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Tho entire liistoiy of all European Colonics in 

 America proves that the sentiment o'l mttionalltif^ that 

 is, of attaclnnent to the Mother Country, is very weak, 

 and readily yields i)lace to other sentiments ot'am1»i- 

 lion, intei'est, or passion, so as to produce feelings of 

 hostility Letween the inhaljitants of the ^Ieti'u])olis 

 juid those of the Colonies more intense than such as 

 exist between either of them and the inhabitants of 

 other countries. This fact is particidarly remarkable 

 in the incidents of revolution in Spanish America, ex- 

 ample of which we have now before the eyes in tiie 

 insurrection which rages in Culja. But the same fact 

 ajjpears distinctly in the past history of British 

 America. And there is no reason to suppose that 

 the sentiment of mere lof/cdti/^ thai is, political attach- 

 ment to the ^[other Country, is any more strong at 

 present in the Bominion of Canada than it formerly 

 was in the British Colonics now constitutincj the 

 United States. 



M. II. Blei'/y, in a very insti'uctive essay on the 

 Colonies of the British Empire, discussing the rpiestion 

 whether the lOnglish beyond sea arc likely to remain 

 attached to England by recollections of family or of 

 country, observes with great truth that " the very 

 aptitude for colonization of which the ICnglish art! 

 so proud could not exist without implying a cer- 

 tain inmuciance of f^imily on their part and disdain 

 of their native country." 



How true is this remark! It is illustrated by 

 contrasting the devoted attachment of the Fjench to 

 France, who in our day send so few colonists to 



