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A * # > e article rn queatfow > a applies * chfefly to the loifep ttitraitfe , I shall direct t 9 iy aUootiOa chiefly ^ hereto . Indeed , & < Uw » ifflp a pre&tenre on many cogent grounds * Its population i » dpuj > i «
that of the sister province , and marly equal to ail the ot ^ er Ntwrlb American colonies corpbined . * It tak ^ ed ih < a lead of all ' pate other North American colonies in the march of Reform . | te case has been more frequently brought before Parliament ; ami it has , in consequence of these circumstances , engaged a larger share of public attention in this country .
The struggle in which the people of Canada are engage *^ is wmilar in its principle to that which is agitating every couofcry in £ urope . It is a struggle of the people against the undjue ptorer of those who have managed to get hold of the governing j >*> wer } a struggle of the many against the few . The . Canadian maqy form an immense majority of the people ; the few ane consequently extremely limited in their numbers . , and could not maintai n their power , were it not for tfeje support of the mother coyutorf , the aristocratic Government of which has always ranged itself < $ i the side of the several oligarchies which the old coloai ^ J system
of Great Britain established in most of our colonies . In JLoirer Canada this oligarchy consists chiefly of the office-holdiag tlAfm and their families ; supported , on all occasions , by the mast fortunate of the mercantile class , who are drawn towards tjie official circle by the influence of fashion . Between the persons who compose these two excluaive ctassep on the one hand , and the great mass of the community on the other , there are no interests in common . The fprmer sympathies
not with the people at large . There is scarcely the slightept-Communication between them . They are not the lords of " the ftotf ; indeed ^ the relation of landlord and tenant , as we understa ^ 4 & * is almost wholly unknown : so is that of employer and employed . Thus the very basis of the ' old country' aristocracies , for whicfo great veneration exists , has no existence in Canada . But one of the objects of the Canadian Constitutional Act q £ SI Geo . III . c . 31 , was to create an aristocracy . Finding n <* na £ ujw materials , an attempt was made to manufacture an aristocracy out
* It may be interesting to your readers to see the latest statement of the pofpfotion of the British American . Colonies . The following is a Table of the * MUM , giving the latest authority , with a correction up to tye end of 1833 : Population Colonies according to the last C * n « uf , Population , 189 ft . with Date prefixed . Lower Canada . . . . July . . » 1831 611 , 917 6 ^ 429 Upper Canada .... April , . * 1632 296 , 544 32 * , ? 0 S Nova Scotia . ? . . ,, . 1827 123 , B 48 154 , 400 . New Bruntwick . 1824 74 , 176 1 ^ 1 , $ ^ Cape Breton , . . . . Buuch # tte . 1831 30 , 000 3 \ & 09 Prince £ Hward > Island July . . . 1833 32 . 292 WfW IMewfouiudlaod , * . ? ? . ? ^ 25 6 ^ 44 . 77 , !> U > TDU 1 Por ^ l ^ on tt 0 ritlAtiorfllAn ^ ri <» a 4 « " ' M W ' * hAdoatB 33 % & ) * % 2
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 615, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/51/
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