. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. abver-sion of the Government and the destruction ofthe true worship in France; after having enjoyedfor thirty-five years the mildness of your sway ;there are some amongst us so blind or ill-inten-tioned, as to entertain the same suspicions andinspire the people with the criminal desire ofreturning to their former masters ; do not imputeto the whole people what is only the v
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. abver-sion of the Government and the destruction ofthe true worship in France; after having enjoyedfor thirty-five years the mildness of your sway ;there are some amongst us so blind or ill-inten-tioned, as to entertain the same suspicions andinspire the people with the criminal desire ofreturning to their former masters ; do not imputeto the whole people what is only the vice of asmall number. Far from yielding to these errors, MonseigneurBriand had hardly seen the British arms placedover the gates of our city, before he perceivedthat God had transferred to England the dominionof the countrj; that with the change of posses-sors our duties had changed their direction ; thatthe ties which heretofore bound us to Francewere broken ; and that our Capitulations and theTreaty of Cession of 1763 were so many engage-ments which bound us to Great Britain and tosubmit to her Sovereign; and perceived whatnone had comprehended, that religion itself mightgain by the change of Government, etc. « CANADA : AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. 5^1 Briand had for a maxim that there are no trueChristians, sincere CathoHcs, but such as submitto their lawful Sovereign. He had heard fromJesus Christ that we must render to Caesar thethings that are Caesars; from St. Paul, thatevery soul must submit to the establisheil author-ities; that those who resist the powers that be,resist God Himself, and by that resistance incurdamnation; from the chief of the Apostles, thatthe King does not carry the sword m vain; thathe must be honoured in obedience to God, propterDeiiiii, both in his own person as in the personsof his officers and those to whom he confides hisauthority, cive diicibiis tanqitam ab eo missis. Such,Christians, are, in this matter, the principles ofour holy relij^ion ; pri
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