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77_i§; Operation Fathers 'ewed igiiifiqance Of The harlofttweth A um Conference,

ironi. the sentiment that it was our duty and , V interest‘ to cement the colonies to- - Charlottetown: Oonierence. gather by every tie that can add to re from thereport published tbeirgreatness. union or the ~ Hon. Iiidwardmwhelsn. North American provinces would interestlriglight onV ‘ - elevate their position. consolidate

tiu:hed‘tb the.1gItiIo‘r-‘their inﬂuence and advance tldﬁir

I t _ , 0t°ho:e wlmpsrticlpsted ,, ‘interests. and at the same ' ‘ - continue th

following extracts es or ,coniederatio.n‘

THE .l»Im§n1AN=L’.'*

eonference

PAGE NINE

ode History

is yearlnsuoeeedsd incoboutieuenuon oraoie munboroi~tnei.':anadds.n!i , or subs:-aq

commons and uentiy tor Queens .I~ie fig: in bummerﬂade on May 18.

now. J. 11. out. c.M.G.

Hon. John Hamilton Gray. Prime Minister or Princeliviwaro Island, 1363-65, and one oi the Fathers 01 Gonied€rs.t.on, was born in this Province in min‘ and educated at Oharlottetown. From 1331 to 1852 he saw service in the British ‘army as a cavalry oiiicer, ehielly in In- dia and south Airica. He returned to Prince Edward Island about 1856, and in 1658 was iirst elected to represent the Fourth District oi’ Queen's in the Island Assembly.

As Prime Minister and president oi the Executive Qcuncil. colonel Gray presided as an of Charlottetown Oonierenoe in He was a delegate to the Quebec Conference. 0n'the rejection oi t;: Quebec Resolutions by the

P.ince Edward Island. Legislature

he retired from political lite and voted eli to military duties. had been since 1802 oiiicar com- manding the volunteer brigade oi

Rediscovered Letter of Sir John Macdonald

on Confederation Terms

FOUND RECENTLYAMONG FAMILY DOCU-

MENTS ‘BY’ LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR DEBLOIS, THE LETTER SETS FORTH SIR JOHN'S ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF P. E. ISLAND JOINING THE DOMINION.

Published for the first time in The Guardian last March, the following letter, signed and written by Sir John A. Mscdonald in his own hand throughout, was discovered recently by Hon George D. Deﬂlola, Lieniennnt Governor of the Province.

. Dated at Ottawa February 9, 1870--three years before Prince Edward Island’: entry into [Jonlederation—the letter was part of a personal correspondence between the great Confederation statesman and G_ W. Delliols, Esq.. Charlottetown, the present Lieutenant Governor‘: ndratheit it had lain ior at least half a century in an unope ng-box containing other Iarniiy documents.

The text of the letter follows: -

the Island, with the rank of Col- onel; and in um he was apploinicd Adjutant Generaloi the‘mi_tia oi, the Island. In created

Monies 00 iesity is the glory or us all.

Ilon._. George Bgown (speaking To onto): A

Georgetown in 1853, and in 1863

it to thelaegisiatlve council. He was

the Dominion. He died

31 'P“°m-V “'9 ‘'9 W‘ a member at the Executive Coun- ‘ihe’ by the um‘ mm In "1" mﬁiggdﬁﬁgf {‘;"’,‘m§_°‘,'§°'m°“““.,. ’°""°‘°'"‘ 3°“ oil. on the inclusion of the Isl-~ ov?3\rl:imr¢eeIs;lpt§c' ‘bad’. how-A " ' ' I -"dcammpwmm pngtemmginemm 118 Wage 3°C very ream, m up 90 them the HON. '1'. HEAT]! HAVILAND pmvmbu mvlfwb. “ms pomﬂm:

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“Yr ‘"”‘1‘ 1 I . V7‘ “"° ’ m 18”‘ The mu 7°" M W” Bom‘at Bedeque, P.E.I., on Ms their‘ ' -m0-n- °‘°°““,;”“,’,‘,‘,’,"°‘G‘f°,ge°,,,‘;,f’n‘”§*?‘“,';‘,',°, 29, 1825; Mr. Pope was the excess;

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I em. in’ uni that natlonuixprowess and them

' r . , - m which wouuﬁg . . ‘ son 0 the Hon Joseph Pope char

31180 in iottetown. He was educated in Eng- ; the fourm “um. mime Q, 1; womdyﬁo. 1,9 mm for ug an to continuously until 1370. From 1850 mm mum“ law “we mm. m_ i the globe. .’He then alluded sit down together and consider how i§->x8l:§ﬁv1é6cV;:;c?Lm‘;ﬁné>:];n £11 W“ in Gh‘;n.1ot,et0wn_

and was called to the bar in 1847. In 1859 he was appointed Oolonial Secretary 01 the Island, though without a seat in the Executive Council and from 1083 to 1873 he xvrresented Belfast in the begisla- tive Assembl,,. »

He was a strong advocate of Confederation, and was in 1864 a delegate to both the Charlottetown and Quebec Oonierenoes. In 1873 he was appointed Judge oi’ the county court oi Prince county; this oiiice he held until his den at Summcrsi‘ on Oct. '1. 1879. His wie was a daughter oi Hon. Thom- as Des-in-isay, Charlottetown, by

eight ldren 0

whom 511' Joseph Pope, the biog- and liters executor oi

- unmoerrupted, pleasure and. iar it would lead for the wellm ess which} - . , and good government of our prov- lithe dela teayieit at sir inoes were we to unite them all ». this lovey Isiind" ‘ under one system oi government. ' '- ' 2 ’Well, sir, we did all: down ether. Hon. George" Etienne» ari|er:’ we discussed the whole sub ect in y (the delegates) motto ‘en- all its bearings. We looked at it whether it were ‘possible 101‘ from every point at wow; ’rcvinces irom their present after eight or ten days‘ deliberation eniory and isolated’ maierl we came to the unanimous conclu- m ll. nation or kingdom, Oa- sion that iilthe details could be of herself, though she was a settled upon a basisyiust to all it country. with avast’ snd~ex- would be tor the advantage oi the e interior, could not make whole oi these provinces that we a nation, neither could: the should be united." Provinces of themselves The canny attitude oi’ Prince ~- a kingdom. It wus_the;-Ii; Edward Islanders, 551:5, t Bag“ 885 . I entisl thatthosa natio the lion George Goes appolmmem as uwkmmt Goveﬁ

A is and resources should be -John, come down ,0 me_ mm M in chmomtown 3

' and Iroin 1&3 in 1864 he was 01 the Assembly; in 1865 he was Solicitor-General; and from 1866 to 188'! he was again colonial secretary. In 1870 he was elected to the Legislative Council.

He was one oi the ‘delegates from Prince Ii}.-lwsrd Island to the Que- bec oonienence in 1864- and he was one oi the three delegates who. went to Ottawa in 1873 to arrange th on which Prince Edward

retary

was ca Owed ate; but in 1879 he pslgned on his

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1" ‘ ‘tho been u re - ‘ mange“! ' i£’h°'W- wooed b t not t won . nation?! theuwigld. h'!B.t'e blandishments oi the wogr HON. DAVID LAIRD, P.C. lion. Dr. Tapper’: , ‘ ' III‘: iI‘:twouid oon?en‘t,Nto the Hon. David Laird was born at edellberationsgt thcocnv - lock he should understand fully - Onnonnﬁmh 13- m'°°nd“°t°d~~ ~ *mm “mm °‘"d"'v m h dc:-'i4ini, an executive councillor Pro He was educat-

eat.

Ooniedersﬂon Question consider- ed hum the P.E.I. Point of View," (Charlottetown 1968).

HON. EDWARD PALMER

Born at r‘ iottetown, Sept. 1. mm. mm Palmer studied law un- der his (other. James B. Palmer, andwnscsiiedtothebarinisal. Prom use to woo no

r » not because .

‘er Shot‘ at ofpIslondI_-5tqt98*m §-ojninent~_'in'f_ '

on Nov. I. 1%.

non. =mwan.o wnaun ' myo.'n-sans. in . ~ ted to

at an earl age we

°dentered|llo8IIpioyof ‘ ‘ Howeasaprintnu

the »C';Iiorlotte't‘otun

» sC.M.G. Inl873he was ap- . ~ “ omﬂommwn pom,/ed Deputy “am ,a delegate 1mm Prince lildrv/ard_ mm” mm mm of the militia of £1-let No. 10 oi dm“d1m_‘§mg°lsg“'g:°fmf<g§_;§n§§

received his be

i canals. railway

"Dear six-:— I

“I have to thank you verymuch ior you interesting letter 01 the .2I.s,i: ultimo, and am glad to learn ‘that the prospects oi Conieder- ation in your Island axe. though perhaps slowly. certainly brighten-

ing.

"The terms offered by the Can- adian Government to Prince Ed- ward on the union are. I am pleas- o . They are so liberal in tact that the appeal- tion press in Western Canada has already owned fire upon us ior our lavishness. We are to: have some dililouity in carrying the Pronosltlons, and it is certs that would be

think. therefore. that the n-tends oi the union in the Island should make up their minds to press upon the people that these terms are as’ large as can possibly be goo. and that they are suiiiciently ad- vantageous to justify their accept- ance. ,

“No Railroad”

“As I gather from your letter, the chiei objection to the scheme is that no provision is made for building a railroad in your Is- land while the mtercolonisi and other railways have been and are being built on the mainland.

“You must remember,’ however that at the time oi the union in 1867. all the provinces were pos- sessed oi public properties oi great value. stwh as railways, securities, slides. booms. etc.. etc. all giving more or less annual revenue. 'Ilhese were all transferred by the Provinces to the Dominion but the provin- ces nevertheless continued to be

the some interest in ese public

works and in the revenue scouring

Siam them as any other part or e

"Your Province is to be showed to enter at the same amount ct debt per head as Nova Scotia and Brunsw' ”. 386.7’! per over a single shillingh worth or nrtmeoty to the Dominion.

Debt Allowance “As luckily

I0!‘ , YOU!‘ debt

to will not amount the sum you

enter at. the Do- _ be obliged to pay you ve per cent interest on the rub this interest capital- a fund out or which you can construct your own railway. or nearly so, It you add capitalised a moder- lng the probable

earnings‘ of

work expenses. the two will. it seems 0 me. furnish you with

(continued on page 12)

to Confederation students. He die

It ohulouptowi. Dec. 10, 1397.

honfasonus coma "in the protracted struggle for

Mr. coles tool: the

@1- iuspomiblelac t i Pri mg“ ""5 “ﬁnd vernmen ll neu-

part.‘ no . 20. mo. the quest son ciﬁlasriﬁ com, he success without the