We believe ourselves, at this moment, in no danger of forgetting it.

The day after Paardeburg, that still winter day, did not our hearts rise within us to see it shaken out with its message everywhere, shaken out against the snow?
How it spoke to us, and lifted us, the silent flag in the new fallen snow! Theirs--and ours...

That was but a little while ago, and there is not a man here who will not bear me out in saying that we were never more loyal, in word and deed, than we are now.

And that very state of things has created for us an undermining alternative...
"So long as no force appeared to improve the trade relations between England and this country Canada sought in vain to make commercial bargains with the United States.

They would have none of us or our produce; they kept their wall just as high against us as against the rest of the world: not a pine plank or a bushel of barley could we get over under a reciprocal arrangement.