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Excerpt from A Plea for the Confederation of the Colonies of British North America: Addressed to the People and Parliament of Prince Edward Island
AT a crisis of transition in the history of British North America, when its component Colonies, nurtured from infancy to adolescence by the fos tering care of the Parent Government, are regarded by her most experienced and sagacious statesmen as having reached a stage of developement that clearly indicates the expediency and necessity of the inauguration of a new form of government and administration, it behooves every patriotic and loyal subject of our gracious Sovereign on this Island, dispassionately and With becoming deference, to weigh the grounds upon Which Her Majesty's ministers so earnestly desiderate the adoption by all the Colonies concerned, of the general principles of Confederation enunciated in several important dispatches.
It can to no one be matter of surprise, that un toward events oi recent occurrence, threatening the peace and security of these Colonies, and en dangering their connection with the Parent State, have greatly increased the desire previously felt among all classes of political parties in Great Brit ain, that we should be bound together by the strong ligature of a common constitution, based upon the principles of equal justice to all, and adapted to promote the progressive prosperity of each.
The projected plan of our Union which, it is plain, can not any longer be denied our practical consideration, it is freely acknowledged, is one of imposing magnitude, and Obviously fraught with momentous issues, alike to ourselves and to pos terity. Be it remembered, however, that it has not been entertained by the statesmen of England, and offered to our consideration and acceptance without profound and protracted investigation Without having been contemplated in all its aspects and scrutinized in all its bearings and connections, immediate and remote, by minds as enlightened and discriminating as any on earth - minds, moreover, above all suspicion as to the disinterested charac ter of the motives by which they are actuated in desiring the association in one brotherhood of Canada and these maritime Provinces.
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