CANADAS ALASKAN DISMEMBERMENT (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Canadas Alaskan DismembermentCanada, as a dependency of Britain, can have no quarrel with the United States, with respect to their action on the Boundary Question. It is the duty of Britain, to resist aggressions upon her Colonies unless she is prepared to find them making terms with the aggressor rather than with herself. It is the toler ance of Britain in the past that invites aggressions in the future.There is some reason to suppose this indifference to the rights of her Colony has reacted on Britain, in an increase of the contempt and hatred of the citizens of the States, quite as much as from her actual relations to themselves in the past. The greater respect and friendship, recently manifested to Britain, does not result, perhaps, so much from a sense of the friendly abuse of her obligations of neutrality towards Spain, from which, in theory at least, she holds Gibraltar, as an ally) as from a consciousness of a change in the attitude of the Empire towards the Colonies, that appears to have vastly increased the risk that aggressions previously tolerated, will no longer be re garded with similar complacency. For the apparent surrender of Colonial rights involved by the consent of Britain to the pres ent Convention, it is evident Sir Wilfred Laurier, as appears from his answers to questions in the House at Ottawa, assumes the responsibility. The British Minister would not have agreed to such a Convention had he been warned that more than a mat ter of limits was involved in his consent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or m