250 Tin: tki:atv of Washington. 



Aiiici'ioa, aiul those clilctly Basques, wlule liiindi'cd.s 

 of tliousaiuls annually emigrate from Great lii'itain. 



Lof/al Canadians, that is, loyal to Great Britain, 

 must of necessity take into account this fact, which ts 

 of the very essence of British colonization in Amer- 

 ica. They are also comjielled to regai'd another se- 

 rious fact of the same order of ideas, namely, the con- 

 tinual emigration from Canada to the United States, 

 not only on the ])art of recent immigrants from (Jreat 

 Britain, but, — which is more noticeable as a sign of 

 the times, — the emigration of old Canadians, natives 

 of the soil, in spite of all the eflbrts of the Govern- 

 ment to check and discouras^e it. 



On the other hand, the liistory of all European col- 

 onization shows that a time comes when the ^lother 

 Country grows more or less indilferent to the f;ite of 

 her Colonies, which time appears to have arrived in 

 Gi-eat Ih'itain as respects the Dominion. 



When Canada comjdains [without cause] that 

 her A\ ishes have been disregarded and her intei'ests 

 jtrcjudiccd by the stipulations of the Treaty of 

 AVashington, the great organ of oj)iniou iu England 

 re] dies : 



"From this day forth look after your own busi- 

 ness yourselves: you are big enough, you are strong 

 enough, you are intelligent enough, and, if there were 

 any deficiency in either of these points, it would be 

 su])plied by the education of selfrellance. AVe are 

 both now in a false position, and the time has ar- 

 lived \vhen we should be relieved from it. Tal'e vp 

 your freedom : your days of aj^prenticci^luj} are over.'''' 



