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THE ANGLO-SAXON CENTURY

AND

THE UNIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

BY

JOHN R. DOS PASSOS

OF THE NEW YORK BAR

Author of "Stock Brokers and Stock Exchanges," "The Interstate
Commerce Act," "Commercial Trusts," etc.

SECOND EDITION

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

Knickerbocker Press

1903

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COPYRIGHT, 1903

BY

JOHN R. DOS PASSOS

Published, June, 1903

Reprinted, August, 1903

Knickerbocker Press, New York

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ANALYSIS

CHAPTER PAGE Introduction .vii I. Two events which mark the close of the nineteenth century.1 I. By the Spanish War, the relations of the United States to Europe and the East were suddenly transformed..3 II. The effect of the war in Africa upon the relations and power of England.5 III. The present diplomatic and political map of the world.8 IV. Russia, China, Francetheir relations to each other and to the world.10 V. The Spanish and Portuguese people.31

II. The origin and form of the suggested alliance between
England and the United States48
I. How the suggestion arose.48
II. The indefiniteness of the form of the proposed
Alliance..55
Definition of co-operation, alliance, union, or compact61

III. The historical facts traced which have been gradually
leading to interfusion between the English-speaking
people.69

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I. The different epochs which led to the development and
expansion of the English-speaking race71
a. The introduction of Christianity into England71
b. The consolidation of the different kingdoms of
England into one..74
c. The influence of the Roman Law upon England's
Progress.77
d. The Great Chartersthe Petition of Rightthe
Habeas Corpus Act, passed under Charlesthe Bill of
Rights in 1688and the Act of Settlement.79
e. The union with Scotland.80
f. Discovery of America.81
g. The independence of the colonies.83
II. Rsum of the foregoing.96

IV. The inherent natural reasons or sympathetic causes
which sustain a union, and which support the historical
growth and tendency to the same end examined..99
I. Union natural as to time and people..100
II. Of the same national family.101
III. The same language..108
IV. The same literature116
V. The same political institutions124
VI. The same laws, legal customs, and general modes of
judicial procedure.133
VII. The same tendency and methods of religious thought
and worship..137
VIII. Intermarriages.138

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IX. Other similarities between the two nations,
exhibiting the natural features of the alliance, such
as the drama, sports, pastimes, habits of living.139
X. Resume.140

V. The selfish causes which provoke and support an alliance
Examined.142
I. The common interests of both countries demand
co-operationidentity of international action142
Commercial relations144
Financial relations.144
II. Self-preservationprotectionnecessity145
III. Duty146

VI. The means by which a closer union may be created and
maintained..152
Preliminary.153
The three methods examined by which a union may be
established..154
By absorption of all into one nation..154
By establishing a federation.154
By a treatyregulating their conduct and intercourse
with each other155
The reasons existing against the first two, and in
favor of the last method156
VII. The subjects to be covered by a Treaty.159
I. The Dominion of Canada to become a part of the United
States of America159
II. Common Citizenship..179
III. The establishment of freedom of commercial
intercourse and relations between the countries
involved, to the same extent as that which exists
between the different States constituting the United
States of America..202

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IV. Great Britain and the United States (I) to coin gold,
silver, nickel and copper money, not displaying the
same devices or mottoes, but possessing an equal money
value, and interchangeable everywhere within the limits
covered by the Treaty, and (2) to establish a uniform
standard of weights and measures..205
I. The same gold, silver, nickel and copper money205
II. To establish a uniform standard of weights and
measures207
V. In case of any dispute hereafter occurring between
Great Britain, or any of her colonies, and the United
States, the same to be referred to a supreme court of
arbitration.207

CONCLUSION. The state of public opinion upon the question
of Anglo-Saxon alliance.209

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INTRODUCTION

TO THE SECOND EDITION

I CANNOT but feel that the exhaustion of the first edition of this book so quickly, indicates that the public is, at least, interested in the questions it discusses.

I believe that the twentieth century is par excellence "The Anglo-Saxon Century," in which the English-speaking peoples may lead and predominate the world. My mind recoils from any other picture, because the failure of our people to assume the power committed to their hands means the segregation of nations and states, and the general disorganisation of society through cruel, bloody, and fratricidal wars. The elimination of war and the advancement of civilisation have been the motive of my book. To effect this object I have seen no other way than to concentrate power in the hands of the most worthy. If the Anglo-Saxon peoples do not come within that denomination, what other will?

The struggle for predominance, tacit or avowed, still goes on. No one important nation, in our {viii} times, is more content to remain in a second, or even an equal place, than at any former period of history. Choice then, being necessary, what choice shall be made? The answer of everyone who is likely to be within the circle of my readers, and whose mind is not prepossessed by some special and, as I must think, perverse influence, may be confidently anticipated. It will be that which I have given.

I have opened up a plan which I consider feasible. I have set no time for its adoption either in whole or in part. On the contrary, I asserted (pp. 2 and 3) that "the question [of unification], in the ordinary course of events, must pass through the crucible of debate, tinctured and embittered by prejudice, ignorance, and jealousy it may drag along through years, the sport of every whirlwind of domestic and foreign politics."

To compare small things with great, I recall that Lord Bacon advocated, in his own powerful and masterly way, the union of Scotland and England more than one hundred years before it was actually accomplished.

In launching another edition of the book upon the great sea of modern literature, I feel renewed confidence that it will eventually attract a nucleus of readers sufficient in number and influence to mould its suggestions into public issues, to be argued and disposed of, in a manner commensurate with their importance.

J. R. D. P.

August, 1903.

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INTRODUCTION

IN this book I advocate the union of all the English-speaking peoples by steps natural and effective. Believing that the only real obstacle to a complete and sympathetic entente between the Anglo-Saxon peoples may arise from the situation of Canada, I urge her voluntary incorporation with the American Republic. Upon broad principles, this incorporation ought not to be difficult, seeing that the Federal idea, which has been so happily developed in the existing Canadian institutions, corresponds, in a large degree, with our own. As an offset, as well as to soften, if not wholly eradicate, any sentiment adverse to the surrender of a separate national existence, I propose the establishment of a common, interchangeable, citizenship between all English-speaking Nations and Colonies by the abrogation of the naturalisation laws of the United States and the British Empire, so that the citizens of each can, at will, upon landing in the other's territory, become citizens of any of the countries dominated by these Governments.

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