284 DESTINY OF CANADA. 



British flag. A few years very few, I think 

 will see it attached to the United States. This is a 

 result which we may predict with as much certainty 

 as we can foretell anything in human affairs. No 

 one knows better than I do the grasping spirit of the 

 Great Republic ; few are more satisfied of its immense 

 power, and this they can wield at any moment de- 

 sired, to appropriate this land. Canada, with a par- 

 tially disaffected and tainted population, with about 

 fifteen hundred miles of frontier, a great portion of 

 which adjoins the most densely populated part of 

 the country of the future aggressor, would but be a 

 sop to Cerberus, obtainable without an effort : but 

 so few will agree with me on this point, that possibly 

 the less said the better. 



