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us ianto Confderation m 1867, which drove ment, a fundamental difference whiecr is ofB
us ? the , exte onof ofur teritory in 18T, the greatest imwportance, and which,i hope, '
|ed noft, would not atop, eiw never stop standing here w?th my present thoaght and
1n .thecountryisamalgm aAndMuited mypresent feeling, to see perpetuated in-
i mthe boest paile ray W&t are the dif- stea of to see oblitertd ; but, for the gen-
metods of growing peple together eral mass of the people of these two countries
meod Ull fem P - we g" o 1ak adutake th?re is no very perceptible diffrence of
. a 11ght l?og tthe itoryof the werld Gvyernment whieh should keep the two
whatdo wefindtiase 1hings to be They apart. Neitheristhere any
-are firat, race i and la-lgyl The people
|w ^ efi? nc e a d opiSeaa ? ^PERCEPIBLE DIFF:BENCEOP INSTITUTION.
qf t?e Amse rgoe, the peopeo the aaine lan- PRETB~;D EFRZC,I N~TTO J
|guage, separated fromn other of a different Our forms of edacatioia, or relgious estab-
rae ad a diet , and ndf tri- lishments,all those which are grouped tunder
lythrown in upon themsves, are amalga- the name of institutions are very much the
mated? are unied, are forced to makea same. What is it, then, that, in this, day
community in thems?lvea and grow u with and on this continent, with respect to these*
mutl interestg andmutiual objects. These. two people of which I am speaking,the Ca?-
-Sir, rere the two chief .things that united adian people and the people of the United;
thenationality of the Greeks which, withe a States, can tend to bring us, dravw us, and
diffremnt language and a different bl?od, hold us together in bonds of national unityn
sprung up from the old.world, which, wi... with with a oneness of aim and a oneness of in-
ja langae that was not spoken by those terest ? I think I will speak within the
who .bordered upon them, made of the out- knowledge of all when I saJ that there is
ide world barbrius, and united them to- only one thing to do it, that i, a continuous,
gether mn the strong aid a Bpeedy and an uninterrupted bond ofcom-
J)l ~ PEBMIMANEqIr BONDS OF A NATIONAL LIFE. munication between all prts of the country,
making every distinct member and soeion
Sir, there is another influence rhich may f this country easy of access to every other
=ite countries together-it is the influence member and section of the country. That
of Government. One country grows up with is the element that is to bind us togethor.
a re?publca. form of (Iovernment, another Our merchants are to know eachother from
winthamonarchical foerm of Goverument. The British Columbia to Cape Breton; our people
very faet that these two exist, side by side- are to become acquaintel with each otfier
-iderent forni9 of Government has a tend- from the Provinees br the sea to. the Pro-
enGy to throw together all who live under roininces in the sr NorthWest, aslongas.d
the one form of Governntai4t7d-to throw wherever they'may be formed- we are to
together all wrho live dnder the other form draw togetheras the members of one fiamily;
of Government, and se to tmi9ke the two na- Oatario is to oease sitting down here-by the Q
tionalitie8 clin t c.oser together in ?;heir in- broad lalke thinking that she is sufie?t to
terests a1 in their mutuai relations. There herself, and caring nothin i f er tl tf1
iS alsoL I tihnk, .sir, another influence which are about het, especially the ismller Pro-
binds nationalities together. Itis this, sir: vinces away by the sea- the smallerPro-
lt i9 the influence of similarity or oneness vinces down by the sea are to forget their
of institution-in8titution in its breadest prejudices against these upper Provinces,
sense. tahiu in the benevolent and charit- and ar to beeome better acquainted with
able institut#ons, taking in the religious in- them in interest and ih social relations; tlie
stitutions, the educational institutions, all Promince of Quebec is-to come and join
that we may group under thi8 broad name of hands with the peQple of other Erovinces,and
the institutions of a people. These,I think, we.of the other Provinces- are to become '
are the three chief influences whicb, in the better acquainted with our onf7ve o of the
past, and, to a certain extent, in the present, Province of Quebee, and, learning to know
tend to unite Mou"s of people in the oneness them better, are to learn to lile them better.
of a national life, in a unity of aim and of s3, in all ways, whatever can take place to
interest Nowu, sir,the point of my remarks, bind together the trade interest, the social in-
?n travelling thus far, as it may seem to terest, all the ihterests of the different parts
some hon. gentlemen,outeide. of the record,is of this'great Co?federto is th? thiag
this; to show that, in this newr country, which sh?hl draw us tqgether, keep us to-
neither of these three can be considered a gether, andmake of us
factor in miakingr a complet'? and urhited na- g
isetor^ ^ ^?^ i n d uhite na- . LIVINS AND PRES UNITY,.
ality of the- Dominlon of Canada t
cann?t, sir, be race and language, for the in a national or countrypoint of viewr. Now,
country to the south of us. has the same one step farther. What is the kind of com-,
blood in its veil, eaeWs the same language munication which we can hive which hall.
and it forim no divlding Jine betwren thge oin these Provinces together ? Can we have
two * and, coie quentlyr it- throws neither a water communication which wZould be suf-
the oale nor the othera hk to seek a unity yficient ? No, Sir; that is iMpossible. Ontt-
and oneneos amonget itself. N either is there side of the difficulty of having a wrater com-
..,! . 1u
-ia s ientdioffere in au ery ent . be-n municationl ? atany eason; of the year, for
tween ouser,esdI tahe country to the forth more that one half the itith of thfisw Now^
oftuay. Them wen wu e comef s h dig dow nentm of ours there at is another ha of the rye
tolfhe esence of these two forms of tover- wheno the ice king lays bis hand upon that