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Show M ERCIEirS DEFIANT WRATH The Ho it la Ottlehil t ireles in Quebec aft I'ever ileal- Qitkhri:, Pec. 10. Monster mass-meeting are being orgaui.ed by the liberals throughout through-out the province. The police are in readiness readi-ness to march to the official residence of the lieutenant-governor to protect it against any hostile demonstration that may bo made. St. Roche and St. Saveur especially are, boiling with indignation. .. . Mcrcier has made public his views on thd political situation, sod published tbo corre spondence between himself and the lieu, tenant-governor and the ad interim report of the royal commission. This report regrets re-grets that certain correspondence was no produced, and concludes that it is nol proved that Mercier knew of the existence ol the bargain between Armstrong aud Paeaud, aud that gentleman dedan s that he benefited bene-fited in no way thereby. It is signed only 4 by Judges Baley and Davidson. Mercier, in his final reply to the lieutenant governor, tells the latter that he has had tha auda?ity to do what the queen would never dare to do in England without provoking revolution. "Good citizens," says he, "must admit that there's a limit to tyranny, and that a man, though he may be a prims minister, is not a slave." Mercier characterises Uw.rcjiyjt aJUia,t 'two partisans, from whom you have dragged an unjust and unfounded opinion altogether informal and without legal value, conluitilng gratuitous intuit to your ex-ministers, ex-ministers, supported by a great majority of the legislature." Mercicr charges the lieutenant-governor with a personal ami autocratic government; with having carried out one of the most :idious con-piracies ever entered iutoaguinsl tlio constitutional liberties of a free people. Ho taunts the governor with a desire to placo power in the haniUof his lioliticai friends, against all the rules of decency, and w ilb trampling under foot the dignity of the crown. "The governor's conduct," he says, "mils our political Institutions in Jeopardy. lie refers to the 1'aciile scandal, and charges the governor Willi supporting the guilty ministers. "Today," sa.i- he, "you obey the will o the federate minister who was himself the distributer of this bribery or the ministry money. I will try lo undo your nefarious work with the assistance of my colleagues and political friends." In closing, Mercicr say..: "You will shortly receive from Abbott, your master, the price of your national treachery, and I shall go before the. people and receive a new mandate, which will enable mc to re-iime tho position from which yon have driven me, and to chase you surely from Spenser-wood." |