North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-05-22


predecessors in 1886. The then Lor
High Commissioners. Gosford, Grey an
/ Gipps reported the same desires as mani
/ tested to them BY the British population
bu, they were careful TO say that the,
merely noticed it, because the "Constiiu
tiona Association" Of Montreal had
through "Mr. Gibb," one Of the mem
bers suggested a mode OF swapping ,ht
Canadian majority, and creating British
one but that this proposal of Mr.. Gibbs
was so utterly preposterons and extrava-
giant, that il need only be mentioned TO be
disregarded.
Well might the commissioners look upon
that proposal as extravagant, when they
came 10 know what it was. Mr.. Glib
proposed that the forest county Of Ottawa,
with an " anglo-saxon" population OF 1000
souls be divided into four Counties, and to
each of these to give tuo representatives;
next, TO consolidate the counties Of Lapra-
irie, L'Acadie and Beauharnois into one,
having population, oinearly all " french"
amounting to 10, 900, and give to this one,
tueo members. We must stop our remarks
on the " Report" because his Lordship
Joins in the nefarious designs of disfran-
chislng people, to notice this proposal of
the Constitutional Association of Montreal,
made through their member Mr. Duncan
Glib; and however disagreeable il may be
o us to descend TO so unworthy a subject
IS to notice the characters of the Drama
is-personR, nevertheless, not TO do SO,
would be to leave half untold; for as the
dage says, tell me what company you
eep, and shall tell you who you are.
The bare mention Of so extravagant an
lea as that Of giving 8 Representatives to
200 people and only 9 to about 10000
J sufficient to characterize its author as a
Dol; but when that author had cunning
nough TO keep the numerical State in the
ack ground, and to support his preten-
ion on the basis of territorial extent, (for
ne County Of Ottawa is a forest that eX-
ends TO the Frozen Ocean!) it is easy to
ee that there was at leas. as much design
s there was Of folly in the reckless vilIany
the Iailor's mind: and so, it appears,
lat the leading men OF the constitutional
Ssociation felt it, for not one Of them would
father" that proposal: at last, Messrs.
loflatt, Penn & DR.. Robertson, bethought ,
emselves of their Tailor, doubtless vel
rowing that knight of the thmbe and
ears, from long habit Of cabbaging''
oud as unhesitatngly apply his scissors (
ID clip OFT good large yard of his neigh /
ur's constitutional rights, as he would [
his constomers cloth sent to him to be
cut into coat or trousers" Snip was so $
lighted at the idea Of being admitted in Il
the company of his betters that he Jump (
) as lively as tailor could jump, at the =
oposal, and three quarter knave and on -
arter fool performed the dirty work of p
employers, not seeing that they used CO
n as their tool.
In this depression from the Lord High II
mmssloner to his "leadng English e.
'rchant," man of mortar, and tailor, our u
ders must not suppose that we despse, =;
Torres do, honest industry and modest ds
alth; on the contrary we are too repub- tn
IN in our every fibre not to respect and to
nlre the man who, by industry and yir- u, te
united, raises himself as Franklin did ~,
N the case to an L. l.. D.-dying the I'M
Iosopher of the world, every edifice from yo
humble cottage to the grizzly castle W "
rlng' and ever shall bear, his monument hu U
ntlng to the skies-and nature harm we
~ writes, day after day, his epitaph on TIT
Sc monuments in letters of lightning Oh Oh
} 1t IS not such men, nor yet lesser men ore
we deride. The humble Franklin be
like these we have described in times to
roub'e, during which virtue strives to 100
down vice; but he lived for all men o. s ha
and not Tor the anglo-saxo~ = race syr
e. The Philadelphia Printer acted ~ ion