Some time after this was done, the inhabitants of N*w Y*rk became uneasy, and said: "M*ntr**l is overwhelming us with its productions; this must be attended to." They established, therefore, a corps of _Obstructors_, so called, because their business was to place obstacles in the way of the convoys which arrived from M*ntr**l.

Soon after, M*ntr**l also established a corps of Obstructors.
After some years, people having become more enlightened, the inhabitants of M*ntr**l began to discover that these reciprocal obstacles might possibly be reciprocal injuries.

They sent, therefore, an ambassador to N*w Y*rk, who (passing over the official phraseology) spoke much to this effect: "We have built a road, and now we put obstacles in the way of this road.

This is absurd.

It would have been far better to have left things in their original position, for then we would not have been put to the expense of building our road, and afterwards of creating difficulties.