The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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EMIGRATION AND THE COLONIES 853 school argued that it would be wise to cut the colonies adrift A.D. 1776 and leave them to work out their own destiny. 0 This attitude of lofty indifference in regard to Colonial 2. possessions was sufficiently irritating to the Englishmen who th. had made their "homes in distant parts of the Empire; but ’ occasional interference proved even more galling than habitual while the neglect. In one way or another dominant British senti- were imi ments,—philanthropic and economic,—made themselves felt, iii and influenced the Colonial authorities to give effect to ee, measures which were deeply resented by the men whose interests were immediately affected, at the Cape, in the West Indies, and Canada. The strong objection which was officially taken to any extension of our Colonial responsibilities was re-enforced by a desire to mete out fair treatment to the on behalf native races. To the Home Government, it seemed important of Rati to refrain from encroaching upon them in any way’. The pri invasions of the Kaffirs, who were immigrating southwards, exposed Cape Colony to great danger, and an attempt was made to raise a barrier by planting the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth with English and Scotch settlers, and for a time to maintain a belt of unoccupied area. As the white population in South Africa increased troubles ensued, for which English public opinion, stirred by the representations of a Congregational missionary? was inclined to lay the entire blame upon the Dutch element in the population. According to the theory of the Home Government the Kaffirs were re- garded as forming a civilised state, which could be relied on larger towns on the two sides that we shall find the best evidence of our own inferiority. That painful but undeniable truth is most manifest in the country districts through which the line of national separation passes for 1,000 miles. There, on the side of both the Canadas, and also of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, a widely scattered population, poor, and apparently unenterprising, though hardy and industrious, separated from each other by tracts of intervening forest, without towns and markets, almost without roads, living in mean houses, drawing little more than a rude subsistence from ill-cultivated land, and seemingly in- apable of improving their condition, present the most instructive contrast to their enterprising and thriving neighbours on the American side.” Reports, 1839, xvir. 75. * This had been the American policy recommended by the Home Government immediately after the conquest of Canada from the French. Attempts “vere made io prevent the plantation of the plains west of the Alleghanies. 2 Rev. J. Philip, whose Researches in South Africa gave a very one-sided representation of affairs.

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