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872 Alleged Resignation of the Governors...
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bejen c ^ lie ^ a war of posts ; and undcrubtecilv geographical skill decided it . It is further objected that the Canadians are not
unanimous . No more were the Americans . Great numbers in the Northern States adhered to the old government ; and New York in particular , was
eminently British in its interests . Did that save the country for us ? No ; the royalists , the timid waverers , the apathetic many , gave way before the impulse of the energetic few , who were heartiest in the love
of their country * Many who hesitated to repudiate the British authority at first , joined tjfie foremost of the reformers afterwards . Washington , Adams , Jefferson , Lafayette , and men
of that stamp , bequeathed the republic to their countrymen . Lafayette ! is that name forgotten in the Union ? and will jt be forgotten , when its young men are invited to assist French
Americans , in gaining for themselves that happy independence , which \\ e so mainly contributed , to obtain for English Americans ? Not that we regard ; the coming struggle as between English and French . at
f l ^ i f listinctyon is fast passing jLntp ; j ^ bliyio ^ ; and the attempt to jpyive it is equally treacherous and nugatory . The pjadiea ! papery pf Canada are not in French alone : tlW are m « English alsp . '
Ther ^ . ^ urg , ftiit W } ree solutions tq the ; present pbJicy of , the coercers of Canada . Either they are shamefully ignorant of the country they undertake to
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govern and coerce , of its local peculiarities , and J the disjposl tion of the people ; or they are
not really the prime movers in the matter , but are reduced to the painful and ridiculous position of the man in a crowd , who has to bear the blows and
abuse of those who oppose his troublesome advance , while Ms back is excruciated by the knucklings and elbowings of others behind , whose sin he expiates ; or they desire to do
that which Pitt could not a , tchieve , and so to g-ain a name for tyranny more glorious than that of the great " genius—in accounts . " Perhaps it is a combination of all—with a predominating fear of Tory hectoring , and a magnanimous determination not to let the young lady on the throne be deprived of one of the " Jewels of her crown : " and so nations
are to perish for a phrase , and a court bow . Mr Fox opposed the clumsy mockery of the English constitution , which was the colonial hobb y of Pitt ; but he did not mean , that it v ^ as too liberally constructed . His own party now refuse to carry out the measure of the Tories , on totally opposite grounds , because it is too liberal . The present contest arises from the same question as the former did , the right of English subjects to regulate their own taxation . As in the former ,
a paltry question of money begins the dispute . The Saprte resistance is macle , and in 'the same manner . Will the result be different ?—God defend the right .
872 Alleged Resignation Of The Governors...
872 Alleged Resignation of the Governors of Canada .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/4/
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