text:  Gentlemen of England--you that are wavering from your former faith--will you refuse the lesson afforded you by this premature exultation on the part of our dangerous neighbour? Do you not see what weight France evidently attaches to the repeal of our protection duties--how anxiously she is watching--how earnestly she is praying for it? If you will not believe your friends will you not take warning from an enemy? Would you hold it chivalry if you saw an antagonist before you armed at all points and confident of further assistance to throw away your defensive armour and leave yourselves exposed to his attacks? And yet is not this precisely what will be done if you abandon the principles of protection? Are you afraid of that word PROTECTION? Shame upon you if you are! No doubt it has been most scandalously misrepresented by the cotton-mongering orators but it is a great word and a wise word if truly and thoroughly understood