I Can Only Hope That All This Is Paid For By The
Advertisements, For I Must Trust That The Editors Do Not Receive
Less Than The Moderate Sum Above Named.
At Sherbrooke we are still
in Lower Canada.
Indeed, as regards distance, we are when there
nearly as far removed from Upper Canada as at Quebec. But the race
of people here is very different. The French population had made
their way down into these townships before the English and American
war broke out, but had not done so in great numbers. The country
was then very unapproachable, being far to the south of the St.
Lawrence, and far also from-any great line of internal
communication toward the Atlantic. But, nevertheless, many
settlers made their way in here from the States - men who preferred
to live under British rule, and perhaps doubted the stability of
the new order of things. They or their children have remained here
since; and, as the whole country has been opened up by the railway,
many others have flocked in. Thus a better class of people than
the French hold possession of the larger farms, and are on the
whole doing well. I am told that many Americans are now coming
here, driven over the borders from Maine, New Hampshire, and
Vermont by fears of the war and the weight of taxation. I do not
think that fears of war or the paying of taxes drive many
individuals away from home. Men who would be so influenced have
not the amount of foresight which would induce them to avoid such
evils; or, at any rate, such fears would act slowly.
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