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He opens his relation by describing the con- dition of the province a few years before the outbreak of hostilities as marking its golden age of peace and prosperity, and, with the ex- ception soon to be indicated, of friendly and harmonious relations between the prominent families and individuals and the people gen- erally, though the population was by no means a homogeneous one, and there were rivalries and discords among the many reli- gious sects, cliques, classes, and political fac- tions o...f which it was made up. 'Without any emphatic argument in Justification of the course pursued by the British Gov- ernment which made the first grievances of the colonies, he contents himself with such an approliatiou as would natural- ly come from a fondly loyal' man, and he would evidently -have been content and happy to ha-v* lived and died as a subject of the kitig, believing he would do no wrong, and that any seemingly oppressive acts of administration might have been reconsidered and abandoned under a judicious discussion of them.
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