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Show 154 CANADA PAMI'HLET. embroiling nations who have no concerni‘ there. If the French remain in Canada and Louii'izina, fix the boundaries as you will between us and them, we mutt border on each other for more than I 500 miles. The people that inhabit the frontiers, are KW"‘ -_~_;... ,, ‘1‘TWII'YVIWT TIT" l l v p d to Open "Glance 2. _[Ere€ting forts in the éaca/étt/emeiztr, a/ma/z‘ 2/2 729 iii/lama: a fuflicientficarity agaza/i the Indian: and we Fram/9 ; but the polfeflion of ment. Injuries are therefore frequently, in fome fie bad, err/{vile in our poet/ah] engaged, and then the mother countries. And two great nations can fearce be at war in Europe, but ' in. ' rocee ount aries as to and bloodflied. ' worft morals and the leaf't difcretion; remote from the eye, the prudence, and the reftraint of governart or other of f0 long a frontier, committed on % l;- ‘ 3 out generally the refufe of both nations; often of the both fides, refentment provoked, the colonies firft our-F" [A: B.T.] Canada aflcarity ; aatfartr none. I 5 5 12;) exagvergtpdlagainfi each 01‘er in their difputes fome other prince or {late thinks it a convenient opportunity to revive fome ancient claim, feize . fome advantage, obtain fome territory, or enlarge fome power at the expence of a neighbour. The flames of war once kindled, often fpread far and wide, and the mifchief is infinite-Happy it Canada blip/22v every ficarit] ; and augét ta But theRemarker thinks rroe/1.7a]! ae fufliciently ficure in America, gf we ‘ rays? Englifh forts (2f ‘ fat/J paflér a: may at once make ur rtflfiac‘faa/e to ‘ tlze Franc/3 and ta tile Indian Irwin/15*. The fecurity defirable in America, may be confidered as of three kinds; 1. A fecurity of potfefiion, that the French {hall not drive us out of the country. 2. A fecurity of our planters from the inroads of favages, and the murders committed by them. 3. A fecurity that the Britith nation {hall not be vailed on finally to cede the New Netherlands obliged, on every new war, to repeat the immenfe expence occafioned by this, to defend its poffefiions (now the province of New York] to us at the peace of1674; a peace that has ever fince continued between us; but muft have been frequently difturbed, 1n Amer1ca.---Forts in the mof't important pafles, may, I acknowledge, be of ufe to obtain theflifl kind of fecurity : but as thofe fituations are far ad- if they had retained the poffefliori of that country, vanced beyond the inhabitants, the expence of maintaining and fupplying the garrifons, will be proved to both nations, that the Dutch were pre- bordering feveral hundred miles on our colonies of Penfylvania wei'tward, Connecticut and the Maffachufetts eaftward.--Nor is it to be wondered at that people of different language, religion, and manners, fhould in thofe remote parts engage in frequent quarrels; when we find, that even the ‘ people of our own colonic: have frequently been f0 very great even in time of full peace, andimmenfe on every interruption of it; as it is eafy for {kulk- mg parties of theenemy in fuch long roads [brooch the woods, to intercept and cut off our convoys, unlefs guarded continually by great bodies ofmen. -The_/écand kind of fecurity, will not be obtain?" Remarks, p. 25. X 2 ed. |