The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 57
Leeds Mercury
Leeds Mercury.
"The day is happily past when anybody who had the smallest chance of being regarded as a politician of importance could look with equanimity upon the prospect of a possible separa- page 110 tion between England and her Colonies. The whole tendency among both political parties is now the other way. It is the object of every man with the slightest pretensions to statesman, ship to bind the Colonies more closely than ever to the mother country."