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proud — and with them arc our strongest social 

 ties. 



And yet the Confederates would, if they could, 

 persuade the over and truly loyal people of this 

 Colony to commit such a treason as to sever that 

 glorious tie, our greatest strength and hope of 

 security froL^ the foreign foe, and join the embryo 

 and ill-constituted new nation, *' the Dominion of 

 Canada" ! ! ! Was there ever so gross, so wicked 

 and so insane a scheme beford practised on any 

 community that had the slightest pretensions to 

 civilization, or regard for their own security, as 

 that one now urged on the people of this Colony ? 

 Surely the people are not so insane and insensible 

 to their own interests as to afford this project the 

 slightest countenance. The fact is, that although 

 this Dominion has been in existence over a year, 

 there is no more sign of cohesion amongst its 

 several elements than there was at the time of its 

 coerced union ; and if there has been any change, 

 it has been one tending to greater chaos. For 

 instance. Nova Scotia is now more resolved for the 

 repeal of that ill advised, unrighteous, unnecessary 

 and forced union than ever. There are now sitting 

 in her local Legislature no less than thirty-seven 

 opponents to the Confederacy, out of thirty-eight 

 members returned by the people, leaving only one 

 member to support the measure ; and this one will, 

 I have reason to believe, have no chance of re-elec- 

 tion at any ensuing appeal that may be made to 

 the country. Again, the people of New Bruns- 

 wick, who, under the same false pretences as have 

 and are now being put forth by the Confederates 

 in Newfoundland, were duped into the belief that 

 Confederation was to be a good thing for them> 

 have since discovered the great mistake they made 

 in returning a majority of Confederates to their 



