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Britain may put herself to great expenses in sending settlers to Canada; but the descendants of those settlers will be Americans, as other descendants have been before them.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “Britain may put herself to great expenses in sending settlers to Canada; but the descendants of those settlers will be…”
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Paine argues that British settlers in Canada will ultimately identify as Americans, undermining British control.
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