!h.^^ottdinrnot:t^<^Pr',<'Tr ■''''-'»''''« 
 overburthene'd with f ix-pences So ^^ '^""1 '■"°'' «»<1 ■«" 
 in the plaiting and nurtSrW th„ r ""'' '"''ocaUiterature 
 eagerly 3eizelupo„"~o?herZH' ^""'."^'•g^ '<> say, we 
 upon descriptions of s<^nery which n'f"'' ''""8 ""'"^ Aht 
 sand might ever have an onnorhJnt,^ ? °"^ """"g « ""ou- 
 ature was not the guest of the dlv^ ^^T^ """^ '<««' '««'" 
 " who would care to i^efd stuff fh^f"' t"i'™ humiliatively, 
 out of our own heads and !?. •.' T '""' "»''« ourselves, 
 does." NotatSw'e wo,,u7 " f°"' '""= "'d Cowde 
 and what was morVlhere would'S ^™ *^ -^"'^ '° '"'' "- 
 ;ng. No ! we knew SrTh»n .1, , 'ee,p,ents forthcom- 
 
 ""t^ztT^r' ^^^^f^^^&i'. ''' ""' ''' *''°- ■ 
 
 oo mat at this epoch, our no^^ ^v^..*, ,._,., 
 niigru fiave died in vis atip« \,«'L^u^''' """ '"^''* ^^^" any> 
 been nfflciently forfutate - ~ - '^^ "^^""'*' '" " ' 
 
 gain the favor of one 
 
 , as to 
 
II ; i^' 
 
 m . 
 
 m 
 
 owning such a thing, the mines of Golconda were not further 
 from th«ir reach. It was not to be thought of, they did not 
 deserve one. 
 
 The reception these poems received in the kitchen, also 
 was not to be despised. As the strictures of the servants 
 ill a country establishment, form a very powerful criterion 
 lor children, wereby to arrive at practical conclusions, and 
 in which, if simplicity be the te«2 of truth, the mark is seldom 
 overstepped. And, although one of the fugitive pieces 
 entitled the " Hymn of the Indian in the wood" of which an 
 extract, is subjoined, was rapturously received. The entire 
 volume was too often discovered lurking in corners upon the 
 kitchen dresser, or lying torn, defaced, and soiled in the 
 course towel drawer, from whence it was roughly dragged 
 forth, that more than its fly-leaves might be the support of 
 some broken tallow candle, or serve to fill up the elaborate 
 socket of a can(|lestick ,under the not very flattering cog- 
 nomen of a bit of old Cowdel's book. And from the length 
 of time these piracies continued, I am led to think the 
 volume must have been inexhaustible in size and contents, 
 yet, the following lines were of a certainty duly appreciated : 
 
 In de dark wood, no Tngin nigh, 
 
 Den me look Heaven, and send up cry, 
 
 Upon niv knee so low, 
 
 Dat God in Heaven wid shining fece, 
 
 See me on earth, dis little place. 
 
 My priest he tell me so. 
 
 To sav the truth, when we look back upon the past of our 
 country, to the time when we became the undoubted part 
 and parcel of a monarchy, here was much need for all 
 the practical characteristics of humanity. Though not so 
 great a scope for them as had our neighbors. People must 
 work or starve. They had no time for poetry. And when 
 at the close of the revolution, so many additions were made 
 to our population, by refugees from the Republic, it may 
 be doubted whether it was the dread of this last or the hope 
 of less diflicult maintenance in a country, the chief ports 
 of which became the entre-pot of the British Army and 
 Navy, scattering wealth around them, (or a circulation 
 
 TiijQ i-„- icidiu scii UCiJCiiiiUiii uUVUiiCGS. i ii.nu Cieaillli' '■ 
 
 an easy reliance upon the mother^Jcountry, inujrious in every 
 
3re not further 
 they did not 
 
 kitchen, also 
 if the servants 
 jrful criterion 
 iclusions, and 
 nark is seldom 
 igitive pieces 
 I" of which an 
 I. The entire 
 ncrs upon the 
 soiled in the 
 ghly dragged 
 le support of 
 the elaborate 
 lattering cog- 
 'om the length 
 to think the 
 and contents, 
 ^ appreciated : 
 
 the past of our 
 kdoubted part 
 
 need for all 
 tough not so 
 
 People must 
 And when 
 s were made 
 iblic, it may 
 it or the hope 
 le chief ports 
 h Army andi 
 a circulation! 
 
 irious in every 
 
 39 
 
 be idle. If he could onlv k^ f. Tu ""' '^* *" ashamed to 
 grind-father, guMW hi^ to aTt^of t^ '"T "i^'' S'^"' 
 trees, where by thf ft"ndly a Sa^ee ' ^f"''"' '■'"' 'P'T 
 waved three tirnes over the eZriS . . * P'"^ ""''=''• 
 was immediately to be realized '" ">Jepe«dence 
 
 order of the day/amonrth! mass^Af ,tT ° ""t™ ''«™ "«' 
 those who held offiSal Msition, A LI ''"'°Ph '•«s«"ing 
 for literary aspira'S::^':;^ i,e d m 'tofw' m!,':'??'' 
 ing a cross perchance,) and arithS Thl ^' *"^."" 
 days, when official geitry, reveS Tn iJ T 7"" "'" 
 town life, and attendfng two or th "f avilh ;„'!""''?»''« °f 
 
 money making, and hard work /g. AnI even theT''?'' 
 became familiar with everv <,inrr, nf k„. • *"""."'« females 
 gan making. To be^^od h^:„lt^'»f ' ""'"/ T' ""• 
 
 ing school festlvitie, »i^ ?K Pronunciation, to whichsing- 
 but old impressions IrP In o^^' ' previously portrayed, 
 
 » ..J ;.,, „ jjas S'pSr '• °"™" • "■'"' 
 
 Iike„sS;„"„„?.Mu.?l™.''"'^ do_ nothing, no more, not 
 out in aU..a^,::;^ 'Z^^^^^^^ '%, tfw 
 
40 
 
 te vorld vel enough mineself, mitout any grammer, an my 
 garls ken do de same," was the frequently quoted remark of 
 an old German lady, whose peregrinations, in that expan- 
 sive arena, the world, were limited, and the boundary 
 delineated thus, no further than our back door, f ) tend the 
 cattle, up on the pasture a bit, and back to the house. 
 
 So that in these dark ^nd barbarous days of Tory Despo- 
 tism, the hapless being who "set up to be learned" was as 
 likely to pine away, and die, the deserved victim of public 
 contempt, as . ■ . he wandering and desolate bard, whose 
 audacity was ec- 'lied by his daring hardihood, and who, far 
 from becoming the oracle of the evening circle, was wisely 
 mortified into a corner, '* out of the way." 
 
 To shut up all the " larnin" with the Parson, the Lawyer 
 and the Doctor, of the country village, and extract it in 
 costly atoms, at an exorbitant charge, had beeii the fashion 
 of the time, when, to attend church in leather shoes, laying 
 aside the weekly \^ooden ones, and the thick tresses adorned 
 with a gay handkerchief head'dress, was the coveted luxury. 
 The unsettled jposition of the commercial world, rendering 
 textile fabrics from the towns of England, as difficult of 
 attainment, to the provinces, as varied circumstances made 
 them to our neighbors. The grey Grerman linsey woolsey 
 cloth, became the general costume, and unobtrusive indus- 
 try twirled the time discolored wheel, beside the close stove, 
 by daylight, or midnight hours, ahd the great hanks of yarn 
 redolent of fish oil, depended from every country kitchen 
 ceiling in the province. 
 
 Upon the whole, then our monarchists gradually found 
 themselves no better off than they had been previous to the 
 exudation from the struggles of the infant republic, but 
 rather in the descent, as having forfeited all claim to inde- 
 pendant purpose. But invmcible energy, dormant or 
 warped, as it might be, has certainly made the best of the 
 bargain. 
 
 It was in those sylvan days, that sturdy young country 
 lasses made light of trudging some twenty, thirty, or forty 
 milesj to the nearest Church or Meetmg House, when 
 Meeting Houses began to be countenanced, and English 
 goods being difficult of attainment, the two yards width dress 
 of white muslin, was vainly paraded, for envious eyes to 
 gaze upon. The crimson sasK fluttered in the breeze, and 
 
ins eves to 
 jreeze, and 
 
 41 
 
 treasur of treasures, the shoes of leather, not *too daintv in 
 Zj.r ^°?.f^^'«^t« in appearance, wer^ carefully TaLS 
 the entire distance, as rather impeding than aiding the mrf 
 
 f bund W "'''"'' '"? r^ '^' ^^^«« «"d sasKd ITo 
 a bundle, for coarser clothing was needed ir breatin^^ »^?I? 
 
 among brushwood, thus partils of youn. lasses thfir ?tnl 
 
 wart escort preceding to the most convenient tr^ernsnppt 
 
 ily exchanged the russet cloth for the Zke SusS ^Th: 
 
 lounee-room, ..ie most sheltered nook, formed bv the hemlnrk 
 
 or the b.rch The mirror, the neares pelTuced sLam in whi.h' 
 
 duck-vveed floated, or transparent tadpob dTsporTdJn "hlvfc 
 
 .n.tyofth« village Church, when the first beT framL Iv om 
 
 K-Tu '^^ l^'^""' ^^ E««'^^ Sunday. And after the ^fZ 
 which bore the shoes, had dipped deeply as the ^Hnoll ,/ 
 indubitable evidences of we.lh and geniility were su?e to «•''" 
 husband, if all other allurements were a Sri "^"^ ' 
 
 Ibere is a latent, though desperate energy, in the Nc /a <?rn 
 t.an, when not btally schooled down, discip^ned and subdueT 
 by ancient maxims, which the moment hp fJ, foil '"'*^"^°' 
 unp,„fi,abl. dUpos ,io„ of .m;ZTll\'^ 'tlZlZ 
 plan of rectifying them, with a kind of double-handedTetemf 
 nation. But the idea onoe instilled into his nind b, thole hZ 
 
 P^tt^iX'g^:^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 le at r..i^» 4 > »^ "« grt^aiesi giory. 1 he secret of slow ffrowth 
 .hat e,lli'fv°"f •'■'""''''''' '"""■ This bias i, t1,e efe™^ 
 
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 expression was also wanting. A scrutinizing test was spreading 
 abroad a literary ordeal which was far from genial in the tenor* 
 or agreeable to become subservient to, so that the timid became 
 less assured, the bold less brave. 
 
 After settling in the village of D. though so near the seat of 
 learnmg, the Athens of the Province, where authors were not 
 ttung to the wild beasts— I did not very warmly renew my 
 iormer friendships. Other influences than those of literature 
 were at work and seething to the surface, and division, disunion 
 and iriitalion, throughout the country, were deeply reflected in 
 domestic circles. My mind was undergoing a chancre, and I 
 sought more congenial companions than those previously asso- 
 ciated with. The choice branch of the now culminating 
 clique, whose pass-word was ''literature," continued their visits 
 to ourselves, but there were but two or three of the family 
 relatives with whom I cared to exchange courtesies, so thp» life 
 at D. gradually became a very concentrated and secluded .rt 
 ol thing. 
 
 The literary mania taking a more subdued form, still went on 
 and one of the individual circle of ladies connected with the 
 Oaplain-General, showed me parts of the comoosed poem 
 which 1 had transcribed for his approval, and he had caused it 
 to be inserted in a newspaper of which he was the editor. But 
 the hesitation from various causes, and previously hinted at de- 
 terred from a candid arising acknowledgment of authenticity. 
 
 Ihe idea of turning talent to account in the usual common- 
 place of novel writing, had been for some time entertained, 
 while conscieo?.e urged some tangible object and matter of fact 
 or of moment, with the hope of doing good, and I hesitated 
 between the position of the native Micmac.and the great move- 
 ment of temperance; which, at ihatMime, made an exciting 
 noise among us, and which, commencing with Roman Catholic 
 manifestations and demonstrations and devotional developments 
 gradually swung round into an understood though secret index 
 of annexation to the United States, and those who innocently 
 regarded it as a simple opponent of dram-drinking were tacitly 
 smiled down, or left to amuse themselves with the notion in 
 their own way. Proof enough that while weak agents acted 
 upon the outer surface, skillful hands controlled the wires, and 
 the puppets did the bidding of a master hand. A restless love 
 of out-d or amusements, however, deterred from the heartless 
 
 
 ^ ^ — J >-•) «wiwncu uuiij iiic iiearuess 
 
 Hu tiie constant occupation of gardening and taking long 
 
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 rpl*lV? "'%^^""jry' and strolling upon the beautiful and 
 breezy chores of Chebucto Basin. But the conviction was then 
 painfully and indelibly impressed, that little aid would be be- 
 stowed, or even permitted, for necessary researches, unless the 
 result were calculated to sustain party bias. And still the im- 
 pression recurred that undeveloped resources demanded exertion, 
 and yet more, that establishment of sound scriptural princip?e 
 
 Ticlt'l/M^' ^^^ °^ ^"'^^'"^^ '' •"^^•"' ^'^h^ deciSed con! 
 yiction of the sad perversion thereof by a warping partizanshio 
 I have sometimes thought that all the mental agony falrTad; 
 endured was a just retribution for the indecision of that period 
 of . 7v!!!°^' meanwhile, was preparing a' subject undreamed 
 
 kLd"oms /? "'^°^" 'f '^' ''"''^°^- ^"^ ^hich has shaLn 
 kmgdoms and undermined principalities, one which has also 
 ensured them a firm and chrfstian foundation, one which is 1n> 
 portant m the deepest senre of the term t;> the pesant Ind 
 the sovereign, to the world enlightened diplomatist, and to the 
 
 hSCh^ C '^'T'^'^^'^ "^°. ^^" °"'>' P^^y ^« '"« father 
 cmed Th«r ?h- . -"^^^ "^ distinction of form, or sect, or 
 cieed That subject is most truly vital which is dear to the 
 veiled nun while counting her rosary, and the strolling mendi! 
 cant who sees God in the clouds and hears him in t1ie wfnd- 
 
 Told ffr? "P°" -^' ''\'^^''^ S'^^^ "°^ ""^° »^"" a singLZt, 
 
 hf iinmftaT''''°"'''-^'T ^^"^ expansi where 
 
 ttie lilim table immensity of eternity is unveilindv disolaved • 
 and meekly says All, alf is thine, uL I am noZ^ ^^'^'^ ' 
 Ihis theme which must forever and forever remain the same 
 however protean h became, has been, though mingled wTb 
 much human error, the foundation of the grealestS repub- 
 lic marked upon tne annals of earth's history, anTltsTrm 
 
 'Ti' iut^^^^^^^^ P'^^"'^^' of ^iiUenial glory 
 
 «n ?;// I ^i^- "^'^f "°>verse, and scattered abroad many 
 an hidden seed of iniquity, and while revelation is the denizen 
 
 wa;d'^o"rn:r&^^^" ''-''"^ ^' ^^''^^- ^-^ --^ ^- 
 
 merof'.hi^^-''-^ ^^7 Personally experienced an infringe- 
 ment of this privilege of the christian or the pagan era. can 
 
 trbitt^er^'-'^r^n™'*' °^ •^^. ''^''> "°^ ^^- ^ concept ;„Tf 
 
 ^he bitter grief which accompanies it be otherwise undLtonH 
 
 whidi'thfmtnH •'^""!i^^ overpowering incubus, through 
 
 Which the mmd is gradually wrought to a state of frenzy or des- 
 
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 nn^^yf""^' /'''"' ''O'^ly, gradually, despairingly, into an 
 utter extinction of power, a death like torpor. Aceiation of 
 every mental energy follows, the physical natu« graduX suc- 
 cumbs, and the only refuge for the harassed being^™ the ^si^t 
 grave; where the wicked cease fmm troubling, ''the 0!^ 
 for the jaded mind, the outraged spirituality i. rest r«J r«t 
 rest, in the presence of its Maker. ^ ' ' "*' 
 
i5 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 ^S. P^T^^?' morn is breaking, 
 %«o[ earth's millenial bliss, 
 
 And.^e know veli^ous faction, haie crS biSr it "'' 
 
 We are bringing, we are bringing 
 
 Crushed hopes, but hopefuf h^s : 
 Dwpotic newer again is felt, 
 
 ^ut ^h must act their part. 
 
 Wp Z!? ^ ^^^ °''^' "■' '^« written not in sand • 
 We won t endure the tymnay of a dark and secr^Ld. 
 
 and some idea of the sorf of n V^'"^ ^" our Province, 
 grafted upon Lmhhc^LfjP''^^^- ""^ f^^' *^^« ''^^^ «°- 
 ror writers with other obi^cts in '^ ""I"" '''^^•'- ^^ ^« 
 
 to say, they evidentlv dM »V»,«?i .u T"""'"' ^"^i '"o'h 
 were not tfie mo sTbriUknt fnS-.? U ^"^ '«'*• Those 
 mother threw ^on^fl TuMt ."^'l '''= '""'' °^ O" 
 were the best that coSdtes^ld anH°,h ' ™PP.°^^ *«y 
 to an extent unparalelled M Xe^ll m,!'^ 'CV'f '°''^' 
 sunrise was preparinB for m« >.. ■ I.?^." .-'>'«« glorious 
 liberals now in the LiLr, ^•^"'g.'"^'' ™'°"' ^"^ "le 
 promises, re Jnd one oflM''' '^.*''" P'"^"^'"" "^ 
 among chUdren, which awards iH^;. m """f. *° P"?"'" 
 pudding and riast tonJ ,„ .i ''^''^ ™PPl'=» "^ Plam- 
 eluded^old da^e i°r '^,ll! If .^^"S^ter of soi^e se. 
 
 paternal roof, -dendrby irex;^ro?^e;;:,.rwhSh^ 
 
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 makes one's heart bleed for her sorrows, fictilioas though 
 they were, for the unfortunate victim reveals to her petrified 
 mamma that she has not only been fed upon mud and water 
 out of the gutter, but an inhuman savage has actually com- 
 pelled her to sleep upon pins and needles stuck upwards. 
 
 The pins and needles were the vision of that terrible rail- 
 road, which still pines for completion, though many, too 
 many, of its early advocates are now mingled with the 
 dust 
 
 Provincial life was, in its elements at that time, well-nigh 
 shattered by such an expose of party excitement as an 
 ejection surely brings. It seemed as if the weak, wavering, 
 or conscientious principles implanted in the Colony, were 
 now to be put to the isfjue, that they might bring forth fruit. 
 The fruit of office. Between ihe two divided apparently, 
 but in reality the one party beneath two semblances, that ^ 
 have nearly wrecked Protestantism, the Liberal and Con- 
 servative. Little else seems to have been gained. The old 
 (lerman quiescence has 'all along, either from apathy, a too 
 ready shirking of responsibility, or an inertness to* public 
 things growing out of the struggles for the mere sustenance 
 of life, in the old settler, (we dare not say a disregard of 
 principle,) and inherited by his sons, and an ahnost abject 
 reverence for book learning as it is connected with a law- 
 yer's office, growing out of early privations and discomforts, ' 
 and the practicable efficiency of that functionary in the 
 business of title deeds, land boundaries, divisions and mort- 
 gages, giving him an impression that the most important 
 affairs of the country were bound up in parchment, and 
 tied with red tape, rather than the training and exercise of 
 his own mental functions. At wha't can a country ever 
 attain in which such a spirit is fostered ? It is not the appli- 
 cability of monarchical administration to Colonial life, which 
 we question as much as the crushing, delegated influence 
 accompanying it, and which here had an action altogether 
 unrestrained by the cherished thought, and established gov- 
 erning literature of an older country. For the gentlemen 
 of the long robe have been the presiding deity of Nova 
 Scotia, and an union for interested purposes must create 
 exclusiveness. Let it not be understood that learning in 
 the abstract had not been well attended to. It had only not 
 become a vitally diffusive pjpmpnt Npiihor woe th*. r»hoao 
 
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 name of Halliburton had be.XXneS iT""^^"^ ""^ 
 isphere. But .he desideramm was S i u'^^fiiied "'n "'• 
 jyas a guiding influence unexistenf, therefore"Ssemina,:H' 
 It remained to be proved thnt if c^; ♦• •""^^»Gn^'*^ated. 
 no restraining actioT 1„ "', iLmA «^' 't"- '"""^'^ '«' 
 
 upon this ,u|gestion%omn^;;rrvi[h''"Ow''L°Hr 
 book." Some very beantifnl JL " Cowdel's 
 
 KingVCollege, wl^^so'r r t^i/;;r locZ:;re"o?/-™ 
 tical topics, suddenly left a snar-P In fh^ ecclesias. 
 
 to^be &Jed by n.or^e^:LVn'rs maL^ 
 
 time )y those who were attracted by • jr noveltf nr . ' i • 
 
 bi hty, the more so as they were ul< hed 7' 1 h^P^'"^- 
 
 ters upon a ceruLn gr„u^„i"work "^1"^ L'' '" J"']'""' '<^'- 
 to its parents ;" which from 3. ' r "■ "''''j^'' "^ => "hi'd 
 I am Llined'to pl^:tlZgZe':ZS^:'j°Zlf'J 
 It runs thus, and speaks larglly of si^pfe LTd deep'p^S;f " 
 
 " Hark from the tomb a doleful sound. 
 
 Mme ears attend the cry ; 
 Ye busy men come view the spot 
 
 Where ye must shortly lie. 
 
 Weep not for me, my jiarents' dear. 
 I am not dead but sleeping here; 
 Till Christ shall rise, and bid me come, 
 And take us all together home." 
 
 look?„7; tgte«emTb7"'^' "'""!^'' "P™ ^ '>'" -er 
 points of land! '^A dfeLn^Cf i '?^''' ^i'"" ^'"P'^' ^"d 
 space, and in which resS'rbr^':..'."'^.!.''.?..'"'"--"^ 
 -n-., own father;- borne dow^,' by-th;" in^:^:'^^ 
 
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 zanship which is slowly, but undoubtedly, undermining alj 
 the sacred and social institutions of our iand. Here I have 
 often stood, and with an October sky, gilded and glowing 
 in all the gorgeousness of carmine and deep orange, and 
 the sea air, clear and reflective, gave back from far away in 
 the distance the mingled voices of human beings with the 
 bleating of sheep and the lowing of cows, wending '^ir 
 homeward way, while amid the windings of the black 
 harbor or peninsula, (there are an interminable multiplicity 
 of such,) and all do not possess very euphonious, if any, 
 distinctive appellation, to the extent of four mile?, includ- 
 ing shelved pomt, Jutty c^ive, and grassy eminence. 
 Ihroughout this extent of the peninsula, I say, so intensely 
 and vividly transparent has been that sweet October atmos- 
 phere, that the carolling of a country girl, and each word 
 ot the following old song, has been thrown back upon the 
 echoes. . 
 
 This song, I am positive, must be a native production, 
 and of provincial oHgin, though it may have received acces- 
 sories from country school-masters, or captains of gull's 
 eggs schooners, sentimentally inclined. But seriously insti- 
 tuted researches among the farmers' daughters, guarantee 
 the assertion that it was made by some of our folks. The 
 undoubted authenticity thus warranted, I proceed to initiate 
 the reader into some of its peculiar beauties and deep pathos. 
 I would, also, if I could, help to dig a niche in the heart of 
 posti^rity, for the express purpose of inserting the name of 
 the author, that it might spring up and blossom to his end- 
 less praise. But alas! in the eager appropriation of the 
 spoils, floral and sentimental, it has been totally overlooked, 
 
 * "From the main-top high, to the cabin low, 
 Your sailor-boy away must go ! 
 Now all young maids who dress in white, 
 And all young men who walk so light, 
 Forget your pride, forget your joy, 
 Weep, weep, for the sailor-boy. 
 
 He ran the deck, he climbed the mast, 
 His time is gone, his day is past, 
 Down, down, where the sea-weeds grow, 
 Your sailor-boy shall go, shall go." 
 
 The subject is a snilnr.hnv -urhn iah-aa Uic ii 
 
 »a^ vy^^wv^k 
 
 HIC3 suai T^jra^e liil- 
 
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 the news of «rh,eh sad catas^ronh^ ^•'°™'''« ''"«• Upon 
 language of affection uporal^tvomh'^'.f''^ "^'^ '"^h" 
 jom in her lamentations, and for mLl"'^' "compeers " to 
 conelusion of the ditty,' ringing ZoLl ,1^ ^^ ">" ^'"P'^ 
 swelling in the distance and th! fresh foJ''^ T'l "''"S and 
 
 .he™rV™e%i:rsTU?'tnd'inT^..1^^^^^^^^^ "' "-e feelings of 
 ing sons^ in a coint?y',ha, trfse^^e'wt?"""' ^ g-- 
 men, were compelled to sacrfficf 'hem 'ff "'f ' ^1' ^"""8 
 to see them take to the water w^th.h^' "° ^^'^' ">« »*«, 
 crabs, and become the vicS 7tJer i^Tir""^ f ^'""'8 
 The song had a medley of interestaaUn V'T"^' <'°'""fy- 
 connected with an islaid in the „«„hb ' k i """ '" P^' 
 dwelt, (so said tradition b; the lips if a ™°°'^- T" ''M 
 less and hard-hearted maiden, who had r»? 5 ^'''^ * '«'"i- 
 of a lover, and after he had''^taken trfh'"^ "',??<'d'"««' 
 vengeance, she ruthlei sly "combed herl„ f ^ '? * «' "^ 
 a glass each returning evenTg Fa '„-! "'''r' ^''"'^ 
 sea storm) said Granny WisdoS ^ ^Z T^ '° 6"=' °P a 
 
 aroused b^ this processTthT over '.fotndh.' '.r^" g^'" 
 which, for the purpose of maHn^ „ ""^ '^^*"'- Upon 
 
 he takes the libe?ry rfvisliinThis il?^^''"''\''°"'''y »«, 
 coal black dog, ,^ith fiery eles u^ T '" "'' ''°™ "f a 
 place his victim in an earl7tomb' '"" ""'' "'"""e 
 
 . By gomg into all this absurd detail T ™. 
 g've some inkling of the tenoonocalmlJ^ ''"'''''"''"'-• 
 by elevat on: To say truth we »,-.L ,' "n^wayed 
 
 when six ieet high 7ou™^ladieTre^^-f .y*!' "^T "'l '*« "^ 
 carrying home a dead Tel uprthe r ,h u "'" "''"'y "f. 
 " want no larnin' to aid ?he dffficuhy "'''"^utf ' ""f ^id n't 
 •tres as old Mrs. Eushticross stalfcd thmnth 1"'='' '''^as. 
 ■from basement to attic, if nnimnedlrl ; ""^°"S" <"« houses 
 
 straw poke elevated highTnTeafrirf^- ^^ °^^ 
 rich in woodland wealtli! dlll/J^'.!"!.''" ,»^n^a«» bag 
 mixed hues, partridges »„Hai/':j- T' i"*,' •"■"'"alion in. 
 
 mixed 
 rabbits 
 
 partridges and rolls of fresh butter 
 and pr.de of our medley rivers, an eariy 
 
 eggs and 
 and first. 
 
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 captured salmon ; whose advent was proclaimed, and whose 
 praises were extolled, with the sharp, exulting cries of " a 
 solimamt, a nice vat, vresh solimaint. Here ! ver are ye 
 all ? Toant yer vant a vresh solimaint, only tree shillins? 
 iut I dats noatten. Tittn't I ketch him mineshelf ?" 
 
 Ladies going to sociable entertainments in these times 
 took a favorable opportunity of decrying the unheard-of 
 absurdity of any woman but the *' parson's wife troubling 
 her head about books." She, to be sure, ought to, if she 
 had time. Times were so different when we were girls 
 said the matrons ; the moment one took up a book she was 
 called idle, careless, good-for-nothing. And no great pro- 
 phetical prognostications were needed to convince society 
 that such an one was in the road to destruction. Then 
 there were mysterious gratulations that we had not arrived 
 at the height of absurdity, with our neighbors across the 
 bay, where the ladies actually studied all <' the things with 
 ong names " and tiard meanings, and took degrees at col- 
 lege just as gentlemen did. And I do not know but what, 
 by the colloquies of the male oracles of these anti-literary 
 societies. Becomin^y dipping deeper in the argument, we 
 were taught how much we were indebted to our stringent 
 conservatism for relief from such impositions, the certain 
 herald of mfidehty, and the dear knows what all. Thus, 
 by a summary process, indicting a multiplicity of evils, not 
 quite specified. 
 
 However, good advice always acting in the contrary mood in 
 young minds, set us all upon emulating the stigmatized pro- 
 ceedings, and gay young men while chanting at intervals, " dol, 
 dol, dol, me, re, fa, sol," at the singirfg schools, simultaneously 
 echoed the sentiment, " They're a wonderful people ; they're 
 an astonishing people ; they're far before us .'" Yes ; they 
 could not but be convinced that progress, in a new country, is 
 conservative ; possesses a restraining, as well as a life-giving 
 energy. Not the conservatism which ele/ated an Episcopal 
 Bishop to the pedestal of a derai-god, but that of innate, self- 
 governing, and well-directed energy. And thi^ we are subsist- 
 ing, and think we can continue to flourish without. We, in the 
 Colonies, upon whom has been engrafted all the fashionable 
 idleness and easy laxity of morality, inseparable from a garrison 
 station. 
 
 It is not surprising, then, that we l]ave acquired habits oi 
 
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 ations 01 the daily papers, and tracing the virulence to itsoZn 
 
 pubh'c 'T n'T""A "°^ ^° '^ ^^^'^'^ ^-' in thr : s 
 
 npo pH f "'^' however, was no more than might beex? 
 
 pected from persons who were mere snPPtafnre „ i ^ • ^ 
 
 might have been nothing in the circun„tance of'so doinJ' whf.h 
 
 ing^Ket'{^f;s^a£tr7;^n^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 fromacareesspeiK Chancing to call upon a female "on „« 
 uon of our luerary Captain, thegemleman previousWrefer^edto" 
 who was then deeply immersed in polilics.Liitupon ml. nihk 
 forces, and gaming the day for his party. ' We lu imo a it 
 
 tllSr *■ Theld''''''^- "'• *I V'' o'a.ls lo'tnl '^^r' 
 MyLdlKb^rptf^^^^^ 
 
 emergences, and difficulties insurmountabirexcept b. ufeln 
 domitable energy of a statesman, were th« rJuT:. ^^ '^'^ '"" 
 
 tbaUs'7«r?lTr"!?'^"^;'^''' ^'"S"''°'^« plauibilUi^;; I urged 
 that as all are gifted w.th an equality of intellect, or powp' - 
 
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 which may be cultivated to an unbounded ext it, and frequently 
 exhibited in the lower classes, education should be equally dis- 
 pensed, that each consequent trait might be permitted to display 
 uself. People capable of forming accurate conclusions of events 
 or pnnciples at issue, should not be impeded in the power of do- 
 ing so ; but that the too prevalent spirit of the times was in each 
 peculiarity a convincing evidence that other literature than that 
 which has been the Englishman's preservation, and is his proud- 
 est heritage in a new country, had been taking a firm hold of un- 
 established places. It was clear that the progression of the 
 century was urging us on, and casting loose our coveted conserv- 
 atism. We were willing to clutch at anything to aid the rescue. 
 Old landmarks were removed, to clear the march of ultraism. 
 Circumstances might in future times show the tendency of this 
 last, and our advancing attainments. 
 
 I am never deeply interested in public things unless they elu- 
 cidate some accepted, theory, and seldom display a warm inter- 
 est. Upon this occasion I spoke as I felt, and upon a subse- 
 quent visit I placed the following verses upon Freedom of 
 Opmion, in the hands of this person, with an intimation that 
 something more would be connected with it, provided I could 
 secure the countenance of gentlemen interested in developin^^ 
 the literature of the country, and the one particularly and pub*^ 
 licly concerned in it, as I very naturally supposed. 'I'he lines 
 were these : — 
 
 , Bright Nova Scotia, adored is thy name, 
 
 Thou art dearer to us than the land whence we came. 
 
 Though honored by all is the home of the Free, 
 
 Nova Scotia, our own, we're devoted to thee. 
 
 Ever my country, though bitter the atrife. 
 
 Cherish thy libertv, e'en as thy life, 
 
 Ay, long as the Moose-deer shall bound from the brake. 
 
 Or the Lutea look from the translucent lake. 
 
 Lovely Acadia shall, error-arrayed. 
 
 In goi^geouB apparel thuie Idol be made ? 
 
 Shall it always the land of the Mayflower disgrace, 
 
 Shall it ever be found amid power and place f 
 
 Beautifiil Acadie, ne'er be thy name 
 
 Dyed with a deep an indelible stain. 
 
 Alas for thy sons, though they ebb as the M^ve, 
 
 Opinion, though false, they would perish to save. 
 
 Beautiful country — the bonny spruce tree 
 
 Is the undying emblem of what thou wilt be. 
 
 When the tissue of folly, that error has cast 
 
 Around thy bright name, shall be thrown to the blast. 
 
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 Beloved w the fir-tree, but dearer to thee 
 Pf u t ?u ^i^y *'"'' »« the bliss of the Free 
 VrLf ^^^ T'^^y ^°'% the name 
 Freedom from Error, from Crime and from Shame. 
 
 Had I but known the least iota of what r u., 
 of the policy punned by our eadm ml it'^ '"P^'^noed 
 have been the desiruciion nf .h!!« r ' ""^ '^f^^ course wou d 
 
 penned. But ur^'Zl r/lT/o itZT '^ 7" 
 SO vaunted at that timo *« k«» „ r ""agine tlie Jiberahsm 
 
 predon-ll^by atnd whiob wL^^^^^^^^^ ""' °^^T'"' ^'"''<'"« 
 into a closer unity An Tj^r ^k ,''""' ""'""^ denominations 
 
 theinexperencedamon/ns I , !''-™ T^ .•=°'""'»" ''""ng 
 
 notice a^d enooarageZt" "o priT'llrni''^ '.•"•" ''""'' 
 ensed, with no euide bu a tA^T . T'* ""^ mexperi- 
 
 saiththelaw-Sisaiibel" """"" '''""™''''°- A 
 nottoV™! ™ iLT/th'ai'Z a m'r •'"r"'' ""PP'"-"' •"« ' 
 
 only was comprehended '^n/' '"'' ^^'^. ^^eir applicability 
 
 e:^fa'-r:„Snr"-^^^^^^^^ 
 
 li.e™ZirorTaU;rnJ'r"''r "*"" •■« ">« »"PP««" "f 
 country?' If it bounS offTT.h '''™'"" ','"2"''' »'^'™« i" « 
 is unaiompliI'dTf ' ht So': K' Ivtt ' !!; "■'"'"" 
 
 Is it 80 ™ lVh« T ' f *^",^^"o longer its fostering protector ' ' 
 
 ■nun iiterature breathe the sentiment „f H^S?" ' •"' 
 Be « again clearly understood, that I hefe cSe „o indi- 
 
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 vidual. 1 am but relating a succession of singular coincidences. 
 Electoral sentiments had subsided ; the feeling that had led to 
 the inditing of these lines had passed away. The liberals had 
 gained the day, and all the land rejoiced thereat. But it hap- 
 pened, that upon leaving the steamer, at the side of the harbor 
 at which I resided, I found several ill-looking fellows apparently 
 belonging to the lower class of Irish, who crossing at the same 
 time, followed half the distance, calling in coarse, low lan- 
 guage. Then seating themselves upon the rocks on the road- 
 side, continued to do so, until I had advanced far upon the 
 homeward path. The way was lonely, though much travelled, 
 and frequently there were no other persons walking that way 
 but myself. The language was accompanied by" loud and im- 
 pudent merriment, loo evidently jests, vulgar and insolent, and 
 indicating personality. 
 
 The sunjraer passed on, wiih frequent returns of the same de- 
 scription of annoyance. Endeavoring to pl^rsuade myself that 
 it really was not an actual impertinence seriously] intended, I 
 resolved to assume a pretence of not noticing it, hopiig that as it 
 had commen6ed at the close of an election which bad been 
 fiercely contested, and excited a spirit of acrimony among all 
 classes, it would perchance pass away when the efFect of such 
 a great struggle had subsided. But I had had no connection 
 with political affairs, living retired and monotonously, without 
 interest in either party, and being but one among the calm spec- 
 tators of their struggles. However, matters continued in the 
 same position, and became such a regularly recurring vexation, 
 that I dreaded coming to the village of D. or crossing in the 
 boat at all, as I h' hen no male relatiye at band to interpose, 
 and, though it mighi be noticed by a friend, I was at a loss as to 
 the proper measures for restraining it, and for reasons to be men- 
 tioned hereafter, dreaded speaking of it to any person. 
 
 A year passed on, anc^the annoyance was continued, and re- 
 sumed at intervals, long after the charitable allowance with ref- 
 erence to electoral a^tation which I partly attributed it to, 
 should have subsided. At all events, I thought no longer 
 of it, and concluded that others were equally disinterested. 
 Gross and obscene language, infamous oaths, and scurrilous ex- 
 pressions, became the almost constant attendants upon my daily 
 
 w&IK* 
 
 Now not bcsfig at all inclined to sacrince this chief entertain- 
 ment of life at D., the amusemenf of watching the various de- 
 
scrlptions of persons bringing their saleable wares to the city • 
 he petty traffic and the constant variety presented Thereby' 
 
 Jtv' TTAT"''Vf.''r'' '^~°'"^' "«'»« ™« then a not 
 elty. The httle unshod fisheriT^an, with his basket of trout or 
 
 IT^nZr^'Z':. "-^K^^'^P ''"'^ ^'"^l^' '•-^^h from th s oup- 
 pet, and en wreathed w.th moss. The market-woman, with her 
 
 fl^frn'L'^r"'''' »he fresh air, and the change of scene, waVal 
 ill hP«hh* k''^^"" T^ constant ceclusion, tolay the foundation o 
 11 health, because three or four idle fellows were always loiterW 
 
 inri:r?'TLl^"^P7"^ °lr'''"^ terror, 'and S! 
 enmg alarm i Ihe lower classes of Nova Scotia, are without 
 
 T.TT' T^'^f'. ^°^ '^'' ^'^^^y friendship'th ; be 
 L n r f "" "'^^«^^^ «'«««' «nd the social tone and kind interest 
 manifested between persons occupying various positions, s, Tnd 
 always has been to myself trul/ delightful, though E^ghsh 
 ^s,dents generally, note the omission of the obsequiousness 
 wh.ch IS said to characterize individuals of inferior s?tuatbn in 
 the.r own ansiocralical and title-bestowing country. And we 
 are quite happy m wanting the servility of the Iri.h pelnf 
 though doubly amused with its piebald originality, frlTaving 
 no semblance of ,t amongst themselves, therefore was n^ a^tTn? 
 sbment increased at such an unwontedi^ianifestation, and ,n the 
 imdst of intense and uncontrollable irritation, various suspicions 
 connected with rather trivial circnmstances,'dawned g aTuaT, 
 
 hahTLH ? ' ''"•'* 1 resolved not to deviate from my usual 
 
 there ^^hf hr' I '^u '''^'"^"^^ T"^°"' «"^ companion, that 
 there might be no check upon my observations, and if any de- 
 
 bravest. P^"°"'' ^ ^°"'^' '^ P^'^'^'^' ^^^l^^'"' «"d 
 
 nrP\ K °. ^'^^-^ °f ^'^'^ *° ^^^'^h ^^« multiplicity of Irish immi- 
 
 nnnn^ *^onjecture. For a succession of years they have stepped 
 upon our shores, and, unimpeded in their progress, have built 
 
 bv fhp^r ^"* ^^^ P'*'"^'" ^^"^^^ ^° the country bestowed 
 
 Dy their presence, is yet undiscernible. By steady progress 
 
 wh&h"u Z?r" ''' P"P"^^' «"^ fi» "P the'vaSes; 
 wh^ch^untowaid circumstances, or too deep doings in oolitics 
 
 inhabiJ^ntr' ""' "'""^"'•"''" scape-goat" leaves among our own 
 
These people, in fact, become great and populous, but they 
 are uneducated and controlled in their tendencies, and the Irish 
 cartman might take a very prominent posiiion, if required- 
 It rnay not be always, altogether, a creditable ^ne, social 
 comfort and respectability considered, in the annals of Halifax. 
 
 Having beside me the detached portions of a Poem entitled 
 " Protestant Union," and never venturing to exhibit it, the idea 
 now occurred that if it were published, and the opinions 
 expressed in it were known and disseminated as my composition, 
 it would, being acknowledged as such, guarantee a future protec- 
 tion. It would have the semblance of an appeal to established 
 principle, and, connected with local literature, would not pass 
 unnoticed by the various gentlemen who were so deeply inter- 
 ested in its development, according to their own expressed as- 
 sertions. 
 
 I passed the Poem partially prepared into the hands of a 
 friend, without any intimation of reasons for publishing it. This 
 was at the commencement of another winter. It appeared in a 
 Baptist newspaper, was noticed, and though without signature, 
 there was not a doubt that it was known and traced to the author, 
 and upon the next Session of the Assembly, I was struck with 
 amazement at observing in a newspaper, lengthy oratorial remarks 
 adverse in character, but containing very succinct allusiopp to 
 those lines from the great promoter, supporter, and chieftaiu of 
 Provincial literature. 
 
 The uncomfortable sensation which accompanied this discov- 
 ery, I even now remember. It was also with a presentiment of 
 fulure evil, for the entire intention and meaning of the lines had 
 been parodied, and various concise points and references con- 
 vinced me that the author was surreptitiously maligned and ridi- 
 culed. I flung the paper from me disgusted, mortifitd, and as 
 much perplexed and confounded as though detected and identi- 
 fied in the commission of a criminal transaction. There vi^as no 
 longer a doubt that a peculiar tendency in composition was repre- 
 hensible. The impression had not arisen in a fastidious sensi- 
 tiveness, as I sometimes endeavored to satisfy myself by personal 
 condemnation. 
 
 This poem upon Protestant Union, remains still in an unfin- 
 ished state, I never having gained sufficient confidence, after 
 such a rebuff to attempt the further completion of it. It will 
 serve as a continuation of that phase of colonial societyj which 
 attributed all the backwardness of our local affairs to' the old 
 
grand source of disputation O'-^so'ved id oblivion one 
 
 this latter system was recommenrJ' f ^^ '"''^''''"^ '^' ^"'^ 
 plifying the theory thath rhpt?.!^ ., ^""'^^ "P°"' "" ^""^■ 
 to be always Slrabou it f,V^ ^u'1 "° ':'''^'°" ^^«" ^»^«" 
 time of a feanYa to'denom na. on«f '^V'"'' ""'"^«^'°" ** ^^^^ 
 regarded as placing as un^^Xr.^^^^^^^^^^ was generally 
 vancement, though it is doub ful Ivhtu """^ °^ ^""^ «^- 
 
 enquirewhitweLpertedtoge^^^ '"^ °"' ^'°»^P^^ ^« 
 
 wit^thrsm-Hl'nr' '"'^^ - ^^^^'>^^^'"' ^«ry comfortably dispensed 
 itXX thaHToubrwStFr"' "^ "P°"^ so'confi'iem^' 
 cumstanc'es e^^er give a t Wht to ST"' .Zr^''''^^^ -- 
 the country's makinra nrnlr« r ^ '^. possibility, or need, of 
 spirit of riiaJrrni^Ponf ? •'' °^.'"^ description; and as to a 
 
 dLmed ofte thr/''Th"e bl'' h^'" ^T^^'^^' "« "-- 
 Scotia, might have ma^L tLhn!. ^''^^^ l^""'"^ in Noya 
 out all ofhpr 1 ^ "larked the boundaries of the world shuitino 
 
 such a race, but our hl.« .!,• ^f'''' P^^^P'. '" regard to 
 
 ■spint of conten ment wLh'^ '°*"''^ "> "°""^'' » •'"""'"ess 
 
 which nerr„.?""' '■^'elopement, under consideraiion, to 
 por.anc'T «^P«.ence, and participation, lent additional im- 
 
 ti'e\^"^^ZZL"^%Z'''T'1l The intention is not to 
 ei..!-j :° P""Po^- The entire liberal coterie. >nrf „.„i„ 
 
 lo uci.ei speakers, at all events the most unexpected 
 
and appreciated, appeared a Catholic Priest. This gentleman 
 whom I shall hereafter allude to, was regarded as a person of 
 much address and ability, and had been known to take a prom- 
 inent part in the late election, and his oration, whatever might 
 have been its tendency, was reverently listened to. 
 
 Among the other speakers, was a gentleman who held for 
 some years a position as speaker of the assembly, and an impor- 
 tant constituency had highly valued his kindly services. He dis- 
 coursed voluminously upon the beauties of science and art, in 
 general, their incalculable benefit to civilization, but gave the 
 preference to literature. To the original mind which can control 
 a country by a word, or a song, Burns was, of necessity, instan- 
 ced, together with the local language of the age, guiding, pro- 
 gressive, and purifying in its influences. The needed aid of 
 woman in this department, and her beneficence was,also instanced, 
 in her promotion of the cause of general education, and encour- 
 aging motives held forth why such a feeling should be exemplified 
 in the women of Nova Scotia. In the exordium which of course 
 concluded such observations, however, the passive serenity with 
 which I heard all this was rather discomposed, by the ideas ex- 
 pressed in the very lines upon the Freedom of Conscience, 
 which had been given in manuscript, being dexterously interwov- 
 en, for the purpose of working analogy. Well nigh the entire 
 passage expressing our love for the land from whence we came, 
 (by which, of course, I mean England, said the speaker,) being 
 superceded by the lovely country in which our destiny had heed 
 cast. The value of a patriotic spirit, our admiration of our 
 country's emblem, referring to the fir-tree, all worked so well 
 into his own direct subject, that though the charge of peculation 
 may be unfounded, I was far from being ^tified that such ex- 
 pressed opinions were thus noted at a time when the state of 
 the public mind was not at all conciliatory or complimentary. The 
 ideas may have been native, but the language in which they 
 were expressed, was but too familiar. 
 
 Now the Poem, on Protestant Union, was as far from tending 
 to elevate any sect as the greatest Liberal could desire. It was 
 not the Church of a Denomination I had desired to extol, but the 
 Church Militant. Not the time-serving and venal Church of 
 the Colonies, but the Apostolical; the holy in simplicity; the 
 revivified in youthful lustre, rising from the Reformation ; the 
 blood-drops of agony, yet resting upon her pallid and torture- 
 wrung brow. When the newjy established monarchy put forth 
 
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 came strength ; one elevating, one restraining, and each aidine 
 the other, m the beaut.ful dissemination of Minesn to the Ian§ 
 of the pagan, and to the scattered sons of England. When by 
 the estabhshment of Christian associations in every part of the 
 
 ZL'^" '""^^/" '\^''T '^'' «'"ngency ol measure he 
 had been compelled to adopt for her ow„ internal preservation 
 The t,me ,s arnvmg, whether very subsistence as' a Church 
 
 blnTJ"^ "r ' •'""""'•"' ^^ '^''' ^^"°^«''°"- Her lustre has 
 become dim; her wme mixed with water; and by theverv e e- 
 
 It is but the nature of humanity to retrograde in holiness 
 All tne supports, all the aids to high attainments, may beco^ne 
 perverted, and exhibit the fallaciousness of human in^stituS 
 Hence the value of a literature, which, while exhibiting error 
 also mculcates sacred and revealed truth. Hence also the del 
 pravity connected with all thing., decries the spirh of such a 
 dangerous capability, and. would reward the' daring author of 
 
 ?ot nr7h'"^'',r°'°"'^ ^"'' '^' destitution which is tL often the 
 lot of the welUmtentioned, but with a comfortable abode in re! 
 
 ra^et^tlir "^ '' ''''''''''' "P-°" "P- -"^'^ -P- 
 
 befn\'rT^"'"f'' ''''"' '^^ '""'^'"""^ «<" »he province has 
 XhantIsrTf^"'^"'t'"^^'^"^^' ^^«''"S ^^'^ ^"bjects 
 tl e mn«rn/' , ^"''' -^^^ ^''" ^^^^^^ed Upon, it has been by 
 
 bten wT/^''-P'T"'^'P-.^"^ newspaper reading, has 
 been just one continued stram of recrimination, with all thn ac- 
 
 oersed^'hrr i *" '^^' '^^it^dinarian ignorance, now being dis- 
 emwth n/rp J"^"" 1^^'"'""" ."'' P^"°^'^«' importations^ A 
 
 dZ itiol of "^ r^'"'"' ''^?^' ^'^ g''^d"^»^ dissipate that 
 disposition of exclusiveness and narrow-minded egotism so 
 
 ttt Irfil''"'' "fP^*''^ ^^ investigation, so subveX^^f a,l 
 
 pndi ^ ?T-- A^^«°"ntry can advance in nothing, while 
 
 leaders and the.rpartizans, are alternately defending then seTvT 
 
 rou fl^'^r^ '^'' 'P'^'^^'1' ^y '^^^-'-' «^««-^d « very r: 
 
 settLr w hi^h'fh '''''Tr' '" f ' •' °'^ ^^'""''^ ^«"g"««« °^ ^^e early 
 settler, which thus seif-acclaims, while arraiirning th« „nh«nni 
 
 fecisTnpif '" '"/!!' ''*''"il^' "" ^ S"'^^'" «^ ^^« children's'imet 
 iects, (pass over the much maligned nomenclature of country 
 
m 
 
 I 
 
 «oluvi|iMMliM\) nnH whom \\\\\\ n\\\m)\\m\ vli^lf«HMi»M, Hp iImh 
 nmmf»»Hlv wttrtPk*, Mp«m iht^ )t«M( )i}\\\\\)np ol' whul npiu'ncM fo 
 hi* iMi«N»Ul«^ hUh«l »n»|M»«iinrtM.» ««h»«nnt^t» hnfohtiiiit HUmihlhlB, 
 " YvY \\^>t^\\\\'\ tmk iht ittnrh iH' yt^mplr Koi ypt mu n IIhIp Ininiii, 
 yw iIMm'I ^i \\ y»»»wir tIM yrr? INo ; yi.|- hnil tr'r Ki'l it lort. 
 Hi I liitk* jiM »*vri"y hit n^ inurh »»v invMlf «« ynii do, Um \ 
 nm m «hy I for »»r IM n bin t»iri, IM n hnd i'l tnn ( mt yon 
 n«*fHn'i ii'i" hf» no pwuil, nn ulurh up. 
 
 iluM <»t> th«^ Chmvh ol Kimlrtmi MMuning nn Hpirinml |..«,|<»r, 
 npo« ht^ir rttlvoortimi «liatMity,lH»r «in»l»»iu htiHom, hr^r mniirtirhi- 
 onl h^Htrttti*, nml t»MnMi*hr>t{ supi^mwry, tht» pm«f»tif»ho*» of nil 
 o«hi»i!i in »hf» I'olonif^R, lmli» IhmmI»^.I \\\v ni-o\viun |«m»« wliinh «i- 
 lo«tly ««pp»'ii ht»Honh«lrtiion. , (V wIkw l»i»r Irttily of woiivo 
 j»woiM«nsjom*»Mi in \\\P iiuMtlcAtion «M«I mlv«i>tM» of (HIlH in (ilMnui 
 Im^Alinv!* Iwftww Mhrt\T\«,«rth|<», wontUMtHl whi^n tht» vmniiun wur 
 «*fl|>«hly «II.Hi by tliM*»ntors, nnd hin»»-ly Un^i^hlf^il ht»v wnnmlpd 
 ilignity. 
 
 'Hhi ih«^w» «IKisivMi< inrtv Im tM>ni«.ily iMmtihoinlrH, (H«minl- 
 !«»h^ to siX't^ !»t>mf. gi»n»»inl (^xpUnMtion it!»ppoUnn thrt norinl poRj. 
 t!t>o, «nil ih«» irlij^on* linhilinVj* »»!' {\\^ oounti*y. 
 
 A hrjfo hotly of Kpis<Mip«lirtn« rtppoihii»H odioinlly hy the 
 HntHh fit>vi>iiim«»nl \\m\ hpoonif* t>Mnhli<«l\i>(| nn<) ihrtupntinl. 
 1 h*»y h^l, wrtT^o »h,» !»p!ilo»upni of Hnlirrtx, ohmluwl Mil thp inoit 
 ln<^r«u\i*«it«Alm«% ttnd thpy iw^iml rxoihilflnt «nl«npR. \Vh»»tlb 
 or F.nsi««d !«oujj;hi to !»fVOH» iMt*- lovuliv, or to pfotpct u« Ihiin 
 th«> io^idioosnf**!* t>t' |>«p«i»v hy tl\r» pi-i^^iMioe of n nnmhpf of 
 pmoo« o.>«nwt»Hl with th«»'p!.i.iHi»hmt>nt,o«nonly hemtmvspd. 
 iMhtv x\-*y, ih^ jMxijwt w«* (klhcioutt. TI»p F.plw'opnl ( :iuui'h, 
 with i\» ^cMntn of lnod, «nd itx Pi^win<»irtl Piulownwiit, w>o« h»»» 
 <^mt> rtn ohm>'xio«!« !«tin«hlina:>Moiu> lo nil *p«rtip!». Provinnlnl 
 m^ dril ofTio^ nvoi-k» mf^\w^\ in familif^n, nnd Novn S«H^ii« whs 
 
 fttwwf^H hy A t\k\m, \t\\i\ mM thp n«ni<» of High (Ihmvh nml 
 Vxy \\\ms »$k\v\\<h\ kII |H>\ver, p,wiiion nnd inSncnce. Tlmt 
 ihtp h^^y^X Ivsnow^l n|>,>n !«,HM<»ty hy thw^, wns not oonnnpntu. 
 nftt*> wuh th« wt^^lth thpy iwoivcd, and sqttnndpred, thp prpw»nt 
 lMi<^kwrtiti |>o»ition xA' th<» c^onntry evinces, atui the fifm hold of 
 llfcivil l.d>pr«l»i»m <H>n(mm. It w«« under their mild «nd «om- 
 m>l<^m Ot>(^a|vnk>n. t\m the »«pling rtonrishetl, hloomed, iind 
 |M»<l»ced the fnm of which this cottntry i« even now pnrtaking. 
 An K«^ish wHl<»r h«s ^id that Uiwenters hw the prtitcctors 
 of tl>e ld>ertie» of « |>e.>ple. it m«y l)« that the ipirit of truth 
 i^eiiMins Nvith sjniniiciiv. Ii ije certain t" " " " ^ 
 
 smipnc 
 
 truth i* oftf>n over- 
 
01 
 
 lookpil, whili! qiiifftly ttniMiinr imtiiiihI i» «^ i i i i 
 
 H. »l,«t i» ,l„ir „„',d, l«,„l.„l ,,„m., r„",lV "• "'"' 
 
 ii,« .■«u.,. .,r .„ii ,",',, ^V„!i """I''",'"" "' """•'■'i"« in 
 
 .'.-.K .,,.1 .».ii..::.r.';,': '.;,:; t ":;rr ,.;"£'; 'r, ""' 
 lit.,., w„. r.,.„„ ,,,„„«i, .,:i ,!i„„„ (ur „ I , ,f ,.^ r,..^,;'™' 
 
 «co..„,|,|i,|,p,|. ' ' " "»' I 'eiod, i„,(i i,(„|,|,n „8, 
 
It was brought about, and all who expressed an attachment to 
 the Church of England, were regarded as opponents of prog- 
 ress. My own fatber'was one among the mcny who at that 
 lime became obnoxious to anxiou8 claimants for change of sys- 
 tem, and sank into an untimely grave, broken in heart, ^n 
 health, and hope. 
 
 His open and boasted attachment to Ibis Church, in connec- 
 tion with his position as Collector of Customs and Excise, in a 
 little sea-port village, gave him great influence. It also gave him 
 watchful enemies, with a double purpose of casting a slur upon 
 ihe denomination of his altachnnent, while assuming that office 
 while his Englishman's abhorrence of dissent left him without 
 advocates, when this disguised Romanism stepped forward, and 
 by its agents, who happened to be his most cherished friends, 
 then rising into power, as this work amply testifies, brought to 
 his charge sundry malversations, whereb' he was rendered liable 
 for some hundreds of pounds. Strange and unfounded charges 
 thus laid against him, he was compelled to succumb to, by reason 
 of papers of value being secretly abstracted from hie office desk, 
 which would have substantiated his innocence, had they been 
 forthcoming. With apparent devotedness, he was advised to 
 make up the sum, hand it in to the Treasury, and say nothing 
 about it. This first, was to him the simplest part oi the busi- 
 ness. The money was as dross, in comparison with his integr' y 
 of purpose, his life-long resolution never to owe unto any man. 
 But why silencfe the affair? Why arrange every thing by two 
 or three inlerested individuals with evidently deep designs? It 
 was in vain that he protested that be was the victim of a plot. 
 That he was surrounded by false friends. He was constrained 
 to submission by different harrassing mea^res, and when years 
 had passed away, again the same charges were preferred, the 
 same procedure earned into effect, and he was a ruined man. 
 The appointed delegates, after due assumption of form, assem- 
 bled, but after a strict examination of the various statements of 
 monetary transactions and accounts, could fasten no reliable evi- 
 deiice of criminating inadvertence. Too late, for the peace ol 
 their victim was it acknowledged, that general testimony con- 
 ceded, in vindication, the remissness of individuals in other Ports 
 of the Province, reflecting upon each department a fractional 
 disarrangement. The ^'harge of five hundred pounds defalca- 
 tion, dwindled down to two; and one hundred, to. p.evppjv. and 
 lastly, to fifty ; with which sum, as being unsiibstantiated*^ as a 
 
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 posteraus" he acceded ITL"'^ P™P<».t.on, however pre- 
 tors, and e'capeTurtt; X^ZVl '"' ''"""' ""^ ^'"''™»»- 
 
 was detained in "he verv sdZ h- , • t'«" °,"f ''"^ "• «<> 
 ..k>„. by this most re2El5':i SV°"at he'''" """■'"• 
 very suspicious assertion, " if you r2 vour J "!f ,"""'• 
 the place in which vou re<,lrf» v„., fi ^ ? ""'*' ^""^ '«"»e 
 able for the enlj e orCal su ' TJ/ '"".t" JT^If'^count- 
 has been laid to yoZhalge"' "°"'^' "" '''"^"" "'^ "''!<='' 
 
 This was from the most "active a^ent \n tuic ♦ 
 tion, giving the intent.on of h is eSvlrs L! , T^^ ''^'''''- 
 vvhich comprised the commencemeSt^J eUtit Tr T!t 
 by intense mental aeonv of whinh^n ??'"P'®''on of it, had, 
 
 .l.e partakers and wilSesf d^ele tork "Zat'r^ "" 
 from the scene of so much BnffprJn« • , ^^am, removal 
 
 tion to health, everiiTe deoenHpW ^' ''^' '"'PJ^''"^- ^^«^°''a- 
 the tardy avowal wlicH boS ^1"?°" '*' '"'^ '"^"^ *^«i'ing 
 position, but onfy ^0^ " or^im-. T^-^'V .'"°^^' ^° P"l>>i^ 
 any where in thiSce of VoVrw ^f^esidence 
 
 tropolis. Paralysis suTerv^L « ^ '"l, ^*^'"«'^e ^^^ its me- 
 
 wat'ched for theUt bre' 1 rwhiih lu^^^^ f ^-^^ 
 
 an occupancy. "'°' '" ^^ ^^'''og* bestow 
 
 ™e!trd%ta^„tli:ts :rrT/.'^^ "'°- 
 
 defendincr his namp fi,«" ,• ° ' °™°'^' business, or of 
 
 -pposed^hrhr;ternorwf„rd'rZ*'''"H' '" !^' •«'- "-" 
 cision as to his choice of re,W^^i. k ' '"'' """"i™w their de- 
 
 erally known thatWs hiiu^^' ' ""' ""'" " became gen- 
 was [he coressfc,. ,nadT '='"="™""'«» P^hiWed this step, 
 
 pH^!i;r:xrd1rVx';;iL°; "r:*''"^' r"--"- 
 
 i. certainly Lished the work"! whtli .U^TJ^SJ^I '??'''"«y.»f 
 nation of dupiicitv and Hp«i„n;n„~ '"■"''' f"""'"aDie combi- 
 
 ,"d a help J, '^^J:7-^.s7r:^j:t:j:;^s^ 
 
nn«l ft hrjTrt porti»>ii of ihoir inlieritauo<», llius unju«ily iikI ilis- 
 honorably di»piit«d. 
 
 The singular coincidonop of ril'oumsirtnces upon f»nnh ocon- 
 sion, was eqnnlly reninikublo. Tho prwiso piipor niisaing lu iho 
 very poriod of rfquiremcni ; the weurisotno day of a;r,)ny N|>„nt 
 in searchinff it out; tho piles of (lo(Juinonr,s oxaminml for thui 
 purpose, tho opened druvvers and dosks ; tho slowly Rdmitled 
 confirmation of duplicity ; tho suspicious person who had idly 
 loitered about tho otlice the ontiro day previous to tho iliseover- 
 od deficiency, with uo nppnrerjt pujpose but that of pasfiu^r an 
 unoccupied space of tin>6 in trivial conversation; the j^raspin^f 
 fti my evidence which niight conviei this person, and riM'over 
 the niissinsj do<niment f and tho knowledjj[e that it (K)»dd not havo 
 beenusefid lo this innn in any way, but as an instrument ol im- 
 peachment, whf'u incjuiry was instiiuled by persons in authority. 
 All the arter years of broken health, and domestic deraui^emem 
 accruinir, left too iiidelil)|e an impression of torj^ivorsatioii aiul 
 chicanery, in controlling , vers, ilmt eonstani Huspinion of ihe 
 same system woikinof in clitFerent vvhvs, and by other means, 
 coidd not ever be doubted, nnd onlweiifhed the value of a thous- 
 and (\il(>nial civil otlices. 
 
 Was there not a more merciful method of disniissinj( a ptd)Iio 
 servant than ibis ? Was repuintion to be nssaileJ in its entire 
 sensitiveness, and the victim to be thus compelled to a hati d po- 
 sition nnd residence, until life was uneiiUurable, MO prevent all 
 these facts becominj; common topics, and casting a reflfction o( 
 mal-ndministration ? Oris this a system which Is fast beinj,^ es- 
 tablished, that a necessary change cannot take place olHcmlly, 
 without the aid of the blackest malignity, sweeping in Its on- 
 ward ccmrse, alike the friend or the rival, tho relative and the 
 stranj^'er into untimely graves ? Or by odicious time-servers is 
 denominational predominance thrown into the scale of advance- 
 ment, and made the foundation of destruction ! 
 
 Let Nova Scotia beware, and learn discernment by past ex- 
 perience. If the destruction of ("hrisiianity be not already 
 wrought by overlooking such transactions, which have so multi- 
 plied, she is thus surely undermining all the bonds of societv. 
 
dii' 
 
 C5 
 
 CUAPTKU IV. 
 
 That «|mN with th. vvhl,„ „«il At|«„r|„'H f„irN.n«. 
 Sound H.n «.„. . ki,,,,,, .vnfoh-fl...,, ..,. Iil,«r»v'« r..^,. 
 Or .^l« Hr«ml .l,i,mr.d« H.»r.'U l.« « bl«.-lc \mi. 
 We .-« *ll f,,,. ||,„ |,^,t „,■ ,1,^ „„vv„„p„ , ,,„|,^ . 
 
 If «« Ha«l to yi. Nicholas ; out with iho I'ope. 
 
 A word moro al„M.(, fl.n nnolont Clinrcl, Tory nnrllnftnil.ln r 
 
 «K m 1.0 ,,o.«ono,., toyy.nt of Pupul LibomllHu., w.n, «o 1 Itlo 
 vn "«d ; wo wotthl .on.iKu ,|.o ..,,l.„r branch to tl o obli i n y 
 nc ly do«o,vc, hut tluH ..«.nu«- hour, an «(ll„lty to h tl^ 
 which ShukosporoV. Cook" pt.t uh'vo h.to .h„ pLry . Lo 
 oonorgotsufoydovvu oa ono aide, than ho wa^o.n d o 
 
 hopod that you may give a bettor account of your«olvo« ol,«. 
 
 Engh h mumos. ,o« had remained upon tho «oil, to which thoy 
 are adaptod-whcro tho unsullied Saxou spirit will perpotuallv 
 njroHt the r force. Hero, thoy nu»t make a foot!,;'!^! 
 woods and forc.t«, leaving them rr. ,« thoy wore found 
 Among our neighbours there is an in. ^ :, pHnciplo pervudi , 
 T ^*"'^^~^" "^-•'^""l ««ked of an attJadant! « Does tho 
 Honourable Abbot Lawrence, Secretary of State for Foreign 
 Affairs, hve yonder- "Abbot Wenee doe.,%ald the mam 
 The Secretary, &c. was rejoined with tho old British pertinaoi- 
 ty wluch so loves long sour.ds. " Ho wa, that onrej' was «n- 
 
 Stao than you or lake's a merchant." There is there, nono of 
 that tenacity of power which with « .. . , . 
 
 l„,n " ' ''"'• " '"'"'""' '■""°"'" "" K»Bli.>.«..n 
 W.U d Imvo „n.«red, » ho doesn't k„„„ „ho ho', talking »l,o,u." 
 
 Wo Imd ,0 mud. IrouWe to got .!,„ Torio, o„, of ,heir pUco.. 
 
 i'i 
 
66 
 
 •aid tlhj Ifttly previously quofod, with Iho ftir of an oIJ General, 
 thntwo did'nt euro what w« did; nnd mnny things wouldn't 
 have b.'('n Jolorntod in any othor country. Kvcry thing hero is 
 •non hushed up nnd forgotten; but Ihcro'a mnny a man been 
 lorccd into his gnvvo by fnlso accusation-its been done over 
 nnd ov.M- a-'vin, through Ilorton and Anti^ronish, but nobody 
 had aenso or energy to silt tho matter to th« root ; indeed we 
 Jnghtmcd them so,th<>,f did: Ht dareto. I've known one or two who 
 hud to blow their brains out, wo worried 'em so. Jlut then it was 
 all for the beat ; for those we condemned were soft fellows, who 
 were always saying their prayers, and pretending to be better 
 than their neighbours. The way society is constituted here, 
 rou have only to set their own friends against them and you 
 ^onn have them down-its a way that's never known to fail. 
 
 Observe hero tho ready advantage taken of timidity, in the 
 struggle for Papal predominance ; which, working under the guiso 
 of Responsible Rule, tenderly pensioned off those who had en- 
 .loyed exorbitant salaries while they were helping handstand 
 nltogether cleared the way of others, to make room for an hier- 
 «rchy-.for tho very form and state of things which even now, 
 .n .ts full s.^rength, the Continent of Europe trembles to behold 
 developed in iron headed Russia. How littlo is a monarchy 
 adapteii to a great country, when tho ocean rolls between the 
 controul of the two-how small tho benefit which " Church 
 Dignity" confers upon the wilderness, when it still loves 
 *• The State" upon which it once leaned I How littie does the 
 genuine Tory deserve a pension I 
 
 There is upon the sea-board to tho eastward of H. a settle- 
 ment called Chezetcook, inhabited by descendants of French 
 ^eutrals. They live by fishing, and the sale of wild berriei. 
 1 hey attract attention by the peculiar reserve which marks a 
 distmet race. Amid all the change of fashion the women ad- 
 here to the cotton jacket, and coarse cloth attire ( f past times 
 All the social gossiping nature of the German is wanting, and 
 though you catch a kind glance from merry black eves, and a 
 good-humoured smile, they seem averse to further acquaintance. 
 Ihey tur,n their jetty hair from off their brniyn foreh-*?. ^vA 
 suspend the littlo bone crucifix around the neck, and walk 
 through crowds of gaily attired country girk with stoical iadif- 
 
«7 
 
 ftrence. About tba Hmo of tlic •' Liiorni7 ir.nniu" 1 rcniaikoC 
 tf) OHO of the iuJiviiluul:* whom " our niotht-r" bcslowed upou 
 UK to " teac) us how to take care of ourselves," and who was «c- 
 tively engaged in iulfiUinghis mission, that in any other country 
 thesu pooplo would bo I ho endh-as euliject of literary epecuh*- 
 tion, and give rise to many an intoresting romance. '• It would 
 not be no/A, (said he), to meddle with them hare." Some timu 
 ttfterwurda ho tindeuvonred to eoavincc mo that ho t;pok« but in 
 jest J 1 was soon obliged to desist, however, from tlie prose- 
 <;ution of such intention, by this very person, v^ho had eviderjtly 
 vrgod it, for the purposa of eeeing whether I hud suilicicnt har- 
 dihood to make the attempt. Tlua circumatancu will, to a 6V- 
 lonial mind, appear very trivial — to another it must display tho 
 leurching watchfulness which haa boon instituted. This person 
 was ono of those jovial sons of John Bull to whom tho immense 
 Colonioa presunt no other U6pu«i:t than that of a glorious play- 
 ground, and whose chief aim is anmsement in any form, even at 
 the expense of their host ; who are bent oii inculcating idle dio- 
 nipfition by way of carrying out a resemblance to the second 
 band nobility " at home ;" whoso " titles'' they continually 
 press into their tfervico to substaatiato an intimacy. Engaged 
 in doing tho small work of tho new era, he eventually carried 
 out measures with bo high u band, that even the passive Nova 
 Scotians could no longer submit, and he was compeUod to leave 
 the country, lieing then so frequently condemned for posscssina; 
 sentiments not congenial with the order of tho day, time passed 
 without other mental effusion than a ♦' Monody on tho death of 
 H largo Rooster." This not actually rapping the " Tope's" 
 head, possibly escaped his censure ; but upon every subsequent 
 attempt to touch upon subjects of a dominant nature, effect soon 
 tucceedcd tho cause, even wxi^evXXia supposed protection of those 
 who have obtained position by a pretended support of Protestant- 
 ism, Deception, nothing but deception, is becoming the stand- 
 dard of the Colonial world, who are altogether unawarn of the 
 fact ; or quite apathetic, with the evidence daily before them. 
 Had the worthy otHcial referred to, but given ono thought to 
 this apatiiy, or tiie impossibility oi one colonist in a iiundred tak- 
 ing the trouble to read anything about their own affair.«, such 
 •snionagi? would have been too humiliating. If, as n'ay be sur. 
 
 m 
 
 .a .1 
 
 I': 
 
6S 
 
 iMives, and only ,l,„e ,„ ' T . ? ""'"'"'"' *'"' '"" «- 
 
 '''■■^l^ploa.0 1/, ™„ ,\ ''°""''° "'" "■'""■"^"•■pu- 
 
 -«, Ld seek aZodv , "' ,'""'' ''"'y •" '""' "' «■» 
 
 custom from . I'rotostm.t JM ° "'"'"^' witlKlraw.s lii, 
 
 i»o. o...„„ , .L° r,iT:« r "'"•-^' "'•■"■™ <» ■» 
 
 wonder oft times „° 7 /""'"'''""'»■><""='■ "•"turn,. Wo 
 
 ovory shallop and sch^onor dr;«i„^.r. I ,T '."."r "'' "'"' 
 away its freight of youth wI,Z7 m I """"' ^'"""'' ''"«>■» 
 
 rr«tosta„is„ri„ I'^Cotre , " '' ^ •"'° ""'"' '"""""o™ »* 
 this has beea well Lol '^d' 11 T "" ''"'^'''' """■''• AH 
 •>!os do not possess t 7 Wn o ^ """'""""^ '"'■ ^ho Colo, 
 persecuted ly ,!e t.. the ,ui 1 ' '"?""""" '" "'-" "-° 
 
 ;;..« city , and L,v 0.:: ;, tir ' zr, ;:r '1';';;"°"- '™' 
 
 tilings is so 'peculiar in iho r„!„ 'i"ar«-"lhc system of 
 
 turn." Ut a'man okadX^'t '": "" "" r,"^^"'" •" - 
 punished. Is this tho fr.,1, „f ' " ""'' ''" " l-'ickly 
 
 -urge Which ha: r.,:; r ,;.'•:■: x-;; ^ ^^' =» "■» -r^ 
 
 «>:pcrience the suhtlety which w ,e 1, "' " P""™ 
 
 wnrps every word ho utte^ „t T ""'■^/''P--™-"". "Wch 
 
 ■■ule i which , We. into plT^e r '^T" "^ """" "''» '""'I" 
 "•emnrb, ,„,,,„, .,.„; f, fj^"; ";•" "'■■"„".' «P long f„rg„e,e„ 
 
 ' " - '-i.;.eto dere"",, i:!:;:. :°";'™-t-- -' 
 
 -ystem origioa,,. , ,„ , .„„,„ enjefj: .nir'^-; 
 
 -'»o Uiiiou, where a (lefi;:o(( (i 
 
 'Vision exists, though a 
 
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 "Pmily, ...d ,liKl,il„..' „, r ."""^''""'''"•"'ll'.-iw.uk 
 
 «'" ".•s—ho popui. :':::;:: r"""' '^ '"" '""■"""«- 
 
 'Hand, l.„t llnMly "^J" ,."''*' 7"' '^O""' "l»n 1,|„, , ,,i,. 
 
 In « country wo.li|,v ™„". , "■" '" ""'""• 
 l"'P<^ i. lira organ „,•„ „„„ ' " " ""'°''- -""■ ""*« ""ri, nmc,. 
 'I.e Froncl. Offlcr, drew afZ '"' ''■°'" ""> """> "I""' 
 
 pronounced i: "von v„r «», it "''"• ^ y™" »«». »"'! -lyly 
 »po„,ible m„„i„_,„ ,1,;^ ,fj° ''°'" "'<' Coon.oa, and il,„ i,„. 
 
 wiuon ngreomontt, nnd a friend '7.- °T ''.""'°'' "'"'■'""' ""■"» 
 rrotocUon fr„„ on ni.y l^j"'' "' y""" ""'•™™i»n. -« "« only 
 "•" same you would oxp o^ l""! '" ,""''' ""•^ "P"""". „ro 
 ,in'>o, I would bo arZVman- I ;»:''"■"'*' ^•'""- 
 l-vo a wife and obiMrcn 1 andT.l', "' ' "'" »"^ "'''" '<" I 
 
 «.at rcligiou, toleration Ct.';"""?™"'""- ^ """overed 
 Annexalion-and tl,at tbo let „ Prl T"^"""" '""' 
 c-onneeted with the restriction upon their J"'"!'"""""' »'»» 
 
 ''■"oideaiZ.:rc;::;Ta""^- ""'"'^'^^ 
 
 -. Beaton, opened. Vi::::sr:^--n;^ 
 
ro 
 
 «nil uf (ha Qiaiujeuviitig, U ia (u!crt>(>t nit IlicrnKiliy wliiob will 
 •xvoep thu otillru uuiitiiiuiil ; it in to I'lovnlo itin tribo. Kvuii iiuw 
 tite otl'uul is viNllilo ia aomo itai'lit ul' tlio United Htutun. In Uuh- 
 ton very |)romincnt, luul nolliiii)^ but n Vtotectiv« Atinviafion 
 Without tiisfindioH of countr}/^ will lusa-ii iti powor. 8uid oiio 
 uf" tho quality," — a lilllo old judgo, willi a dry lnugb/* ir yuu 
 go to IJtislon to publisli, soMU! of tliu rovenuo mwy follow you."— 
 Tlio cfllux of H I'rotcslimt projilo from tbo eboros of tboir coun- 
 try boars tbo improsa iIidii of « dcsporuto, and niorclb'M denign^ 
 not iiltogclbcr upon tbo purl of tbono wbo bobi tbo ndniinii«trn> 
 tion, l)ut on tbo»o wlu^ Imvo pn cctHl it ; and tbo grout purpojio 
 ^vbicb tbru!*tei tbo omi^runt upon eucb Ih iit oiicc vl!«iblr<. 11 ix 
 >vi\y is [»uvcd by bis Priest. Tbo cbrisliijin and uprigbt umn. 
 aup()lnntod by tbo oroaturo of will. 
 
 Is it not painful to f^iui tbt) sanio inert .submission ciprcndiuf^ 
 itnd becoming a principlo in soculav tbings, wbicb tbo poor ig- 
 norant Ronirtn Calbolic gives to bis I'ricsf, in bigbcr and mor« 
 •acred ones? Itarguos but badly (or our now system of bousc- 
 keoping, so to speak, in wbicU wo wore to receive so " liberal" 
 nn education, and ratber reminds one, to use a bomoly simile, of 
 n careless inroad upon a very dirty dojuioil by a ncglifrcnt sor-^ 
 vant girl, wbo slyly bruabes tbo accumulated piles bobind tb^ 
 •ofas and ebnirs, and smilingly tcUs b(!r mistress tbat sbo baft 
 wado *'a good llnisb," wbo, poor soul, is obliged to put up witli 
 the deception, witb tbo best amount of | alenco sbe can muster, 
 and be deprived of tbo extended annual general purifying asso- 
 ciation, for tbe suppression and extirmination of dirt in oui. of 
 tbo way corners, b6cans(> she can tfd no other help. 
 
 Tbo Colonial n^vvl tben overruled by tbo administration after 
 •truggling witb a surviving attacbraent for a venerated aristo- 
 cracy, atler witnessing its slow decline, and reviving fall, was 
 gradually drawn away into tbe nuiKCS of Liberalism, wbicb 
 wisoly diverts attention. Tberefore, finding little cause for gra- 
 tulation in our own laud, veo n.iturally set small store by it; but 
 bung upou news from England as tliougb life depended on it, 
 and were more deeply concerned as to wbat tbe Emperor of 
 
 icment of our coun- 
 
 iiian fo 
 
 iiprovi 
 
 try ; and mei^ of principle — men wbo migbt bave been an, 
 honour to it^-ralber than struggle .for that which they knew to 
 
ym 
 
 n 
 
 «o. in word, n look ..!„„ .","'""' "'l!"""""™"! b;r iri- 
 
 l»lo up tI,o 8troot«. oxlmu«tod by content on w hi /""7' 
 
 clown and tnkoa l.ls last eleon in uTwhrMri^ ''''''' ^'' "^' 
 rounded by ccfort. .huddr«: . e^I S';^ '*' T 
 contact. The colonist then nassivelv luZZ f"" *^° 
 
 ;bieh the most wealthy can o " ^yCa" u '"'""' ^' 
 Irom poverty j^oi- thev bear out Zk ""^ '°'"°^«« 
 
 r: " »"■• ''»'' '"Ko in proportion „ro .he utteriv Id r" 
 ly do,...„,o . Am. .,g«i„, .,,0.0 „e,ry smtili™ l™^"?,!""™- 
 wondering ear,, like ll,„ f„bl„, of f.i,y.l„„7 h2„„ , °"' 
 
 «»«. why havo wo ,0 much povorty? "t7>ZT, °^ "'"'• 
 « pnr. monarchy ,o keep I pc/p L in Icr' "t r"""'" "' 
 »««nc„ alono iraplic, an overstraining oCthTZL, ^ """"'■ 
 «co,.ity b«.u,o a Monarch, raufor ! a p i'nM""' ■"' 
 ««n(ro of the circle. Verilv "Oi.r M„.i ,, ,^™'"<'™'> " the 
 -oient o.d ,ady at bni°S c^n^rZ.: ^ril.".!"^ ««■ 
 
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72! 
 
 •pecies, liko that of bottled spiders. As the Colomst has such a 
 fino head for calcu latin-.', Buppose he learn how raany ingredi- 
 ents i.omi,o6<i the honour and credit of a natmi; or whether, it* 
 tho tiilr (,f .aigration were changed, the smoked and steamed 
 manufacturer of England, might not with slight aid, cause the 
 Spruce barrens of the Colonies to resound with other music than 
 the chirp of the grasshopper ; — or whether there be not room 
 enough in them for no host of miners, who may lessen Irish 
 influence. 
 
 Preston is a district six miles beyond Dartmouth, and upon 
 its arid and harsh soil you may perceive the black log hut of tho 
 Maroon, descendants of tha rebels of Jamaica ; of whom it can 
 be only said, that, did they possess a more fertile tract of land, 
 they might have been a more prosperous people. Goodness 
 not invariably connecting itself with poverty, as romancers r.ver, 
 nor with the unlimited trade in clams, and birch biooms, ' 
 which nobody wants to buy. The stroller of a spring day may 
 here rejoice in the pleasant bridle road, favourite with Prince 
 Edward, the father of the Queen ; and he will not for a mo- 
 ment doubt that royalty is remarkably clever at findiag out 
 good and agreeable things. Here, beneath the long sprays of 
 wild cherry blossoms, hacmatac buds, and moosewood leaves, the 
 air redolent with the aroma of white birch, fancy may depict a 
 gay group of horsemen, cantering merrily over the sod, without 
 a thought of the " good of the country" he came so far to look 
 after daring to invade tho royal faculties o£one at least of them. 
 Well, ihey are all gone now, and so also the merrie hermitage, 
 which idle extravagance erected in 1797, upon the banks of 
 Chebucto; and utilitarianism cannot but suggest how much 
 more serviceable a school house would have been, than the pal- 
 try edifice once known as the Prince's Lodge. The tamed wild 
 man yet lingers at Preston, and upon a sunny summer eve, you 
 may hear the merry laugh, and gay repartee of the social as- 
 semblage, in which he rejoices equally with his brethren ; and 
 well he may, for his wedding feast is his grand galar— his time 
 of revelry. For several previous evenings, busy moccasined 
 feet have been pattering through the forest to join the party, 
 and there has been a continuation of dull monotonous dancing, 
 which is kept to time by one performer striking two pieces of 
 
 

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 discharged. Lager group, arrive p„„ hastc, bouoding like deer 
 •ver the „„„. Brown tes, locomotive blanketB, smoky pipe. 
 «"d s,„a™' pointed cap,, dart u,,„„ y„„ from ,,,: aMer'Lush ! 
 ja.l where you don't expect them , and yon run twenty chance, 
 of breaking your neck over stray pappooses, who have got up a 
 ^«e on their own account, and scamper about in the moonlight 
 « discretion. Demonstrations increase in violence. Half-clad 
 m^engers ily about, hair on end, with flaming torches in their 
 hands; swarthy figures hand in hand dance madly round Z 
 brushwood flre, which throws out great showers of glitter nl 
 sparks luto. he white light; the dancers barking likeC "» 
 w ile-unt. the moon sets, the nigh, grows darker, „nf the 
 roso tinge of anotner day appears. The effect is picturesoue in 
 the extreme, though it fail to impress an expectation of domes- 
 t^ bliss for the newly united; which is not increased by day- 
 light ghmpses of the wedding procession wending to the chapel 
 when one perceives that the cheapest of shopping excuS 
 have arrayed the bride and her portly attendants' in H; 3 
 yclhjweurtam chintz; and that the !.app, n,a„ in his unfitting 
 Eugh h dress, looks like o demented broomstick got out walk! 
 iig. and forgot to come l,a.;k. Fortunate will yoi. be, poor 
 brown and simple creatures, if the affection which has drawn 
 you together continue to shed its influence, when the melting 
 nuslh:?""'/""" ''^'"=-*™S'' your camp, and most 
 
 brethren, if aifection outlives such disi ressing ordeal, and the 
 
 fr'r ""' 'f -S^^I-^d forever, upon the domestic sod, or 
 altar, figuratively speaking. ' 
 
 It is at Preston that the Indian girl, beside the CTrslinrr 
 
 reach the clear waters, the clinging bunches of luxuriant fern 
 leaves and the graceful blossom of Solomon's Seal, era h n» th" 
 Uue viole, and starting the swallow from its brink. It w°as at 
 J-reston that, some six years ago during a period of intense 
 drought, that a little Church embosomed i^ trees, was cons,!m.,l 
 "7 nre b„„« aparks falling from the cigar of a careless sports! 
 ».n catching m light brushwood, and heedlessly trampled „„ 
 without being extinguished, fanned by the breeze, soon spread 
 
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 over the country, In a fierce and rapid blaze ; leaving wheat, 
 for the farmer to lament the destruction of, mother birds to 
 chirrup vainly for their offspring, and those who knew the value 
 of money in Nova Scotia, to regret that the erection of another 
 Church must absorb funds more deeply and desperately needed, 
 in sections of the Province less favoured by religious advantages 
 than poverty-stricken, and sterile Preston. From a particular 
 settlement in this district, multitudinous venders of gigantic 
 Dandelions make an annual descent upon city folks ; with the 
 desperate intention of extracting spare pence from their purse, if 
 not with the benevolent purpose of purifying their system, 'a 
 heavy ring at an unwonted hour in the morning, at the hall 
 door, causes a precipitate rush to discover the reason of the in- 
 trusion. It is not the milkman ; it is too early for that func- 
 tionary. It must be the postman ; or a neighbour is in distress. 
 Distress, indeed ; but not such as is anticipated. There stands 
 the dark Maroon girl, moistened with the dews of a cold spring 
 morning,— and two, three, or four, little ragged brothers, beside 
 her. Ah ! many a tim<. , and often, she might weep bitter tears, 
 cold as the rain-drops upon her basket of dandelions, that such 
 an occupation is hers— has not desperate hunger urged her 
 from the hut which she calls her home ? and how these beings 
 are sustained, or how life is supported, He only knoweth w'ho 
 careth for the sparrow. And it is to be questioned, whether the 
 Maroon of Nova Scotia be not in an infinitely worse predica- 
 ment than his darker brethren of the teeming South. 
 
 In 1805, when the Responsible mania had reached its height, 
 the "Exodus" which has been alluded to, became more than 
 remarkable ; it was grievous, and even appalling. For days, 
 and weeks, and months, did the people from the country dis- 
 tricts pour on, in one continued and unbroken stream, like birds 
 of passage, pausing momentarily in their flight, as they reached 
 the city, and prepared to leave their country for ever. For 
 ever, did I say ? No, the colonist, however much he may be in 
 the position of the Irish in Ireland, forsakes not for ever the 
 land of his being; he still clings to old recollections of his sum- 
 mer boyish days ; to the early ramble Intheforost: the ^ha- 
 fiant blackberry gathering, when his only companions,'perchance, 
 were the robins upon the hedge roses ! the speaking stillness. 
 
 hp.r 
 
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 Moncai , "> 'hey al«r.j, hope to return ogain."-"! 
 
 ™« L f ... a s„ther, an anuther wan kun.men over, ei 
 
 da bether ,U .hi„ » rt.. .r, *<,& , but th; old ,.'irer?«. 
 wtrMn't turn, do'Ter think .iS«W li™ ._ • i. ""Ofer <«« 
 
 ere? JK. «,*.rf, she'd sooner shmoke her pipe «, J„! 
 ""'u,r/.,r Aon.. She &.p.W .-, <„ ^^oaIS-IhI; 
 g™t,fy.ng that, to the kind people of that interesting^ ity <tl 
 ple.«nt odour of his sin,ple early days, which like^Atfai of 1 
 E«e, .s .neff«eable, is the talisman of the Colonist. Butt, t 
 act,ngamanyp.r,,o leave the ignorant and helpless '"p^n 
 
 bu r{'', """"rr "^""'-'^"""'ing their bead, th"™" 
 but no do,ag much belter-for when the defenders of truth are 
 gone, the opposition must increase. 
 From the farms of Truro, and the easl-from Annapolis from 
 
 country cluster, only to pa,, onward,_Mechanic, the very s7a! 
 
 fret; 1^2; d '"''''' -.ny to sleep their last in . 
 ofZh.ret^df '*''°'°'"'"'''"""' "^^'"e vexation, 
 ln«r . ^ °™ "" f'^^'O"' estimate, had sapped the 
 
 eonfldent expectation in which they exulted and Zftl 
 fnendle,, Being among the number of tho^e who wereT 
 terested in house-rentin» m ik:. ■ j , 
 which »avo Z. • / '"""^> "•= '"'d policy 
 
 y notice. Property of course depreciated in value and nn» 
 
 tZlZf T^ '"."■' "-^ ■^«'' ""^ ''"°'^- c^'"° 
 
 at intervals for the requisition of a small sum due from the i^ 
 Z^f '^""' '""■' ""y'"'""'' « few year, ZriousT; 
 
 .onaTaffdrs'^Th: 7' T'"^ '""""'"* '" "'""' '"^ "■«' Per- 
 augnters, they had been considered respeclaMe member, of 
 
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76 
 
 •ociety, and the father had gained an honest livelihood by tb« 
 pursuit of hi? trade, which was that of a carpenter. But this 
 had been in more prosperous days.— Times were changing, 
 trade was dull, and the man had by degrees relaxed in his ef- 
 forts to procure work, and sunk into a state of idle indifference, 
 and stolidity, from which the advice of his superiors, or 
 the wretcheduess of his family, failed to arouse him. The 
 daughters had been constant attendants upon the services of the 
 Church and Sabbath School, and participants in tfie sacred com- 
 munion, in connection with the Episcopal form of worship ; but 
 they had gradually lost their health, and evidently lacked ener- 
 gy to make an effort at rallying,— so inert, through suffering or 
 some other imperceptible cause, had they become. In convers- 
 ing with the mother of the girls upon their unhappy condition, 
 ehe became either timid and hesitating in her remarks, or tes! y 
 and occasionally morose; but always evinced the deepest affec- 
 tion and solicitude in their behalf. The frigid indifference of her 
 husband, however, to the welfare of his family, thdugh evident- 
 ly deeply felt, was never inveighed against ; and the poor wo- 
 man struggled on submiasive, patient and enduring. As the 
 winter approached, she had indeed need for a full amount oi" 
 these qualities ; for she was left to sustain the entire burthen of 
 her suffering daughters, as best slie might,— while her husband 
 strolled about in dejection, through the streets of the city ; or 
 loitered— so people said— upon the wharves. At times, when 
 an occasional assistance had been proffered her by some pitying 
 friend, or she had been cheered by the voibe of commiseration, 
 Bhe loved to dwell u;jon the happiness of her earlier life,— when 
 she had attended the services of the Church, accompanied by 
 heirvdiaughters. " 1 had three then, (said she), but they have all 
 fallen, one after the other, into the same peculiar illness ; and 
 my eldest girl was unable to rise from her bed, for a period of 
 twenty years,— when at last, death released her from the pro- 
 tracted misery which was her lot : it was but the removal ol a 
 living skeleton, so wan and emaciated had she become ; and yet 
 she never was sick ! And now my other girls are afflicted in the 
 same way ; day after day, for the last twenty years, has one of 
 t.'em Iain upon her bed, almost as helpless as a corpse — scarcely 
 alive to anything that passes around her; and the other, fci- 
 
 
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 •eventeen years, hw been nearly in the same condition W. 
 
 «o cnre them, and I an, afraid they will never recover »!! 
 The woman had frequently and warmly mentioned her at 
 taohment to the Episcopal Chn,eh ;-hcr\„,band how ve^ 
 
 •„ f L'^'^rf !?'" ''^"""' """^ "7'"S' ''■e "as at times depressed 
 
 general y, and the crcnmstaoce of the rnsh of people from the 
 .hore d,d not pass unnoticed. Like all in her station' who r ^ 
 « large y upon govet^ment measures for sustenanctand dl ly 
 mng, she codd attribute it ,„ a ruinous policy, whi^h ele™^s 
 he f„„,g„ commodity a. the expense of the toiling resident art 
 ^an, butsh« appeared lo have convictions that another a„d 
 greater evd, was meditated-for she would frequently t;!; 
 
 The condition of these people could not but ezcite interest as 
 well as uneasmess. The daughters had been given up ^in 
 curable and they were almost daily visited by! cler"yml "f 
 he Episcopal Chnrch,-„ho at a stated hour prayed and "ead 
 .he scriptu.es with them , and though their caseVs Inside cd 
 hopele-- they still lingered on, one year after another, in ataos. 
 deathlike inamtion. Being desirous of assisting .he; to a po 
 
 tte to undertake some business which would not call her atten- 
 
 .on much from them, the commencement of a small ZpZ 
 
 ."ggested, and she, entering upon the plan with avidl ,°1few 
 
 n l^fT-,"""""*"^'' "^'"^ "'^l""" of -meinused 
 pieces furn.ture, which .mained from the wreck of her pros 
 perous time,, and the windows were filled with nuts and Z 
 whle drinking glasses and mugs occupied the recentiv 1! j 
 resof the little front room. But the. sort o! ^ercaimo 
 
 ..mc unusual attmctioircr ^rprarTi'cirrt 1' Z:Z 
 than th, nominal value; and tobacco pipes leaned thlirwhiu 
 
 
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 heads against the window pane, with a listless despair of ever 
 being smoked, expressed in the position, while rosy cheeked ap- 
 ples lost their colour, just as young ladies do who go to a ball 
 with high expectations, which are never answered. Things as- 
 suming this unpromising aspect, set invention upon the rack for 
 some means of bettering it ; and the favourite idea of a Bazaar, 
 which had been for some time entertained, for the purpose of 
 raising a fund for the re-erection of the little Churca at Preston, 
 seemed the favourite, as well as the most feasible method. This 
 being connected with the shop, both schemes might be mutually 
 advanced. The destruction of this little Church at Preston had 
 been generally regretted, inasmuch as it had been erected by the 
 first settlers around Chebucto Bay, and bore the palm of seni- 
 ority from a more antique one, called the Dutch Church, which 
 in 1749 the worthy settlers built of unhewn logs, in a section of 
 the city of Halifax known as Dutchtown. 
 
 The eflfect in its favour howevp.r, was unanswered, so far a? 
 the Bazaar was concerned ; therefore, unwilling to let it fall 
 through, I commencedjpreparing materials for its accomplish- 
 ment ; and when matters appeared to warrant the decision, com- 
 municated my intention to the woman, stating that some of the 
 articles being placed in her shop windows, would undoubtedly 
 attract customers, who might be induced to purchase other things 
 adding, '* I am sure you will be delighted to assist a good object' 
 and as you are an attached member of the Church of England,' 
 you will be glad to know that, the proceeds are to be devoted to 
 the erection of a building in a poor, and thiAly peopled district." 
 She at once understood the allusion, but I was quite unprepared 
 for the nervous start and slight shudder which pervaded her, as I 
 spoke thus ; however, her general quiet indifference returning 
 I attributed the change to the effect of the winter weather up' 
 on her much tried system, and though her assurances of assist- 
 ance were but coldly repeated, left the house certain of co-oper- 
 ation. Proceeding to the city upon the following afternoon for 
 the purchase of materi-^ls for the Bazaar work, I had gone some 
 distance among the shops for the purpose of obtaining a proper 
 selection, when twilight began to gather in, (for the dark aays 
 
 ... -J ttiiii f»aici uucui prcsennng iiio near- 
 
 est approach towards home, hurried through it. I had not advan- 
 
Md many yarda »hei. I was again assailed by tl.e conrse low i„«,. 
 •enoe o remark bete e.p„ienced, upon either side ,n aZnt 
 «nd m the d«tance, as if dropped from a telegraphic wire, a„^ 
 the accent of the Irishmen is never to be mistaken. TI« cL- 
 cumstance seemed mo.e than usually remarkable, as a friend 
 had mformed me tbat the brother of the woman's husband w^ 
 
 tw ZV r^" f '""°'' """""•"• """^ " "S'd Catholic , and 
 
 R. , ff ^"f'' ""P'^»^»°' ftough the infliction was, with the 
 Bazaar full m view, I discarded further reflection for he time! 
 although the approach of these people was accompanied by The 
 most gross and insolent language, and determiL to divtt 
 thoughts wh,ch at times became intensely painful ; I set to Xk 
 earnestly upon the fancy articles. To combine something novel 
 and attracttve, was the great aim, something that would add 
 cons.derably to a fund for the erection of the Church, and draw 
 customers to the poor woman's litUe saleable affairs ; and big 
 ^d to connect crcumstances then occurring in the Province! 
 with the m,se„es and peculiarities of Ireland, with the threaten 
 .ng «pect which France at that time assumed towards EngS 
 
 jects, I took them up, with the purpose of discerning the applica- 
 Mtty^of the. style of treating important matterf to 21. 
 
 land s Queen over the Churci. was invaded ; and Panal po^f, 
 
 aeZ i;:'7°" •'"' ™™'l' ■"" '"•'' '=^'^""S fn.'-ce.boCs: 
 eerted >ts r. .-eminence ; the disunion of Protestants paving the 
 
 ecueme. It m 3 ai the opening of the next year that Mr Hn:i,e 
 .n a..u.es,mg the House of Lord., said, " why should theVe ba 
 If,.?' ^'■'"«''«"' R^'igi"" of this co.r„!ry ? They 
 
 wa oh'overl'^' « T'T' V'^ "'"'' '«'«"» «''=W-» '0 
 watcn o.er > , Ho did not add, that it was the poiicv of tho 
 
 leading Aimistrv to ally «.l,h .!.« .. -. _ >-. 01 mo 
 
 Fapally lafiuenced or ..ot^so that they gained a present acau- 
 
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 tage, and their families could move in the higher circles of 
 society. However local these affairs may be, they are interest- 
 ing to all when the spring is touched which now regulates eve- 
 ry public movement. One power, or the other, is to rule Se- 
 lecting then the head of Palmerston, upon whom those papers were 
 then very severe ; and combining the Frontispiece with it, they 
 were soon cut in white cardboard, brilliantly coloured, put on a 
 stand, and having crimson cloth penwipers with diamond shaped 
 spots upon them in black and white silk depending from their necks 
 —there appeared a reasonable prospect that their showy appear- 
 ance would prove attractive to schoolboys whose holiday money 
 ia a sad burden. For Christmas time was approaching. There was 
 certainly no personality indicated ; though there was allusion to 
 public tendency in the imcripiion upon these heads which ran 
 thus "Can we do any thing with these Nova Scotians, Brother?" 
 
 The reply in reverse being the variously applicable adjective 
 
 « Anything, Anything, Brother."~-The distressing state of the 
 mechanical population, and the daily drain which threw num- 
 bers of individuals upon a shore where they are not wanted, as 
 the Knownothing faction has since proved, seemed a thing to be 
 noticed, and for the sake of novelty it was eagerly seized upon, 
 a little paper cottage surrounded by Spruce trees, in green tissue, 
 upon the point of desertion by the household gods, making an 
 exit from the chimney pot, in the form of Fairies, with the at- 
 tached cognomen of Faith, Hope, Piety, and Charity, gave aa 
 excellent illustration, and a pointed satire, to an evidently design- 
 ed evil. A group of Codfish on the margin "denoting the staple 
 of the country. This copy of the house which the Pope has built, 
 presented a far more attractive appearance than does the original, 
 and the lines of the old Scotch Song served to localize the idea I 
 "There's na'e luck in our house, sae the folks be flown awa." 
 Upon either wing of the frail images, flying from the chimney 
 pot, in pictorial resemblance of the Lares, and Penates, there was 
 another motto, which must have served materially to rouse the 
 ire of the unknown intruders, who, aflerwards injured thess toys; 
 if effect may be judged by the occasion, it ran thus :-*- 
 
 Faith ! The plump round rolling codfish be mij care. 
 Hope ! And mine the grain the golden" wheat fields bear ; 
 Piety ! For me the treasures of the sealed mine, 
 Charity ! For me the gifts the altar Hoth enshrine. 
 
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 Theae articles added to the others being placed^ in a basket 
 were immediately despatched to the city, with directions as to 
 the proper disposal in the windows ; and I confidently awaited 
 the result. It was upon a sharp and clear day, that I bent my 
 steps towards the woman's residence. There was a brL'- chee- 
 riness in the atmosphere, which gave a bounding elasticity toev- 
 ery pulse and nerve, while the intensity which made a multitude 
 of''* wraps necessary," relieved the c'umbersomeness of them - 
 The wmdow panes were enamelled with a thousand specimens 
 of unknown plants and shrubs, fresh from frost land; and in 
 consequence of a heavy fall of snow, sleigh bells jingled in every 
 direction. It was Christmas eve, and the gas lit shops had put 
 on their most winning smiles ; every where cheerful and merry 
 voices were exchanging congratulations, indulgent parents were 
 bestowmg selected gifts. The world however is not alto- 
 gether made of smiles ; and though I anticipated a different 
 scene than I was to witness at that pleasant period, it was with 
 not a very strong presentinent of evil <hat I entered the house 
 The woman was in the little shop, cold and shivering, though 
 there was a fire in the chamber of her daughters, and she went 
 occasionally to warm herself at it. She wore an air of painful 
 doubt and perplexity, which was not a little puzzling. The 
 « shop" had been an evident failure ; for the apples were frozen 
 and wilted, and the pipes covered with dust; but not a vestige 
 of the fancy speculation was to be seen, and with much embar- 
 rassment, and great distress, she apologized for the neglect.- 
 rhey had all been put mto a closet which was in the room 
 ^she said), and unfortunately she had lost the key of it • but sh J 
 would look every where for it, and then if she found it, would 
 place the toys where I desired." But, they were not all in the 
 closet, and she directed my attention to a cord drawn above the 
 windows, close to the ceiling, on which were suspended all the 
 pmcLv/,.ior covers, the socks, and caps, designed for Christmas 
 gitts, m^^^entiy shrinking from the glances of a chance custo- 
 mer. Very much astonished at such impolitic proceedings, I ar- 
 gued, and expostulated, that the present, that very evening, was 
 
 tllG one OT nil /Atli»»» ^1 K .1 •„ - °' 
 
 she could not affo.-l a gas light, I urged upon her .o earnestly 
 the importance of making up for lost time, that she seemed to 
 
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 repent of her carelessness, and after listening to many promises 
 respecting future plans, and an intention of immediately pur- 
 chasing a candle, searching for the lost key, and making a suit- 
 able display in the windows, and for the moment, I put faith in 
 her smcerity. and left her._It was to encounter again the watch- 
 lul impertmence which seemed bent as to a set purpose, again 
 to see the commission urged by the encouraging glances of t^ 
 Catholic Priest, who was always near ou these occasions. No won- 
 der the terror thus inspired, compelled silence until the infliction 
 was beyond endurance, and rendered life a burden. An eager 
 desire however to see how it would all end, what would result 
 from It, and what was the reason of it, had now become an im- 
 pulsive source of action, not to be slackened by any risk; accord- 
 ingly the next evening I anxiously awaited the appearance of 
 the expected light m the windows, assured that more impor- 
 tant events were connected with it, than the mere sale of a few 
 articles of clothing, or of taste. Not a ray was visible, and the 
 silence of death reigned throughout the dwelling. By the 
 chamber door in which lay the suffering daughters bent the form 
 ot the heart crushed mother, nervously, feverishly, awaiting the 
 reappearance of her husband's brother and a Priest, who were 
 therein, and .--- r ver suffered her to be present, when the pe- 
 cuhar argum. :r it may be threatened punishments (as after- 
 wards appears c deemed needful for their conversion, or sub- 
 mission, were resorted to by this worthy pair, who were united 
 advisers, and co-operators. 
 
 Next day at aa early hour I ^as again with the woman; the 
 key was still lost, and every thin- in the same place. On de- 
 manding the reason of her constant disregard of my wishes 
 where her own benefit was concerned, she again became deject' 
 ed, expressed regret, and made many promises in a very per- 
 plexed way. I was beginning to understand that this miserable 
 lamily needed a protection not in my power to bestow, but the 
 cause was then a nystery. Another week of intense cold pass- 
 ed. On entenng the room, I was terrified to behold the chan-e 
 •n her appearance and manner, shrinking back to the wall, she 
 regarded me with a fixed and earnest gaze, as though longing to 
 confide m a person whom she evidently beliere.d wp-s t-o==-"=(1 
 of important knowledge concerning her affairs ; and yeUs if she 
 
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 dreaded the exercise of Hint power, and it required much tact to 
 win a free expression of what »he wished to ppeak of, but dared 
 not. At length she explained herself, and with the same breath- 
 less amazement, we wondered and trembled together. '« I found 
 the key, and arranged the things" (said she,) afturm> husband's 
 brother left us, and lit the candle. They looked very showy 
 and pretty by it, and several persons came in and priced them, 
 promising to call again. So the next evening I did it too ; but 
 had just finished, when two persons came in«o disguised in dress 
 and appearance, that I knew not whether they were men or wo- 
 men ; one of them wore a woman's shawl over a sailor's jacket, 
 and the other a ragged skirt, and a dark cloak ; but both had 
 sailors' tarpaulin hats upon their heads, and hud blackened their 
 faces. They came in rudely, and with much noise, took up the 
 toys, asked what they were for, and earnestly read the inscrip- 
 tions ; then, with a stroke of the hand, one of them crushed them 
 upon the counter, and with much swearing and noise, they left 
 the house. They must have been watching me through the win- 
 dow, for the moment the candle was lit they came in. " The next 
 evening the same scene had been enacted, and the same persons 
 evidently, but rather differently disguised, their countenances 
 still blackened, committed the annoyance once more ; and also 
 on the succeeding one ; for the damage had been of a slight 
 nature, and speedily repaired. Nothing could be said than that it 
 was « very singular, very strange," that persons should thus in- 
 trude, and then the state of her daughters was enquired into. — 
 
 She wept much. Altogether it was very trying to her, " they 
 
 are going fast now, they are very weak, (she said,) for days to- 
 gether they taste nothing but a little weak tea, often not that, 
 nothing but water. Oh it is eo hard to see them ; to witness their 
 dying struggles, at a period of life when the young are the sup- 
 port and comfort of the aged." She paused. A convulsive shud- 
 der shook her frame, and she asked, « Do you not hear any 
 thing ; any strange unaccountable noise ?" Her eyes were fixed 
 upon me with an earnestness which was painful. A stagnant 
 calm pervaded the house— "I hear nothing," "No, (she said,) at 
 length), I suppose you don't. I do not myself believe it though 
 I Think I hear it, but my girls hear it constantly they say, Oh ? 
 my poor daughters ! It is birds they hear, twilling and chirp. 
 
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 . '"" "■"""'' I''™'' "!' 0" ll'o «ili„s, «nd I,, ,.„oh corner of i|,„ 
 
 omo ™ . , , p„ ^„„ ,„^„ ^_^^_, ^e ,^^ ^'^ 2^ 
 
 nro tl,cy ? I ,„sko,l. ff„, si,„ had never kept n bird in hor life • 
 
 now, I,, on „pam." Nollnng intcrrnp.ed the silence but the mer- 
 
 ^yje„„dofthe»lci.h bells in the .treet.-Str.ngo euspietn, 
 were dmvn.ng „,,„„ „,, „„,, j ,„.j „ „,,„ .^ ^.^^ j»_^_^ _^^P ^„_ 
 
 1 ..c,r unele, ,h„ answered. •' h their Father not aUo ?" " No • 
 .e.,,„fm,d of hi, brother, who is rough and harsh.- .'Doe, 
 
 -rilTLm ,""" ""■;' "T"" •" " "° ''""' 'O™'--' ""' it 
 
 iNovor ! Who else .» with them ?" She hesitated. " I 
 must know • .She „„, ,„„„, ..j „.„ ,^ »;,': J 
 
 Z , , , 7 -""^'-I "'ll K» I" "You 8haII not." Ian. 
 P o..che,l ho door ; she sprang forward and with an energy I 
 dd not behove her to ,,„ssess,-her ilgure dilated, hor'^rm 
 
 ol'Ui- Is It Ihc.r Episcopal Minister ?" " No." Wo irnz 
 
 ieetZ'T 'r ',"f , '" '™'' ""'" ' ' """ "-k. So many fon 
 ectu s to whichi diircd not give utterance passed n,y^n,i„a 
 .n that moment, that it had tho «ight of a year. 
 She gradually calmed again, and then talked froely about tho 
 
 u. peration T.icsc people cannot harm me," (said .he), « and I 
 »m to- again .„ see -vhcher they will dare toLoh th thing" 
 
 n II e powci of persons, who were determined upon their des- 
 ruction from some unknown reason, they must bo seen dailyTn 
 some puhh. institution, they must bo watched over, and protect 
 
 miisb discovered, exposed, and diuhed to the ground ■ Hero 
 >. lould be a searching investigation into the cause and effce Tf 
 
 ' ""■ ^H'^iJi^ or unueriaking euch a 
 
Iiisli, tint llioso nliosc iinbinst 
 
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 vateU nbovo 11,0 l.u.j, by ,,„,,„„ „f ,|,„.^ ^, ''S^ 
 
 o«rc„o a ™o..o ,Ii,i„to«slo,l Cu.MM, lowaria IhonT ' Z 
 
 n.orv,„„ w HI, .l,eir cloricul visitor »l,id. f„II„«„, .l,„ r„ ° 
 
 " .mpro,, .,„,„ face, „,„ „to„3t „i,l,„„, „„„,., „ V° "™; 
 
 IIou,o w«, full ,„ ovornowing." (s„ia ,,„,, („„ „„„j,/if "..'j 
 
 for ataos. ovory J„y I ,o„a ll.om takcU of provlion, U,!™ 
 
 Iririr'-T"" "'"'" ■'"'' J"" ""''"'^ »- '"'"'«J. l™ " 
 course „,t| ao roforenco to tl,o toys. 1I„ »l,„ok his l.cad sasn 
 
 iiotwlmttomako oflicr" Tl.o !„„„..• ,/""'"""'*''"»>' 
 tlius .IMmM ;„ .1 'nvoatigation ihowoTcr being 
 
 •lias deelmcd in tI.o proper quarter was about to bo volunteered 
 ■n anotbor for the „„„,an wa, evidently a, feverishly aS' 
 
 As to ho basket, of provision, I have doubt, to the pros ui 
 
 use of , hem. On a mkcquml v,M ,/,„ „«« mo with a look of 
 calm despajr, it was theafternooa of a dark and stormy Z^l 
 She begged mo to take away tho coloured heads, and taWnXm 
 from the elosot where they aow lay, all erushed and ouife Z 
 flgure^^sho related that having again li, her candle in tt even- 
 >nj, and arrangal them, the men, with much riot and dis.ul 
 ance had entered, while several others upon the outside . emcd 
 o urge them on, and enjoy the scene, she though, they were n„t 
 ho same who eame before, as they also read the inserfnirZl 
 hen dashed them upon tho counter, until they Ze "Ceed "' 
 tho condttjon „„y presented, dragged from tho lin, . Cl,i,e 
 c ape handkerchief, and some of .he other trifles, smashed lome 
 of he tumblers and cups, and then rushed out. kavin, I d„„rs 
 
 -u,. up™, „a the „,„, covered with trodden .now. ° ividen" 
 y rejotcng m tho loss of the handkerchief as a clue by wtc 
 
 ..coffende,. might bo discovered .,y .!« police and properry x 
 
 way'bu" wUrmT"°"' *•"■","»«'"" «°°n '"•■"•"■bed in the usual 
 wa3,bu.mthmorcno.8o,andasthe Irish fellows followed my 
 
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 footsteps, the names of the principal actors in the scheme of lies- 
 pomible Government, men who had just obtained their election 
 f>!/ the support of those principles, passed from one to the other 
 not as If accidentally, or in mere remark, but as authorise s and 
 abettors,m the familiar tones with which a man refers to his em- 
 ployer. Reflection was not rendered more agreeable by the fact 
 nor was the evident co-operation of the Priest whose glidino' 
 footsteps were forever near, whose watchful eye seemed to en- 
 courage the intruders, nor was it surprising that I should ex- 
 penence that terrible sensation, so perceptible in each word and 
 action of the woman I had just left,^that of being tvatched and 
 traced m every movement by persons who had all the disposition 
 to work a lasting injury,-through the constant excitement of 
 fear.-By what means had I offended any of those persons, 
 or least of all a Papist Priest, that they should seek reven^^e by 
 such amedium,orsosingulara measure, was the constantry re- 
 ctirringidea; or what connection was there with the writini on 
 Protestant union which marked the commencement ; or, the in- 
 nocentmaking toys upon the counter of the shop, by whom 
 could these last have been seen? or why was there any thin- 
 pomted in allusions which were but the result of circumstance"! 
 unless the cap fitted well the head of those who chose to put it on? 
 Was It at all possible for the leaders of a Government to stoop 
 to such paltry surveillance, or to heed the meaning that was at- 
 tached to these toys ; or to know they were there, though eve- 
 ry one of them had obtained position by Papal influence? 
 
 The strange story of the birds had been re(,eated in the same 
 mysterious manner. The constant dread with which her daugh- 
 ters noticed the hour of their supposed approach, the evident 
 desire to enter into full detail, and the rising emotions which 
 again checked confidence ; all this was matter of speculation, and 
 leverish anticipation setting ease or rest at defiance ? 
 
 A meditated change became apparent upon the next day's late 
 visit : a crisis was approaching. The woman's husband was in 
 the shop-he was alone. DreadfuUy agitated, and almost con- 
 vulsed with emotion, he strode up and down the little room-so 
 absorbed in his own reflections that he seemed unaware of my 
 entrance. Not having previously seen him. I wa« «„rnrJ«.^ »' 
 lind that he was by no means the very outrageously bad looking 
 
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 dwrooler, public report liad nmtaaiM Mm 
 
 •ed fro. h„d living: b^keo ZZZ Zu 17 7°"^ 
 
 evento, .ad disappointment. ' ''^ ""'""""'^ 
 
 Some lime pa.scd before I ventured to address hi,n i. 
 garded me w tlian eaeer cnrioi,. ... V ,''' hm— he re- 
 
 taWa „ife„a» „pSrardtL.T»pT''\°"''"''"° ''"»«' 
 Visitor, was also tbfre, ^:C:'':^^Ziy''^'yf'"^ 
 the prospect of hi, daughters' recover^ n., °'^'"' "' 
 none, they will never be weU 0^!^^' '"'' """^ " 
 
 upon them , the docto™ com 1;^.;:;"^; ^T"^ "''""' 
 » greatdeal of medicine h,.. 7. i ' ""^^ '""'« »»''en 
 
 a»d it never will ItT' i "' """■ '''"«' "■«■» «°7 good, 
 tbey might as w ,1 st^ ° t;" ""t: '" T ""^ ■""='- --- ""' 
 I suggested bettc hZes aTd n ^ f """"' ''* ''^"«' f"' "•" 
 -d daily occ„p„,r«irtI l-T M t""'- P^sP^o's. 
 l-e) though peoro are flo^Hw rrLtV""^''' ^^ 
 ■8 not enough doing to teen a no J!^„! , ^'^ "'°' "'«'■» 
 
 er is there work to be had thanT *""' """'"« ' »» ^"o"- 
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 wherever he may Hve. Why do you suppose all' this care was ne- 
 cessary? why for this reason,— they would not dare to let B.uch 
 ietters as. they must have written pass an English Post Office] all 
 would have been discovered, and exposed; so they visited round 
 freely at every house in the city, which was open to them, and 
 quietly got the information they sought. They were coming 
 and going here for months, two, or three, at a time, they went 
 from here to Italy, from Dublin, staid ?ong enough to make a 
 suitable report, and then returned to renew their observations ; 
 and trace, and watch whatever was done. Yes, it is the Pope of 
 Eome, and his Ministers, who controul every thing in the Pro- 
 vinces, and see what I have come to,— I cannot get a day's 
 work, and my children are dying." He paused.— There was no 
 time io que; tion the man as to how he had obtained his informa- 
 tion. It was too evident that he was paying the penalty of free- 
 ly expressing his own opinions. «< The Q^iem of England is a 
 i^pher, a mere cypher among her people in the Colonies ; and 
 her Ministers are nothing." He looked at me fixedly, as though 
 it occurred that he had been betrayed into a rash buret of feel- 
 ing, He drew his hands nervously in and out of his pockets 
 
 In one of them I perceived a clasp knife ; and thinking it possi- 
 ble that he might take me for a Popish emissary, in the guise of 
 a friend,! slowly drew towards the door, which I had held ajar, 
 and was in the street in a moment, again convinced that there 
 may be bitter trials of man's invention which we may only 
 grieve for. I was in the street, and breathed again, but my 
 brain whirled. Had /not also been made to experience the ac- 
 tions of an established system— sparing neither age, or sex ; 
 sweeping on, in one firm, unwavering course, all who dared to 
 oppose it ? I staggered on rather than walked. Rick at heart, 
 and regardless of the storm of snow and rain which pelted round 
 me. The gas was lit and I hoped and trusted that the Steamboat 
 would be at the Ferry. It had not arrived. The Fe.ry was 
 deserted by the usual persons who are about it; for the night 
 was miserably cold and dark ; but a group of three or four 
 iow looking men stood under the lami Great was mj amaze- 
 ment to hear them say aa I passed. « This it her, here she 
 is ;'' t6 see them approach, ,and to be obliged to hear their 
 
ire was ne- 
 to let B,uch 
 Office, all 
 ited round 
 them, and 
 re coming 
 hey went 
 • make a 
 ervations ; 
 le Pope of 
 the Pro- 
 t a day's 
 ire was no 
 ) informa- 
 ty of free- 
 fane^ ift a 
 lies ; and 
 as though 
 t of feel- 
 ockets.— . 
 ; it possi- 
 e guise of 
 leld ajar, 
 lat there 
 nay only 
 but my 
 :o the ac- 
 , or sex ; 
 dared to 
 It hearty 
 ed round 
 :eamboat 
 -ry was 
 lie night 
 or four 
 amaze- 
 Acre she 
 ar their 
 tliu bout 
 
 8d 
 
 appeared. A person who was slowly walking to and fro, in the 
 shade of the Stores, and occasionally stopped, and then resumed 
 his walk, glancing at intervals at these men, with a complacent 
 8mile of meaning, and encouragement upon bis countenance, ad- 
 vanced towards the gateway, it was the Catholic Priestlhe 
 looked flushed, and triumphant ; and imagination unfortunately 
 had no part in the conviction of collusion, it was too glaring, 
 and at that moment, under such circumstances, to a woman-- 
 too apalling-if the glance of quick underst..nding-and sympa- 
 thizing but most condescending approval, met by those miserably 
 clad and untutored individuals-by one of servile gratification, 
 were at all misunderstood, then I presume never to interpret 
 mental action, as the countenance expresses it. Vivid as a 
 stream of larva, the conviction was impressed at that mo- 
 ment of the truthfulness of the statements just listened to-if 
 there had existed a single doubt—The strange freemasonry, so 
 to speak, by which cause was immediately followed by effect 
 even as though « walls had ears," and every stone a tongue fand 
 every snow flake carried its message of traitorousness to the self 
 appointed authorities,-the despair-the brave and noble, but 
 ineffectual resistance, the final sinking down,-all was too con- 
 vmcingthat there exists in the British Provinces a sort of com- 
 bined, civil and religious coil, or mesh of manoeuvring^ which wo 
 poor simple headed Colonists might never presume to measure - 
 certainly never understood, or resisted as we should do; and 
 that by some curiosity, a little compassion, and rashness not to 
 be wondered at, I also had fairly got entangled in it ; and just 
 then never expected to get out again. To mention these circum- 
 stances publicly, would not only awaken the vengeance of one 
 man, It must be that of the entire cabal, who would of course 
 laugh to scorn the fears and suppositions of a woman, as connect- 
 ed with themselves, and yet it appeared the only feasible me- 
 thod of ohtaimng future protection. There was no time then for 
 analyzing thought. We all went on board together. The Priest 
 and the three men keeping close-Not a single acquaintance 
 happened to be near, and the sleet froze upon every thing it 
 touched, rendering a careless step near a wharf very dangerous. 
 Too miserable to seek the warmer shelter of tne engine room, I 
 f ^rank into a corner of the nnhin. nn,i ,^o« ♦», i . 
 
00 
 
 repetition of these rude fellows* impertinence, who walked up- 
 and down before the door, while the Priest looked in at the win- 
 dow, evidently enjoying the distress he occasioned, and the tor- 
 ture inflicted. The boat swayed heavily in the storm. It was 
 with a trepidation I dared not permit to be visible, that I kept 
 full in the gas light on landing ; for it was a fltting night for aa 
 ficcidental death ; then, human nature could no longer pretend 
 that it was not afraid ; the four strong men came on, but I 
 bounded forward into the storm and darkness, stopping not until 
 the click of the garden gate reassured, every door of the house 
 had been locked ; every window looked to ; and I sank down in 
 my own room, weary to death, from severe mental excitement. 
 With many plans for seeking the protection of the Clergy ; the 
 busy mind excited to restless feverishness, the over tasked physi- 
 cal powers, and the countenance of the Priest, as it was shadowed 
 with a livid pallour, while he watched me step safely upon the 
 wharf, constantly recurred to mind. But all through that weary 
 night, in each lull of the storm, voices in eager consultation were 
 audible around the house, and the impossibility of a house catch- 
 ing fire amid snow and rain, did not by any means prohibit the 
 probability that an attempt might be made to cause it. 
 
 What connection was there between the figures from « Punch" 
 and Priestly surveillance ?— Between the openly expressed 
 opinion of a man, and a scheme to deprive him of bread.— A lit- 
 tle harmless ridicule, and people lurking in disguise— coarse and 
 ignorant Irishmen in ^the street ; two young women on their 
 death bed, and the Pope of Rome ? There must be many 
 things in the British Provinces, Horatio, which " your philoso- 
 phy," shrinks from putting on paper ; or surely the sad expose 
 which followed, would have been investigated, and not have 
 eventually led to an unexpected change in the commercial deal- 
 ings of the Colonies, and, the United States, or through religi- 
 ous intolerance, invaded the independance of the one, while re- 
 vealing a mad ferocity to subdue the other. An indisputable 
 evidence that a peculiar machinery regulates the social' condi- 
 tion of the north, and that a certain anathema is the lot of the 
 luckless being who chances to touch the spring. Starvation, 
 Death by Terror, or the hunt of wild Irishmen, may do very well 
 in private practice, to display their full barbarity, these must 
 
valked up' 
 it the win- 
 d the tor- 
 . It was 
 lat I kept 
 jht for aa 
 r pretend 
 3n, but I 
 not until 
 he house 
 : down in 
 Itement. 
 rgy; the 
 id physi- 
 hadowed 
 pon the 
 at weary 
 ion were 
 so catch- 
 libit the 
 
 Punch" 
 ^pressed 
 — Alit- 
 irse and 
 m their 
 J many 
 philoso- 
 expose 
 it have 
 Ell deal- 
 
 religi- 
 lile re- 
 putable 
 
 condi- 
 ; of the 
 ration, 
 ry well 
 I must 
 
 91 
 
 F " '"e Clergy the necessity of the " Poor Hnii«*. » oo *i, ^ 
 asylum for the fiinJ]^ t * -. *" „ "^ °°^ "oust, as the safest 
 
 marvu.„„s, „Wch he was re a"to.fo ,tf '""' """" "^ ""= 
 P"«, that the day suoceedinl r. ■"''""'' '" "" f""- 
 
 held the distress of ttl ™ "" "'''''' ' ''»'' •-»- 
 
 .ruders,a„d.l::„\a : trotmZr'T "" "r''^" '"■ 
 
 tbe "sapposed b,v,i ".-T T ,° '"''"^"•'* "'^ *«»=■><:« 
 
 requested her a' *'al./ "r. ""^ '^^'"'"' '>"' l-d 
 
 -ts whioh^he'rrrpS : '::rr ^ "r^ "r ■ 
 .hat so jhing of :r XT; rr: ^rr^r -^ 
 
 -tter. hut we all came, Ihrea LIh°.'s Jfr/Jh: T "' 
 suppose the woman thmis is the matter wTthr. ? I ^^ 
 
 into them and .ha. the ffefAhTrr,"''^' *' ^'"' '■^'«°' 
 them and hereitis.lWu HenT f"™ "i""'"' "■'■" '""''" 
 Bandana^anaI.erc;Jr.:L« Te" 
 
 dition an old feather bed ge s il heT.th " ''',"''' ' '°"- 
 stale. its «./A,_ „.^„ „f '' '"f. ' ti^e/eathers are always in this 
 
 ' ■ " "^^'^^ """ ^^^ ^^•'^ ''y^iish woman actually says 
 
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 that her daughters are bewitched and visited by the Deril. Who 
 in the form of birds makes each of his feathers become a ball, and 
 these balls are the charm, and she's got a great basket full of them 
 in the corner of the room, and finds them scattered about it. Did 
 you ever hear such nonsense. Ashespokeall that I had witness- 
 ed respecting this affair recurred to mind, and with it also a sort of 
 connecting link which seemed to explain it. When a cLild, an 
 old Roman Catholic nurse whom I knew, possessed a sort of 
 tract, or Compilation of terrible anecdotes, illustrative of the pun- 
 • ishmcnts inflicted by the Saints and the Holy Virgin, upon Pro- 
 testants who would not becom. Catholics; and vice versa. Among 
 them, was one the very counterpart of this. The scene of the 
 story was Paris. The subjects, two obstinate young women, who 
 having resisted all the arts and allurements of the priesthood, 
 had been handed over to the evil one, who devised the gentle 
 treatment which these two girls in Nova Scotia had evidently 
 undergone in this present practical &ge,—they had been frighten- 
 ed to death. « The devil himself did appear" (said the volume) 
 in the form of little birds, and by chirruping round them, by night 
 and by day, and scattering bis feathers which each took the 
 form of a ball, and rolled about the room, did so work upon their 
 fancy that they repented, and received the Holy Unction, and so 
 died happy. • 
 
 This precious edition dated as far bkck as the time when 
 « high dames of honour garnished the court of the me/ciless 
 IVIary, and here in the age of progress was a second sar ie of 
 the manner in which '^matter may take the advance of mind.''— 
 With intense eagerness we continued to gaze upon the grey balls; 
 at length conviction overcoming caution I remarked— The man 
 says it is the fault of the government. The Rev Gent turned 
 fiercely round, and burst into a loud laugh. What said he, « you 
 saw the man did you ?" « You spoke to the man ?" « I did" 
 And he says it is the. fault of the government." ' He does, I an- 
 swered freely. The time seemed to have arrived, when every 
 thing might be explained. « He sa/s it is the fault of the go- 
 vernment that his daughters are dying and he cannot get work.'' 
 What does he know about the government? said the Rev Gentle- 
 man derisively. Why, what can that have to do with it for 
 pity sake ? why they are all cmzy, all crazy tcether, the man 
 
 
il. WIjo 
 ball, and 
 11 of them 
 It it. Did 
 
 witness- 
 ) a sort of 
 cLild, an 
 a sort of 
 f the pun- 
 pon Pro- 
 I. Among 
 »e of the 
 men, who 
 iesthood, 
 e gentle 
 Bvidently 
 frighten- 
 
 volume) 
 by night 
 took the 
 pon their 
 u, and sa 
 
 le when 
 ne/ciless 
 r ie of 
 nind.'' — 
 •ey balls; 
 rhe £oan 
 t turned 
 e, " you 
 « I did" 
 3s, I an- 
 n every 
 the go- 
 it work.'' 
 Gentle- 
 h it for 
 he man 
 
 98 
 
 and the woman, and the girls, M.y are all crazy together, fu„. 
 doubtedly polteness alone prevented his includlg the w iter) 
 Before a word of entreaty could be uttered, or a plan of iXa 
 formed, he had flung wide the door of the build' g. cLe T 
 come ,n, sa.d he calling to sorue female acquaintance! her "pr: 
 ^yo,ngs,here^, pretty news, W, a o«. of WiLhcra}^^ 
 ^h^iTve found out, (taking all the credit of course). He s rode 
 
 utb tZi^"^^ "^--f wiL;::' 
 
 exlslns^o^^^^^ The ladies with 
 
 expressions of puy and contempt, listened, and left the room 
 whde my entreaties for silence, total silence, until a p,"' 
 per enquiry had been instituted, were drowned in boisterous 
 rnemment. J A pretty story I have now against the RevT 
 hat such a thing should come to light in his parish-lwas Uie 
 concluding remark of the Rev Gent. With sad misgivings la ' 
 
 1 d^ tThlTT "^'-f ^ too wellfounded'for nothing 
 was done for the family wh.ch was desirable, but publicity be- 
 came the more injurious, for the story flung in *his wav into th« 
 broad glare of the day, took wing, it las discus daTthc' 
 ners of the streets, it was turned into a jest, amixture o gosl 
 and scandal, and served honourable members, just as embed 
 wi h an opportunity of trimming oiFa speech with Lrry 1™ 
 o the .witchcraft'' impptedto«ouradministration,''anVth^^^^^^^^ 
 the en ire session their elevated minds slurred the important af- 
 fairs of a country's advancement, to fasten upon the VrTjl 
 cjple which founded the American Union, the PuriSn truT- 
 gle, and blue-laws, and superstitions of old Massachu eUs 
 where the connection existed was best known to ^Z^^^^, 
 the .;,m^ had been touched. Scorn, contempt, and t Sio" 
 were privately, and indirectly hurled, upon the person whoTad 
 been instrumental to so strange a revelation, and methods of an 
 noyance were resorted to, sufficient to have aroused resentmen 
 jn a less suscepiible nature. Such is colonial society benltb 
 the polish which Liberalism has thrown over it. No wnnf 
 that s 10 as the Colonist can get bread on ea y t^^ms he t 
 dead to all great national principle. He dare not think of it for 
 there is no support by unity. He is left to struggle alone Het 
 was an instance of long resistance to Papal wilfaL ho" w^! •! 
 mc, people snrank from mentioning even the name of the famil 
 
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 ly. Shunn-id them as though they were plague stricken. En- 
 qu.ry was silfled. all was "hushed up" as soon as possible— 
 l^rom the house which their sad presence actually rendered no- 
 torious, the Miserable victims were carried in the grey dawn of 
 day, that no excitement might be awakened, and a more retired 
 residence was soon exchanged by one of them for the stiil more 
 quiet grave, the sure rest of the troubled. The whole affair 
 seemed too terrific for one weak mind to grasp, for as the days 
 lengthened and became yet more severe, that much tried mother 
 has crossed my evening path, wandering on, clad in rags, evident- 
 ly driven by want in search of the means of preserving life 
 shrinking from notice, and cowering in the shade of the houses'. 
 But her way was tracked, and cfowds of boys pursued her, and 
 raised the foul cry of « The Witch I the Witch I H-re comes the 
 Witch ! Stop her, Catch h«r I" Strange to say a Priest was al- 
 ways near, gliding out of a shop, or stopping to observe her. Too 
 keenly experiencing that to be seen speaking to her, was to cre- 
 ate a supposition of connection with something unhallowed I 
 alas shrank from her, as did others, but I also needed protection, 
 and absolute necessity compelled this course of action. Once 
 only after the disclosure respecting the machinations of the 
 Priesthood, and thedesignofthe French visit to the Colonies, 
 did I see her husband ; he was completely surrounded by a crowd 
 of low Irishmen, who followed him with scoffing, and impudent 
 jest, and whose attentions he was vainly trying to avoid ; he was 
 thin, and ghastly, and for months afterwards the look of reproach 
 and horror, with which he rtgarded me, haunted me day and 
 night. I knew not tiU some time afterwards, that only six weeks 
 after the scene respecting the " charms" he had accidentally or 
 in aft of dmnhenness fallen over a «>Aar/. Ah thou long tongued 
 public! surely thou art an indiscriminating animal. Weary 
 months passed away after that dark and trying time, and when 
 torpour produced by mental agony had gone, on6 burning thought 
 overcame all other. This must all be known. The danger of 
 publicity must be risked. Society was injured by silence. If 
 all who opposed Papal power were "m&rked" should they not 
 be warned of it, and though at the cost of again experiencing the 
 heartsickness then endured, in recalling these facts, no hindrance 
 has deterred, no obstacle has been too great to overcome. Sure. 
 
 «11 M 
 
 CXIJL. - 
 
ly ..ever was Bazaar work attended by such a train of eitrnn, 
 d.nary event. World k„„„n P„„ebf „„„ did tlk X„' 
 daubing your high cheeks with red paint, what day, and Wa 
 o a„„ety, anxiety endured alone, and Without syLpa,' I 
 qn.e ly .tonng, „r „hal a amplication of iniqui^ y„ur 1,^ ' 
 
 aid of war, and the precursor of Reciprocity, and give England 
 
 and the Popes, and that other little accident, the Russian war 
 
 whtch prevented an American one, the Yankees owe theTrZ: 
 
 en bnsl. trade 1 high time they knew it. A sad frJZZ 
 
 mes her own. There .s a power in the ascendant here, which is 
 te sworn foe of her very existence. What would the C, of 
 the Admiralty have said, had they known that they were duned 
 .no sending a Fleet, against the religious toleration If fourwo- 
 men, and an old man. That « Fishprv Ti,ii»» »^, . , 
 
 because « the people" called ffrtZ'ZlZZ ZZ':^t 
 one were afloat whicl^to the Priesthood savoured ofanne«Z 
 Th« w was u, be well nigh declared, because .wo » subtr- 
 were ,n process of conversion, and another unwittingly made fu„ 
 
 .ha?.7"r,°>.*'' *' ™" ™"»'-W« conclusion was 
 that the "Uncle" acted the part of "Punch" in a di .al Z 
 
 i^riest possibly, very appropriately "did the devil - a co„«! 
 
 i::' " Bra!."'''^, *: "^"" "" '^"-^-.n'ertif i:rr 
 
 tmued. But all was left to conjecture. If this were not the 
 case, why was supposition resented ? Why was the „ld ^..1 
 hurr ed . hi, , j,,,^^^ ^,,^ theUd 1';° n^.t'a 
 
 torrent, The voice of the people," left the crushed, and heln- 
 less, to struggle „fo„.against a giant strength whiorthe bmve 
 
 g.ve little real protection, if fearful of offending tender prejudices 
 by the exercise of justice in agreat principle, it WBs nJu^S 
 ec-igh by one of thebody that another effort Us Ce to drlw 
 ZT^ ;.'"' 'f '"Sevil. Eagerand agitated remark tZ 
 met wi* ,h,s philosophical reply "pass it all over and forget i! 
 .11. wen your mind. I. w« veiy distressing bu. ,^ to 
 
96 
 
 Oiitik of something else- A more earnest request to consider 
 «ho8ubject was thus met, "I know nothing about the influences of 
 which you speak, J do not understand them," and after formal 
 prayer, it was decisively dismissed with the speaker. Truly 
 enough, must national eVils be always more felt among the peo- 
 ple ? The Clergy are elevated above tiiem. But is it sufficient that 
 they have been allied with the occa8ion,that they close their eyes 
 to the effect. Are the private religious opinions of even women, 
 not to escape surveillance, and tyranny to ride rough shod over 
 
 ^ the land, and that Church whose once proud position in co-oper- 
 ation with the Government, placed it foremost in the defence of 
 Truth still to maintain the same though that has become a 
 mere toy of the Papacy? 
 
 Nurtured by kindly societies their aid is withdrawn and lo 
 the germ is at the root. It is no longer with the oppressed, the 
 vexed and tortured by Papal intolerance that this once bright 
 angel loves to dwell. She allies with worldly officials who will 
 suppoit a secular domination, who create thereby ProtestantDis- 
 Union, who will crush the people to their will. Is she too lofty 
 and evanfffelical to stoop to the consideration of the common ex- 
 igencies of life, or her services which breathe so much of heaven 
 a mere combination of finely turned sentences, distinct from 
 the actions of her ministry, and have they no reference to com- 
 
 . mon humanity ? God only knows what prevented that woman 
 destroying herself, for in the midst of " /newc?*" she was utterly 
 alone. The whole affair bore the stamp of the purest Jesuitism ! 
 Of the tribunal, where the Judge and Jury, are also the Execu- 
 tioner, and certain deaths is the consequence of certain (^pinions. 
 Of a power that educates a people in savage, and in^olerani 
 guile, and tLey know not that it is an evil, until the effect is 
 spread around them. That bends the educated to the will of the 
 ignorant, that labours to keep a nation so. To inculcate 
 indolent submission, and pliability to a secret will. It has filled 
 Ireland with all this. It has filled the Colonies with all this, by 
 pawning uppn them the unchristian ized masses, and it becomes 
 their duty if they want a " pure home," to seek the remedy. 
 
9T 
 
 illl 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 F«, Fi. Fo, F»o, I ,„ell the pl„, „f a p,„,i„„ „„„_ 
 
 Who can describe Jesniiism? Those alone who eioerience !( 
 can understand it, but never unless the, do Tis ?"ril- 
 •hat will hover abou. your path, and ,' ^res Lg luTt 
 
 IZ IZm " "'" ""' ^°" "'°''«'"'' -"' ^y t^- tide!' 
 
 bloodshed. Deeply, bitterly, impressed with aU that I^T 
 «rved, the " Eomanee" so long laid aside was^um d,^ aj 
 Ob eet of drawing .he public n.ind to the great ueed of srrln«t 
 enmgthe bend of Protestant Union by Mgious tIIS- 
 
 ptoeedm a merchant vessel appointed to saU in three davs- 
 
 ^Ji:^ ^"'" "T '"". -''-."Ts-eillanceTanfc 
 the result. The vessel remained in port for three weeks O™ 
 ^mporaneonsly with its voyage acroL the Atla .^ .^ wl' 
 a pathetic petition breathing nothing but loyalty and ,ZZT 
 an immense body of Irishmen, toploring^f a'^tst "^"l '' 
 
 the Fisheries were to be protected by armed vesser 4 ►' 
 protection have the Colonies fmm .if. -T '^' 
 
 Fisheries are at once thZ' o^n? V^^Zt:^'^^ 
 this wort was returned by the Lp in which Adtri^T'"""' 
 took the station for that nurnose '^ "'"'""» -^d™™' Seymour 
 between religious iutr^T^d I RshTrie*" T "T" 
 
 nm act by which Kesponsible government ^/ 
 
 I uuu 
 
08 
 
 \ 
 
 r'umjcafcl the fact of its CKi.tonrn tc tho world, was an cflbrt to 
 •Tcato disruption. Nova Scotia llho a oontomptible cur, baying 
 nt the hoofs of two noble stcails soiigl.t t(, irritate them to mad- 
 ness and rend the ties which nnitcd them. Where Isuch parties 
 •mpublo of comprehending rjn//on«/rf/>«iVy, they would bo amp- 
 ly compensated by the action of the English ministry, which sub- 
 HequenHy wrested from their Governance the staple of their 
 country without bestowing the liberty which most others enjoy, 
 that of making a good bargain; «' it was sufRcicnt for them how- 
 ever that their praiseworthy cfTbrts to crush a supposed pre- 
 dilection forj annexation," secured the favour of those election- 
 eering arbitrators, the Priests. All the odium of the " Witch- 
 craft," falling by the passiveness of the Clergy upon shoulders 
 Iittlo able to bear it, I prepared to quit the country, still bent on 
 publication. And then occurred another proof that every ob- 
 noxious individual is traced and checked. A young friend whom 
 I was to accompany was about to be united to the Captain of tho 
 vessel. But not until my purpose was wellknown.was the marriage 
 effectually prevented by the simple process of not paying the man 
 his umges, and again was I tho unintentional cause of grief.— 
 That such narrow and vicious means should be taken for the 
 preservation of power, will not be wondered at, when it is con- 
 sidered that these writings were understood to favour annexa- 
 tion, and the desperate hatred which a country controlled by in- 
 tolerance, exercises towards one which has grown great by the 
 contrary principle is at once perceptible. It cannot be denied 
 that tho idea had occurred, that by annexation alone, could the 
 religious partisanship which is rooted in the Colonies be utterly 
 effaced. That an oligarcy could be subdued ; and the people 
 raised to more capable action. That the balance of population 
 would be restored^, A full equivalent for staple be obtained, 
 and Americanism vanquish the bread and butter Protcstanism 
 of the Colonics, and the game of playing into the hands of a few 
 wlij(!h is eating the life of them. This then, it appears is the 
 very opinion of the enemy, and though while the Colonies con- 
 tinue to be English possessions, and to beat the mercy of false 
 friends, it may be necessary for the States to desire it, 'tis just 
 as certain that it never can take place; though some of our 
 catch-penny orators have deceived these countries with the pog- 
 
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90 
 
 « .«., beeau.e <!,„ wl,„,, „f .„o Colonic, „rn „ ^...^ZJl 
 fhere «ro not n ,„ffloi<,nt number of educed, dc'dedTnd nni 
 •ed people among .be elae. who wonldmo.. b nell.b, . "o 2' 
 
 an annua, m,g„.,„„ „f „„ „p,,^^,.^ ^^ ^ »^^«t by 
 
 prospsnly a. home, bui don', know h„„.on,„l<o1, If Z 
 
 be,.owal„f,he,veaI,i,„f,he Colonie, wi,l„at adeoua^ com 
 
 nculral y. But America may beware I In svokin" territorial 
 aggrandizement ahe grasp, a. centralisation, tl... gH,^d 7;™ 
 from which her forefathers fled, and unles, B„b,.ued it "Cu 
 conquer. If the flee,, and armie, of England «ere our , T re 
 wouh be constant excuses for a decent upon America; .Id ° 
 But compare these countries and ask if it were possible Ihcv 
 could one endu-e an uninn r„..i,i . l'™»""<= mcy 
 
 think nr,LJ . "''' " P'OP'^ accustomed to 
 
 gnrd of years ?_Tl,e free soil mission is but half r.ecomplire';! 
 when ..sends the foriegner home again. He mu.t b, Z 
 
 hL c «n rT3b r'"""?°i' '""^ "■''"="■» backwardneslo 
 h.a country and helping the Pope's head to peer over every 
 
 thing and shews deadness to the honour of his country ntprZ 
 en. in the passive assertion. « We don't like the disposarof 
 be Fisheriesbu. s'pose we must put up with i,./ ulr 're 
 ence of Loya Uy, they swallow despotism, and are t uH . 
 to ask an Empire, tliaf „ greater monopoly may he relS 
 If we cannot have the " Uncle Sam» Li neighbor emu'^ 
 hunt up our own. Take him from beneath the'bo.rd whiclZ 
 kept Inm down Let him visit every school, church and local 
 Assembly, and It remains with ourselves that he beloved and 
 vcnera ed : but give not unto us oh Qneen, a viceroylty ■ „'' 
 -on might you tie us in a bundle, suspend the Russian Lu 
 overua,p„rad.before^„s „„ u,e evil consequences of "h 
 Ch irch loryism and Papal Liberalism and bid us look, or dFe 
 C<.fcm»(W.,„ «„„,;;„„,_ . will W 
 
 pro£rres9. but no mnr^i o...^#« , ' 'avoiir 
 
 '-^v.m-.j,- as you love us, or there will 
 
100 
 
 soon be nothing else and nobody left to do the work. With a 
 . viceroyalty all the evils of centralization will be confirmed, all 
 the ingrained apathy of the people will be estaUished, and no- 
 body will dare to say their soul is their own, unless « our hier- 
 archy" permit the assertion. With a republic we have the vig> 
 our ofactzon,the determination, of purpose Jvom whence alone it 
 can arise. With a viceroyalty North America will have another 
 Uussia, for the germs have been fostered, and what High Church 
 dogmas have begun, Papal Liberalism will complete. They 
 have a restrained Press,secret spies, disguised if convenient, and 
 no generally elevated tone of feeling. With such materials and 
 without a great mental and political change,which must be wrought 
 by local Literati,r 3, one step forward, and they are an Empire, 
 It ts jRussian I Tfiey are a EepuUic! It is Venetian. Truly an 
 hundred years paving for such a termination is clear loss to these 
 immense territories. But it is important that the motto upon 
 the toys should be analyzed as it evidently gave great offbnce. 
 -Did It ofa surety hit the right nail upon the head? Did it 
 contain a double slur, not only condemning the selfish action 
 which has created an evil, but the daily effect of it ? If it impli, 
 ed that the commerce of the Colonies is controlled by Jesuitism, 
 let it be seen then in how much they are benefited by it, com- 
 pare them with other portions of America, and observe the dif- 
 ference. There, wo see immense cities bearing in their construc- 
 tion and plan, evidences of untrammelled intellect, we see every 
 resource in daily requisition. There we see illimitable means 
 for the cultivation of " Intellect." In the Colonies we constantly 
 observe the daily effort to restrain it. We have the wilderness 
 almost at our door step, and our people, lacking the bounteous 
 encouragement for its destruction, swelling the ranks of thehome^ 
 less in a strange land. 
 
 The « Piety" which claims as its own the " treasures of the 
 smLed Mine" must be of the very common kind which seeks its 
 own aggrandizement. These lines insinuated that every article 
 of the country's wealth was at the disposal of % faction, and is it 
 not too evidently the case? At their pleasure the staple of No- 
 va Scotia was madly hazarded. The Codfish were taken mXo 
 The care oi the rope, and for the last five years the commercial 
 regulations of the whole continent are stamped by papal intrigue. 
 
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 IlVi " ■" ^"^"^^^ * " "'' ■»»■•<= ""J^rae »b«i «e know 
 Truly tf.r.f^i^J''''''"''' """""^ '""" '"'•'" « -*«"ge ? 
 
 ot .nteUect, but one that was strong to deter, not to advance If 
 
 he "wv" IT f""^ "'«" '" •" '-ko-^ wh"« " 
 tne bounty which »lone can effectuallv breiik im r^i. k. 
 
 -nop^,,. Whe. i. the Edncion wSj^^oneT ^w": 
 Contr^f ng the position which c««ted the fUhe^y1~et 
 »o see « combiuaUon of Chn,^h and State prmoipll uTZ 
 possible then that the same thing has wrouL th. l, , . 
 •he Mines and minerals, ^ restriction of 
 
 ii the early settlement of the coonby the people were Dries. 
 
 . WHO can tell but the coab of ^ova Scotia hpln ♦« u^ *k 
 P^ussoulof Frederick Dole of York, and Cop 0^^ 
 out of rei^ions incompatible uith royalty An^ Pninr,; i , ? 
 
 forbearjMice of her Colonies, which have no. ^, % J ..T^™" 
 .« .^» paaperism oi emigration, which the mismaDaBcm™." ^* 
 
 ^inr--^ "'""""'"' -PO-^OT^hore" tT." icf 
 Which centuries have hoarded ? * 
 
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 The thing expluins itself. If religious toleration nils an ini- 
 raenso country with tlio works of untrammelled intellect. If it 
 unlocks the prisoner and loosens the caged bird, will not the op- 
 posite cause work ns opposite an eflect. Kcstriction of mind, of 
 body and estate? 
 
 In this light the wealth of nations is at onco the powerful 
 auxiliary of Protestantism. The promoter of Christianity, the 
 destroyer of superstition, the opponent of an unprincipled clique, 
 the leveller of that most bitter curse a Religious Faction. 
 
 England not only owes this liberty, it is the just possession of 
 the Colonies, and nothing would have resigned it but an influ- 
 ence subversive of all honour and without integrity. Nothing 
 would have demanded it, but the same spirit of contrariety 
 which in 1851, sought to involve two countries in warfare.— 
 Should not then the Protestant people of the Colonies demand 
 the restitution, as one means of bringing a sure protection into 
 action, of bestowing the elements of knowledge upon the 2u,000 
 beings who lie at the mercy of the base, by lack of it, or the 33,. 
 024 who are only half taught ? 
 
 England has gradually withdrawn her protecting arm, her 
 purpose has been accomplished. She has scattered the light of 
 Gospel Truth, it remains for ourselves to preserve it. The Co- 
 lonies owe Responsible Government in part to the power which 
 has always been the bitter enemy of tho British constitution.— 
 England owes the buried treasures of these countries to tho ten 
 thousand people whom that influence has driven from their shores 
 in order that that work, might be wrought by 'the Papacy. 
 
 America has a great talent in her hand. It were useless to 
 raise a crusade against the benighted children of Erin, but self 
 preservation demands the establishment of every means for 
 their culti vatic which knowledge can give. 
 
 Reader, wander away to yonder eminence. Is not the air 
 fresh and elastic. How sweet the corn pinks are. Ah 1 t/>erc 
 sounds the whirr of a squirrel's brush. There he is on that polo 
 fence with a beech nut in his white paws. His sharp eyes 
 looking at nothing.— Now look around— A blue mist hovers in 
 thegrey twilight, over the green forest. Tho soft moan of tho 
 curlew is far,— far up over your head. In the west, the "young 
 Moon sets in the old Moon's lap." Now— raise your eyes, to the 
 
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 Jong shadows over tho brown harvest flold ThT. ^ " 
 vojcos. "°« Ihey „„ gothng suppop ready »o„ ,„„, and f„. 
 
 :': Kit;..'"" ^"°' ^""'"' "'''- "■'""■» ^^ --• 
 
 ^ov, ,ell me, is he to come from that hut? ignorant o, ,h„ „i, 
 
 £f &rea:s 
 
 pect all who wear her cotton prints to be continually praTi„.,f„r 
 
 w^tTheir. f .t'^'""'™ ""'" ''^"""^"O- » «S »"^ 
 woe be theirs, if they preserve not in its rich rhind . .k/ <• "; 
 
 gathered ina shower of tears and bloodl st Jf UuT 
 bj their noblo Sftxon mother. ■'^Joerty, 
 
 It is not an unfounded fallacy that restraint is the work of 
 the papacy. It is the conviction of reason by anaJy if the 
 fish of the country are priestridden, what is^o prevfnt' the co«l 
 and iron being also cuarded ? Tf « u • .u \ J"^®^^"' "'« coal 
 vrhatare a noonle to bo ? W. ^"^^^^^^^ ^^e priestridden 
 P_-. , I °P'® ^° ^<^ '^ We recur to the nast hi«fnr« r.f *i,. 
 
 tTierrn'""^:- ''f ' "'' " ^^y ^^*^^ continent." Wo"know7f 
 
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 cannot conquer. We reml of tJ.o " wandering tribes of Acadic'' 
 being conapelled to take up their chattels and walk, because the 
 Machinations they carried on, reminded fhe then sensitive go- 
 vernment too forcibly of the sufferings from which the people 
 had escaped, and threatened their new home, and is at all im- 
 probable thai a far sighted despotism should deem all the riches 
 of the land but too mean, to number among the « gifls the altar 
 doth enshrine." 
 
 Of the private history of this Prince Bishop whom in death we 
 still acknowledge, we know little. Enough that we have the hon- 
 our of paying his debts. Nor know we whether he went out of 
 the frying pan which he prepared by incurring them, into the 
 Are out of which it is not our duty to get him, or whether the 
 whole affair be not a " prodigious make up," an adc^tional de- 
 ception, an hample umbugi,* 
 
 What are the debts of royalty, to a people who have their 
 living to get ? England would not herself resign as much in 
 favour of another lanrl. and the high integrity of purpose, which 
 has always swayed her councils, needs but to be appealed to- 
 that Christianity may have the right. She can appreciate the 
 motive which calls for a sacrifice, for among the annals of the 
 nations, the greatest to the cause of Truth, have ever been upon 
 Aw- shores. It is only among her most degenerate sons that such 
 effort 18 never known. She can appreciate the strenuous advo- 
 cacy for a more complete Reformation, for those of her noblest 
 memberr ^ endless, and though in the fullness of her charity 
 ehe abrogated tite law, which restrained political paganism in a 
 Christian country and Papal Liberalism, says it was for the best. 
 Tha Colonies, may\yet have in downright self-defence to watch 
 Umr opportunity and institute the same. 
 
 Would it have been possible for such circumstances as those 
 described, to have been passed in such a country as England is 
 m cautious silence ? No ! they would have been searched and 
 sifted to tlie utmost. Would an old man, broken by distresses, 
 have been quietly disposed of by chosen means ; after a chance 
 anvidious aUusion, to a vicious administration; his name even 
 in death, aspersed bv it?— No. in thnf Ur^A «<•;..-»:«« xi._ t. 
 
 fm'J'?LT?"i,*'^^'**'»« '•"venues collected in Nova Scotia from Mines 
 from 1843. to 47, was £26,687 lKfrom47. to 52, £31.512, 19 5. 
 
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 would have freely poured forth its suspicions and' invective ^ 
 Well m.ght he say. when deserted in his hour of torture "Wo 
 are no longer governed by England's representatives. We have 
 not now a Queen." Where also, are the British ministry who 
 would have been permitted to warp a private story of religious 
 persecution, into a great public transaction at the will of a cabal. 
 The Press would have thundered forth its denunciations, and 
 he people would have seconded it ; here, alas, they were Ifra d 
 todoso. Judgmgoftl.ovalueofathingbythe opposition,"' 
 It not then by a/ree press, and a courageous people, that we can 
 ever compare with England. We have much to iLun, and do! 
 and much to unlearn. She is too far from the Colonies to pre- 
 Bcrve her power in them as she was wont, therefore a devotion- 
 al one steps forward, and under the falsely assumed name of 
 Liberty, would quietly vest the British Colonies, in the cn)wn 
 ot 1^ ranee. It needs neither railroad or telegraph. It works 
 in congregations, under the biiing term of « schism.'* In sem- 
 inaries, by the suppression of sacred instruction. In reUqiom 
 pohtics, by a gradual progress, to a- fearful climax, such as Eng- 
 land has known to her cost. It would tear asunder every dt 
 nomination, that one mightreign alone, and if, by this relation 
 of the singular chances which have given Reciprocity to Ameri- 
 ca, she be led to see more distinctly, the peculiar destiny she is 
 called upon to fulfill, the sorrows of the poor, and the dissipa- 
 tions of a Prince, will not have been in vain. By high and 
 low, by human nature's holiest or weakest passions, shall 4he 
 kingdom of heaven be commenced upon earth; With God a- 
 lone be the confident hope, the trusting quiet. 
 
 Tis not in vain that pure snow flakes, rested once upon a lit- 
 tie band of adventurers, in a rocky and lonely Bay. A voice 
 apake in that heroic deed, that shall vibrate again, and asain 
 through the continent. A voice that but one century previous 
 tothesettlemen of Halifax, was heard in povoriy ; obscurity 
 and grief, by the tortured and the toil worn mother, and, by the 
 I rincess of the proudest of the old world's realms. A voice 
 that had spoken in trembling whispers by fading firesides, or 
 murmured in shuddering conclaves in dreary nooks at midnight, 
 of^ppression ; of fearful tyranny ; for pure opinions sake. 
 , Tnere are t^mes when the liberties of a country are stran-ely 
 
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 vested in the action of one individunl. If no benefit accrue from 
 this narration, the writer lias done her duty. A desperate 
 effort was needed. It has been made. It is but the flrat step 
 in a dangerous path ; and may many be thus led to examine, and 
 expose the wonden of Jesuitism in the now world, aud the ef- 
 fect may be more surprising than a long desired but moat un- 
 expected Reciprocity. Even Trotestant Union. 
 
 Ood rule? in a mysterious way, hit workings to perform, 
 He plitnfs his footstep in the sea ; aud rides upon the storm 
 HiH purposes will ripen fast, uiifol'iinsf every hour 
 The bud may have a bitter tante ; but sweet will ba tho flower. 
 
 Sweet indeed is the bud of Religious Unity. 'Tis bathed in 
 the dews of eternity. Its bloom is the reflection of the glory, 
 which surrounds the throne. The perfume of its petals, may 
 quicken the pulse of an angel. 
 
 Reader ; if you take these suggestions in good part, you and I 
 and Punch, and the Pope, may, when the way seema somwthing 
 clearer, meet aga'in at Phillipii-^ie, the Press. 
 
lOT 
 
 PKOTESTANT UNION. 
 
 Watchman what of .he night ? Watchman what of the night ? The Watch- 
 man aaith the morning comoth as also the iiight.-IsAiAH. 
 
 S? <'«!'"' 80 «t'". and brilliant was tho sight. 
 Ihat half entranncd I cazed and drank 
 Its loveliness— and wished no more for hght. 
 Was bliss to look upon that clear blue sky; 
 All earth seemed shrinking fiom its majesty,- 
 The waning Awonlighf s deepened glory triced. 
 Her onwnr^ course. Stars clusterfng, myriad craccd 
 Her path i.ke diamonds strewn arounii a vicK Can 
 
 How Srl'^ ''''" "*'" T' '^« *^''« ''t''«a«>8 linge?«d far. 
 Ti?a A *'''^'.'"^" 'Pr«aJ «'er the bending sky-^ ' 
 
 Ihe Almighty touchmgs of Divinity 
 And yet although the earth is very fair 
 It IS not pure— for sin is every whore. 
 
 I turned me to the silent, passive carth,- 
 Jlushed was each sound of'business and of mirth • 
 Th«rnTr"'^*''"^*"'*''°°dland lay,- ' 
 WhnJnr"'" deepening in tho ripnling^Bay, 
 Whose clear pure waters, as they ebb and rise 
 G.ve back again the ether of the skies ' 
 
 Around, above ; o'er all, the white streams nin<»" 
 The flickering radience of some fairy thing - 
 ■--Nought stirred the silence, but the ripplin^ rill 
 And having watchdog on the distant hiF ° ' 
 iho dash of waters on the rock strewn strand ; 
 Ihe flshermans 8 shrill halloo, on approaching land • 
 Ae rustling snipe amid the rush again ^ ' 
 
 i- ho deep fire glow from cottago wfndow pane. 
 1 be qu.ckning flash from either little room, 
 
 Th« cS T^i/^ ^'J'*'" grass-^The distant bitterns boom 
 1 he Coble hull was dancing by the painter, " 
 
 Ihe sea sand crickets cry, grew faint and fainter. 
 
 AH, all seemed hushed in sleep, 
 
 So calm— so still— so deep— 
 
 As though each pulse had felt the touch of death 
 
 And paid the debt of nature-their last treath. '• 
 
 wli It *J ^as there, as though the Almighty's hand 
 
 Had placed a circle there, a shining band ^ 
 
 Ut gentle spirits to protect the land ;— 
 
 Nay more-as though a qod's own powerful care «r« «pr.a.i 
 t"J'i''"t6^eL(iy oer his children's head,— " '" ' 
 
 Watching^nd screening from the lurking foe 
 
 Tui 'Z^^\'^'^^:St'' '^^>'' « t^^'J^*- '"ercy shew. . 
 -The paddles dip-That sound stirred not before, 
 The quiv'ring gurgle from the ashen oar ; 
 
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 Tl.e Indians brown oanoc-Ohl loves l,o not to roam 
 
 Whoro r.v.r r.pplos-or where oreans foam. 
 
 f>winiy mor(< swiftly li.^ persuoa hh way 
 
 ^Wancinnr nlong ih,, iaiot studded bay. 
 
 ^ow aeon, now lost, amid tlio Hhadowy llabt 
 
 ^ow starts to olearno«s,-,,;c.turod l)earas arc bri-rbt. 
 
 JVow in the (hstanco is bis prosoncc known ° 
 
 Bv flamniR torcb-lij^bt on tbo water thrown 
 
 1 10 fir trees in the gloom pcrspectively. 
 
 J ho whits birch eamps conceal, yet mark to be, 
 
 Iboir sloom rehoved arrninst tlio azure cloud : 
 
 Crusted with silver, by tho whitening fihroud 
 
 Ho floats into tbo cove— ashore he springs. 
 
 Bears on his shonldor tho li^ht bark, and sines. 
 
 And stretched besido tbo blaze beneath tho tents, 
 
 1.0 tho brown tribe : recounts tho days events. 
 
 ;Twas not so calm a time as ours me-thoiicht, 
 
 Tho Chaldean Man;i, for the Saviour sou-rht. 
 
 Vistas of Ignorance hid bim from their sight. 
 
 And prejudice cast abroad her deadly lifrht. 
 
 The heavy clouds ofJowi.sb scorn before" 
 
 Behind a world of superstitious lore. 
 
 Nights of the Church : How often does the blazo 
 
 Ut Light refulgent mitigate their haze ! 
 
 How often have thine erring children strayed 
 
 And till the dawn of Day— return delayed. 
 
 Then, when the « Morning Star" prepared the way, 
 
 They were led back to Light and perfect day. 
 
 Nights of the Church ; The dungeon tomb! tho rack 
 riK^ blazing Torch that fed the rabid pack, 
 Nights of the Chunli-Tlio axe-tho flaming brand 
 Aindled a bving gloom : tlirough sighing land, 
 bpcak not of olden times, in those our years 
 Their joy was venom and their triumph tears; 
 Nights of the Church— The gladiators groan 
 The dy'd arena— Tell us of thine own" 
 Nights of the Church— The Panthers dripp-ng iaw 
 The maddened Lion— with uplifted pa|v. * 
 
 What has past time— bequeathed posterity ? 
 This is the them% Take heed- Such things may be 
 What gives it now, to young America ? 
 Be wise— be wise— A night may close tho day. 
 
 Too cii the Blind— Soul sickening is tho sight. 
 Mistake the darkness, for the dawning light. 
 And when the sun, bis noondav power attains, 
 Lament Hie shadow ^hat o'er all' things reigns, 
 Itin« v.iit guiders from the living fold 
 Misguided searchers for the lieece of gold. 
 These are the Bandit, of the Church of God^ 
 Lvin? in WAit for snnla nnt 1i>,mnn u\ i 
 
 *' Konew the system still they cry— the old 
 Is verbose, formal, dull and stale, and cold. 
 
 
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 j o.;oit, chionr.ery, and vil««t trick; ^ ' 
 Oppress the Stato^and body polii c. 
 rll% ?f S««^-wl.ich fooUlv I.ey call 
 iho KHtal.l.shed Church-look forward h?L f.ii 
 Anncpato its iall-for fall it mu^f """" 
 
 ,^y lovellod be it with it, kindr d duat. 
 Jhe hour of exigence bescowed on it a nlaoo 
 Served i8 the need. Return I thl hi. ^ ? 
 P«jt syatems have endurldao v 5^ fc '' ''"''• 
 Why not diacard the weak-adopt thSl'tron^ 
 Sure eighteen centuries can nXvem3' 
 And Bhades upon the dial ne'er bo caSt, 
 
 inSneSSr^feJi;"?^ . 
 
 St. T^ .^ ? '^'''•'^' «"'^ penitential houra 
 
 Ills fasts, his vijriis, purchase of his powers 
 
 I on the seven hili'd city in its pridef 
 
 Hat more than king- was worsliippcd in mv Bride 
 
 And s. 1 dictating to the powers around ^ * 
 
 I bend the proudest spirit tothe ground 
 
 Tl!« ^w^ °^ •"?"; *"'' ^'" ^^^y take away 
 • ThS ^ ?^- "'.'"'^' ""'^ '«a^« a mass of clay ? 
 1 ho great divider of the powers of sense, ^ 
 
 luV^^f 0,^ Light, from'heaven's Onimpotcnce 
 Oh to what fearful lengths these men presume? ' 
 £hey spread the door of vice. Rear virtuoa inmh • 
 Misguided zeal, a mesh of crime it weales ' 
 
 And agitation the sediment it leaves ' 
 
 xoo often so it answers wishnd for ends. 
 Religion IS a cloak for foes-not friends. 
 How often we have only but to turn 
 The irrefutable pages of the past, where bum, 
 The purple histories of bleedfng France ' 
 ^;5,fr°«'.r[?"~Jeroofa dread romance, 
 Excited millions by ambition led 
 
 Too a?l?°° ."'^'^l- .ignorance strengiLencd 
 Too great contention 'mid the powers that be. 
 ^° '?"? * "J' fo'' J'fe and liberty. 
 
 wi!!t^I^fV^'i^.'i!°' ^'^^^ the anchor's cast, 
 What heeds the Soldier when the battles past, 
 
 JJoth not the courser press unto tke Goal, 
 gays of religious tyranny are gone 
 Priestcraft ; a subject that is thread bare worn ? 
 bay thon what binds earth with a secret cE 
 Xhc spring .8 touched. The old, is young again. 
 
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 How onn a ppoplo pul.lo n Sfnto ; n Throno 
 
 Who cnnnot irovorn what tln>y vaW llioir own. 
 
 Oil odiuHte tlu'iii viuhtly- jjlvo tlioin I.igbt to soo 
 
 'riicn li't ont'h booU liin lanrit-d deity.— 
 
 'VUn lmnt««l Waldonso ol'tlio mow' wipntbcd soil, 
 
 Tilt' <liil<l of principle ; lionost son of toil. 
 
 Jlo oft ho VaM is ono redoominjt trait, 
 
 Ono always trcnsiirod; Pale Starn hoiald day, 
 
 Anil still wo linjicr at tlio outer Rates, 
 
 Mi.sts gathering round. Tho timid one belatoi. 
 
 The young oorn budded in tbo Spring 
 
 Jlriglitly, gAil>, promising; 
 
 To the poor n\an, yet lingering thero 
 
 With bended brow— and niournlul air, 
 
 That told of heaviness and caro 
 
 Weary toil and scanty fare, 
 
 kSonio roeomponso for anxious bours, 
 
 For fading strengtlj ; and wasted powers. 
 
 Jiut sadly to himself ho said, 
 
 " My children cannot now have broad 
 
 Year after year with rnggod banda 
 
 As saddened life renews its sands 
 
 1 delvo tho soil, I cleave tho sod, 
 
 1 solemnly appeal to (Jod, 
 
 And yot, do 1 tho richer grow. 
 
 J.,ow voices answerccl No, Oh no." 
 
 lie upward looked ; lo there, there came, 
 
 Four spirits in a lurid dame 
 
 Kindly they spake— bo ours tbo field, 
 
 Thine tbo rich nectar it will yield. 
 
 AVo lor.g have beard thy groan of woo. 
 
 Have seen thee long impatient grow, 
 
 Heard tbec rebel at iron rule. 
 
 That still tbino untaught soul doth school. » 
 
 Kepining, filled with discontent, 
 
 We, for thy comfort, now are sent, 
 
 Profiler we now tho Lethean wave. 
 
 Tbv gnawing thought will find a grave. 
 
 Thy rufiled mind 'twill soothe, thy cares, 
 
 Shall all be thrown to vacant airs. 
 
 Laugh, and rejoice, and cease to think, ' 
 
 And take the Circean cup, and drink.'' 
 
 * ^ * • •• • » » 
 The various intemperance spread 
 ijinking the living to tho dead. 
 •' The old antiquities" so treasrrod up. 
 Drop in the social scale, and lo the cup. 
 One binds the mind of budding youth 
 One casts a shade on glimpse of Truth, 
 Anollier guides with steady hand 
 The wealthy, influential band, 
 Who make the path of evil plain 
 Question of traftic, sale or gain, * 
 
 Aud while our blasting rcigu we bold, 
 
Ill 
 
 C«nkero(I U Jrop of porfoct gold. 
 
 Ah whftt am I ; n po<.r woak man." 
 J^,;''"''-«r"''»'"Jl'y lordly pl«r 
 Why WM the power of thought pmirod down f 
 II at man n.iHht woar a heavon w n crow?? 
 Or nhcmo, an.l (Vot, and tan.per it"ll 
 io bend hii brother to his will, 
 
 , io rou tnem out again from our youni «horn 
 
 iioast heart of adamant, encased in stool 
 Religious rivalry the wished for end 
 Keligious dwcord, over^ whim attend, 
 
 •Tis hero the poor shoul.l lift his h'ead aaain 
 Ihe boyar hostbe routed on the plain.-? 
 
 S" "" ''«'? P««e(l and .cSrcoly K tr.M 
 
 Be ofTored still to senseless Deity * 
 
 ^t°"?*». •oc'al life now evils must disclose 
 
 ?Jonl^'' T"'- ^'"^ '^' 'l«rknesfl,8tH oppose 
 AnS .?! ; -l''^" °'°'* *" between each pTe 
 Thi 'l^^'^ ^'^^ °^««" ^'^« as oceans roft 
 mS.'" fu"' °"'"/«''' '«"'» there bJ TL 
 T^lVtVh^f^lti^ --y to seek .nZ 
 
 wLn 1 •^?''*'*" *"'• ">»"'" vice shall fall 
 When prejudice and dwkaew mi the &„ „i,d 
 
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 No more in galling fetters strive to bind. — 
 
 — To east earth's chains in the engulping sea, 
 
 And lead it onward ; is a work lor thee, 
 
 To !^d to sunrise, bright America 
 
 The churches progress to ♦ho rising day. 
 
 To hold thine own, kind nature's pristine trust. 
 
 Nor be her gifts enshrined in antique dust. — 
 
 —The beams of Sacred truth are shed ftbroad 
 
 From Heavens Throne— the christians Ood and Lord, 
 
 The blest assurance of his sacred word 
 
 Far distant kingdoms have both seen and heard, 
 
 Streams of the rising Glory pierce the cloud, 
 
 Which deamon magic surely did cntihrond, 
 
 But coming time shall open paths of bliss, 
 
 "NVe know not, think not, dream not, of in this,— 
 
 ■ — But little lower than the angel's man 
 
 Is not a brute creation, measuring a span, 
 
 The rending veil. The grief that all might see 
 
 And none could share the grief of Deity I I 
 
 This purchased thee a place on high. 
 
 This bids thee not to droop and die. 
 
 A bird but rests a moment, trims itu plume, 
 
 The golden cloud receives it from the gloom — 
 
 But that the time of glory soon arrive, 
 
 All must by precept and example strive 
 
 Let their doul float above sublunar things 
 
 And seek the favour of the king of kings, 
 
 —•Then gloom and ignorance shall have passed away. 
 
 As clouds disperse them at the dawning day, 
 
 Then heavens day star clearly seen awhile 
 
 Shall call the drooping earth to look and smile,-— 
 
 Great God, preserve us from the dark old times. 
 
 When men built Castles to conceal their crimes— 
 
 — Long have men ceased them to invoke the care 
 
 Of Spirits of.the earth, and middle air. ^ 
 
 The Greeks mythology will ne'er be ours, 
 
 Who rest each tlought on higher, holier powers, 
 
 On Pagan worship do we look with scorn, 
 
 Thankful that we in christian days are born. 
 
 But other deamons still contest the prize, 
 
 Restraininp good,— that in the pathway lies,— 
 
 —Each phaze of pervert intellect at length. 
 
 Shall mark creations weakness and its strength, 
 
 Admit us to a glimpse of Spirit glory 
 
 Whence emenales our life ; and marks its story, 
 
 And lead us to the era, whence shall rise ; 
 
 Such earth— meet preparation for such skies, 
 
 Discord, division, and Religious strife 
 
 Shall no mc u. T n the page of social life 
 
 No more conitnl^'i for pra-eminence 
 
 Shall steel our 8ouJ3 ; and drive religion thence. 
 
 Prejudice ami Error, then, no ionrer mar, 
 
 The cause of God by strange unhallowed war, 
 
 One pure unsulled worship shall there be. 
 
 One numble prayer then breathe but Unity. 1847.