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tion the best market and would,- with this change, quickly be so 

 again. 



This is our resource, and these our anticipations of its effects. But we 

 have no notion there is virtue enough in the country to work with full 

 efficiency to the extent such a remedy demands. The landlord clings per- 

 tinaciously to his seeming advantages. His friends, the economists, lend 

 him their sophistry. They tell him, emigration is the proper relief for 

 the country. There are too many poor ship them off to the Antipodes 

 or to the Poles no matter where and things may go on as before. 

 No unwelcome changes need be thought of. The landlord of course 

 not caring one straw, as he has long ceased to do, about the welfare of 

 those who were once regarded as his dependants a dependency that 

 bound the parties together, and kept alive a great deal of good feeling 

 of course, he hails with delight a scheme which is calculated to remove 

 a painful sight, (it must be such) and not encroach upon his rents. Mr. 

 Wilmot Horton, in prosecution of the same object, is lecturing the me- 

 chanics not the country labourer upon the charms of emigration, and 

 has also, his friends state, great success in his wranglings with them 

 that is, it must be supposed, he reduces them to a tacit, or even a verbal 

 acquiescence. He argues them down, which of course a man of any 

 cultivation may do without difficulty, but we do not find that his hearers 

 are at all more disposed to push his plans into practice, than he is him- 

 self to set the example. 



Mr. Horton is an admirer of existing arrangements, and interested in 

 their continuance. He is himself a landlord, and naturally, in his debates 

 and discussions with the mechanics, says nothing about the great and 

 adequate power actually in the hands of landlords, " for the relief of 

 the country." Taking it for granted that the existing state of things is 

 essentially good, and that all our difficulties originate in excess of popu- 

 lation which is excess of nonsense at most times, as well as in these 

 times emigration is precisely the remedy. We give Mr. Horton full 

 credit for sagacity and consistency ; but for our own parts, we are for 

 confining emigration to those who are themselves so strenuously recom- 

 mending it, and certainly not for enforcing it upon others. Let them 

 as Canada is so enchanting a spot, notwithstanding its six-months' snows 

 by all means enjoy the blessing ; but let those who are at home, and like 

 home, be permitted to make the best of home. 



Besides, if occupying waste lands abroad be so very desirable, why 

 should it not be equally or nearly so to occupy them at home ? Mr. 

 Horton's parochial loans would at least be spared, though there is no danger 

 of such loans, in any event, being raised. But we have no waste lands 

 to occupy. Nay, are there not, according to Mr. Horton's own reports, 

 15,000,000 acres, and profitable acres too? for in the same reports stand 

 fifteen millions more, designated, in express contradistinction, as unpro- 

 fitable. Yes, but this waste land is all appropriated every acre has 

 its owner. What then? If it be left waste that is, actually uncultivat- 

 ed the extremity of the occasion generates, again, a right of expe- 

 diency ; and we should not hesitate to recommend the resumption of 

 this land, in order to divide some of it among the poor who have none, 

 and are in want, and whom the economists wish to banish to the other side 

 of the globe to cultivate wastes. It is as easy to cultivate wastes at 

 home as abroad. 



We repeat it, the power relief is with the landlords themselves, 



