Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-02-15
MORE aANNEyATION."

What we apprehended and deprecated, i, ap.
pears BY The following article fsom Desroi,
paper, is actually coming 10 pass; and "anncx
alien Of Canada is TO be Insisted upon as a
counterpcise 10 the proposed annexation Of
Texas. This Government has no preience Of
claim to Canada, it is true; bot according 10
our view Of The subject. quite as much as it
has to Texas. There are natives Of the Uni
ted States in Canada as well as in Texas, and
even more Of them; and the project Of the an
nexalion Of Canada may at least claim the sop
port Of those whose conclusive argument in ia.
vor of the annexation Of Texas is lha. :. it will
! enlarge lee area Of human freedom"
We trust, after all, however. that our friends
in Michigan are not in earnest in their memoir
al in favor of Annexation of Canada, but in
tend it only as an argumentum ad Gbsuydum
against the Annexation Of Texas. Nat Intel
from the Detroit Daily Advertiser Jan. TO-
COUNTER ANNExATIoN.-Th citizens Of De-
iroil are generally we'll satisfied with the I'm
ron as Il .. They have never sought TO ex-
tend is limits for their own sectional advaa-
/ tage, against the wishes &C other sections Of
our conmon country. They gave memora-
Bile example Of their moderation and fidelity,
under strong temptations, during the Canadl-
an troubles But they are not insensi5e 10
the value ofthe country lying on their II or,h, OF
Indifferent TO their own relative weight as
Northern men in the Councils Of the Union.
Aud the pending propositions for The Annexa-
ton of Texas. with more or less prospect Of
ultimate success, have at length moved them
70 serious action.
A petition 10 Congress for lie acquisition of
Canada, contemporaneously with that Of Tex
as. is now In general circulation among our ci.
tizens. Ii has already received. we undel.
stand, numerous signatures, among which are
found the names of our most respectable. sober,
and influential cltZens-men who are not like :
/ ~ 10 turn back in their undertaking. Many
more will doubles be added The prayer Of
tho petitioners is that negotiations for the ces-
sion Of Canada may be opened with the Brit.
ish Government, and that in any proceeding
for the annexation Of Texas a provision may
be inserted that the same shall not take etlec,
until Canada has also been annexed. The
reasons set forth are twofold. First, that The
addition OF Texas TO the South demands the ad-
dltlon Of Canada to The North, in order lo pre-
serve the just balance aud eqlipoise OF The
Union. Second, that Canada is itself most
desirable acquisition for he United States, with
a view both TO military defence and to com
merciai intercourse.
Such are the views which many OF lie hes!
citizens of Detroit. aoithoat distinction Of par
~, are abnt to lay before Congress. We in.
v,e for them the attention of cur fellow cii-
zens elsewhere. and, il they approve. their
active co operation and aid. Other portions of
Michigan, we doubt not, will cordially concur,
and all along Northern New Y fk and Yer
mont we should anticipate warm and effect
i've response, The whole North, indeed, is
deeply interested. What say you, fellow-citi.
Zens
The proposition, it will be seen. is condl.
tional. II Texas comes in, then Canada
Bot if Southern annexation is abandoned, then
tho Northern will share the same fate, The
North, strong in lis own resources and free en-
erges. never encroaches or invades nor
should il epcr submit 10 encroachment or inga-
sion.