The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone (Classic Reprint)

England was roused to so great a degree by the tone of President Polkâs message to the United Statesâ Congress, as to lead to a display of determination, on the part of the Premier of the thenexisting administration, which was warmlv and gladly received by our very pacific country. It is not our object to enter into a recapitulation of the circumstances ofâ the treaty that surrendered our claims, and so restored the peaceful understanding between this country and the United States; nor of those of the equally to-be-regretted Ashburton treaty; although regrets, unavailing enough, will arise in whomsoever studies the fantastic outline of our North American frontier, and reflects on its injurious consequences. But one thing connected with both these treaties induces us to call earnest attention to this subject ;namely, that in both cases the country at large was too ignorant of the merits of the questions to he deeply interested; and-if this ignorance was not shared by the Government and its accredited employÃs-the subjects of intense and general interest immediately around us were so numerous and great, as to eclipse the vital importance of questions at issue in a remoter scene. In Sir F. B. Headâs,book, â? The Emigrant,â is a record of the conduct of the Government, on the occasion of the state of Canada coming before the Imperial Parliament, at the time of the Earl of Durham sreport.
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