48 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
Executive. Even the Opposition, to its honor be it 
said, conducted itself with commendable reserve and 
consideration. How different from all this was the 
spectacle exhibited by the British Parliament! 
ENGLISH MISCONCEPTION OF AMERICAN SENTIMENT. 
I contradict, with equal positiveness, the suggestion 
that demagogic agitation in the United States feeds 
itself largely on alleged hatred of Great Britain. I 
think topics of international reproach are more com- 
mon in England than here.’ The steady current of 
emigration from England, Scotland, and Ireland to 
the United States, and especially at the present time 
from England, is not a grateful subject of contempla- 
tion in Great Britain. England perceives, but not 
with perfect contentedness, that the British race in 
America bids fair soon to exceed in numbers and in 
power the British race in Europe. And, above all, 
the gradually increasing force of those factions or 
parties in Great Britain, which demand progressive 
enlargement of the basis of suffrage, equal distribu- 
tion of representation, vote by ballot, the separation 
of Church and State, subdivision of the great prop- 
erties in land, cessation of hereditary judicial and po- 
litical power, intellectual and social elevation of the 
disinherited classes,—I say such parties or factions, in 
appealing to the institutions of the United States as 
a model, provoke criticism of those institutions on the 
part of the existing depositaries of property and polit: 
ical power. Owing to these, and other causes which 
might be indicated, it seems to me that the United 
