What was Sir Henry Parkes famous speech in tenterfield?please give exact words and source?
Parkes’ 1889 speech at Tenterfield In his famous address at Tenterfield School of Arts, Parkes drew attention to a recent report by a British army officer, which proposed that the colonial forces unite into a single army. Parkes went a step further, as reported in The Sydney Morning Herald: The great question which they had to consider was, whether the time had not now arisen for the creation on this Australian continent of an Australian Government, as distinct from a local Government and an Australian Parliament. (Applause.) In other words, to make himself as plain as possible, Australia had now a population of three and a half millions, and the American people numbered only between three and four millions when they formed the great commonwealth of the United States. The numbers were about the same, and surely what the Americans had done by war, the Australians could bring about in peace. (Cheers.) Believing as he did that it was essential to preserve the security and integrity of the
