Excerpt from Letter to the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M. P: On the Present Relations of England With the Colonies
Dear Disraeli,
I address myself to you, in writing on the subject of our present colonial relations, not only because you are the Leader of the political party to which I belong in the House of Commons, but still more because you are the last leading Statesman there, who has openly shown a due appreciation of the naked and disastrous truth - to which I am anxious to draw attention, - that England has lost the right estimation of her special art, and vital interest in colonization; and has substituted for her former national offspring, a semi-dependency, looking to her for protection, instead of sharing with her in
universal empire.
We became aware, late last session, that Her Majesty had engaged the service of the largest steamer in the world, to convey additional forces from home to Canada, which we were told was agitated by the first sound of civil strife across its borders. Lord Palmerston vented his most heroic indignation against Sir James Fergusson, who remonstrated against this forestallment of assistance. Nothing but ignorance of the history of our Colonies could have enabled the Premier to adopt the civis Romanus tone in his defence of a proceeding which, if he knew anything of the spirit of our Colonies in former times, must have indicated a conviction in his mind of the degeneracy of his countrymen. You replied by the counter question, "Are there no inhabitants in Canada - are there "not a numerous and gallant people there? If not adequate, "on this occasion to depend wholly on their own energies, do "they require our men to set them the first example?
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