A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker'Carmichael-Smyth, Robert
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A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker'
Carmichael-Smyth, Robert
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America; Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865; Railroads -- Canada; Transportation -- Canada
It may therefore be worthy of consideration whether there could be
established at one of her ports on the western coast, so often spoken of
as the nearest point of embarkation for British America, an Emigration
Company, which would greatly benefit Ireland by causing a large traffic
through the centre of that country.
(67) Dr. Hind, in speaking of the convict Colony of New South Wales,
says--"If then the question be, what can be done for this Colony?
Begin, I said, by breaking up the system--begin by removing all the
unemancipated convicts. I do not undertake to point out the best mode of
disposing of them; but let them be brought home and disposed of in any
way rather than remain. There is no chance for the Colony until this
preliminary step be taken. But these measures, if carried into effect at
all, must be taken in hand soon. Time--no distant time, perhaps, may
place this 'foul disnatured' progeny of ours out of our power for good
or for harm."
Printed by W. P. Metchim, 20, Parliament Street.
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