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new inclosures of the forest ; their administration of justice is confessedly on a system which infinitely surpasses that of thfc and en regime , where judges were multiplied to an unlimited extent , their responsibility being proportionably diminutive .
During a war of thirty years they proved their attachment to this order of things by feats of gallantry in the field ; and those veterans , or the successors in their present militia , are hampered by no English authority , marching under their own banners , following their own officers , and conquering according to their own tactics .
We have treated this question respecting the Lower Canadt&ns as we should have discussed it in their presence . The Norman conquerors , of eight centuries past , left in this country their customs and property to a portion of the conquered population ; we leave theirs to all ; the form of legislature , which after two centuries- we recovered from the successors of the Norman , has been accorded to the Canadians from the beginning ( after thirty years from the conquest of Quebec ) . We left an extensive domain of forest ; this we are about to reclaim , by providing it with hands which shall subdue the soil . We will introduce to a territory , which is in the state of savageness met with partially in the territory of the Anglo-Norman people , the civilization of our own era
of refinement . Do our fellow-subjects listen incredulously to this boast ? True , there has been less attention shown by Government and capitalists in locating the British settlements than was exhibited in the settling the French seignories . The seignory had at its commencement a chief and subordinate members , and a charter , or scheme of co-operation , binding the whole together : thence have resulted attachment to the home thus
provided , and respect for him whose head and heart planned and upheld their associated hearths . This happy tenantry are as the constituents of which the resultant is a lord of the soil , living on his rents ami the homage of the roturiers . He is proud when comparing himself with the new comers whom he meets at the capital : he sees them loaded with cash , which they are ready to lay out in purchasing seignories , or in locating townships . He
does not scruple to meet their purse-proud rudeness by telling them , * What ! you have sold your country , and are come now to buy ours . ' * We must not expect to find a squirearchy very ready ? e surrender their dignity , or to acknowledge the respectability of the stranger who shoulders them at church and at the county ball , and \ h preparing to break up an adjoining farm , or to spoil a favourite prospect . Yet , contrasting the French and English miecens in colonization , even in Canada , can there be a doubt that we have the preeminence ? The French were continually
squab-? QikH exurouioa in the At ornhly in 1933 led to tevqro miftunderptandiag ttotwfttn an Eng \ Uh and French senator .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/38/
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