Benjamin Franklin: “An ancient sage valued himself upon this, that though he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great city of a little…”

But let us take a cool view of the general state of our affairs, and perhaps the prospect will appear less gloomy than has been imagined.

Each union would separately be weaker than when joined by the whole, obliged to exert more force, be oppressed by the expence, and the enemy less deterred from attacking it.

Believing therefore, that it is my duty, I shall honestly speak my mind in the following paper.

And as Canada is chiefly supported by that trade, if it could be drawn into the hands of the English (as it might be if the Indians were supplied on moderate terms, and by honest traders appointed by and acting for the public) that alone…