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     is idle to suppose that a million and a quarter of 
     
     acres- could be laid of like a chess board into town- 
     
     ship squares, and the king and his pawns be expect- 
     
     ed to range themselves at even distances oftwo hun- 
     
     dred acres, or that colonization could go on like the- 
     
     pegs in the silly game of “ Fox and Geese.” Men, 
     
     as settlers,have minds, have feelings respecting their 
     
     families, have hopes regarding the future, have ideas 
     
     ofindependence,and would make but sorry additions- 
     
     to a country without the essential points of ambition 
     
     —-it is idle to suppose that theorising settlements, if 
     
     ever so philanthropically originated, and beautifully- 
     
     harmonised, with supposed and ill understood wants, 
     
     would realise any other result than failure and dis- 
     
     appointment; and the position we advance that out 
     
     of the misfortune of the mode of the original grants 
     
     the best results will follow, is borne out by the irre- 
     
     sistible progression of natural law in regard to colo- 
     
     nization; nay, more, it not only will follow, but has 
     
     already, for taking the original computation ofsettle- 
     
     ments at one family of, say, ﬁve for every two hun- 
     
     dred acres, we obtain the impression that some thirty 
     
     thousand souls would have been the anticipated cen- 
     
     sus, when every proprietor had done his duty, and 
     
     the Island was completely stocked with human beings. 
     
    
     We have here the law of theory set at naught, and 
     
     natural law holding sway against all obstacles. The 
     
     present census, anno 1861, is nearly threefold the 
     
     fullest ambition shewn in the original grants, and» 
     
     we arejustiﬁed in saying, it is time for agitation to 
     
     cease, and harmony to reign. It is time for agitation 
     
     to cease, except that agitation which elevates and. 
     
     produces concord and unity of purpose, for had the 
     
     conditions ofthe original grants been really carried 
     
     out, the present population would not now be enjoym 
     
     ing the comfortsthat surround them, at least not here.- 
     
     When it is taken into consideration that the vexed‘ 
     
     question of original settlement was based on an inﬂux 
     
     ofGERMAN PROTESTANTS, it must be clear to the dull- 
     
     est comprehension, that the present power and I'BS&lt;