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 PLAIN REASONS FOR LOYALTY, 
 
 ADDRESSED TO PLAIN PEOPLE. 
 
 The fall of Kings, 
 The rage of nations and the crush of states 
 Move not the man, who, from the world escap'd 
 In still retreats and flowery solitudes, 
 To Nature's voice attends from month to month. 
 And day to day, through the revolving year; 
 Admiring sees her in ber every shape; 
 Feels all her sweet emotions at his heart; 
 Takes what she liberal givci .lor thinks of more. 
 
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 Here theii we see the whole weight of the Gospel and of its divine Author, 
 throwD into the scale of lawful authoiity. Here we see that the Christian re- 
 ligion comes in as a most powerful auxiliary to the civil magistrate, and lends 
 the entire force of its sanctions to the established government of every coun- 
 try ; an advantage of infinite importance to the peace and welfare of society. — 
 Bishop Porteus. 
 
 J sit, Tvhile I write, beneath one of those lofty drooping elms, 
 which, — having been spared from the general havoc of their sylvan 
 brethren, — are to be found here and there, erect in single beauty, 
 relieving the eye after it has been wearied by gazing on extended 
 masses of unbroken foliage. It stands on a ridge, in the midst of 
 an open country ; and when seen from a distance on a summer's 
 evening, with a sky as yet glowing with a thousand inimitable tints, 
 it displays so minutely all its tracery, branches, and even leaves, 
 that it appears as if it would be no difficult task to co^iU them. 
 Brt the day is as yet in all its meridian splendour. The shrill, 
 cheerful chorus of the grasshoppers rings in my ears. The echoes 
 of the flail mingle with the softer murmur of the breeze that wan- 
 tons with the leaves over my head ; and every sound and sight 
 proclaims that the sand has still some hours to run, before the hum 
 of industry and the voice of creation will be.mute. 
 
 Rich, various, and beautiful is the landscape on which I gaze. 
 At my feet the country descends into a gentle slope ; to this suc- 
 
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 ceeds a narrow fertile valley, with a stream windini? through it, 
 that woters the meadow, turns the wheel of the mill, and contri- 
 butes alike to the susteiianre and health of man, the cool refresh- 
 m(»nt of the panting cattle, the growth of manufactures, and the 
 p motion of agriculture. Beyond the valley the ground ascends 
 /;iio a gentle undulation. Fields that have consigned their pro- 
 duce to the barn, lie denuded of their wealth, but dotted here 
 iiud there with browsing cattle. A range of woods, with many a 
 niNto'.! eminence wrapped in the blue haze of nn autumnal day, 
 irrrniis'itos my view. The frost has not yet scattered the colours 
 oi ihc rainbow over the forest, but there is nothing like sameness 
 if! the glorious landscape. Orchards, laden with reddening fruit 
 — t!;e white farm-house with its commodious outbuildings, — the 
 roKitry inn llanked by a long line of Lombardy poplars, which 
 here need not droop for want of Italian skies, — the towering mill 
 with its pointed angles — and the broad Ontario stretching to the 
 right. — arc objects that successively attract the eye, as it travels 
 witli human restlessness in search of novelty and variety. 
 
 Now I turn my head, and perceive that the picture is incom- 
 plete, for I have not yet introduced into it, a pleasing scene of the 
 unfinished harvest, — the sheaves that you cannot look on without 
 thanking God for your daily bread, and the rising stack on which 
 they will shortly be piled. Alongside the gathered and gathering 
 treasures of the present year, the husbandman is committing to 
 the rich fallow the promise of the next ; and my mind is at once 
 regaled with the sight of a present plenty, and the prospect of its 
 undiminished succession. 
 
 To whom do these woods and meadows, these streams and Tal- 
 lies, these smiling homesteads, these flocks and herds belong? 
 Does their possessor reside in some baronial hall, the rural king 
 of his surrounding tenantry ? Or is the soil the property of a few, 
 while the many rise up early and lie down late, and eat the bread 
 of carefulness? The inequalities of condition and wealth, — the 
 characteristics of an old and densely peopled country, — are not as 
 yet known in Upper Canada. If with a feeling natural to an old 
 countryman I regret the absence of the lordly castle and its sur- 
 rounding domain, which has descended in an unbroken line from 
 heir to heir since the Norman conquest, or even from an earlier 
 date, I miss that sight so painful to an English eye, — the Parish 
 Workhouse. If I look abroad and search in vain for a thousand 
 
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mansions and picturos(]iie villns, the alrulos of elegant comi'ort anil 
 lettered itxlolcnce, I am compensated \>y the air of j)leuty and 
 independence that enwraps with a ni>trai !)eaiity even the un-'.'^mly 
 pro|;)ortions of an nnpainted Canailian farm-house. If I crumot 
 discover the English cottage peering " from its nook of leaves" and 
 flowers, I repay myself for the disappointment by gazini^ (n (he 
 rude log-hnt, \.\\e freehold of its tenant, and by rellectin;^ that 
 within there smokes a board laden with viands, which a laljonrer 
 in En;ilan(i would hope in vain to procure. If in fine I do not 
 behold the extreme wealth of England, I am not saddened by it; 
 extreme poverty ; if there are fewer gentlemen, there arc fewoi 
 poor men ; if there is less to excite the ambitious, there is mor > 
 to reward the industrious. 
 
 The humblest and most uneducated labourer who enuLrrates to 
 this Province from the mother country, is able, by the honest 
 sweat of his brow, to raise liimself to the rank of an iiidependenl 
 farmer in the course of a very few years. From the rentci- of a 
 cottage, and the possessor of a single pig» ho is converted inio the 
 master oftwo hundred acresjofa comfortable dwelling, barns, caldc 
 and horses. Instead of a smock- frockhe wears the fn;est broadcloili. 
 His English meal of potatoes, rarely diversified by a piece of 
 meat, is here succeeded by the varied produce of the farni, — 
 fish from the lake or stream, — venison and feathered game Uoii: 
 the forest. The value and the beauty of his lot grow tjgcther ; 
 he comes to it a wilderness of wood, and, in less than a score »>f 
 years, the stumps decay, the features of his land assimilat-' 1" 
 those of I^nglisb scenery, and he enjoys the solid sweets of Ca- 
 nadian independence blended with the loveliness of his native 
 spot. If he be a man with natural powers at all above the com- 
 mon, the House of Assem' ij and Legislative Council are open 
 to his ambition ; and I could point in either of those bodies to 
 more than one respectable member, who commenced the world 
 with but axe, or saw in hand, and who had not to wait till life was 
 nearly upon the lees, before he gathered riches in private, and in 
 public obtained the confidence of his Sovereign and the people. 
 When the reaper Death comes with sickle in hand to lay him low. 
 he falls in season, a full and ripened shock; his last moments are 
 embittered by no anxieties on account of the temporal welfare of 
 his family ; and it gladdens him even in the expiring hour to think 
 that his wife will not be driven out like Naomi, a houseless wan- 
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 It is not to he denied that thoro are liundreds and thousands of 
 fnrmors in l^pp(?r Canada, orij()yin{» in no slight degree the hnppy 
 coniiition of life v\liich I have attenif)tcd to desriibe. Vet of tliis 
 rla<;s, how many were enj^aped in the rclxdlion of last winter! 
 How numv now wander about in the United State*^, penniless, 
 homeless outcasts I How many lan)ent in prison, v\ith unavailing 
 anguish, the folly and the guilt of their unnatural conduct I In a 
 few weeks another winter will he at hand; and as the present is i 
 lime of viol( nt political excitement within our borders, and as 
 there is ground for apprehcndinfr that forcifin invaders will ac^ain 
 infest our chores, and invite the Queen's subjects to join them in 
 the work of phnider, slaughter and revolution, — it may not be un- 
 profital'le to say a few plain words which may arm the unwary with 
 a defence apainst sudi a temptation. 
 
 The commands of God, the dictates of reason, and the peace 
 and welfare of Society require that every man should yield acheer- 
 ful obedience to the lawful authority and established government 
 of the country. Extreme cases of cruelty or wickedness on the 
 part of rulers may justify a people's rising up against them, but 
 to make the justification complete, the mis-government must be 
 of an insufferable kind, notorious, and manifest to every eye ; all 
 constitutional and peaceful remedies must first have been frequent- 
 ly resortec^ to ; and even alter these two conditions have been found 
 to exist there must be a third, — all human probability of success. 
 None but a raving enthusiast, or a downright wicked man, cati 
 say that the 15ritish Government is an intolerable servitude, or that 
 whatever defects may exist in the Constitution cannot be remedied 
 by the Lnadual yet resistless influence of public opinion. The true 
 test of a good government is to be found in these questions : — 
 Do I ejjoy my own property, and the reward of my own labours 
 without molestation or hindrance ? Am I allowed the hee exer- 
 cise of my own religion ? Is there any legal objection to my ob- 
 taining the highest office of state, that a subject can fill? Are 
 not the laws impartially administered as betwixt man and man ? 
 If every honest individual would put these questions to himself, 
 when invited to combine in opposing the measures of government, 
 ve should have less faction and more virtue. Falsehood, detected 
 by such a simple touchstone as this, would fall a blunted weapon 
 from the hand of thedemocraticugitator : and the people no longer 
 
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(leceivid l.v Ins wilos,or itillnnuMl liy his jiassionato appcuis, wonKl 
 rnlarir*^ the stock of national \iituc', by (iniotly discliar^jin^ tliu 
 (hitit's of tlieir rospcctive stations, away from tlie turmoil ai d 
 (laiifit'rous oxcitoniont of politics. 
 
 'iliore aro thr«'e powcrl'ul considr rat ions that ought to insuro 
 the lovaltv of iMorv Canadian I''arm(>r. The perioral happiness 
 
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 of the country under its present form (f •zovernmeut, — Ins obli- 
 gations as a subject, — and his duty as a Ciiristiaii. 
 
 The famous Lord Hurleigh, \Nho was the wisest primo-mlnis- 
 ter that Queen I'di/ahelh or any oiIut SovcTci^n ever had, oncu 
 paid a visit to lU'rnard (iilpin, a most excellent and active cler- 
 gyman living in the Norlh of Mniiland. lie was so delij^hted with 
 the zeal, the piety, llie charity and the wi>(ioni of his entertainer, 
 that when ho came to the top of a m'iL'ldiouring hill, and looked 
 down on the happy abode he had just left, he stood buried for a 
 lono; while in )>rofonnd thought, till at last with u sigh, — drawn 
 forth no doubt by a reflection on the cares of state to which he 
 was about to return. — he exchiimed, " there is the enjoyment of 
 life indeed ! who can bl.ime that man for not accepting a bishop- 
 ric I what doth he want to make him greater, or happier, or more 
 useful to mankind !" Now let any man go to some eminence in 
 the neighbouihood of his ilwelling, whence he can command a 
 view of the surrounding country, and if ho be at all given to \ir- 
 tuous meditation, or at all grateful for the mercies so abundantly 
 showered upon him, he will exclaim, as he gazes upon the familiar 
 dwelling of each neighbour one after another, " This is the en- 
 joyment of life indeed ! how fooli.sh must that man be, who owns 
 yon beautiful farm, to trouble himself with thwarting the govern- 
 ment that secures lo him such a pressed-down and overflowing mea- 
 sure of peace and plenty ! Wliat doth he want to niako him 
 greater or happier, or more useful to mankind I lie is great, be- 
 cause he is the monarch of a fruitful spot, and independent of 
 the world ; he is happy because occupation insures him health, 
 and exeuipts him from temptation ; he is useful to mankind, be- 
 cause out of the superfluity of what he raises, he contributes to 
 the wants and comforts of his fellow-subjects, and augments the 
 general resources of the country I" Truly the man who upon a 
 glorious sunny day in September, can behold his barns running 
 over with the produce of his farm, and his waggons bringing in 
 load after load, the tribute of a bountiful harvest, and can turn 
 his looks in no direction, without proofs of Clod's unbounded good- 
 
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 iiess in providing for tlic wants of his rrenturcs, nnd who, after 
 this, can liMid hinist'lt' to tlio schonies of any needy aiitl unprinci- 
 ph'd wrclch, dtMiouncin^' iho tyranny nnd wickedness of the go- 
 verntneiit, must be either a very weak, or n very wicked and un- 
 prateful person, lie knows that, generally speaking, tlic people 
 are iiappyand contonteii, and yet for some fancied grievance, whic!> 
 docs not conje near his dwelling, or allect him in the slightest tie- 
 gree, — he will stir up rebellion against his anointed yovoreign, — 
 invite the foreigner to visit his native or adopted country with fire 
 and sword, — and >hed without compunction the blood of his loyal 
 and unoifending neighbour. 
 
 Besides the indueejnenls to Loyalty which are to be found in 
 the general happiness enjoyed uu'ler our present form of govcrtj- 
 iiient, we are boimd by the obligations of the social compact to 
 submit to the ruling power under which wo are born, or volinitii- 
 rily place ourselves. The social compact is an agreement entered 
 into between the governor and the governed, and imposes duties 
 on both which cannot, on any pretence, be avoided. The Sove- 
 reign in England, on liis accession to the throne, swears to observe 
 the laws of the realm : and in this Province the Lieutenant Cio- 
 vernor, the Sovereign's representative, swears faithfully to dis- 
 charge the oftlce N.hich has been entrusted to him. On the other 
 hand, the subject takes an oath of allegiance ; which in some 
 cases is done in e\[)re5S words before an appointed magistrate, hut 
 ■which is equulltj binding 071 all persons of cither sex ivhethcr ta/ien 
 hy word of moidJt or not. This solemn obligation is in the fol- 
 lowing words: 
 
 *• 1 do sincerely promise and swear, tliat I will be faithful, and bear teuo al- 
 legiance to Ucr Majesty Quicn Victoria, as lawt'ul Sovereign of the United 
 ivingdom of Great IJritain and Ireland, and of this I'ruvinco dependent on, 
 Mnd belonging to the said Kingdom ; and that I will defend Her to the utmost 
 of my power against all 'Iraitorous Conspiraciesorotteinpts whatsoever which 
 shall be madeagainst Ilcr Person, Crown and Dignity; and that I will do 
 my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to Her Majesty, lier Heirs 
 and Successors, all Treasons and Traitorous conspiracies and attempts whieh 
 I shall know to be against Her or any of them : and ail this I do swear with- 
 out any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation, and renouncing 
 all pardons and dispensations from any Person or Power whatsoever to tbc 
 contrary — So help me God." 
 
 There are Acts of Parliament specially requiring that persons 
 holding certain offices under government, should take this oath 
 within a limited time, not that thev were not bound bv it before, 
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 remiiuk'il of the allegiance, to which, if it l)0 possible, they arc 
 fcouiul by a stnuifzer li« on becoming the; King's Servants. In Up- 
 per Canada this allegiance is, generally, due lo tho Lientenanl 
 Governor, who represents tho pen-son of the (^neen ; and there- 
 fore factiously to oppose his administration, and to endeavour to 
 bring him into odium and conU-mpt, is to violate the oalh of al- 
 legiance, and consequently t(j b»' guilty of the sin of perjury. — 
 Kvery native-born subject is bounil by this oath, unto the day of 
 his death ; and so is every foreigner, who sojourns lu're for a time, 
 or who becomes a settled inhabitant of the Province. It may per- 
 haps be objected as unreasonable that a person should bo bound 
 by an oath which he has never taken ; but to this I reply, that the 
 oulh does not create but oidy confirms alh^giance, — and that there 
 are certain duties, such as obedience to parents, and submission 
 to government, — our politicrd parent, — the sense of which is im- 
 phmted in us by nature, and of the binding force of which we be- 
 come conscious on the first dawn of reason. 
 
 My concluding reason in favour of loyalty is tho plainest of all ; 
 it is most legibly written in the following New-Testament texts, 
 which ought to be painted in large characters on the walls of every 
 common School House within the Province, and still more durably 
 imprinted on tho heart of every one who strives to deserve the glo- 
 rious title of a Christian : — 
 
 OUR SAVIOUR. 
 
 ** Render unto Cicsar (the Roman Emperor) the things which 
 are Caesar's; and unto God the things which are God's.'' 
 
 ST. PETER. 
 
 " Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's 
 sake ; whether it be unto the King as supremo ; or unto Governors, 
 as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers^ 
 and for tho praise of them that do well." 
 
 ST. PAUL. 
 
 " Be subject to principalities and powers, and obey magistrates." 
 
 '* Ye must needs be subject not only for wrath, but also for con- 
 science sake." 
 
 " Render therefore to all their dues," tribute to whom tribute U 
 due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom 
 honour." 
 
 '• Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there 
 is no power but of God : the powers that be are ordained of God." 
 
 
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 natice of God ; and tlitn' tl'nt resist shall receive to themselves dam- 
 naiion." 
 
 'i'o tlie:^o words of Scripture, so clear in themselves, no himiaii 
 rxplaiiaticiii can iinpart uiiy additional force; and with them there- 
 fore I conclude. If these plain and unprcl ending Reasons should 
 be anywise instrumental in |ireventing a sinujle person from com- 
 inittijK^Mhe heinous sin of Disloyalty, or of bringing him back, if 
 gone astray, into the pleasant and peaceful path of allegiance and 
 subordination, it would fill the writer with a purer and more solid 
 jov, than the realization of his most ambitious day-dream. 
 
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