xxii INTRODUCTION 



tween neighbor states through three genera 

 tions of men is a novel and admirable thing, fit 

 to inspire joy and deserve commemoration. 



The peoples of these two states were no doubt 

 of kindred blood. But the quarrels of kins 

 folk are proverbially bitter, and between these 

 there were plenty of causes for quarrel. The 

 separation, begun in 1776, sealed by treaty in 

 1783, had been made by war, a long war, which 

 left angry feelings. The behavior of some of 

 the British forces, and especially of the Hessian 

 mercenaries, had exasperated colonial senti 

 ment, while the harshness with which the rev 

 olutionary party among the Americans had 

 treated those of their fellow citizens who ad 

 hered to the British Crown had sown the seeds 

 of more enduring anger, especially among those 

 United Empire Loyalists who when expelled 

 from the United States took refuge in Canada. 

 For many years afterward the offensively super 

 cilious attitude of the English and the self-assert 

 ive arrogance of the Americans made the aver 

 age man in each people distasteful to the other, 

 and it was only the wisest and largest minds that 

 preached good understanding and good feeling. 

 These aversions did not die down till the Civil 

 War of 1861-5, with its display of courage and 



