HOME SYMPATHY WITH THE COLONIES. 269 



German settlers occupy large portions of the territory, 

 and crowd into the towns 5 but in both there is enough 

 of its influence and energy seen everywhere to make a 

 home-born man proud of his country and his people. 

 Faces, persons, dispositions — all look like home over 

 again. The most pushing and impatient of the colonial- 

 born little imagine how very much they resemble the 

 tens of thousands of men at home who restlessly gnaw 

 the bit of restraint — by which order can alone be 

 secured, and leisure obtained for that cautious and 

 steady progress by which advances, economical and 

 political, w^iich all consider desirable, may be safely 

 made and successively rendered secure. I venture to 

 say for John Bull, and Sandy too, that there is not 

 a single British colony to which it does not delight 

 them to hear that their brothers and cousins are going, 

 or, having gone, to learn that they are prospering in it. 

 Nor is there not a single real grievance with which any 

 of these colonies may be afflicted that does not meet 

 with their ready sympathy, and, whatever party may 

 be in power, their ready co-operation, by all lawful 

 means, to secure redress. 



I introduce these observations, as the reader will 

 readily understand, in reference to topics which I often 

 heard discussed during my stay in Canada. At King- 

 ston, the presence of his Excellency the Governor was 

 looked for by many ; and the number of guests at the 

 Society's dinner was probably very much fewer in 

 consequence of his absence. Various comments, of 

 course, were made, according to the feelings and wishes 

 of parties, upon this absence. His friends were disap- 

 pointed, as they were ready to support him. His 

 enemies called it pusillanimity, and used many other 

 hard words. For my own part, I knew too little, at the 

 time, of the temper of the people, to permit me to form 

 an opinion as to the propriety of his coming or staying 



