It was a policy of Unionism, the sort of Unionism that linked the destiny of the lady to that of the tiger.

The fruits of it were a little bitter in the eating.

The colonies in which under the Home Rule regime "loyalty" has blossomed like the rose, were in those days most distressingly disloyal.
Cattle-driving and all manner of iniquities of that order in Canada; the boycott adopted not as a class, but as a national, weapon in Cape Colony; the Eureka stockade in Australia; Christian De Wet and the crack of Mausers in the Transvaal--such were the propaedeutics to the establishment of freedom and the dawn of loyalty in the overseas possessions.

But in this field of government the gods gave England not only a great pioneer, Lord Durham, but also the grace to listen to him.
His Canadian policy set a headline which has been faithfully and fruitfully copied.

Its success was irresistible.