The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People

by John R. Dos Passos

AND

THE UNIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

BY

JOHN R. DOS PASSOS

OF THE NEW YORK BAR

Author of "Stock Brokers and Stock Exchanges," "The Interstate
Commerce Act," "Commercial Trusts," etc.

SECOND EDITION

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

Knickerbocker Press

1903

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COPYRIGHT, 1903

BY

JOHN R. DOS PASSOS

Published, June, 1903

Reprinted, August, 1903

Knickerbocker Press, New York

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ANALYSIS

CHAPTER PAGE Introduction ……………………………………….vii I. Two events which mark the close of the nineteenth century.1 I. By the Spanish War, the relations of the United States to Europe and the East were suddenly transformed…………..3 II. The effect of the war in Africa upon the relations and power of England…………………………………….5 III. The present diplomatic and political map of the world.8 IV. Russia, China, France—their relations to each other and to the world……………………………………….10 V. The Spanish and Portuguese people………………….31

II. The origin and form of the suggested alliance between
England and the United States…48
I. How the suggestion arose………………………….48
II. The indefiniteness of the form of the proposed
Alliance…………………………………………..55
Definition of co-operation, alliance, union, or compact…61

III. The historical facts traced which have been gradually leading to interfusion between the English-speaking people…………………………………………….69

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I. The different epochs which led to the development and
expansion of the English-speaking race………………71
a. The introduction of Christianity into England……71
b. The consolidation of the different kingdoms of
England into one………………………………..74
c. The influence of the Roman Law upon England's
Progress……………………………………….77
d. The Great Charters—the Petition of Right—the
Habeas Corpus Act, passed under Charles—the Bill of
Rights in 1688—and the Act of Settlement………….79
e. The union with Scotland……………………….80
f. Discovery of America………………………….81
g. The independence of the colonies……………….83
II. Résumé of the foregoing………………………….96

IV. The inherent natural reasons or sympathetic causes which sustain a union, and which support the historical growth and tendency to the same end examined…………..99 I. Union natural as to time and people……………..100 II. Of the same national family…………………….101 III. The same language……………………………..108 IV. The same literature……………………………116 V. The same political institutions…………………124 VI. The same laws, legal customs, and general modes of judicial procedure……………………………….133 VII. The same tendency and methods of religious thought and worship……………………………………..137 VIII. Intermarriages……………………………….138

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IX. Other similarities between the two nations,
exhibiting the natural features of the alliance, such
as the drama, sports, pastimes, habits of living…….139
X. Resume……………………………………….140

V. The selfish causes which provoke and support an alliance
Examined………………………………………….142
I. The common interests of both countries demand
co-operation—identity of international action……142
Commercial relations……………………………144
Financial relations…………………………….144
II. Self-preservation—protection—necessity…………145
III. Duty…………………………………………146

VI. The means by which a closer union may be created and
maintained………………………………………..152
Preliminary……………………………………….153
The three methods examined by which a union may be
established……………………………………..154
By absorption of all into one nation……………..154
By establishing a federation…………………….154
By a treaty—regulating their conduct and intercourse
with each other………………………………155
The reasons existing against the first two, and in
favor of the last method………………………156
VII. The subjects to be covered by a Treaty…………….159
I. The Dominion of Canada to become a part of the United
States of America………………………………159
II. Common Citizenship……………………………..179
III. The establishment of freedom of commercial
intercourse and relations between the countries
involved, to the same extent as that which exists
between the different States constituting the United
States of America………………………………..202

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IV. Great Britain and the United States (I) to coin gold,
silver, nickel and copper money, not displaying the
same devices or mottoes, but possessing an equal money
value, and interchangeable everywhere within the limits
covered by the Treaty, and (2) to establish a uniform
standard of weights and measures…………………..205
I. The same gold, silver, nickel and copper money…205
II. To establish a uniform standard of weights and
measures…………………………………207
V. In case of any dispute hereafter occurring between
Great Britain, or any of her colonies, and the United
States, the same to be referred to a supreme court of
arbitration…………………………………….207

CONCLUSION. The state of public opinion upon the question
of Anglo-Saxon alliance…………………………….209

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