The Affairs of the Canadas: In a Series of LettersJ. King, 1837 - 75 pages |
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Page 13 - Your triumphant election on the 16th, and ejection from the assembly on the 17th, must hasten that crisis which is fast approaching in the affairs of the Canadas, and which will terminate in independence and freedom from the baneful domination of the mother country, and the tyrannical conduct of a small and despicable faction in the colony.
Page 34 - ... warfare that an admiring world admitted the claim of Great Britain to the glory of conquering a people less from views of ambition, and the security of her other colonies, than from the hope of improving their situation, and endowing them with the privileges of...
Page 13 - The proceedings between 1772 and 1782, in America, ought not to be forgotten, and to the honour of the Americans, and for the interests of the civilized world, let their conduct and their result be ever in view...
Page 39 - ... against the present Administration of this Province, the system which is exhibited in the distribution of offices necessarily holds a conspicuous place ; that the chief recommendation to office continues to be a display of marked and bitter animosity towards the majority of the People of this Province ; that it is seldom men of French Canadian origin find their way into office under any circumstances...
Page 30 - North-American colonies, unless she immediately sets about the establishment of an able statesmanlike government there, and the direction thitherward of that tide of emigration from her own loins, which now swells the strength and resources of the United States. Her North- American colonies gone, her West-India Islands will soon follow.
Page 34 - They pay no taxes, live well, at an easy rate, and in plenty ; within the compass of their comprehensions they cannot wish for any other good. They are so little acquainted with the principles of liberty, that it has cost a great deal of trouble to establish juries in their country ; they oppose the introduction of the trial by jury; in civil cases these are not yet in use. But they love France ; this beloved country engages still their affections. In their estimation a Frenchman is a being far superior...
Page 33 - Robes • pierre, and the rest of the ruffians whom my countrymen have suffered to become their tyrants ; nor are my misfortunes yet consummated, — and yet the love of my country, this innate feeling, now so painful to me, so clashing with my present situation, holds an absolute sway over my soul, and pursues me here more closely than elsewhere. This English flag, under which I am sailing over lakes where the French flag was so long displayed ; these forts, these guns, the spoils of France, this...
Page 23 - I ask, what has been the cause of all these disasters ? and the voices of thousands of my fellow citizens respond from their tombs, — it is emigration. It is not enough to send amongst us avaricious egotists, without any other spirit of liberty than could be bestowed by a simple education of the counter, to enrich themselves at the expense of the Canadians, and then endeavour to enslave them — they must also rid themselves of their beggars, and cast them by thousands .on our shores — they must...
Page 12 - ... prematurely hastened by the unexpected and immediate concession of their requests, and their object disclosed sooner than they had intended, is evident from their address to the governor, so lately as in 1831, whom it was their interest and intention to deceive. Early in that year they said to him, " It will be our earnest desire that harmony may prevail among the several branches of the legislature, that full effect may be given to the constitution as established by law, and that it may be transmitted...
Page 32 - I did not experience one moment of true happiness, and real untainted enjoyment. I am at a loss to account to myself for the various perceptions, which pressed upon my mind, and prevented my feelings from being entirely absorbed by gratitude, and by the pleasing sensations, it naturally produces. I love the English more, perhaps, than any other Frenchman ; I have been constantly well treated by the English ; I have friends among them; I acknowledge the many great qualities and advantages which they...