affairs_, that there was on our part, due to the _existing authorities_ in America, a large measure of deference in the difficulties which they had to encounter. At the same time, it was natural to feel ... the greatest respect for those Southern States, who, representing a vast population of men, were struggling for some of the greatest objects of existence--independence and power....” Long before this--in 1856--he had said, when America’s attitude towards Central American troubles was irritating England, that in his opinion “... it would be wise if England would at last recognise that the United States, like all the great countries of Europe, _had a policy, and a right to have a policy_. It was foolish for England to regard with jealousy _any legitimate extension of the territory of the United States beyond the bounds originally fixed_.” Such a jealousy would not arrest or retard the development of America; but it might involve disasters. He instanced California and the gloomy forebodings at home with regard to it, none of which had been realised; and he impressed upon the House that “_It was the business of a statesman to recognise the necessity of an increase of power in the States._” The same year evoked another speech which forecasts the tenour of that in 1863, and is a fresh witness of the continuity of his imaginative insight, and his wakeful constancy of his purpose. After deprecating jealousy of America’s political and commercial progress, he thus proceeded-- “... I cannot forget that the United States, though independent, _are still in some sense colonies, and are influenced by colonial tendencies_; and when they come in contact with large portions of territory scarcely populated, or at the most sparsely occupied by an indolent and unintelligent race of men, _it is impossible--and you yourselves find it impossible--to resist the tendency to expansion; and expansion in that sense is not injurious to England_, for it contributes to the wealth of this country (let us say this in a whisper, lest it cross the Atlantic) more than it diminishes the power of the United States. In our foreign relations with the United States, therefore, I am opposed to that litigious spirit of jealousy which looks upon the expansion of that country and the advance of these young communities with an eye of jealousy and distrust.”