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In contemplation of tlicse results, it: is difficult to 

 see how «iny American should fail on reflection to 

 approve the Treaty of Washington. 



"Two i-ival Powers," says Provost Paradol, "but which arc 

 hut one at tlie point of view of race, of languacjc, of customs, and 

 of h^ws, itrcdominatc on this |(]:uict outside of Eiuojie. . . . 

 ])ostMiy has ])ronouiiced ; and 1 no parts of the Avorhl at least, 

 AuK.rica and Oeeanica, beloni; without remedy to tlie Uiitish 

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

 image of wliat a near future reserves to it." 



The time is not remote Avheii 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 "Amer- 

 ica,"' like "Italy," shall cease to be a mere geograph- 

 ical denomination, and will comprehend, in a mighty 

 and proud Kepuldic, the whole condjined I^ritish 

 race of North Amei'ica. 



But. fdorious as such a consummation would l)e, 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 suj)orlative ti'iiunph in the annals 

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

 land of which we in the Xe\v World once were, — 

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

 that of the day when Great Britain, not less proud 

 of us, " the fairest of lier daughters," than of hei'sclf, 

 shall extend the riirht hand of welcome and atlection 

 to United America. 



