'As to Independence--to talk of Independence is--to use Mr Disraeli's happy phrase--"veiled treason." It is Annexation in disguise, and I am certain that if we were severed from England, and were now standing alone with our four millions of people, the consequence would be that before five years we should be absorbed into the United States' (_ibid._, p. 24). 'The solid substantial advantage of being able to obtain money on better terms than we could on our own credit alone is not the only benefit this guarantee will confer upon us; for it will put a finish to the hopes of all dreamers or speculators who desire or believe in the alienation and separation of the colonies from the mother country. That is a more incalculable benefit than the mere advantage of England's guarantee of our financial stability, great and important as that is' (Debates, House of Commons, 1872, p. 339). 'Gentlemen, we want no independence in this country, except the independence we have at this moment' (_Report of the Demonstration in Honour of the Fortieth Anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's Entrance into Public Life_. Toronto, 1885, p. 103). 'Those who disliked the colonial connection spoke of it as a chain, but it was a golden chain, and he for one, was glad to wear the fetters' (Debates, House of Commons, 1875, p. 981). [6] Montreal _Gazette_, October 25, 1897. [7] Pope's _Memoirs of Sir John Macdonald_, vol. ii, pp. 220-1. {184} BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The following works, dealing in whole or in part with the day of Sir John Macdonald, may be consulted: Sir Joseph Pope's _Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald_ (two vols.: London, Edward Arnold, 1894); Sir John Willison's _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party_ (two vols.: Toronto, Morang, 1903); George R. Parkin's _John A. Macdonald_ (Toronto, Morang, 1908); Dent's _The Last Forty Years, or Canada since the Union of 1841_ (Toronto, 1881); Castell Hopkins's _Life and Work of Sir John Thompson_ (Toronto, 1895); Sir Richard Cartwright's _Reminiscences_ (Toronto, Briggs, 1913); Sir Joseph Pope's pamphlet, _Sir John Macdonald Vindicated_ (Toronto, 1913); Buckingham and Ross, _The Honourable Alexander Mackenzie: His Life and Times_ (Toronto, 1892); Lewis's _George Brown_ (Toronto, Morang, 1906); Sir Charles Tupper's _Recollections of Sixty Years in Canada_ (London, Cassell, 1914). Consult also the writings of W. L. Grant, J. L. Morison, Edward Kylie, George M. Wrong, John Lewis, Sir Joseph Pope, and O. D. Skelton in _Canada and its Provinces_, vols. v, vi, and ix. {185}