CUMMl'.UflAI. INTKliCOUUsK AM) TKANSl'OllTATloN. ^2[7 



ffQHi'um of Lord i^ury that tlu; Treaty of AVasliingtoii 

 is iiiijust to Canada, lli; sliows, on tlio contrary, that 

 the Treaty \h Ijenelieial and aecei)tal)le to tlie I)t)niin- 

 ion, specifying particidai's, and citing tlie apj)r()l)atoiy 

 votes of the legislative assemblies of the Canadian 

 and maritime 1^'ovinces. 



13nt the United States \vill never make another 

 treaty of reci])i'ocal free importation, uithc)nt includ- 

 ing jnanufactures and various other objects of the 

 ])roduction of the United States not com])rehended in 

 the schedule of the Elgin-iMarcy Treaty. In fine, 

 Canada must expect nothing of this nature short of a 

 true zollverelii involving serious modifications of the 

 commercial relations of Canada to Great Britain. 



RKLATION OF THE liUITISII IMKA'INCES TO THE UNITED - 



lSTATi:s. 



The Dominion of Canada is one of those " Posses- 

 sions," as they are entitled, of Great Britain in Amer- 

 ica, ^vhich, like Jamaica and other West India Islands, 

 have ceased to be of any economic value to her save 

 as markets, — which in tlnit I'cspcct wctuld lie of al- 

 most as much value to her in a state of independence, 

 — wliich she has invited and encouraged to assinnc 

 the forms of semi-indei»endent pai'liamcntary govern- 

 ment, — M-hich, on the whole, are at all times a chaige 

 to her rather than a profit, even in time of ])eace, — 

 whicli would be a burden and a source of embari'ass- 

 ment rather than a force in time of war, — and which, 

 therefore, she lias come to regard, not with complete 

 carelessness perhaps, but with sentiments of kindli- 



