Legislature of Ontario Hansard, 31 Dec 1867, p. 34

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The Speaker resumed the chair at raven ' o'alocla tl Ma. EDWARD BLAKE, Q.C., rote and . ) addressed the home, epeahing for an hour ao and aquarter. m expreued hie grauean _ -ttt tion at the time of the allocation, and I thought there wee every reason to augnr ' T well from their commencement an to the I! ' adaptability and permanence of this eyetem.i a ' He certainly hoped better thinge from it ' l than armed their friend: in the tremor tl benchre has! hopsd {ruin it in time.' part. i i, war, in his opinion, quite pouible h thi entegtain diil'arezt Opinion on pow * " quotient without acrimony or bitterneaa, ., , _ , Healing being evoked in the progrm of in. p. isoueeion. The diecunien on which thd A ere now engaged, and the omree ot bneiueu; _ltt.', wing the anion Would. ho thong ht, " leer away a good deal of there mpuiietstloo H which, for party pllrpotel, were no i ' abundantly scatters-i broadcast through the H oonatimenoiea during the late elections ir) Farciithuiaetiltsg that no much had been laid . during the debate, he felt bound to not brfcre A ' the home and country the true position cf _ . Mrairt (Quilts tho late tylsot,tonts--tre.d their ' r. .,' Ai L " tll. . T "tttE {le 'tutari of party l and landed in that cry were then ' who were formerly meminera ot the Conservative pn-ty. What to cell these gentlemen " present he did rot know. ' Sometimes they were advanced Liberala, " as was the hon. and gallant knight from ' Frontenac in 18bi, although before that he _ had iisured M a Gonzozvativo; but he be t came a Libernl. 'r, " HENRY S ima-No. ' Mr BLAKE had seen an advortirement in G' a Kingeton paper, for 1861. in which was _ ' the oonepicuour attrtoanoerneut.-." No Clear , Grit Kuight for Prontoneo " (Laughter) ' But the hon, gentleman, it anpeare, did not . encceed an th' Clear Grit, and once again he r was found in the Cceervative fold. (Laugh. f tor). In hie fiat addrou, the hon. member 1' for South Simone reamed diepored to give up . party altogether ' but, f1na1ly, it won very a apparent that _it wee only the Reform party t , he objected ta, When a man was called a d , Reformer, a atrocc cry of objection we: ' , rained. But there was a thna--aad avery h long time tom-ween the Conrervativee .. ' did not reile this cry. That war the p ' time when the Concern-time were v enabled to keep poucnionoi the good thioge . ot the land. Dating all that time they were al never heard to nay mat perrylem war a bad In thing. (Hear. luv). 80 late an 1862, when " hie hon friend opp'uite had been called in to ici - cone-ilnte a Reform Government-a Govern. re meat formed on retrenchment ptlndplem--. th the moat violent Itrugglee had been made by " Connervativea to defeat and deatroy the thi. me erument engaged in that good work de l Nothing wan heard then about the evila of Ilu party. The membere forLondon and Toronto, 8° then atriving in the home for power and plan», thought they could not prevail while h the Premise we. loading that home an Prime 'll Iinlater of the Reform Government. That " nort of thing laeied a long time t and when '" the Conservative could hold sf1ioo no other 'd' way, they did it by profusion the prion! lee . maintained by Belormera. (Hear). '4'lll', a I day ttam-nil the coming of that day had been accomplished by the ntrngglre of that . ame party. A day came when Upper Canada ", v to receive local "it government It wan w ll known that the Reform element in Upper tll anada wan dominant-that they were kept ed nder only by an alliance with a Lower h Canada majority. Thea it was obviona that 'll party principle and party government meant . that the Conurvativea ahcnld occupy the y, t Treaeury Banshee. But when it became irc apparent that they could no longer retain to control of the puree etriege of the Province, immediately a great dieoovery wan made, (lt and it wae fottnd--ntt that party epirit ran an too high, or that party atrife had been an th "ft-tii" that party was evil of Itself. When an "" the Ce tive 5,9 new thatthareten-

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