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NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN,

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ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST
OF THE STRATHCONA HORS

WHEN

A FI,AG FROM THE TOWN OF SI

WAS PRESENTED BY

Her Excellency the Countess of Minto.

Ottawa :

James Hope & Sons.
A.D. 1900.

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NICHOLAS FLOOn DAVIN,

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Her Excellency the Countess of Mixto.

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S'l'UA'IIICOXA IIoUSI'.,
I\IV I'RM'.XDS AN' I) C()MRAI)I-:S oi" 'nil", Wl'.ST :

Most of you come from that portion of Canada
which I represent in the House of Commons, and
you express in action an idea which Coh)nel vStcele
has truly said is deep in the heart of the Canadian
people ; an idea specially dear to the West ; an idea
to which more than a quarter of a century ao;o when
Mr. (loldwin Smith and a few well-meaning youngs
men sought to raise the standard of independence,
and when a distinguished and eloquent man from
Washington came across the line to preach annexa-
tion and vainly seek to turn the eye of Canada to a
foreign flag, I gave formal expression, unfurling as
high as my small arm could the Imperial luisign ;
an idea which in 1S76, in Hamilton, to a vast
audience of Irishmen, I set foith ; an idea which in
March, iS<S5, at Alontreal, to a large assemblage of
the St. Patrick's Society and their friends, I ex-
pounded as one that should be dear to men of all
races and creeds within British bounds ; an idea
rooted in historical facts, replete with a noble in-
spiration ; an idea which can draw men like your-
selves from vast remotenesses ; an idea which is a

solvent of narrow liatrcds and poor tribal spites ; an
idea which as we sec can fire and fuse men of all
races and all creeds, in a noble, universal loyalty
which enthrones manhood on a height at which the
gratin,!;- murmurs of the jK-tty squabbles of base and
and baseless enmities cannot be heard, and where
the tribunes and protagonists of fratricidal feuds
show like warring sandflies.

From all parts of the North-West Territories
you come — from the wide plains of Assinaboia,
from the ranges of Alberta and IMaple Creek, from
the Peace River and the Yukon ; from desk, mart,
mine and farm ; from the school, from the pro-
fessions; scions of nobility, the sons of wealthy men,
sons of Canadian governors and statesmen, sons of
the plough, sons of the shop — all leaving comfort,
some opulence, and the greatest opportunities of
peace; unasked you go, as spontaneously as tho e
vho have gone befoie you.

You will leave on Monday what is just now a
kiud of snow ; bracing, beautiful, exhilarating ; you
will cross the equator for a land of fierce suns,
beautiful, too, but trying compared with our stimu-
lating clime — and your desire is that valour might
be able to arm itself with wings, the only fear you
know is that you may not be in time.

The spectacle of spontaneous valour and all
embracing loyalty in the British Empire to-day is
unique ; in vain for a parallel you explore the past.

Anything that requires strong endeavour
should be done with enthusiasm. War is a poor
thing if it cannot be waged with enthusiasm. There
is no enthusiasm like that of ideas. All enthusiasm
has an element of nobleness in it. Even when
mistaken, it is unselfish and strikes on spiritual
keys. I have said there is no enthusiasm like the
enthusiasm of ideas, and you are happy in this that
no knight of old, no crusader, no patriot, no pon-
tiff king, no insurgent people ever warred for nobler
ideas than those for which you go forth to fight
to the death. Slaying or slain you must be victors,
for the ideas you represent will have been raised
higher and carried farther by your efforts. Your
deeds will have passed into the thought of the world.
The Cavalier fought for his king, and that personal
enthusiasm was a noble thing, but it did not raise
men as high as the enthusiasm of ideas, which made
steel of Cromwell's soldiers, and their blows to fall
like threshing flails on men of the same blood, of
as strong courage, perhaps of even higher type, but
whose inspiration did not flow from the same
exalted level. It was enthusiasm for ideas that

eiia])led the (rreeks to roll back the Persian invasion
and at Salaniis, singing pieons, scatter and sink a
thousand ships. It was the enthnsiasni of ideas
that gave victory to the Israelites over the
Canaanites ; it was a kindred enthusiasm that built
the Mahoniedan lunpire ; it was a like enthusiasm
that gave edge to the Crusader's sword ; and to-day,
a Britisher, fighting for the British Empire, has
1)ehind him, around him, within him, in his heart,
in the sacred chambers of the soul, all that ever
inspired men nobly in the past. The same single,
sublime idea of God, of individual dignity, of free-
dom, which blazed from the spears of the Round
Heads at Nasel)y, are yours ; the symbol that
gleamed on the Crusader's standard is your symbol ;
the central idea graven on the scimitar of Saladin
is your central idea ; no knight errant ever wore
on his sleeve the badge of a truer or gentler lady
than she, for the completeness of whose imperial
diadem each one of you has entered the lists. No
Cavalier could feel a nobler loyalty to the person
of his monarch than we ; and the God of battles,
who clothed the sword of Joshua with lightning,
and, centuries later, dispersed and submerged the
ships and overwhelmed the designs of Spain, is the
Ciod whose power and protection and guidance we

invoke for you. If it was sweet and beautiful to
die for country iu the days of Augustus, patriotic
deatli lu battle, can liave iu the days of Victoria,
lost none of its severe loveliness and charm. It is
men like you who liave built up Britain's o-reatuess
and freedom and imperishable glorv. And one is
touched to think, that iu other years, the Codriuo-.
tons, the Nelsons, the Blakes, the \Vellsele)s, the
Goughs, the Rol)erts, the Kitcheners, the Howes,
the Wolseleys, the Gordons, men whose renown can'
never pass away, were going out like you, unkuowu,
having only what you have, a wealth of valour iu'
the breast, and the sentiment that has made the
Empire, which places honour before everythiug,
depises the last extremity, realizes a life apart from'
the body, a national life, the life of humanity, and
which knows that in the ideas and passions of truth
and of individual liberty and justice, iu the triumph
of our race, of men like ourselves, who must be
free or die, who hate wrong, and will uot see others
enslaved, it will live, and we shall live in it, wlien
the bodies iu which we move, have mouldered iu
the coffiu, or become part of the windblown veldt.
Up to the present the greatest moral spectacle at
which the world has assisted is that of a nation borne
forward on the top wave of a great idea. But to-

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day we witness something grander far. We see
a whole Empire, composed of different races, of
different creeds, whose rubric borders reach
around the world, embracing, in addition to the
heroic isles perched on the shoulder of Europe,
island continents in the Southern seas, half a conti-
nent under Northern skies in the Western hemi-
sphere, the dim dreamy millions of India, the vast
interests of unmeasured potentialities in Africa —
we see all this moving on the great forward
seawave of a united, high, single emotion. Up
to the present the world has seen nothing so sub-
lime. As Canadians, we are proud to have a part
in this. As Western men, my brethren from the
West, we are proud of the men we have already
sent ; we are proud of you. ; proud to be able to say
to the Empire of those who have gone, of those who
are going ; to that Ivone Empire, liberty's friend, the
friend of all, yet hated by so man}', from pettiness
and envy — " This is our gift, this is the man we
send ; steady, whether bullets hail or shrapnels
rend ; patient under privation, in trench labor, in
rain and storm ; ready to drudge, to watch in
silence, to bear repressed ardour ; but when the
word to close is given, whether sounded by bugle or
passed by touch, eager tofly to the bayonet charge."

The telegraph has annihilated space. In other
years, especially when serving in distant countries,
men fought removed in great part morally as
well as physically from the bulk of their fellow-
citizens. But to-day the telegraph places us in the
battlefield ; we elbow the Cxcneral and his staff ; we

StRATHCONA Hi^RSK.

see our soldiers at work in the trenches ; in the
field firing, wounded, struck down ; calm and deter-
mined on the stormy ridge of battle ; cool, stem-
ming its flaming surge and currents of fire. The
soldier to-day fights not only in the eye of his

leader — the gaze of inillioiis of his fellow citizens,
the eyes of the world are on him.

The crnel injustice and inecjuality of war has
to a o;reat extent been thus redressed. Heroes used
to die by thousands in dim heaps, and one man
received all the praise, and covered his breast with
stars. This is not so any more. To-day the heroism
of the private, not less than that of the commander,
is seen and universally acclaimed.

I\Iy Western Comrades, I pray God to be your
shield and strength, to fill your hearts with that
valour which strikes home, but is full of pity and
kindness for the beaten foe. I pray you may all
return. If you return, you will return to a grateful
country and with the consciousness of duty done,
the master note of all our country's achievements,
and if you fall, what nobler fate could await any
man than to die in battle for such a cause, fighting
as our fathers fought, dying as our fathers died, but
to-day, the venerable Queen, with great and good
men and nations, the seats and thrones and galleries
of the Empire looking down on him and sanctifying
his grave of blood, with their blessings and songs
of triumph and tears ?

Once more God bless you.

APPENDIX

Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal caljlegramnied to the Canadian
Ciovernment an offer to raise, ecjuip and pay a force of mounted ritles
for service in South Africa. The offer, which was then suhniitted by
Lord Strathcona to the War Office, was accepted. There are twentv-
eight officers, 572 N.C. officers and men. All the men were recruited
in the West. The following are the officers : —

Licuteuanl-Colonel.
Lieut. -Colonel S. B. Steele, Xorth-West Mounted Police).

Second in Command.
Major R. Belcher, (Xorth-West Mounted Police).

Majors.

Major A. K. Snyder, (North-West Mounted Police).
" A. M. Jarvis, " " "

" R. C. Laurie, (Lieut. Reserve of Officers).

Captains.
Captain I). M. Howard, (Xorth-West Mounted Police).
G. W. Cameron, (NLajor 5th Battalion).
" F. L. Cartwright, (Xorth-West Mounted Police).

Lieutenants.
Lieutenant R. 11. B. Magee, (Lieut. Reserve of Officers).

F. Harper, (Norih-West Mounted Police).
J. A. Benyon, Captain, Royal Canadian Artillery).
K. F. Mackie, (Captain, poih Battalion).
P. Fall, (2nd Lieut., Manitoba Dragoons).
M. H. White- Fraser, (Ex-Inspector, North-West M. P.).
H. D. B. Ketchen, (Xorth-West Mounted Police).
J. F. Macdonald, (Captain, 37th Battalion).
T. E. Leckie.

R. M. Courtney (Captain, ist Battalion).
T. E. Pooley, (Captain, 5th Regiment, C.A.).
A. E. Christie.
A. W. Strange.

G. E. Laidlaw, (Lieut., Reserve of Officers).
G. H. Kirkpatrick, "
H. Tobin, " "

Qtcartennaster.
Lieutenant W. Parker.

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Medical OlTior.
Lieutenant C. 1>. Keenan.

Veterinary 0(fi(cy,
Lieutenant (1. T. .Stevenbon.

By Order,

HUBI;RT FOSTKR, Colonel,

Chief Staff Officer.

[Special to The xMail and Entpirc]

Ottawa, ^Larcll 7th, 1900. -The first mounted parade of Strath-
cona's Horse took place on the Lxhihition Grounds this afternoon,
when the re<.Timent was reviewed by His Ivvcellency the Ciovernor-
(leneral. The men made a splendid appearance, and the proceedings
passed oft with great eclat, as they were made the occasion of an
interesting ceremony. The citizens of Sudbury having entrusted their
esteemed leprcsentniive, Mr, Klock, ALL., with a beautiful flag for
jiresentation to Strathcona's Horse. Mr. Klock performed his task
this afternoon in the presence of a large concourse of spectators.

Among those present besides their Lxcellencies and Mrs. Druni-
mond were the Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford, Sir Charles
Tupper, Dr. Borden, Mr. Clarke, M.r., Mr. Davin, M.P., Mr. Car-
gill, M.P., Mr. Corby, M.P., Mr. Katz, M.P., Mr. Carscallen, ^L1^,
Mr. Dugas, M.l'., Mr. Oder, M.P., Colonel Tyrwhitt, M.P., Mr.
McCormick, Mr. ^L^rcotte, ^LP. , and many other prominent personages.

Mr. Klock, addressing Col. Steele, said he had been entrusted by
his constituents of the town of Sudbury with the pleasant duly of pre-
senting to him, his officers and men of Strathcona's Horse, a token of
appreciation of the manner in which the regiment had come forward at
this time to fight for (^)ueen and country. The townspeople of Sudbury
represented all parts of the l">mpire, and they held in great respect the
distinguished nobleman who had, by his princely generosity, offered
this corps for \he (^)ueen's service. The sentiments of the people of
Sudbury were embodied in the address which he had the honour to
present.

The address, which was signed by ^L^yor Ryan, Clerk Fournier,
and Major Smith, chairman of the Citizen's Committee, was as
follows : —

" Colonel Steele, ofticers and men of Strathcona's Horse : —

" Oenllemen, — \'ou are now on your way to help to fight the
battles of the Empire. Vou have responded to the call from the

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Molhcrland, and have enrolled yourselves among the number of brave
men who have rallied around the old Hag and have gone forth to face
the enemie.i of our (Jueen and country. NN'hen, through the generosity
of that most worthy and noble Canadian, Lord Slrathcona and Nb)unt
Royal, another regiment of Canada's gallant sons have been enabled to
set out for the front, you have eagerly embraced the opportunity, have
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in order that you may take part in the deliverance or your fellow sub-
jects from the oppression of the Koer and in the upholding of the
dignity of the British Empire — that Empire on which the sun never
sets — the Empire whose might is never exercised on the side of the
oppressor, but always on behalf of the oppressed —the Empire to which
the humblest of its subjects n^ay app'y for redress and never in vain —
the Empire whose sword is always ready to be drawn in the cause of

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fri'cdom, and wln-n unce draAii, is luvt-r slicatlud until liberty has
lriuni|>lu(l nr ihc I'.nipiic fall-., liaitlin^ U)f the rij^lit.

" We arc proud of the I'.nipirc ; \vr arc proud of our <^)uecn ; \vc
arc proiid df L^ri! Strathcona ; uc arc proud of you.

" We, the L'iti/ens o| Sudiiury, will join the rest of the jjcoplc of
Canada in watching your inovenient^, rejoicini; in your successis and
sympalhizing with you in any ill foitune that may befall. W'c now
prc-^cnt you with this lla^,', fcclini; contiiUnt that it is hcint,' placed in
gond hands, and that you will never lei it be disgraced, but will play
the part of men, maintaining the honor of Canada, and pro\ingher
worlln of her place in the I'.mpirc.

'* We wisji you (iodspecd, a safe jourm-y, success in your mission
and a glorious return to the Land of the Mai)le."

Her I'.xcellencv, al Mr, Klock's ref|uest, then handed liie i1ag to
Colonel Steele, with iier best wishes for himself and his men.

COL. STEELE'S KEI'LV.

Col. .Steele, in reply, expressed his warm thanks for this noble
mark- of esteem sent by the people of .Sudbury. " A'e will endeavour,"
he said, " to deserve it, and do honour to that great citi/en of Canada
who has raised tiiis corps." lie could hardly find words sufficient to
express his appreciatiim. lie could assure the people of Canada that
his mi'n would endeavor to do honour to their country, and to the
Hrilisii Empire. (Cheers.) It was a sad thing, ])erhai)s, that this war
had occurred, but after all it was a good thing, because it had shown
to the centre of the i^irpire what Canadians are. (Cheers.) Canadians
had in the pa>t evidenced their loyalty, and would show it again.
.Stralhcona's Horse were no more loyal than the rest of Canadian
citi/ens. They were simply a sample of what the country could pro-
duce, and what the country would do, and it would be their endeavom
to worthily maintain the honour of their country and the integrity of
the Empire. (I^oud cheers).

lIoX. DR. BORDEN.

Dr. Horden, Minister of Militia, congratulated the regiment op
their splendid appearance, he congratulated Canada on being able to
produce such men, and he congratulated the Empire r)n having such a
splendid lot of men logo to the front. It was through the magnificent
patriotism and splendid generosity of Lord vStrathcona that this sjilendid
troop of men was assembled in Ottawa to-day. The force was an
unifjue one. He did not know whether in the whole history of the
Empire there was a similar case of such generosity as Lord Strathcona
had shown. He was satisfied .Strathcona's Horse would carefully
guard the ling which had been entrusted to them, that they would never

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allow it lo pass oiil of llicir liands. (I.oiul clieirs. ) It was emMeniatical
of L'Vcrylhiiij; dial was j^ood, ihc symliol of frctdom ilirou^'Jioul ilic
world. They vvert' carrying it iiilo a war wbicli was bcin^' wa^cd for
freedom and t.(|ual rii^lus to all. (Ciieers.) He wished the regiment
(iodspeed, and a safe return, and he was sure that they would do honour
to themselves, and, in so doing would confer honour upon Canada,
(i.oud cheers.)

MiMNt; Town a Ii.w .Mii.is t.)t isiDh. Srnni in.

IIOX. SIR CIIAUI.KS 'I ll'I'I'-.K.

Sir Charles Tup[)er said lie wn> proud of the opporUuuly of bcini^
invited to take part in this interesiint; ceremonial. The cause in whicii
the regiment was about to enga<i;e was regarded by every Britisji sub-
ject, and by nearly the whole civili/ed world, as of a just and righteous
character. Lord Strathcona, by his princely generosity, had conferred
great obligations on the people of Canada. (Cheers ) He had set an
example that would redound to the honour of Canada and the glory of
the Empire. (Cheers.) The men of the regiment had come forward

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and tt'iulcrc'd thi-ir lives in the service of iheir country, and in so iloing
tlit-y li;i(l shown ihcy had the honour and interest of ("nnadn at iiearl.
i hey all grieved at the loss of the nol)le and patrioiic (.'anadians, luit
their blood would not l»e shed in vain, as it would cement the unity of
the Knii)ire to which Canada was proud to belonj;. (Cheers.) lie
hoped Straihcona'h Horse would return safe, after a successful and
victorious canipaiy;n, but those who fell on the Held of battle and there
was a possibility of some not returnin^-would know that their names
would be handed down to posterity as having, at a most important
crisis, shed their idood in the service of the Ivmpire. (Cheers.) Those
who did return would receive the warmest welcome of a patrit)tic
peo|)le, who realized the deep ()l)lij;ation and honour which they had
conferred upon Canada, while those who fell would fall with the con-
viction that their services would nevi.'r be forgotten by a country upon
whom they had shed the greatest ^lory and pride that it was the lot f)f
man to oiler, lie was proud to know that in Col. Steele, their com-
mamlant, they had at their head a man who was recoj^ni/.ed by Cana-
dians of every class and party as an officer eminently (lualitied in fullest
extent for the important duties entrusted to him. (Cheers.) lie joined
with the Minister of Militia in wishing t; jm all iJodspeed and a safe
return. (Loud cheers.)

Mr. Damn followed.

Enthusiastic cheers were then i;iven for the < hieen, for their l'!x-
cellencies, for Colonel Steele and .Siralhcona's Horse, and the pro-
ceeding's terminated.

A (piaint little volume of pamphlets, containinfj, amongst other
things, a s|)eech delivereil more than 26 years ago, takes us back to a
time before Canada had become as great as she is to-day, wdien there
hail been only two general elections since Confederation, and when the
t( ^e and temper of public thought dilTered somewhat from that
cI these times ; when Toronto was much smaller, and we had
very few millionaires. In 1873 the Imperial sentiment, which
within the last 15 years has become so pronounced, had not been heard
of in Canada. At that time there was a powerful party in England
which held the view that the sooner Canada set up housekeeping for
herself the better. In Canada the Nationalist movement was nearly at
its height, and there was much talk of independence and starting oft"
for ourselves. In the spring of 1873 the Rev. Dr. Tiffany, an eminent
methodist preacher, whose church in Washington President Grant used
to attend, visited Toronto, preached in the Tabernacle, and lectured
in Shaftesbury Hall on the "New Civilization" — this new civilization
being that of the United States, which was to teach the world and con-

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vert ("an.Kla, whose destiny it was to he iiniueiliately alisorhed in the
Repiibhc. '("here was ^reat iniUf^nalion in Tdronto, and a depulaiion
ol the St. (leorjj-'s Society, headed by Mr. lla^ue, waited on Mr.
Nicholas I'lood l)avin, who had come to Canada on a visit in 1872,
and was then living in Toronto, and asked him to reply to Dr. TiU'any.
On the following Monday Shaftesbury Hall was crowded. Dr. McC'aid,
Principal of the University, was in the chair, and the speech was re-
ported fully in the Glohi\ and is now before vis. The youn^ Irishman,
standing up for " Hritish against American civilization," excited
curiosity and interest . There was a ^real deal in the speech made that
night that Mr. Davin wcndd neither utter nor syn)pathi/e with now,
though very natural in a man educated in the heart of the I'.mpire, and
the surprise was to the critical that certain of his words did not oiVeiul
an audience in a democratic colony. On the contrary, the speech was
well received by hearers and readers, anil Lord Dufi'erin, the Ciovernor-
General at the time, praised its moderation. It will always be interesi-
inj.^, not for its oratorical merit (for notwithstanding; itssuccess, it was-
owing either to hurry or to the fact that it was perhaps the tirst speech he
ever made out of a Court of Justice— very crude and boyish), as for show-
ing the ideas with which a young Hritisher of the middle class in the
seventies set out to see the world. Mut its main interest to-day, and
the one which struck me in reading it, is that so far as I know the con-
cluding sentence of the peroration was the first note struck in Canada
of the Imperialism now so deep and universal. It is :

'*That day will never come when scattered nations of the llritishrace,
looking with loyal love from every compass, to the little mother isles —

Ciirt by the dim straight sea,

And multitudinous wall of wandering wave,
and reposing safe and glorious in that sapphire embrace, shall turn round
to call on ('anada to add her voice to swell the peal of filial gratulation
of proud assurance of co-operation, and, if need be, of help -and will
turn in vain." Prophetic words truly, viewed in the light of to-day.
Nor did Canada fail— nor yet Ireland. -Kit, in Mail and Empire^ Sat.,
Dec. 2nd, 1899.

•'If Irishmen have any (piarrel with England on the field of history,
it is not with the people who love justice, but with a class who op-
pressed the English people themselves. . . . And now once more I
ask, who built up the British Empire as we see it to-day ? . . . There
is the fabric of the British Empire. It is a stately structure. It affords
room for genius and activity of every kind ; opens up careers for all.
Well, there is not a stone in it on which there is not the mark of an
Irish chisel. (Cheers.) Irishmen have as much right to claim part

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f)wncr.slii|) in it as aiiylnuly t-lsr. It is a I lilicnio- IJrilish l!m|)irc.
(Cheers.) They have as ljixkI a right to enter its hest rooms as any-
body else. ... I would say to you- ' Never abandon Ireland, your
(Country ; so Ioiil; as there is one lliins^ she ought to have -if you live in
Ireland-struggle for it ; if you live here, give that struggle y(;ur moral
su|)port ; hut do not deprive yourselves and your sons of yf)ur birth-
right ; for there is no man, call he himself I'.nglish or Scotch, who has
a better right to walk into the best room in that building than you ' —
. . . . do not go and make yrmrselves aliens where you are sons of the
house ai:d can asjiire to rule. C^'heers.) .... The Empire is really
a Hrito-IIibernian l'",mpire. (Cheers.)'" I > clwd and Ihc /iinpirc^ a
Speech hy Ni holii'i Idooi Dainii, delivered before the St. Patrick's
Society of Montreal on St. Patrick's Day, 1885.

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