er Canada will always prevent amalgamation; you must
make them all of the same, like ourselves in Lower Canada. French
language clause in Union Bill must be expunged.

On the 26th July Dr. Ryerson replied to Mr. Higginson--

I shall make use of the enclosure _Precis_ in substance when I come to
reply to "Legion"--which will, of course, not be until he shall have got
through his series.

The "Defence" of Sir Charles Metcalfe consisted of nine papers, in which
the whole question at issue was fully discussed. In concluding the
ninth, Dr. Ryerson said:--

I have written these papers ... as a man who has no temporal
interest whatever, except in common with that of his native
country--the field of his life's labours--the seat of his best
affections--the home of his earthly hopes;--up to the present time
I have never received one farthing of its revenue. I know something
of the kinds and extent of the sacrifices which are involved in my
thus coming before the public. If others have resigned office, I
have declined it, and under circumstances very far less propitious
than those under which the late Councillors stepped out.... I have
no interest in the appointment of one set of men to office, or in
the exclusion of any other man, or set of men, from office. I know
but one chief end of civil government--the public good; and I have
one rule of judging the acts and sentiments of all public
men--their tendency to promote the public good.... I am as
independent of Messrs. Viger, Draper and Daly, as I am of Messrs.
Baldwin, Sullivan and Hincks.... I might appeal to more than one
instance in which the authority and patronage of the Governor did
not prevent me from defending the constitutional rights of my
fellow-subjects and native country.... The independent and
impartial judgment which I myself endeavour to exercise, I desire
to see exercised by every man in Canada. I believe it comports best
with constitutional safety, with civil liberty, with personal
dignity, with public duty, with national greatness. With the
politics of party--involving the confederacy, the enslavement, the
selfishness, the exclusion, the trickery, the antipathies, the
crimination of party, no good man ought to be identified.... With
the politics of government--involving its objects, its principles,
its balance