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 Legislative Assembly, on B^riday, the 8th September — 
 Address to the Electors of South Oxford — Correspondency 
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 RESIGNATION OF THE 
 
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 After the presentation and reading of sundry petitions, 
 
 INSPECTOR GENERAL HINCKS rose and said, Mr. 
 Speaker, I am about to move that the Orders of the Day be 
 postponed until Monday next, and in submitting that motion, 
 it is my duty to state to the House, what is probably already 
 known to a great many honorable gentlemen, — that I felt it my 
 duty this day, in conjunction with my honorable colleague, 
 the Commissioner of Crown Lands, (Mr. Morin,) to tender 
 our resignation to His Excellency the Governor General, that 
 His Excellency has been pleased to accept our resignation, and 
 that we now only hold office until our successors shall be ap- 
 pointed. I desire. Sir, to trespass on the time of the House for 
 a few moments while I briefly assign the reasons that have led 
 to our taking this step. 
 
 I shall not, Sir, go back — for I deem it unnecessary to do so — 
 to any matters connected with the formation of the administra- 
 tion that preceded the present one, and of which I had the honor 
 to be a member. But I shall content myself with stating that 
 after that administration had been some time in office, after we 
 had carried, by very considerable majorities, measures which 
 have been received, I believe, with very great satisfaction by 
 the country at large — measures that we shall always be proud 
 
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 to have our names identified with, and to which, as they are re- 
 corded on the Statute Book of the Country, I do not think 
 it necessary to refer more particularly at present — during 
 the Session of 1851 we had such evidence of the disor- 
 ganization of the party in Upper Canada by whose support 
 and confidence we had been enabled to conduct the affairs 
 of the Province, that at a late period of that Session, my honor- 
 able and learned friend, the then Attorney General for Upper 
 Canada, (Mr. Baldwin) was under the necessity of tendering 
 his resignation. I was then, as Mr. Baldwin has since felt it 
 necessary to explain, although it was not made public at the 
 time, most anxious to retire with him from the Government. 
 Mr. Baldwin strongly urged upon me the importance for the 
 interests of the great party with wliich I have the honor of 
 being connected, of not taking that step. He conceived that 
 the measure on which the Government had, so far as Upper 
 Canada was concerned, been defeated by a very large majority, 
 was one with which he, as Attorney-General of the Province, 
 was more particularly identified, and for which he was more 
 especially responsible, and he did not think that I should be 
 justified in tendering my resignation at that time. It is perfectly 
 well known that the honorable and learned gentleman who is the 
 present Chief Justice of Lower Canada (Mr. Lafontaine), and who 
 had been the leader of the administration for his section of the 
 Province, and in reference to whom it is unnecessary for me 
 to say now, for I have often had an opportunity of doing so 
 before, that I have always looked up to him with the highest 
 respect and admiration, had then announced his intention of 
 withdrawing at the close of that Parliament from public life alto- 
 gether. Under these circumstances, we felt that the best course 
 we could pursue was to endeavor to carry on the public busi- 
 ness of the country during the few days that had to elapse before 
 the close of the session, and to resign at the earliest moment that 
 His Excellency could have an opportunity of forming a new admi- 
 nistration. When my honorable and learned friend, Mr. Lafon- 
 
ley are re- 
 not think 
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 taine, te^jdered his resignation, His Excellency the Governor Ge- 
 neral did me the honor to send for me in conjunction with my hono- 
 rable friend the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. Morin), to 
 consult with us in regard to the formation of a new administra- 
 tion. Upon one point my honorable friend and I have always been 
 agreed, and that is, that it is most important to the interests of this 
 country that the administration should, if possible, command the 
 confidence of both sections of the Province (hear, hear.) I do not 
 mean to say that it is always possible, but I think every honor- 
 able member will admit that it is, at all events, exceedingly 
 desirable. (Hear, hear.) I felt at that time that I could, in 
 conjunction with my honorable and learned friend, form an 
 administration which would command the general confidence 
 of the country. 
 
 It is my particular desire on the present occasion, in making 
 this short statement of facts, to avoid any thing at all like con- 
 troversy. I will not therefore refer to certain charges made in 
 regard to combinations, more particularly by the honorable 
 member for Lambton (Mr. Brown,) but I shall take an oppor- 
 tunity on some other occasion of vindicating the course I fol- 
 lowed at that period. It is sufficient for me now to say that I 
 felt at that time that it was exceedingly desirable, with a 
 view to preserve the integrity of the Reform party in Upper 
 Canada with which I had always been identified, to seek 
 for the support of those who enjoyed the confidence of that 
 section of the party which had for some time been in strong 
 opposition to the administration of which I had been a mem- 
 ber, if it could be done without any compromise of prin- 
 ciple on my part. I avail myself of this opportunity of 
 referring publicly to the most important circumstance in 
 connection with the formation of that administration and which 
 perhaps led to the difficulties which have existed and which 
 are existing even at this moment. I desire now to state what 
 were my vi-nvs at the time that administration \vas for- 
 med. While I was most anxious as a member of the Re- 
 
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 form party to use my utmost exertions to bring to the ^pport of 
 the Government the assistance of gentlemen commanding the 
 confidence of that section of the party which had opposed 
 me, I felt that I should be dishonored as a public man if I 
 did so by the sacrifice of those men who had faithfully 
 adhered to the administration of which I had been a member, 
 and who had at all times consistently supported Mr. Baldwin 
 and myself when in oilice. Prominent among tlie gentlemen 
 who stood in that position was my honorable and learned 
 friend, Mr. Justice Richards, then member of Parliament for the 
 County of Leeds. Mr. Richards had always afiven a cordial 
 and consistent support to our Government. I felt that if, in 
 conjunction with my honorable friend Mr. JNIorris, the Speaker 
 of the Legislative Council, and the honorable member for 
 Glengaiy (Mr. McDonald), who was then Solicitor General, 
 I had invited Gentlemen belonging to what might be called the 
 Opposition into our Government, and had entirely excluded 
 Gentlemen who had always adhered to us, on the plea of 
 maintaining the integrity of the party, my character as a public 
 men would have been compromised. Well, Sir, I opened 
 negociations with a view to the formation of an adminis- 
 tration. Prior to that I believe a great deal of conversation 
 had taken place with regard to the manner in which 
 that administration was to be formed. The honorable and 
 learned member for Glengary will allow me to say, without 
 meaning any reproach, that I believe he is rather fond 
 of making combinations before being properly authorized 
 to do so (hear, hear). At all events, it had been indus- 
 triously given out, although perhaps not by him, that my 
 honorable friend, Mr. Cameron, the present Post Master General, 
 was to be a member of the administration as well as my hono- 
 rable and venerable friend the member for Norfolk, Dr. Rolph, 
 and such was the public expectation. I invited the honorable 
 member for Norfolk to join the administration and assist in car- 
 rying it on, informing him at the time of doing so, that it waa 
 
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 my intention to offer the Attorney Generalship for Upper 
 Canada to Mr. Richards. The iu)n()ral)lo member, after some cor- 
 respondence, did the only tiling lie could lionorably liave done un- 
 der the circumstances : he said Ik* couhl not accept olfice without 
 the assistance intlie administration oi'Mr. Cameron. The hono- 
 rable Member forGlengavy at that juncture iiad refused to accept 
 the Office of Commissioner of Crown Land-, which was offered 
 liim, and I was thus enabled to do \\ hat 1 could not otherwise 
 have done — place a department at tlie disposal of Mr Came- 
 ron. The administration was tlien formed which has with 
 slight modification continued to tlie present time. We have 
 carried througli a number of measures. I will not refer to 
 them at all in detail, because, as I said in reference to the 
 measures of the preceding administration, tiiey are vipon the 
 Statute Book of the country, and I aui quite willing that the 
 country shall judge whether they have been measures of 
 progress and generally acceptable lo the people. The adminstra- 
 tion was opposed, I believe at the very outset, in the most stre- 
 nuous manner by the Honorable member for Lambton (Mr. 
 Brown) who had been a distinguished member of the liberal party, 
 and in adverting to the Honorable Gentleman, I must do him the 
 justice to say that there is one thing I like about him, and it is 
 that he has always been straight forward in his opposition, (Hear, 
 hear). There is no misunderstanding ^im at all events. He took 
 his course — he was determined to destroy the Government, (Mr. 
 Brown, hear, hear). I wish not lo disparage my opponents. I 
 wish to believe that the course they take is the one which they 
 consider best calculated to promote the interests of the country. 
 I am willing to give the honorable member for Lambton the 
 .«<ame credit which I trust he would accord tome. I am willing 
 to believe that he thought he would promote the best interests 
 of the country by obstructing the progress of the Administration. 
 He at all events took that course at the beginning and has 
 persevered in it ever since. Well, Sir, by degrees an opposition 
 sprang up in the ranks of the Liberal Party, and the result was 
 
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 that at the last Session of Parliament, the dissaftection was so 
 great that the Administration was left in a minority. 
 
 Now what I more particularly desire to call the attention of 
 the House to is this — that throughout all these proceedings my 
 honorable and learned friend beside me (Mr. Morin) has re- 
 ceived a cordial support from a parliamentary majority from 
 Lower Canada (hear, hear,) not composed of men of any par- 
 ticular origin ; for I am sure my honorable friend knows as 
 well as I do, that some of our firmest and most unwavering 
 supporters from Lower Canada have been of English origin, 
 and we feel towards them the same affection and gratitude that 
 wfe do for all our other supporters. (Hear, hear.) My honorable 
 friend has throughout received a cordial support from his 
 friends, and I may be permitted to say, now when we have 
 gone out of office, and are little likely again to return to power, 
 that no man in this House better deserves such support than 
 ray honorable friend (hear, hear). Of him and his colleagues 
 from Lower Canada I can hardly trust myself to speak lest 
 my feelings should overpower me in attempting to express my 
 esteem for them. They have througliout received that cordial 
 and unwavedng support without which, I maintain, it is utterly 
 impossible for any Government to carry on the business of this 
 or any other country. When Parliament met some months 
 ago, it was evident that there was a very strong opposition 
 to the administration from Upper Canada. That oppo- 
 sition proceeded from various causes and from different 
 sections. A majority of the House having concurred in a vote 
 which we considered as ecpiivalent to a vote of want of con- 
 fidence, we believed it to be our duty, in the interest of the 
 party with which we were connected, and to secure the carrying 
 out of the great measures before the country, to advise His 
 Excellency the Governor General to dissolve the existing Par- 
 liament with a view to an appeal to the people. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I shall never regret that course. It was 
 taken with a great deal of deliberation. The policy which 
 
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 which 
 
 to some extent caused the necessity of that dissolution — the 
 policy of postponing the settlement of the great questions 
 then pending with regard to the Clergy Reserves and the Sei- 
 gniorial Tenure until a new parliament should be elected, is 
 one which I am perfectly certain the public opinion of this coun- 
 try will sustain when all the present contentions are over, and 
 I believe that nothing will have a greater tendency to secure a 
 satisfactory adjustment of those questions than the course of the 
 administration at that time. The dissolution of Parliament took 
 place. The result was precisely what v.'c had anticipated. A 
 very large majority of the members elected were in favor of 
 those measures and cspeciallv of the one in relation to the 
 Clergy Reserves which was brought most prominently before 
 the country. His Excellency has been advised to state in the 
 speech from the throne that llie opinion of the country has been 
 expressed upon that question in no equivocal terms. I am sure 
 honorable members on all sides of the house will admit that there 
 can be no doubt about that. Well, Sir, we met Parliament ; up 
 to that time we had every reason to believe that the government 
 would be sustained. The first question which arose, as a 
 matter of course, was the election of a Speaker. I may be 
 permitted to say, now that it is all over, that I had a very 
 strong opinion upon that subject, and I shall state that opinion 
 witliout any reservation. That opinion was that if we were 
 beaten on the Speakership, the Government could not last a 
 week. I say this because certain Members of this House pro- 
 fessing to be friends of tlie Administration but who pride them- 
 selves on not being " party men," thought the question of 
 the Speakership one of no importance whatever to the country, 
 and determined to vote for whoever they pleased. Well, the 
 election for Speaker took place, and the Government was 
 beaten by a majority of three. From tlic time that division 
 took place we have had indications every day — aye every 
 hour, that gentlemen whom we had reason to expect were 
 friends of the Administration did not intend to support ii. 
 
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 (flear, hear.) In reference to the Speakership, I must mention 
 that the Government Candidate for that office was supported 
 by a very fair majority from Lower Canada. (Hear, hear.) 
 My honorable friend from Verchercs (Mr. Cartier), the defeated 
 cand "date for Speiker, has, at all events, the satisfaction of 
 knowing that the Representatives of Lovv^er Canada, where he 
 is best known, gave him a good majority of votes (Ministerial 
 Cheers). But the Administration was defeated on the Speaker- 
 ship by a majority of 12 from Upper Canada. Honorable 
 members Vvho understand the position of public men will be- 
 lieve that this was a cause of very great embarrassment to me in 
 the position that I occupied. In endf^avoring to sustain my 
 honorable colleague (]Mr. Morin), I expected to be able to bring 
 to his support tiie confidence of a majority of the Representa- 
 tives of that portion of the Province to v/hich I more particularly 
 belong, so as to enable us conjointly to carry on the Govern- 
 ment. The vote on the Speakership plainly indicated that I 
 should not be able to do that. Immediately after that vote I fully 
 made up my mind that it was utterly impossible for me to con- 
 tinue to conduct the government of the country with any sort of 
 satisfaction, even if we should happen to have a majority on 
 the Address in ansvv'er to the Speech from the Throne. I was 
 perfectly certain that the majority, if any, could not be more 
 than two or three, and that there w^ould be a majority against 
 us from Upper Canada. I felt that I should not be justified in 
 remaining in an Administration with my Colleagues from 
 Lower Canada when I coidd not command the confidence of 
 the section of the Province to which I belong. I determined 
 however to let the debate on the address come on in the House 
 and be carried to a vote and then take my own course after- 
 wards. But yesterday evening a question of privilege affecting 
 the seat of an Hon. Member of this House came up unexpect- 
 edly by me. Some gentlemen may not regard it as a question 
 of very material importance, but I and my honorable Colleagues 
 take a different view of the subject. For myself I can only say that 
 
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 I did not know until I came into the House yesterday evening 
 that such a question was likely to arise, I found that the 
 honorable Attorney General for Lower Canada wis;hed to 
 have twenty-four hours to consider the course that should be 
 taken in regard to it. I certainly do not think the demand 
 was an unreasonable one (Hear, hear). I think it desirable 
 that before action is taken upon such questions some time 
 should be allowed for consideration. However the Govern- 
 ment was unable to get a postponement of the question and 
 we were exposed to taunts of which I do not complain, for 
 they were well deserved and well applied. We were told by 
 the honorable and learned member for Toronto (Mr. Cameron), 
 that we were placed in a position where im])ortant proceed- 
 ings were going on and we were not able to direct them. 
 This was true and we were certainly placed in a very embar- 
 rassing position. Feeling this strongly, I considered it my 
 duty not to lose any further time in pursuing the course 
 which I had determined on. Accordingly I communicated 
 in the course of the debate last night, with my honorable 
 friend (Mr. Morin) and told him that it was my determination 
 to tender my resignation. My Honorable Colleague, feeling, 
 I am sure, that the course I proposed to take was a proper 
 one, under the circumstances, joined with me in it. This 
 morning we tendered our resignations to His Excellency and 
 those Resignations as I have already informed the House have 
 been accepted. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, there is one other point which I must crave the 
 indulgence of the House to allude to. In the course of dis- 
 cussions here and elsewhere certain charges personal to myself 
 have been made. I do trust Honorable Gentlemen opposite 
 will do me the justice to believe that I have no desire to avoid 
 a fall investigation into those charges. (Hear hear) I stated 
 during the late session that it was my anxious desire that such 
 an investigation should take place, (Mr. Mackenzie hear, 
 hear.) I am anxious now that it shall take place. I am anxioui^ 
 
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 to submit to the judgment of the House any charges that can 
 possibly be brought against me (Mr. Mackenzie Hear, hear). 
 With regard to the attacks which have been made upon me and 
 which I do not desire now to characterize, all that I have to say is, 
 that I can afford to forgive the authors of them. (Loud cries of 
 hear, hear.) When I hear the honorable gentleman opposite 
 (Mr. Mackenzie) cry "hear, hear" I cannot help being reminded 
 of one fact at all events that will be a consolation to me 
 whatever may happen hereafter. That honorable gentleman 
 who cries " hear, hear " threatened over and over again during 
 the last session, as honorable gentlemen must well recollect, 
 that he would turn me out of the County of Oxford. (Loud 
 cries of hear, hear.) He told the House again and again that it 
 was through his influence that I sat as the member for the 
 County of Oxford. (Renewed cries of hear, hear.) 
 
 Mr. MACKENZIE, no, no. 
 
 The Inspector General I say yes, yes. The honorable 
 member came up to the County of Oxford with which I had 
 been connected for many years, and the confidence of the people 
 of which I had received many proofs of possessing. He came to 
 my meetings. He advanced all his charges. He spoke for 
 hours on various occasions. He circulated all kinds of hand- 
 bills. Message extras, Globe extras, Examiner extras, North 
 American extras and how many votes did his candidate get ? 
 (Loud cries of hear, hear.) Why just 23 ! (Renewed cries of 
 " hear, hear" from both sides of the House), and I was elected 
 by a majority of above 350, a larger majority than I had ever 
 received before. (Loud cheers) And not only that, but I had the 
 gratification of being also returned for the County of Renfrew, a 
 County into which I had never been, where I had never solicited 
 a vote, and into wliich I did not enter during the election, (re- 
 newed cheers.) I shall conclude — only occupying the time of 
 the House to read an extract from a speech of the late lamented 
 Sir Robert Peel, which I feel is not inapplicable to my 
 situation. 
 
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 " They (the ministry) fell that being in possession of the entire 
 " confidence of the King, and having received from His Majesty 
 " the most cordial and unremitting support — looking to thepre- 
 " sent position of affairs and the present state of political par 
 *' ties — looking to the strength not only tlyj numerical but the 
 " moral strength of that great party, by which they had had the 
 " honor of being supported, they felt it was their duty, under 
 " existing circumstances, to continue tlie attempt of adminis- 
 *' te ring public affairs, as responsible advisers of the Crown to 
 " the latest moment that was consistent with the interests of the 
 " public service, and with the honor and character of public men. 
 *' (Cheers.) When he did not liesitate to avow the reluctance 
 *' with which they had tendered their resignations, he believed 
 " he should have credit (much cheering, both sides the House) 
 " that that reluctance arose from public considerations alone 
 '' (renewed cheering), and was wholly unconnected with every- 
 " thing of a personal nature. (Hear, hear, and much cheering, 
 " particularly from the opposition.) He had a strong impression, 
 *' that when a public man at a crisis of great importance under- 
 " took the public task of administering the affairs of the country 
 *' he incurred an obligation to persevere in the administration 
 " of those afiiiirs, as long as it was possible to do so consistently 
 " with his honor. (Hear, hear.) No indifference to public 
 " life, no disgust with the labors which it imposed, no per- 
 " sonal mortifications, no deference to private feeling could 
 " sanction a public man in withdrawing on light grounds from 
 *' the post in which the confidence of his Sovereign had placed 
 *' him (Much cheering.) But at the same time there was 
 " an evil in exhibiting to the country, a want on the part of 
 " the government, of that support in the House of Commons 
 " which could enable it satisfactorily to conduct the public 
 " affairs and which could enable it to exercise a control 
 " over the proceedings of the House, a legitimate and 
 *■'' necessary control conferred upon it by the possession 
 *' of confidence (Hear, hear.) There was an evil in 
 
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 ** such an exhibition of weakness to which limits must be 
 ** placed, and he must say in reviewing all that had oc- 
 ** curred since the commencement of the session — looking to 
 ** the little progress the government had been able to make in 
 *' the business of the country — looking at what had occurred 
 *' on each of the last four nights, to the fact that ministers had 
 ** on each of the four nights to be left in a minority, consider- 
 " ing that that minority was smaller in relation to the majority 
 " than the minorities they had been in at the commencement of 
 " the session — adverting also to the fact that they had received 
 '* the support of those who, not having general and unlimited 
 " confidence in the government, yet had given to the govern- 
 ^' ment a cordial and honorable support (cheers) on every oc- 
 " casion in which it was consistent with their public prin- 
 " ciples to give it — adverting to all these considerations he 
 '* must say that, in his opinion, the time was come when it was 
 " incumbent on ministers of the Crown to withdraw from the 
 " responsibilities which office under such circumstances im- 
 '' posed on them." 
 
 I desire to add nothing, continued Mr. Hincks, to these re- 
 marks of Sir Robert Peel. 
 
 Nor shall I trespass much longer on the time of the house. 
 Having tendered my resignation I am now like any other 
 member upon this floor, and know nothing at all of what is 
 going forward. But I desire to say that at this crisis in the 
 aflairs of the country — and I look upon it as an important 
 crisis — I do trust public men will be influenced, not by selfish 
 considerations, but by a patriotic desire to carry out those 
 great measures which the interests of the country demand 
 (hear hear). For my own part, for the present at all events, 
 I am desirous of taking my seat by my honorable friend 
 the member for the County of Lincoln (Mr. Merritt), who has 
 been described rather wittily by a newspaper in the City 
 of Toronto as a " governmental impossibility" (Laughter.) 
 In thus retiring from Official life, it would of course be absurd 
 
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 15 
 
 for me to say that I have no enemies ; for I am under the mi- 
 pression that I have a great many. But it is most gratifying to 
 rae to know that at all events, I have a great many friends 
 (hear, hear,) and they are not altogether confined to my own 
 county, where the honorable member for Lambton stated that 
 I owed my eh^ction altogether to my success in making friends. 
 I have the satisfaction of feeling that in this House a very large 
 number of the members have honored me witli their personal 
 friendship (Hear, hear.) I am referring at this moment more 
 particularly to those with whom I have acted in public life. I 
 feel more especially grateful for the support they have given me, 
 but I do trust that there are a great many also in the ranks of 
 the opposition with v\!iom I am on terms of friendship and 
 with whom I sliall at all events be able to continue on those 
 terms when I no longer occupy a seat upon these benches. 
 (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I now move that the orders of the 
 day be postponed until Monday next. 
 
 The motion was agreed to, and then on motion by Mr. 
 HiNCKS, the House adjourned until Monday. 
 
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 {Hon. F. Hincks to the Electors of South Oxford.) 
 
 Quebec, 13th Sept., 1854. 
 
 TO THE LIBERAL ELECTORS OF THE SOUTH RIDING OF THE 
 
 COUNTY OF OXFORD. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 At this important crisis in the affairs of the 
 Province, I feel it due to you who have so long honoured me 
 with your confidence, as well as to myself, to place you in full 
 possession of all the facts connected with my late resignation of 
 office, and with the reconstruction of the cabinet under Sir 
 
16 
 
 Allan MacNab in conjunction with my late colleague Mr. 
 Morin. In order to do this satisfactorily, 1 must call your atten- 
 tion to the events of the last few years. On the formation of 
 the liberal administration, in 1848, upder Messrs. Lafontaine 
 and Baldwin, I accepted the office of Inspector General, and 
 gave my humble assistance to those gentlemen in carrying on 
 the public aflairs. In 1850, the opposition to the Government 
 from the extreme section of the liberal party in Upper Canada, 
 began to assume a formidable shape. During the session of 
 1851, a motion introduced by Mr. Mackenzie, though defeated 
 by a majority of votes in the House, was nevertheless sustained 
 by so large a number of the members for Upper Canada, that 
 my much esteemed leader and friend, the Hon. Mr. Baldwin, 
 f(.'lt it his duty to resign oflice. A few weeks subsequently the 
 administration was broken up by the retirement of Mr. Lafon- 
 taine from public life. On this event taking place His 
 Excellency the Governor General did me the honour to take 
 my advice on the subject of the reconstruction of the adminis- 
 tration. Being most anxious at that time, as I have ever been, 
 to preserve the unity of the liberal party, I deemed it to be my 
 duty to endeavour to conciliate the support of those who seemed 
 to have no other ground of opposition to government than their 
 own unworthy suspicions. These parlies afleeted, notwith- 
 standing the strongest assurances to the contrary, to doubt my 
 sincerity on the Clergy Reserves question. To remove these 
 doubts it seemed to me to be absolutely necessary that the new 
 Government should include the names of gentlemen possessing 
 the confidence of the dissatisfied section of the party. After 
 some negociation, and after surmounting considerable difficul- 
 ties, the administration was formed on such a basis as enabled 
 me to assure my Hon. friend Mr Morin that it would be 
 sustained by public opinion in Upper Canada. To my deep 
 regret, however, the new administration, like the one preceding 
 it, was assailed by a section of the liberal party. On all suitable 
 occasions I have implored the reformers of Upper Canada to 
 
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 maintain the unity of their party, and there was no personal 
 ^ acrifice that I would not have cheerfully made in order to ac- 
 complish that object. Embarrassed on all sides, I, nevertheless, 
 steadily persevered in pressing forward the measures desired 
 by the country. On the meeting of Parliament in June last, an 
 amendment to the addres :j in answer to the speech from the 
 throne having been carried by Upper Canada Reform votes, I 
 was placed in a most embarrassing situation. I found myself 
 unable to obtain for my friend Mr. Morin ihat support froia 
 Upper Canada, without \vhich it was impossible that public 
 affairs could be satisfactorily conducted. There was no choice 
 for the Government but to resign or recommend a dissolution of 
 Pariiament. After great hesitation I concurred in recommend- 
 ing the latter course, and a general election followed. In 
 common with the whole Canadian public, I noticed with 
 astonishment the course pursued by Mr. Brown the leading 
 opponent of the Government on the liberal side. That gentleman 
 distinctly avowed his conviction that the Conservative party 
 havd abandoned opposition to the Secularization of the 
 Clergy Reserves. He, in almost every instance, supported 
 candidates who had previously been identified with the 
 Conservative party in opposition to Reformers, and especially 
 in the City of Hamilton he supported Sir Allan MacNab 
 against Mr. Buchanan. He assured the country that the Con- 
 servatives would settle the Clergy Reserves question by 
 devoting the fund to secular purposes, an assertion little 
 credited at the time, but which is about to be realized. 
 On the meeting of the present Parliament the first question to 
 be determined was the choice of Speaker. 1 need hardly in- 
 form so intelligent a body as yourselves, that this question, 
 must necessarily be a party one. The Liberals having a large 
 majority in the House, had the power of selecting their can- 
 didate, but owing to want of unity there was great fear of 
 defeat. My own inclination would have led me to refuse all 
 
 cooperation with the followers of Mr. Brown, towards whom 
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 I was in a position of political antagonism, but I yielded to the 
 wishes of my frionds from Upper Canada that a meeting of the 
 whole Liberal party should be called and the choice determined 
 by ballot. Such a meeting was called, but it was almost im- 
 mediately announced by Mr. Fergusson that he would not 
 yield to the majority. On a ballot being taken the choice fell 
 on Mr. Cartier, Member for Verch^res, who had a large 
 majority of votes. The Chairman, Mr. Merritt, was pressed 
 to propose Mr. Cnrtier, but he declined, and, as it afterwards 
 appeared, because he had determined to support the candidate 
 broiight forward by the Opposition. You are all aware that 
 the Government Candidate was beaten by a majority of three. 
 On the following day, Wednesday, 6th September, rumours 
 were in active circulation that the Ministry would be beaten ; 
 and so confident were its opponents that lists of a new Ministry 
 to be formed by Mr. J. S. McDonald, and including the names 
 of Mr. Hartman and Mr. Freeman were in the mouths of the 
 public. On Wednesday, the 6th, the Speech of the Governor 
 General on the opening of Parliament was delivered, indica- 
 ting as plainly as such documents ever do, that a measure for 
 Secularizing the Clergy Reserves would be submitted. Never- 
 theless the dissatisfied party expressed loud discontent, and 
 great efforts were made to withdraw support from the Adminis- 
 tration. On Thursday, the 7th, I received a letter from an 
 influential Member, whose support I had relied on, intimating 
 his intention of opposing the Address. This defection seemed 
 to render success improbable, but I soon received news which 
 made my continuance in office impossible. On the day above 
 referred to, (Thursday) Mr. Rolph, felt it his duty to intimate 
 to two Members of the Cabinet his intention of resigning, 
 on the ground as 1 understood of Mr. Sicotte's election 
 to the Speaker's chair. One of the gentlemen referred to (Mr. 
 Morris) at the time that he informed me that he had had sn 
 important conversation with Mr. Rolph, declined, on the ground 
 «f its being confidential, to communicate to me what it was. 
 
 
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 19 
 
 The other (Mr. Chanveau) infunncd n c lliat Mr. Rolpli hiid 
 come to him and asked iiim to Mliom li • was to tender his 
 resignation. You may naturally suppose iliat at such a crisis, 
 the Iea«t symptom ol" weakness in llie administration itself 
 would be fatal to its existence. Mr. Ilolpli's se})arate resigna- 
 tion at such a crisis would have materially strcnghtened the 
 Opposition, and I was vmder serious apprehension that personal 
 difficulties might be added to those with which the administra- 
 tion was surrounded. 1 confess, therefore that I felt relieved a 
 finding in the course of the evening, that my resignation 
 could be fully justified on grounds, which would enable me 
 to avoid anything like a difference with one of my collea- 
 gues. A question of privilege having been brought under the 
 consideration of the House by a leading member of the Oppo- 
 sition, the Attorney General for Lower Canada asked a delay of 
 24 hours to consider the case — this demand was refused, and the 
 division lists will shew that the Upper Canada liberal members, 
 who were said to have deserted the Ministerial ranks, voted witli 
 the Opposition. Further, it will appear by the Journals, that in 
 the coarse of the evenmg Mr. Rolph himself voted with the Oppo- 
 sition. Tlie members (;f the Government whom I communicated 
 with, entirely concurred with me as to the necessity of resigna- 
 tion. After what had passed during the day, it was obviously 
 unnecessary for rne to communicate with Mr. Roli)h, and I was 
 most anxious to be spared the necessity of alluding to his intend- 
 ed resignation — I scrupulously avoided all reference to it in my 
 explanatory remarks in the House and should have abstained 
 from public notice of it, had not the friends of Mr. Rolph made it 
 an accusation against me, that I resigned without consultation 
 with him. It is satisfactory to me to know that, with very few 
 exceptions, the friends of the late administration, both in Upper 
 and Lower Canada, constituting by far the largest party in the 
 House, although unable to cope with the united strength of the 
 adherents of Sir Allan MacNab and of Messrs. Dorion, Brown 
 and McDonald, liave approved of my resignation as well as of 
 2* 
 
20 
 
 all my subsequent proceedings. Strange to say the parties 
 who declaim most loudly against the present combination, are 
 those who have been for months trying to persuade the Re- 
 formers of Upper Canada, that the Conservatives were the very 
 men who could be most safely relied on to carry the secu- 
 larization of the Reserves. It must now be apparent that there 
 are men who do not wish the Clergy Reserves question settled, 
 or at all events who insist on its being settled by themselves, and 
 by no others. For my own part, I will join in no mere factious 
 movement. Driven from official life, I shall nevertheless continue 
 to support as an independent member of Parliament the principles 
 and policy which I have long advocated, and I shall experience 
 I assure you, no personal mortification at the loss of office if my 
 late colleagues and their new allies should be able to secure a 
 larger share of Parliamentary support than the late administra- 
 tion was able to do. My proceedings since the resignation 
 iiave been made the subject of severe criticism, and what is 
 worse of infamous slander. The factious combination which 
 drove me from power has been confounded at Sir Allan Mac- 
 Nab's coup d'etat^ and having been incessantly engaged for 
 many months in all kinds of intrigues to obtain power for them- 
 selves, they imagine that I am capable of the same dishonourable 
 conduct. My resignation was just what my enemies desired, 
 and they certainly have no right to complain of it. I have al- 
 ready given a public and emphatic contradiction to the allega- 
 tion that I recommended Sir Allan MacNab to be sent for, 
 that I had any understanding whatever with that honorable 
 gentleman regarding a coalition, or that I had the least idea 
 that he would consent to the secularization of the Clergy Re- 
 serves. Every step that I took was open, candid, and straight- 
 forward, although I was surrounded by intrigue and treachery in 
 the ranks of the party from Upper Canada with which I was 
 obliged to act. I need however say no more on this head, but 
 refer you to the subjoined correspondence with John Wilson, 
 Esq., which will explain all my proceedings subsequent to my 
 
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 resignation. You will find by it that a coalition was agreed 
 on between Sir Allan MacNab and Mr. Morin, on an under- 
 standing that the Upper Canadian ex-Ministerial party were to 
 have the option of taking part in it, and on the basis of carry- 
 ing out the great measures now pending before the country. 
 The result was then communicated to me. I consulted my 
 friends, and felt it my duty to accede to it, but I could not, even 
 if factiously inclined, have controlled it. The Country is now 
 called on for its verdict, and I anticipate it without fear. 
 
 I am, &C.3 
 
 F. HINCKS. 
 
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 {Hon. F, Hincks to John Wilson^ Esqtnre^ M. P, P.) 
 
 Quebec, 14th Sept., 1854. 
 
 al- 
 ga- 
 
 My Dear Sir, 
 
 I find myself placed in a very painful position 
 owing to rumours industriously circulated and affecting my 
 personal honour with which your name is mixed up. It is 
 alleged that after having on Friday last called a meeting of the 
 .supporters of the Ex-Ministers, and proposed you as leader of 
 the party with which I had acted, I subsequently consented to 
 support a coalition with Sir Allan MacNab's party under the 
 arrangements for which you were personally sacrificed, and 
 that the whole negotiation was carried on, and concluded 
 without your knowledge. Such in substance are the allega- 
 
22 
 
 lions of tlie present opjwsition. The facts arc as follows : I did 
 propose you as leader of the Ex-Ministorial party, at a meeting 
 of that party numerously attended. It is worthy of remark that 
 Mr. Rolph did not attend that meeting though notified, and that 
 Mr. Foley who acts in concert witli him declared that he could 
 not act under you as leader. Mr. Murritt also opposed your 
 nomination. Both these gentlemen have since gone over to the 
 McDonald-Brown party. My object in proposing you as i ;ader 
 was that in my opinion you were the only man likely to be able 
 to unite the liberal conservatives who were pledged to seculari- 
 zation, with the Reformers, and thus effect an arrangement 
 under which the affairs of the country could be carried on. I 
 need not assure you, that at the time, I had no idea what- 
 ever that Sir Allan MacNab, who had been sent for by 
 the Governor General as we all knew, would be willing to 
 form a Government on the basis of carrying the secularization 
 of the Clergy Reserves. When I found that Mr. Morin had 
 entered into negotiations with Sir Allan Mac^ab for the 
 formation of a Government on the basis of carrying out the 
 measures of the late Government and that both parties were 
 most anxious that the ex-Ministerial party in Upper Canada 
 should be parties to the coalition, I was as much surprised as 
 you, or any other individual in the country could be. I shall, 
 however, at all times maintain that the course taken by Sir 
 Allan MacNab was excusable under the circumstances. A 
 considerable number, probably a majority of the party with 
 which he acted, had come into Parliament pledged to Secula- 
 rization, and, moreover, the public opinion ol the country had 
 just been unequivocally expressed on that as well as the other 
 questions at issue. It was no doubt a great sacrifice of feeling for 
 Sir Allan MacNab to make, but in the slate of parties in the 
 House, I do maintain most unhesitatingly that no Government 
 could be formed except by means of coalition of some kind, and in 
 point of fact, there is no very material difference between the 
 present coalition, and any which^couldjiave been formed under 
 
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 your leadership, h i. „^, • 
 
 Donald and Mr. Brown doo! , ^ *''' ''• '^^"^fi'"'" Mo- 
 
 - a House or,30, and It I 7:;;"^ ""^^ '"- ^^"»«^0 
 
 'nfluence of Government, ^[^1^^ '° ""■" ="' '"« 
 «-o««y. I have conelusve ,„ZTL'^ '"'■" "«''" '" a 
 Allan MacNab and Mr Mon„ '/ ? ^' ^''''«^°'^ °f Sir 
 Wi.ho„. a .i„„e vo.e L^ ^ tlvw r^^T'^ °' '"^ "-- 
 Canada. „ ,,,,, however, cvd^,^!?' "^"^ '" ^PP- 
 strong and efficient Governmen '"'"^^ a really 
 
 ^-as necessary, and as "ha H iT' '^^'""''^^ -ali.ion 
 '^een Mr. Morin and h s j;!, ""' '^'" '"'^- fa- 
 Mr. McDonald, there was „o 1 ^'^ '"" *''• ^"'"n and 
 ,)«dgmen. by which such an A '"'''"'''' "'"^^ « '"X 
 
 a« would ensure confidenee\o. ~^ '»"'" "" ^""ed 
 
 ^'ability of the Governm nt J ,, ™ '"' "'""^'l '" '"e 
 remarks that you may under tnT fT"'' ^°" ^■'"' '"-- 
 portion of parties when resL„I 1 ^^ "^ '""' " '^ ""^ 
 
 -««on of the Refonnerr f CpI c T' "" "^ ">• ^ 
 object however is to se, mysefrL? h^'r u' """"P^' 
 <o yourself. When Sir AiianM. v\ ■■" ""^ P"''"<= a. 
 
 ^i'h me on Saturday last t . f ''''"'^''"' *"" '»'«'vicw 
 
 'c .he formation of fcoi^'j'""^^^ """ "'^ -''-^ as 
 "■eferred to, and to whid' tuS 7^ "' °" ""^ '^^'^'^ ""'"ady 
 
 ;^a.u..lesstwogentie,;L\llVl S''1?''" ^'^""^ 
 self and my friends were inclmlp . / 'Confidence of my- 
 
 ^arantee to our party t"!hol"./' Administration, a, a 
 ".easures now pending shoHec« T""''^ "'^' '"' ^'^^ 
 Coalition was a bonf fide Ik f" ""'' """^ "^at '"e 
 -n principles, I did nofb^vX^r ''"'''"' ''^-- 
 would command the confidence of the "'^ Government 
 
 -as given t6 Sir AUanMacNa ate olsTT '""^ °'''"'''" 
 an appointment to see me J,^n f ^^'"''ay, and he made 
 
 o^ cou.se to consult hTfSdsTf""™""^' '" "'' "^^ 
 
 mends. So far our communication 
 
24 
 
 had been strictly confidential, and I had no authority to consult 
 my friends. The next morning Sir Allan MacNab informed 
 me that he was prepared to form a Government on the basis 
 proposed. And he then authorized me to see my friends, and 
 made another appointment for the evening, when I was to 
 communicate the result. Almost immediately after leaving Sir 
 Allan MacNab, I met quite accidentally my friend Mr. James 
 Smith, M. P. P., for Victoria, with his brother the member for 
 West Northumberland, and after a few minutes conversation I 
 asked Mr. J. Smith to accompany me to your lodgings, feeling 
 that in your position I ougnt to lose no time in consuhing you. 
 I v,-as with you within half an hour after my interview with Sir 
 Allan MacNab. I entered fully and frankly into the subject in 
 the presence of Mr. Smith, and I find that we both understood 
 you in the same way. You admitted all the difficulties of our 
 position as a party, you condemned the course of those who 
 had forced the resignation on the Government, you said that 
 you could not blame Mr. Morin for forming the coalition with 
 Sir Allan MacNab on the proposed basis, but you further 
 declared that there were reasons which would prevent you 
 from becoming a party to such an arrangement and you would 
 go into opposition, but you added that if any of your friends for 
 the sake of the measures felt inclined to join in supporting the 
 coalition Government, you had no objection to their doing so. 
 Such in substance was your communication and you expressed 
 yourself in similar terms to me yesterday in the presence of 
 our mumal friend Mr. Niles. I subsequently saw other friends^ 
 and the result was that the great majority of the Upper Canada 
 members of the liberal party who had adhered to the ex- 
 Ministers, were of opmion that we would not be justified 
 in opposing a Government formed on the basis proposed. 
 It is to be observed that Mr. Foley and Mr. Merritt had se- 
 parated from our party on your being appointed leader, eo 
 that our strength was diminished though it is still about the 
 one half of the entire liberal party from Upper Canada. It is 
 
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 lis 
 
 but justice to Mr. Spence, to state that he became convinced 
 that the only reliable mode of obtaining the immediate Secu- 
 larization of the Clergy Reserves was by supporting the new 
 Government, before he or I had the least idea that office would 
 be offered to him. He has acted at all events conscientiously, 
 and on the highest public considerations, and if it should turn 
 out hereafter that he has committed an error, all I can say is 
 that it is shared by many as sincere and disinterested reformers 
 as any that can be found in the ranks of the opposition. 
 While I am sorry to find that after consideration you have 
 determined to separate yourself from me and from those with 
 whom I act, I confess that my principal anxiety is to convince 
 the Public, now grossly deceived by calumnies of the basest 
 kind, industriously circulated that I have in all these difficult 
 negotiations acted towards you in perfect good faith, and with 
 frankness and sincerity. The opposition leader has declared 
 in the House that I have lost the confidence of the Country. 
 I admit the truth of the statement so far as the votes of Upper 
 Canada are concerned, and so far as they were brought to 
 bear on the composition of the late Administration ; but, I em- 
 phatically deny that the member for Glengarry has so large an 
 amount of the confidence either of the Upper Canada section 
 of the House or of the Country as I have. It must however be 
 plain, that having so lost confidence, my duty was to resign ; 
 and yet, those who compelled me to do so, and who have des- 
 troyed the unity of our party, hold me responsible for the con- 
 sequences of tlieir own factious conduct. Having resigned, I 
 maintain that I should have been degraded as a public man, 
 had I gorse into opposition to my colleagues from Lower Ca- 
 nada with whom I had acted for years, to whom I was bound 
 by every tie of political confidence and personal friendship, and 
 from whom I was compelled to separate because I could not 
 give them the support necessary to carry out our measures — I 
 should have had to oppose them on factious grounds alone, arid 
 because having abandoned them I would not allow them to 
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 26 
 
 seek support where it alone could be had, to carry out a policy 
 of which I entirely approve — my opinion of the new Adminis- 
 tration is this : I rely with implicit confidence on the personal 
 honor of Sir Allan MacNab, Mr. McDonald, and Mr. Cayley to 
 carry out the policy to which they have pledged themselves, 
 and I think they ouc^ht to be held justified by their friends for 
 having made a great sacrifice of feeling in order to ensure for 
 the country what is much wanted at such a crisis as this, a 
 stable and efficient Government. This is no time to make 
 difficulties. The great measures must be carried — the whis- 
 per of faction must be silenced. As to my other colleagues, 
 I feel that I at all events can promise my support to Govern- 
 ment, while my valued friends from Lower Canada, toge- 
 ther with Messrs. Ross and Spence aie members of it. The 
 latter gentlemen more especially who have had to sacrifice 
 their feelings also in joining a Coalition Government, deserve 
 a generous and cordial support. I have deemed it a duty to 
 myself to trouble you with these remarks, and I am sure you 
 will do me the justice to acknowledge the straightforwardness 
 of my conduct to you as well as the difficulties of my posi- 
 tion, even if you should bo unable to agree with me as to my 
 course of action. 
 
 Believe me, yours truly, 
 
 F. HINCKS. 
 
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 {Mr. Wilson, M. P. P. to the Hon. F. Hincks.) 
 
 Quebec, 14th September, 1854. 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 I have just received your's of to day, telling me 
 that numerous "rumours afiecting your personal honor, with 
 which my name is mixed up, have been industriously circulated, 
 
 
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27 
 
 in which you ^nv u ; n 
 
 y- -bse,„e„Uy con ntd r'' "'' "'''^'' ^^ - 4 -hat 
 Allan MacNab'spa«y under ,r '''"'" ''' ^"^JWon with Sir 
 
 e^r/"^ -A' r'^a': 2z:r '°' ^"'^^ ' - 
 
 ca„^d on w..hou, my knowledge " '"^ "^^"'''^'-n was 
 
 -Is regards that part of fi, 
 ;he.aerifiei„gofnfy.eir '^'^^--'-l. ^'"'''«- .o y„„ 
 ;» I have not fe,t i," T^f^X ^/J^^^'-'^- uneas ine'.: 
 
 ^••. What J fej, ,,„j ^^. ,^ ''^'^.''^PPy « being relieved from 
 
 --and With every de irj , ! I'/"" r''"""' -y ^a„,. Tf 
 
 *l«-^t>y I had been driven into ir'r '"'"^ "' '"'' '«'<= 
 And as regards the n.i, "PPos«ion. 
 
 ^-« all .hatl,: ':^^;V-" "^"-^ --"-, 1 beg ,o sav that 
 
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 JOHN WILSOIV,