a despatch from America announcing that a frontier
dispute with the United States, which at one time
threatened to embroil the two great families of the
Anglo-Saxon race in a fratricidal war, had been settled
in exact accordance with the terms insisted upon by
England. No minister who ever fell from power
could fall with a greater assurance of his country's
gratitude, and of the impartial testimony of history to
the splendour of his public services, and his supreme
capacity for affairs. "I shall leave," he said in his
speech announcing the resignation of his Government,
"a name severely censured, I fear, by many who, on
public grounds, deeply regret the severance of party ties
--deeply regret that severance, not from interested or
personal motives, but from the firm conviction that
fidelity to party engagements--the existence and mainten-
ance of a great party--constitutes a powerful instrument
of government. I shall surrender power severely cen-
sured by others who, from no interested motive, adhere
to the principle of protection, considering the mainten-
ance of it to be essential to the welfare and interests of
the country; I shall leave a name execrated by every
monopolist who, from less honourable motives, clamours
for protection because it conduces to his own individual
benefit; but it may be that I shall leave a name some-
times remembered with expressions of goodwill in the
abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn
their daily bread with the sweat of their brow, when
they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant
and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer
leavened with a sense of injustice."

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