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Instances might be cited of the cxpresf?ion of sini- 

 ihar idens in Pailianient. 



Loyalists in Canada must remember another thing. 

 ]\Iontesquieu, with the singular penetration Avliich 

 distinguislied him, perceives that England imparts to 

 her Colonies "la forme de son Government," by 

 means of which "on verroit se former de grands peu- 

 ]>les dans les forets memes (pi'elle enverroit habiter." 

 But the parliamentary form of Government, which 

 lias contributed so greatly to the growth and strength 

 of Bi-ltisli Colonies, gave to them facilities of success- 

 ful rebellion,— that is, of separation from tlu; ^Nletrop- 

 olis^ — which no other form of government could im- 

 part, and the absence of whicli in Spanish America 

 [and now in Cul)a] has done so much to impede and 

 obstruct their separation from Spp:u. AVe had ex- 

 perience of this in our Kevolution, where each of the 

 Colonies had a governmental organization so com- 

 ])lete that, in order to be independent tie facto, it 

 needed only to i<li!p off the British Governor. The 

 same fact was api)arent in our Secession War, as AI. 

 de Tocrpievillc had predicted. And, at this time, the 

 Dominion of Canada needs only to substitute for a 

 British Governor one of her own choice to become 

 a sovereign State organized as completely as Great 

 Britain herself. 



There is another class of considerations of great 

 iniportance. 



AVar between the United States and Great Britain 

 is now a contingency almost inadmissible as supposi- 

 tion, and so, of course, is ^var between the United 



