Imperial Federation of Great Britain and Her ColoniesFrederick Young S. W. Silver and Company, 1876 - 184 páginas |
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admit advocate affairs answer argument Australia believe body Britain British Empire Canada civilised Colonial Empire COLONIAL FEDERATION Colonists Confederation Constant Reader Constitution correspondent countrymen deal defence desire difficulties discussion Dominion doubt Duke of Manchester England English Parliament Englishmen existing favour Federal Council Federal Government Federal Parliament Federalists feeling force foreign FREDERICK YOUNG future grand Hearn Heptarchy honour House of Commons idea Imperial Federation Imperial Government Imperial Parliament Imperial questions importance interests Labilliere legislation letter matters Melbourne ment mind Ministers mother-country nation noble object old country opinion organisation Parlia Parliament of England peace perial permanent unity Philo-Colonus political portions possess possible practical present principle proposed provincial regard representation representatives Royal Colonial Institute Secretary self-government sentiment separate Sir George Bowen statesmen suggested thought tion true United Kingdom vast Victoria views vote W. E. FORSTER whole Empire Zealand
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Página 141 - Fertile continents still inhabited by wild beasts are " mine, into which all the distressed populations of Europe " might pour themselves, and make at once an Old World " and a New World human. By the eternal fiat of the gods, " this must yet one day be ; this, by all the Divine Silences " that rule this Universe, silent to fools, eloquent and awful " to the hearts of the wise, is incessantly at this moment, " and at all moments, commanded to begin to be. Un" speakable deliverance, and new destiny...
Página 174 - ... the other side of the channel : it should be our navy, our army, our nation. That's a great word ; but the English keep it to themselves, and colonists have no nationality : they are like our free niggers ; they are emancipated, but they hante the same social position as the whites.
Página 174 - It shouldn't be England and her colonies, but they should be integral parts of one great whole — all counties of Great Britain.
Página 176 - And, lastly, we ought to take every opportunity of showing that we consider the colonists our countrymen, and every colony part of the common country, and especially we ought to welcome every step that any colony might take in measures of common defence.
Página 180 - Whatever may be our relations with our Australian Colonies fifty or a hundred years hence, we cannot be wrong now in keeping up a loyal union between all the distant members of the Greater Britain that is to be. There can be no possibility of error in such a policy as this. It is quite possible that Sir George Bowen and our other Colonial Governors may be preparing the way for the grandest Federation of States the world has witnessed...
Página 134 - Federation," p. 134, who says : — " The law of political as of all progress seems to me to be this : first, we hear a few whispers in the cabinet of the student; then the question passes into the area of scientific inquiry; finally, after long maturing, after a severe and searching controversy, it enters the sphere of actual truth, and moulds human action." The Colonies, however, were rapidly passing out of their infant years. Their marvellous growth had eclipsed all experience or expectation....
Página 180 - ... common link of union. For some time yet it can only be a dream, but it is a dream which we are the better for indulging in, and the day in which it will be fulfilled literally may be nearer than any of us suppose. It is something meanwhile to be assured that events are at any rate proceeding in the right direction. Whatever may be our relations with our Australian Colonies fifty or a hundred years hence, we cannot be wrong now in keeping up a loyal union between all the distant members of the...
Página 158 - ... banks of the Thames or the Hoogly, the St. Lawrence or the Yarra Yarra. We must be ready to resent an insult to the national flag whenever it is offered. We must admit no prior claim to our regard, on the part of Englishmen, Irishmen, or Scotchmen, Canadians or Australians, Cape Colonists, or East or West Indians ; we should only recognise such distinctions, when we think that they are each working in different parts of the world, to extend the borders of the British power, and the lustre of...
Página 14 - ... and we know how harmoniously the highest aristocrats sit as legislators with men of different grade in the House of Commons. An Imperial Senate, constituted as suggested, would certainly be the most brilliant legislative assembly that could well be formed. It would consist of picked men from the peerage of England and from the aristocracy of intellect and statesmanship of the whole British Empire. The hereditary peerage of the Empire would open up to that of the United Kingdom a still further...
Página 141 - This poor nation, painfully dark about said tasks and -the way of doing them, means to keep its colonies nevertheless, as things which somehow or other must have a value, were it better seen into. They are portions of the general Earth, where the children of Britain now dwell ; where the gods have so far sanctioned their endeavour, as to say that they have a right to dwell. England will not readily admit that her own children are worth nothing but to be flung out of doors! England looking on her...