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is in danger, how their hearts beat—how they rally—how they fight to secure the emblem of their honour and their gallantry. We may have deserters in our army, so we may have defaulters in a moral move like this. The spirit which has made our soldiers and sailors triumphant all over the world is not an artificial one; the feeling that has made the flag of victory wave wherever England's banners have been carried, is not created by the thrilling thunder of the cannon, the loud call of the trumpet, or the martial strains of the pibroch, but it is one that glows in man's bosom, that he carries into the battle-field, and one which Britons in a special manner inherit from the land of their birth, nurtured and cradled by the relation of the deeds of their sires, at the heart's fire-side. And do Britons stand so high in these honourable feelings, and, yet will it be said that the peasantry and the people of England, of Scotland, and of Ireland are so fallen—so destitute of still nobler and higher feelings, that they cannot be trusted with the loan of a few pounds? No, no, this must not be believed; and it is this conviction. Gentlemen, that should give us confidence in the moral integrity of Englishmen; that they will uphold as a body the moral banner of England unsullied in the Bush of New South Wales.
I have the honour to be.
Gentlemen,
Very faithfully yours,
CAROLINE CHISHOLM.
