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ISBN 13 : 9781331209973
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Canada's Alaskan Dismemberment (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canada's Alaskan Dismemberment The sentiment of loyalty is one, the strength of which can be permanently retained only in proportion to the sense of reciprocity with which it is met, and it so far shares the attributes of love, as to resent either indifference or unconsciousness. And unfortunately, Canada, by her proximity to the States, has been exposed to the pin pricks of malice, as well as to extortions, directed against her as a dependency, that would not have been attempted or tolerated if directed against Britain herself. Canada, 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 tolerance 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 regarded with similar complacency. For the apparent surrender of Colonial rights involved by the consent of Britain to the present 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 matter of "limits" was involved in his consent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
