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If our House of Commons were elected as the Canadian Assembly is—by the free voice of the people , a similar coarse would be frequently resorted to . Supplies would be withheld until the course to be pursued by the Minister , and perhaps by the House of Lords als * o , should be made known . If the Lower Canadians now give the supplies , their work will be to be recommenced , and they will not regain their present advanta ^ geous position until they have again brought the gentlemen
represented by the council , to their present deplorable condition . With the conciliatory conduct and accouuttodatuig spirit of Lord Gosfbrd towards thfe Assembly , the members of which it bad been the custom of former governors to despise and
contemn , the people of Canada seem to be perfectly , and it may be added , justly satisfied . Courteous themselves , they naturally feel the want of it in others , and the haughty bearing of their former military governors had , in almost all cases , disgusted them . The mild and gentlemanl y demeanour of Lord Gosford is certainly an improvement in the mode of governing Canada .
The minor reforms that are to take p lace will also be not without benefit ; but , if it be the opinion of the colonial minister and of his colleagues , that those trifling reforms will silence the cry of nearly the whole Canadian people for en elective council , they will speedily discern their error . The people of Canada , notwithstanding what has been said to the contrary by
interested persons , are in a very respectable state of intelligence , especially on political matters . What they have already effected is evidence of this . Like their English fellow subject ? they will doubtless take all thev can get , tut they will never cease to agitate the question 01 reform until they obtain the full control of their internal affairs , and this they feel they can never succeed in , while the irresponsible legislative council is
pea-mittefd to remain . Lord Glenelg may take the case of the Euglish Reform Bill ha a proof that a preliminary step will not satisfy an intelligent people . Moreover , ike doctrine of finality has not yet found its way into Canada . It Iiuh already been stated tfeat , although the mass of the people are not satisfied , the threatened reforms are ouch as to ewjrte the fury of the colonial Tory party . Tkis , by the wav , is invariably the case with partial measures . If one almse be attacked , the whol « tril > e of those wfeo pro £ t by abuses i »
sure to be let loose upoci the mini # ter sanctioning the reform . This is the case in Canada . The focal ami iatpoiml governments , are incurring the very nmxhwiutt of otficial obloquy by the f iarttmJ reforms they havts already sanctioned , whist those reforms have not been tmfteiettt to obtain for them the good will of the rows of the people . The wise course * s m variabl y to sanction the wfeeta inemm ** of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/54/
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