Year: 1867

our border as is contemplated would not be
inmcal to our own institutions and welfare
whether, as Mr.. Banks said, it would not shave
in the future material If not q controlling In
fiuence and power over the affairs OF the
American continent" Evidently that Is the
wish and purpose of British statesmen. They
look to the future and legislate for ages to
come. They may be disappointed, but they
have been too successful heretofore in their far
reaching policy in other cases not to make the
effort. We think 1t more likely that the United
States will control in the future the destnies
of the whole American continent-the Canadian
Provinces as well as the rest-than that this
British northern portion viii control our des-
tiny. Still, such state Of things might exist
among ourselves, through civil war or other
causes, when the enemies of the United
States and republican institutions could
use q neighboring monarchical Power TO
injure us very materially. We saw how


the comparatively weak colonies Of Great
Britain lying along our border could injufe


us during the late rebellion. How much more


this might be the case il these colonies were
consolidated in monarchy and should acquire
population Of ten, twenty or more millions.
Singlehanded, such . monarchy might prove
very troublesome; but when backed by the
power Of the British empire it might be really
dangerous. We, therefore, should look ahead
as well as England, and should nip in the bud
these incipient and sinister designs against
republicanism on the American continent


There is good reason tor the action Of Con-
gress, and we hope both the Committee on
Foreign Affairs and Congress itself will express
in strong language the sentiment Of the Ameri-
can people against the monarchical scheme of
the British government We have had too
many evidences Of the hostility Of England
and other European Powers-particularly Of
the hostility Of England-to our republican
institutions, not to be aroused at this new roy
alist project. The sinister efforts made by the
aristocracy Of England to dismember the re-
public when the rebellion broke out, and the
new holy alliance Of monarchs to erect a mon
archy in Mexico, showed the spirit and purpose
of European policy in America. England has
evinced the same disposition through the whole
period of our existence as a republic. Ger
tlinly, then, it is our duty TO check this new
movement by all the means in our power.
Self-preservation, our national dignity and
honor, and the position we are bound to hold
as tn arbiter Of the destinies of this continent
demand this of us. Perhaps it may be said we
have no right to interfere in the matter, and
that England has right to do what she pleases
with her own subjects and in her own territory.
We do not admit this logic where great ma
tional interests are involved. European
Powers have never admitted it wherf their own
p inciples and interests were at stake. Under
the pretext Of creating or regulating balance
OF power or Of destroying troublesome neigh
bors, these Powers have over and over again
blotted out governments and nationalities and
reformed States. England, combined with all
the monarchs Of Europe, made war upon the
republican ideas of France at the end OF
the last century because they were dangerous
to royalty. While we do not enter upon re-
publican propagandism abroad 1t is our duty
to cherish and defend republican institutions
in America against the designs Of the mon
arches of the Old World. Our own welfare,
the preservation and perpetuation Of our re-
publican government and the grand r6le We are
called upon to perform ON this continent call
upon us imperatively to resist any further ad-
vance Of monarchical ideas or institutions here.
We are called upon especially to resist this in
the British Provinces, which have population
of the same race, speaking the same language,
and coterminous border stretching across
the entire continent Let the great republic
raise itself up to the full grandeur of its posi-
ton and destiny with regard to this question.
Let it say there shall be no more monarchies
nor any further advance Of royalty on the
American continent