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Charlottetown, November 21, 1864. ieee daa an a UPINIONS OF THE DELEGATES ON THE CONFEDERATION

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Tue public jourunla of Nova Scotia and New Brevaswick are publishing the speeches of thei: reapective Delegates, delivered in Cauada, in con- neetion with the Cuion Question, at the severa Banquets there. We think we ought to do the

gape in reapect te our Delegajer, not because

fie gentlemen WhO eamposed the Dulegatior from - ber dated eciertain any ely Pandy abuUl ecedig their epeeebes tepreduceds but by giving pud- incity tutheir opinioas, as revised by thewse.ves, we shalt pretect them from misooneeption, and

Sefeat the ineidiout arte of soure persons in the * oeitimlinity, who would fain make it appear that there, waa not unanimity of sentiment amongst

tee deland Dei gutes ou the general questa of

Cidom. ‘Such of the Maritane Delegates as were

pteert at the last Meeting of the Conference, at

Moitreal, on their way Vowe to the Island, signed

Uw archer Repors. of the Contentiog—Mre. | Valvter was anengst the gamber of these whe |

figned it, although, we understand, he expresse ot made sume mental reservation to the effec! that bis sighature was merely a verification of the Report. All the other Delegatea might have smade, and probably did make a sivilar reserva thu, but nothing of the kind appears on thy face othe decement.

fo return, however, to the Speeches ;-—The |

ragaet giten by the Beard of Trade at Quebec, » the 15th October, waa the first public occasion « which the Delegates expressed their views in newer to the teast of their health. The Pre- - Sineiai Sveretary ef Nova Scotia (Dr. Tupper,

9 Hight comcult, whether, lhe angels’ visite, they are naw in Canada, te educate the public mind | should be few and Tar between, or thick ae leages | up to the adoptian of their ciews, Vhe task may pt Va lambrosu.”’ Heowould, however, bear in ibe a tedious, difficult, and protracted one j but ne wind that the best qeaiity of an after-dinner | great ineusure was ever jet accomplished, oF spetch was brevilys Speecies, on such an eceas! warth much, tuless surrounded with difeulties. sion as the present, ehauld be, if prossible, ike | Deferring reverently to the public opinion vt his ) ie ehuinpague Detere them, bright and aparkliug, | own Province, be would cheerfully go amougsl | dul 8 teen dinposedof COueors) Now, bie first (his people, aud explaining it as well us he could, } duty waste thank that dietiuguisbed nudiewee, inj be would ask thew to support a measure which he name of the people of Peivnoe Edward laland, | he believed will enhanee their prozperily. Pew | lor the honor conferred Upon their Pepresentatives | and comparatively poor as the population ef be [8 connection With the other delegates, uot ouly | island of Prince Edward may be now, tts fertile tor the — entertainment before them, but| fiedds and valleys are capable of supporting u ur the cordial and overpawering Welcome they bad | population of a mullion, “It waa uneeé designated received on thei: visit to this tair cily, the gre ati the garden of the St Lawrence, and it was | commercial @ 4,0 ium of Canada, the grandeur] valuable fishing statien for Canada during the lof whose busy warts and palatial residences bear |oecupation of the Freveh uuder Monteaim. It ) festimeny fo the enterprise, public spirit and re-, sill possesses all the qualities ef a garden, ean jfined tastes of her sons. He was well aware | rivers and bays still abound with fish. He desire that the compliment was not so much to the gens} that those great resources should become. as wel tlemen composing the delegation as to the coluny | knewn now and in the future as they were in by- hwhieh they kad the honor to represent. Fle ac. | gone days: and regarding the advantages — eepted it tn that spiritand thanked their generous} modern unprovements und institutions affor - entertainers for it. Politicians are geverally cun-/ as auxiliaries tu the natural reavurces of ‘hie ing felluwe, and these jn the several Maritime | colony, he was satisfied that she could net fail te | Governments stowed this quality tu great advan} become very prosperous and hoppy under the tage whea they appoitted urembers of * Oppo- | Confederation. {Loud cheers.) i sition, toe which, in Prince Edward Taland, he had os : ivon— “Our Sister ithe honor ta belong, bat from the cares of w bieh | On the next toast being given— “O j be hoped to be soon relieted—( Laughter)—to aid ‘them iv perfecting (he great sclege of coutede- fation: bece use, it the people of tke seperal Pro . j vinces slould be so guwise as ta complain thal | “ i their liberties and cherished institutions have beet Col. HAVILAND, 1n replying to the toast taken trom them, the Opposition would have 'o{ remarked, that as a member of the smallest bear the censure as well as those iu the Adminis | province of the whole, he would not detains Members of the Government will say, 1} the audience long, at the same time he de- | rep'y tv any complatut, that the gentlemen uppe | sired todruw attention to some peculiar fucts }site have been quite as bad as themselves. ae ‘connected with the present movement. They ae ee wi enya amg yo ttle | might recollect that this was mot the first

coutederation would be the means of eniarging | r wur liberties instead of restricting them, and tial , (ime that states had met together to organiz tion, for in times gone by the

our peble institutions would be strengthened and | 4 comstitu | conswlidated, instead of imperiled, by the propos | states of Halland bad met to resist the tyrap- jedallanee. The present was his first visit to Ca ny of the Spanish governwent; and the jaa He was so deeply impressed with the

greatness of the couvtry, in every respect, Which | bled under the eannon’s moath and the roar ' go far exceeded his expectations, that be ardent fot artillery ; but the peculiarity of this mest- It was great.) 1 was that at was held ina time of peace aan the approbation, aud, tic believed, wit! the sanction of Ller Majesty, that the Colonies might throw aside their swaddling-clothes to

Colonies % = the Hon. Mr. Haviland, of this Is- land, veluateered the following short speech i—

SPEECH OF COL. HAVILAND.

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ify hoped it would Hot be his last. he eatd, tu ita industrial, connvercial and waters reseurces, In the countless Treasures of 1s) vas! | } forests, its jnexbaustuble mives, ite gigantie pul- | tie works, whose yalue is estimated by many ul lions et dellars; in Ure vast iakes which were | small inland seas, aud the mighty river whic! jhand down to posterity the glorious privi-

old thirteen states of America had also assem- |

nut on themselves the garb of manhood and |} I g

(aed the Provincial Sveretary al New Brunswick }

+ . the Luwer Provinces, inviting auinterchange ofoul | from age to age in the old country, and Mr. Tilley} epeke on behalf of their respeetive | 3 ‘ -

dows past us, being the natural kighway toandtiew |leges for which ther ancestors contended |

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| huitd up such a ubion as that which we | would like to see, upon a mass of guarantees | based upon mutoul suspicion, but that if we ‘were to beeome one nation, they would lay the foundations upon the puarantees of mu- taal trust and confidence.

would swy that they could only beeome #o by making mutyal copcessions and reposing in each otber mutual eonfidence, It the began to establish guarantees, where wie It to end? Were they tu ‘have gharantees for the defence of the British minority in Lower Canada, and of the French minerity in Up- per Cannda? Hehoped there was sufficient good feeling end mutual confidence amongst ‘them in these Provinees to enable the@ to adopt somé simple efective mode of union which would give them a good government (Cheers ) He must say thyre was one por- tion of Her Majesty's subjects in these Pro- ginees—he alluded to the Prench Oanadian portion, with whom his intercourse bad given him great satisiaction. He might say that both on the occasion of the previous yisit to this Province ag well as on the pre- sent, he had never met one person of this cluss who was not actuated by the most friendly and loyal feelings to Her Majesty's government. de believed it, was impossible tor apy stranger like bimself to, visit. this country, and traverse this fragment, as it might be termed, of old France, without feel- ing deeply interestedin its welfare and fature Seperated from the old country, it had not the opportunity of participating in the glo- ries of Old Franee, but at the same time he did not think the Canadians had been much the losers by not being involved in the poli- tical storms which had raged in the old country in the interval, The inhabitants of }this Province enjoyed such & medsure of | social freedom as was not exceeded hy any nation on the face of the earth. Asan old servant of Her Majesty, he fel: proud when he said this. This was the bes jecompliment whieh could be paid to the ex jcelence of British institutions. (° beers.) | Theretore whatever might be the reauit ot | this movement, he hoped it would conduce

(to the happiness of the French people ol

{Lower Cunada’? and he believed that it

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Lt the iphabitants | Commeretal Capitaleot America, 7 of the North American Provinees of Her) 1 now beg to call your attention to the ree Majes'y were to become a great people pstaarece our Province.

(Cheers ) |

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+ r ‘streets where there w tt is impossible for apy man not to see that during the dist fifteen years the city in which we ure now regeiving: your hospitality har)

been rapidly taking its place among the first | (Cheers ) |

lam afraid you hive not paid much attention to us, to the | resources and the business of opr Colonies. Some may, know, something about them, ‘mving visited them. But yur attentiun, for the most part. has beer turned in otter directions. But I may say that the amount of capital and the resources that will be | brought into this union by the Maritime!

ment in its prosperity. (Cheers)

Provincrs was two and a half million dol- lars. | may mention another eircumetance

Provinces duriug the hist year have amouned to forty-two millions dolars | Now yours, 1 think, amount to 80 or 90 million dollars, 80 that we approach to one-half the antted, ign- ports and expors ef Canada, Taking the figures of the census of 1557 and 1861, and allowing fer the natural merease since these dates. | think you may put down our joint population, at the close of the present year. at somewhere about 900 OUO. The shipping amounted to 645,530 tons. Great us is the trade you possess, it must be observed that lor five or 8X months of the year you are without access to one mile of sea coas*, unless you pasg through the territory of your beigh- bor, a merchaut of Canada desires, dur- ing these five or six months, to send the profits of his labor home to Engtand, it uust pass through foreign territory. [ will not cali it hostile, for L hope it is friendly. (Cheers ) fhis is a condition ineonsistent with the diz- nivy of any country that desires to maintain its proper position. What we propose to you is thisyadd your Marine of Canada to ours, and the united Marige of Canada and the Maritine Provinces wall place the country in the position of the fourth Maritime pewer in the world, England, Peance and the United Siates alune beang supermor., The Maritime Provinces alone cannot claim this position ;

ere fields and moraseces, (sai, lines of a new constitution ?

‘oué word, the same whieh the visitor to St

| solemnly and repeatedly through the press,

Provinoes will form no inconsiderable ele-| quately for the exigencies of their present Taking | uew condition, the offitiat returns of 1865, it appears that | blameless for the consequences. the evileetive revenue of the four Maritime | bad.giten. us Warning that things could not

—that the umports and exports of these four

TU asked! the reason why, he would give the reason iw

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Paul's was called u to read on searching for the monument of Sit Christopher Wren (circumspice) look around. (Cheers.) Look wuround and they woald see the reasons for tiie gathering. Look atthe valleys of Vir- ginia, the uplands of Georgia; look around in this age of earthquakes and political per tarbation if North America; look at the mep in these Provinces, who were called it- stateshen, Whom Great Britain bad warned

by official notifications, and by Parliament, that if the Canadians did not provide ade-

England would hold bersel! Why, she

yo on in future as in the past. (Loud cheers ) If they wished to see reasons tur the present Conference, luok across the border and they i would find reasons as thick as bluckberries iwhy they should go where they did, and en- gage in the work which had for some time vecupied them, (Loud applause.) It was necessary that they should have with them the cordial sud united support of public vpinion and the publ.c voiee of the great city ot Montreal. He trusted they would bave the support of the majority of all mterested people in Canada, of whatever origin, creed orrace, This was not a time for creeds or Grigins or races, but a time either to save or tu ruin British North America. If its fate were not decided withm this decade in one sense, assuredly it would be in another. Li the thirty three delegates had presumed to go into a chamber in Quebec to sketeh an outline to be submitted to thie luperial Government, aud to the [mperial Parliament, before which submission rt was not right it should be sub- mitted inany kind of detail to the people of these Provinées; if they had gone into that rovm in time of profound peace to sketch a new ‘basis of a constitution for these Proyin- ces, they sound their jast:fication in ciream- stances of the peculiar position in which British American colonies stood towards re publiean North America, and in intonations vfficial aod uncficial respecting our duties as to self-detence conveyed to us by the last,

ral Henry for New Brunswick, by Mr. Attorne

Fievinces, and Mr. Shea (Speaker of Newfound lwd Assembly.) spoke on behalf of that Colony Wee Hoan. Col. Gray, Leader of our Goverment, @uke ov behaif of this Island. His Speeet *s follows -~— aoL.. GRAYS SPEECH AT BOAR) OF TRADE DINNER, QUEBEC, OCT. >. Hon, Col Garay, Premier of Prince E.ward land, alsu. ceapouded. He eaid his friend Mr

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Ley bad referred to him ic @ouneetion with ¢ | ple? of stirring interesc which to Visiter coulc |

augect ot great impertaver It was, he ever, a by and wopalutable subject. His triend Col | “Yeiecis would understand the allusion, vod he wal afraid he might net exactly epprove bo mse | i tee eves of the chairman and of those toound | thew tables, if he were to express tui] bis senti- | yoveta on this all-important matter, Lad uring | ameer asevere culd, ve should pet bave riscu al! alt. if he bad not felt bound, on belalf of his col- jeagnes aod the people he represented, to return | t their entertainers, op this occasion, their hearty | thanks fer the high benera conferred on them — | Whes he looked atound and saw an suieunt of | uiteiigerce and wealtti, such a¢ it had been rarely | his fortune to bate addressed, although be had | addiiressed many assemblages im Vvarieus perte ot } the ghobe, it peeded nothing more te convince hit | flat this fine city was destined to take its plaer | ine the frout rank, if. not as ihe first city of a | erighty nation. (Chwers.) Tlie bospitalities whieh they Lad reeeived at the hunds of the Executive ef this country, aa well as the citizens of Quebec, would take a jong time to be effaced from their memories. He had obeerved the other day a:

erucié io a local newspaper, the sentiments vi which he heartily cwdersed, alluding too pam-

piilet addressed by a great friend of Dr. Tapper’s te Mr. Adderly. The editor made seme wel! timed rewarks on the failings ef coloniats, and partic ularty their habit of underrating themecives ¢Hear. and fanghter) He bimseif (Col. Ciray

e-oried mm hia beng abie ty boast that be wes born in America, and he was proud, uew standing it the ewuntry whieh gave him birth, tu be able te lift his feeble votee te assist in bringing abent x wnion which he fondly heped would ehertly be consummated. The dream of his youth rod bis waukeod had been, that he might one day be ; emizen of a great nationality, stretching frou Veneonver to Halifax, (Uheers) This dream be Grwiy believed would soon become a reality. (Cheers.) He would ask any gentleman at thos beard, could he divest bimseit of the feeling that the deger of Providence Bad direeted their labors! Vaen we regarded the times in which wo live, wud the owmiluous state wi Ouirs ou this continent whe, thongh be might alteinpt to foreshadow. | evuld presume to furete! the eventa which wight

be evacted ow this continent daring the next four | years. His friends from the sister Provinces | had epoken very forcibly of the eoumercial inter- | vate intelved in the propesed union. They had | enid 20 meh on thia subject that he, occupying ae he bad alwaye done during these proee dings toe uneuviable pusition of curing is at tle heel «i the aunt, was precluded from entering npon that subject, more especially as if was but o smal welony which be and hia colleagues reprecerted They felt, however, that they could throw a little inte the commen stock, and that they could be te this Conf-deracy what Rhode Island was te The United States, which, theugh of less exten: | than tie own Island, had lately sent four regi- | tients, eaeh of a thousand strong, to help the

Ue in ite great struggle; and in bbe cconner: the people of Prince Edward Isiand could throw | in their wight tuo when the tuse arrived. He} would remind theus Ghat io prosecuting this plan | ot anion the public are Dew met in conierence | in Quebec required something more than suc b} hiespitulities as they bad partaken of at this mag nifieieut feast. “Phey required the #)mpaiby and | eroperation ol the peeapile, avd coun uel attain | the resdlis they looked for unless the people of |

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commercial relations aud an expausien of We Te | -ourees ot them all. It was great, toe, for the {hi-tory Which it lias bequeathed tu all time, and whieh may now be referred to without disturbing

which had been brought into these new coun. |“ ‘ ‘

iries under the protecting shadow of the fag might be effected just ae easily by simple as that had braved a thousand years the batd- | Sy Compheated means. Jt might or might ' ind the breeze. (Hear) Although Prince |" be the ease that the views proposed by the seasitiveness of the gallant peavie woo, oul | Edwurd Island had onty 80.000 inhabitants, | She Delegates would be earried out; but at

British ‘steamer from the most undoubted sources, trom the seat of government of the empire itself. (Cheers ) had not acted in an empirical spirit; they bad not gone into the chawber to invent any

Canada alone cannot claim it. 1 cannot for- get that the inhabitants of this country are sprung froin the most enterprising and ener- getic people in the world, 1 cannot forget that this country has a histury of its own

little . it “Ure BRO, & owledges | : ;

aaeborioted POO preroar ~—e wer o. principally engaged inagricultare, yet sural] ine fame time, winner the whole were [that history, aud while in Quebee he did vot fai | as it was it did not come as a beggar to the | ‘ arried into effeetor nothing, or only a part, to Visit soure of the places whic h were wade | Conterence doors. lts revenue Was certainly he might assure them, both for himself and ammous by the marvellous evterprise and hervisw | not very great, but there was yet a surplus | on the part of his fellow-Governors, that they of Wolfe, Montmorenci, at which the first dash | of about £4,000 sterling to the credit of the might rely upon finding im them every dispo- lwas wade for the conquest of Quebec, was >| Province over and above the £36,000 it had | sition to assist them by every means that lay spent ior the Government last year. Thus|' their power. They, the Governors, would

pass by. The Falls were net, perfinps, wonderiul in theumselves (in being directed t

ver) | 7 ) prepare . ep ake “oy (ever Was proposed, and to further as far os the upper perlien of w hich he was indebied tu : | pre] ared tu du something all in ite FOwer } lay tk k 7 om : } . and hi

nest agreeable and intelligent Frenel: Canadia }ty organize here in Awerica a constitutional | +y 8 their power the interests and happi- we : — FA Tl . ; e F . — fas ' . me .

viel) but the histuric assveiations which tue, | Wonarcly which ssould be able to spread in- | - ss of those over whoin for a time they lad cecal give Chem an ei during cisim io atiention | sutubions In w hich there was the seul of he | een appornted to preside.

He visited the Cove aud walked up the parrow | Derty. (ilear, hear) The despotism now jtelt that perha)s he had been touching upon

pass which led Wolfe and a few teiiowers to the | prevailing uver our border was greater than | rather diffeult ground, but at the same tine |

Plains of Abraham, wihsie a seldier’s deat! leven that vl Russia. The liberty uf the pres jhe thought that the period lad arrived when closed bis conquest of Canada — He was delightee | was gone. Liberty in the Reel. ad altoge public teeling might be brought to bear up- to visit iu the Governor's Garden fhe mounmenl) ehor y delusion, a mockery, and asnure, No | that in whieh the public at large were 80 tu the mewory of Wolfe aud Moutcalm. AU-Was | 1a chlons bonid @xeeebe kat opinion antes 1 {deeply interested... Hoping that the future 4 generous aud noble impulse in the Eurt o leenesd will the« : of she mut -}of these Provinces might be as glorious as Dulhoaiee thus to eorinenierate the namea 0!) °F P ee ee ae = lthe enlendid terials seemed t ise, he woth Lereea, both foemen worthy of the greai | “9 tune being 5 as fur the oe “9 thee 9 Sees eee ee ae eens oe . sole in ich ther were e1 gaged, both ilus }rity tasy were nut recognized, they did nut ex- | ae ce tar ee See ewud See ist, and the majority rule rougt oz od overall observed appended tu one of the toasts :— in their death : ove the idol of the Exyglish uation, |(tMear, hear), Weli, Prince Edward Island the other the embodiment of all that is virtuous | though it was smal!, was prepared to take a) ind chivalrous inthe Preuch character. (Cheers.)) burthea upoo 1 and share with the other mu-} The pames of the two great Gens : 'ritime Provinces im contribating towards imi- | soleeea the Lhus commemorated, Seauliuly yur | titury detence, (Wear, bear). Abe believed | cha Pibiioh aud British benice bi unada. (Ch i < Ly weld ‘eomerwhen “i bastie of. myil appeared ty be tae most effective, and pronounced Hut uf a the dttribetes of the great jand religous liberty woula have to be vi : , :

there was ove other which he could not overlook

* Then letos be firm and united. * One country, one flag for us vil. “ United our strength will be freedom, rals, thu * Divided we each of us fail.” (Loud Cheers. ) ng betwee The epeeches at the Noutreal Banquet which ers.)

ness of Canada

subsist

it did not come as a pauyer but was honestly | seek to give the fullest development to what- |

(Cheers ) He}

| would conclude with the sentiment whieb hie |

(Uheers.) I turn back the pages of bistory,| new system of government; but had entered land Lind deeds reeerded whieh need not aiake | it with a reverent spirit (Go consult the oracles }a Canadian ashamed before any country in| of the bistury of their race; they had gone the world. The speaker proceeded ty refer wo| there’to build, if they built at all, on an old ‘the achievemeuts of Canadians on the Piains| foundation. (Loud cheers.) They desired of Abraham and elsewhere. There is one| nut to build an editice with stucco tront and other observation which [ bave to make ;| lath and plaster continuation, but a cousti- i you must excuse me if [ oecupy more uf your ‘tutional edifice upoo a basis of solid British

~ ~ ce " ee of Nova Sevtia, replied to by Mr. Attorney Gene.

General Johnston; and for Prinee Edward leland,

by Hon. Mr. Coles. The New foundland Dele. gates wrre not present. We insert below the speech delivered by Mr. Coles :—

MON. MR. COLES'S SPEECH.

‘Hon Mr. COLES responded for Prince ¥ ward Isiaud. He eaaid the reception pp delegates in this city, last night and tomxday, went beyond his expectativns. He had thought the sane at Quebec, but on coming to Montreal and Ottawa, bia admiration of the Revd-teeling atid hospitality of the people of Canada had been still further inereased. (Cheers.) He stood bere in a different positiva trum tbe gentlemen from the other Provinces, who bad just addressed them both of whom were members of their reapectivn Governments, while he (Mr. Coles) happened to

Were aware that

be one of the

the Oppositiovs of all dhe Provinces had evtere

ate the’ delegation to usgist in earrying a _ views of their respective Governments. Gener- ally, whey, au Opposition joined in carrying out the views of a Goveritient, they were looked upon with suspicion by their constituents. dbut the present case was one which stood enti by itself, aod be claimed that iu going tor ion the Gosernwent of Prince Edward Island were carrying out his views—views which he trad en- tertamed for many years. (Cheers) In tomuer times he had found many opposed te his senti- apents.ou this question. it. was the same as im the case of a proposed amalranonial onion, when the friends of the fawily were very apt to raise objections on the grounds of desparity in wealth, standing, &e5 but in spite of ‘these ubjections they had gone to work, and for the last two wouths —fisst at Charlottetown, and then at Que- bee—they had been trying to draw wp the mar- riage setUement—(cheers)—and he bad to an- nounce to them that they bad sueceeded in fram. ing a mmerriage setthement which, though in some respects not what some of thew might Lave wished, he hoped would, taken as a whole, vive satisfae. tion te the entire family. (Cheers ) The mar- riage ceremony lad yet to bepertorined. When that took place he hoped the families thereby al- lied would not be sich strangers to each other us they had been in the past, and that the people of Canada would more frequently visit the people of the Lower Provinces, who should be to return the compliment. ¢Cheers) Mr. Gules went on to speak of the advantages of Prines Edward Island as a delightful summer residenpe and of its various resourees—particularly the ‘ exbaustible treasury it had inthe fisheries of its waters. At present hundreds of thousands of

The Conference) ponuds worth of fish were taken trom their

waters by the American fishermen. He trasted that seou Canada would take that fich for the consumption of her inhabitants, and send her tish- ermen to catch them, He thonght they had rea- son to congratulate themselves on the result ef the labors of the conference,” That thirty-three wen, representing the varios political opinions ef six diflerent Provinces, could have assembled and so amalgamated their opinions as to agree upon a coustitution suited for that great coufederation war something, ke believed, such as the world had never scen before, and showed that the dele-

time than | ought (Cheers ) There are} masonry, § »lid as the foundation of the Eddy- jwmany men who believe that a mere ecom-/ stone lighthouse, which would beat the whole | mercial anion would accomplish the object | force ot the tempest and the waves, and the | we wish to attain, bul think that to meo of | corroding political atmosphere of the new sense it mast be evident that this would not! world, and which they hoped would stand for effeet what we wish. The speaker referred | ages 4 Vindication of the sulidity of their in- to the necessity bf one Province imposing |Stitutions and of the legitimacy of their duties which might be unpleasant to the | origin. (Loud cheers) in their (the Bri- others, for the purpose of meetmg the in- tish North American) political architecture, terest aceruing on debts incurred for public! be trusted they would yindicate the honor of works, that’ the’ character of the country) the races from which they sprung—the war- might not be stained by repudiation. You like Norman, the Saxon, the will permitine to express my opinion that | Norseman, the homely, vigorous, fearless

/a man may not be ashamed to point to the Empire.

country from which be comes, but may have | trusted that the British North American po-|

pride in acknowledging it. (Cheers) | be- litical architecture would not bea plagiarism

‘is that of Knglishinen, living under a com- | tivns so freely suowered upon them by some

Celt, the!

we Want something more than a commercial |Seandinavian, and ali the races that go to) union, that we want a natiwnal union, that) make up the great concrete called the Brit sh | (Hear. hear, and cheers) He)

iivve that the proudest position we can bold | of republicanism, and not tulfil the predie-|

4 ; : . . : ’ i S seteninens.» . . . > . of the New You it i ’ wali fought in Awerica, and he ielt that it would | to be the best, were those from Mr. Gray of New | #00 Sovereizn, and worthy of the great race | f the ; sia k j ted ils that the proposed whenee we are sprung, und while we per-/ Union would Desimply democracy in disguise ; |

} gates were worthy of the position they held — '(Cheers) He said this although there was no wan more disappointed thaw himself with respect |to some parts of that constitution, but by mutual | coucessivi they had arrived at a result which

jthey could all agree am submitting te the

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j people, for he beld that it must be submitted

|tu the people. They ec ull not foree it an the-

| | people; they tnust endeavor te show them that ip | Was for their beuefit aud thus induce them to ac jceptit. (Cheers.)

|} The Hon. Col. GRAY, of Prince Edward Island, | before the company separated at the Dejenner in the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, axked them to till their glaswes. [ft was wot his intention te detain (them with a speech, as be saw that their fair } companions Were already looking forward with an j agreeable anticipation to a mere congenial tisk one better suited to their capacities, although he would net say to their understandings. (Cheers) The delegates had conve to this city as strabyers, and is wus pow his duty us chairman of the conveution of the maritime provinces to ask them to join in drink- ing bumper to the health of their hospitable en-

|

It waa to be seen mm the personal character of the

be tuught between Canada and the United States. Wien that time came Prinee Ei-

| Brunswick, and from Mr. McGee, of Canada.— |

| petuate the Coustrtutional principles of the ‘bat that we sould not only ackpowledge the

ite the

i wherein the ties that were supposed to bind twe

proeple of © anada, in the iurge and generous Lear) 4 lich seemed te throb alike trem ene end of tie Proviace to the ether, Cualhected by distinction

ward [sland would be prepared to contribute its quota of men and money in order to aid

uf race, fatiouality or creed, it appeared to fel,| Canada in defending those free institutions

aud give visible manifestativus of the feeling,that it was capecious enough to eafold within its tendri!s every section of British America. The only fear was that the caressing, as in the case of the dele- gates, might be teu warwly given, and that they might suffer a mest agreeable death from th:

which are so dear tv .sas British Americans (fear, hear). There was a point of impor- tauce connected with this subject. ‘Tuere

| pies—the band of the Intercolonial railroad— vperatien. This was net intended tu apply tothe and that Cum} leted, the interior cyonected iairludies of Canada, (iaughier,) for the delegate~| ith the seaboard, the Colonies would be being all warried men, were, of course, like } able to go on bund w hand together in ¢ow- Owsar's wile, ubuve suspicion as regards a breach | merciel aod military undertakings, (Elear hear) Some years ago be had the honor of being in Montreal during the vwesit of Lis

ew! lue martial engagement, for i wet se circum

stanced they would be as dead as Julius Caesar | mg-age. (Lavghter.) He would new, with the permission of the chair, offer one or two observations touching the important whieh had brought the several delegates t Canada, and ia domg so he would so express timeaelf as vet tu vivlate the confidence which the Convention seemed to cousider so exsettial toe the success of their deliberations. Politicians sume- times take extraordinary Liberties with the | rooms. patience of the publi, and perhaps they did Une | ing tu a nation, for he thought ere long we whe they resolved upon belding a secret Con-| should be a nation with interests no longer

busines» | _pule over this country. Then he was her }as a stranger and the maritime provinces

{were hardly known; it was with the utmost

ference; but it may be, that they bad so many | distinct, butone people under the same time-|

dark, sins to confess ty each other that they ima-) honored flag which now uated over us gined it would not be safe tu let the public listen | (Applause y

coufession. le would, however, bear | re testimony to the facet that the confession waa a | most satixfactery one. Bach felt that he was en- | titled to political abselucion for niany sins done by his province, and now behold (suid he, toueh- me the champague glass,) how earnestly we are | tion, aa well from the ease and ability with whict all doing penance. (Laughter) The Contede | ches ration of Uie Provinces may vol followimmediatels |. ~ in the steps of the Coulerence, but that it will comer, or that eur condition will become vers | speeveh as one well worthy of perusul —

much worse than it is at present, seems morally | _ 7a ‘ ad tak certain. Nething can be worse than to become | SIR RICUMARD GRAVES MeDONNELL’S SPEECL.

tie prey of a miitary despotism, not far distant, | wherein every vestige of liberty Is daily offered | He eaid, your reception of me has been jsu very kind and s¢ very cordial, that 16 al-

asa sacrifice te the Moloch of Ambition, and! | most eu barasses Wie, accusiumed as I uni to | public ite, and to the welcome which Let

General Sir Fenwick Williams and Sir Richard

| McDonnell spoke at the Moutreal Dejeuner. The

| seutiments of the latter coummanded great atten-

were delivered, as from the high position ot

peeple of common origin aud common language,

was an fron band wanted tu unite the Colo-!/

Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who| ) would, some day—might that day be distant |

| difficulty be could find so much as a newspa- | | per trom the Lower Provinews in the reading | Now, however, he felt like belong- |

}the soeaker, We make room for Sir Richard's |

their respective Provinees gave them their aid) are now brittle ax glass, and an oppertuuity i

te the utmest, banishing all sectional interests! desired toe ery “* bavuc aud let slip the dogs of and prejudices, and waiting together as Lrother- | war” upeD unoffending culenisis Ii we want te te brag avout thadesired consummation, which | avoid such a misfortune the people of Britis! be would say wae as desirable on other e rounds | America must become more united than they are us ipew tke mere commercial point ol view. As} at present. The Convention, w hese labours have tle chaivman of the Convention of the Maritime | just closed, wae the first step in that direction Pio inees, and on their behalf, he felt authorized Iu the colonies we have been strangers ta eae} tu say that there was not & mau aug et te us|

why wed sot promotly come torward to give | separate sovercignties. We have been jealous his eubstance to the utinost, and to spend the lat) and apprehensive of each other; wutually restrict dewp of hie blood, rather than that the soil ef! ing our trade and placing obstacles in the wey ot

Canada should be polluted by the bostile foot of | :

vur prosperity—net huowing and net respecting each other ua we should. lu our separate and

| Majesty's subjects in all quarters of the | globe accord tu those whom they know to be j actuated by a loyal seuse of daty. I have lalwoyslound that Her Majesty's subjects are

| Mr. Gray had the advantage of speaking at an} wountry from which we come, we shall fol. wenarchial principle, but construct an edifice |

jearly hour—while the attention of the audience wae still keen, and on the watch for disclosures ifrom the Delegates; but when Mr. MeGee rose

| tu speak tue company was pretty well tired—the |

: | champagne tind taken effect in many cases; but

land we are sure his great personal pupularits

with his coustituents of Montreal would have se-

feured him the most Teapectiul bearing at ans

| time and under any circumstances.

| tollows hia speech, with Mr. Gray’s (of N. B..) | Speaker referred to those whose suns bad | assure the editors that they ted net becu experi-}

and having read them, let the reader form his) joined the ranks of the army, aud acquitted wenting and sounding outlier their depths, as bose I bold that we suould j who laid the cable did. (Laughter and applause, )

own judgwent of their merits :— NEW BRUNSWICK.

Lt Col. the Hon. JOUN U1. GRAY, of New Brunswick, rose to respond on behalt of New

Branswick. When the cheering had ceased | Mr. Gray proceeded to say that, being placed {in the same position as lis honorable triend ion the right who had just addressed them. \he had to acknowledge with tlanks on the | part uf New Brunswick the kind reception of '

‘ressment which he naturaily felt on rising to ‘address that assembly faded away before the cordiality of their welcome, This was one of the occasions when men rose superior to the cold calculations of interest, the path of honor.