2o-i Tin-: TIU'.ATY OF '.VASmXGTON. 



ada as olsewlicre in America, wliicli you sec lii its re- 

 sults, if not in its jirogress. It is like the advancement 

 ot'tlie sun in tlie sky, imjierceptible as movement, Init 

 plain as to stages and ultimate destination. *It is not 

 an etFect actively ]>roduced by the United States. It 

 is an event which we n'ould not precij)itate by violence 

 if we could, and which we scarcely venture to say we 

 wish fur, lest in so doing we sliould possibly wound 

 respectable susc('i)tibilities ; Init which we neverthe- 

 less exi)ect to hail some day with liearty gratulation, 

 as an event auspicious alike to the Dominion and to 

 the United States. 



If Lord Milton's appreciation of the course of events 

 be correct, — and no j)erson has written more intelli- 

 gently or ft)rcibly on the Jjn'f/'s/i side of these ques- 

 tions than he, — the consuunnation is close at hand. 

 Arguing from the British stand-point of the San Juau 

 Questi<)n,hc says: 



"TfCircat r»iitnin retains tlio Tslaml of S:ui Juan ami tlic 

 snialU'r islands of the arclii])olago lyitig west of the compromise 

 •^liatnu'l jHuj.dsctl l)y Lord Knsscll, loi^ctlier witli I'alos Island 

 :.nd tilt' Siuia fjronp, she will ])r('sorve licr jiowcr n])(>n tjjc 

 I'aritic, and will not in any way intorfoio with or menace the 

 liarbors or seas whieh aiipcrlain to the United States, It", on 

 liic otlicr liand, tliese islanils should bcconte Tnitcd States ter- 

 vitory, the higliwny from the IJritish possessions on the main- 

 land will he commanded hy, and be at the n)ercy of tliat 

 I'owor. . . . 



"Such a condition of aiTalrs must inevitably force Ibitish 

 Columbia into the United Stales federation; and the valuable 

 district of the Saskat<hi'wan . . . must, ex necessitate rci, fol- 

 low the fortunes of Ibilish Columbia. Canada, excluded from 

 the I'acific, and shut in on two sides by United Stales terri- 

 tory, mnst eventually follow (he same course.'* 



