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argued by some persons, be consider by The
United States as a hostile measure, if not a cases
belli. No doubt if the British Provinces, singly or
confederated, were to establish free trade with the
whole world, except the United States, the Federal
government would have reason to complain, and
political difficulties, if not actual hostility, might
be the result. But how the States could make it
a cases belli against the colonies, and consequently
I against Great Britain, if the colonies were to imi-
tate the example of the parent country and court
free trade with every State in the world, is not easy
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project of confederation. It is confessed that three
such colonies as Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova
Scotia, each with its separate tariff, and its separate
system of custom-houses, cannot interchange com-
modities and manufactures as freely as they might
if their tariff were uniform and their intercolonial
custom-houses abolished. Already two cotton manu-
factories have been established, one in the city of St.
John, and the other in the immediate neighbour-
hood, which supply by the labour of three or four
months in the year all the demands of New Bruns-
wick, but would be kept in activity for the whole
year, and be otherwise extended, if Canada would
purchase and pay with breadstuffs, as she would do
if trade were free between the two. The New Bruns-
wick manufacturer has, under present circumstances,
a market of less than 300,000 purchasers. Under
Confederation he would have a home market of
4,000,000 ; and under a system of free trade a fo-
reign market only inimed by the unwise protec-
tionism of such countries as were too blinded by pre-
judice and erroneous views of self-interest to see
that the principles of free trade were of universal
application, and beneficial to every State and com-
munity which has had the courage to adopt them.
New Brunswick, even in her present isolation from
I her sister colonies, makes steady, though not rapid,
progress in wealth. The annual returns of trade and
navigation for the year ending Dec. 31, 1864—not
yet published, but of which an early proof-sheet has
been placed at my disposal—states that the imports
and import revenue have greatly increased over the
previous year, and that there has also been a slight
increase in the exports. Shipbuilding operations'
have also increased, although with results less re-
munerative to the builders than in the year 1863.
The mechanical and labouring population of the
province are stated to have had ample employment
and liberal wages during the first half of the year,
but towards the close of the year, as the value of
new ships in the Liverpool market decreased and
the prospects of the shipbuilders became less hope-
ful, the demand for skilled labour diminished and
wages 'receded ; not, however, to such an extent as
to throw many persons wholly out of employment,
or to create au unusual distress. But in New
Brunswick, as in Lower Canada, the mechanic, who
for any temporary cause is thrown out of employ-
ment, does not appear to look to farming as a re-
source, though the land is highly productive, and
may be had in almost illimitable quantities for 3s. an
acre, with the option of paying half, or more than
half, of the price in labour. The skilled labourer
has no affection for the rough work of the wilder-
ness, though independence and a competency are
certain within a few years to reward the toil of the
man who clears the forest, builds a log hut, and re-
places the aboriginal pine and bramble by corn and
rye. At the least brush of adverse fortune, such as
appears to have fallen upon them at the close of last
year, men of this class begin to mourn and lament,
and complain of the colony in which their lot has
been cast, and betake themselves to the large cities
of the United States in search of the high wages at
the trades to which they arc accustomed. The tem-
porary discouragement of this class, which is com-
monly exaggerated for political purposes, finds ex-
pression occasionally in such paragraphs as the fol-
lowing, which I find in a St. John newspaper of the
day before yesterday:—" Within the last 12 months,
from one or two streets in the city of St. John,
nearly 100 mechanics have taken their departure for
the States. Many of these were fine young fellows--
manly, honest, and industrious. They were anxious
to remain at home with their parents, their sisters,
their brothers, and their schoolmates, but ' times
were dull,' there was nothing doing, and little pro-
spect of improvement. The house joiners, the black-
smiths, the masons feared for the coming winter,
and decided not to await the probable penury that
lay before them in case they remained here."
I have made many inquiries during my stay in
this city as to the extent of the emigration from
New Brunswick, magniloquently described by an
anti-Confederate journal as au "exodus of the bone
and sinew of the people," and am fully justified
in stating, from all I can gather, that not only are
the numbers overstated, but that there is nothing in
the " exodus" which has not occurred before, and
that a considerable number of the persons thus leav-
ing New Brunswick in search of better fortune in
the States had no idea of permanently quitting it,
and have already returned with a few more dollars
in their pockets than they would have possessed if
they had remained, and that no more social conse-
quence is to be attached to their migration than
would be attached in Ireland to the " exodus" of as
many hundred harvest men from Cork or Tipperary
to gather the corn of Yorkshire or pick the hops of
Kent. The mischief is that in a country of cheap
land the labourers too often prefer to loiter about
towns, drive coaches, and do odd jobs, than banish
themselves to the backwoods to lead a harder but
nobler life than the town affords. This is an evil,
however, that will cure itself in proportion as the
resources of the country become developed by the
wholesome immigration of European peasants ac-
customed to the cultivation of the soil, and looking
to the possession of a farm as the summit of their
ambition. To such persons New Brunswick, with
its bracing climate and its millions of yet unoccu-
pied acres of arable land, offers many attractions,
overshadowed for awhile, it is true, by the supe-
rior inducements held out by the great corn-produc-
ing regions of the American prairies of the Far
West, but likely to become better known as the
pressure of taxation in the States is felt in its full
force, and as the scheme of the Anglo-American
Confederation recommends itself more and more to
the colonies, and Canadia, Acadia, or Hesperia,
whichever be the name adopted, takes its place
among the nations of the earth, and enters upon a
colonies ever did or ever can enjoy.
new career of greater prosperity than the separate

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