The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1865, Page 2

towards the Northern republic will be found to be of ‘and more dangerous character than was evinced sympathy with the Southern & connivance at the eacape, of rebel emissaries lntrigugs 0 assasi burners, (polsoners robbers in their territory. It looked beyond the ‘and believing that while the North would sub- a ee Lge} it would still come out 1@ Bt! & powel itary nation, it sought, rt the tui and heat of our war, to build up fu- ture allies of thé slave confederacy upon this side of the Atlantic, North and South, that they might be ready at the ‘moment to hold in check, and, if need be, to | UPOR present amount. t of oxi the free woven nearly all of them became the increase our commerce both with the United States and | venue is failing off. y ‘THE CAUSE OF CANADA'S TROUBL cut of existence the free republic. To this end, | big tools of the goverament they had attempted to over- | gorein countries, and would not diminiab, to | leaves the froamury with « largor defcioncy, and the me. | | the Pi ere (rors He while the most co! alliance existed between France g Canada sut are aseparatiy d the former sou; ables, to-| throw. ‘a time the provinces rested ryan any great oxtent, country in the value of its lands is | from her connection with Great Britain. It is that which sani a dependent monarel J ekatiotey ‘he be Se nee wes — belive, me mee . uae inte hie our Produots would for tbs, most part enter Giminishing = deplorable ane ruinous ed An | livsat the root of all her troubles, Tt is true that she | is 18 #aINd aS we render | ¢: ination of the governm@ statistics establish | embarrassed the ‘tons race, 80 proceeded with the work of confederating all hor pe le 4 ae in the city of Montreal, towards | 02, thé Peres ee highways for the fhe correctness of Kept up, pool Tn Fomget attempt to combine two American provinces, with a view to the establish- ways these assertions. oatile ; | peaceable separation from the mother country and an- | to and exports from tho West, to the incaloulable 1863 the financial report exhibited a deficiency of re- | itios and to keep up the equi- Sa alsy Paar reise a avips toon prepa ae cs eer or ur country. it would sib introduce manufatarea oo of $982,000, as follows: — Heim bys pal fal balans of 5 seriously tar or ce ito Canada as a ve been introduced pe feres the coun sebalan tan dinanmatad these pleas py nage ee 2 OE Oe ee the Northern Staves; and ie Lower Canads especially, Beenie ef cekentares debt -- HARTER, 00T AL | OD fiat the litte British deepotiame "that ruled aggressive policy towards the United States ts for the scope many of the leading men of the Province, An pled F nvuanee and labor Cpe an ing fund. be ee 8 ee for a sa poll yan 5 4 onward in the race; that British pensioners and Britis! monopolists were not exactly the instruments best cal- ulated to place a new and undeveloped country upon the high road of prosperity. It is true that many Cana* dians, in despair, declare that they have not in their territory the material wherewith to make a great and Prosperous county. A member of tho Legislative Council, in a recent con- versation, thus replied to a question as to the reason of the lack of prosperity in the province:—‘I take the reason to be simply that we have not within ourselves the materials of prosperity. We have but a narrow strip “WWVituaut? doubt. those antioipeui sggeratedy ‘Without doubt, these ant ions, but it is impossible to con the tact that's change has taken place in the sentiment of the poonle since the; have bed nen wep of confe 1 - e Pr a Prudential motives, laid aside, both Emg- | anroxation association was formed, and at ite head was ing the value of property and agricultural po oey ‘and Franco continue their endeavors 16 strengthen Cree eae a cimarisan continent “We | the Hon. Benjamin Holmes, member of Pariemens, who | giving remunerativo employment to what is at present acted as its President, An addreas was issued, forci! * a not now propose toench upon the question of | {gray of act, seting forth the evils under which | fo Gaited Sites merely furs tne capital fr gar maa. ere eer aee towed police. of building up avec | te provinces. wore. suffering, and the: Ropelessness factures, ‘They would also supply for them the most pation in Canada. That mreniocs Suet pach, any — wate one = rose ov to the oxtoneive market in the world, without the intervention oxpenditures in every Possible way. my, said:— state. Tuite 5 an rone was joned to ‘offlee: ‘ould increased ‘aggregate cae Oia maatt ner vecomee contediectes tations | alow the roviness to poaceably. dissolve the connec: | Sih constructed by American aed at $1,351,871 86, thoro has beon a diminution of expondi- Ne eee ee end’ arsobal for Gate Bele aie | jou Which held them in the position of ita colonies. | tie great lines now app ‘our frontiers; BS to the ‘extont of $228,873 47, making o total of Fowor—a fortress and arsenal for Groat Britain on this | The real character of tho movement of 1640 can be | way cutorprise in oer vera doubtleas. be’ as active | $1,580,745 83; but in spite of this ‘great, improvement iio,” independent ov ooastlidatea beret forth as a repub- | gathered from the notice it received from the Montreal | {ni prosperous auiong Us as among ur neighbors. he | Upon 1862, there still a sorious deficiency, although pits with the United Stator. | Gaevtt, an entirely independent paper, but-one which in | Saiub"of'our agricultural producte would ‘be raised at | Very mucH loss than wag estimated.” ef i THE ISSUE FORCED UPON OUR GOVERNMENT. the supported tho government ‘of the day. In its i . r the year ending 3ist December, 1864, no report “6 ssager de Joletle, § July 20, says:— It ‘must become an Immediate and serious question | issue of 11 the Gascéte published the follow- sce fo Pe yr the entire payments and receipts of the ‘provinco has of Hauc eepaing apes ee nase Lat 18 BOOM on tho | 4 (it may be that the aspirations of Uppor Canads tare with the Américan government whother she will sit idly | ing:— life, such as toa, coffee and eugar, would be greatly re- been made, the termination of the = having | jana, re are favored with ‘towards the United The n pagaiation. of Upper by and suffer England, for avowedly hostile purposes, to “To-day we publish a document of no mean importance | quced in price. eon changed from December 31st to June 30th. A ro- of the broad, fertile aores of the States, and Canada 1s in great part com] same elements erect on the American ‘continent a series of impregnable | in the history of Canada. The chief and emphatic The value of our timber would also bo on. | port for tho six months ending June 80, 1864, was Pre | pening that we have a barren wilderness, as those of the main lon of the States of the great fortifications; to build and arm vessels of war upon the | declaration to be drawn from st is, that a great portion of | hanced by free access to the American pe E pen hy it | Sented to Parliament at its last session, prior to the visit ‘American republic. In the one as in the othcr the in- Amorican lakes, and to organize and equip a powerful | the men of wealth and standing among the inhabitants | hears a high price, but is subject to an onerous duty. At of the Canadian Confederation Commissioners to ee THE CURSE OF BRITISH CONNECTION. habitants are nearly all of English or German origin, and militia, under’ British. officers, upon the borders of | of British origin in Montreal have arrived de | the same time there is every reason to believe that our | land, ‘which showed a balance of receipts over oxpendi- But whether this home picture is overdrawn or not, it | their rollgion is alsothe same. That the maritime pre~ Be et Oe ea ae yc | ect, Mylo RS att ty amt | sini neal aot n 55 ie QTR er | eveyone ee chro oe a at ements eons wk | it dus ut tala a ool tae fey te tom \tism ing | connection ou; ve n h teiipeelen area ye bee ell Sudden | would find an unlimited market in all parts of the Amer. | SYS ¢ the British govermment” While. that connection oxists | bame reasons as Upper Canada has, but the further res- ‘and unscrupulous monarchy toward our govern- | and private mauner in which the dvoument has cannot bted that 5 ex-Minister of Finance, that this six months’ report di and | unscrupulous monarchy | tavard ju sEccicei | buen 'yot up ts not Inte favor es to ltimate success | cen.continont. Th canter De Somat increase, “it is | not Teprosent, the true condition, of | the finances eas the neigh evil of having sen ‘aoytuim for rebels stretched | with the people generally; nor isthe style of the docu- at feat that with them the princi ‘material | for that. period, but had been made with the Seales of.| vances. Every colonist knows that the jealousy of Eng- Feng oe wile Worth, where those to0 cowardly to ight. | mont such ax severe oriticianywoald peas wanoticed; bo equally manttott aot chips is rapidly diminishing, while | Dolatering up tho decaying credit of the province in Eng- | jané tncimes with the increasing influence of the for the cause they professed to uphold could plot in safe- | the fact that #o many people of tho highest respect- | Wo tocvras vast Le stolen covered with timber of’exoel: | land. Mf, ‘Holton stated, ‘without direct contradiction, | United States, and that every year that further devolopes ty the destruction of the nation. We have learned by | ability and influence could 80 hagas have sot their sig- Tent quality, which w be equally available as it is | that the real deficiency of the public revenue for the year | tho military power and commercial sapremacy of the , ould ulated t dearly bought expor‘ence, culminating in a national | natures to tt, and many persons in their haste to 5 o Becember 31, would reach two mil- | American republic adds to the prospect of » war with 4 Ae sign | now, since tinder the free trade system our vossels would | 1864, Calieel Coates sum of one million and a | Great Britain, Evory emigrant Front “urope, whether same Canada must ret: republic ad- | son of discontent at the persistent effort of England to force upon them the confederation they do not ire.'” ‘Tho St. Catharines Post of July 20 published without Gisgopeaval ‘a letter in which tho writer thus boldly meets the Issue “In order that our. position may be definitely under- stood, we would merely say that we Believe anneza'ion to calamity that must for ever leave a blot upon our annals, | anything for annexation, to have done so without read- the trugmeaning of {ho “‘non-intorvention” policy of | ing it, irominos to the continuagos of British power on .| ™*2,a# well in England efter, gunoxation aa before. | half of dollars bad beon borrowed by the Financo Minis. | from England, Ireland, Scotland or Germany ‘haa heard | be he true elution of the dificulticn potitial, miliary and England and the colonies under her rule. Unless we | this continent, pba ponaibility. to the people is a distinguish ter, Mr. Galt, of the Bank of Montreal, in order to carry | of the danger of a conflict between Great ‘Britain and | owmmercial, in which the British American provinoca desire, not aloue the continuance, but the exagceration | “We have to confess with deep sorrow that we se | funrare” sould LE a eee ia ayatomeat ones | on the government without immediately exposing the | tho United States, ‘and knows that if it should come | have so long been involved, as well ag our inevitable des- of all’the ovils wo Lave suffered at the hands of the | little prospect of these dependencies being. long pre- | fauure, woul, De Rive ’ bankrupt condition. of the Those statoments, | Canada must he the, baitle ground upon which the issue | tiny; and that, such eing the case, our wise course ix British during our recont struggle, the question must be | served to Great Britain, unless a very great change come | “yn place of War ved the alarms of war with aneighbor | baving been publicly made in Parliament, must be ace is to be fought out bevween an aristocratic, mongrchical | to jook results in the face instoad of ignoring them, and to accept @ condition alike forced on us by events, dic- tated by prudence, and consistent with the honor of a parties concerned. "’ ‘The same paper on July 27 said:— “We know that a many people in Lincoln an@ Eiten ought or ought nob ab. this-ima to consolldsis | an ibe, deaument presents the. views of tte anpexa- Noe ae rae onal Timgrounent Darren ae i ee lee dh by "“Engiand. to. incite the fears. and arouse Canada with the republic as one nation, ‘peaceably if | tioniste of that day, many of which are applicable to the United Statos and her chief if Per acuda the sanguipary | From the trade and navigation returns for 1868 tap. | the onorzios of her | colonials, constantly they can, forcibly if they must.”’ existing state of affairs, we reproduce it here. The fol- -s that the importations into Canada for that year holding before their eyes the necessity self-defence 7 ieee arena for their disputes, aa under our oxisting relations | Posrs, itl Jer cto rpage, as compared with 1862, of | against a powerful and (go-called) aggressive neighbor THE FOLLY OF A DIVIDED CONTINENT. lowing is the cesuarily be the case. That such is the unavold- Welland are not in favor of it (annexation), and that @ I ts the camarhel thgoy OR GcmCRONE Un iteonsstog To rNONTREAL ANNEXATION MANIFEOTO. onal menseennly pe WP cate Fig elt Agel gions to million six hindrod thousand dollars, The cecreaie imprers upon aes Sie Ganaeranectie Maer great wany peo is wail never probably daciars o 08 oxi cr n o ox. ‘0 THe PEOPLK OF CANADA:—Tho number and - in 1864, as recently rted to Parliament, is sti » - ir of i ib the proper iL arrive.” this question of annexation in a cursory manner, to ex magnt- | Britain is kuown to the whole world, and how far it may amounting to five millions one hundred and thirty-three |. ble wnelghbor's ‘The Galt Reporter, shortly before tho Detroit Convem- ress (he opinion that. the republic i# already too large, | tds of the evils that aflict our country, and the univer- rudent capitalists from making invest- rs border. ‘The very agitation kept up by Pret we do Hol want Canela with her ietorogonooas | S&land incroasing depression of {ts material interests, conduco to KeeP Drude ca ae tiie Trou golcoting | tousund dollars in value, for the your onding June 30, | tho provincial government for alae Purponos, in rola, population, as a Tho sooner all intelligen¢ Ameri. | call upon all porsous animated by a sincore desire for 118 | 4 foredoomed battlefiold for the home of themselves and | 1865. No, mo convinelng proof could be given of the | tion to militia and defences—the vory works golng up at population, asa gift. ‘Tho sooner, all intelligant Amert- | ratgare to comb ne for the purpose of inqulry and prepa: | herr children, ie needs Ho reasoning on oUF part to elu- | !mpoverisbment of the country than this steady and tn- | int tem) snd in other tocalilies Before thelt, eyes botter. ration, with a view to the adoption of such remodiea asa | cidate ‘ creasing diminution in the imports. keep alive in the imagination of the Canadians tho pic- If & stranger to our history, with a map of the Ameri. | ™ature and dispassionate investigation may br But other advantages than these having a beari In 1862 an offort was mado to meet the doficiency of | turo of devastated flel fear cities, desolated homes can continent before his eyes, should be told that from Belonging to all parties, origins and creeds, but yet | ypon our material interests may be foretold. It would } revenue by imposing increased duties on tea, coffee, | and all the horrors of a bl eran oe the Northwestern wilderness, along the lakes and rivers | 8£f ed upon the advantage of co-operation for the per- | chungo the ground of political contest between races and | SUlht ‘and molasses; but the finances have continued to | What wonder that the fecling of insecurit yan ot which nature has showered upon usas her richest fav formance of a common duty to ourwelvos and our country, | parties, allay and obliterate those irritations and conflicts | 8° backwards, and, in view of the impoverished condi- | danger thus impressed upon the colonist and tho Imm runs an imaginary line dividing the vast territory growing out of a common necessity, we have consented, | Pr'tantor and recrimination which have hitherto dis. | tion of ths people, it has boen announced by ministers grant should deter them from investing their capital two separate and distinct nationalities. with diverse and i Mets “J —— and br. eos brave to merge in ob- | ggured our social fubric. Already in anticipation has this bers ‘that ke alteration will be made in the cus- ad an She Tos OF ie eae ceriearey somotimes hostile interests, crippling the resources, re- | livion all past differences, of whatever character or 01 poen felt—-t bin toms duties or excise. ‘A CeMltne the development aad dectofing the unity of the | atributable to whatever source, In appealing to our reap reg te ae are aera, | ._ In exports, howover, the business of 1862 showed an | tion, liable at any moment—certain sooner, oF iter te country, he would er at the folly of man in thus re. |. fellow colonists to unite bod us in be sed needful | among all classes, creeds and parties in tho country. | Inctense of clant cate oe 1863, principally rete od Fabel es hsmaa) fp Pp palette Atpenlestts Aue erver gifts 0 Sreata duty, we solemnly conj»re them, as they desire a suce f dey to the exports of timber and lumber, articles inclu ‘ jecting and perverting the best gifts of the Creator, But y; ly conj y 088- | Changing a subordinate for an independent condition, the lec ony. treaty with the Uniied States, now about | credited, are fearful to contemplate tion, held the sollowing emphatic language: _ pon ie, life Je rime an of us all. my. a: of view, most impossible to find one pt ba that does not admit that annexation to the United Sta'es would greatly Lengfit us. And yet it ts expected of us that we struggle on as we have struggled, without & thought for the future, without an aspitation to join our neighbors, who, whatever their follies and fault, are a Jeast in a more prosperous condition than wo are. Jt wi ‘nwt be done, Dearly as we all love the old flag, willin; ‘as many of us would shed our life's blood in its serv sill this constant, never ending siruggie will wear out atnit-st loyally, and lead men to wish rather to pri under the American flag than stand ill under the British.” From the Belleville Independen’, August, 1865: eee etiy would hie astonishinent be aupmonted when { fal i#sue and the wellare of thetr country, to enter upon 5 ‘i plat ; i See eerie tke watcha ate ota | the task, at this momentous crisis, in the same fraternal EE nn es eager the | tovexpiro. - Oit of $41,800,000, the value of the exports | The Hon. Joseph Howe, ot Nova gcotia. in urzing | “In times 0 deprossion ‘and scarcity men are apt te common origin, spea spirit. wrth, | We have ROW 0 vole te nore or emoluments, | for 1863, $22,600,000 ‘came 10, the Uniled States, and | upon the mother country the duty of herself providing | look aro.nd them for some moro ready and rapid mode : Bret | Sly s00,000 went to Great Britain, the North American | for the defence of the colonios, used the following lan: | of extrication from the diificulties which surround them than simply sitting down to wait until the recuperation of trade, or the occurrence of a more undant harv.st during the next season, may relieve them from the pressure which cramps thelr energies and nulliles their oxertions. In such crices their thoughts genorally take a political com. ploxion, and they are apt to supposo that a change of governmont or of policy contains the panacea which is to réhabilitate their prosperity, and to secure them from similar calamities for the future. * * * * Tho direction of the wished for change ia the relations of the province on these occasions hag generally been towards annexation to the United heen and at the present time earnest and loyal men, ui the pressure of the dificulties which now affect the-com= ed by similar laws, and that they are kept a ‘The reversal of the ancient policy of Great Britain, | England ir parent State, with whom we haye no of semi-hostility ‘only by the Jealousies, whoreby she withdrew from the colonies their wonted | gatvity, but towards whom we stand in the simple rela. | Colones, the West Indies and other foreign countries. rere ene ona Cate ae Baoan ent rorcign: Powers in another quarter | Protection in her markets, has produced the most disas- | tion of obedience. But as citizens of tho United States | | In onsidcring the debt of Canada {t must be borne in fe war of -16 was neither sought nor provoke: of the globe, thousands of miles away, trous eff cts upon Canada. In surveying the actual | the public service of the nation would be open to us—a | mind that Jt differs materially from the debt of the | by the Britis Americans, It grew out of the continen- ote 3 eat es condition of ‘the country, what but ruin or rapid | (Be,public service of the netoristinction aa which we | United Biates none important particular: that as it ia | tal wars, with which we cortainly had as little to do. THR PRUDENCE AND POLICY OF IMMEDIATE ANNEX- | decay mceta the oye?’ Our provincial govern: | dud. our posterity might opler on terms of perfect ; Wing wholly to foregn creditors, the interest is paid | Whether a Bourbon or Bonaparte sat upon the throne of p sfahaak oat of the country, is taken out of’ taxation and does not | France was a matter of periect indifference to us. We Itis dimicult to conceive how an Ameri \ Peeing sods ther cowoartien ua restr eemeyreuales sae ean It is draini fi th raving our lawful avocations, clearing up our is dificult to conceive how an American can question | banking and other securites greatly depreciated; | °4Nor w i return, It is thus ever draining, year afler year, the re- | were pursuing out vocations, not alone the prudence and_poliey, but the humanity of | our mereantilo and agriculual interests alike’ | Gar wank, Se eee ee ira aii Toureos of the country, while inthe United States, the | country, opening roads into the wilderness, bridging the cote aonstianting ‘the ieuepera races upon the Ame: f-naprOepdronss real estate cacarcely” SafR1e. UpOD Ang? | tee ee a ha terge expenditure. { cllizens belng the rain Groditorg, the, interest ts peid to; streams abd Gryacising sooteey ee best could, trading nent “nder one form of tertaes on unrivalled rivers, lakes and oanaly almost tus. | 220 rele to the parca Tiale frome con af che county, | thom, remaius {n the country and returns into taxation. | with our nelghbors end wisteig them me harm. In the States c used, while commerce abandons onr shores; the cireu- | the removal of. the many causes of collision with the ‘This, then, is the present financial condition of Canada: | meantime British cruisers were visiting and searching ae ee eeccesd madera ors (SVUrEbIe SYStoTa, eee ena aa ceo ocdeaity of mutual | an.ckaowledgea debt of.seventy-nine millions, an actcal: |: Amasioan vossals op the soe. Tuan, socks, ware fired, a He enecce Treat Ain) URTSEr to Pep Tnoe | eee eee eee a ene eae er jue. iatger | dcbt-of over,one: Lundreg. and, twenty: millions, a del.-|_ and, before wo Tad time torecall out Hemet Se od 10 of the burclar. We are too apt, | Thus, without available capital, unable to effect a loan |* market which the increa ciency in the revenue in 1563 of nearly one million, and | foreign commerce or to make the slightest preparation when considering the effect of a war betwen Great Bri. | with foreign States or with the mother country, although | Greate wlan phe inceaning proses Ot eaeds Pe in 1804 of two tulllious, an expenditure Increasing and a | for dofence, our coasts were infested by American 2 windows of h open to the entran: tain and the Un ted States, to recard Canada as so entire- | offer'ug security greatly superior to that which readily | Hor ublest statesmen Fe : ase Or a eating, year after year, no racasuros of | cruisers and privatoers and our whole froulicr was ina | munity, are setting themselves seriously to consider the iy Waleieen te to be propared toaink onder out atfaae at obialtig’ moniey” DEKiT fheta: thin, United’ Biates abe Giese" Crciacninateae curebinornamnmnticns yr with “the | france adopted to scure an increased revenue, and a | blaze. Comparative advantages to be derived from continuing: once, and to take no ver one-half of the resources of the “You count the cost of war by the army and navy estl- | uudey British rule, or from becoming amal; or retaliatory measure | Britai bo further from the iruth than | Crippled, therefore, and checked in the full cares delay of a lew years, we should when other than colonies are tho applicants, q : ; : trade from which ov To the United States, also, the annexation of Canada } trata from Which over abe tall Oe inmost wholly closed The principal canals of the province sbare m the & es the Amer.can republic, * * * * Dofensively we gun nothing by our status as a portion of the Bi émpire, and commercially we enjoy no advant mates; but who can ever count the cost of that war to against us, Nothing ust—a war, let it be borne in mind, into which we were this, oapecially if, t f of pri- | py.sents many important inducements. The withdrawal » and public enterprise, this possession of the British | from the borders of-so powerfal a ion, by whom in in suffer England to complete her grasp upon the St. Law- | crown—our country--stands before the world in humili . int eral depression. The tratiic on the Wolland canal fell precipitated without our knowledge or consent. Let the renee, and to strenctt n her sttategic points upon that | ating contrast with its immediate neighbors, exhibiting Lee ene jeoneniesas meer ability Canitanie wits the first six months of last year twelve and one-third per | coast of England be invaded by powerful armies for | our connection with England which we river und Lake Oniario. It must be bore in mind that | every symptom o: a nation fast ainking to decay. the ‘costly but inerrectual aeety Mohient over a | cent below the trae for the corresponding period in | Uuroo summers in aucc ssion let the Southdowns be | equally possess if sopat from hor.”” 1863, and the bus ness of the St. Lawrences canals in 1864 | swept from the Hampshire hilfs, and the rich pastures of | ‘The Brockville Aecorder of August 10 speaks as fol England, however inferior now as a mililary Power * With’ superabundant wa to the United States, 16 still a government | especially in Lowe: of strength and great resources; and a glange at the factures, nor 4 r power and cheap labor, | frontier 0! many hundred miles; the large accession to gen re = po fps their income from our exstoms, the unrestricted use of ot xt sanguine, unless under F aay pas jaa > avec: map is sufficient to show how readily, with 1h naviga FE ae ray the Howie growtti or | the St, Lawrence—the natural Highway trom tinment { attributed to any extraordinary causes. It ix gradually tion of the St. Lawr from the ocean to Lake Onta. | advent from foreign parla, of either capital or enterprise | o¢ which the most substantial equivalents would un- | 81d steadily increasing year aftor ycar,_ In 1863, as com- rio at her command, she could devastate the Northern | to embark in this great source of national wealth, Our | doubtedly be conceded, pared with 1862, the decrease on’ the Welland canal was cities and lands of our own Btate. institutions, unhappily, have not that impress of perma- Fellow Coloni-t We have thus laid before you our | eight and twenty-six-hundrodths per cent, and on the St. ‘As Will be shown more particularly elsewhere inthis | nenco which can alone’ impart security aud inspire con- | yiews and convictions on « momentous question, involy- | Lawrence canals seven and ninetoon-hundredths por report, England gs Seon DOW, 9 ed in closing the St. | fidence; and the Canadian market is too limited to tempt | jng'a change which, though contemplated by many of us | Cent. nd rendering Quebec impregnable by works | the for ign capitalist. varied teclings o1 shove to ae ‘ of enormous strength, to be erected on Point Levi. She While the adjoining Slates are covered with a net pike otal lt beans oui fon ete DEPRESSION OF Seana * PURINEES :OR Sum & at tgs moment building guntoats at Quebec, at Kings. | work of thr vine railways, Canada possess's but three | Jawrully to promote. ‘ The busines of the coantry, both wholesale end re: ion aut vo! catia, ot P. a mare in violati m of the | lines, which, together, seurcely extend over fifty miles We address you without projudice or partiality, in the | ¢ail, is in a state bordering upon general bankruptey. © In caisting, fen'y. Sho slaying In enormous store of in length, and the stock im two of which is heldata | gpirit o- sincerity aid truth, in the interest of 0'r cou | the’ eitioa oF Upper Canada the vacant storos in every guns, field arms and of ammunition, converting Can depro iation of from fifty to cighty per cent—a fatal | mon country—and ¢ iv ite mafoty avd wel- | plock tell their own story. The yroprietor of an old da into a vast European arsenal, She is urging the symptom of the torpor overspreading the fund. fare. If to your judg pu our object and aim | ostablshed retail busines: in ‘Toronto, in a recent con- Hon of derannan, at. 2 Our present form of gor ‘some and | heat this tine doomed laudable and right, we ask an | yoreation, aad, “I should have made money if I had and 1a propared to pr pensive as to be ill suited unstances Of | oblivion of past dissensions, and from all, without dis- | ciopod my store two years ‘ago, and red my stock to Devonshire supply fat beeves to the enemy encamped in the western counti's or marching on Manciroster aud London; let the youth of England be drawn from profita- ble labor to defend these great centres of industry, the extremities of tho island being given up to rapine and to plunder; fancy the women of England living for three’ years with the sound of artillery occasionally in thelr ears, and the thoughts of something worse than death ever present to their {maginations; fancy the children of England, with won- dr and alarm on their pretty faces, asking for threo yours whon thelr fathers would come home; fancy, in fact, the wars ot the Roses or the civil wars back again, and'then you can understand what we suifered from 1912 to 1815," * * When the Trent affair aroused the indignant fe°ling of the empire last autumn we were—as we were in 1812—u‘terly unprepared. The war again was none of our seeking. lows :— “Tot the cause be ‘pecuniary’ or otherwise, there Be use denying the {act that many eminent merchants and others have more faith in annexation than in confedera- tion; one argument being that while confederation would only give some three millions of a population, annexa- tion’would add thirty Sallligna oe giving a market tem times larger than could be obtained by confed * © © The subject being a public one, ought to be publicly and honestly discussed, without raising the aboos of treason and disloyalty to scare people thinking for themsolves.”” ‘The ings Chronicle, ina well considered article, Bay: - “War has removed the great barrier to slavery. It has, it is truo, in the consideration of raised up another in the war debt.” The Chronicle on to compare the debt of the United States with shows a decreaso of thirty-three per cent from the busi- ness of th» precoding year, Nor is this falling off to be treal, Kingston and other poini od with ome of the most i hor own cost, if the Provin p portant of the works the country; and th» necossury reference it d mands to | tinction of origin, party or creed, that earnest and cordial | {6 idie upon the shelves, instead of paying th = dogmamaapendiiy nuderiakasthern., Bae, Mtsesingsinst+s. ditirhutryitaroratlnaaL pours via am in| CORRE Ran are tee ae eee sevtenee Sf weaning aiy, Wasiness rwuaages And what 6 | yoga ee tne tan eeeitersc vor all Ube World, Comaaeal Bok Sect tie corpo seer ae Ree 6 oath age pores c aa é d ae as may best conduce to our common destiny. " " ¢ eh 0 x Spe building up im Canada « strong military pow-r hosille | our faterest, ik anomalous and irksome. Yet, in | “ania Ne ee eee rad. by nineliiameced aeaisiaty, ee ey rhe ring werent eviry one of my | had her thousands of miles of fron jer unprotecied. Had‘ | spect, although it is favorable to the ‘United States, op i a : t, , 8 c e She Quebec el) a ¥ ‘ cr ts waltle Giocad ain Len ectter e e ee eae equally observable, Tho Queboc Morning Chronic'e, ina | frouticrs—sternly painted as they must occur, without | former. If Groat Britain has been able to sustain a debs aggroaaive policy of England to be carried out | would be until we find a powerful enemy firmly established upon | ever little bi SENSATION CAUSED BY THR MANIFESTO. recent issue, says:— The business of Montreal, the chief | gny stretch of the imagination—might well bid the ‘bold- | of four thousand millions of dollars aud ‘under 1 nterests might be involved in the cause of our rear and flunk? quarrel or the iasue of the contest. The bitter animosi The appearance of this document excited an ntense | etfporium of the foreign commerce of Canada, is in & | 9s¢ nold his breath for a time.’ ” beyond example, it may be safely affirmed that the " . 9 eo a. Ther yocates | State of stagnation; there is no money circulating, and , y, 'y fale eeien ow vaw YORE: thes of political parties and factions m Canada, atter } feeling throughout Canada, | advocates | state of stagnation; there Tae diowents three ont Jour | THE WAR CLOUD DARKENING THE ATMOSPHERE. | United Giatoe will be able to do sq under'a debt of three usand mi Herein lies the secret of the downfall of Cauada as o British a. The men who live upon her soil, the emicranta who seck on the Western continent a new home, feel that within the province they have no: sccu- rity for their property or their lives. Not through any fault of their own, or of the provincial government, but through the jealous.es or intrigues of the British mon- archy, or by reason of any of tho thousand complications to which the dark and tortuous policy of England may lead, their fields may at any moment be overrun by an invading army, and they and their sons dragged from their homes to fight in a cause in which thoy have no Jeading to violence, and wpom ono occasion ty war, | of Lritish 5 re Leon ot to have abated with time: ner is there at the | dependents, cither through annuities, ponstons or offices, | times over, The balance of trade, when the ace noment srospect of d nution or a of the British government, were loud in their outer and | up, will bef und fearfully agains’ tio p ovine. HE a et ee eae sity raoro | bitior in thelr denunciations against its signers, Then, | | this testimony coald be multiplied indennttely it tprostenifig (awards aati citiel amar x as now, the slang of ‘traitors’? and ‘treason’? was | mecossary, and the weekly lists of bankrupteios in the justitutions aud relations, little hoy used ag a weapon against those who calmly ar- | Official gazette might be cited to show the desperate F the | Jeacetal and prsporous adiministraiion of our affairs; | gud a question of the | gravest importance | to financial condition to which our neighbors across the Miter ot lhe ax se sf Now York that het blows Giil fai, | but difticulttes will, to all appearance, accumulate until | the future existence of the country, ao hp loy- border are reduced. In the future, if not at the present time, the contest be- | sovernment becomes impracticable, "In this view of | alty dad. its bares to erate a popular prejudice | poy twoon aristocracy. and republicanism ‘must assured'y | Ur position, any course that inay promise (0 effnce ps gprs colt matehiie ne cise OF : ¥ | oxisting party distinctions, and place entirely new issues, doubt the eventual triymph of our arm before the people, must be fraught with undeniable Certainly no citizen of. New York, which is more im- mediately affected than any other State by England’s policy, can remain indifferent upon position along Lake Ontario renders her open to at along her whole northern border. If England is quietly permitted to pursue hor present policy and cover tho wators of the lake with vessels of war, it isu ‘ount ij made Hy The London Free Press tn several articles, from whiol, it is needless to quote, sensibly discussos the position alfaira, and, admitting the necessity of some change oe gues the question of aunoxation ina calm and co ate manner. TESTIMONY FROM OPPONENTS IN FAVOR OF AN> NEXATION. But {t is not alone from the tone of the papers friondly to annexation that the public mind is led to contemplate the advantages to be derived from a political with the United States, Organs the most rabid in thelr G IN THE RURAT. DISTRICTS. mor General threw himself into 4 Lower Canada give evidence, the advocates of annexation, and, | jn closed stores, ineolvent wot ee and general depression, lists were within his | of the entire stagnation of trade, the rural districts iur- etaliation and punish- } pich equally lamentable indications of the retrogression not compensate for the destruction or our lake cities and | #¢yantages ens * . 4 interest and for which thoy have no lieart. On the other all 1 ion of Among the # 1en of the mother country; among | ment. I 8 who held g miniasions in the | of tho province. n along the inland water border of fe 4 professions of loyalty—bound to the ruling governmens te Cormeen. oe hoe the sazacious observers of the neighboring republic; in | m Iitin, oF as and whose names were sired | Wester Canada tho farms are. but half worked, and on | pants they ene befor ture im ioe earners et coorie.| bY (he progis of pias, ax welll as ty te pealsdioes Of By immediate annexation alone can these evils be ; averted ag ae tervithey ‘OF the United Bao Cannda—and in all British North America—among’ all | to the offensive document, w ernment stretching away across the lakes and the wat of the #t. Lawrence to the far North our back door would be elfectually closed; the waters of the Atlan wonld wash almost the whole of our frontier, and suspended from ottice. | the main road a large proportion of the land is unim- classes, there is a strong pervading conviction that a poli- bree ‘8 re were required Sty ort ry oe proved. ‘on in thts country is at hand, Such fore- | of their sgnaturcs, under penalty of being dep eat si : bod'ngs cannot readiiy be dispelled, and they have, | their gowns, andan attempt ‘was made to muzzle that t virtues i iaipopaaitien ot ticle sl wea Inoreover, a tendency, to realize tho events to which | portion of the press that was disposed to fairly argue the ueialing Oat te Conaigrewon. aad the. rapia.it- birth—cannot avoid pidoing before their readers state- ments that vividly, if undesignedly, depict the vast bene- fits that must follow annexation. ‘The Toronto Globr of August 11, in urging the policy of confederation, thus comments upon its advantages to the States: — “One great secret of the rapid progress of the United rich, enterprising and happy; and thoy know that, as foreigners, ifa war with any’ European Power should come, they would not be called upon to take any part thegoin. They would be subject to none of the horrors of fnvasion; their children would romain at their fire- wu 0 ltary . hey pont. Inthe meanwhile serious injury results to | question. § es ei 0 ground of fiscal, military and territorial coniiet would be poss » naetine a i " 7 " crease of emigration to the States, is one of the most | sides, and their wives and daughters would be saved | gy lies in the fact that there has been perfectly free land and of Wales was not more necessary to the “solid a“ : * y But, notwithstanding the efforts of the Britis! and | system of colonization is adinittedly a stupendous faiture, | svil. country, ‘The Union 00 fos om country under fixed and permanent forms of govern | provincial govermnents to stop the discussion of the | and has involved the country in profitiess THE REMEDIES PROPOSED. While all classes admit the pr'sent deplorable condi- tion of Canada aud the absolute necessity of some change to save the country from anarchy and ruin, public senti- tinent, It includes nearly soil, climate and natural resources, It haw vast tracts of land adapted to the growth of nearly kind of agricultural produce, It has timbered lands Ps and peace of Great Britain than 1s the acquisition “ a. xpenditure, of Canuda to the future welfare of the United States. ment to one in @ state of trans.tion. ,_ | aunexation policy, it had taken root in the Canadian | without in any degree accomplishing its object, the pro- pe Sale om Having thus adverted (o some of the causes of our pre- | mind, and could not be prevented from bringing forth its | motion of immigration. The colonization roads are ANNEXATION DEMANDED BY CONSIDERATIONS OF | sont evile, we would consider how far the remedies | fruits in due season. As the plan of the federal mmon of | jyade into a wilderness, and they are impassable when HUMANITY. ordinarily proposed possess sound and rations! induce- | the British American coloni’s, prepared by Franklin in | made; but the work @ . ~ > ne erica , . 01 ppears upon paper, swells the | ment is divided as to the remedies that prosent the best , o Te anmazetion ty Amended ons she ground.o€ pendence | Sette Wats rectal af eretats ete of the | 100: gave embodiment to the vague desires of his coun- | ministerial report, ad creates a fouree of expenditure. | prospoct of relief. The policy of the preseut provisional Se at etal tok teen Siocvaee: Fred a BT ol eet oy Firat—The revival «f prow tin in the markets of the | iryisen, and, taking hold of the public imagination, reu- | 4’ yontleman who has been for years in the employment | government, backed up by the home government, is an | quce a vast amount of interval traffic. ‘The terms of t..4 toud of humanity. This continent, the nataral asyluin | United Kingdom.—Thin, \f nitsiaable in a suiticient de- | gered tho indepeudence of the United states inevitable, £0 | ortho Of the oppressed and suloring of the Old World, was not | gree, and erarunteed for a long period of years, would | the public agication of the question of annexation has Gosigned by Providence to be, like Europe, the battle | ameliorate the condition of wnany of our eh’et ivierests; | made certain the eventual separation of Canada from the field of rival races, nor Canada the Belgium'o 2. | but the policy of the empire forbids the auticip. snot oottttts | But so long as Great Britain holds her colonies as an arm Besid it would be but The mil - of offence or defence sone the American republic, so | of the mother country x ace i= Te ace aeuielet sxe meme tery | ° ust she cet Dwi dv: e th change protect: ee trad yu Not ja tly je of is ¢ Seen, fappiness and sears oe Le | Cane eee van ane txoen ioe presn that there is any extended desire in the province | But when he arrives at his now home he finds himself However tach ther may enjoy the shadow of indepen: ‘Second-—Th- proecticn if home manufacturer. Although | for a political association with the States, and despite | it gn Nap setae dn woth mee him dance and self governrent they are in truth nothing | this might encourage the growth of a manufacturing in- | the fccent Potter and Wood outcry, the evidence | (iii ser eathat ts enetiealiy vesting diewarhe Cea en ernie Hod prite, her wantonnese, | terest ie Canada, yer, without access to the United States | that a large number of the moat influential citizens | it thin A Sr Me Passe teen man a'man broken or her resentments, can at any time deluge the Province | market, there would not be a sufficient expansion of that really look to annexation as the only pathway out | hundred feagucs y. aeuse oat i with blood, devastate her fields, Iay waste her cities interest, from the want of consumers, to work any re- | of cena arel ennnine is Lec ti = fe ips Sage enbilion mak cnantnoe 10 arg awaenp : sorrow. and r tontiment is stronger to-day thau at any other time. The | , ; destroy her public works and bring sorrow and bereave’ | sult that could be admitted as aremedy for he umorons | Trrenigent Canadian, willing to Judge for bimself, and | subsistence out of the soil: Wit Cie a aie Hitle immediate ‘confederation of the provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Lower and Upper Canada, with the prospective addition wioundiand, Northwest Territory, British Columbia and Vancouver. ‘Some of those who object to con- federation, especially in Lower Canada, propose in its stead a logislative union between the first named and others, a confederation of Upper and wer Canada lone, scheme to which the present ministry stands pledged, in the event of the failure of the greater confederation. ANNEXATION THE TRUE PANACEA, . But however londly or persistently it may be denied, tho great bulk of the people—the business men, the and who has had among the imii- he working of the ment as a civil engineer, in the back countr federal constitution prevent any interference by State authorities with the free interchange of co .umodilion be- n the different sections of the Uniou—jast the safe that ia wanted to secure to the people the full ad- ea of the natural and cultivated wealth of their country.”” No eivocate of gnnexation could more forcibly have set forth the advantages it offers to the province; for the samo benefits conferred upon the States by union by the samo means, be secured to Canada as an int part of the Union. CANADA WILL NOT FIGHT AGAINST ANNEXATION. ‘ The following conversation with a member of the Pro- wg Mpa Legis e Assembly is, with his consent, report OTH AT THE PRESENT TIME. perhaps by the ambition, joa any od reiiencntta OF ie O Phid a federal. mplaln. oie Britih American Pro. | Knowing that the Reciprocity treaty is abost to expire, | laud and leave in dospair, after expending all their itl | Oyorgtiveg, and the young men, of all “classes and cou. | ed oerbation:— Mother country, woold be but little felt by the Briton, | vinces. —The advantages claimed for that arrangement are | examines statistics and seriously sets to work to ascer- | Mans in reaching the ‘jy pations—desire annexation to the United states, knowing | Qvrerox—You support the government in its inter ie colonial confederation scheme. — Do you believe it will ‘ - o ho loss of population in Lower Canada {s exciting sitting within his cit bound island, and fecling the | free trade between the different provinces and a dimin- | tain whether, as he is sometimes told, the province ean | 7! burden only in increased taxation. But the sufferings | ished governmental Sxpenditure, ‘The attainment of the | Teally do beiter withont its best customer than with | gone! attention Se ates soraiien., Tia horrors to which the Canadian would be subjected | latter ohjeot would be problematical, and the bonefits an- | him. And what does he find? Enough to convince him | ot y nt ann young wee eae wihoes eatin can be pictured omy by those who have witnessed the | ticipated from the former might be secured by legislation that pe - th ra pty 4 on around, leave their Govastation of the Southern States in the recent war of | under our existing system. The markets of the sister | CANADA CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT THE UNITED heme ae states, ath ate to be found wwewding sale the rebellion. provinces would not benefit our trade in timber, for they STATES. ‘our cities or on the prairies of the West, Yet there is that in that direction alone lies the ent security and prosperity of the country. While many openly and boldly avow these sentiments, a far largor number who entertain them are willing to quietly abide their time, in the faith that all other efforte at an amelioration of the condition of the country will fail, and that the policy remedy the evils existing in the province? Axswer—I do not. My own couviction is they never ‘can be cured, except by annexation to the States. In- : deed, we never expect confederation as now to ; be carried out. But it serves to occupy the Pe mind make the ‘ oN, have a surplus of that article in their own forests; and Of all the imports of value into Canada for the year Ms which they desire must then of necessit; vail. The | for the present. A crop will temy In ax TR CANADIANS, vmsti axsixati annex. | thelr See ee aMticaltural. products would, be too | 1863, thore came in value from tho United States twenty. | large oxtent a oo ait evaimerent | strength of Aubexation rests mainly om the foregone com | people better of, ant 7 will go gm for & while and fore ing Canada tothe Gaited States, it ia proper to « Nice | iinited to absorb out means of supply. Nor could | three millions, und from all other countries twenty-two | (or aition of political affairs, From Gas} ito the limits of | clusion in the minds of those who favor it that sooner | get their difficulties, Intercolonal confederayion will ue intorosts and the sentimenta of the people of that | Canada expect any encouragement to her manufacturing | millions. th yoo oe ‘on the south poet fthe St. Law- | OF later it iw inevitable, and that, come when it will, it 1s | explode, and befollowed by an attempt to conf country as well ng of our own, If we ppeagle of that | industry from those quarters. A federal union, there: | Of all the exports from Canada for the year 1863, ox Ae a eee ear una Bhan cs teres caints ana} cheapest and mos satisfactory mode of socuring | the two provinces of Upper and Lower per- toy of England as our guide, we might well lay usite | £r¥, would be no remedy. elusive of ship building at Quebec, there went in value to } [once tom ‘onterprise of the setiler, Tho pro} fat Hine | peace and prosperity to the country, and remeving from | haps the Northwest Territory. This, too, will we, and HT ‘other considerations except those of a selfish earn Pourth—The independence of the British North American | the United States twenty millions, and to all other coun | OF ine Tach to Lake Pohei oes por for | tall the rs to which it is now exposed by ils con- | then aunexation must come. But at present tor in the exte: cf our territory and power; but asa | nies as a federgl republic.—The consolidation of ita | trice seventeen millions. over one we ean through a rie a baemensve nection with England. could not be secured without actual trouble, fres and Christi people, 4 institutions whose | H€W institutions from elements hitherto #0 discordant, Of the produce of herfarming population that cought fon areount the mont of the Lawrence, the ITS ADVANTAGES TO CANADA ‘Qussnox—Why, do you think the majority of the peo~ D strength lies not In the mi ft of those who govern, but | the formation of treatios with foreign Powers—-the ac- | the markets of the world in 1868, and yielded a living ale f the Be the St. Maurice, the Ottawa’ the ‘The diroct advantages which the Canadian secs i ple are opposed to it? ir tre amivctions of those who are governed, wo care not | Qirement of « name and character among the nations— | to the eultivators of the soil, tho great bulk found its | \sleye of the Dkssomption contain s large amount of | nexation aro numerous and great. First is ti pane | | Axewen—On the contrary, pelieve the large nape, to hold an unwilling Vation uader, the’ iron heel of | Novld, we fear, prove an overmateh for the strength of | eale in the United States, land sastapte f wine pe ae ee th wot | security gained by oe Sede evant weet gene to be actively or passively in favor of it. it you ' scljagation, Ta ctushing the rebell (| the nsw republic, And. having regard tothe powerful | — Of agriculewrnl products there went, in value, fm 1863, | stit9 Org oa 5 "eh sete Sl whe (eg aration from the British govern: | how we are situated. are entirely in the or , + ing the rebellion on our own soil | 4 5 state of the country, a few miles from the great centres | ment; exemption from the obligation of fighting at , (he tertors of war yield at the earliest possible moment nfederacy of States conterminous with itself, the need- | to the markets of the United States, over eight millions, of ralation je the wilderness. thelr own doors in the quarrels ‘on. ambitions Power the imperial government's officers, aud of men are to the mild persuasions of peace, and those who so re- | {! military defences would be too costly to render inde- | and to all other countries under five millions. He b Canadian recently had occasion eit the | th anot tailen ow 4 a the enfety of tt taped interested in keeping up the Bri con! cently el ory parvievdaa band walnst the government | pendence a boon, while it would not, any more thana | Of animals and thelr products there went, in value, to | ,,.A Prenel thee a Co foes emt Semen tn yg ome foty ft ie got from serious movement towards ennexaiion would be roturn |'ke repentant children to enjoy its protection and poo union, remove those obstacles which retard our the United States market four millione, and to al) He liv od only rwenty, ine takes hom: Quaves, on se panes re piece: the Sietineon ae high cabore _ Insurrection, ae ron be ane at ro in material prosperity other countries one m! 4 y a ry cry of treason raised all over share 1a Mts ronown. ie chat whilemany Canadians favor | _ FUt—Reciprical free trade with the United Staler, asre. | Of the manufactures of Canada, which give employ. Fe ro eeod thas habitation ae a NAIOY Babee ECS LDP) Oe Leete euptel aves ener aeinae waten theron. | Province; thousands who secretly desire annogation tho continuance of their dependence upon the mother | ‘Pe the predvctx of “the farm, the foreat and the mine.—If | ment to the mechanic and laborer, there went, in value, | Gee ead her wate Weat,: ® the Wotting out of an | ould be onwilling to get into diffenity and Lett motm frond Wty or celiinticent aud some | Obtained this would yield but an instalment of the many | in 1863, to the markets of the United States, five THR PEOPLE FLYING FROM STARVATION. Imaginary line of division from the grest republic, the | ‘Deir tongues, and the few who were bold eo from a controlling sentiment of loyalty to the British advantages which might be otherwise secured. The free | hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and to all other The St. ey Courier, published in the eastern puolatnaens ‘of ecmioune Getien end otticer Tea the’ tree speak out, would be crushed down hy thonties. Crown, Uhe great bulk of the people would readily accept interchange of such products would not introduce manu- | countries two hundred and fifty thousand, section of Upper Canada, spoke as follows in the carly | Gooning of hor trade with ore thirts millions of people, Qvesricx—Suppore we should come over to help a change that would so signally better their conditi factures to our country, 1t would not give us the North ‘Of “unenumerated articles,” which include articles | part of the present summer in relation to the exodus of ith pA influx of emigration botl trom the States and | You? rovided they could peaceably secure it. This conclusic ‘American cont'nent for our market. It would neither so | from the sale of which thousands of Canadians realize a | Canadians to the States:—'‘At Acton and Roxton a largo Europe, and with en Wee and capital drawn into the ‘Avewer—Woll, atill thore would be difficulty, and the Prinevitable when we consider the present condition of amend our institotions as to confer stability nor enaure | living, the United States furnished a market for three | number of houses are closed; fumilics emigrate by teh | pow ‘<tatos, popul ved ghnedh tee pi ‘and local tramic | %¢ Want to ‘avoid. Best it is qeomtonsble whether Canta. the coures of her misfortunes, the future that | confidence in their permanence; nor would it allay the | hundred thousand dollars, ‘aud all other countries for Of. | oradozen ata time. Nearly the same thing may be | Low Titles, pohulenun wants ‘aa tends aed of home- pout government would interfere, as a government, ’ ‘awaits hor if abe continues in her colonial state, apd the | Viclence of partis, or in the slighest degree remedy | teen thousand dollara. said of Stukeley, Ely and Waterloo, According to the | Mody aden 2 Wdctechoriel wouie ‘up in her | Ficuty would no doubt como over ily to our prospects held out to her by a political consolidation with | M&BY, of our prominent evils. ‘The intelligent Canadian who examines these statistics | statement of respectable partios, such desertion was | cities, mille in her forests and on the te ye | her rivers | 4; and, after our course in your war, your The Bnited States. enya rape ee hare Leen wuggeted Sor | places but litle faith in the arguments of those who eu, | never agen in those townships 2anens that one. | Gnd sireninn, new public works would be projected and ould proven hot, strive Vory vigorously to prev N e acl ¢ ' rable tlle wil +h our | deavor to persuade him that he can live without the ai th ppulaten ities 4 us a r om. 5 character ‘ PROGRESS OF THR ANNEXATION SENTIMENT—THE | country is apkicted there remains but cne to be con- | of his "American neighbor, aud that a clover connection | United Stalets The truth is, Canada is no longer what it a Rap ann a Me Dd a oe name | War. England would fight thom ag long ‘as the could— hb con cere on aise L atanens sacred, “Dey ropounde a nwerping and inp.rtant change | with the United States Would not conduce to his happl- | was before the commencement of the war now torming. | wouig won exhibit the activity, UBFifY and wealth of a | "Ould Erepebly anti t keeee of de under those FR eg me Bin ge gy Di slg ere ib ore a and social condom, nvoiving comaidera. | ness and prosperity. ted, * # Meanwhile the United States Lave settled | Western state 7 ciroumatanges, aud, whatever = CBG. there Nave Lane those om the ctler vide of no | remedy emaute tna friendly and peact/ul separation from | TRE PINANOLAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL, CONDITION Se ee nner cat thes aos inatend of being, we now, i danger of hostile invasion, Py At pe Le yh iaboring people, previanas tens tone tnees ter patioess a manonsion wih Re gieat Norbucimerieam confer ps pated ferme with | the prosent ccetition, or "Gapadn, financially, socially | The Guelph Advertiser afew weeks sineo published the | orion vf he Union for with be St. Lawrence tn. ihe Me Ton" con coome ly if the neighboring Statoe, . Worwoula premise that towards Grent Dritan’we eater. | 8ud politically, 1s 40 deplorable ns to excite the alarm of Hore abject at present attracte 90 Trude of the United States, ube whole liue of territory, you wait til the confederation scheme is exploded ? Tho “hytory of "the movement of 1637 i well | alo none other than sentiments of Kindnese wud reapeet. | Fhe “Une community, without distinction of paFLY oF | tion of the French Canadian prone as from Maine to Oregon, would be her shield and breast: | "Avent think tbere is much more prospect of Is known, It partook of the charactor of an. armed rebel. | Without her conseut we consider separation ns nelther | Te, and to elicit a universal acknowledgment Irom a'l | gration of their people to the United States, Since | ‘Work against » hostile army be then than now, By that time all our leading men would Hom against the existing government, _ It was ind practicable nor desirable, But the colouial policy of the | Der citizens that the government can no longer continue | cise of winter Ubie loss of strength and nationality bas | 4 The eeaboarde of the Union wont ire calor ta, | be for annexation, The few who honeaily, desire te by wrongs Woo perions to be longer Regne fu patience, and. | pateus Seats, the vowels Gt Det Iending wieainen, the Without some gafical change. , There & be difference of | hoon incessant, and the universal report ie that stl diana a2 now they Are 10 oss fap for more than hsif ihe | comfederation would nee ‘ete nad, aire = eres was raised by leaders who bad in | public sentiments of the empire, present unmistakable | 20) inion upon oF tg ss iver nce In tie question | (ity 60.) All the efforts of the clergy, the prese and | eo" srom a seaport, oF compelled to trust to the forlorn | UP. The dishonest—and Ld Laps pit ae ¢ government for reform. Tt em- | and significant indications of the appreciation of colonial | 194 yanous Pm Lay Rpg agri ime get hh influential leaders are totally ipad. ope ofa snow buried Failroad, Canada would have ac- impossible lot to stem he Se ee 7 in tte scope many prominent men, eome of whom | connection, That it is the resolve of England to invest | “ to what remedy Is to be applied to existing o current oF effecting an appreciable Coe to the covag all the year foond, and hor fine fact. | fret to try am ewim the etrongest — e ‘9 now in thelr graves. . Papineau, Mackengie, Tache, | us with tho attributes and compel us to assume the bur. DRSPRRATR CONDITION OF HER FINANCES. woek of emigration takes away more French Canadians | 1 i9¢ or ship building Soule be met Dy & market the value The provincial goverament, —_ the attra coe ogee veers wae have become iden’ ified with the history | devs of independence {¢ no longer problematical. The The public debt of Canada, according to the report of | than a whole year of colonization has secured to the | or which she cannot now conceive. general, would find it re “{ ts = 4 a fh, nada, were found in the ranks of the rebele. They | threatened withdrawal of her troops other colonies— | the Minister of Finance, Ine 31st of December, 1868, | country. of the papers say that the people leave question whether sahil would nol make le efforts for relief and had ro- | the continuance of her military protection to ourselves 77,018,000. Por the year 1864 it is now reported | the country because they are so intensely disgusted with | THE VOIOB OF THE PRBSS FOR ANNEXATION. | virtue of necossity and let Ns J watt for Ubet,thn gered te Ng Td tho wrongs under which | only on the condition that wo shall defray the atton- | as nearly $79,000,000. does not include the debts the goverensst and have lost confidence in their rulers; A few extracts from articles recently published in 9 10% But su} we do aon tie, puble 1, 8 hen wore subdued by the Dritieh arma, | dant expenditures, betoken intentions towards our | of the muniotpalities, nor does it embrace current lia. | while others Unink that the forsaleing of thetr homen ly many, some of the leading journals of Upper and Lower Canada | and declare thit publ > ae bafety tiene ene punta an ie, oe eating by renee ty A og) it 5 ann us — to a bilities inourred by te xovernment to peaks in ead ly tha more teak ti amater of ab: | will best show, utter nreltabl ae howe British or, | re ire hat we, Ce | ee gas Kat on pereeived by | vide. n over Ing conviction necessity, and | and elsew! which, accord! to ‘uncon! neoeerst’y, people are a an iatence hire a Toren - she ho: government that tho ls that had! a high sonse of duty we owe to our county —e statements of the Ganadian Wess, eotually li the ' starving. They hayo ethekited every article of f Soy ennexation sontimaut in tho province, and will sub: } the United States Government shquid 4 strong.