CHAPTEK Y. 



WHAT THE PROVINCES ARE DOING, AND WHAT 

 NEW YORK SHOULD DO. 



That which is good to be done cannot be done too soon ; 

 and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently hap- 

 pen that it will not be done at all. {Bishop Mant. 



CAN pay the Provincial authori- 

 ties no higher compliment than 

 to say that, so far as I am able 

 to judge, they never do things 

 by halves. What they deem it 

 necessary to do, they deem it 

 wise to do well. This is a good 

 rule for all governments not 

 only, but for all individuals as 

 well. The world has lost at 

 least a century in achievement, because so much 

 that has been attempted has lacked the stamp of 

 thoroughness in its prosecution. " A lick and a 

 promise " is the homely adage sometimes applied 

 to the imperfect results of slip-shod labor. The 

 intelligent observer has daily cause to deplore the 

 fallibility of human nature when he contrasts the 

 golden promises with the leaden performances 

 of men in authority. If all that kings and presi- 

 dents, and cabinets and congresses, from the days 



