Édouard Richard, Acadie/Tome III
“ It is hard to deduce any political principle from our records, unless it be new confirmation of the truth that all absenteeism, and all imitation of fendalism, with its manors, and its quit-rents, and its privileged estates, are especially uncongenial to our Pennsylvania habits of thought and action. It is scarcely worth while now to inquire who were right and who were wrong, for it is all swept away as part of the rubbish of our story. ”
