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or shall I stand up on the side of Loyalty ? This is the question, ye men 

 of Middlesex, which every one of you must ask himself at the day of 

 Meeting, paying no regard to what the " Nasty Fellows," alias the Re- 

 publicans, may say in their squibs. — Again I tell you that you are to 

 meet on the day, for the express purpose of showing your Loyalty and 

 to tread Disaffection under foot. 



Ye Loyal men fail not to attend — remembering that he who calls 

 himself Loyal and stays away, is no better, nay, worse than Eebels. 

 Xeutral people are worse than Rebels, suffer no such persons to be 

 among you. 



Another of the People. 



St. Thomas Journal — Extra. 



St. Thomas, Thursday, April 19, 1832. 

 To the InJiahitants of the Tnlhot Settlement. 



Fellow Subjects, 



The state of the Province having arrived at that alarming crisis, 

 when it is the indispensable duty of every lover of happiness, as well as 

 admirers of celebrity and good order, to come forward on the 23d inst. 

 to endeavor to put down by your voice, a rebellious faction that infest 

 our land, — delays are dangerous — think not that it will all blow over 

 without your exertions to suppress it, but come forward as true British 

 Subjects, and show by your conduct that you are a subject in reality, 

 ever ready to trample rebellion and disaft'ection under foot — is it not 

 easier to hack down a plient sapling, than fall a sturdy oak? We have 

 dangerous men among us, hark what one of them says, their leader, 

 Mackenzie. 



"We come at last to the leading question, WHAT IS TO BE 

 DONE?" 



" Meet together from all sections of the country at York on Tihurs- 

 " day next 10th inst., in this town, on the area in front of the court- 

 " house — let the farmer leave his husbandry, the mechanick his tools, 

 " and pour forth your gallant population animated by the pure spirit 

 " of liberty — be firm and collected — be determined — be united — never 

 " trifle with your rights — show by your conduct that you are fit for the 

 '' management of your own domestick affairs, ripe for freedom," &c. 



Now, who can deny but rebellion, and tlie e^-taldisliinG; of a republican 

 government in this province, i« intended, l)y thi^ nntorious liypocrite, 

 although he may deceive thousands, by telling them that it is to 

 strengthen and secure their more permanent attachment to the Mother 



