"At first sight is appears must more difficult to form an accurate idea of the state of Upper than of Lower Canada. The visible and broad line of demarcation which separates the parties by the distinctive character of the race, happily has no existence in the Upper Province. The quarrel is one of entirely English, if not the British population. Like all such quarrels, it has, in fact, created, not two but several parties; each of which has some objects in common with someone of those to which it is opposed. They differ on one point and agree on another; the sections, which unite together one day, are strongly opposed the next; and the very party, which acts as one, against a common opponent, is in truth composed of divisions seeking utterly different or incompatible objects. It is very difficult to make out from the avowals o the parties the real objects of their struggles, and still less easy is it to discover any cause of such importance as would account for its uniting any large mass of the people in an attempt to other throw, by forcible means, the existing form of Government."