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Imperial Federation of Great Britain and Her Colonies
Imperial Federation of Great Britain and Her Colonies Author:Frederick Young General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: S. W. Silver and co. Subjects: Imperial federation Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get... more » free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER II. From the Hon. WILLIAM FOX (late Premier of New Zealatul). National Character Coloured By Sentiment -- Colonies Entitled To Feel Themselves Integral Portions Of A Great Nation, And To Shake In The Historic Greatness Of The Empire -- Neglect Of The Imperial Government To Promote Colonisation On True Principles -- For Two Centuries Past Allowed To Drift -- Ob- JECTION To The Colonies Being Regarded As Extensions Of The Empire In The Same Wat As English Counties -- Change Proposed By Mu. Young Discussed -- Not Merely Revolutionary, But A Revolution -- Task A ' Big ' One -- Hope Expressed That It Is Not Insuperable -- Support To It Promised. NATIONAL character, in my humble opinion, is coloured quite as much by sentiment as by laws and constitutions. But sentiment may be created or maintained by these, and it is on that account more than on account of any material advantages the Colonies are likely to derive from Federalisation, that the subject is of importance to them. It is of the highest importance to colonial character that our Colonies should feel themselves to be integral portions of a great nation, not mere dependencies and offshoots; that they should feel themselves entitled to share in the historic greatness of the Empire, past and contemporary, and not limit their sentiment to the comparatively petty parochial scope of their own narrowexistence. It seems to me equally important that the sentiment of the parent State should be expanded to the idea that the Colonies are limbs of...« less