If it takes two to make a fight, it also most certainly takes two to make a peace, unless one accepts the position of serf and surrenders.

But this we do not fear; we can compel our freedom and we are confident of victory.

There is still the step to friendship.

Many will be baffled by the difficulty, that while we must keep alive our generous instincts, we must be stern and resolute in the fight; while we desire peace we must prosecute war; while we long for comradeship we must be breaking up dangerous alliances: literary, political, trades and social unions formed with England while she is asserting her supremacy must be broken up till they can be reformed on a basis of independence, equality and universal freedom.

While we are prosecuting these vigorous measures it may not seem the way to final friendship; but we must persist; independence is first indispensable.