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who cannot, of course, participate very 

 largely in those feelings of attachment to 

 the mother-country, or in that consciousness 

 of the want of its support which actuated 

 the original settlers. 



In the United States of America, the po- 

 pulation, with the exception, of course, of 

 the slaves and a limited number of people 

 of colour, retains, generally, an unmixed cha- 

 racter ; the Indians there, as civilization ad- 

 vances, are continually driven beyond its 

 pale ; and neither the emigration of Euro- 

 peans (not being natives of the British Em- 

 pire), nor any other cause, has been suffi- 

 cient to turn aside the original impress of 

 British government and law, given at the 

 time of the first colonization : all the elements 

 that enter into the internal system of polity 

 of the United States are decidedly British, 

 but combined, in some respects, in a differ- 

 ent manner, in consequence of the circum- 



