looked into that henry parkes speech
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>On the 6th of February, 1890, on the occasion of the assembling of the Federation Conference in Melbourne, Mr Gillies, the Prime Minister, gave a great banquet in the Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, at which it was estimated four hundred guests were present, including His Excellency the Earl of Hopetoun, and nearly every representative man in Victoria. The only toast, “A United Australasia”, was proposed by the Hon. James Service, to which it was arranged that Sir Henry Parkes should respond.
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>And, in this country of Australia, with such ample space, with such inviting varieties of soil and climate, with such vast stores of hidden wealth under the soil, with such unrivalled richness on all hands, and with a people occupying that soil unequalled in all the range of the human race, in nation-creating properties, what is there that should be impossible to those people? By the closest calculation that I have been able to make, we, including New Zealand, want two hundred thousand souls to make four million of a population. If four million of a population cannot be a basis for national life, then there never will be a national life. (Cheers.) Four millions of population, all of British origin, many and many thousands unified to the soil by ties of birth, by ties of parentage, by ties of friendship and love, as well as by ties of marriage and ties of children, if they are not capable of making a nation -- a united Australasia – why we are not fit hardly to occupy this bounteous country. (Applause.)
>But is anyone supposes that those are mere flights of imagination, let us come down to the barest calculation of facts. A hundred years ago, the continent was occupied by a despairing group of outcast persons of British origin, and that British origin speaks volumes in every step of our calculation. Forty years ago, the colony of Victoria had no existence. I had been an inhabitant of Australia ten years before Victoria was born; I was an inhabitant of Australia and had a seat of in a Legislature before the colony of Queensland was born. There is, however, no man in Victoria or Queensland who more rejoiced in their birth and prosperous career, and in the grand results that followed, than I did. (Cheers.) Those two great colonies, the great and splendid Victoria on our south, with Queensland hardly less splendid, if at all less splendid, on our north, are truly daughters of New South Wales. (Cheers.) Those colonies sprung as it were from our loins. But there is a difference between us and Adam; for they took a rib from each side of us. (Laughter.) However, we rejoice in the fortunes of those colonies, and if my friend, Mr Gillies, or our friend, Sir Samuel Griffith, doubts that we take a pride and feel a becoming glory in the advance of Victoria or Queensland , let me tell them they are greatly mistaken. (Loud cheers.) The mother colony knows too well -- of course I don’t include some two or three carpers, whatever they do or say right now – New South Wales knows too well that the prosperity of her daughters means her own. (Cheers.) We know that it is a wise dispensation that these large colonies sprang into existence, and we admire them when they were fighting their own battles and working out their own prosperity independently of New South Wales, but the time has come when we are no longer isolated. (Cheers.) The crimson thread of kinship runs through us all. Even the native-born Australians are Britons, as much as the men born within cities of London and Glasgow. We know the value of their British origin. We know that we represent a race – but time, of course, does not permit me to glance even at its composition – but we know we represent a race for the purposes of settling new colonies, which never had its equal on the face of the earth. (Loud cheers.)