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XIV, or rather for the passing-pleasing tongue of Madam Mainte- 

 non, which kept that Grand Monarque her unconscious servitor. 

 Though he meant not so, neither did her heart think so, their pol- 

 icy was suicidal. They were pioneers clearing the ground for the 

 undisturbed establishment and expansion of a system — political, 

 religious, educational, social, — which was ordained by Goi, and 

 utilized by man, for revoluiionizing not only America, but France 

 and Europe. May that system of ours pervade the world, endure 

 forever, and prove a survival of the fittest! 



In our northwest French and Indians have stamped their 

 names forever on many natural features, — lakes, rivers, moun- 

 tains, and on hamlets which have, or will, be3ome cities. But, 

 while names are French and Indian, — as Chicago and St. Louis, — 

 all else, — all distinguishing characteristics bespeak the Anglo- 

 Saxons, They came out from Great Britain in order to build on 

 a broader basis a Britain yet greater, continental and cosmopoli- 

 tan, gathering together in one those whom Bibel scattered abroad. 

 Hence it has come to pass, that in the world's wide mouth, we to- 

 day are called, not New French, nor yet New English, nor by the 

 name of any Europeans whatever, but Americans, now and for- 

 ever Americans. That cognomen is already all our own, and this 

 fact I hail as an omen that the continent also in all its length as 

 well as breadth will be ours ere long ; 



"The unity and married calm of states." 



APPENDIX. 



The following notes and strictures on the preceding paper have been sent 

 me by Benjamin Suite, Esq., of Ottawa, Canada, who is in many respects the 

 most learned investigator linown to me in matters relating to the early 

 French in Canada. 



I am happy to supplement my own studies by his aid. Tnto whatever in- 

 accuracies he shows me to have fallen, I am quite sure that his general views 

 correspond with my own. 



It will seem to some readers rather strange if no one of those early French 

 had been a convict — so that New France was an Eden as free from serpents 

 as Ireland was ever fancied to have been rendered by St. Patrick. 



