The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-29

the practical difficulties of the project for
federation. which it is not worth while to
consider at the present stage of the question.
The author Of 1.-THE Great Came" in advo-
eating the federal form of government, seems
to be fully aware of the capacity which ii
possesses for embracing new conquests, and
its chief value. in his eyes, lies in the fact
that the consolidated empire would be the
largest and strongest on the globe, and ought
to become the most aggressive. By GU
rious freak of prejudice, however, while
INDUCING in magnificent visions of British
domination, and arguing for the closer
union of Great Britain and all that have
sprung from her loins, he proposes to cut
of Canada, her best colony, and open the
new era by attacking the United States.
Such a policy would divide the English
speaking people of the world in almost
equal parts, and would inaugurate disunion
and strife, instead of peace and strength. A
man grayely considering what is best for
England and her colonies talks in this
lunatic fashion about the Dominion:
Any one who has conversed with many Cana
dams and made practice of reading Canadian
newspapers, can see that the people of the Do
They have formally adopted the Yankee cur
rency, and their speech is so full of Yankee
Sn 6TonSb Om al
with Sir a. T. Gait that the proposal
late for Canada. And L confess that l am not
at all sorry. She would necessitaIe such an adj
dition of colonial members to the Federal Legis-
iature as would brighten jealous EngIishmen
into rejection of the entire proposal. She is a
child too big and wilful for paternal amend
elevaiing effect of the indirect Influences
of British connection is far too slight to justify
an enormous sacrifice of British imperial eff
cheney. While she remains nominally part Of
the British empire, she is the pledge of its thral
dom TO her in client neighbor. The rowdy re-
England is trammelled by the fear of bringing a
Butler or a Sherman TO acquaint helpless Cana
dams with the horrors of American warfare.
She is now thoroughly tired Of being sauced,
feeced, and Kicked by Yankee DULLES, and
ought to hail with rapture the prosI ect of deliv-
erance from the source of her weakness and hu-
initiation. When liberated, she may obtain
compensation for the loss OF Canada by taking
more manageable territory in warmer lati-
The territory to be acquired in warmer
ATTITUDES is afterward described in detail
and it would seem that the stomach
of the pamphleteer's imagination is a large
and strong one. He contemplates taking
Borneo and Papua from the Dutch, the an
nexation of Madagascar and Tonga, the con-
troll of Guinea and Siam, protectorate
over Egypt, Persia and Arabia, the conquest
OF the Portuguese possessions in Southern
Africa, and the acquisition of Cuba, San Do
mlngo, Central America an0 Mexico. The
writer fails to explain why it is, that II
Canada is to be relinquished in order to be
clear of possible complications with
the United States, Mexico is
to be sought for but he
concludes by some mysterious process that
when once England's neck is freed from
the Canadian mill stone the Yankees twill
think once, twice, and even thrice before
they allow their insolent and touchy
vanity to carry them into war which
must be entirely naval on their part, and
{ in which, therefore, they could not fail to
get that jolly good thrashing which
they have needed so much ever since they
began to fiaunt the star-spangled banner
Indeed, the author of "The Great Game" has
the hatred of genuine tory for everything
American, and, after calling the country
'slipshod parody of orderly and enlightened
England" he lets into it in the following
style:
Its so-caIIed government is nothing but a
gathering up of all the folly, paltriness drtiness
and roguery of the country into a position of
predominance over its sweetness and light-the
supremacy of the nouvelles couches sociales
of its meanness, and meanness making merit
of its Ignorance" Truly nation of shop keep
ers, with no lotion of progress beyond the null
scrupuious accum ulation Of inelegant wealth
They have all the public vices of the els
Atlantic republicans. The same incompetence,
a iShn VpnalitVs nlQceS
same tyranny on the part of the officials. The
same meanness Ignorance, corruption, jealousy
of eminence and contempt of law on the part of
the people; O contempt not indeed very surpriS-
ing, when we consider the contemplate crea-
isiered, Can any good thing come out OF a
country whose ignorant roughs elect roughs not
much better informed TO mlsrule It's wealth and
intelligence; where the classes socially and
morally last, are politically first or every
thing, and the classes socially and
morally first are politically last or nothing?
Can a nation be ut for political supervision o.
others when its own respectable members
of reprOach? We must judge them by tt e total
absence of decency and good sense from the
management of their internal affairs, by their
rasping and malignant oppression of the con-
quered South, and bv their continuous plumber
and slaughter of their r d Indian subjects; and
that of utter uDfitness for any new response
bility.
Such prolonged and vigorous below is
worthy of quotation in full, and, coming
from any other source, the remarks about
the oppression of the South and the exter-
mination of the Indians, would be very ap-
propriate.
Or the whole ''Tne Great Game'' may be
be said to be based upon a sound and polite
prejudice in favor of the advance of Great
Britain in power and conquest, rather tnan
her retreat and surrender of
her present possessions, as advo-
Gated by Gladstone the ambition to take
a lead in the affairs of the world, as in days
gone by, rather than the quiet contentment
of an old woman by her freside; but it is
clear that writer simply advocates this
policy, which is essentially a good one, in
the spirit of intense national pride, and not