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renaarki however , that the accumulation of offices in the 3 * me families ,, and , in maay instances , in the same individual , would astound you . In Upper Canada four families , all connected together by several intermarriages , usurp seventeen offices . , Ja Lower Canada one family enjoys seven lucrative offices . > When the members of the Council have not found offices lucrative enough for their desires , they have obtained enormous grants of laiwL Jk
man named Felton is down in a parliamentary return aahaviag received 14 , 000 acres . Not content with this , he has-procured 1 , 200 acres for each of his eight children * Now , th $ people / of Canada think that the radical change in the Council , which ] ihey propose , would check this , and nearly all other evils . . : h . w : I iuiwfrcravet leave to say a few words on the state and streo ^ th of parties ^/ The autfeor of the article seems to be avy are that ithe
majority i of the people of Lower Canada are of French origin ^ and hei ^ ll&i into the error which the Canadian oligarchy desire * J » foetec ; thatw the grievances are those of the ' French Canadians ' oialji—( pv 535 f No . civ . ) The grievances , as I shall show , are thede of the governed many , without distinction as 16 origin or language . ; , ,: In November last there was a general election , the rallying principle of which was the spirit of the ninety-two resolutions ^ rthe
elective principle . If it can be shown that French Canadians only gave their votes in accordance with this principle * I mllgwe up the point . It cannot , however , be so shown * The jnajor&y in favour of the elective principle * was very large * wh ^ thetithe number of Members or the population represented be conskkfrec } . In the former Parliament , the number of Members opposfttL to the elective principle was twenty-eight ; in the new Parliatoent this number was reduced to ten , out of eighty-eight Memtter ^ iof which the Assembly is composed . The cnanre in the jjopolatfth represented will be seen by the following Table : ., i > h (
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 617, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/53/
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