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REASONS

ASSIGNED BY MR. SENATOR PENNY,

Injudification of the Senate, accused of conniving at the

drawing, by Hon. Mr, Ferrier, of two distinct salaries

as holder of two incompatible offices.

The intontionnl oniiRsion of llie prefix Honorable, charac-
teristic, Jucus a non lucendo, of the gentry who organized
the Pacific Scan.dal.and Tanneries Land Swap, will be duly
Appreciated.

{Editorial of " Herald " of dth March, 1875.)
CoLONKL GuGY AND THE Sl_. E.— The gift wliich wisG men have
wished for, of seeing themselves as others see them, would probably
have made Colonel Gugy reirain from writing a pamphlet which he has
recently addressed to the members of the Senate and circidated widelv
among the pul Me. The great object of this pamphlet is to state the
complaints of the veteran soldier, lawyer, and politician, on his
enibrced absence from the field of active life. This he imputes mainly
to the circumstances that he is neithera European nor a Papist, con-
ditions which, according to his view of things, render him an impos-
sible public man in Lower Canada, notwithstanding that he is a
descendant of one of those whom he calls the conquerors of Canada,
is the hereditary seignior of those famous fiefs Grandpre, Grosbois,
.111(1 Dumontier, a fluent orator in both French and English, a lawyer,
scholar, an old member of Parliament, and the eon of a member
of the Legislative Council. Now it must be admitted at once
that Colonel Gugy is a man whose talents and energy have alike
fitted him for public life, but if he will peruse this last pro-
duction of his pen with the eye of a Juan of sense and a man
of the world, he will himself detect one main reason why he
has now, at eighty-nine years of age, to sigh in vain after a seat in the
Legislature, in order that, as he says, "he may have intellectual
. occupation which would tend to prolong his life." This whole pam-
phlet is filled with vitriolic insults, directed against men who are uni-
versally respected, and who have never in any way injured Col. Gugy.
He has again, at a time of life when most persons wisli to avoid con-

tests with their fellow-men, gone out of his way to stir up pnhlic
strife, and so far as he can do, to wound individuals, without any
hope in that way of promoting the object which he seeks. An Ish-
maelite by choice and habit, however respectable his cripacity, can
rarely expect to be associated with other men in any common object.
We regret to say this of a man who we know on one occasion saved
Montreal from very serious danger, and who we believe possesses
many elements of public usefulness ; but bitter allusion to the fact
that a city like Quebec, where, according to his statement, there are
only 4,000 Protestants, out of 59,000, is represented in both branches
of the Legislature by Catholics, just as a city in Ontario in the
reverse circumstances will find itself us lally represented wholly bv
Protestants, to the Chiniquy lectures, and to the New Brunswick
School troubles, things which require the most delicate handling, we
can regard only as wantonly mischievous. Just in the same way we
are obliged to regard his allusions to individuals as wantunly insult-
ing. Whatever Sir Allan McNabmay have been, he is now dead, and
nothing but spite can be gratified by ghastly sneers at his death-
bed behaviour. Whatever di.«iiust Colonel Gugy may reasonably or
unreasonably feel at his absence from the Senate, his ill-natured
remarks upon the present Governor General have not the poor excuse
of being dictated by revenge, since Lord Dufferin can as a constitu-
tional ruler, have had nothing to do with his exclusion ; and even if
the Hon. James Ferrier occupies the particular seat in the Senate
which the Colonel thinks ought to have fallen to his share, he should
remember how easy it was to set forth his claims without descending
to a sort of attack which is the mark of a base-minded assailant.
There are me'' in large numbers, we have no doubt, v/ho believe that
Mr. Ferrier, though not so accomplished in a literary way as Colonel
Gugy, has, nevertheless, done quite as much service to the country,
and is f:>till capabb ♦ doing so; and we might venture to say that
there's nothing more truly vulgar than to exalt oneself and to depre-
ciate another, not on account of personal merits, but because of those
adventitious gifts of birth, which we should thankfully use and
enjoy, but should never boast of. Mr. Ferrier might just as well
throw his superior wealth into the face of Col. Gugy as Col. Gugy
taunt Mr. Ferrier for the deprivation in his youth, not of an education
which has fitted him for a most useful and prominent position in the
world, but of those superior opportunities of higher education which
it was his misfortune to lack. We may add that Mr. Ferrier's seat in
the Senate for Shawinagan is a refutation of Colonel Gugy's state-
ment that he is not in the Senate because he is a Protestant. But we
have said enough on a very disagreeable subject.

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ANSWER

MR. PENNY'S LEADER IN THE HERALD,

OF TPIE 9th march, 1875.

Having accepted an annual retainer of a thousand dollar*
payable during his life by the country, Mr. Penny haa
attempted to justify the act of the Senate in conniving at
the holding of two incompatible Legislative positions by
Mr. Ferrier. Before Mr. Penny had reached Canada, this
exotic was quietly selling liquor and indifferent wine
when in 1S37 I performed a part to which, from want of
local knowledge, no European would have been equal. But
commercial pursuits fhowevei- debasing, like the slave
trade) ensuring wealth, Mr. Penny holds that I, who merely
exposed my life, am necessarily poor and inferior to Mr.
Terrier. And he considers " Mr. Ferrier's seat in the Senate
'• a refutation of my statement, that I am not in the Senate
'' because I'm a Protestant." He overlooks the condition of
the native Protestant, who, when fixed in the French coun-
try, is like a ship pressed between two icebergs. We can
expect no supjwrt from our Roman Catholic countrymen,
while our European co-religionists entertain for us no good
will. Indeed, they affect to have over us a natural inherent
superiority. Hence the selection in behalf of Mr. Ferrier
of a division to which I was known to have a claim.

The European patrons of Mr. Ferrier (one of whom was
BIr. Morris, his neighbor in Alexander Street, Montreal)
were disposed to go all lengths for him, and making light o€

my rights they conforred on him tho position to whicli I
was entitled. They knew, too, thiit tho Eomi.sh French —
although they owed mo a debt of gratitude — would nevei*
evinre any sympathy for a native Protestant, nor ou^jht I,
in this connexion, to refrain from remarking tliat I liad, b}'
my loyal zeal, ensured their opposition, if not their ani.
mosity. There were even many who evinced their joy at
my disappointment.

Being of opinion that, under existing circumstances, " the
post of lionor is a private station," I propose to be here<iftor
perfectly passive. But I could not, and shall not, I never
shall, fail to express m}' disgust, my detestation for the
degradation to which, in my person, the native Protestants
are reduced. Those who suifer must be allowed to complain
and those who have a knovt'lodge of tho events which brought
on the revolution of the thirteen states will remember the
peroration of the celebrated speech of Patrick Itenry in tho
Legislature of Virginia : " And George the Third," said he,
" and George the Third ma}^ profit by the example."

For obvious reasons 1 shall neither expatiate on this nor
on analogous subjects ; but it is a fact that we now have on
our flank a powerful independent state, and as Prussia's
sense of Papal hostility has led to an official communi-
cation to the King of Italy, so will the influence of the
Jesuits in this Province excite the United States, sooner or
later, to interpose in our affairs. Had I been a citizen of
that Republic, I could not and should not have been thrust
aside to make way for Mr. Ferrier, even though he could
have counted upon the assistance of Mr. Penny and of everj^
other immigrant !

Having made a profitable pecuniary investment of his
vote as well as of his newspaper, the ^' JlemU," Mr. Penny,
from his pride of place, denounces me as an JsJimaeUte and
a vulgarian. Something might possibly be said in defence
of Ishmael, for ho was abandoned and expelled by the father
who called him into existence, and obliged to procure the
means of subsistence while unavoidably grieved by the suf-

fcrings of his mother and hiis own. So I mi;L,'ht plojui in
oxtcnuation of the feeling of indit,niation and dJM/^iist with
the expression of which I am roprouehod, the eruol, tlio
f?hameful treatment of which I have been the victim.

But meekly admitting both charges, I shall simply enquire
whether my being an Ishmaelite and a vulgarian, amounts
to a justification of the conduct of the Senate in allowing
Mr. Forrier to occupy, at one and the same time, two incom-
patible poi^itions in two Legislative Halls, (one of them a
Dominant Legislature,) 400 miles apart. Mr. Ferricr bein«-
a pious man, though he pockets two salaries, can have no
sneaking kindness for mammon; but the siller does occasion
the grossest anomalies. History repeats itself, and wo pro-
vincials, even the most meritorious of us, are liable to bo
thrust aside to make room for commonplace Europeans, and
it seems that the thirty millions and odd, who compose the
population of the British Lsles, are or may at any time bo
our rivals. Had I a thousand lives they should be cheer-
fully jeopardized in the endeavor to vindicate provincial

a-ight. And the time will come! God bless the Yankees.

Exactly one hundred years ago they were '-oviled as I am ;
but Jehovah interposed, and European insolence was snuffed
out Ul Saratoga and Yorktown, a I'csult which increased the
national debt by hundreds of millions. Ah ! Had I been a
citizen of the United States, Governor Monk, not half my
age but double my size and weight, could not, with impunitv,
have crept up to mo from behind, and from behind have
brutally, without any provocation whatever, struck me a
blow which knocked me down.

According to Mr. Penny, I " cannot expect to bo asso-
ciated with other men in any common obinct." This is a
haj^liy thought, for the publication of which I thank him.
He has hit the nail on the head. There are many public men
with whom I could not possibly associate ; nor would a giuvf
of thieves admit as an associate any one but a thief. But
though, in the estimation of thieves, a policeman is an
odious and detestable wretch, the Police is not abolished.
So when the " common object" is the exaction of unjust

cmolumcntfl, the attainment of tho povvor to in(liiI«,'o in moan
«n(l dishonest practices, to satisfy rapacious cravinf^s, my
idiosyncracy would, it is true, disqualify me for all asso-
oiations having such ends in view; but I might, never-
theless, bo more or loss useful— useful I say in detecting
and i-oprossing scandals, and swaps and frauds and baseness
of cvciry description. Hence the ])rosont Governor General
may infer that, in applying, on his arrival, to him, as the
conservator of the monar'^hical element in our constitution
i'or "a seat in the Senate," I was moved by unwillingness
1o receive a favor from "other men" whoso '^common object"
1 then knew as well as the whole world now knows it. Nor
Avould those other men aspiring tricksters, to whom a Legis-
lation career presents all tho features of a commercial ven-
ture, fail to prefer candidates on whoso connivance they
could count.

Mr. Penny has attempted to neutralize my so-called
" bitter allusion" to the fact that " the City of Qnebec is, in
both branches of the Legislature, represented by Catholics,"
by reference to a city in Ontario, which, ho says, " will find
itself usually represented by Protestants."

There is here, however, no parity; and Mr. Penny can
scarcely be sincere. The teachings of tho religion of Rome
are peculiar, and the power of the Priesthood— that is now
of the Jesuits, is unlimited. Whatever be the evils inflicted
by the Pi-iesthood, no one member of tho order can ever be
punished, for, priests keeping in tho background, use instru-
ments, like Eavaillac, whom thoy fanaticise and ur^o into
action. Hence here, though the French Canadians are as
3'et tolerably reasonable on the score of religion, any one or
more can be fanaticised, and as Scott was murdered, the impu-
nitj^ extended to his murderers by a Constitutional Governor
may encourage other tanatics to murder more inoilensivo
Protestants.* That, I say, is a possibility here, and tho

* I am to tliis lioiir, at least witliin tlio last week, have been reproached
for catering the church of .St. Eiistaclie, and I have received seven anony-
mous letters assuring me of the determiuatioa of the writers to murder

forocity with which Riol and Lopine arc defondod proves
it; but no Roman Catholic can possibly bo oxposod to any
Mich danger in any Protestant community, and whether
ovory constituency in Ontario bo reprosonted by Protestants
which I doubt, we are here in want, in great want, of a Pro-
testant— of at least one Protestant member of the Logis-
Jature. I venture to add that I was led to understand and
)'eliovo,and until the appointment of Mr. Fabro,did boHovo
that in consideration of sorvicos by me rendered during the
rebellions of '37 and '38 to some five or six hundred Canadian
families, I was to bo that one.

Mr. Penny's allusion to ''the Chiniquy lectures, and to
iho New Brunswick School troubles," which, lie says,
"require the most " delicate handlimj," cannot possibly bo
overlooked. Nor shall I hesitate to say that it is precisely the
moral cowardice which proscribes delicate handling" that
■causes the difficulty. If Now Brunswick be not allowed, by
the wise and just course which has boon there adopted, to
bring about a reasonable degree of union among the people,
that Province will hecome one of the United States of America!
With respect to the so-called " Chiniquy lectures," an
enlightened, able and determined Judge of Police could and
should in twenty-four hours abate the nuisance. What—
when at this day every Eomish Church resounds with
imimtations upon the Protestants— shall wo suffer our
Ministers to bo gagged? When the Italians permit the
chanting of Protestant hymns almost within tho hearing
of the Pope in the Vatican, shall we allow a few roughs to
interfere Avith our devotions ?

me— Until the certificates of six Cures and of sixteen laymen had been-«<
my ezpense-pnntcd and widely circulated, I was in great danger. I have
been frequently insulted and menaced by men who c«nV rXi and wer»
tgnomnl of the afwre menliotied ceriificMle», and had I not been always sober
as we 1 as constantly on my guard, must have been killed. I have been on
my return home, in the evening pursued with loud cries at full speed by
^v l\^r="' f^"/! twice struck «. 1 can prove, escaping only by the fleetness of
I ?\T , *■ '"^'V^ "othing to the purpose for it could not and does not
affect the salaries of our stipendiary Legislators, or of our constitutional
<jrovernor.

Mr. Penny usHiimo.s thai " / srvJc an uhject," that is, a scat
in tho Senate. In this ho is much mistaken. Th(»iigli I once
sought it, I seek it no longer, and having no taste for plnn-
tler I now, as I have said, j)refer a ])rivate station. But
being interested in tho fato of this my native country, 1
wished to show with hov,' little principle it was governed,
hy what paltry arts it is deluded, how power, rank, titles
iind honors may be won and ke])t by talents combined \:ith
knavery and ertrontery, which have boon missed and forfeited
by equal talent because combined witli a sense of honor and
self-respect. Alluding partic.darly to certain well-known
vice regal favorites, I desired to show how often men are
exalted by their worst qualities and depressed by their best.
I need not quote Oxonsteirn, nor shall I atfect to conceal tho
self-love which, I confess, nas had its influence in iho indit-
ing of the foregoing lines, and I challenge a comparison of
my public life with the public lives of my n.oro favored
contemporaries. '-'Alono T did it," said, on a memorable
occasion, one of the worthies of antiquity, and at a humble
distance imitating him, I add, lot the public services of Mr.
Ferrier and Mr. Penny be both put into one scale, and mine
into the other! Nuy, for that matter let one or two
hundred of the class to which ihey belong bo placed in their
scale.

A CxUGY.
P- S. — To act fairly Mv. Penny should insoit the fore-
going lines in his organ, for I have none.