The Colonial Policy of Great Britain: Considered with Relation to Her North American Provinces, and West India Possessions; Wherein the Dangerous Tendency of American Competition is Developed, and the Necessity of Recommencing a Colonial System on a Vigorous and Extensive Scale, Exhibited and Defended; with Plans for the Promotion of Emigration, and Strictures on the Treaty of Ghent |
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Page 41 - is very large, whose necessities even her immense wealth, flowing so copiously through innumerable channels, can scarcely supply. Frequent wars have loaded her with taxes, and increased the poverty of some; while others, by their means, have been raised to high dignities and great wealth. It must, however, be confessed, that the condition of the poor has not improved in the same proportion as that of the rich; yet these differences arise from causes inherent and direct, not from combinations of...
Page xx - ... they are gained by the gratification of these private views. The more individuals there are that govern, and the more various their conditions and their character, the more dissimilar are their interests, and the more repugnant these interests to those of each other, and the interests of the whole. " Was there ever a people who exhibited so motley a character ; who have vested a more limited and precarious authority in their rulers ; who have multiplied so much the numbers of those that govern...
Page xxii - ... benignant seasons ; and which is skirted by a civilized and kindred nation on one side, and on the other by extensive regions, over which the tide of growing population may spread itself without hindrance or danger." " The prosperity of the French colony will demand the exclusive navigation of the river. The Master of the Mississippi will be placed so as to control, in the most effectual manner, the internal waves of faction. He holds in his hands the bread of the settlements westward of the...
Page 193 - Galatin ? for, as in the treaty of 1783, so in the present instance, the British delegates have been foiled by American sophistry. It is much to be regretted that some native of the provinces, was not added to the list of British negotiators, as many gentlemen of superior talents, might have been really obtained from either of the colonies. Our interests would then have been ascertained, and as certainly defended. The author feels assured, that ignorance, and not conscious weakness, swayed our councils...
Page 19 - A navy h«d long been an unpopular measure ; the ruling faction had neglected and opposed its formation : the Federalists alone saw. the. vast importance of a naval power, and were the original founders of it. This circumstance ought to be particularly considered by the British public, because those have been esteemed friends, who were in fact the most dangerous foes. " At the present period the Federalists and Democrats coincide in the full persuasion of the declining state of the British naval...
Page x - There cannot, in the first place, be imagined a district more favourable to settlement. In addition to a genial climate and soil, there are the utmost facilities of communication and commerce. The whole district is the sloping side of a valley, through which run deep and navigable rivers, which begin their course in the remotest borders, and which all terminate in the central stream. This stream, one of the longest and widest in the world, is remarkably distinguished by its depth, and freedom from...
Page ix - Throughout the whole extent, there is not, probably, a snow-capt hill, a moving sand, or a volcanic eminence. ' This valley is of different breadths. The ridge which bounds it on the east, is in some places nearly a thousand miles from the great middle stream. From this ridge, secondary rivers, of great extent and magnificence, flow towards the centre, and the intermediate regions are an uncultivated paradise. On the west, the valley is of similar dimensions, the streams are equally large and useful,...
Page xvii - ... policy would teach the English to divert our attention from this quarter, by the sacrifice of Valetta or Gibraltar. "Can we imagine the English, so vigilant, so prudent in all affairs connected with their maritime empire; so quick in their suspicions; so prompt in their precautions; can be blind to the dangers with which this cession will menace them ? No defeats or humiliations, short of their island, will make them acquiesce in such arrangements.
Page xi - Nile, whose inundations diffuse the fertility of Egypt twenty leagues from its shores, which occupies a valley wider than from the Duna to the Rhine, which flows among the most beautiful dales, and under the benignest seasons, and which is skirted by a civilized and kindred nation on one side, and on the other by extensive regions, over which the tide of growing population may spread itself without hindrance or danger. " But of what avail will be all these advantages, unless a market be provided...
Page 13 - Fraud, smuggling, and perjury, are practised with success, and without reserve, and thus cupidity prevails among them to an astonishing degree. An eminent divine of Boston thus justly characterized his countrymen from the pulpit, on ' putting away the easily besetting sin.' ' There have existed at all times,' said he, ' not only personal and peculiar, but also national sins. For instance, among the ancients the Asiatics were accused of effeminacy, the Carthaginians of perfidy; so among the moderns,...