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the oaths of allegiance to the crown. it is 
very unfair,, however, to imagine that these 
people would be ready to revolt a second time 
from Great Britain, if they were made still 
more independant than they are now, merely 
because they did so on a former occasion, when 
their liberties and rights, as men and as subjects 
of the British empire, were so shamefully disre¬ 
garded ; on the contrary, were clear titles 
granted with the lands bestowed by the crown 
on them, and the other subjects of the pro¬ 
vince, instead of giving rise to disaffection, 
there is every reason to think it would make 
them still more loyal, and more attached to the 
British government, as no invidious distinc¬ 
tions could then he drawn between the con¬ 
dition of the landholders in the States and 
those in Canada. The material rights and li¬ 
berties of the people would then be full as ex¬ 
tensive in the one country as in the other; and 
as no positive advantage could be gained by a 
revolt, it is not likely that Americans, of all 
people in the world the most devoted to self- 
interest, would expose their persons and pro¬ 
perties in such an attempt. 
If, however, the Americans from the States 
are people that would abuse such favours from 
the crown, why were they admitted into the 
province at all ? The government might easily 
have kept them out, by refusing to them any 
grants of lands; but at any rate, were it thought 
