The advantages of this continent are superior, because it presents every variety of climate, soil, and production of the earth, with every variety of mineral production, with all kinds of water privileges, arid ocean coast on all sides, presenting every commercial advantage.  Upon the American continent we are determined to stay, in spite of every odds against us.  What part of the great continent shall our destination be—­shall we emigrate to the North or South?

FOOTNOTE: 

[4] It may be, that the Medical and Legal Schools, are adjunct departments of the Scientific College, which would make the number of Colleges in Egypt but two:  as we are certain that the Military is separate entirely from the Scientific School, and spoken of by travelers as a splendid College.

XIX

THE CANADAS

This is one of the most beautiful portions of North America.  Canada East, formerly known as Lower Canada, is not quite so favorable, the climate being cold and severe in winter, the springs being late, the summers rather short, and the soil not so productive.  But Canada West, formerly called Upper Canada, is equal to any portion of the Northern States.  The climate being milder than that of the Northern portions of New York, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, or any of the States bordering on the lakes, the soil is prolific in productions of every description.  Grains, vegetables, fruits, and cattle, are of the very best kind; from a short tour by the writer, in that country in the fall, 1851, one year ago, he prefers Canada West to any part of North America, as a destination for the colored people.  But there is a serious objection to the Canadas—­a political objection.  The Canadians are descended from the same common parentage as the Americans on this side of the Lakes—­and there is a manifest tendency on the part of the Canadians generally, to Americanism.  That the Americans are determined to, and will have the Canadas, to a close observer, there is not a shadow of doubt; and our brethren should know this in time.  This there would be no fear of, were not the Canadian people in favor of the project, neither would the Americans attempt an attack upon the provinces, without the move being favored by the people of those places.

Every act of the Americans, ostensibly as courtesy and friendship, tend to that end.  This is seen in the policy pursued during the last two or three years, in the continual invitations, frequently reciprocated, that pass from the Americans to their “Canadian brethren”—­always couched in affectionate language—­to join them in their various celebrations, in different parts of the States.  They have got them as far as Boston, and we may expect to hear of them going to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore—­and instead of the merrymaking over the beginning or ending of internal improvements, we may expect to see them ere long, wending their way to the seat of the federal