The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-10-27
Ill. 1.-The Protection of Home Manulac.

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Of manufacturing interest in Canada, ye
without access to the United States nlarke
there would not be sufficient expansion
that interest, from the want OF consumer
to work any result that could be admitte
as remedy" for the numerous evils {
which we complain.
| Ill. "a Federal Union Of the BIRTHS
American Provinces
| The advantages claimed for that arrange
ment are Free Trade between the differen
provinces, and diminished governments
Expenditure. The attainment of the latte
object would be problematicsl, and tn
benefits anticipated from the former NIGH
be secured by legislation under our existing
system. The markets of the sister pro
yinces would not benefit our trade In tim
Der, for they have a surplus Of that article
IN their own forests; and their demand fo
agricultural products would DO too Limited
20 absorb our means Of supply. Nor coulc
Canada expect any encouragement to hel
manufacturing industry liom those quarters
A Federal Union, therefore, would be nc
remedy.
~. 1.-THE independence of the British
North American Colonies as a Federal Re.
public"
The consolidation Of It's new institutions
from elements hitherto so discordant--the
formation of treaties with Foreign Powers
tie requirement Of a name and character
among the nations-wouId, We fear, prove
an over.match for the strength Of the new
Republic. And. having regard TO the pow.
iul coniederacy of States contentious with
itself, the needlul military defences would
Oe TOO costly to render Independence a
boon, while it would not, any more than a
Federal Union, remove those obstacles
which retard our material prosperity.
V. Reciprocal Free Trade with the
United States, as respects the products OF
The farm, the forest, and the mime"
II obtained, this would yield but sn in.
stallment Of the many advantages which
might be otherwise secured. The free in,
terchange of such products would not in
uoduce manufactures to our country. Ii
would not give US the North American Con
unent for our market 1t would neither
so amend our institutions as to confer sta
blity nor insure confidence in their per
nor would it allay the violence
of parties, or, in the slightest degree, rem
edy many OF our prominent evils.
vi. OF all the remedies that have been
for the acknowledged and insult
feIable ills with which or country is al.
llicted, there remains but one to be consid-
cred. 1t pIopounds sweeping and impor.
-ant change in our political and social con
lition involving considerations which de.
nsnd our most serious examination. This
remedy consists in Friendly and Peace.
iul Separation from British Connection, and
4 Union upon equtsb terms with the great
North American Coniederacy OF Sovereign
States"
We would premise that toward Great
Britain We entertain none other than sen,i.
nents OF kindness ard respect. Without
her consent we consider separation as
neither practicable nor desirable. But the
Colonial policy Of the Parent State. the
ivowals Of her leading Statesmen, the pub.
lie sentiments Of the Empire, pre-, ent un.
and significant indications Of the
appreciation of Colonial Connection. That
5 The resolve OF England TO invest us with
he attributes, and TO assume The burdens OF
is no longer pIoblemalical.
The threatened withdrawal of her troops |
rom other Colonies--the continuance OF
Ter military protection to ourselves only on
he condition that VIC shall defIay the at
endant expenditure, betoken intentions to-
yard our county, against which it is weak.
less in Us not 10 provide. An overriding
conviction, then, of its necessity, and high
ense OF duty we owe to our country, a duty
We can neither disregard nor postpone, i'm.
,el us to entertain the des of separation
md whatever negotiations may eventuate
With Great Britain, grateful liberality on
he part Of Canada should mark every pro-
eeding.
The proposed Union would render Can.
ida field for American capital, into which
{ would enter as freely for the prosecution
# public works and private enterprise as
nto any Of the present States. 1t would
.qualize the value OF real estate upon both
ides OF the boundary, thereby probably |
doubling at once the entire present value OF
property in Canada, while, BY giving stabil- |
ty to our institutions, and introducing pros
,erity, it would raise our public, corporate,
md private credit. 1t would increase our
commerce both with the United States and
oreign countries, and would not neCessa-
lily diminish, to any great extent, our in
ercourse with Great Britain, into which our
PRODUCTS would, for tie most part, enter on
he same terms as at present. II would rem
Ter our rivers and canals the highway for
he immigration to, and exports from, the
West, TO the incaloulable benefit of our
Ii would also introduce manu(ac.
ures into Canada as rapidly as they have
,een introduced into the Northern States;
md to Lower Canada especially, where
water privileges and labor are abundant and
;hesp. it would attract manufacturing CAPT
al, enhancing the value OF property and
agricultural produce, and giving remunera-
i've employment TO what is at present a
comparatively non-producing population.--I
Nor would the United States merely furnish
he capital for our manufactures. They
would also supply for them the most exten-
i've market in the world, without the inter-
,ention OF Custom-House Officer Rail-
ways would forthwith be constructed by
American capital as feeders for all the great
lines now approaching our frontiers; and
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