ything for the good of Governor Obstinate.

Mr. Hawke came out in a well-considered interview concerning the
Georgian Bay-Ontario Canal, in which he quoted in full the Toronto
paper. Mr. Hawke agreed with the Toronto paper; in addition he solemnly
gave it as his belief that Senator Hanway's real purpose had ever been
to arm England against this country. Mr. Hawke became denunciatory, and
called Senator Hanway a traitor working for English preference and
English gold. He said that Senator Hanway was a greater reprobate than
Benedict Arnold. Mr. Hawke rehearsed the British armament in the Western
Hemisphere, and counted the guns in Halifax, Montreal, Quebec,
Esquimalt, to say nothing of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, and the British
West Indies. He pointed out that England already possessed a fighting
fleet on the Great Lakes which wanted nothing but the guns--and those
could be mounted in a day--to make them capable of burning a fringe ten
miles wide along the whole lake coast of the United States. Buffalo,
Detroit, Chicago, every city on the lakes was at the mercy of England;
and now her agent, Senator Hanway, to make the awful certainty threefold
surer, was traitorously proposing his Georgian Bay-Ontario Canal. Mr.
Hawke, being a Southern man, and because no Southern man can complete an
interview without, like Silas Wegg, dropping into verse, quoted from
Byron where he stole from Waller for his lines on White:

"So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart
And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart."

Mr. Hawke closed in with a burst of eloquence, but metaphors sadly
mixed, by picturing this country as a "struck eagle," expiring at the
feet of England. It then might find, cried Mr. Hawke, how it had winged
the murderous shaft that stole its life away with the Georgian
Bay-Ontario Canal. Senator Hanway was given his share in the picture as
the paid traitor who had furnished that feather from the American
Eagle's wing which so fatally aided the enemy in his archery.

To one unacquainted with the tinderous quality of political
popularities, what ensued would be hard to imagine. Mr. Hawke's
interview was as a torch to tow. A tiny responsive flame burst forth in
one paper, then in ten, then in two hundred; in a moment the country was
afire like a sundry prairie. Senator Hanway, lately adored, was
execrated and bur