Chap. XV. STATESMEN AND COLONISTS. 421 
Little do the majority of distinguished British 
statesmen know or appreciate the earnest gratitude 
which can be produced in the hearts of the men who 
found colonies by some degree of legislative kindness 
or care for their unprotected state. Those are men 
of generous minds and strong feelings, who carry 
with them their families, and risk their all, spread- 
ing their country's name in the remotest parts of 
the globe, even though uncertain of adequate protec- 
tion because not fostered or even recognized by the 
parent Government ; who trust to their own resources, 
and confide in each other's good faith and conduct ; 
who become quickly inured to hardships ; who are 
rendered provident and energetic by difficulties ; who 
spring more hopeful and determined from under each 
successive disappointment ; and who steadily persevere, 
heedless of obstacles and derision, as the undaunted 
pioneers of civilization and religion. Alas ! with few 
honourable exceptions, men of great name and reputa- 
tion, ministers, statesmen, and legislators of rank and 
influence, seek a more substantial reward than gratitude 
for their exertions, or a more known field than strug- 
gling colonies for their ambition. Immersed in the 
politics of the world, they are ignorant or careless of 
the warm thanks which these young and vigorous 
communities readily offer to their few benefactors : — 
and the brave planters of a new colony are thus gra- 
dually neglected, left without the protection of laws or 
government, placed at the mercy of a few placemen 
who do not know their wants, and tormented by the 
irresponsible caprice of a bureaucracy, which rules them 
from a distance with indifference approaching to con- 
tempt, till at length their noble energy is crushed, or 
their loyal forbearance is exhausted, and they become 
ruined men or rebels at heart. 
