<<  We  have  told  you  what  our  situation  was,
whatit  is,  what  it  ought  to  be:  our  end, «
national  legislature ;  our  means,  an  union  ot'
the  whole  people.  Let  this  union  extend
throughout  the  empire.  Let  all  uoiVe  for  all,
or  eacn  man  suffer  for  aU.  In  each  country
let  the  people  assemble,  in  peaceful  and  cuu-
stittttional  conventioai    Let  delegates  fiom


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that  he  saw  no  harm  in  it.  Colonel  Dabwiple
protested,  and  hebelieves,  Mr.  Bell  aid  so
also ;  but  he  does  not  remember  Mr.  Morth-
land  being  there :  that  he  thought  it  possible
it  might  be  illegal  *.  that  he  saw  it  on  the  tar
ble,  but  does  not  know  whether  Mr.  Muir
brought  it  or  not':  that  he  understood  that  Mr.
Muir  moved  that  an  answer  should  be  seot
that  this  was  dissented  to,  but  he  does .  not
recollect  for  what  reason,  and  he  thinks  that
it  was  carried,  that  no  answer  should  be  sent
The  address  being  shown  to  him,  he  admitted
it  to  be  the  same  which  he  had  formerly
siened.
Being  interrogated  by  Mr.  Muir ;  deponed,
that  he  was  in  the  convention  all  the  days
that  Jt  met :  that  he  never  heard  him  say  any
thing  unconstitutional :  that  the  purpose  of
the  association  was  to  get  a  reform  in  parlia-
ment :  that  he  knows  of  no  other  object,  but
that  he  understood  their  object  was  an  altera-
tion, and  that  he  was  hot  a  member  of  the
'convention.
