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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- THE EMPIRE
- I COLONIAL EMANCIPATION
- II COLONIAL EMANCIPATION. ANSWER TO THE TIMES
- III COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
- IV COLONIAL EXPENDITURE
- V COLONIAL TRADE
- VI CANADA
- VII THE CANADIAN MILITIA BILL
- VIII THE DEBATES ON THE CANADIAN MILITIA BILL
- IX ENGLAND AND CANADA
- X NEW ZEALAND
- XI COLONIAL EMIGRATION
- XII MR. ADDERLEY ON CANADIAN AFFAIRS
- XIII GIBRALTAR
- XIV THE PROTECTORATE OF TURKEY
- XV THE IONIAN ISLANDS
- XVI THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS
- XVII THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS. (MR. D'ISRAELI)
- XVIII INDIA
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
XII - MR. ADDERLEY ON CANADIAN AFFAIRS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- THE EMPIRE
- I COLONIAL EMANCIPATION
- II COLONIAL EMANCIPATION. ANSWER TO THE TIMES
- III COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
- IV COLONIAL EXPENDITURE
- V COLONIAL TRADE
- VI CANADA
- VII THE CANADIAN MILITIA BILL
- VIII THE DEBATES ON THE CANADIAN MILITIA BILL
- IX ENGLAND AND CANADA
- X NEW ZEALAND
- XI COLONIAL EMIGRATION
- XII MR. ADDERLEY ON CANADIAN AFFAIRS
- XIII GIBRALTAR
- XIV THE PROTECTORATE OF TURKEY
- XV THE IONIAN ISLANDS
- XVI THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS
- XVII THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS. (MR. D'ISRAELI)
- XVIII INDIA
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
Summary
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY NEWS.”
Sir,—The crisis in our relations with Canada has led Mr. Adderley to re-publish his letter on the Colonies, with a special preface on Canadian affairs. He will be heard with interest and deference by all who desire to form a fair judgment on the subject. He adverts to the letters which I have addressed to you, and says that he “deplores my conclusions.” Yet I venture to think he strengthens the premises from which those conclusions are drawn. Not only so, but, if I am not mistaken, he practically leads up to them. If I understand him rightly, he would withdraw all our forces from the Colonies, and leave them to provide each for its own defence. When he has done this, I believe he will speedily find himself landed in the conclusions which, as propounded by me, he now deplores.
As to the present state of things, his language is frank and strong. “Canada and England cannot long remain together on terms of disadvantage to either. If you wish for permanent friendship with anybody, its terms must be fair and equal on both sides. Romantic patronage on one side, and interested attachment on the other, is not friendship, but mutual deception. When we find out that we are paying too much for our pride, or they that they are receiving too little for their dependence, the rottenness of our present connexion will be detected.
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- The Empire: A Series of LettersPublished in 'The Daily News', 1862, 1863, pp. 190 - 203Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1863