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kad evitare —fall of pootry aud enthusiasm. Do you Blame ue

** Not a whit,” | said; ‘ bat for Margaret 1 amen

« AK, Margaret!” stil Westwood, with a sich, “]

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you see, b bac given her up.

there sink such awful chasers inte the soul, that, though they |

caunct be filled, we mast at least bridre them over witha pew afection, The namber of marriages built iu this way, non falge foundations of héliéwness aud despair, is incom. titable. We talk ef jilted lovers aud disappointed girls " arryitg ‘out of spite.” No doubt, sich petty fevling Nirries forward many premature matches Bat it is the Heart, left shaker, unsupported, wretchedly sinking, which beaches out its feelers fur syutpathy, catches at the frst pen- erable poiut, aul clings like a helpless vine to the suuny- kided wal! df the nearest consolation, Li you wish to marry * girl and can’t, and are weak enough to desire her still, this ts what you should do; get some capable man to jilt hier. Then séize your chance, All the affections which have youe oat to kim, unmet, ready to droop, quivering with the painful hungry instinct. to grasp some object, may possibly try bold of you. Let the world sneer; but God pity suct ‘atures, which Jack the fait aud fortitude to live aad die true to their best love.

(To be continted.) Che Examiner,

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE. LL, SEPTEMBER L3, Los.

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BLL LLL LO LO PAL ALLL LOLOL LAP A AEA A ALA ALLA Plt GENERAL MEECLNG OF THE INHABITANTS OF QUEEN’S COUNTY,

AT CHARLOTTETOWN, WEDNESDAY, 25th AUGUST, 1858.

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Wurm MeGiut, Esquire, Iligh Sheriff, in the Chair.

(Continued fromm our last.)

Hon. CotontaL Secrerany then came forward and was r:eceiyed with loud and hearty cheers. The hon. gentleman 8 oke nearly as follows :—

Gentlemen,—1 have been sammoned to meet you here as a culprit to receive gettence at your hands. And why is this? Why am I so called upon to appear before you? Only, genticmen, because m the high position which, through your fuvor, { occupy, { fin Supposed iu have had the chiet nand li inflicting deserved disgrace upon a refractory and insubordinate Government oficial; and beeause a lately defeated faction

And when oné love ig lost,

for aome time yet remain in the woth of

| thie meeting, must 7 ltime; but they will be brought forth in due season, an

venture, without nny misgivings to predict, that the Obstruc- tives, it nodistant diy, will be convinced to their sorrow that -in consequence of the peculiar enlightemnecnt of the public niind and the woveiling df their secret! which will have proceeded from this mecting—they have lost far more ground than they gained by the law, mean, dishonest urts and false pretences to whieh they had recourse at the late General Election, and by the statements contrary to facts which they have since made in aid of their scheming and place-hunting policy ; and that at the mec ting of the Legislature they will find thems ilves at quite as discouraging atid hopeless a distance from power, place, and emolument at they Were four years ago. notwithstanding all the desperate efforts which they have of late made to attarn them. Someof your fellow colonists they have deceived on oue point ; bat lew, very few if any lave they deceived as to the real selfishness of their designs ; although they have certainly con- trived, by means of misstatements, made with the most bare- faced effrontery, to deceive many ignorant and single-minded people throughout the country ; and to this end they have

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not only by their teaching, bat by the simplicity, the humility, and the parity of their lives and conversation { [tear ! ilear ! Hlear!] But their policy is really as silly asit is anmanly

or fanatical excitement, pronounced in their favor and swelled their ranks, will as they reguin possession of their sober senses, flee from them and return to their old associates and trae | friends, the Liberals. Be not discouraged norenraged because, fat such a time, deceived by the false statements, and led astray by the bigoted counsels of those whom it was natural for them to reverence as their spiritual pastors, many whom

heen most wickedly aided by men whose mission 18 not to | govern their fellow len, but to teach the truta, not to inter- | him by the people, has been made the chief manager or director fere in political contests, but to make men wiser and better, : of public aifuirs in this Colony ; that as sach he is held res-

‘lkcinfuence against the powers that exist. If they canno

4 particul ir crisis, they should forbear from voting, or shouk ‘be ready to resign their situstions.

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- . . am 99 machinery and designs | insisted upox in democratic republics.

not dismiss that refractory servant from your imploy ? [Yes!

direct all their accusations and invectives more particularly

ponsidle to the people for all subordinate uppointments, and

to be arraigned before the publie for every dereliction of

and immoral; and many of those who, at a time of religious duty, defalcation or minor offence which may be committed

by any subordinate government official, or oceur in his offies. is it not then reasonable—nay, is it not then positively necessary, that George Coles, occupying this position in the Government, should be invested with sach powers of control as will enable him to give the fullesteifect to his supervision 7 flow else could be be held responsible? [Much cheering. ] Now, having told these indignant obstructives how it happens

| you had long reckoned as good men and true among yourselves that George Cules exercises so mach authority, and on what

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went over to the enemy’s camp. Be neither unfasy nor angry

on thataccount ; for they will, they must return to you. They

will soon find that those’ to whom they have gone over have no | sympathies in common with them. Chey can never amalga- | mate with them, so long as they are, In any sense OF degree,

true to themselves. Many of those, therefore, who are your | declared enemies to-day may be your best friends to-morrow. | Many of tho8e deluded men who are now nsanely cheering | the very individuals who are intent apon more securely riveting ‘and fastening upon them the chains of bondage, may awake | to-morrow from their delusion, and bitterly and sincerely |repent'of the part in the drama of this day which they are | now playing with so much enthusiasur. They have certainly lendeavou:ei to incense you to-day ; but you have nobly jrepressed your indignation at their unprovoked agression ; {and should they repeatit, you will, f doubt not—pitying their

hope that, by the must disingenuous statements, or rather bY | delusion, and remembering that, although opposed to you to-

% .e most positive falsehoods, which they have most industri-

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jday, they may very possibly be with you to-morrow ,—Dbear

i at ely «lias. i ty hrouehar he % ' i ity o % . * ' ‘ ously and zealously dissomtinat d throughout the community, | with their folly and preserve the peace as you have hitherto

concerning the expulsion from his office of that contumacious Oi-ial, they have been able to make impressions upon the > » . + . . '

parti mind unfavorable to the Government of which [ have @ hon recognized as the Leader, and that such im-

the honor to be recog l t

wherein they falsely claim to have poll 1 a majority of the

and that, cons wuently, they

pre sion has been more esp wially made in Queei’s County, }

electors at the late Elections ; mivy possibly ybtain from this meeting a verdict condemna- tory ui me and the Government ; elicited from the sympathy | waiel they think they have awakened, or may, on this| veeasion, be able to awake in your bosoms for that discarded | Oficial and his previously discarded Assistant. The chief| object ef the Reyuisitionists, at whose eall the High Sheriff aae couvened this meeting, is, at least us stated by themselves, | to take into consideration what in their cwn language is thus | @ pressed : ** the high-handed and tyrannical measures of the Go ernor and Counei!,; in their dismissals of Thomas Owen | und Peter Desbrisay, Ksquires, our highly respected Post- master-General and his equally resp scted Assistant,—-gentle- ten in whom, we believe, the whole County have the most

o° many years, have given universal satisfaction.’’ Weak- “an | most easily d recived indus d shi sald yuu he did you

ininded an j believe that the agitation which ba : ha | itS origin in sympathy for the discarded officials, Messrs. | Uwen and PDesbrisay ; but that you do not. The unanimity | with which you have adopted the Resulution which bas just he-n submitted to you, isa convincing proof that you clearly and animus of the leading agitators

s given rise to this meeting

perceive the real design iS . in this movement. Tucy ne more disinterestedly or in reality xymmpath isa with the disearded oliivials, ou account of thé loss sustainel by them, than dv they who are quite igagtant of the étistance of Messrs. Owen and Doesbrisay ; and, besides, | really } lieve that many of those whoin these obstructives declare t» have the most perfect confidence in these gentlemen neither know them p°rs mally nor by name, nor yet even by : : ¥” ‘ot 4 en a ae i irviireeaeines ah repatatie ct. Having failed, as your R 8 lution expresses it, t» obtain a constitutional triamph over the Governinent at the | i hi rai } , ~ } ,

lite General Election, on whiech—knowlg how deeply, extensively and seeretly religious pr judices lad been exeited > 4 : , { f i ae . -01s

and fomented on their benalf—they had placed impli: it 2 fur their resurrection frum the grave of political

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depende: | nothingness, and their reinstatement mm the places uf power

t > r ; ee aud emolument which they 80 eagerly coveted ; their sore | digappointment threw them into a state ot almost perfect | dementation; and, in taeir insane fury, they seized up m the eonstitutional dismissals of two insubordinate oMecials—for whose real interests, apart from their own, they cared and still do for those of the lowest outcasts of society

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eare as little as they

‘ . | . ; ‘ . » » 2oPrVvLeeas iwtp ec ay « sy he : ‘ : pericet confidence, and whose scrvices, xtontins over ® per | ale, when all, as respeeted the people | j

done. The object for which this meeting has been called very naturally involves a diseussion of the principles of Responsible

liscussion, have fled from the field as if truly ashamed of their iznoranee of those principles, and thoroughly conscious that trey could not for one moment sustain, their position in the presence of those who fally understand them and haye sueces- sfully established their practical operation in this Colony ; and

1 {ilear! tear! Lear !]

we are left to expand it by ourselves, as the petty

“The high-laaded and tyranoical measures,’ faction in this city has presuused to style the disuitssals from heir offices of Mesars. 1) gerisay and Owea, have already heen oroved, by the Llou. Colonel > abey, tu be in perfect accord ince vil) the principles of Responsible Government, and to have been nothing more than a veedful and seasonable practical iiustration of thase principles And easy would it be for me to shew thit more true hover to my colleagues ta the Legislature ind the Goverument and tam, set, and ore real benefi's to tie people, have emanated frou the seven years’ duration of our power than proceeded fromth rly Years oF more of irresponsibie

, wire: particutarly dis ivguished the course of those who were mi power, Was thew letermined and painful opposition to fie wisues of the people. {[Cheers.] Yes, the course tivanatiy pursued by the de throred Ubstructives, whilst they were In power, directly tended to the repression of the peop'e’s natural aspirations for an eXpansion of their risits aod liberties and nein adv rceimpent in thie soem)

and poliueal scale 5 amd such wound i be at this very.day, | were chev still in power, and such will they endeavour agalin |

to make wt, should they, uso! untortumatery for the weal of this

Colouy, ever again have ithe chief direction of tts affarrs. |

(Hear! tlear! Uear!] Oa account oforr havias coustitutonaly

removed a couple of subordinate offictals who presumed they could oppose the Governnent with napunity, and deny the right of any power in this Colony t» tuterf-re weh them in there respective offices, the petry Charlottetown faction have accused uy of tyranny, and their blinded and besotted adherents have echved the accusation. tlow deservedly, on account of thetr many and notorious misdeeds, they were first casi down froin their high estate, | meet scarcely now remind you, by the quoting of any particular Instances of their usurpation, tyranny, ind oppression; for fram the memories of none of you whe have had personal knowledge of their assunpuon and abuse of yower—and but few cau there be among you who have not had some such knowledge of them-—the records of them cannot ye! have been, and never will 1 should think be effaced. Merely then glancing at their little haughty ignorance, enshrouded i which, In their term of uninterrupted power they could see no worth, no deserving, po righ’ or ttle to any privileges OF

— ind determined to magnify and impose them upon the | ,dvantages in any but themselves—viewing, for ene moment, }

rountry as veritable public grievances, or at least as instances

the high and strong barriers which they erected and defended

ge y « Rail fi : 1.< ., ry: vains : i F —— o” individual suffering from high-handed tyranny, against |for the exclusion of all save Uremselves, their families, and

which it would become a free and generous people, s ich as it is well known they of this Island are, to express themselves in tones and language of the highest indignation. But this hase- 4 few raving aud insanely ambitious men, with respoet to which nothing is more surprising than that, into the devising and concocting of it a nuiwber of es really rational and sound-thinking men should have allowed themselves to be seduced by its insane original pr ee project, nu lesstunprincipled than absurd, by W hic h, t women the expected awakening of party and s ctarian hostility the eople of this County, divided into two most determinedly antagonistic partics, might have encountered ene another in most deadly strife, but from all apprehension of which your calm and peaceable demeanor, and above all your disregard of and contempt for the wanton provocation whi h was lately given you, have relieved the minds of your friends, and put it Heyond 2 doubt that, unlessa most unprovoked and outrageous assault should be made upon you, you are not the men to jopardize, by insensate riot, the constitutional triumph which you and your friends in the Government are, at this moment, ia the very act of achieving; or to give fulfilment, by mity wilful breach of the laws, to the demoniac wishes of your ene- ym os, to which they have delightedly given expression in their Doody prophecies. {Mach cheering. this project which, a though ywriginally cone ‘ived in Atuity, was, with great labour and sume skill, fushwied ino something like an effective organic structure, Whence it was expected the chief engineers of the party might, with certain aim and deadly e‘iect, lanneh they chosen missiles to the complete overthrow vf the Govertinent and the extirpation of the liberties and

born scheme of w i

sveretigi’y of the pe ypple—this project which, in the estimation |

of its proje tors and its friends, was so mighty in power, and fyhich, we

‘(the powers that be,”’ proved the most weak invention that has ever yet been devised by the enemies of the people and of self-governm mt? A far greater: failure has attended it than resulted te them froin their cunning device for the converting of fanaticism into a politieal engine jor their andeserve: restoration to power, although all the evils which will finally proceed from that piece of Satanic craft. as its natural fruit, and fall upon their own heads, cannot as yet he either rightly estimated or foreseen. In fact this monster mevting, this mighty demonstration of theirs has already, by its opening appearance, 89 unfavorable to their views, deprived them of} all heart ur desire for its further developement, and. hastily flexing from its dreaded results, the leaders of our cnemies, without having strack a single blow, have left us, the accused, whom they haughtily chatlenged to the contest, mast rs of re aulizhted ;

field, encom) vase by thousunds of our highly tlow could our

frivuds and supporters. fMuch eheering. J : ; ‘i . } a - af ie ro . ‘ ? triumph be wore complete or tier defeat more signal! | om . ; } . . i ia ee th ers.] Th? most mu portant and lasting CONSEG le HC 8,

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cweser, toe cher ur ty both partivs, which will result from |

| summon us to surrender our power into thew hands! What

rere tuld, would prove go mighty and overwhelming | jn its effects, as at onec to sweep the Government as it were | from the face of the earth, has, at the very moment when its | nuwful power was to he exhibited by the utter annihilation of |

-}oower of the people and of its reeogmiion by those who are

their family Commexions, from every path or avenue which led lio honor of emo’ unent —and considering for a1 instant their | past endeavors to persuade you to regard despotisni—for such was their rule, and such is the rule wich they long bo establish as amongst (he natural rights of man ; let us more closely view their reckless and iliiberal conduct, during the few short mouths for which they, not luug ago, squatted themselves in the Government; but whea, alas for their blind ambition! ail their hopes perished, even as it were at the very moment of their realization, beneath the weight of their own absurd and outrageous counsels, Then the very mea who tow seek to criminate my colleagues in the Government and myselt fur the dismissals of Messrs. Desbrissy and Owen, at once deprived of his appointment every livers! who held au office under the Government, even duwn to poor old Mr. Giligan—a Waterloo

pitched battles, whom, because je bad wot far Lge Lables Government, they deprps@ of iis office of Clerk of the Meal | Market,Witn'a salary of some £10 of £15a year! [iHear! ‘sear! tlear!] And now, because we have disimssed two | refractory subordinates, who bearded us in our very seats of | authority, by daring and defying us to dismiss then, these arbitrary men presume to accuse us of tyranny, and actually

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jfoliy: what presumption, what arrogance can exceed those of | these meu! If sane, surely they would have seen the propriety | (of waiting ull—in parliament they cou'd make a constitutional | jtrialot the r strength with thatof the Government, by preposing | a vote of want of confidence in us, which, if carried, Would at once abase us and elevate thein in our stead. ‘They accuse us of raliog with a rod of iron; but the fact of our appearing here this day to answer t» their accusation, completely disproyes it. |

' our tule Hots regularly increasing in strength and extending its \splere., Can there be a more convincing proof of the growing !

labridge—too patient to be hurried or driven into*any such if. ; a eri i They may | placed in authority over them, than our appearing here tS) walt a few about the incompatibility of political honesty with

;day at the Call of the High Sheriif of the County, in the face

of the Colonial Building, to answer to any charges of malad- |

| ministration which our enemies have the utmost scope and

|livence tu preferagainst us? Wasthere ever greater freedom ‘than this! .[Much cheering.]

For my own part, I have ‘never since imy entrance into political life been afraid to meet iny enemies on any stage, and I never will. [Cheers.] Now let us see whatis suid in the Canadian papers concerning these

' dismissals about which the Obstructives have made so tremen-

dous a rout among as. The bon. gentleman then read as fuliows, fromthe Quebec Chronicle of the Lath inst,

‘In Prince Edward Island several persons holding official ‘‘ situations ehose to vote and to use their influence agamst

i¢¢ che Government; and they were accordingly dis nissed. Our ‘neighbours, we fear, do notentertain fair or practical views |

‘concerning Responsible Government. {t is only reasonable ‘that persons holding public situations should nut use their

Sn a au Government: but our opponents, the very provocers to sucn ,;

soldier, and who, 1 believe, had previously fought in twenty | noedily by odily

| eyllisions for their pr sbable satisfaction or benefit.

grounds he exereises it, | will again return to a consideration of the propriety of the late dismissals. No government officer in the United States or in Great Britain ever exercises his franchise, in opposition to the Government at an election, presuming that he may do so and retain his oflice ; for all well know that such an act of insubordination would be immedi- ately fullowed by the dismissal of the oifender. Nay, in the United States, so fully established and recognized is the principle whence such dismissals proceed, that, on a change of administration, all the officials who held appointments under the retiring administration, prepare themselves for a remoyal from oflice. Such opponents of the Government as were lately some of its officials, have proved themselves to be most lament- ably deficient in integrity and manliness of character ; and, like the ungrateful serpent on the hearth of the compassionate peasant, lay basking in our favor till they thought the time was coine when they might sting usia safety. The season chosen by them for the manifestation of their malignity was not, however, so favorable to themas they had calculated it would prove ; and serious loss and punishment to themselves are all that hitherto have resulted from it. From the public , offices, nearly are such ungrateful recipients of government | favors have at length been removed; a few yet remain, but in time they will all go. The hon. gentleman then went through a review of the dealings of the Liberal Government with: Messrs. Owen and Desbrisay, for the parpose of shewing, as the Hon. Colonel Swabey had previously done, how very much consideration, indulgence and kindness had been ex- tended to them, whilst they were in the Post Office, by the Government ; thereby proving although without any comments to that effect, how ungratefully they had acted towards the Government: concluding this part of his address by saying : We havo throughout treated them with much respect and kindness ; and setting aside all consideration of gratitude due from them to us for the favors we had bestowed upon them, their dismissals are a punishment which they justly merited | {or theirjgnorance of the principles of Responsible Govern- ment. Youall know that Canada is the first of the British Colonies to whieh the Responsible System of Government was leoneeded; and that consequently they ought to be the best informed coucerning the mode of carrying it out. I will, therefore read to you what is there said about those who, like the petty Charlottetown faction with which we came ‘ither to contend this day, talk nonsense upon that subject. Phe hon. gentleman then read a passage from an editorial in ithe Quehee CAronicle to the same import as that which he nad formerly read ; aud, having done so, continued thus: Now, gentlemen, these are the opinions which prevail concerning joelf or Responsible Government in that Province whieh has ‘had the Jongest experience of it, and whoss sentiments con- ‘cerning it are, therefore, the most entitled ta Our respect. fhe Government is not to be bullied into mean or unconsti- tutional compliances by any demonstrations of physical force. We have evident and fixed constitutional principles for our gaidance ; and iu accordance with them only will we act. If we should find that in the Post Oflice Mr. Davies was not fully aud strictly discharging the duties of his appointment, we would at onee and without any hesitation, remove him {rom it, and supp!y his place by some other gentleman whom we should have reason tu think would efiiciently acquit himsel! of those duties. And so would we act, in the event of neglect uf daty or delinquency, on the part of any of the officials in the Colonial Building ; the offender would receive a prompt | dismissal,

With respect to ourselves, the Government, if the | individuals who are the most directly opposed to us and who | have been elected to the new House of Assembly, fancy that a | majority of this Assembly will support their views, let them patiently hide their time, and when the new Louse shall be linet in legislative session, let them move a vote of want of confidence in us, and if they carry it, we must immediately retire from power and give place to them ; hat if not, we shall retain our power and they their discontent. And if, under the influence of such fancied superiority of numbers, they find it quite impossible to restrain their impatience for the attain- ment of power, places and emoluments, let them, if there is any amount of rationality left among them, give some evidence of it by adopting a course which shall not, like demonstrations ‘of mere physical force, be directly at variance with the most cherished principles of the constitution under which we have | the bappiness to live. By physical demonstrations, phrensied \though they are, they very well know they cannot possibly jachieve their object.

Why then, if they think they will have a parliamentary iInajority, not adopt the only peaceable and constitutional ' course whic lency to call the Legislature immediately together, thatitanty 2 brewed! Which party has really the strongest hold

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| upon the contidence of the people? Yes, they would doso readily

enough, if they really believed themselves to have a majority of the members of the new Assembly on their side. But they know they have not, and therefore they are not prepared to make any such appeal; but would rather wickedly trust to the possibility of sume events arising out of soctarian collisions hrought about by such meetings as the present, which might give them a temporary advyantage—with their principles, a lasting one they can never obtain. Your noble determination to preserve the peace, in spite of almost any degree of provo- cation, and your unanimous adoption of a Resolution which, whilst it is fall justification of the Government, is, at the game time, as strong and fall a coudemnatioa of the attempts made by the obstructives to intimidate or prevent the Execu- tive fro exercising their constitutional right in conducting the public affairs in accordance with the principles of Kespon-

st F ‘ use * \ . : : a lustead of our having at any time sought to repress or even In | .i),)o Government, have, however, already convinced them that any Way to limit popular power, every day proves Uiat under vou are too wise, too cautious, and—for the sake of your

\Gonstitutional rights and privileges which it is their aim to

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jTiee-holding on the part of your representatives in purlia- ment: but the majority of the people justly recognise a | eaarantee therein for their fidelity and adherence to the popu- ilur cause; and I, the Leader of the Government and the ‘Colonial Secretary, in appearing before you, as I do on this 'oeeasion, afford you a most eonvineing proof that such is ireally the case, and that the Government and the office-holders ‘in the Legislature are the very last men who will ever consent ithat one inc of the vantage ground which has been given to |you, in the concession of Self or Responsible Government, ‘shall ever be swept from beneath your feet. ‘whieh the obstructive faction would require for their retention

of power, should they obtain it, could be found only in wholly |

depriving you of it. We, the Government, and the officers of the Government, have had our power and our places conferred upon us by the people; we hold them directly from the people, and none but the peuple can deprive us of them. We are

‘‘eonscientiously yote for them on the ocearrence of some} Colonies at Ilome.

The observance of this; is the head of our local Government; but of himself jj |«s pule is requisite in limited monarchies, and it is absolutely | effect nothing ; for his hands are coustitutionally bou

What was Mr. Owen as Postinaster General in this Colony ? Was he not responsible to us the Government? Was he not our servant; and ag such was he not bound to obey our lawful commands? If, however. he refased to obey our lawful commands, was it not according to our place, was it not our duty, tu dismiss him? Most of you are farmers. Well, if any one of you had a farim servant who, in total disregard of your positive and lawful commands, with respect to his labyur, would ouly ploagh, harrow or sow, or do any- thing else, just where, when, and how he pleased, would you

Yo be sure! Certainly!) Thee obstructives and their organs against me than against the Government collectively. They say who 1s George Coles that he presumes to do this or that

he dares to do that? In answer, L am bold to tell them that George Coles is a man who, through the confidence reposed jn

is himself, in his position of Leader of the Government, liable

»| a measure adverse to proprietary interests. But i

But the security |

t | directly responsible to them; snd not to the Secretary for th 16

[Mac cheering.] Lis Excelle 1| Lieutenant Governor. as the Lopresentative of Her Mex ~

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are indeed those of the sovercign of the empire aes ae : is

»| Executive Couneil must be composed of individuals the confidence of a majority of the legislative representative,

concerns our local affairs, he must be swayed, ex

Majesty is by those of her Cabinet. The sonsionnen as Lieutenani Governor, represents Her Majesty in this Col zy has, by his whole conduct, both publie and private were himself te be most traly deserving of that greit honour and the loyalty, as well as the honesty, of the men among ie b whom one who so worthily represents ler Majesty in this Colony as Sir Dominick Daly mca. is basely and ¢auselegs) assailed, must be at a very low ebb indeed. Sir Dominick Z bound to govern constitutionally. He has done eo in a tra} independent manner, and has, at the same time, fully u 7 the dignity of our Sovereign Lady whom he represents, Had he swerved from the path of constitutional duty, or com. heen the dignity with which he is invested, by allow; iimself,in his administrative capacity, to be acted upon back-stairs influence, thoss base and cowardly invectives of which he has been the object would never have been directed against him. ‘lhe injustice with which they have been venteg -| would indeed haye been most surprising were not the charac- ters of his calamniators so well known amongst us as the are; yet it is certainly most surprising that whilst re ntin him as an agent of the proprietors, and vilifying him on thee account, they should, all at once, turn round and abuse him for having given his assent te the Tenants’ Compensation Bill, they have none. They will say one thing to-day, and anothe. to-morrow. And what shall we say of the ingratitade and stupidity of the men who marched upto the Court Houses short time ago, wen who petitioned for the Bill which was in- tended to afford them relief, and who nevertheless are now cheering for the proprietors and their agents who have always been opposed to it ? Can we do otherwise than pity their delusi- on. whilst we denounce their deceivers as a set of as purely selfish and wicked agitators as have ever been a curse te a peaceful country? [Much cheering.] But, gentlemen, whilst regard- ing them with the mingled feclings of abhorrence and contempt, [ am delighted to find that you possess all the truly ennobling sentiments of freemen, and that, with the generous spirit which can burn only in the bosoms of freemen, you have come forward to support, and manifest your gratitude to the Goy- ernment which has done so much to advance, and secure to you the full enjoyment of, all your civil, political and religious rights and privileges. The quiet and order observed by this numerous assemblage, the forbearing and peaceable dispositions which you have manifested, the unanimity of sentiment which pervades the whole, and the manner in which you have given expression to it, fully repay me for many a day and night of anxiety for the common weal of our Island. [Loud cheers.] Phere is another Resolution to be proposed; and I believe there are gentlemen apon the platform waiting to move and support it. [At the close of this address the hon. gentleman was greeted with most bearty and loag continued cheers.)

(To be continued.)

we ———— Notwitnstanpina the mortifying failure which the Ob-

meeting, the affair has been a god-send to the Opposition Pross, secular and religious ; for it was evidently getting short of political capital until the lucky idea of the meeting was coneeived. Tue Islander and Monitor have spun sundry long yarns on the sabject already, and will no doubt co itinue to manufacture much of the same flimsy staff for s.yecal weeks tocome. The Monitor is exceedingly angry with the Liberals for not allowing the Obstractives to leave the conduct of the Last week the numereus assemblage that surrounded the Sheriff’s platform were de- scribed by our irate contemporary as a mere handful of mis- ereants and raflisns. This complimentary style is still con- tinued; and now we are teld that those Liberals who stood upon the platform were a bad and * sinister-looking’’ set of fellows, who, of course, ought not to have been allowed to be there. We have no doubt that the Monitor would readily publish a high-flying panegyric on the great respectability of those ‘* miscreants and ruffians,”’ if they ha@ only gone over to the hole-and-corner meeting to listen to the platitudes of

mecting entirely in their own hands.

the Obstructive leaders ; and when the time for another election shall arrive, we are confident those same Obstructive leaders will offer to shake hands with the ‘* misereants and raffians”’ —pat them familiarly on the shoulders, and enquire tenderly and feelingly after the health of their wives and children ; while the dunkeyism of the Monitor man will be conspicuous in conveying through his hireling print the compliments of his masters to the present objects of his mercenary hate—pro- vided he shall not by that time have repeated his patriotic act of leaving his country for his country’s good, nor have suc- ceeded in any further attempt to smuggle himself into holy orders, to become such another babe of grace as those who shed light upon the Protector. But the members of Govern- ment who stood upon the Sheriff's platform had a ‘sinister look.”? Does Mr. J. B. Cooper understand the meaning of the term ‘‘ sinister??? Almost any Dictionary will tell him that it implies, amongst other things, dishonesty. Now, we are quite sure that none of the gentlemen referred to ever dis- tinguished themselves by cheating their parents, or pocketing public money ander false pretences; but if our contemporary means that the members of Government did not appear to be open-countenanced, good-looking men, we must only lament

or et PA ee ee ee - h is open to them, that of petitioning His Excel- | that the breed af tke Coopers Tas aa, . Ore generously _

eneouraged, and that Providence has not intended us all to be such examples of comeliness and beauty as the Narcissus of the Monitor, who, we trast, will not suffer an intense con- templation of his own personal attractions to shorten the period of his existence.

The editor of the Islander — knowing that he too must do work of some kind to earn his wages—writes his account of the meeting from such materials as a gossipping letter or two from Charlottetown coald supply, scribbled probably by his publisher while he was cultivating his otiun cum dignatate, or digging his other faties in the New London bush. Why | he was not prevailed upon to take a leading part in the pro- ' ceedings, we cannot understand. Had he been bodily present, who knows bat he would have givena different turn to the whole affair? That the meeting did not come up to his ex- pectations, he frankly admits ; but perbaps his motive for dis; paraging the performance arises from the fact, that he was not allowed to enter the green room, and take part with the I c

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