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Norr , wkh the * United State * ' bearding us in respect < rf the ' North-Eastern Boundary / which they will not condescend to determine , ( it has already been concluded by the award el the sovereign to whom it was referred ) we do not think our Government can afford to insult the whole ( almost ) of the population of Lower Canada by the refusal of a demand equall y just ,
at least , and similar in circumstances ( except that this is far losses sustained by allies , that by neutrals or enemies ) to that which has so fiercely agitated the legislature of the ' United States / and so recently divided the ' Chamber of Deputies / And , if the tone of remonstrance in the present case be one unsoited to subjects , we have the concurring testimony of Colonel Cockburn * Commissioner Richards , Gait , and others , that the mas * * f the
French population , exclusive of their agitators , the supporters « f Papineau , are well affected . It would be painful to see ' that simple contented family of Jean Baptiste , the best disposed aad best bred community in the world / spirited to feel with hi * seigneurs , insulted as they without doubt have been , and to revenge insults , as they no doubt would do , even to their own
extermination . We would rather see true British faith aad ieeiiag carried into our provincial relations , than witness a stubborn , stiff-necked support of policy as wrong , and politicians as ignorant of the subject they were attempting to deal with , as e * er led to the loss of provinces and the dismemberment o £ an empire .
The Duke of Richmond can tell whether we speak in terms of unmerited reproach of Tory governors in Canada ; he may friwr what state of feeling existed at Quebec when his uncle took up hiA residence in the castle of Saint Louis , and how that feeling was excited , and why it was necessary to present then the ribbo * of the Order of the Bath to the chivalrous and right loval
Canadian seigneurs . If we have reform at home , let us not cook tt * discontents of a province over the embers of Tory mal-adouiu * - tration . The conquest of Quebec wa * the immediate precursor of the three-quarters of a century of the Tory dvuastv within the-British dominions : let us return to the scene of our Ancient glana
with thegenerous feelings of the liberal Government that aciurvsti those glories . We have purged that leaven of corruption tf * m our constitution ; let the remotest extremities feel the i * v * goraftta £ principle which now stimulates the life-blood ot our nation . \ W cuuuot imagine that the Canadian seigneurs wouki nourish % feeling of discontent towards the order ol things to the preservation of which their noble cooperetiou h * $ ui * teri * lly conuibuttd
during an era of alarm ; their Church < jhe Cailiolic ) is naeoguited ( by 14 Geo . 111 . c . S 3 ); their rcveuue , in their ami ktejmi g * 19 raised without any burd * u to uKb ^ KiM ^ L ^ cviu irm ^ * » it doea of very moderate dutm ou unjKMrM . « ud of tbe ptnihn ^ , of tWo « al % oi | Hiblic Umb ; they p *> tkh «« to linjwr ** u ckrgQ wkile Iho PiuUMtvul Church w ^ puriiKi Hpon rv « s ^ r > w wm&t mm
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/37/
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