source: Monitor, Charlottetown
date: Thursday, September 1, 1864

Both branches of the Prince Edward Island legislature have pronounced against Maritime union. Prince Edward Island were appointed to the Maritime Union Conference, "we presume, because it was felt that it would not be treating our neighbors with due courtesy to refuse even to listen to what they might have to say on the subject. As far, however, as the Island is concerned, we have no hesitation in saying that all attempts to bring about a 'legislative union' of the provinces will be stoutly resisted both by the people and legislature of the Island. If, therefore, the conference which is to assemble here to-day is to be productive of any very beneficial results, 'a wider range' will have to be given to its deliberations than appears to have been originally intended. This, we are inclined to think, will inevitably be the case, since Canada also will be represented at the Charlottetown Conference, and her proposition is, not a 'legislative' but a 'federal' union of all the provinces , - a scheme which, we are free to admit, is viewed with much greater favor by our people than any other yet propounded. We agree, therefore, with the [Saint John, N.B. Morning] News that the delegates from the lower provinces should 'five ant propositions that the Canadian representatives may offer a careful hearing.' And that 'it is their bounden duty to discuss the question of federation, so far as affects the North American Provinces irrespective limit . . .'