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reform at once . By such a course the good will of a grateful people would be secured , and the hatred of the factious minority could not be greater than it is . This principle should never be lost sight of by ministers , though it is every day violated . * The language of the colonial Tory j > arty , and of their newspapers , towards the governor , the Commission , and the government of this country , is expresnive at once of their rage and of their folly . In the cities of Quebec and Montreal
exist two political clubs , dignified by the name of " Constitutional Associations , " the members calling themselves Constitutionalists . The political principle- —if such it can be called—by which these persons are guided , is—opposition to the elective principle .
Their present policy is to intimidate the government , and thereby to deter it from sanctioning those reforms , which justice , good policy , and the spirit of . the times , unite in demanding . The means of intimidation which the * e Constitutionalists have adopted are as follows : — 1 st . To make it nppear that they have the whole British population with them .
2 nd . To show—that the whole population of Upper Canada are with them . 3 rd . —that they are prepared to rebel , 4 th . —that they are prepared to join the United States . The first two fallacies have been already exposed in the Monthly Repository for September . It may however be well to recapitulate the exposure . The British inhabitants inhabit
the " Townships / ' as they are culled , situated south of the St . Lawrence . To make the claim of the " Constitutionalists" to represent the whole of the British population true , all the members of the provincial parliament returned by the Township should be Constitutionalists . This , however , is not the case . The largest British county , Stanstead , returned members in favour of the elective principle by a majority of three to one . Another
British Township county , Drummond , returned h " Revolutionist " unanimously , whilst in the county of Shrrbrooke , which is the strong hold of colonial Toryism , and of the British American Land Company , the " Constitutional " members prevailed only by a bare majority . Hence it is that the number of the Constitutionalists is so thorou ghly contemptible—is in fact not over one-third of the whole
* A he Bjesohitums on the Hal tic Timber Duties afford a a curious illustration of this . 1 l » e aite * titiou proposed will destroy the colonial trnde , but will not confer full benefit on the people . A measure of full benefit would huve done no more evil but would bav © done tht > eN » -f © ld good .- P « rtJ « l measures of good are almost always whole measure * * f « yU , mad therefore of ofctoqur .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/55/
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