I
Will Not Now Contest The Point With Those Who Say That The Present
Moment Of An American Civil War Is Ill Chosen For Vaunting That
Prosperity.
There stand the cities which the people have built,
and their power is attested by the world-wide importance of their
present contest.
And if the States have so risen since they left
their parent's apron-string, why should not British North America
rise as high? That the time has as yet come for such rising I do
not think; but that it will soon come I do most heartily hope. The
making of the railway of which I have spoken, and the amalgamation
of the provinces would greatly tend to such an event. If
therefore, England desires to keep these colonies in a state of
dependency; if it be more essential to her to maintain her own
power with regard to them than to increase their influence; if her
main object be to keep the colonies and not to improve the
colonies, then I should say that an amalgamation of the Canadas
with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick should not be regarded with
favor by statesmen in Downing Street. But if, as I would fain
hope, and do partly believe, such ideas of national power as these
are now out of vogue with British statesmen, then I think that such
an amalgamation should receive all the support which Downing Street
can give it.
The United States severed themselves from Great Britain with a
great struggle, and after heart-burnings and bloodshed.
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