The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-01
Lord Dufferin's Speech.

At a dinner of the National Club at
Ottawa the Governor. General of the Do.
minion got off some very modest remarks,
from which the following extract is
taken:
As for the United States, although
they may be too proud to own it, there is
not citizen of the neighboring Republic
who does not envy the smooth and har.
monious workings of our well-balanced
and happily-adjusted institutions. Of
one thing am quite sure, that there is
not an American politician between the
Atlantic and the Pacific who would not
at the present moment be content to give
half his fortune, and perhaps great deal
more, to possess that most servicea6le
and most useful thing, a Governor. Gen.
eral. Indeed the acquisition by the
United States of so valuable parsonage
has of late come to appear of such prime
necessity-would prove such an obvious
mode of solving their personal difficulties
and of remedying the defects of thergov-
ernmental machine-that have been
extremely nervous about passing so near
the border as 1 had to do on my way
hither. There is no knowing what might
happen in case of people under such a
stress of temptation. Raids have been
prompted sometimes by love as we'll as
hate. In fact, the tame ceremonies of
modern marriage are but the emasculated
reproduction of the far more spirited
principle of capture by which brides in
less sophisticated ages were obtained.
Who knows to what lengths Mr.. Tilden
and Mr.. Hayes, and the millions of their
respective adherents now drawn up in
hostile array against each other might
not be driven in the agony of their pres
ent suspense. A British Governor-Gen-
eral What q cutting of the Gordian
knot! And so near, too just across the
water. A gunboat and a sergeant's guard
and the thing is done. And then think
what they got in him. A person dislo-
Gated from all sectional interests, preju-
dices, and passions who can never be-
come stronger than the peoples Parlia-
ment or divide the national vote. A
representative of all that is august, stable
and sedate in the government, the histo-
ry, and the traditions of the country /;
incapable of partisanship, and lifted far
above the atmosphere of faction; with
out adherents to reward or opponents to
oust from office; docile to the sugges-
tions of his Ministers, and yet securing
to the people the certainty of being able
TO get rid of an administration or Parlia.
ment the moment either had forfeited
their confidence. Really, gentlemen, I
think I had better remove nearer the
North Pole, for I am sure you will be-
leve me when / say that after having
been made to feel for so many years how
good and kind are the people of Canada,
having had an opportunity of apprecia.
ting how high an honor it is to be con-
nected with Dominion so full of hope,
with such glorious prospect before her,
I shall never be induced, even under the
stress of violence and threat of being
"bull-dozed," to sit for one moment
longer than I can help In the Presiden-
tial chair of the United States. Should
go you may expect me back by the
under ground railway. Nay, NOR so
deeply attached am 1 to our Canad~ 1T
the Pashalik of Bulgaria, shall not tempt
me away, even though a full domestic
establishment, such as are customary in
that country, should be provided for me
out of the taxes of the people, and Lady
Duferin gave her consent. which is
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