You may, perhaps,
like to have all these papers. I enclose you also the return to
an address for the correspondence on the C.B. matter, and the report of
the Select Committee upon it; you will find the report of the
Committee in the Notes and Proceedings of the 15th of
May. It seemed to me, that you might like to have these documents, as
you took such a degree of interest in Galt and myself. Do me the
kindness to present my best regards to Mrs. Watkin, and to remember me
kindly to your daughter when you write her.
"We are threatened with a Fenian invasion in the course of
June next. We are preparing to meet it. It is too bad that the
Imperial Government should allow such an hostile organization to
be formed in the United States without a word of remonstrance.
In the hope of hearing from you at your earliest convenience,
"Believe me, my dear Mr. Watkin,
"Your sincere and grateful friend,
"GEO. ET. CARTIER.
"E. W. WATKIN, Esq., M.P. London."
PERMITTED INVASION.
Sir George Cartier's allusion to the neglect by our Government in
permitting, without remonstrance, the repeated invasion of Canada,
makes one shiver with shame. As President Johnson said to me in 1865,
"Why don't your people remonstrate?"
My countrymen may feel assured that if remonstrances, firm and
dignified, had anticipated each known intended outrage - English and
Irish-American conspiracies would have not been as now.
