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kojston sntkutn shillings and sixpence per anrum if sent by mail twenty shillings vol 13 no 11 la nec rege nec popuio sed utroque fttblaj c i j rv saturday hy j jtftc at hs cfikc ill frontstreet kingston i saturday september 10 1832 to the editor of the kingston chronicle conclusion of u one tf the peoples letter under this constitution the country has ri pen to a height of power which has never been surpassed morality and religioo are upheld and genius displays itself in all the arts and in eveay department of literature and science but at the present moment the minds of all men have been turned away from the contemplation of the im proving condition of the country and have been directed exclusively to the alteration of our poli tical system on one occasion mr fox de clared that if by an interposition of divine providence all the wises men of every age and every country could be brought together into one assembly mr fox could hardly have fore seen the existence of saint egerton and his red headed squire they would not be capable of forming even a tolerable constitution forastate but so much do men of the present day think of their own wisdom that they conceivethemsejves qualified tu do in a few weeks what mr fox de clared to be impossible by the united wisdom of ages and this is not only the case in the pre sent cabinet but i believe there is not a politi cal club existing in any village in the country whodo not conceive themselves capable of im proving the constitution of the state and there can be no doubt that egerton and his squire would with the help of st ephraim sit down tomorrow under the full assurance of tin kering up a commonwealth with as much case as calling a township meeting and passing their own private resolutions as the voice of the peo ple that is vox dei or u ith the surprising fa cility that marked the di3path of business at the late ecumenical council railed at east guilli- ambury to settle the ecclesiastical affairs of this there isapissap in sirg murrays speech which deserves to be bfc in letters of gold and hungup in rvcry dwelling cf the empire if would be well if the people ivould at all lima bear in mind that crowds have their courtiers as well as monarch wherever there is potcer tliere wilt be flatterers and the people do not always sufficiently recollecu that thty are liable to be flattered and misled as ivell as princes and by flatuty not less mean cringing and servile and above alt not less false or uss selfish than the vilest flatterer who ever frequented a palace toserve his own private ends by betraying tht interests of his master there is no disease against which a free state ought to guard with greater vigi lance than against the extreme of democracy and i know of no method so potent to produce that extreme as the accursed sectarian mob om nipotently and infallibility of the people which egerton has taken so much pains to instil and inforcc into the people of this province- where rite to uc found more degraded and favoring slaves to bar room and campmeeting populari ty than the saint and his squire and where can we find concentered a larger measure of bru tal insolence towards their superiors than they have nniformly displayed as to repairing the constitution on mrhumes atheistic plan my sentiments ave fully declared as to the necessity of a simple reform in the re presentation it appears to me of far less extent than has been pretended i fully agree that large towns ought to have their full share of in fluence in the house gf commons thai is e nough to protect their respective interests and that it ii no more than a measure of justice to cxtcuu to mem tnc bauctus uf pwipouional w- presenution with the remainder of the empire i also can see no reason in the thing itself un connected with other things why a borough which- might become depopulated should not be disfranchised or why the number of represent atives for the whole empire should not be di minished if it were so great as to hinder the bu siness of parliament all these things might be done without the least invasion of constitutional principles nay 1 should think that those princi ples might even demand it in supposahle cases but by the admissions of the reformers them selves the disfranchising of the rotten bo roughs involves something more serious than simply disfranchising rotten boroughs bells weekly messenger of may 29th as quoted by thcn v albion confesses that these boroughs were an ipso facto representation of the coloni al interests by which it appears that the colo nies are doomed to suffer neglect persecution and injustice unless some adequate provision is made by which their voice can be heard in the imperial parliament butthisdocs not as far as i learn form an item in the reform bill as contemplated by the ministry it is only an af ter thought and suggestion of individuals out of parliament now it is well known that the des- iructionist party to which mr joseph hume be longs who has lately received accessions of weight and dignity lo his character by his con nection with the red headed traitor are the de clared enemies of the colonics and bent upon do ing them all the injur possible these men would probably oppose a colonial representation because that would tend most materially to pre serve the integrity of the empire in all its parts u well as to protect the west india planters from having their slaves commissioned to mas sacre ihcm by an imperial edict as those of st domingo were when the french atheists turned loose the blacks upon their masters but as the intended reform was not intended to embrace and protect the colonial interests snd as the neglect of those interests and the persecution of the colonics must inevitably alienate them from the mother country it follows of course that the tendency of the reform bill is directly towards co lonial oppression the dismemberment and des truction of the empire and this is whiggism who knows but that there is a hidden spirit of infidelity in religion and revolution in politicks deeply at work under the foundations of the con stitution which has seized upon reform as the masked battery from which to assault it this supposition is not the most unreasonable neither is it wholly unlike the posture of aflairs immcdu ately preceding the revolution of last century wj see the church attacked by a patchwork ar my of f the different denominations of sccta- rians of atheists and deists and of profligate po liticians of no creed but ambition and the indul gence of parly spleen and i cannot bat remark how cordially herod and pilate can shake hands how sincerely rctrrin fanaticks will join is sue with and enter into tkes views of deists and a- theistsasifthcy twsfc animated by one soul wa ef chunk is the object of thi orriron har3 kid attack that forms a kz f txagamationcd union for all even the ta 7rri and opposite denominations where zeizi jlthcrlt socinian universalis unitarian a3 m cthon can each one cast in his earring or his nose jewel to furnish materials for the calf ofthrir common creed and idolatry opposition to church and state mr hume has graciously signified his intention of rendering the cause of democracy and sectarian political religious fac tion as now developing their peace making effi ciency in the land of jonathan all the aid in his power towards its full establishment in canada and he advises our demagogues to abate no thing in their insolence towards the colonial ad ministration or their seditious appeals to the worst passions of the common people this is a put of tbe system of itfcmn as intended to be put into effect by mr hume and his co-destruc- tionists and its tendency is also towards the dismemberment of the empire for copying the policy of the americans as mr hume advises wc mast also prepare to engage m the same dia bolical scheme of all denomination politico religious gambling for political ascendency and as certain as the ryerson embassy succeeds in their object so certain will this province become the theatre of the same hypocritical farce now acting before our eyes on the south of the st lawrence the late movements of the yankee province a branch of the tree in the land of jonn- than whose political ambition is every year die playing itself in a more decided character and whose operations will naturally be so directed as to meet the jesuits on their own ground speaks nothing favorable towards the project of inviting them into the arena of competition on the all de nomination democratic plan of mr hume they arc as likely to interfere as a religious sect with the politicks of this province as their bre thren in the united states or as the methodists among ourselves and it behooves our provinci al government to keep an eye upon them and to represent ali these things in their true light to the administration at home and the friends of british liverty in opposition to democracy and sectarian intrigue and anarchy ought to regard this province from the peculiarity of its situs tion as a colony io which it is of the first import ance to have the lull principles of the british constitution firmly settled and established and nolo is the time of doing it with perfect safety those who oppose it dare not proceed to extre meties and those who wish it would at once find it a resting point from the tumults of faction lawful possession always inspires honest confix denrn and oticralu disposes kindness and forbearance the wealth and intelligence of the british co lonies are now decidedly favorable to the conti nuance of a loyal attachmentto the integrity of the empire and now appears the time of more firmly cementing that attachment there is an opemnc for a colonial representation which if suffered to pass without being improved may lead to consequences the most serious and disas trous the present conditio of the united states makes our thinking men pause at the thoughts of democratic independence and tells them soberly to prefer a political administration of purely british principles but there is a point of endurance beyond which the bent bow musj break if the democratic deslructionists at home can succeed to harrass and distress the co lonies by hampering their commerce and other means of annoyance they must bedriven to seek a separation from the mother country which now to any of them would be a most serious mufortunc and if the whigs and anticolonials and sectarian destxuetionists should succeed to tha ctcnt of their wishes on what principles would such calamities be chargeable would it be toryism high churchism and arbitrary pow er by no means it would be chargeable on nothing but the loose and revolutionary princi ples which hfcyfi been adopted of late years those bamsbla jlioblcs which aim at the total severance of igirn government and educa tion setrir up in opposition to each other and dcstrry7 j3e of ecclesiastical obedi ence amo sa 7ciple for the doctrine in this last point sw s and it is one well worthy of the devil himself that no man is under ob ligation to obey spiritual superiors unless he pleases to impose the obligation voluntarily up on his own conscience as the only authority to he consulted in the premises in a moral point of view or as regards tie gc neral interests of christianity and the conversion of the heathen nations the integrity ofthebrk tih empire and consequently a wise system of parental policy towards the colonic is of inca- culablc importance it is essential to the con version of the eastern nation that the gospel be presented to their acceptance in its own pri mitive unity of character and wholly divested of all appoximalioni towards the division an an archy arising out of the exercise of the right and dictates of conscience and also as a system up- hekl and protected by the civil power font must be remembered that all the heathen religi ons arc upheld by the state that the principle of ecclesiastical unity is recognized and believed by them all and that by consequence they are fradisposed against a loose indefinitcsftfanan christianity that there arc many heathens of ederged minds in many departments of science aid in some of politicks by which they are ena- tikd to look down with contempt on such rcp- tflts as our religious liberty demagogues and to regard their pestilent conduct with indignation asd abhorrence looking therefore on the in tegrity of the vast empire of great britain the christian philosopher philanthropist and politi cian will regard it as the means under the hih aad important destiny imposed on it by the de- riens of an overruling providence of carrying those designs into effect and blessing with light knowledge and liberty true rational and subor- cfeiale those vast regions of the east over which he has permitted her to extend her domi nions the vieu is noble it is grand it is mag nificent it is worthy of the wisdom the good ness the counsels and the superintendence of deity here is indeed a national debt due by the mother country not of abandoning the migh- t v moral and political intcrest3 of the human fa mily to the serpents and wolves of democracy and faction but of maintaining her station and dignity at home extending the hand of a parent to all her dependencies and establishing the pmripfraofherenried constrtusoa in her re- mafest possessions and holding up to the world forits imitation the august spectacle of her moral greatness and grandeur and her national pros- pertv honor and glory now it appears to me thw the present clamor for reform takes nothing ofiie kind into consideration but that much of the zeal of the ministry is purely to satisfy the pctple on saint egertons atheistic scheme that isfer no reason but because they wish it whe ther or not it is to rivet the first link inahain oftiin appears not to be thought worthy a mo- mcrts consideration hut whether it will satisfy thepresent clamor wholly regardless of thefu- tur our politicians choose to forget that the dterity of the people in every country have put amndtstinct and feeble apprehension of alt things comected with their political or social well be ing many years observation has taught mc thtflthe majority arc about as competent to pro vide in a political and governmental way for their future safety and prosperity as a drove of cafflde turned into a fine field of grass are calcu lated to preserve it for their winters fodder prarnt gratification is the all engrossing topic in both cases and of this demagogues appear to be aware because they always seize upon something calculated to confine the passions cf the mob to some present object the labors of st egerton and of his redoubtable compatriot the redheaded traitor are of the same class whh those of a redresser of grievances who shod go kito a farm yard and raise a sedition among the cattle sheep and hogs because their master would not consent to turn them into his fields to destroy his growing crops- there arc always things in government to be attended to the na lure propriety and necessity of which day labor ers never can become acquainted with- and uiciw ftww v frgtt juuwhtft www hmta- tiort the vast majority know about as much of go m a farmers cattle do of his system of fcsbping himself and them alive the year round all mn can sec the practical utility of courts of justice and a number of like things while of their machinery nature c they know no more than they d f a saro engine by seeing the paddle wheels at work or of a clock by seeing the t of day on the dial plate look across th iinr4 am see the righ- and dictates ofcon- scieb an universal suffrage feeding on the vi t pf civil society and consuming the staminal of political existence like a drove of swine dig ging p crop of young potatoes ftl fine i see not much ground of encourage ment in the prospect of reform- the only chance 0 a favourable tum is the giving of the colonies a representation in the imperial parliament that the commercial interests existing between the m0 country and the colonics may be protect ed fostered extended and strengthened the integrity of the empire can only be secured by a wise system of policy which shall consolidate ihee interests by mutual justice and reciprocal kindness and good faith they must be watch ed flver by interested parties alive to them at a points hy persons at home who have stakes abrftftdp and by persons abroad in the colonics whrt have mercantile connections at home a eolcrpia periodical such as is now talked of ap pear t0 me indispensiblc for these things at the present alarming crisis that ever thingconnect- ed th the colonial interests may be laid before the public the slave question is one upon which i beg lcav to offer a few remarks i fully agree that slavey ought to be abolished but i can never bcli llwt the french method canbewiseor just either as regards the slave or his master tho slaves arc not fit for a simultaneous oman- c they know not how to use their free dom w they free and their masters lives would he endangered by it the same as they were j iaint domingo it is therefore folly and madi t t f a sudden emancipation thcii masters also have aright in them which hence granting the sectarians the powcf of ought to be respected tlwy are not in fault of marrhgc ha5 bcc decidedly wrong and unpou- the slavery because it has come on ihcm bv en tail from their forefathers and this being the li ln th tscf a case it were wrong to deprive them suddenly j all other questions i sec no harm but as a link n the chain of a regular system of encroach- and inve ihemwfjmrs and vagabond upon the world the jem ttm allowed to hold slaves under certain limitations- and 50 were the early christians as is evident from the tenor of st pauls epistle to philemon which oncsimus his run3way slave carried back to his master af ter being converted to the christian faiih hy that apostle the justice and morality then of west india slavery are not to be judgcdasa single in stance of it would bein a country where it doc not exist it is an intricate question connected with many others of a delicate nature and to be treated with the utmost circumspection eman cipation should contemplate the permanent well being of both master and slave and feel its wav as it proceeds in its work of kindness time a- lonc can effect so difficult a work without vio lence and injury- i believe too that much of the religious feeling in england against slavery is connected with mercantile transactions in the east as to reform in the distribution and pay of the national clergy and some other things connect ed with the established church i am fully of o- pinion that it is much more needed than iform i parliament and i sincerely hope that a sa lutary correction may take place cro long many most enlightened and valuable friends of the church sec and feel the necessity pi it and no doubt will do their utmost in so desira ble an object justice ami policy equally re quire it not to humour the limes but because the eternal and unchangeable principles of truth and right and the best interests of religion and social order require it and i should wuh for a ririd enforcement of the quanidiuse bene gessz- rit principle as trc lawyers say among the black coated servamts of the public when their reverences became useless from malfeasance in office they might fcc ejected from their cures and their places supplied by brttcr men such a system is clearly possible and as ea sily lo he put into operation as in other depart ments of official responsibility it is evident to all reasonable men that the interest of religion and the peace of society can be much better promotccfand secured in this tray than by the methods now in operation in the land of jona than england ho been now since the refor mation for nearly three centuries with the ex ception of the bloody rebellion produced by the rights and dictates of the consciences of the pu ritans under the regimen of church stateand she has become the greatest of the great- the a- merican rebellion grew out of the defection of the puritans from thechurch and when the provin ces became independent of the parent statethcy agreed to separate the interests of religion from those of civil polity and allow every man to fol low his own inventions they have donesoon the grounds that it is unlawful and wicked for human governments to bind their subjects to the observance of gods commandments con tained in the gospel and that as religion is a matter of direct responsibility from man to his maker it ought not to be a matter of responsi bility at the same time to any human tribunal the decisions of which are tangible ot cogniza ble by the laws that bind together human soci ety but this assumption if it proves any tiling proves too much since as all crimes are forbid den by the gospel if fully acted on it would prohibit the punishment of all crimes against society it ws taken for srantcd that the in terests of religion would be better secured by utmost sectarian lirentiousncssthan if an es tablished church aould engross the patronage of government and give back to the state that influence and powtr which it had been intrust ed with for the stihity and advantage of the civil power but within half a century the ex periment has entirely failed instead of unity in religion divisions have been fomented and pro moted the laxity of the universal suffrage and majesty of the people principle has led them into the doctriae that of divine rightthey could treat religion eke their politics and their politicians instead of sound doctpne the worst of heresies are resvning the rounds of populari ty under the management of ambitious and un principled leaders instead of peace in religion they enjoy less of religious quiet than any peo ple in christendom and instead of religion ceasing to be thought of as the slave or the mis tress of politics or the handmaid of political aspirants we see the conflicting sects leaping overall their acknowledged barriers and grasp ing at political power to serve the ambitious views of religious factions and having these things before our eyes nothing but the most reckless abandonment of all truth and the most obstinate determination of indulging to the full the criminal ambition to be the leaders of popu lar faction can induce our demagogues to perse vcro in their mad career greatas are the nib of any establishment they are infinitely prcfer- abe in the eye of sober discrimination than none i am no advocatr frr persecution no friend to the apostolic infallible rack and faggot system of conversion practised by the church of rome but under every establishment whether of church or state there must be a point beyond which forbearance and concession become un just and criminal government must have the firmnoss to resist encroachment and to protect and secure to its own friends and allies the e purees of patronage influence and power ment upon the patronage of the crown and the strcngtheningof growing factions who now be rio to grasp at political influence in their religi ous sectarian character the thing has been par ticularly shortsighted questions of this kind siould be decided not with a view to gratify a few individuals or a growing faction but with a view to the combined interests of the whole empire and the stability and permanence of government for ten thousand years to come a nation should always make is calculations lo live forever and therefore by all possible just means secure to itself the monopoly of all the sources of public influence under the true no tion ofa family compact in which the father must be greater than all his children at the same time i conceive it to he thoduty of go vernment to enlighten as far as practicable and consistent with their station in lift ail classes of its subjects and show them the reasonableness and fitness and necessity ofjts internal policy not that every one can become a politician or any thing like it but because every man of common sense can be made to understand the tor tu chronicle mr chronicle supplementary to refers c in my last to the fact of the conspiracy gainst all laws human and divine namely ti r destruction of the british constitution nowsovr- hementiv sought after originated with the socin an infidels i bfg leave toadd a little document- ry illusion ofa position assumed in one of myt tew that is that fanaticism and infidelity ar- nearer neighbours than is generally imagine dugald stewartinthesixth volume of iris work- pnge 346 in speaking cursorily of the french ki volutionrobscrves a prediction which btsl op butler hazarded many years before does hor- our to his political sagacity as well asto b- knowledge of bumapi nature that tjta spirit irroligion would produce some tima o 6thc political disorders similar to those which aros from religious fanaticism in the seventeenth cerv tury is thee no danger that all this may rslk- somewhat like that levelling spirit upon othrisi- ctd principles which in the last age prevailed upon enthusiastic ones not to speak of thfi possibility that different sorts of people jiftp xoiite in it upon these contrary principle slu moil preached beore the houst olords januar 301741 4t as the fatal effects of both these extretrt have in the course of the two last centuries ften exemplified on so gigantic a scale in the tw p 4 1 most civilized countries of europe it is to mt necessity of being an obedient and peaceable hoped that mankind may in future derive subject under a system of preestablished laws as readily as he can discover the utility of a good piece of machinery which he can neither make nor mend but which he can break at any time especially all young people ought to be taught the sin of following their own inventions and ehoottnga in matters of religion and the all- denomination scheme now to much the rage is an invention of the devil for the pur pose of destroying the peace of families and set ting society into confusion and contention and hindering the conversion of the heathen and the reformation of the roman catholics there arc multitudes of persons who cannot conceive the idea of a catholic church or kingdom of god as a thing of unityinder the complex idea of a lawless multiplication of sect fighting and tearing each other to pieces like so many sa vage clans and dignifying their dcveljsh anar chy with the titles of christian liberty and the rights and dictates of their consciences and government ought to assist the national church in the dissemination of books giving a compep- jully compounded and mingled with politics ai d dious and clear view of the christian church from the beginning together with a brief ac count of all the principal heresies and schisms and the evils of them for in order that men pay a reasonable obedience to their superiors of church and state they ought to be supplied with reasonable and true motives to it as fast as they are capable of digesting them- it was so among the jews of old in their best times there is one thing which i can hardly pass over in silence and which must be a cause of shame and prief to all good men it will be re membered how soon the connections of the grey administration were crammed into every nook and cranny of office and well provided for is it possible that these whigs and people- men could have originated and carried into exe cution the modest and virtuous plan of render ing particularly conspicuous a batch of royal bastards and placing them among the honora bles of the empire 7 should such a tiling take place under the present administration i sup pose it would be justly chargeable on old tory humbly conceive would or ought to bring dis grace upon any administration h marriage is honorable among all men and the bed undefii- ed but whoremongers and adulterers god will judge and as a fine upon the libidinous in their posterity he ordainod among the jews that a bastard shall not enter into thecongre- gation of the lord even to his tenth generation much less in the first be restored to rank in so cicty and perhaps be promoted to important trusts i should distrust a ministry under which a supposable case might occur i should look on them as conspiring to demolish some of the most important bulwarks of honour and vir tue marriage is honorable m all and every defence of its honor every mcana of impressing the public mind with veneration for it should be vigilantly guarded it is a foul insult upon so ciety upon religion and virtue to have high born bastards thrown forward much more de moralising in its effect than if they were of meaner origin because example always flows downwards among men there is a possibility that those who would advise such a measure would also advise the ring to omit the usual re ference to a divine providence in the speech from the throne while the minions of popularity hunters would laud such an irreverent omission as a proof of liberalism and freedom from the shackles of ancient rusty prejudices perhaps they are going to advise the king to conform to the customs of a free country and choose inrvn religion and make his own church a ir predoccssors in the meantime from that dis position common to both thehighaond lower or ders to pass suddenly from one extreme to ano ther it is at least possible that the strong reca- tion produced by the spirit of impiety during the french revolution may in the first stancc impel the mutlutc to sw uj g u ryacpmjj the puritanical fanaticism and frenzy of tbecrom- wcllian commonweal th how strikingly are some of thflperemarksrov under a source of exemplification only read the the guardian and watchman and you have it as large as life in the time of cromw- there was the same rage exhibited against prelacy iho same fanatical and unreasonable mode of getting rid of the arguments in favor of it that are now so amply put in requisition in the western hem isphere generally at this day the same or very similar methods of steaming up religious frenzy by constantly plying themostexhilirating gaseous potions to the the public mind which were care- m civil and religious liberty grievances milton prayed to his maker that all bishops might u crammed into the filthiest prt of hell and there made the sport and merriment of the common- damned our canadian patriots have not done so in form to be sure but the manner in which st egerton and st era havespokencon- h cerning them particularly egerton too welt proves that a portion of the apirit of that elijah rests on them bishop butlers notice of the different sort of people uniting upon contrat principles is well worthy of serious attention especially as we see u all denominations of infidels and fanatics belching out so furiously against church and state and joining their forces to demolish the bulwarics of british liberty and just rights cole ridge the poet speaks of dr priestly as an infi del the same doctor who boasted as early as tie close of the american rebellion of a mine waiting perhaps only till some unforeseen oc currence should kindle it to destroy at one tre mendous explosion the constitution in church lo which the iramers and compilers ot our litur- fr gy homilies and articles woum have refused the very name of christianity meeting our eyes in the religious denominations of every city and large town throughout the kingdom see aids to refaction pages 203 243 such is he respectable company of which our canadian pa triots can boast themselves no matter what it is that has the impiety to throw stone at what coleridge calls our baalhamon whether jew turk atheist deist or socinian all t may those rights and blessings claim for ii their christian enterprise is great no union there of state and church to give their faith a worldly lurch they can all in perfect fellowship assault the foundations of civil society and all good govern ment and hiss on and applaud each other in their deeds of darkness till the object of uieirnajicious hate is destroyed and then they can coolly gt foul of one another and try the strength of their religious interests asthe jonathans did a ti days bygone in the assembly of massachuset the following from beirs life in london fit may 29 1851 may give a specimen out of mxrv now lying before me of the spirit in which tie english evangelical journals incite the unit of the people at home the election at cambridge shows that the church of england is still faithful to her character of the most inveterate and in- placable enemy to the peoples rights and 11 right which st egerton would tell us that no the people when they obtain the ascendency fta rainftav not count and reckon with the church fcr honest and consistentman can deny or gain say how lovingly and libcrallythelibcralscan quote tic authority of popery itself when it happens to invent a lying burlesque upon true protestantism and endeavours to fasten on it the semiiafidcl alldenomination khcmc of separation opposi tion disunion and destruction yours c one of the people not f count its misdcedf their weakness and stupidity wll richly merit contempt this is in accordant with the infidel priestleys plan and i humbhr conceive would be a much more appropriate text for tht rec saint egerton to expound thaiiany he can find in the bible to be continued yours c one of the people-