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ANNEXATION. 
 
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 In tho present era of our country's history — a period which is 
 maiked hy significant sighs of the times, although not sufficiently 
 oiainoiis to indicate the apj)roach of a national crisis, politic:il, com- 
 mercial or otherwise — it becomes the duty of every man in Canada to 
 stand up and show hvs colours, to signify by word and act which side ho 
 is on — the side of loyalty or the side of treason. It has been said by 
 some one without much faitli in huniiin nature, " that every man has 
 Ilia price." 1 have more faith in mankind than to believe such a 
 calumny as tliat. I believe that an honest man cannot be bought. It 
 seems to me that the world does not contain money enough to purchase 
 a true patriot. The history of the world has furnished us with many 
 illustrious examples of incorruptible honesty and inflexible patriotism. 
 The crucial ordeal of temptation and trial alone can reveal to the public 
 eye the heroic, changeless virtue of such high born souls. There were 
 incorruptible patriots in the days of old. Surely civilization, intelli- 
 gence intellectual light and scientific progress, have not made men worse 
 Ihan they were in the time of Cincinnatu.s. 
 
 The question of annexation — under the specious [)retexls of "Com- 
 mercial Union,'" "Unrestricted Reciprocity," and other fallacious shib- 
 boleths — of Canada to the United States has formed a subject of discus- 
 sion for some time in the press of this country as well as in that of the 
 States. From our point of view this unpopular idea is fraught v/itli 
 such insuperable obstacles that it may be considered totally impracticable. 
 The agitation of the question, however, will do much good, and can do 
 little harm. It will band together more closely the loyal friends of 
 Canadian Union and British connection. It will also enlighten th(! 
 public mind of the United States upon many things which have hitherio 
 been only imperfectly understood, and by the great body of the people 
 of that country not comprehended at all. 
 
 Foreign demagogues and domestic traitors have drawn pictures of 
 Canada and Canadians for the eye of Brother Jonathan completely at 
 variance with the features of the original. Led astray by these false 
 representations, he has been induced to form erroneous estimates of our 
 country, our character, our condition, our hopes, our aspirations, and 
 our feelings as a people. 
 
 Thus led astray by incorrect information, Brother Jonathan, with 
 supreme self-possession, you smoke your cigar, you think of the "Monroe 
 doctrine," and ponder over the visionary dream that Canada will yet 
 form a part of your country. 
 
The United States of America form a great country. Its pe )|»lo 
 couMtitute an acknowledged ai.d iinportant (;lement in the onward march 
 and ]»ractical development of human progress. In every part of th« 
 world, on liiiul and soa, the "Star spangled Wanner" is respected as the 
 li(jnonred symbol of Hherty and enterprisf*. The American Republic is 
 one of the mighty, growing and progressive English speaking nations of 
 the earth. The astounding rapidity of its advancement — its electric- 
 like expan.sion — has surprised many of the less ])rogressivo peophis of 
 the world. Notwithstanding all this, its unexpected advent amongst 
 the nations, distinct in it^ national characteristic ? and identity, wa« 
 primarily the result of accidental and extraneous influences which have 
 Hlrea<lv been recorded in the history of its rise, its early struggles for 
 itidependence, and its tinal achie\cment of an acknowledged national 
 status amongsi: the great powers of the vvorld. Revolt is often the 
 outcome of human passion or unprincipled demagogueism. It is 
 occasionally bise<l upou principles of justice and right. It is sometimes 
 successful. It is often a failure. The lines of Thomas Mooro, the 
 national poet of Ireland, are peculiarly appropriate in their application 
 to the first unfurling of the Continental flag : 
 
 "Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word. 
 
 Whose wrongful blight so oft has stained 
 The holiest cause th;>t tongue or swoi'd 
 
 Of mortal ever lost or gained ! 
 How many a spirit born to bless, 
 
 Has sunk beneath that withering name — 
 Whom l)»it a day, an hour's success, 
 
 Had wafted to eternal fame ! 
 As exhalations, when they burst 
 
 From the warm earth — if chilled at first — 
 If checked in soaring from the ])lain — 
 
 Darken to fogs aiid sink again ; 
 But if they once triumphant si)read 
 
 Their wings above the mountain's head, 
 liecome enthroned in uf)per air, 
 
 And turn to sunbright glories there !" 
 
 Had it not been for the lamentable and stupid obstinacy of George 
 III. — which unfortunately defeated the wise and statesmanlike counsel 
 of William Pitt, Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox — the world 
 most probably, perhaps })0sitively, never would have witnessed a rebel- 
 lion in the old British colonies — a revolt which to the people of that 
 day came like a black dream of horror and despair. The obstinate old 
 King, entrenched in the fortress of royal prerogative, did not see 
 beyond the imperial exigencies of the present, and remained corres- 
 pondingly inflexible. The colonists felt aggrieved by what they con- 
 ceived to bs illegal and unconstitutional imposts. Petition after 
 petition proved fruitless ; remonstrance was in vain. Concessions came 
 
too lute ; then ciiiuo the rctl accithiiit of fjexiiigtoii, tlie liustuii \,t':i 
 tragedy, ami ihe Dechiiatioii of Inclepeiulence. The people were 
 roused, they Hew to uvniH, and the aviuy of the Continental (Congress 
 went upon the warpath. The unpopular idea of rehellion had l>een 
 tanned into a dangerous tlaine hy Patrick Henry and others who took a 
 conspicuous part in fomenting discontent into revolution. 
 
 After the commencement of hostilities, had it not hi*en for other 
 fortuitous contingencies, the army of the insiirgents, as a dangerous or 
 formidable force, could not have existed for even two years. Hud 
 Wa.shington and Wellington been the leaders of the British army, 
 instead of Cornwall is and Burgoyne, Saratoga and Yorktown couhl 
 jiever liave been emblazoned upon the Hag of the new Kepublic. When 
 discontent and discord had .sown the di-agon's teetli of revolution, the 
 revolted British Americana re8[)onded bravely to the summons of tlu^ 
 Fiery Cross of coming battle ; but they were not lett to fight alone. 
 True, from the farrowed ground of ardent patriotism, arm(;d for strife — 
 like * Minerva from the brain of Jove" — sprung a band of heroic leaders, 
 whom love of country made formidable, as the love ot eoncpiest made 
 the marshals of Napoleon famou.s, and for a time, on the continent of 
 Europe, irresistible. They form a grand catalogue, those men of '70, 
 Washington, Warren Montlgomery, Wayne, Marion, Clinton, Creen, 
 Sum})ter, Haiuilton, Schuyler, Morgan, Ethen Allen, Pninam and a host 
 of others, who led the van of the revolution and fought against their 
 own kindred, "not that they loved Britain less, but that they loved 
 freedom more." 
 
 T!ie Continental army had also within its ranks those distinguished 
 foreign warriors, Steuben, DeKalb, Lafayette, and Poland's last and 
 greatest hero, next to John Sobeiski, Kosciusko ! All tliese were men 
 of heroic mould, and many of them masters of military tactics. Behind 
 all this came the too willing aid of Biitain's ancient eneniv, France, 
 enlistcil with little ditliculty or [»e)-suasion by JiJifayette, who afterwards 
 carried to Fiauco the prolific seeds of the fearful national tragedy 
 of 1793. 
 
 General Warren wa.s killed at Bunker's Hill, in the outset of his 
 career, lamented alike by friend and foe. Montgomei y fell before the 
 citadel of Quebec, in an attempt to storm that foi'tress, which, as an 
 ofiicer in Wolfe's army, he had aided in ca])turing iu the memorable 
 battle of the Plains of Abraham, whicli resulted iu the snirender of 
 New France to Groat Britain. I digress here to remark that the reader 
 of history will remember that the Scottish Highlandeis in WolfVs 
 army, who formed an important feature of the engagement, crimsoned 
 their claymores in the gushing blood of vengeance for the atiocious 
 massacre of Fort William Henry, per-petrated, contrary to honorable 
 stipulation, by Montcalm's savage allies, after the British gairison had 
 marched out with the honours of war upon the surrender of that fort. 
 
 Digressing still, or rather wandering in a field of light, brightened 
 by the memories of the past ! Kosciusko fell when the last hope of 
 
inurdered PoUntl expired at Wursaw in 1831 ; when the life blood of 
 dying patriotiHm seiiled the bandit deed of partition to the despot 
 trimuvirate of piratical infamy, the thre«i royal robberR of the North J 
 
 Thomas Ciim)il)ell, in his "Pleasures of Hope," one of the fine«t 
 poems in the Englisii language, thus niagnirioently apostrophises th« 
 death of Kosciusko : 
 
 "Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, 
 
 Sarmatia fell unw«pt, without a crime ; 
 
 Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, 
 
 Strength in licr arms, nor mercy in liev woe ! 
 
 Droppeil from her nerveless grasp the Shattered S[)ejr, 
 
 Closed her bright eye, and curbed her higli career, 
 
 Hove for a season bade the world farewell, 
 
 And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell !" 
 General Frasei-, the life of the British army, was killed at the 
 }>aitle of Saiatogn. His end whs tiagical. almost murderous, at a time 
 when the punctilious etiquette of chivalry was paramoiint even upon 
 the field of battle. During the heat of the engagement, Colonel 
 Morgan, whosr regiment was armed with the only grooved weapons 
 then in military use in the world, called a fnw of his nien around him, 
 and, ])ointing to the Biitiah soldier, said : "Do you see thnt gallant 
 oiHcer — that is General Fiaser. I respect and honour him, bat it is 
 necessary that he should die." A few minutes afterwards General 
 Fraser was carried from the field mortally woimded ; and the battle of 
 Saratoga was w )n by the Continental army. It might have been other- 
 wise had General Fraser lived through the fight. Prior to his death the 
 advantages of the day were evidently \ij)ou the Briti-sh side, and defeat 
 on that critical occasion would have been peculiarly disastrous to the 
 army of the rebels. The colonists fought bnively against many diffi- 
 culties, yet favored by tO[)Ograi)hical and other local advantages. They 
 had Washington at their head, who was ably ^e^onded by subordinate 
 commanders of much merit and undoubted heroism. The strife at 
 length came to an end. ,It was as unfortunate as it was unnatural. 
 The all but hopeless miseries and privations of Vallcv Forge were for- 
 gotten in the unexpected and jubilant triumph of York Town. The 
 resources of Britain were by no means exhausted. The powers of 
 steam and eh'ctricity were then unknown. The war was a costly one. 
 The mother became tired and disgiisted with shedding the blood of her 
 own children on the battle fields of America. She gave up the contest 
 and rntiied from the field of fratricidal and matricida! strife. The 
 revolted colonists then became independent, and the star-spangled 
 banner was unfurled upon the brefz? as the hope aid symbol of a new 
 nationality. 'J'he Declaration of Independence was given jjractical 
 effect to, and the United States of America received the cosnujpolitan 
 recognition of the great Powers of the earth. 
 
 The thirteen colonies which originally formed the young republic, 
 by the attraction inherent in the expanding envbodiment of success, 
 
i]row around them other territorieB, hihI the lurgo influx of emigrant* 
 from Kurojio in iliie time Hwelled tho pojiuhition into abnormal \)vo- 
 |>oition«. 
 
 Now tho AnuMican llepublic constituttm an Fngliwh speaking com- 
 monwealth iiH gigantic aH it is wealthy ; and a regard for truth comjiels 
 me reluctajitly to say, as Kocially rotten and impure as it is ])owrrful — 
 as politically corrupt as it is progressive — as unscrupulously dishonest 
 as it is aggressive and imposing. T am not going to write the history 
 <»f tho war of Independence. It has already been written by eloquent 
 pens. 1 have no wish to disturb the ashes of tho pure and heroic 
 patriots who fought at Bvniker's Hill, Brand/wine, Eulaw 8[)ring8, 
 tho (Jow-jiens, Camden Town, Saratoga and York Town. I have 
 touched some of those historic spots already. They have inspired the 
 tongues of Fourth of July orators and Hedged the v/ings of American 
 [KA^lH for one hundred years, until the genius of Yankee jubilation, in 
 the inflated fulness of self-glorilication, actually imagines that the 
 scream of the bald-headed Eagle startles the universal world. Could 
 the sublime patriots of '76 look down upon their modern representatives, 
 engaged in the turmoil and political anarchy of a Presidential election, 
 they would be obiigetl to exclaim with humiliation and regret, " How 
 Are thoniighty fallen I" Where is the primeval, honest lustre of tb« 
 old thirteen Stars 1 • 
 
 Brother Jonathan, what do you want t Yoii have w^aste territory 
 of your own that you cannot tlecently populate in two hundred years. 
 Von liave within your own borders millions of lawless and uncivilized 
 citizens — which the curse of iiniversal suffrage has made so — whom 
 lit'ty years of wise, careful and ])eremptory educating and drilling vill' 
 fail to elevate to the legitimate status of good and orderly members of 
 society. Your judiciary is impure and j;urchaseable ; as an elective 
 Bench, elevated to authority by a corrupt and dishonest franchise must 
 inevitably be. In pai't, your i)ulpit is theatrical. The circus clown 
 btands too near your altar. Many of your churches are no fit resting 
 places for the Ark of the Covenant. Your elective system is rotten and 
 corrupt from its centre to the outmost ring of its circumference. Your 
 marriage laws are dei)lorably and dangerously lax. Continence and 
 morality blush, and religion shuddbrs at the venal profligacy of your 
 Divorce courts. Whei-e are the millions of the decendants of the sturdy 
 and honest men of '70 who ought now to answer the roll call of the 
 nation'^ The native American, like the bison of the plains, will soon 
 be nothing but a sad recollection of the past. In your higher circles of 
 society, a national sin, as uL.mentionable as it is revolting, in your very 
 bluest- blooded and refined walks of life, has emasculated the virile 
 blood of the nation ; and the census enumei-ator within your proudest 
 areas of civilization seeks in vain for the virtuous increafie of the historic 
 names which ought to burthen the national effect of his impoverished 
 catalogue. 
 
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 Brother Jonathan, the wings of your inordinate ambition are too 
 expansive. They have grown weak and inoperative, i)articiihuly 
 towards their extremities. Judge Lynch has too frequently to step in 
 to balance the vibrating scales of justice. His decisions, though lawless, 
 are often better and moro just than yours. They aro seldom unjust. 
 They admit of no chance to purchase a new trial, and positively no 
 appeal. Disorder flourishes, and murder stalks unblushingly abroad 
 throughout your land. The fatal bowie-knife and the death-dealing 
 revolver are too often the lawless arbiters of individual wrong and 
 human passion. Justice slumbers while assassination reigns rampant 
 oven in the very vestibules of her desecrated temples. Set your own 
 liouse in order before you invite unwilling guests to partake of your 
 hospitality. Canada enjoys peace and plenty. She is contented with 
 her lot. 'Mie will not submit to be chloroformed, while your sham 
 sijientists are extracting her teeth. On the outside, at a casual glance, 
 your advances. Brother Jonathan, appear to be fair and plausible ; but 
 the basswood ham and the wooden nutmeg are too {)ainfully apparent. 
 Your futile attempt to sirenize us is a failure. Your music seems to 
 have some strange variiitions. We cannot dance to it. The discord in 
 ])alpal)le. Loyal Canadians are still wide awake enough to recognize 
 "Yankee Doodle" when they hear it. We haven't a corporal's guard 
 within the length and breadth of Canada to take up its chimes. Stick 
 to your own gamut. Mind your- own business. Wave your own flag 
 in any direction but northward. 
 
 The signs of the times are ominous. If " coming events cast their 
 ghadows before ;" -if Southern discontent and negro impracticability 
 have any prescient significance, you will inherit another, and perhaps 
 much more difficult, "March through Georgia" before long. Stay ou 
 jour own side of the river and prepare for the inevitable. We admira 
 you afar off. We are not enthusiastically anxious for any closer rela- 
 tions with millions of your ))opulation that we don't want to be intro- 
 duced to, even if you aVjjured the Stars and Stripes, and approached us 
 singing " God Save the Queen !" 
 
 " Our lot, Brother Jonathan, is cast in pleasant places." " We 
 have a goodly heritage," and we intend to keep it in spite of the 
 spurious dictum of James Monroe. As Canadians, united by infrangible 
 ties to the mother land, we enjoy unbounded liberty, without that 
 dangerous degree of popular license which engenders national disorder 
 and eventually i)rove3 the precursor of national ruin. Without exag- 
 geration it may be said that our system of government is unsurpassed 
 by that of any '^ther country upon the face of the earth ; and, putting 
 it as mildly as jjossible, Brother Jonathan, totally unequalled by yours. 
 We enjoy a species of moral, social ^nd political peace, inherent in the 
 nature of our institutions, with which your people are unacquainted, 
 and never will know much about until your whole system is more 
 assimilated to that of ours. Our country is the better, larger and 
 richer portion of the North American continent. Its mineral and agri- 
 
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 cultural resources are infinitely superior to what you can l»oast of. Our 
 people, as a whole, aie more religious, more moral, moie law-ali'diug 
 than voiir people. We are doing well. Our po})ulai,ion is increasing at 
 a liealtliy ratn, and our annual iuci'ease is caused l)y tiie atlvcnt ot a 
 class who would he an honour to any country. We would likt; leyi- 
 mate n^ciprocal trade with you, hut Canada will neither retrograde nor 
 die without it. We ure making money. We are trying to ilo it honor- 
 al)ly. We shall never bow d<jwn before the golden calf of expe li<^ncy. 
 We shall n^yer attenii)t "to imitate you by woishipping the "Ahnighty 
 Dollar." You are welcome to the idol ami the shrine. You will yet 
 require a Moses to grind it to powder. 
 
 (Jompnratively s[)eaking, our rate of progress and solid expan ion 
 is greater than }ours. Our agricultural inteiests flourish — our com- 
 merce is in a pro.sperous state, without the pernicious aid of rings, 
 bucket shops, or insecuie ephemeral inflation. Our nuircautihi n)arine 
 is an elephant while beside it yours would only look as a mouse. Its 
 sails expand to the l)rcezes of every clime — its prows cleave the waves 
 of every sea. Our trans-continental railway from the Atlantic to the 
 Padfic is a more gigiintic and accomplished enter|)rise than you have 
 yet dreamed of, even with your si.^ty millions of heterogenous humanity. 
 We drove the big auger of naiional enterprise thi-ough the gorges of 
 the Rucky Mountains and opened up the world's highway to Japan. 
 We welded the Atlantic arid the Pacific together with steel. The 
 world doultted our ability to do it ; but it has been accomplished. It 
 was done by Canadian foresight, Canadian enterprise and Canadian, 
 money. The road is there ; we })uilt it. It has changed the geographi- 
 cal and commercial aspect ot the world. It has brought China and 
 Jajjan within arm's lengr.h. We shall .soon have our own cable to the 
 ends of tla^ earth. We shall not then be cheated by the garbled 
 despatches which come to us by New York, ami requiit three weeks' 
 study and further evidence to confirm. We have practically bridged 
 the ocean from British Columbia to the East. The trade and travel of 
 America will pass over it. By means of this great world's highway we 
 can deposit thousands of carloads of tea at your warehouses in New 
 York at a much cheaper rate than your- own ingenuity can do it. We 
 could bring vou er)ounh tea in two months to make Boston harVtour 
 i-eek with the aroma of China and Japan Our soil in Ontario and tlie 
 North West can jiroduce a gr-eater cpraritity of wheat from one acre than 
 any part of the United Ktates — even the blizzard-smitten fields of 
 Dakota, so much vaunted of and so much lied about — can i)roduce from 
 two acres. Our climate, as a whole,»is much healthier and much more 
 invigorating than yours. We have no yellow fever, sitting like a 
 paralyzing nightmare periodically amongst our maple trees. We do 
 not envy you the orange gr-oves of Florida ; nor the reminiscences 
 conn(!ctetl with the Seminole war-, in which Osceola gave you all you 
 could do for fifteen years before you became master of the "Ever-glades." 
 You ar-e welcorue to them, rattlesnakes aird all ! We have pine forests 
 
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 enough within our borders to cover the face of your country from Maine 
 to Calitornia with three-inch planks, and enough left afterwards to 
 sheet over the Mississippi, tongued and grooved, from its source to its 
 outlet in the Gulf of Mexico. 
 
 Canada is a young, fair and stalwart maiden of the Nor*h. Her 
 robust constitution has been nursed into self-reliance by the breezes of 
 Ker native mountains. He must be an honorable and chivalric wooer 
 who dares to approach her with proposals of a closer alliance. Friend 
 Jonathan, you will be obliged to cut the straps from under your boots 
 and wear a more presentable " plug" before you attempt to pay your 
 court to her. She has been accustomed to the beaver, and by no means 
 hankei's after the 'possum. She has been reared upon roa«t beef and 
 plum pudding. She will not descend to pumpkin pie and " apple sass." 
 In the language of the Indian chief she says to you and to all others — 
 ** The daughter of a king weds the son of a king ; eagles must sit in 
 eagle's nests." The sons of Canada are British Canadians, and, come 
 what may, they intend to remain so. The bonds which unite them to 
 the mother land are stronger than the pillars of Hercules. They are 
 more enduring and more indestructible than the Pyramids of Egypt. 
 They are contented with their lot. They love their own country. They 
 love her lofty mountains, her magniticent rivers, her broad lakes and 
 her illimitable plains, stretching in verdure towards the setting sxin. 
 They appreciate the inestimable advantages of their position, and they 
 seek no other alliance beyond that which is inaeparal>le fi'om tJie hered- 
 itary traditions of their birthright Their country constitutes a power- 
 ful and important portion of the British Euipire, an empire which has 
 done more for human progress and human freedom than the rest of the 
 world put together. 
 
 Brother Jonathan, as Canadians we glory in the old land ! We 
 glory in her history and traditions. The brillijint aiul deathless muster 
 roll of her statesmen, warriors, orators, poets, philosophers and 
 scientists belong to us as truly as it does to the Briton who dwells 
 beneath the shadows of Windsor Castle. We love our Queen Jis all 
 that is wise in a monarch and all that is irreproachably grand and 
 lovely in a woman ! Westminster Abbey, our national Pantlieou, 
 dedicated to the immortal repose of the departed gods of our country's 
 renown — the indestructible Acropolis which preserves their names and 
 their memories from the oblivion of forgetfulness — belongs to us. 
 Shakespeare, Milton, Spencer, Pope, Swift, Addi.son, Byron, Moore, 
 Scott, Burns, Hogg, Nelson, Wolfe, Wellington, Raglan, Clyde, Chat- 
 ham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Currau Grattan, O'Conuell, Beacons- 
 field, Palmerston, Newton, Sydney, Hampden and a thousand other 
 glittei-ing stars in the immortal constellation of Britain's genius and 
 greatness, all are ours — sous of that glorious old land which has given 
 to the world such an ample harvest of human benefactors. We have 
 every reason to rejoice in the grandeur of our present, and we would 
 rather die than forget or surrender the glories of our past ! 
 
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 Away, then, with that cold-blooded, unpatriotic self-abnegation 
 that would palter with loyalty and preach submission to the eternal 
 ■disgrace of allowing so much that is glorious, so much that is worthy of 
 perpetuation, to be practically engulfed in the devouring vortex of a 
 ■country alien to our hereditary instincts and feelings, questionable in 
 its stability, and repulsive to our confirmed and preconceived ideas of 
 what is noblest and best in human progress and human civilization ! 
 
 Brother Jonathan, after having achieved your inde[iendence, you 
 have enjoyed the exercise of all your capacity to administer, in your 
 ■own way, the principles of republicanism, for one hundred years. 
 Doubtless, in your own opinion, you have been tolerably successful. 
 We prefer, however, the experience of your past, and the testimony of 
 history, to your opinion of yourself and your own doings. Taking the 
 most charitable and dispassionate view of your efforts, your character 
 «nd standing, it can scarcely be said that your career has been such a 
 national success as would tempt any people, accustomed to the blessings 
 ■of more stable and more rationally administered institutions, either to 
 unite with or imitate. 
 
 Pluck the weeds out of your own cabbage garden and you will 
 have quite enough work on your hands. They have grown so tall and 
 «o th'.ck that the more valuable growth beneath is barely discernible. 
 Beware, or the time will come when it will be indiscernible. Never 
 mind Canada ; she can take care of herself. Begin at home. Try to 
 solve the dangerous and disturbing problem of your troublesome negro 
 population in the land of Dixie. It will tax your energies to the 
 utmost. It can scarcely be said that their freedom has materially bene- 
 fitted them or improved their condition ; certainly it has not benefitted 
 the country. Why did you give them their freedom 1 When your 
 national anatomy — if not the existence of the republic — was in danger, 
 without one spark of the true impulse of liberty, without one humane 
 touch of moral or religious sentiment. President Lincoln, as a master- 
 stroke of strategetic national policy, rendered necessary by the exigen- 
 cies of the period, set them free under what was called the fifteenth 
 amendment ; not simply that the slaves should enjoy the benefits and 
 privileges of freemen, but that they might prove, as they afterwards 
 did, an available force to crush the aspirations of the South. England 
 might have made your path a thorny one then had she hearkened to 
 the suggestions of Na})oleon III., but she did not do it. She was 
 honourably faithful to the North. How have you thanked herl By 
 the basest ingratitude. This is what the world thinks about your 
 negro emancipation dodge. You wanted consequential damages from 
 Britain, when the Alabama swept your commerce from the seas. Did 
 you pay the planters of the South consequential or any other damages 
 for their losses when the negroes were set free 1 
 
 Brother Jonathan, if you want to clear your national escutcheon of 
 its stains, abolish the free love of your infamous Divorce Court — that 
 national temple of licentiousness and immorality, which is leaving the 
 
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 poisonous "trail of tlie sei-peiit," upon wliat ought to be the holiest 
 shrines und MatV;^iiiir(l.s ut' a conscientious peoplt^'.s cliaraoter, t)ie ijoniestic 
 circles of the laml. Make youi- lasvs supreme. Banish th(( bowie-knife 
 an<l the revolver. Purify your Judicial Bench. E,' con struct your 
 election laws. Keep your greenl)acks out of the hallot-ltox, and endeavor 
 to get one holiest expi'ession of political opinion, even if it he for the 
 iirsL time in sixty years. Tvy a dose of national pi'ohity, if only as an 
 ex|)erln)ent. Tlie taste will be new, and at lirsr, perhaps nauseous. 
 Nevermind that, it will turn out all right in the end, if moral lilood 
 poisoning has not enervated your system beyond ledeniption. Hand 
 us l>ack (he Stat(! ot Maine, out ot which we weie clieated by the 
 un.scni|iulous exercise of your peculiar syst«»m of diplonnujy upon the 
 too tiusting plial)i]ity of Lord Ashburton. Pay l)ack to Canada, the 
 expense which she has occurred in rejielling the atrocious incursions and 
 intended raids of your own lawless subjects. Restore to its riijhtful 
 owner the balance of the ;^15,()0(>,000 paid to you as compensation for 
 the " St. Alban'a Pvaid," to which you have no more right than the two 
 or three uVjiquitoua highwaymen who week after week " hold up " and 
 plumler your railway trains, have a right to what 1 hey lawlessly steal 
 and carry off. Inform and enlighten yourself about political sentiment 
 in Canada Your midnight ignorance concerning our country and its 
 peoi)le is as deplorable as it is monstrously and inconceivalily incorre«t. 
 Pay no attention to the subsidized ravings of a few insignificant tramp 
 demagogues. They represent nothing but the amount for which the} 
 have been bought. No matter how little they cost, the price paid for 
 them was exhorbitant. They are clever romancers. — Butterworth, 
 Erastus Wiman and Adirondack Murray, never mind them: yellow- 
 covered literature is cheap ; its stories are as true as theirs, and much 
 more interesting. Put no trust, Brother Jonathan, in the classical 
 ravings of Professor Gold win Smith, that se f-imagined political jugger- 
 naut, whose iiiHueiice in Canada is as infinitesimal as his erudition is 
 profoimd. His career hitherto has stamped him a canieleon-hued 
 theoretical weathercock, ever seeking after a new mystery, and never 
 long satisfied with the result of his discoveries. He knows the differ- 
 ence between loyalty and treason, and yet he is called an advocate of 
 annexation. He is hard to make out. Perhaps " much learning has 
 made him mad." He piofesses to be a patriot. Quintus Curtius 
 plunged into the gaj) in the Roman Forum for iiis country's .sake. Lake 
 Ontario is acce.ssiblo. What will he dol " We pause for a reply." 
 The learned professor has never achieved a lasting success of any kind 
 except as an able and classical exponent of the English language. He 
 had better constitute h'— ^elf the apostle of a more practicable mission 
 than that of |)reachii 6'xati)n. The people of Canada, if not the 
 
 citizens of the Unit^.i States, are wise enough to see through the 
 gos.samer cobwebs of casuistical sophistry wjth which he invests his 
 distaijteful and unwelcome theme. He seems to be here to-day and 
 away to-morrow. "With the talents of an augel a man may be a fool."' 
 
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 The distinguished professor is destitvite ot stal)iliiy. He seems like a 
 tottering infant in knowledijje ot popuhir political feeling in this 
 country, lie stands ahnost alone, like a single parasitical caterpillar 
 atten)pting to devour the verdant folia^'e ot our Maple Tree. Benedict 
 Arnold, who attem[)ted to sell West Puint to the British in the days of 
 76, would have made a fitting recruit for his yet non-existent trait- 
 or brigade, ^ould the noted professor go to sleep and slumber on i^ 
 the chill torpidity of torgetfulness for twenty-five years, and then, when 
 wakened by the forty-millioned hum of Canndian progress, he would be 
 surprised to find his name unknown, Iiis fallacious theories forgotten 
 and not one of his volatile visions realized. 
 
 Brother Jonathan, your boasting is puerile, your promises are 
 flattering, but they are specious. Your attractions, as you paint them; 
 yourself, and as your annexation recruiting sergeants proclaim them, 
 appear to be peculiarly tempting; but it all won't do! In the graphic 
 and expressive language of your delightful poet, James Bussell Lowell, 
 to whom I apologize for slightly altering one vei-se to suit my purpose,. 
 Canadian Loyalists exclaim : — - 
 
 Thrash away, you'll her to rattle 
 
 On them kittle-drums o' youru — 
 'Taint a knowin' kind o' cattle 
 
 That is ketche<l with mouldy corn ; 
 Put in stiff you fifer feller. 
 
 Let f' see how spry you be- - 
 Guess ail tout it* till you're yeller 
 
 'Fore you git a hold o' me ! 
 
 Take them editors that's crowin' 
 
 Like a cockerel three months old — 
 "Never mind their blarsted blowin* 
 
 Every crow of theirn's for gold !" 
 Aint they a prime set o' fellers, 
 
 'Fore they think on't they will sprout 
 (Like a peach thet'sgot the yellers) 
 
 Al? the meanness busting out ! 
 
 Jest go home and ask your Nancy, 
 
 Whether I'd be such a goose 
 Es to jine ye — guess you'd fancy 
 
 The eternal bung was loose ! 
 She wants me for home consumption. 
 
 Let alone the hay's to mow — 
 Ef you're after 'folks o' gumption, 
 
 You've a darned hmg row to hoe !" 
 
 In a country like Canada, where its people, under the proteotioa 
 of good laws and good government, enjoy unbounded liberty, prosperity 
 and peace, they can have no desire for ch mge. They are cont'^nt and 
 
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 liappy, and they look forward to the biilliunt future of expansion and 
 development which will dawn upon the sight of their children. 
 
 Friend Jonathan, shut your ears to the lalse uwi insidious utter- 
 ances of the few interested traitors who are amongst us. They do not 
 ■count. Their names are not on our muster roll. We do not depend 
 \»pon them. " In the day and liour of danger" you coulil not see them 
 with a telescope, or find them with a search warrant. Turn your back 
 <ipon the specious and venal deraagogi'.os of your own land. They are 
 leading you astray. They are fond of notoriety. They would nithfr 
 be seen stealing a horse, or setting fire to a church, than not be seen at 
 all. Demagogues, like ciikics, ar^« leady-uiade. Jt takes n little mental 
 cogitation to make a traitor. Sometimes a woman is in the case. The 
 fair Livingstone made a traitor of the galhint Montgomery, whose life 
 juet with a fatal collaj)se u{)on the field which witnessed the rise of his 
 young glory as a brother soldier -of Wolfe. 
 
 "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
 And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. 
 
 Await alike the inevitable hour; 
 
 Tiie paths of glory lead but to the grave." 
 
 Wh'At Ahont heamless ^o\ and Uncle Kastusl It is said that one 
 of them is a descendant of the old IT. E. Loyalists and was born ia 
 Canada. If this be true, he is a degenerate and rotten branch of a 
 noble tree — a reproach to the memory of his gallant ancestors — they 
 who left their houses and lands, their flocks and herds behind 
 them, and bearing with then) only the Inreti and peuoies of their con- 
 scientiously preserved heritage of loyalty, steered for the North Star, 
 which guided them to the land where the old Red Cross was waving ! 
 They gathered loyally around it — they fought for it, they iived and died 
 beneath its honoured folds. They were true patriots — brave and worthy 
 sires of the men who form to-day a strong and sturdy race, alire to 
 Canadian interests and devoted to British connection. Brave, dis- 
 interested patriots, they did not count the cost. They were not the 
 -sort of mercenary travesties " wi)o would stop the stream of the Helicon 
 4.0 turn a mill, and fell the cedars of Lebanon to make a pig-pen." 
 
 "Breathes there a man with soul so dead, 
 
 Who never to himself hath said — 
 
 This is my own, my native land ! 
 
 Whose heart has ne'er within him burned, 
 
 As home his footsteps he hAs turned, 
 
 From wandering on a foreign strand. 
 
 If such there breathe — go, mark him well ! 
 
 For him no minstrel raptures swell — ^ 
 
 Though high his titles, proud his name, 
 
 His wealth all that his wish can claim — 
 
 Despite those titles, power and pelf, 
 
 The wretch concentred all in self — 
 
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 Living, shiiU forfeit fair renown, 
 
 And doubly dying, sljall go down 
 
 To the vilo dust fi-oin whence ho .sprung, 
 
 Unwept, unhonoured and unsung !" 
 Brother Jonathan, we offer kindly fellowship and friendahip to 
 you and your fiimily. We fervently dksire long continued peace 
 l)etween the United States and Canada. We sincerely hope that the 
 Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack may never approach each other 
 except as the friendly and pacitic symbols of mutual friendship, j)rogre8H 
 and prosperity. We have our destiny to accon)i)lish. We are busily 
 engaged in the work now. We do not intend to relax our efibrtf\. 
 Despite every obstacle, we shall go ahead, turning neither to the light 
 hand nor to the l^ft. Our eyes are steadfastly fixed upon the light in 
 front — the handles of the plough are within our grasp — we shall never 
 look back ; our march shall be onward, until the golden furrow of our 
 coming prosperity lies turned u[)ward to the sun ! 
 
 We believe that no system of government devised by human 
 genius is superior to our own. Allied by the strongest ties of con- 
 sanguinity, and ardently attached by the indissoluble bonds of political 
 education to the Mother Country, and ever proud of our con 
 nection with her, no inducements can cause us to swerve from our love 
 and our allegiance. While influenced by the broadest principles of 
 national honour, and fully alive to the prudent exigencies of inter- 
 national courtesy and tair relations of commerce, we fear no result — we 
 cringe beneath the threats of no people, and lower the dignity of our 
 position ta no flag on earth ! We are willing to let byegones slumber. 
 We are not at all disturbed in spirit by what is called the " Monroe 
 Doctrine." W^hat ever constituted President James Monroe the valid 
 Ajtostle of a doctrine of any kind ] We don't grieve very much now 
 about the results of '70. They might however, as we judge, have con- 
 veyed a better and more valuable lesson lo the world than that which 
 Ijas been taught by the experience of one hundred years. We seldom, 
 unless unduly irritated, say jauch about 1812. Bistory has told the 
 story of Lundy's Lane, Crysler's Farm, Queenston Heights and Foit 
 Niagara. We look back and are satisfied. We don't want to do it 
 again. War is humanity's curse ; peace is the world's greatest bless- 
 ing. We desire peace, long, unbroken peace with your people, Brother 
 Jonathitn. We appreciate the advantages of pi'Ov>ev and reasonable 
 commcicial lelations between such near neighbors of the same lineal 
 extraction. Wo slvall, however, come what will, never stoop to any- 
 thing unworthy or contemptible, either to perpetuate peace or to secure 
 leiritimate and reasonable commercial relations, as a solid basis of mutual 
 good will and dignified intereourse. 
 
 We Canadians are not given to boasting, but we are not afraid. 
 We know that, in case of necessity (may the time never come), that we 
 could put 500,000 men into the field — men who would not be afraid to 
 "speak with the enemy in the gate." We know that England would 
 
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 aiil lis with her last ship, h^v lust man unci her last dollar ! We 
 imagine also that tho Mother Cojintry would send us over 100,000 
 Indian warriors, in the bravery of their barbaric aplendour, as 
 courageous as bulldogs and as hardy as mustangs. We are morally 
 certain, also, that there are ut least one million of Canadians, now 
 residing in the United States, not the least honoure<l and enterprising 
 sojourners there, who, at the first clang, of the t)CHin of strife, would 
 come home to fight for the land of their birth and the honour of the 
 Union Jack. Looking at probabilities and j)Ossibilities, even in their 
 gloomiest aspect, Canada may modestly yet firmly exclaim : " Who's 
 afraid !" We want no trouble, we desire no international diflicultiesor 
 disagreements. Our country is lai^e enough for us. Brother Jonathan, 
 your country is large enough for you ; go ajiead and we shall do 
 likewise. 
 
 Brother Jonathan, I have endeavoured to tell you the truth and 
 nothing but the truth in what 1 have said about your country and your 
 l)eople ; but I have not told you the whole truth. In order to show 
 you that T. have not exaggerated or gone beyond fair and legitimate 
 criticism upon any one point, I shall give you the words of a citizen of 
 your own country, which are as remarkable as they are unrjuestionably 
 forcible and eloquent. They form part of an oration delivered by 
 Colonel P. Donan, of Dakota, at Fargo, on the fourth day of Julv, 
 1888. Any one who reads them cannot fail to recognize in the man 
 wlio uttered them a patriot and an orator : — 
 
 " But amid all your rejoicing, hear a fcw perious suggestions. Let 
 A faint croak, of the raven mingle with the exultant scream of the eagle. 
 I pray your pardon for sounding one discordant note, but a sense of 
 duty impels me to call attention to some portents of ill-omen. In all 
 the annals of Lime no attempt at free government has ever su ceeded — 
 has ever been permanent. The surf-beaten shores of the ages are strewn 
 with the wrecks of all former lepublics. VVhy may wo not fail t 
 Human nature is much the same in every age. With all our intinitt^ 
 advances in science and material development it is doubtful whether we 
 are politically wiser, better or braver than the countrymen of Solon 
 and Socrates, Deuiosthones, Thennstocles, and Epaminondas, Cincin- 
 natus, Cortius, Brutus and Cato. Yet, with their deathless array of 
 heroes, sages, philosophers and patriots, the republics of Greece aiid 
 Eome tottered and fell ! Why may iiot ours ? 
 
 "The road to ruin which all Other republics have travelled has 
 been a short and steep downgrade. Their success brought wealth ; 
 great wealth produced luxury and extravagance ; these in turn begat 
 tlemoralization, corruption and disregard of law ; revolution and anarchy 
 followed, and the end was at hand. While they were i)oor and pure 
 they prospered ; when lucre, lust and license crept in their downfall 
 began. In the infallible light of iiistory and experience behold tho 
 auguries of evil in our own beloved land. Cur success has amazed the 
 worldj wealth hxs poured in upon us like a golden flood ; the wildest 
 
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 rniidiio^a of luxmy and piulligacy has swfpt over us, uud co-day the 
 couutry reeks with hiwles.sut'sa and iniquity, the precunsofs of deoay 
 The whole continent and Government seems honeycombed witli rotten- 
 ness. Monstrous wrongs and abuses have entrenched themselves in the 
 sacred citadel of the republic. Its deepest foundations in the heartn 
 and confidence of the people are slmken. Giant corruption, like the 
 unclean beast, the Abomination of Desolation in prophetic vision, ' 
 . perches on our holiest altara and bespatters with its \ilcerous filth the. 
 robes of the priests, the togas of our senators, and the ermine of our 
 judges. From highest to lowest, from I'residents, Senators and Cabinet 
 officers to dog law legislators, capital locators and cross-roads town 
 councilmen, no class or position is clear of hideous suspicions and impu- 
 titions. Officers, laWs, verdicts of juries and decisions (^f courts are as 
 opeii and as notoriously marketabh^ as peanuts in a peddler's tray. 
 Oongiesses and Senates have been bought up like scabby cattle in stalls ; 
 
 • Jiud giant rings, headed l)y such lineal descendants of Kydd, Latitte and 
 ♦Sixteen string Jack as Jay Gould, have ])illaged the people of annual 
 millions and tens of millions, Kmpires of public lands and money 
 have been voted away by biibe-bought renegades to bands of organized 
 nirates, compared with whom the famous Forty Thieves of oriental 
 story would be exem[>lary (/hristian gentlemen, Our governmental 
 banditti have ]>er[)eti'at('d railroad grabs, army bill steals, river and 
 harbor gouges, Navy Department [)iracies. Indiaa supply robbeties, star 
 route pick[)ocketi'ies, Custom house swindles and frauds — steals every- 
 where, in eveiy thing, from the White House vestibules to the last 
 moonshine still house in the backwoods, until no one would bo surprised 
 if they should steal the presidency and the Government itself. Two 
 hundred and thirty million dollars of olHcial defalcations and embezzle- 
 ments in tiie last fifteen years tells, trumpet-tongued, an appalling story 
 of public rottenness and wrong ; and nearly a hundred million dolla."s 
 a year of swindling business failures echoes the shameful tale in private 
 life. Senators become millionaires in ten or twenty years on salaries of 
 five tliousand a year, while they annually spend from ten to fifty thous- 
 and, and then with their ill-gotten gains brazenly push themselves for 
 the presidency. That grandest office on the globe, with its vast [)ower 
 
 • and patronage of its hundred thousand appointments, is used as a mere 
 <;ngine to promote partisan success and personal ambitions. Jobbery, 
 robbery, rings, combinations, bargains and sales are the rule in every 
 jiolitical movement, from nominating a President to locating a clapboard 
 capital or lunatic asylum. Mighty monopolies, built up by bribery and 
 scoundrelly lobbies, by their ruthless exactions excite communism and 
 socialism. The sutfrage, the holiest right of freemen, is debased, and 
 votes, oaths, honour and decency are stai)le articles of barter and trade. 
 The whole land is deluged with infamy and sin. Every newspaper 
 press groans beneath the burden of its daily record of crimes. The very 
 lightnings themselves have grown weary of flashing abroad the never- 
 
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 ending, sickening, wirecoiioiling details of ouLrageH luul hori'ors f(»r 
 which the vocabuhnies of jiandeiuonium a gtMienitiou ago furnished no 
 nam ^" 
 
 The abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty did not kill, or even 
 materially injure the commercial interests of Canatla, At (irst we were 
 a little inconvenienced, hnt we have got on hravely and ])i')gressed 
 rapidly and satisfactorily withent it. As a nonseqiience, our iieigld^ouvs 
 acro.ss the line have suffered as niucli without it as wo Jiavo, Witli the 
 opening up of other channels of trade, consequent upon the construction 
 of our great national railway, under our present enlightened and prac- 
 tical commercial policy, wo ai-e getting on reniarkahly well, and our 
 future sur<;ess is pretty well assured. Our ])opul;ition is increasing 
 rapidly, and will increase more rapidly still, when truth triumphs over 
 falseliood ami the fact becomes more universally known in tlie old 
 countries, that Canada is a better and safer tield of eiit(npri.se for 
 emigrants, and for the investment of capital, than any otlier part ot the 
 American continent. Our area of fertile land is large and vastly more 
 l)roductive than that of our neigldxMirs. Our mineial resources are a.H 
 practically inexhausiibh' as th»v aio rich antl valualde. In oui' great 
 North West there are homes for millions, who will coine to us fi-om the 
 overcrowded centres ot Kurrpean civilization, to better themselves and 
 a.ssist in developing the i-esonrces of the Dominion, in fertility the 
 soil of the North West is pi'actically inexhaustible. The tilling of 
 fifty years would but little im()air its jtower to prodM<;e the most .soil- 
 exhausting varieties of cereals. Over our own great line of railway, 
 the Canadian Pacific, the produce of our own st-il e n bo carried 
 through our own territory, from ocean to oc(.'an. Jn case of natiomd 
 emergency, 100,000 armed men could leave the shores of Britiiiv 
 and in twelve days could "stand at ease" on the slicres uf British 
 Columbia without touching foreign soil ! We Canadians are contented, 
 prosjierous and hapi)y. The luminous atmosphere of peifect liberty 
 under a good constitution — like the iShekinah of the ancient Jewish 
 Temple — rests like a pillar of tire tipon every acre of our glorious 
 heritage! The vistas of the future ojtening up before u.s are full of 
 promise — they are bright with the well grounded anticipations of the 
 coming time, which are as certain as human existence, as inevitable as 
 dtstiny. Our country forms an important portion ot the Island em])ire 
 upon which " the sun never sets." Inspired by the trumpet-voices (f 
 the glorious past, by the enlightenment, progress and prosi)erity of the 
 present — beckoned onward by the giant certainties of the future, which 
 already fling their prescient splendours from every mountain top in our 
 free and happy land — the die is cast ! Our destiny is inevitable. We 
 shall cling with undying devotion and patriotic determination to our 
 own land, our own constitution, and our own Hag ! 
 
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 niUTlSII CONNEXION. 
 
 No prouder alliance than ours can V»6 boastrJ, 
 
 No grander, no nobler descent can be known ; 
 Karth may have guerdons, but none more ref|)lendent, 
 
 Than the birthrifjlit Canadians can claim ns thfir own ! 
 The old "Wt)oden Walks" with their long list of gloiies — 
 
 The names of the heroes who manned them we claim ; 
 And ours, as our sires, is the brightest of stories, 
 
 Which gilds with its lustre the pages of Fame ! 
 
 Ours are the oaks and the old Druid Temples, 
 
 Alfred and Kichard, the lion-heart King ! 
 Ours are the Barons who stood up for freedom ! 
 
 Ours are the songs of our country to sing — 
 Songs full of fire and nHtional feeling — 
 
 Tales of the deeds of the mighty, at rest, 
 Charm of the palace and peasant's lone shieling. 
 
 Thrilling alike every patriot breast. 
 
 The wisdom, the glory, the might of that nation 
 
 Which rose like the sun from the breast of the sea ; 
 And first 'mongst the jjowers of eaith took her station, 
 
 The land of ''the brave, and the liome of the free !" 
 The cradle of genius, the birthplace of freedom, 
 
 The soil whence wealth, honor, and chivalry sprung, 
 Are ours, all brighter than artist e'er ])ainted, 
 
 All nobler than poet or minsti-el e'er sung. 
 
 Milton is ours, mysterious and mighry ! 
 
 And Shakespeare, that lofty Colossus of song ! 
 Byron, Pope, Moore, Campbell, Dryden an<l Burns, 
 
 Whose strains rolling ages shall oidy prolong. 
 Orators, warriors, poets and statesmen, 
 
 Who made Britain famous, or ruled her for good ; 
 ►Souls full of glory, and tongues full of fire, 
 
 Burke, Sheridan, Pitt, Curran, Grattan and Flood ! 
 
 Ours are the glories of Westminster Abbey, 
 
 Where slumber the valiant, the great and the brave ! 
 Britain's Pillar of Fire, which burns through the ages, 
 
 And warms not the dust of a traitor or slave ! 
 I^ight of the past, and proud hope of the future — 
 
 Beacon which shines through the tempests of time ; 
 National ark where the records of greatness 
 
 Repose in the silence of gloi-y sublime ! 
 
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 Maill>onrou<»l), Nelson, Sidney and Hampden, 
 
 Uiivc'lock, Pahn(>r8ton, Exmonth are there ; 
 Beaconsfield, Wellington, 'Shakespeare and Chatham, 
 
 KepoHing like lions asleep in the lair ! 
 They who have fought on the fields of her glory — 
 
 Hearts which have burned for her honor and fame, 
 Hands which have written her wonderful story, 
 
 The 8}billino numbers which circle her name. 
 
 "We're not tired yet of the old Flag tlmt's o'er us, 
 
 Beneath which our patriot ancestors bled ; 
 '•God Save the Queen" is our national chorus, 
 
 God keep that old Flag over Canada's head ! 
 Ne'er may a shred from its border be torn 
 
 By hands all unworthy its wreaths to unfold ; 
 Long may its blazonry o'er us be borne, 
 
 Grand with the unfading glories of old ! 
 
 Long may the bond which unites us in spirit. 
 
 Firm as the love of our country remain ! 
 Long may we cherish the rights we inherit — 
 
 Cliildren of Britain — the Queen of the Main ! 
 Never may traitorous hand cut asunder 
 
 The tie which is dear to each patriot heart, 
 While the Bulldogs of ocean still wields the Isle's thunder. 
 
 No traitor or foeman can rend it apart ! 
 
 What ! barter our birthright, our Flag and our glory, 
 
 For aught that this world can offer instead; 
 Forget that we bask in the sunlight of story — 
 
 Bemeinber no more our illustrious dead ! 
 Sun-ender our rights to the grasp of the stranger — 
 
 Dismantle our fortresses, yield uj) our land. 
 Lie down in the dust when the tocsin of danger 
 
 Should call every man round the Ked Cross to stand ! 
 
 Canada's free as the blasts of the ocean ! 
 
 Free as the billows that revel in foam ! 
 Untouched by the scourge of internal commotion ; 
 
 Peace, progress and plenty have made her their home. 
 Shall we then basely forget that we're Britons, 
 
 And lower our Flag from its jjlace near the sky 1 
 Never ! we're not made of that kind of metal — ' 
 
 Born 'neath that Banner, around it we'll die ! 
 
 Ottawa, April 8th, 1889. 
 
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