Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-01-25

ing CANADA !; LOT WniCh, 90 ~ sio'o ai0auy aP-
priced our readers, popular petitions may be ex-
|pected to come In.
Should they do SO, and jsint resolution to
annex = follow we see not by what arguments the
fayorers of the Southern Annexation should oppose
the Northern They will themselves have supplied
a system Of reasoning and of pubic morals which,
however others may have eonfited, they cannot
answer.
Like the other, it win be q remuneration y for
parts of the same empire.
The acquisition of Canada will Ne much more
positive enlargement of the area Of freedom = than
that Of Texas for Texas already enjoys Repub-
lcan Government and Canada does-not.
1t will prevent smuggling, to infinitely greater
extent for, instead of mere interior border, little
accessible to the transportation of goods, and only
three hundred and ten miles long, Canada offers, by
great river, lake and water access, at least two
thousand miles in extent.
twill be far more advantageous to our manufac-
turers; for Canada contains vastly larger popula-
ton than Texas.
| This annexation of Canada will certainly be less
hurtful to the cotton planting States than that Of
Texas Tor it will not bring in competition IN
production already excessive.
To the sugar-planters it will not oppose rival
while twill give them enlarged market
! Canada is not SO fine grain or stock-growing
country as large part of Texas is represented to
be; and must therefore be more advantageous ac-
QUESTION to the West and Northwest.
1t will still better secure and perpetuate the pecu-
liar institution, the protection of which is main
argument in favor of the other measure for it will
cut off the intercourse of England with all our part
of this continent and remove the refuge which has
SO long existed in Canada for fugitive slaves.
The Texas Annexationists- curiously enough
camoring all the while " Now or never Insist
that we are destined inevitably have all this con-
tinent no matter by what race peopled. Canada,
therefore, is ours, by the easy and equitable
right of the figure of anticipation. The Anglo
Saxons are to lay hands upon every thing; then
surely that which Anglo-Saxons already possess is
ours by still better title than any thing which they
have never yet held.
AS to our own military security, it is clear that
the inducements to Canadian annexation are ten
fold. We have never been and cannot be invaded
through Texas while we have been and may al
Il r
ways be from Canada
/ We have many citizens in Canada, and many
more who would like to be. There has been and
still is large sympathy between us and it. The
people are of our blood-for who are not /! About
the same time Texas, they attempted their indie
Ipendence: if they failed, does that make their
cause less respectable
/ If it be clear that Texan Annexation is not a
sectional question: il is hundred times palmer that
Canadian Annexation is national in the highest
degree.
Besides, Canada has positive and direct consti-
tutonal right to be admitted into the Union. For
it was distinctly stipulated in the Articles of the
Confederation Ia good deal older than the Louisiana
do So We have, then, only to get up voluntary
movement on her part by inviting her to ask to be
annexed.
i IL these arguments in favor Of the annexation
of Canada are absurd, and fit only to be laughed at
the arguments most relied upon to justify the i'm
mediate annexation" of Texas are not much more
worthy of serious refutation.
How much longer the debate upon the Texas
Question will last cannot undertake to say GER
tainly, but probably for several days there being
no apparent abatement of the anxiety of Members
to express their opinions in regard to it, The great
est objection which we have to the prolongation Of
the discussion is that it overays and obstrucs alto
gether the proper business of the House We have
heard, however, that it was determined in caucus,
on Saturday evening, to bring the debate to close
on Saturday next.
4 Among other incidents of the last week is the
final action of Congress upon the bill directing the
election of President and Vice President Of the
United States hereafter to be made in all the States
of the Union on one and the same day. Thus for
once, should the President approve and sign the
bill, one measure Of National character will have
passed into law by the approving votes Of all par
ties in the Government.
| Two days Of the time of the House Of Represen-
tatives during the last week have been mostly con-
sumed in dismissing the Clerk Of the House for
misconduct and defacation in his accounts. In the
proceedings upon this case there have been some
anomalous traits. The condemnation Of the conduct
Of the Clerk, and his dismission were-however pro-
per under the circumstance unprecedentedly una
nmous The lesson, it may be hoped, will not be
lost upon public officers placed under temptations
similar TO those by which the late Clerk was
ouced from the plain path of his duty.
| BENJAMIN b. FRENCH, late Chief Clerk, is now,
by appointment, Clerk of the House Of Representa-
tives of the United States.
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