The Colonial and Asiatic review

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London : John Mortimer, 1852-1853
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (August 1852)
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THE  

COLONIAL AND ASIATIC REVIEW.  

OUR COLONIAL POLICY.  

(Continued from, our last.)  

In the preceding number we sketched the origin and progress of colo-  

nization in ancient and modern times. We saw that the policy pur-  

sued towards the Colony or plantation in different ages varied  

according to the genius of the parent state. The Greeks, by their  

independent Colonies, disseminated liberty, letters, and refinement.  

The Romans, with mailed hand, planted their eagles in the fairest  

and most fertile provinces in Italy and elsewhere, as the best means of  

strengthening the power of the sword and retaining dominion.  

In modern times, the nations of the south, such as Portugal and  

Spain, sent forth their swarms to reproduce new communities, having  

the distinguishing characteristics, the virtues and vices of the original  

stock, but, unlike the Greeks, retaining their allegiance to the parent  

state. These nations, nurtured under the balmy breezes of the south,  

were of too soft mould to march in the van of civilization over new  

and untrodden fields of enterprise, and they had already faltered in  

their course, and in some instances recoiled from the natural difficul-  

ties they had encountered, when hardier race supplanted them in  

their mission and in many of their conquests. We then saw that the  

Anglo-Saxon race, in defiance of every obstacle, had, by their extraor-  

dinary vitality and indomitable energy and determination of will, built  

up Colonial empire that must ever remain the wonder and admira-  

tion of mankind.  

Many of the impediments encountered by our countrymen resulted  

from defective legislation, the most prominent of which were glanced  

at in cursory manner, such as—  

1st. Impolitic and unjust commercial restrictions.  

2nd. That the local legislature had neither the power to tax the  

people of the Colonies nor to appropriate their revenue.  

VOL, 1., NO. 11., AUGUST, 1852,  

 

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