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In contemplation of thése results, it is difficult to 
see how any American should fail on reflection to 
approve the Treaty of Washington. 
“Two rival Powers,” says Prévost Paradol, “but which are 
but one at the point of view of race, of language, of customs, and 
of laws, 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 people of the Dominion, and the con- 
tented acquiescence at least of Great 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 welcome and affection 
to United America, 
