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ALGAE, "CANAEIAN NEWS" OFFICE, 11, CLEMENT'S LANE, LOMBARD STREET, E.G. m iafl& umm ._^K AU right! reserved. m /g62 1 j^ 3 k(»*^ OUR CANADIAN DOMINION. HALF A DOZEN BALLADS AltOUT A KING FOR CANADA. FROM TllK I'KN OF MARTIN F. TUPPER, AFlllDR (IF 'M'UOVEHIUAL I'lirLOSOPHY," EIC, liTC. WITH SOME PROSE COMMENTS. LONDON : PUBLISHED BY F. ALGAR, "CANADIAN NEWS" OFFICE, 11, CLEMENT'S LANE, LOMBARD STREET, E.G. 18G8. g( n( cl 01 q 0( a t] t: I 1 i ( 1 PEEFACE. It has been suggested tliat sotzio of my recent Canadian Ballads which have flown over the Fur "West, as well as over England generally, should have more than the ephemeral ijublication which newspapers can give ; accordingly, I have gathered these half-dozen, chiefly bearing on the Kingdom topic (omitting some others irrelevant or obsolete, as on the old ''Fishery" and "Foreign Enlistment" questions, «&;c.), and have had them set out chronologically Avith their occasions in this pamphlet. My especial interest in Canada may be stated as duo to the fact that, early in the seventeenth century, and owing to the religious persecutions of those times, some of my family migrated to Nova Scotia (whose present premier, the Hon. Charles Tupper, is thus ancestrally my cousin) ; as also to the fact that General Sir Isaac Brock, killed in saving Upper Canada at the Battle of Queenston in 1812, was my near relation by marriage. These circumstances, irrespectively of a personal visit in 1851, and of certain interests connected with literature or with patriotism, have naturally drawn my more especial attention to our great Dominion in North America ; and may serve to account for and excuse, after the late successful esta- blishment of a " Canadian Confederation," my seemingly uncalled-for interference ; which, in a total outsider, might otherwise be called intrusive. B 2 IV rnEPACE, I have thought it the simplest and clearest method to introduce, chiefly in the original editorial phraseology, a few prose remarks pre- liminary to each of these ballads, by way of explanation ; and it will be remembered that they have all been very widely circulated, not only in England and throughout Canada, but (as bearing generally on the same doctrine) in Now Zealand also, and India and Australia. The first ballad in particular has a general application of the Imperial- subkingdom idea to all overgrown colonies ; Avhich are naturally pining for Eome larger and better form of government than can be supplied to them through an office in Downing Street ; whether (to meet opposite tastes) that larger and better form come to bo hereafter Eoyal or Eepublican. In truth, there is a growing feeling throughout the English world, that our great colonies will not much longer consent to be governed through telegraph wires from the desk of any London politician ; and that, in default of some real scion of royalty being ere long accorded to each f.s Viceroy on the spot, Australia and Canada (not to add also India, New Zealand, and South Africa) will gradually drop off from their old monarchical stem as distinct, and possibly hostile, republics. To help in a better issue has been from time to time my object through various means, and, not least, by popular ballads ; and I may venture to hope that the vast circulation of these, hitherto in news- papers and handbills, may have had to some extent the good effect intended. M. F. T. Albuhy House, near Guiltiford, March, 1868. OUR CANADIAN DOMINION. No. I. A KING FOR A COLONY. {I'ublished in Febrtianj, 1865.) Cubs of the grand old lioness brood, Patriot colonies, sturdy and shrewd, All of you— each,— wherever unfurl' d St, George's cross flames over the world. Hearken a minute, and let one word Now by two heniisijheres loudly be heard, — AiiFEED ! glory shines in the name ; Alfred ! it rings on the buckler of fame ; Alfred ! which of you, then, most wise, Prays and works to secure such a prize ? Lo ! what a name as a Pounder-King's ! What a seed of high thoughts, what a root of good things ! What a watchword in war, what a motto for peace ! What a prince,— more worthy of you— than of Greece ! Proud Australia, spangled with gold ; India, man's gemm'd cradle of old ; Canada, coUeagued with comrades brave ; Ho].e-bound Africa, purged of the slave ; OUR CANADIAN DOMINION. And wherever from liundredH of lelos Mother Britannia frowns and Bmilos, — Which of you all, true lovers of us, Truer self-lover will prove, as thus ? Wliich of you, such wise love to evince, Will pray for your King in the Sailor Prince, And ore many more of his summers bo run. Ask of the Queen, for your Kiiip;, Her Son ? For, in the fulness of time, it is seen Tliat swarming bees hive off from their Queen : Not like America, sorrow to tell, Forced by that tyrannous tax to rebel ; But, as constrain'd by the spread of mankind, The width of the world, and the progress of mind. By numbers and wealth, by distance and clime. By the Babel-scatter of Place and of Time. We, small isles on the ends of the earth. People the world with a Titan birth ; We, a mere eagle's nost on a rock. Are hatching-out so much of eaglet-stock That flocks fly fori-., full-fledged, full-grown, And each claims an eyrie and rock of his own ! We cannot keep men-children at school ; Nor fancy by telegraph-wires to rule. Puppet-like, mighty communities free, Thousands of leagues, over land, over sea : Stout and shrewd, full of power and skill, And quite independent— save for good-will, — Swarming peoples, born in a day, Cover huge continents far away, — Too far, too huge, such Nations upspring To bear the small pride of a Downing-Street King. Ay, — vast Empires with clipt wings. Giant-children in leading-strings, OUll CANADIAN DOMINION. Tuto.od and trammoll'd o'or landa und soas By clerks ut thoir ofUco-uiitiitodos, Half set free, it is true, but still Slaves to some partizau Promior's will, — Is it not, some of you, time to escape From circumlocution's fetters of tape ? — Higli time now to bo running alone With a King of your choice, a King of your own ? No creature of party, no rival of place, No clamorous oligarch, vain of his race. No broken-down soldier, no half-ruined lord, No barnacle-hack of a Government board. No tinsel sham-king with his flunkey fied court, But the real royal thing of the riglit good sort,— A stem of Britannia's Oak, that fills With the })oughs of a dynasty old as the hills, Eooted at centre and acorn'd to hea\ an, This dear old planet, to man God-given ! For well do I wot that your wisdom clings To tlio quiet good rule of legitimate Kings : For you, no republican riots shall roar, No constant elections corrupt to the core, No towns bo laid waste by renewed civil strife, No provinces blasted by war to the knife ! British America ! look well around ; Sulphurous skies, and blood-sodden ground, Famishing orphans, and desolate farms. Shouts of fierce fury from brothers in arms. Hark ! how their terrible eloquence rings,— " Curses on Presidents, Blessings on Kings ! " And— if he but wills— what a King for your choice I What a nature, as well as a name, to rejoice Your hopo of his future from love of his past, A slower beginning that's surer to last. Let us speak the plain truth without favour or fear ; No paragon piece of perfection is here, OUR CANADIAN DOMINION. No fabled romantic irr possible piince Never Been before Arthur, nor in him, nor since ; But, a soul full of pluclc, and a mind full of thought, Well-born and v/ell-nurtured, well-grown and well-taught, Frank, kindly, wholo-hearceJ, brave, simple, and true, And if (jtill a youth better fitted for you ; No p.h^udiee rampant, nor habits grown strong. Nor need of unlearning a possible n-roug. But, Rcion of England and bred in her school. True to his right, constitutional rule. And dream not, world, that in cuttmg them free, Bear patriarch England lei-s honour'd would be,— An Ishmael, with twelve of the sons of his hearth, Princes and Kings all over the Earth ! And dare not, statesman, to hint with a sneer, " Secession ! high treason ! a traitor is here ! " The son that is married and settled in life Secedes, if you will, to his home and his wife ; But his home is a nook for your peaceful grey hair, And his wife a new daughter to set your rmchair : Kingdoms and families follow like laws ; Divisio-.i had ever good growth for its cause. And dread not, Queen, that in leaving them thus, Tlielr hearts as in pride could repudiate us : No ! king'd with some Trince of th^ Blood ao theii own, Allied as dear kindred, yet standing alone. Each realm with its difference, when it upsprung, AVould claim, as one race, one flag with one tongue : Great England would be, as in wealth so in worth, Yictoria's England, all over the Earth ; Our Alfred might hold an American helm, Our Artluir rule over Australia's realm, Our Leopold, Eajah of India be seen, And the great Maharanee of all be The Queen ! OUR CANADIAN DOMINION. i' The Editor of tli<^ British Colonist, Halifax, Nova Seoti'i, dated March 16, 1865, at the end of a laudatory article, which we will omit, observes: "Such au idea as is delineated in this poem, that is, of placing Briti'jh America, and eventually the other great Colonial de- pendencies, under Viceroyalties hereditary in the Eoyal Family of England — or, as the Author prefers to call them. Colonial Kings under the su?;erainty of our Queen — has long been a favourite idea with many of those who, for years past, have advocated a union of the colonies oi British North America." The second ballad here produced is one originally published in English newspapers during Apn'l, 1865, and soon after in the Colonies, An eminent Canadian Commissioner, in a printed recommendation of this ballad to his countrymen, says: "It breathes the genuine senti- ments of England relati\e to the proposed union of these Colonies ; the brilliant anticipations of the result of that union ; the admiration of the achievement, shoidd the union be effected ; and the utter scorn of us British Americans should wo tail to effect it." Ko. II. TO BRITISH AMERICA. Is it your wish to be free, To be rich, to be glorious on earth ? Is it your hope a great nation to be, lirowing In wealth and worth ? Unite, unite, unite ! Remember the fable of yore, Banded together by reason and right In brotherhood, strong and ejcure I Or, can this be your will", TJiat jealousies (frankly to speak) Shrivel you down to poor provinces still, Separate, selfish, and weak ? — 10 OUE CANADIAN DOMINION. Each little clan for itself Scrambling in covetous pride, Nursing its own petty pleasure and pelf, Scorn'd of the world beside ! More, — there is peril at hand, — A storm from the South rolls nigh ! Where is the giant its fury to stand ? "Where are the pigmies .;o fly ? Unite, unite, unite ! And so be that giant yourselves ; Never let Yankeedom scatter in flight A rabble of separate elves ! How would your commerce flow free In floods from the West and the East, Exchanging aU gifts of the land and the sea In a rich and reciprocal feast ! How would your rails and your ships, Your roads, mines, forests, and fields. Pour on your empire over its lips All that prosperity yields ! Your empire ! Yes,— be it thus ; Not Confederation alone, But,— just a Great Nation ! and claiming from us A Prince of the Blood for your throne! His children your monarchs to be. His peers of your own loyal sons. And British America English and free From Vancouver Isle to St. John's ! In due course the Confederation has been efi'ected : and my next ballad here reproduced shall be one of nearly two years after the date of the last, published (along with those that follow it) in the first instance in a country newspaper, and thence transferred to numerous other provincial and colonial journals. OUll CANADIAN DOMINION. 11 No. III. ALFRED, PRINCE OF CANADA. Who shall be Canada's Head ? Who then is fittest and best To reign for the Queen, and to rule in her stead Our glorious Britain out-west ? Lo ! a new nation to raise, — Lo ! a great people to guide, — Who shall be chosen their pride and their praise. To win all their hearts to his side ? Any political Peer ? Any old Sword on the shelf ? • One of the Barnacle family here, Greedy for place and for pelf? Shall such as this be your Chief, As the right man for the hour. To cherish your bud into blossom and leaf, And bring to good fruit your glad flower ? No ! Let a Prince of the Blood, Born in the purple of State, Let Alfred bo given, young Alfred the Good, To match with old Alfred the Great ! Here is the Chieftain for choice ; Loyalty's life to evince, Canada prays with her heart in her voice, ** Queen, give us Alfred for Prince !" 12 OUE CANA"OIAN DOMINION. After this was in print, it occurred to the writer that, with re- spect to Prince Alfred, an apparent difficulty might exist about the Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, to which our admirable Prince Consort would have succeeded ; and whereof Prince Alfi'ed, as second son, is understood to be heir to his uncle, the reigning Duke. The case would, after all, be only analogous with that of our own Georges, so long Electors of Hanover as well as Sovereigns of England ; but, to meet the point of view more exactly, I penned the following : — Ko. IV. A VICEROY FOR CANADA. How well it were for Canada, if only this was done — That Queen Victoria lend us now her gallant sailor son. To stand, her presence, thus to us,— her sceptre here to hold, And shine, our good-ship's figure-head of royal blue and gold! Look you,— just launch'd "The Canada" comes sailing on in state, No more a mere provincial craft,— a taut and trim first-rate, — A man-of-war, a real Queen's ship, with all her canvas set. To claim as captain from the Queen her noblest captain yet ! II Or haply, if her Alfred be destined otherwhere, To bless his sainted Father's realm, and rule as sovereign there, - How well it were for Canada to find both pride and praise In sweet young Akthur, antitype of Arthur in old days ! Alfred— or Aethfr — either stands a dear historic name That equally with us for love America may claim, — And thus a watchword of itself to hold the West in peace, Arid keep our race at unisor, and bid their quarrels cease. OUR CANABIAN DOMINION. 13 In anywise, a royal prince we ask to bless us now, And bathe these snowy decks with honour's light from poop to prow, Both officers and crew ennobled, by his royal touch, — Oh, this would gladden Canada ! Oh, this would raise her much ! Disunion then must crouch ashamed of all his sullen pride. Nor in the cold with selfish schemes would dare to stand aside ; Newfoundland and Prince Edward's Isle shall gladly come in too, And join their hands and hearts with us, as patriots good and true. Nor can one thought of harm to us afflict our neighbours then, For all will reverence the homes of honest loyal men Whose royal prince must charm all hearts, — for all men shall be seen Lovers of him, for love of Her, whom all most love — The Queen ! *' The recent cession of Russian America gives a new reason for the aggrandizement of Canada by raising it to the status of an hereditary royal Viceroyship, or of a kingdom, now that its confederation is con- firmed. Any mere military governor or other political chief, with perpetual prospect of recall, and surroimded by partizans against as well as for him, can never liavo such elements of stability in his govern- ment as an irrevocable ruler of royal blood : and now that the United States are stronger than ever, Canada will probably at no distant period be absorbed in them ; unless she is elevated by England to royal dignity, — to balance by a monarchy, or as near an approach thereto as may consist in hereditary Yiceroyaltj-, the vast weight of the American republic." No. V, CANADA'S CHOICE. Two glorious ideas for the World of the West, So grand, one is puzzled to say which is best. Best for old England, and best for mankind, Best for creation in matter and mind. 14 OUR CANADIAN DOMINIOlJ. For a first that the States in their greatness should gi'ow And fill the new world on the scheme of Monroe ; Whereby dear Old England expands in lier child By religion and laws and her tongue iindefiled : Let Russia sell millions of acres of ice, And Mexico's realm be annexed in a trice, Northward or southward, — still Englishmen stand With their own mother-tongue in a mother-like land : Even if Canada, mighty and free, Eesolve, as she may, a Republic to be, Join'd with America, all would be seen One brotherly friend to our own King or Queen : America, under what rulers it will. Must ever be free to an EngKshman still. And, just as the world of old days was all Rome, England is ever America's home. The second great thought — and a better it seems, To one who rejoices in loyalist dreams — Is— Canada kiugdom'd ! — that half of the West Reflecting Britannia's rule as the best ; Stable good government, changeless and strong In prosperous right and discomfited wrong ; Yielding a refuge well open to ail Who prefer royal peace to rex)ublican thrall, — Yet giving to no one ofi'ence, if he care To prefer to a throne his President's chair, But standing in loyalty, faithful and fast. By Canada's Kings, from the first to the last. OUR CANADIAN DOMINION. 15 Thus England monarchical smiles reconciled On the face of her kingless American child, Mother and daughter both claiming to share Liberty's soil, as coheiresses there ! The last, with a portion of its introductory article, is as follows : " Mr. Tupper's main idea seems to be an extemporized feudal system ; and he has several times heretofore mooted the great question (to be answered by our overgrown colonies), * Why should not the Queen be an Empress, with tributary kingdoms under her, each headed by a Prince of the Blood Eoyal?" Canada, Australia, South Africa, and perhaps New Ze> nd, might all give worthy thrones to our younger Princes, each of whom (quite unlike an Austrian Maximilian among half-breeds and Spaniards) would be native at once to the people, law, and language of Old England, and most acceptable as a head to each gigantic colony. It may be worth while to add, that our economists at home would be equally well pleased as our colonists abroad, if civil list expenses are transferred to those who will be glad thus to pay for the honour of a kingdom, from some who might here churlishly object to the reasonable cost of so many royal scions in England : while the personal objection of expatriation Is barely to be alleged as a difficulty in these days of rapid communication : England is always more or less accessible, and a temporary E,egont possible under circumstances ; besides that much would be compensated by the ideas of duty, dignity, and usefulness. The whole scheme (if only our statesmen could bo got to see with 'the poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling') would give a great start to colonial emigration, would consolidate our vast de- pendencies, and would add to the glory and happiness of Britain and her Queen throughout both hemispheres. Here then we have the honour of giving to our readers another of Mr. Tupper's important suggestions in rhyme for the New Confederation ; combined witli those which have preceded it, we suppose this will have pretty well exhausted the theme of a Canadian Vicoroyalty." ; u 16 OUU CANADIAN DOMINION. No. VI. HONOURS AND DEFENCES. A Throne, — with its titles and places and gifts, A peerage, a Court, and all parties made one By loyalty's wholesome romance, that uplifts And quickens a Nation its new race to run, — This, this is the plan to make Canada strong, x\ keep her united and English and free. To save her at once from unneighbourly wrong, And start her aright both by land and by sea. We could not protect her, should perils assail ; Herself must provide both the spear and the shield, Our distant defending would certainly fail, », Three-thousand-mile absence is too far afield : That frontier so vast might bo hard frozen in While foes were close by and all friends far away, And if in the fight she would go in and win, Herself must in chief be her strength and her stay ! Let England attract to new homes in the West (j3y land she may grant, or unrented may lend) Her emigrant poor, in such bounty well-blest. On the good feudal rule, " What you hold you defend:" Let Canada's Magnates be honoured and raised By ofiice and rank, as the chiefs of their race ; Let patriot zeal be promoted and praised. And the name of each lordship be link'd to a place. ~ m OUR CANADIAN DOMINION. Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, and St. John's, Hamilton, Halifax, Ottawa,— these. With scores of like names, and as rich in groat sons, Might yield them their titles in varied degrees ; Let the duke, and the earl, and the baron bo tliere. Each in the just grade of his wealth and his worth, And the people's free voices be glad to declare Who best should be rangf " with the nobles of earth. 17 As War with his laurel was eager to deck For conquests of old each illustrious name, As Brock of Niagara, Wolfe of Quebec, Are throned on their columns, liigh trophied in fame, — So Peace has her victories too, and accords Her olives and palms to the patriot band Whom Canada claims for her heroes and lords Eound a Prince of the Blood as the King of her Land ! And an Order for Canada well might be found In a star, or a cross, or a badge, or a name, To win her respect from the peoples around, And cheaply rew ard the frrst heirs of her fame : So, her King, r/ell surrounded by commons and peers. With millions of acres to grant to free men, Will prosper, till Earth shall have ended her years. And stand as the child of Old England till then ! It is not easy, without going to the length of reprinting mere praise, to give extracts from Colonial newspapers and letters in furtherance of the idea here advocated; but omitting panegyric as much as possible, and sometimes eschewing the specialty of names, the following para- graphs upon the subject may be inserted with advantage. An Australian paper of 1865 speaks thus: ''If the democracy to which we are said to be helplessly gravitating assumes a kingly form — 18 OUR CANADIAN DOMINION. if we ore to have a democratic state of society without democratic institutions — if the n'gimo of the middlo class is to culminate in the regime of a popular citizen-king — then there can bo no objection to " ' A scion of England, bred in her school, True to his rif