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Now all the kinds of security we have mentioned 
are obtained by subduing and retaining Canada. 
Our present possessions in America are secured; our 
planters will no longer be massacred by the Indians, 
who, depending absolutely on us for what are now 
become the necessaries of life to them (guns, powder, 
hatchets, knives, and clothing), and having no other 
Europeans near, that can either supply them, or in- 
stigate them against us, there is no doubt of their 
being always disposed, if we treat them with com- 
mon justice, to live in perpetual peace with us. And, 
with regard to France, she cannot, in case of another 
war, put us to the immense expense of defending 
that long-extended frontier; we shall then, as it 
were, have our backs against a wall in America; the 
sea-coast will be easily protected by our superior 
naval power; and here “our own watchfulness and 
our own strength’’ will be properly, and cannot but 
be successfully, employed. In this situation, the 
force now employed in that part of the world may 
be spared for any other service here or elsewhere; 
so that both the offensive and defensive strength of 
the British empire, on the whole, will be greatly 
increased. 
But to leave the French in possession of Canada, 
when it is in our power to remove them, and depend 
(as the Remarker proposes) on our own “strength 
and watchfulness’’ * to prevent the mischiefs that 
may attend it, seems neither safe nor prudent. 
Happy as we now are, under the best of kings, and in 
the prospect of a succession promising every felicity 
I Remarks, p. 25. 
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