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he went on to say, had accompHshed its purpose, 

 and the result is now submitted for the sober judg- 

 ment of the American people. It was not a mere 

 Fishery Treaty, but one of amity and good neigh- 

 bourship — the act of two English-speaking peoples. 

 Canada had held out the hand of friendship to her 

 brothers in America, and he believed every true 

 American would be in favour of grasping the hand 

 so held out. The differences which had arisen 

 should not be regarded as a dispute between hostile 

 parties : it was no more than a difference between 

 friends, mutually desirous of removing any cause of 

 irritation. Therefore to speak of concessions having 

 been made as being ignominious was an abuse of 

 language. There had been no surrender of any- 

 thing which it was honourable to maintain. He had 

 been four months in America, and he was over- 

 whelmed with gratitude for the cordial hospitalities 

 extended to him. He had, it was true, been pained 

 by some of the expressions used in public, and in 

 the press, in reference to his country and his country- 

 men. They were treated as if they were foreigners 

 and a rival nation. '' I decline,'' he said with em- 

 phasis, ** to be considered a foreigner in the United 

 States." He thought sometimes some American 

 Columbus would have to undertake the " dis- 



