remain so. They _are_ attached to England, that is a
fact, keep them so, by making them Englishmen. Throw
the door wide open; patronise them; enlist them in the
imperial sarvice, allow them a chance to contend for
honours and let them win them, if they can. If they don't,
it's their own fault, and cuss 'em they ought to be
kicked, for if they ain't too lazy, there is no mistake
in 'em, that's a fact. The country will be proud of them,
if they go ahead. Their language will change then. It
will be _our_ army, the delighted critters will say, not
the English army; _our_ navy, _our_ church, _our_
parliament, _our_ aristocracy, &c., and the word English
will be left out holus-bolus, and that proud, that
endearin' word "our" will be insarted. Do this, and you
will shew yourself the first statesman of modern times.
You'll rise right up to the top of the pot, you'll go
clean over Peel's head, as your folks go over ourn, not
by jumpin' over him, but by takin' him by the neck and
squeezin' him down. You 'mancipated the blacks, now
liberate the colonists and make Englishmen of them, and
see whether the goneys won't grin from ear to ear, and
shew their teeth, as well as the niggers did. Don't let
Yankee clockmakers, (you may say that if you like, if it
will help your argument,) don't let travellin' Yankee
clockmakers tell such stories, against _your_ justice
and _our_ pride as that of the Prince de Joinville and
his horse.'"