Nor will any government not infatuated treat such a province as Canada or Victoria in the way in which it might be proper to treat a little band of emigrants who have just begun to build their huts on a barbarous shore, and to whom the protection of the flag of a great nation is indispensably necessary.

Nevertheless, there cannot really be more than one supreme power in a society.

If, therefore, a time comes at which the mother country finds it expedient altogether to abdicate her paramount authority over a colony, one of two courses ought to be taken.

There ought to be complete incorporation, if such incorporation be possible.

If not, there ought to be complete separation.