The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-12
From the New York Herald
General SCOTT and Canadian Annexation.
Curious and Startling Revelations.

We lay before the readers of the New
Y ork Herald, this morning, a very curious
and rather startling letter from Montreal, in
relation to what had been generally given
up in this country as the exploded project
Of Canadian annexation From this letter,
however, it will be seen that the nomination
of General Scott has given new life to the
scheme among the tory party in Canada
that secret correspondence is going on be-
tween their annexation committees and GER
tain Interested parties in the United States,
and that Gen. Scott himself is or will be in
formed of the movement
In making out this extraordinary case, the
facts, incidents, individuals, circumstances
and arguments of our correspondent are so
consistently dove-tailed together-they har-
monte so we'll with each other-that they
cannot fail to shake the most decided incre-
dulity. 1t appears that the tory party of
Canada, who had rendered themselves odious
to the people, from their despotic and blood
thirsty course during the instruction of
1887, and the events Immediately resulting
from it, rapidly fell into hopeless minority;
that to get again into the ascendancy they
hit upon the happy expedient of agitating
the project of the annexation of Canada to
the United States. These movements began
to assume definite shape in 1919, and from
this point we note combination of parties
in Canada and in tho United States for the
same great object.
William Lyon Mackenzie, political ad.
venturer associated in the Nea0 York Tri.
6une in those days, seems to have been the
leading agent in the annexation movement
in New York; and, though Mackenzie is
now in Canada, we are informed he is in ac
tive confidential correspondence with the so
.cialist and Seward organs of this State, fol
the promotion of the great design of annex
T alton. 1t was, also, in 1849 that Gen. Scott
wrote his celebrated Canadian annexation
letter from West Point, which was generally
set down as mere hap-hazard experiment
for Buncombe, but which, it appears, was
part and parcel of the general movement
, and very important feature in it. Thu
forthcoming whig celebration at Lundy'
5 Lane is also set down as piece Of the SAM
project
But why is it that the leading organs 0
: Seward, abolition, and the higher law, shoul
F; engage in this movement of annexation ?
Y Here lies the pith of the whole matter
o The object of the annexation of Canada
= which must also include the contiguous prov
! inces, is to give such additional power to tn
! North in Congress, as will enable them
o break down the Southern States; to brea
# down the whole system of Southern slavery
d with all the hazards of a re-enactment, VI
I on larger scale, of the insurrection, tt
fires, and ravages, and bloody atrocities
$ St. Domingo. The object is, by the increa
u ed and overwhelming weight of the Mort
ar to crush the domestic institutions ct Il
is South, to turn the slaves loose upon Il
G country, or to drive the South, from mex
y rable necessity, and at the peril of sectio
if al war, out of the Union. In a word, Il
re grand desideratuns of Canadian annexati,
of IS the extinction Of slavery in the South,
i'd the expulsion Of tho South from the Unio