New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-16
CANADIAN ANNEXATION PREVENTED.

the September session
CANADIAN ANNEXATION PREVENTED.
We publish in another column the act of Congress
which modiGes the tariff as to carry into effect the
treaty lately negotiated between Lord Egin and Mr.
Marcy, and usually described by the delusve name OF
Reciprocity. Oar readers will remember the re-
mbrkable haste with which this bill was crowded
through the two Houses just at the close of the sea
sion it having been finally signed by the President
within an hour and a half from it's first introduction
in Il o popular branch. With regard to the mode in
which this astonishing dispatch was obtained we
have received some hints which render the procedure
quite Ineligible and show that il is more creditabe
to the astnteness of TIE three Brgadiers who now,
under Col Forney rule the country than to the persp
cacity of the honorable members whom they seem to
have begued 1t appears that this result was achieved
by skiiuy appealing to the save-d-ving feeling OF
the southern members and the antslsyey or at least
the northern feeling Of the members from the free
States. With the one the Administration no doubt
argued that to confirm the treaty would
be TO set up safeguard against the an
nexation Of Canada, which must other wise be
regarded ss imminent from the pressing necessities
of the Provinces 10 which free to markets
is On Indispensable condition Of all prosperity; while
with the ether the same measure was held up as a
great stroke of policy for the North. which would
thus not only gain cheaper bread stus for its manu-
facturers but enlarged business for its canals and
railroads. at the same time that increased intercourse
between the Canadas and the States could not it was
urged fail to expedite the doy when the power of the
North must be increased by the accession of the
thriving and cougeDial communities beyond the st.
John and the ST. Lawrence. Thus one party was
made to vote for the treaty the best means OF pre-
venting, and the other the means of producing an
nexaton, while the representatives Of the western
farmers most Of them Democrats were brought into
the support OF the BY the party screw, which
forced them also up to the point the ground Of the
necessity for doing something to satisfy the North and
remove the fatal opposition which the Nebraska bill
had awakened in that quarter.
1t was by such agencies and motives that the Admin
straton succee led in carrying this measure with such
remarkable unanimity, and We say the result does
more credit TO the nanagers than the managed As
usual the northern men were those deluded and
trapped and as far they are personally concerned
can feel little sympathy with them either nov or
hereafter when the full effect of the measure they have
To be taken in BY such an Administration as this is
misfortune which the bystanders may bitterly regret
but can never much commserate, for the victims
caught were simply forewarned and should have
had their eyes open. But for all that, it is
none the less lamentable fact that these
gentlemen, sincere friends of freedom as they are,
have given their votes for a treaty which opens
the Provinces to nothing from this side but the pro-
ducts Of slave labor which weakens the free
of the northern States, and sets strong and high
barrier against the annexation of the Canadas to the
Union. Such the facts concerning this treaty and
they cannot be got over by any sentimental cOnsidera
tons about the attachment which will spring up be-
tween the two countries by means of extended COM
mercial intercourse. The people of the Canadas are
as perfectly aware as they can be what is the
value Of our markets. that point they have nothing
to learn, nor any affections to cultivste aud had
this treaty been refused, on the plain aud palpable
ground that it did not provide for genuine reciprocity
and that We could grant no other they must presently
have applied for annexation. Could they not
get the benefits Of the Union without assuming its
burdens and eDstiDg in its great domestic struggle
We should soon have found them ready 70 come in
tht Sc terms and TO aid the free States in restoring the
Government to its original subseryience TO freedom
and true democracy. But now, led sstray by the
donbletopgued policy of the Administration, we have
granted them the benefits of the Union without
requiring any obligations from them in return,
and as long as that state Of things endures, not
one step shall We advance toward the consumma-
ton which every patriotic, free sOuled American
must have at heart. The Canadas will not come
in on account of Slavery, as long as they have
free trade with us while their colonial relation to
England prevents the free of manufactures
to their markets. Were il not for Slavery they would
have asked for admission the Union long ago; and
even with Slavery they would ask for it now, were
it impossible otherwise to obtain the advantages they
have now got by this singular coalition of prosavery
and ti-slsvery statesmen. BY this measure
alton is postponed for years beyond any necessary Pc
riod and postponed BY votes obtained in the manner
we have indicated. And when the northern people
find it necessary to bring in the Canadas, their first
ste D must be to undo what has now been done, and
TO refuse to the Provinces all reciprocity except that
which is true and perfect
The debates en- the subject in the Senate, a. well
a. the division on the final vote having taken place
In .,i N o,h