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127 the protection of our gracious Queen. The population of Upper Canada is nearly 1,000,000. The most densely populated portion is from the extreme south-west, in a straight line along the Great Western Railway as low down as Toronto, on Lake Ontario, a distance of 250 miles. This embraces a large scope of country, from the south-west of Lake Erie, along Lake Huron west, as far north as Lake Simcoe. This is considered, not without good reason, the best farming region of Upper CanndaCanada [sic]. Of this population 60,000 are coloured people, who are almost entirely in Upper Canada, because of its close connection with the States, 15,000 of whom are supposed to be free born, and at vaiousvarious [sic] times to have removed from the free States of America into Canada, to enjoy equal rights and privileges with the white citizens, which they could not do in any portion of the United States. Making due allowances for the Canadian coloured people we still have a population of 45,000 Fugitive Slaves from the United States, and this number is augmented yearly at the rate of 1200. These are as it were only a drop taken from the ocean of 4,000,000 now in that Republic which boasts so much of its freedom,—liberty for the white man and slavery for the black man. "Liberty for the Slaveocrats and a strong hemp-rope for the eloquent throat of an English Spurgeon," should he be found in that land of blood, preaching the Gospel to every