132 APPENDIX. 



No. 10. VARIOUS OPINIONS ON CANADA. 



&quot; Such was the fertility of Upper Canada, between Lakes Erie 

 and Ontario, and so cheap were the lands sold by the British 

 government, that the settlers there could afford to undersell the 

 farmer of the United States, whose land cost him ten times as 

 much. Mr. Clay s Speech in Congress, in 1824. 



Another Member of Congress (Mr. Vane, of Ohio State), said 

 &quot; Upper Canada is now, and will be more so, one of the great 

 est wheat-growing countries in the world.&quot; 



The following is an extract from a book published in the States, 

 during the late war between them and Great Britain. The 

 author, Mr. Smith, schoolmaster, left the province at the breaking 

 out of the war, and therefore cannot be supposed to be over par 

 tial to any thing British. He says, &quot; The constitution, laws, and 

 government of Upper Canada, are much better than people in the 

 United States, unaquainted with them, expect.&quot; 



Again: &quot;It is an idea entertained by the States, that the 

 inhabitants of Canada are some of the worst people in the world, 

 made up of rogues, and murderers, and the like characters. 

 However, the idea is entirely false ; that there are some bad 

 characters, escaped from different parts of the United States to 

 Canada, no one will deny ; but these cannot be called the inha 

 bitants, only the sojourners. But I may say, whether I am 

 believed or not, that the main body of the people of Canada are 

 peaceable, just, and generous in all their intercourse with one 

 another, and strangers also. They are benevolent ; being once 

 poor themselves, they know how to feel for human want, and 

 human woe. I have been acquainted with some of the inha 

 bitants of almost every neighbourhood.&quot; 



I copied the following from one of the United States news 

 papers, at the time the first Alien Bill was in agitation, which 

 caused considerable sensation at the time. 



&quot; The people of Upper Canada are blessed with a fine healthy 

 climate, and fruitful soil ; when the improvements in navigation 

 between the waters of Erie and the St. Lawrence are completed, 

 they will possess commercial advantages superior to any people 

 (having respect to their population) under heaven. Their im 

 portations, being chiefly from the mother country, are subjected 

 only to a slight tariff. The support of the provincial government, 

 or such part of it that comes from the people s pockets, is not 

 burthensome. Their taxes are not so many or so heavy as ours, 

 and the expense of the fortification and defence of the country 

 comes exclusively from the parent State ; it must, therefore, be a 

 serious attempt of aggression, which can induce a people thus 

 favoured to disturb the public tranquillity.&quot; 



THE END. 



&amp;gt;. Manning & Co. Punters, London-House Yard, St. Paul s. 



