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Tuesday May 24 ^th
Then after a lapse of three four or five
years I hear the announcement in the Senate of the United
States of Senators from a new state, as Texas, Minne-
sota, Oregon I am struck with this ^evidence of the^ continual enlarge-
ment of the American Republic – and I wonder what is
to be the ultimate influence of the new star in our
ever widening political firmament. Her evidence of another
sort admonish you of ^continuity^ the aggrandizement of the
British empire – I met at breakfast to day a youth
of Caucasian features, but very dark complexion
by name of Dhuleep Singh, by title Mahrajah
by birth prince and heir to the Punjaub of India
an ancient and vast kingdom – by conversion
a Christian, by education an Englishman by conquest
a British subject, by treaty a pensioner retaining
his unusual title with a pension of $100,000
a year. It is perhaps the result of misin-
formation and prejudice that he fears to go to
America which he nevertheless earnestly desires,
lest the strong natural prejudice against the
Asian race should insult him altogether he owes
his complexion to an Asiatic and not an
African sun – I trust to be able to reverse
that apprehension – But what will be the

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influence of the Conquest of India on the stability of the
British empire! Strange as it may seem to you. Conser-
vation of the empire is the one thought of all British
statesmen, and all questions of morality, humanity,
^social^ progress, are subordinate to the one policy of
so keeping the balance of power in Europe adjusted
that England and her colonies may be safe.