Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES.
suredly come) they sever themselves from us, as the dependencies
of Spain did from her, and establish themselves as independent
nations, for it will be doubtless as-republics.
Then, instead of having the great tie of a close resemblance in
all political institutions, and that wide sympathy which must
sprilngz from an identity of all the forms of constitutional administration and of organization, we must take leave of them, and lose
them indeed! for they will naturally and spontaneously cling to
those governments which have the greatest similarity to their own,
and feel that the same act which has disjoined them from a state
of government so little analagous to their own selected one, has, as
it were, connected them with those that are formed on the same
model and established on the same foundations.
It is a great compliment to our mighty transatlantic brethren,
without doubt, that we should be moulding and forming all our
colonies to tread in their footsteps and follow their example; but
it is a very bad compliment to our own institutions; and in the
course of time will tend, if persevered in, I am persuaded, very
greatly to endanger them. Two great principles will divide the
world one day or the other: democracy and monarchy, and one or
the other will ultimately have the ascendency; and as we should
not think it wise or prudent of our republican brethren to sow
every where, from the largest to the smallest of thieir states perhaps,
the seeds of absolutism, or of sovereignty, so neither can it be discreet in us to sow broadcast over our own vast transmarine territorial possessions, the seeds of republicanism and democracy. "Qui
se ressemble s'assemble;" and we are actually training and disciplining troops for the future political warfare of the world, that
must and will necessarily range themselves in hostility against
our professed and declared principles and sentimrents.
It may be that our statesmen care not for the future-apres
wtoi le delztge: it may be that they have a secret leaning toward
the wholly popular forms of government themselves; but on this
I have nothing to say, neither am I arguing in the least as to the
relative perfections of this or that form of government. I only
say, if we think our own constitution and institutions are goodare the best (and if we do not think so, certainly no time ought to
be lost in changing them, as far as reason and prudence will permit), then we ought to do our duty, and consistently act, so as to
extend this system, and these advantages, to those over whom we
have so much influence for evil or for good.
Surely no one can doubt for a moment what Australia would
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