y reserves and a church
establishment in this province. They will express their sentiments at
the hustings with a vengeance, to the confusion of the men who have
deceived, and misrepresented, and wronged them; ... A petition would
acknowledge the right of the Imperial Parliament to interfere--which
ought not to be admitted. If past expressions of public sentiment will
not satisfy Her Majesty's Government, none other can do it; and more
efficient means (such as the coming elections), must and ought to be
adopted, instead of the fruitless method of asking by petition for what
has been guaranteed to the constituencies of the country as a right.

The validity of the recent Act of the Legislature, revesting the
reserves in the Crown, never will be acknowledged, or recognized by the
electors of this province. Any Ministers of the Crown in England would
more than lose their places, who should press through the House of
Commons, on the last night of the session, in a thin house, a great
public measure which had not only been repealed by four successive
parliaments, but had been negatived from six to twelve times during the
same session of the existing parliament. Nor would the British nation
ever submit to any public measure (much less to loss of the control of
one-seventh of their lands, and the infliction upon them of an
uncongenial ecclesiastical system) which had been forced upon them.

The declarations of the Representative of Royalty have heretofore been
regarded in this province as sacred and inviolable; but the reliance of
the Canadian electors upon those declarations from the lips of Sir
Francis Head has cost them bloodshed, bankruptcy, and misery.... The
electors will employ the elective franchise to redress their accumulated
wrongs to the last farthing.

It is, of course, my good or bad fortune to be assailed from week to
week, whether I write or not.... I am no theorist. I advocate no change
in the Constitution of the Province. I have never written a paragraph
the principles of which could not be carried out in accordance with the
letter and spirit of the established Constitution. I desire nothing
more than the free and impartial administration of that Constitution for
the benefit of all classes of Her Majesty's subjects. I only oppose or
support men, or measures, for the attainment of that object.

Entertaining such strong feelings in regard to the personal conduct of
Sir George Arthur in respect to the passage