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ttitetttafl trtrth results from the quick and sure retnma of laboflr kfl * S thfc rifctu i * of that labour , which is such that the skill of a boy of ten years of age can be almost as serviceable as that of ftti fcdult . Where the processes of agriculture are so simple , and trfiere there is no fund , no resource , except the bountiful soil , vfie cannot contemplate any other case than that of an industrious
corhmunity arising in the location of even the poorest settlers . We would depend too on the elastic virtue of human feelings , relieved from the pressure of hopeless want which stares the poor labourer in the face too frequently in this country , exerting themselves in every direction towards the spread of intelligence , mutual kindness , all the charities of domestic life , and all the graces
of civilization . The straggling plan of the English townships in Canada opposes obstacles to this bettering of society , which , as we have said , we expect to arise from social intercourse under the circumstances of competence and healthful employment . The townships , cut up into little parallelograms , each of which is only partially and progressively cleared , present interstices of forest
and waste between neighbouring homesteads ; the frontage is thus lengthened beyond immediate demand , and the road which run * along this frontage is longer than the cultivated plot , and consequently neglected . We would press the allotments together ; clearing should radiate from a centre , and the central circle
should comprise the village , leaving the uncleared land in the rear . We think if the homesteads were thus kept together , a school , a store , and the necessary handicraft trades ( the smith and carpenter ) brought within the central area , that there would be Httle left for supervisors , and that all the domestic feeling which is so evident in the seigniories would be contemporaneous with the birth of a township , instead of remaining in anticipation to
the next generation . Kight passage ships were lost in the passage from this country to Quebec last year : this has been the subject of inquiry , and we trust that the measures proposed for the prevention of a nimilar calamity will be effected . Such overtight * as thin speak volumes against emigration . There is too much truth in * Bogle Corbet / where the author remarks , * The colonial system i « only to M » nd troopa to keep possession und to 1
tnflke civil appointment * for the excM-tion of patronage . Since tfhe publication of * Hoglu Corbet , ' there huve been Government Agenciea appointed to supervise * the emigration . Should not the loss of eight ships in one season lend to an inquiry as to the cause ? ft is fully in the spirit of a Tory Government to grasp , and # ra » p
at more , instead of securing what they hnve and might enjoy . But what are conquests if , when riuened into colonies , they b © f come a eiwae and reproach ? Are we t > o be ever the dupe * of parti nan report *? Now treason IriCanada' nwelU the column * of the * Time */ and liberalism in ' tt fciffef ' throughout our dominion * : the timber question U to effeot
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 540, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/40/
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