COMMKUCIAL INTERCOURSE AND TH.vNSrORTA TION. 2oi, 



tario and Quebec liav< no access to the sea iu tLe long 

 ■winter, save tlirougli the Unitetl States. 



Thus, it' it be possible to conceive of two countrie?', 

 whicli w6ul(l a])pear to be naturally destined to con- 

 stitute one Government, they are the United States 

 and tlie British Provinces, to the special advantage 

 of the latter ratlier than the former. 



AVc therefore can atford to wait. AVe have nothing 

 to apprehend from the Dominion Pacific Ivailway: if 

 constructed, it will not relieve Ontario and Quebec 

 from their traimit dependence on the United States. 

 AVe ■welcome ever^ sign of prosperity in the Domin- 

 ion. AVith the natural limitations to her growth, and 

 the restricted capacity of her home or foreign mar- 

 kets, her prosperity will never be sufficient to prevent 

 her landowners and her merchants from lookinfj wist- 

 fully toward the more progressive population and the 

 more capacious markets of the United States. Iler 

 conspicuous public men may be sincerely loyal to the 

 British Crown ; many of the best men of Alassachu- 

 setts, New York, and Vii'ginia were so at the ojiening 

 of the American Bevolution ; but neither in French 

 Canada, nor in British Canada, nor in the maritime 

 Provinces, do any forces of sentiment or of interest 

 exist adequate to withstand those potent natural and 

 moral causes, or to arrest that fatal march of events, 

 which have rendered nearly all the rest of America 

 independent of Europe, and can not fail, sooner or 

 latei-, to reach the same consummation in the Domin- 

 ion of Canada. 



The spirit of independence is a rising tide, in Can* 



