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If you believe these latter, their return to France was the easiest thing : they were expected, and wished for ; we have seen in an hundred places the result of these illusions, which, owing to the enterprises that were formed on their re- presentation, have left the most mournful recollections. Little plots, quite secret, and quite obscure, were, ac- cording to them, to strike at the very heart of the power of their enemy. We have seen the agents of the Colonies promising, trying, and acceding... in the same manner. The discourse, and even the writings of the Colonists are all marked with the same sourness * * See the work of the Count of St. Mary's, in which many of these writings are given. THE COLONIES. 03 and illusions which characterize those of the emi- grants. The spirit of the Colonist is not less incom- patible with the Colonies, than the spirit of the emi- grants has been, is, and always will be, with France. This spirit has cost her dear ; from the beginning, it has irritated France, startled foreigners, and deterred them from labouring to place France in hands which offered so little security for the restraint of their passions and the justice of judgment.
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