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payments, as the condition upon which alone they 

 promise us their golden profits. 



If such a crisis then has really at last overtaken 

 us, that something must be done at the general 

 cost to rid the country of its surplus population, 

 we see not why these plans of Mr. Monteath and 

 Mr. Lindsay should not, at least, receive their 

 share of public patronage as well as others that 

 may have a similar end in view. They both of 

 them possess certain advantages over even that of 

 Emigration, inasmuch as they may probably be 

 put in operation at a considerably smaller expense, 

 while, at the same time, instead of sending our 

 peasantry and artizans abroad, to find a subsistence 

 among strangers, they would retain them, at least, 

 for a time, in the land of their birth, and amid the 

 society of their kinsmen. Why should not the 

 two processes of relief go on together? That 

 which aims at bringing the resources of the coun- 

 try up to the necessities of the population, would 

 only both assist and be assisted by the other, whose 

 object it is to bring down the amount of the popu- 

 lation to the capacity of the country. The end of 

 each is, in truth, only to reach in a different way 

 from the other, the same point of right and com- 

 fortable adjustment. The one would suit the wishes 

 of those of our countrymen who prefer the home 

 of their fathers to a foreign shore ; while the other 

 would form an outlet of escape for those more ad- 

 venturous spirits, who see, in the unoccupied ex- 

 panse of a new country the proper sphere for their 

 enterprise and activity to figure in. The effect of 

 the one as well as of the other, would just be, in so 



