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intcrvene hut Tarte adcised the elcetors in go and r:oiisult thcir curé.
There H-as nci doubt in his mirid that the priests wiiuld tell the voters
thst "voter cette arinée pour 31. Trembla!, c'est pire que L'sn passé."'")
In spite of Tarte's elforts Lanpevin's majority deereasetl from ho
hnndred arid cleveri to sixty voles. The dinerenee was hard tri explain
and Tarte did iiot aktempt to dit W. It is eonceitable thak the seririons
of the clerg) hsd been innre inlluentisl than Ronihier \vas prepared
to admit. In the campaien of 1377 the clerg remained sileiit oii the
question of IiLerslism and the rc~ultj rrere startiiigly differciit.
By this tinie the ~iositiciii of hrch1)ishop Tawhereau had altered
eiinsidera hly. The epi3r:opal ~llnndernent of 1875 had propelled a fieree
Priitestant reaetioii. The Liberal Prime Lliiii~ier rvriting to Edrvard
Rlake a feiv days after it had been issued {vas u-el1 nware at whom it was
directeci arirl coriclnded thai if th? "Liberal Riiitian Catholics are trampled
diirvn by clerieal despotisin tlie Prciteîrant wire fence i+ il1 not long delend
liberty of thought and action rir Protestant rights in Qnebe~."t~~l
a
H~ntin~don. Cabinet hlinister firirn Quebec, saiv jirake dariaers in the
episcopal declaration. Hr wns crinvinced bat the time hiid arrived "for
an Engli~h point lii vieiv, to resijt the pretensions of tlir cl~r~~","")
arid short]) befrire the erid of 1273 he delivered a pnlilir: adtlrrss in
which he prriiehsed hie faith in liberaliam and refused to arcrkit rlericaI
iriterventiiin and direction iii poliiics.
To prevetit the dangers of a religions %var deacending upon the
conntry and [O better the Liherai position, Joseph Cauchon, the editor
of Le Journnl dt- Quebec, a Liheral Csbinet Minjster and a skillful
politician, advised Arrhbirihop Tascheresu that Catholic-Lilieralisin and
political Iiberalisrn were no1 identieal. Hz n l~i hiiited tliat a de finite and
eategorical etatenieiit Ly the Church authorities ori liberalism H ould lie
dangerous to French Cauadiaii interests arid liai mful to lheir place in
Corifederation. ''" L'nder his iniluence arid ihat of pripsts ~urrou~idiug
fii~ri. th^ Archbishop Jecided that the interprelatiiin giveri tn tlre ,!lande-
itierir of September 1815 was erroneous and that ihc epiacopacy ivonld
do well to reconsider ils position. Accorilingly he wrote to al1 the
hiehop3 of his provirice:
CrariJ iiomlire de Tier5niini.s nni roinpris que le mandement roLlzciif
/In 22 srptenhre dernicr. ert dirigé ronirt. le parii minist6rizI fi.dt.ra1.
D'aurrcs lti nizni. 011 deniendc pnurqnoi les E~l-ques de la Province
EcdP~iasiique de Qnébcr ne se prononcent-ils pas catégorirju~rnrnr ?
31'' Linrh pet déclar; oukrric.rncnt pariisaii de cti niinislL-rt rt il r-r
probable qu~ son srntimrnr csi p2rtagE par srs sulIraganis ri par Ir,
Eri-qucs de !a Province d'Hlililsx.. . .
Lr pnrii minisiériel IEiIEral esi-il condamnable P! coatiamné'!
Qurlc irrciiit Ic6 consérluencre d'ui oui ou d'un non ? Yciili un rrdou-

{24) Qnnrcd in Ruiiiilly, Lajlèche, p. 114.
(25) Public ;Zrc.Iiive.r of Ontario, Blake Psprr*. IiIackenzie to Blake, Septrmber
28, 1073.
(?fi) 1hid., Huntingdon'j ron IO Biake, Juna 1, 1876.
(27) PubIie .4rchives of O~iiario, Mackenzie Paprts, see the Joîcpb Caurboa
Correspondance.