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Title: The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell), 1864-1923
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Publisher: Philadelphia : J. C. Winston
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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, or the future interests of Canadians, or the develop-ment of British power on the American continent, in comparison withan undisturbed peace which might facilitate the sale of a few morebales of cotton goods and promote immunity from increased responsi-bility or a little fresh taxation ? They were nothing to men like JohnBright, who had now begun to dominate public sentiment in Englandupon questions of this kind and who was able, not long after theseevents, to express pious and cosmopolitan aspirations for a futureAmerican Republic which should stretch in one unbroken expanse oflife and liberty and happiness from southern seas to the Arcticregions ! TREATIES OF 1842 AND 1846 The Maine and Oregon boundary questions, which were dis-posed of by these Treaties, very nearly carried the two nationsinto war. Had one of them been any other than Great Britain, withher lack of territorial ambition and her good-natured endurance ofyouthful American aggressiveness, such a result would have been
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EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF THE DOMINION 627 certain. The description of United States policy and diplomacy,as being, usually, vigorous to the point of aggression and forciblebeyond the bounds of European etiquette, is not necessarily one ofcensure. The authorities at Washington, in all these negotiationsand wars of a century, believed in the value of Continental soil andin the importance of rounding off their territories north and south—whether by the acquisition of California and Nevada and New Mexico,the annexation of Texas, or the acquisition of a part of New Brunswickand the States of Oregon and Washington. They had a distinct,though not always direct, policy of expansion and that they followedthis up at the expense of Canada and Great Britain reflects creditupon their astuteness and only discredit upon the statecraft of Eng-land. Well-meant friendliness or conciliation, when not reciprocated,is simply weakness of the worst kind. The Maine question had been simmering since 1783 when

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