[5] From "Principes des Negociacions," par l'Abbé de Mably, the Federalist, No. VI., Lodge's Ed., p. 32.
[6] As illustrating these views I quote from an interview published in the New York Herald of Sunday, June 15, 1902, with Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, before leaving for London, to attend the coronation ceremonies and the conference of Colonial Premiers, as follows: "The most important question just now, as affecting the relations and friendly feeling existing between Canada and the United States, is the Alaska boundary question. This situation is full of danger, and all that is required to precipitate a disgraceful conflict is the discovery of gold in the disputed territory." This difficulty has happily been arranged by treaty and the question left to six arbitrators, but at the present writing Canada newspapers are urging strenuous objections against two of the American arbitrators.
[7] Froude's History of England, vol. vii.. p. 101.
[8] Hume's History of England, vol. iv., p. 251.
[9] See Hallam's Const. Hist. of England, vol. iii., p. 325.
[10] Canada and the Canadian Question, p. 267 et seq.
[11] "Commercial Relations between Canada and the United States," by Robert McConnell, Canadian Magazine, January, 1889.
[12] "Tracts Relating to Scotland," Lord Bacon's Works, vol. v., edited by Basil Montagu.
[13] History of Rome, vol. i., p. 88, Dickens's edition, 1894.
[14] Fully set forth in Demosthenes's Oration on the Crown, Bohn's Classical Library, p. 39.