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In contemplatiou of these results, it is difficult to 

 see how any American should fail on reflection to 

 approve the Treaty of Washington. 



" Two rival Powers," says Prevost Paradol, " but which are 

 but one at the point of view of race, of language, of customs, and 

 of h^ws, predominate on this planet outside of Europe. . . . 

 Destiny has pronounced; and two parts of the world at least, 

 America and Oceanica, belong without remedy to the British 

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

 image of what a near future reserves to it." 



The time is not remote when 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 Republic, the whole combined British 

 race of North America. 



But, glorious as such a consummation would be, I 

 would not have it to be save with the cordial con- 

 currence of the peoj^le of the Dominion, and the con- 

 tented acquiescence at least of Gi'eat Britain. There 

 is many a page of superlative triumph in the annals, 

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

 land of which we in the New World once were, — 

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

 that of the day when Great Britain, not less proud 

 of us, " the fairest of her daughters," than of herself, 

 shall extend the right hand of ^velcome and aftection 

 to United America. 



