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agamtt which yotrr airt > ior warns thfe public / I triH 'merely state Akl it is qfttite justifiable to quote evett redressed grievances as eVkienck ef what the system has . produced ; aiitlmay produce again . The Canadians do not , however , put forward expired or redressed grievances f as a statement of those at present complained of : * all the grievances put forward'in their authorized statement * are in actual operation at the present mement I will
bere ^ Ldd > that , although the list of grievances complained of afe now ^ weeskig \ ipon the people is sufficiently large , the Canadians do not « bk > their redress . They know that the redress *> f each gtievaiic # wcttld be impossible : they merely state them as eviowi ) c ^ x > f a vieioos colonial system , of which they demand a radical eksntge ® This dorie , and they anticipate— -first , that similar evils cotiM 4 xot redurr ; and , secondly , that iriany of the said jgtidvances would admit of redress within the colony . h .-6 f th ^ evils which the
- ^ fta&t people of Canada suffer , they attfribdfe to the vicious constitution of the l ^ islatitf d counciWHthe scoond bradch of the colonial legislattire ^ This council ifircom * - poaed of the official party and their adherents , who aiie appointed for life by the Crown ; and , not being removable by lany authority for any mUconduct they are a perfectly irresponsible -body - Th © y « Mttprisethe members of the executive council , and the dlerks of
the same , some of the judges , some of the beneficed cleqjy , the heada * of departments , and some successful merchants . * These fofem ai Carge majority . To give an appearance of impartiality , abort !* half-n-dozen popular men have been appointed ; but their voijeei J iar'droWTied amidst the united voices of their twenty-eight or tksrty oppoiien t s . i i The Momse of Assembly , on the other hand , represents the is
peopfte ^ : It chosen by the freeholders of a country where nearly eveky'infMi is a freeholder . i&dTSOiisequence of the democratic constitution of one branch , and i the * aHsbaoratic constitution of the other , is , that the two Ucm ^ es do -nM * harmonize together . ' Bills which are introduced into the Assembly , in ^ ftnformity with the wishes and feelings of
tjjg -P SQptef are invariably thrown out by the Council ; so that the business of legislation is at a stand . Now , I ask the editor of the * f-Monthly Repository * which side he would take , wefe Jrjte in Cajjia ^ da ? I will uot ajvah his answer * I know he would Mike tfie fiyular side . 1 knftw he would join the mass of th ^ people i ^ fhm prayer ^ to Vtfre British House of Commons ' to be permitted to elect the second branch in future , as the only means of tffeHftfafg *^ tHttt 1 Mi « pfey bA ^ W \ W tW bWh ^ hM'Widtout ^ Uich mtiftttSft ^ ea ^ § M \ s !^^ Mm ¥ i ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 616, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/52/
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