The Union of the Provinces of British North America (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1865 Excerpt: ... we preserve that autonomy which is so precious to us, and how long could we continue to say as Frenchmen, 'Our institutions, 'our language, and our laws/ inscribed on pages, some times glorious, some times bloody and mournful, but always visible on the frontispiece of our history? No we cannot always remain in the Colonial condition. We desire some day to be a nation, and if this be our manifest destiny, and the object of our aspirations, we much prefer a political condition, ' which we shall be a vital and indestructible element, to being thrown as a drop of water into the ocean, to form part of a large nation, in which we would lose in a few years, not only our language and our laws, but even the recollection of our glorious origin. Itesifg for Union of ail % Jrobintts. CHAPTER VII. 'Why should we provide for a Federal or Legislative Union of the Provinces of British North Amtrica?' AS we have already shewn that our local difficulties completely hampered the working of our political machinery, and necessitated constitutional changes; that a superior power of circumstances compelled us to select between annexation and the union of the provinces; that our interests, our tastes, our habits, the character of our institutions, and a conservative instinct induced us to lean towards the latter solution, and that soon, in order to follow that universal law which, from the beginning of the world had directed the destinies of these colonies, we must, whether willing or not, prepare to assume our position in the family of nations. But we have not yet shewn why it is that as a colony of a great empire, we had so soon to abandon the protection of the Mother Country, and direct our course towards an unknown future, and why the. Union of the Provinces of British North A...