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Instances might -be cited of the expression of sim- 
ilar ideas in Parliament. 
. Loyalists in Canada must remember another thing. 
Montesquieu, with the singular penetration which 
distinguished him, perceives “that England imparts to 
her Colonies “ ia. forme de son Government,” by 
means of which “on verroit se former de erands peu- 
ples dans les foréts mémes qu'elle enverroit habiter.” 
But the parliamentary form of Government, which 
has contributed so greatly to the growth and strength 
of British Colonies, gave to them facilities of success- 
ful rebellion,—that is, of separation from the Metrop- 
olis—which no other form of government could im- 
part, and the absence of which in Spanish America 
[and now in Cuba] has done so much to impede and 
obstruct their separation from Spain. We had ex- 
perience of this in our Revolution, where each of the 
Colonies had a governmental organization so com- 
plete that, in order to be independent de facto, it 
needed only to ship off the British Governor. The 
same fact was apparent in our Secession War, as M. 
de Tocqueville 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 
importance. 
War between the United States and Great Britain 
is mow a contingency almost inadmissible as supposi- 
tion, and so, of course, is war between the United 
