EXPLANATION OF THE ANNEXED MAP. THE whole that is marked with the shades of GREEN, constitutes the present United States of America. The darkest shade of Green shows the present extent of the Old Thirteen States who declared themselves independent in 1776. The next shade shows the extent of the States and Territories that have been added to the Union since the year 1783, when the United States were by us acknowledged to be independent. The lightest shade of Green shows the Wild Lands belonging to the United States not yet constituted Territories according to their system. The RED shows the extent of the English possessions in North America. On the GREEN, there are now dwelling nearly 25,000,000 of souls-excluding Indians. On the Red, there are less than 2,000,000 of souls, also excluding the Indian Tribes. COLONIES CLASSED-WHAT CLASSES TREATED OF IN AND MAINTAINING COLONIES CARRIED AWAY - SURPLUS POPULATION TRADE-HOW PROPOSED BENEFITS ARE TO BE OBTAINED-EXAMPLES OF TWO SYSTEMS THE object of the present work is to bring into some thing like a system the principles which ought to prevail in the government of some portion of our colonies. Hitherto, those of our possessions termed colonies have not been governed according to any settled rule or plan— caprice and chance have decided generally everything connected with them; and if success have in any case attended the attempts of the English people to establish colonies, that success has been obtained in spite of the mischievous intermeddling of the English government, not in consequence of its wise and provident assistance. In the following pages an attempt will be made to discover, if possible, a means of preventing the continuance of this evil system-if system that can be called which has no B SECTION III.-Province-Declared-Tripartite constitution -Of what composed-Powers of-Civil list-Land fund -Trade-Disputes respecting powers-The church- SECTION IV.- System -What-New Zealand excluded- Provinces included-British North America-Australasia -South Africa-Boundaries and extent of provinces- Objections stated and answered-The united legislature- Form of Legislative Administrative Judicial- British North America-Circumstances peculiar thereto- Provinces existing-Danger of separation imminent-Plan for the union of provinces previously proposed-Lord Durham-Memorandum of plan-Changes proposed― |