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    bling with the Indians ; the abortive attempts of their missionaries only converted the civilized exile into a half-savage , despised by those he would reclaim ; while we have a whole province ( Upper Canada ) reclaimed from its savage state , free from its savage tenants , and pushed , in half a century , to a state of civilized wealth which Lower Canada , its elder by two centuries , has not yet attained , nor will until British enterprise has taken deep root there .

    To conciliate the Lower Canadians , as co-tenants with the British emigrants , it is only necessary that the scheme of emigration should be so conducted that squalid pauperism should not be glaring as the basis of new townships , and that blustering barbarous neighbours should not be the result of a new township ' s success . The Yankee manners must be kept wide aloof from the polite Frenchman , —the notions of ' turning a penny' must not be backed by contempt and insult to the less thrifty Jean Baptiste . What a blessing would it be to the world at large had Reform in its widest extent been implanted deeply in the British population instead of the demoralizing system of war pr ices , and the preposterous pretensions of national supremacy , accompanied by a national debt , grinding down individual happiness , till character , varied talent , mutual courtesy , and every feeling above that of

    self-preservation , are lost ! With those means of advancing civilization , which existed here when bloody wars and moody suspicions of our neighbours enrolled England in the ' Holy Alliance / we might have exhibited to the world Britons worthy to lead empire into new channels . Alas ! the poor ' s rates have unfitted those who should emigrate from occupying the position in a new

    colonv which they should hold . Brutality would produce an outbreak between ' township' and seignory . Government must read the Reports of commissioners and committees , and undertake the responsibility of locating the rich province of Canada with a due consideration of the interests at stake , and the

    circumstances of settlers . Or rather , were patriotism a working principle , we should say now is the opportunity for the rich and the idle to turn from parish and district vestries , clubs , and unions , from half-acre allotments to the poor here , and look to the advantage of corn-lands inexhaustible in their supply of labour and food to our surplus population . We do not despair of seeing emigration conducted , even under the present untoward circumstances , with the most complete success , as a measure of relief to this country , and of benefit to Canada and the Canadians . We

    expect the benefit * we anticipate to be worked out by the simples * means ; when we call for the supervision of Government , or of wealthy individuals , we only see their aids necessary so far as in * traducin g to each other the sturdy day labourers and their respective families . It is already laid down as an axiom in Canada , that * a man with a large family cannot be poor ; * this experi *

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    Canada . 539

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 539, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/39/