New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-05
ANNEXATION AND COLONIZATION.

ANNEXATION AND COLONIZATION.
II il worthy of remark that the ideis of Eoglsh
Statesmen and writer's on the value of distant posses
sor held in su5ordDstoD to the mother country hi'o
lately undergone great changes aud tie experience
of tfa country should not be Ost upon uS, even aud
tie resonant shout OF annexation, the shibboeth Of
Young nbtion and legislative corruption. When the
colonies Of this Try turned INTO States, the
cry went up through England that her glory had de-
parted AZ the thirteen colonies had become lnIepend-
ept in a little time however the error of all parties
in Fpaland was discovered II found that although
every man woman and child in that cOuntr5 han de-
plored ne loss of the colonies Wing and Tory, High
Church ard Dsseoter equally without distinction, yet
the colonies freed and becoming the United states,
were much tie most valuable customer tie largest,
steadiest and hopeful that England had yet pos
sessed This fact, though dwet upon ny BurAe IN the
last century md repeated earnestly by BrougaIn IN
this did not prevent Toryism from exciting more
war with this country Long years of peace, however,
have enabled England to turn the eye inward 10 her owa
affairs and lrouehthe Efforts OF a small knot of reform
ers men like Hume aud Golden writers and states
men are arriving slowly at the belief that the wealth
of country is not derived from distant possessions
EclC 10 enilugAilOn fureHtn hTIIleC IN
on land The late Sir Robert Peel evea went so far
az 20 state that England would not hold on to Canada
by var if the affections of the people of that colony
Ia peace were not 4 cement sufficiently strong The
tendency OF pubic op Dion in regard 70 colonial pos
sessions may be vel! Illustrated by recent article
ia The London Tmes. West Indian makes CON-
paint that troops have been withdrawn from the Islands
las y and incOnsiderately- the public peace is
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cslly plot had Deeu discovered seeking TO fire the
town when the troops left The ringleaders in the
plot were discovered and seized but their punishment
bad TO be deferred At St Vincent according to the
West Indian the law was defed ana disturbances sp-
pesred as the troops were withdrawn. In Do
ninics. squatters on the crown lands prong by the
Withdrawal Of the soldiers refused to bulge. To the
complaint made on this bead Tie Times thus replies:
Time when the possession of a small island with
snly few hundred EDgshmen upon Il, and with natural
resources greater than those of the neghbori,g main
land thought worth the expenditure Of thousan Of
lives Gnd millions upon millions OF treasure We defended
such possessions at cost as necessary to power
and in that defense strained power to he point Of
tual weakness Perhaps there any public
prirate business 50 fragrant mseouLQtiea that on
uiica ojtGsrsd and kept up West India colOBiss
But economists have taken the place of war ministers
ard have Oponed eyes 10 the intrinsic value OF pos
sessions which priced merely because we he'd paid and
| were pdNlIg Tor tDtIn an tHCQicLl1Cle Dricc
1t is evident that the coming will not
descend Ike the last 10 the attack and defense If every
little et nTorH nPtg coral reesor rocaRic agency from
/ tie dtpth d the OCEAN.
In Is thing for colonies to iUure rather than
benefit the pres on which they depend. 80 twas
in antiquity and in modern history there is proof
OF aIy colony having paid its expenses The WARE Of
England with FraUoe, which have piled no the debts
OF either country such enormous Nights we're wars
OF mutual colonial ambition. The mere EMMY OF
France for England or England for France, each re-
strieted in its confines, would in oil probability
have had cut comparatively feeble life across tle chan
Eel; but The struggles for ascendancy in Ame-cs aai
he East Indies were the of such violent hates
and htacleug expenses; tie one country suffering
thereby revelation, and the o'her saved from IL,
from already having had two revolutions including the
cecspitstOn Of monarch aud gaining faith therefore,
in the power OF the people to esaeish grsdu, re-
forms. The history of I'll these colouies is before rs
France either could not hold her colonies By force of
arms or vas obliged in tie Gaze Of her richest pos.
acknowledgements sell il for song DOT worth
holding. Tie colonies of England which were not
wrested from her during remained heavy charge
on the mother country in tine Of peace. Besides
feeis and armies ia the ives. lciies. E20C30O0O
were paid for emancipation, besides c30e)00)
spent row ior civil expenses Of TIE colones
Tie AMY ard psvy cost about eliOW GEO.
sdced 70 which is the ir:eres. on Colonial war le5ts
amounting to Sos 0C000O Whenever the rysery OF
poli,ict into play species OF argument Which
would be secuted with cOnteup. applicable y the
irdiyieuol man has peen farsded to the multitude
hence tie nsOry Of mankind believe to this do! tat
the ciuse of Enelands debt and difieulies-her
Colonial s!sera-is the cause OF her power.
II ever there were colony which should have re-
Uardtd its founder it was Pennsylvania But We iod
Wiliisn Penn losing e62 Goa on the transaction. Caro-
Ina and Virginia equal failures pecuni4rly con-
sidered Raleigh los. $40 coo. New. EOeland VII
sustained by abors almost untquaed by long AID sd
prystiOps BY religious feeling rising. sometimes 20
faI sticisn. snd by the love Of selEgoyer1meBt In
later times We end Australia. speculat o. lead
failure. Nr GibbOn Wakefeld's boosted systematic
colonization is falling from contempt INTO oblivion |,
is estimated that Australia has cost Eng and twenty
times what SHE has yielded thus TAR OF cour.e