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gestion of Lord Bury that the Treaty of Washington 

 is unjust to Canada. He shows, on the contrary, that 

 the Treaty is beneficial and acceptable to the Domin- 

 ion, specifying particulars, and citing the a2:)probatory 

 votes of the legislative assemblies of the Canadian 

 and maritime Provinces. 



But the United States will never make another 

 treaty of reciprocal free importation, without includ- 

 ing manufactures and various other objects of the 

 production of the United States not comprehended in 

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

 Canada must expect nothing of this nature short of a 

 true zollverein involvins; serious modifications of the 

 commercial relations of Canada to Great Britain. 



RELATION OF THE BRITISH PROVINCES TO THE UNITED 



STATES. 



The Dominion of Canada is one of those " Posses- 

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

 ica, which, like Jamaica and other West India Islands, 

 have ceased to be of any economic value to her save 

 as markets, — which in that respect would be of al- 

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

 — which she has invited and encouraged to assume 

 the forms of semi-independent parliamentary govern- 

 ment, — which, on the whole, are at all times a charge 

 to her rather than a profit, even in time of peace, — 

 which would be a burden and -a source of embarrass- 

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

 therefore, she has come to regard, not with complete 

 carelessness perhaps, but with sentiments of kindli- 



