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the destruction of a- minntry , and , beholdI the dt * ert » ox the gotd Canadians are magnified , and the deals of the > Sc Lawrence foot triumphantly on the stream of a majority . We bare , as ire
before stated ; examined Mr . Blip ' s tables with some jmrn % ami should be startled by the appearance of a falling' off in some branches of Canadian exports there set forth , did we not know that the more accessible forests in Canada have already been cleared of their serviceable timber , and did we not find that a
reduction in the exports of the L ' nited States , comparing later years with 1806 , has taken place to the amount of one-fourth of the present total ; facts which only show that capital has flowed into different channels and the working hands obtained new employment , that the United States and Canada have ceased to
coofrmand the bulk of raw produce in timber and peltries which thej formerly possessed , and that the cultivation of the soil has takem up the occupation which formerly fell to the lumberer . Srmilarfr of our North American fisheries , where the French vessels work under the press of a Government bounty of j £ 60 , 000 annually , while the annual grants of the Canadian treasury all look to the improvement of the soil arid of internal commimicatioBu
It is very easy , by confusing items ( e . g . by introducing pelt ries and 6 hip-building as produce of the forests u to falsify tables iutended to influence votes in Parliament ( we do not ascribe this intention to Air . Bliss , but speak of it as a thine * of common occurrence ) ; but the rapid progression of Canadian prosperity is manifest by the authentic reports of the annual imports and
exports , which now exceed two millions respectively , and employ nearly 300 , 000 tons of shipping . Comparing this with the proportion of our West India and East India commerce { the latter having a population of 70 millions ) , we cannot riiiss seeing the mighty and growiug importance which these former provinces are of to the British Crown . As to am factious outcry , echoed in
Parlianieut , presuming to interdict our meddling with the soil for tbm purposes of farther colonization * there is this plain and ultimate answer : England has purchased the soil by her blo ** l and tre % - sure , the latter annually lavished , as will be seen by inspecting the appropriate item in the Siipplies . Kvery labourer who set his foot cm the Canadian soil will have paid , by his cuntjributkm in this country towards the direct or indirect taxation * the full value for the fee-simule \>( all he cuu occupy in the pro % u * ee .
If theorUts refuse to consider our ruined labourers *» constituent * of ( he British euunrv > we * Ul represent the case in another point of view , and introduce the aggregate of uattoiwA power , tk * State- , Does the waste laud ^ t ' C <* n <* U Urloug U > th ^ | wro ^ ntrtidc » *> l < W atiguoriee ur sotted pocligajL ^ wotout * u > cvx t crac t oc tmm \>* U h y wUioh \ l * t ^ Hgu ^ w M « efe iu « i <* gt ^ u t ^ r * vM the eutwc ^ *« e * nmyt We WU Ikmn X ** > u * ^ U tbie « uii ^ of nrn witrt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/41/
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