ns from the beginning went in a spirit
of revolt; the seed of disaffection was in every Puritan bosom. We from
the beginning went in a spirit of amity, forgetting nothing, disavowing
nothing, to plant the flag with our fortunes. We took our very
Constitution, our very chart of national life, from England--her laws,
her liberty, her equity were good enough for us. We have lived by them,
some of us have died by them...and, thank God, we were long poor...

"And this Republic," he went on hotly, "this Republic that menaces our
national life with commercial extinction, what past has she that is
comparable? The daughter who left the old stock to be the light woman
among nations, welcoming all comers, mingling her pure blood, polluting
her lofty ideals until it is hard indeed to recognize the features and
the aims of her honourable youth..."

Allowance will be made for the intemperance of his figure. He believed
himself, you see, at the bar for the life of a nation.

"...Let us not hesitate to announce ourselves for the Empire, to throw
all we are and all we have into the balance for that great decision.
The seers of political economy tell us that if the stars continue to
be propitious, it is certain that a day will come which will usher in
a union of the Anglo-Saxon nations of the world. As between England and
the United States the predominant partner in that firm will be the one
that brings Canada. So that the imperial movement of the hour may mean
even more than the future of the motherland, may reach even farther than
the boundaries of Great Britain..."

Again he paused, and his eye ranged over their listening faces. He had
them all with him, his words were vivid in their minds; the truth of
them stood about him like an atmosphere. Even Bingham looked at him
without reproach. But he had done.

"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, his voice dropping, with a hint of
tiredness, to another level, "I have the honour to stand for your
suffrages as candidate in the Liberal interest for the riding of South
Fox in the Dominion House of Commons the day after tomorrow. I solicit
your support, and I hereby pledge myself to justify it by every means in
my power. But it would be idle to disguise from you that while I attach
all importance to the immediate interests in charge of the Liberal
party, and if elected shall use my best efforts to further them, the
great task before that party, in my opinion, the overshadowing task to
which, I