ult of the whole is that the citizenship of an inhabitant of the
Dominion of Canada is a triple tie. Suppose him to reside in the
province of Quebec. First, he is a citizen of that province, and bound
to obey all the laws which it is within the competence of the provincial
Legislature to pass. Next, he is a citizen of the Dominion of Canada,
and acknowledges its jurisdiction in all matters outside the legitimate
sphere of the province. Lastly, and above all, he is a subject of her
Majesty. He is to all intents and purposes, as respects the vast company
of nations, an Englishman, entitled to all the privileges as he is to
all the glory of the mother country so far as such privileges can be
enjoyed and glory participated in without actual residence in England.
One startling point of likeness in events and unlikeness in consequences
is to be found in the history of Ireland and Canada. In 1798 Ireland
rebelled. Protestant and Catholic were arrayed in arms against each
other. The rebellion was quenched in blood, and measures of repression
have been in force, with slight intervals of suspension, ever since,
with this result--that the Ireland of 1886 is scarcely less disloyal and
discontented than the Ireland of 1798. In 1837 and 1838 Canada rebelled.
Protestants and Catholics, differing in nationality as well as in
religion, were arrayed in arms against each other. The rebellion was
quelled with the least possible violence, a free Constitution was given,
and the Canada of 1886 is the largest, most loyal, and most contented
colony in her Majesty's dominions.

Assuming, then, thus much to be proved by the Constitution of the United
States that national unity of the closest description is consistent with
complete Home Rule in the component members of the nation, and by the
history of Canada and the British colonial empire that an Imperial tie
is sufficient to bind together for centuries dependencies differing in
situation, in nationality, in religion, in laws, in everything that
distinguishes peoples one from another, and further and more
particularly that emancipation of the Anglo-Saxon colonies from control
in their internal affairs strengthens instead of weakening Imperial
unity, let us turn to Ireland and inquire whether there is anything in
the circumstances under which Home Rule was proposed to be granted to
Ireland, or in the measures intended to establish that Home Rule, fairly
leading to the inference that disruption of