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In contemplation of these results, it is difficult to 

 see how any American should fail on reflection to 

 approve the Treaty of Washington. 



&quot;Two rival Powers,&quot; says Provost Paradol, &quot;but which are 

 but one at the point of view of race, of language, of customs, and 

 of laws, predominate on this planet outside of Europe. . . . 

 Destiny has pronounced ; and two parts of the world at least, 

 America and Oceanica, belong without remedy to the British 

 race. . . . But the actual ascendancy of that race is but a feeble 

 image of what a near future reserves to it.&quot; 



The time is not remote when the United States 

 and the Dominion of Canada will be associated in 

 these great destinies, whether in close alliance or in 

 more intimate union, it matters little: when &quot;Amer 

 ica,&quot; like &quot;Italy,&quot; shall cease to be a mere geograph 

 ical denomination, and will comprehend, in a mighty 

 and proud Republic, the whole combined British 

 race of North America, 



But, glorious as such a consummation would be, I 

 would not have it to be save with the cordial con 

 currence of the people of the Dominion, and the con 

 tented acquiescence at least of Great Britain. There 

 is many a page of superlative triumph in the annals 

 of the British Isles, that England, Scotland, and Ire 

 land of which % we in the New World once were, 

 but not one of her days of victory can equal in lustre 

 that of the day when Great Britain, not less proud 

 of us, &quot; the fairest of her daughters,&quot; than of herself, 

 shall extend the right hand of welcome and affection 

 to L n ited America. 



