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success of a family in Canada than in the 
United States, and the absence of this anxiety 
according to Mr. Cooper, is the great induce¬ 
ment to settle in the States , which weighs with 
him more than all other considerations put to¬ 
gether. 
The taxes of Lower Canada have already 
been enumerated; they are of acknowledged 
necessity, and much lower in' amount and num¬ 
ber than those paid in the States. 
There are no animosities in Canada about 
religion, and people' of all persuasions are on a 
perfect equality with each other, except, in¬ 
deed, it be the protestant dissenters, who rnay 
happen to live on lands that were subject to 
tithes under the French government; they 
have to pay tithes to the English episcopalian 
clefev : but there is not a dissenter living on 
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/ tithe lands, perhaps, in the whole province. 
The lands granted since the conquest are not 
liable to tithes. The English episcopalian 
clergy are provided for by the crown out of the 
waste lands ; and all dissenters have simply to 
pay their own clergy. 
There are no game laws in Canada, nor any 
excise laws whatsoever. 
As for the observation made by Mr. Cooper, 
in -respect to the military, it is almost too futile 
to deserve notice. If • a soldier,"however,' be 
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an object of terror, the timid man will not find 
