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Me Unites ofeie wee ur. TO SCOTCHMEN In the Colonies and at Home. SCOTCHMEN, 4 A few weeks are past sinee, in the Par- Tiament of Upper Canada, a Colony of the d Kingdom, assembled in the name of ‘our King,—our beloved Country, our holy and venerable Church, our respected Clerg: and we ourselves as a nation were wantonly we Scotchmen are told to helieve that our Forefathers, who resisted to the death every encroachment on their religious rights, care not for their descendants ; that when the: secured these rights with the words “for ever” in the Treaty of Union, they never- theless meant, that on emigrating to lands conquered by their own arms, under their own national banner,* their sons, in all inferior rights, mpire has been successive Monarchs, and the Ancestors their sons ? red and thir ty. years ; —which Commons, | _nor King myc 5 7” tobe taught. at this time, in this place, by these men, that they relinquished for their .of envyand dishonesty for undoubted birth right, W. the treaty of Union, to the coronation oath of our Sovereign, tothe known honor and justice of England, to the independent hearts of Scotland. We tell them that we have peacefully and constitutionally demanded a “communication of all rights, privileges and advantages ;” that we have met with both refusal aud insult.—We have been accused ng our We have been taun- * ted with disloyalty: we willingly admit the _ charge of disloyalty toa faction. The charge of disloyalty to the Constitution on which ourclaims are built, orto the King, who is sworn to-maintain them, is one which, were it not utterly absurd,an appeal to facts would easily tepel, We have been accused of sordid envy to- wards the Church of England. We respect that Church, but webhave yet to learn that respect to the church of England implies a resignation of our rightsby submission to those who,inthisColony,would prostitute her name to an act of the foulest treachery. We respect that Church, but that Church has learned to respect us e envy her not any advantage with which the favor of our Sovereign, and the law of the land may con- stitutionally invest her—but we demand, as we have ever done, for every member, and for every Minister of the Church of Scotiand the same partiality; and every attempt that establish ovenusiany« iy other than our: own, - site ~ “Resist it :”—the words have been dwelt our! fender Scotchmes possibility of immediatel rights, of the necessity o| termination in opposition duty of firmness, union an in serting your just claims before a higher tri- bunal than that of a Colonial Government or a Colonial'public. As for them ; to insult, of the in as- your King and the Indepen of the UnitedKingdom to do their duty, Gell them we made no distinction betweenScotch- men and Englishmen until others made it. It is they whovhave revived in a distant land the heart burnings of other times, Peaceful, loyal and copii ; they thought we been the sleep of the strong. we e + p_ still; but we vor, and we indignantly resist all Te bua ii ismadeto ao .at