Excerpt from Imperial and Colonial Partnership in Emigration

This is union, indeed, this is something like wisdom. They come of the old stock, these men of Canada, and we may well be proud of them they are doing for their country what I suppose we should do in similar circumstances for our own, but what a figure we should cut in history and in our own domestic policy with this despatch on the table of both Houses, if our Government were to say we do not know what to do with it, or how to do with it, and have no means whatever for complying with it i We have in this country plenty of spare hands and spare gold. To-day is the cardinal day in this question. On this day this despatch is laid on the table of the British Parliament, and on this day Consols have touched par, so that you have more money in the City than you know how to invest profitably, and more labour and skill in the country than you know how to employ advantageously. How can you do better than by investing in Colonies what they now ask of you, thereby rescuing whole families from discontent and despond ency at home? (cheers) Of course the Canadian Government have said, To do this we must each exercise a control. Although they do not use the word, I have no objection to use it, it is the word veto. It is impossible to conceive that they would allow such a promise as theirs to be abused, even unintentionally, by having the wrong sort of people sent to them, and therefore there ought to be a joint Commission appomted by the two Governments with equal powers of supervision, the Canadian Commissioner in England having the absolute veto as to the persons and families who shall be sent to take these farms, and the British Commissioner in Canada having absolute power and control to see that the enfeofinient is completed in each case, and that lands fertile and arable are given to the people whom we on our part should bear the cost of sending forth to occupy them.

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