Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-09-29

How should we reach Gods upper light,
If life's long day had no '' good night! -
CFarbers' Journal
From the Columbus Statesman and Democrat
Canadian Prospects of IndepcMdency.
The reciprocity treaty with Canada was strong
blow at the underpnning which prevents Canada
from launch into ndependency, if into our Un-
ion. She is all ready for the movement. She has
the symmetry and strength to move in element of
selfdependence. Her policy has been training her
for her regulation of her affairs, and all
that is necessary for the consummatioE is little
rifce of pride on the part of Great Britain.
Within the past week an event of more than ordi-
nary significance has occurred with reference 10 Can
ada-the preparation for the return OF British soldiers
sent for her protection. Thus follows of the in
evtable results Of that commercial interchange which
a fortnight hence will be in active operation Force
leaves when tree trade comes The bonds of interna-
tonal sympathy and interest stronger safeguards
than fleets and bombs, armies and guns.
This proposed movement of English troops home
ward indicates another fact daily becoming move
fxed--and that is, that the bonds which bind the
government of Canada to that of England are be-
coming loosened, There is no sudden rupture, no
hasty clipping of them in twai.i; but gradual and
graceful unloosing of the tie; which, when it is
accom- pished, will leave Canada and the parent
country better terms with each other than ever.
In commenting upon the proposed removal of the
British troops from Canada, the Montreal Herald of
last week says:
I" Sooner later their removal must have come
ABOUT as the natural the gradual separation
taking place between the mother country and the
colony and of the determination of the former, since
she has more advantage control in Canada, to
be at expense on her account. The colonies
must cast about for phase of existence; they
must make their own laws; have courts Of ap-
peal out of their own limits; pay their troops
if they want any; choose their 2 vrrnors and
in short, be what Scotch acquaintances say of
their houses, self-conaining' 1t is we'll these
changes should not come upon US toe suddenly but
come they must, and we ught TO look forward to
them earnestly, though boldly and pepare for them
beforehand"
The colonies must least about for d new phase of
existence" How easy the transition from the colo.
NAL dependency! She has already her Provincial
Parliament, regulating mostly her home affairs. She
could continue her Legislative department, elect her
governor and, in far her foreign relations are
concerned, come in under the protecting egis of the
Union. She could then bear her own expenses as a
State. and receive all the aid which federal arm
could give her in her more general relations of foreign
commerce.
! What an impulse would such movement give TO
Canadian enterprise and interest! What IL relief to
English anxiety and the English eXchequer
The day has gone by when colonies to be held
in vassalagc for the benefit of the mother country -
Since the American revolution, which as much
II commercial political revolution, there has
been an immense progress in colonial policy. Colo
nists have held higher heads-havc been less modest
in their demands-more conscious OF their tights
have forbidden that monopolZing authority which
was wont to treat colonial dependence as fair pluck
ing; and have gone far, in the OF Van
Diemans Land and the Cape of Cool Hope, to stop
the transportation of criminals TO their shores by
| threatened insurrection.
This change in colonial policy has been FASTENED
by the progress of free trade has been ascertain
cd that mere reciprocity between the parent nation
and the colony tends to crCumSCrlbe trade and i'm
poversh the colony 1t has been ascertained that
The colony supplies can be obtained by each from
and for the colonies, cheaper elsewhere than from
each other. If England can buy her coffee and SUI
gar from Cuba and the United States cheaper than
her tropical dependencies, think you she would
Il not do so If she obtain wheat, whether il
comes from Canada or Ohio through New York, cheap.
er than from Montreal would she not do ii If Can
ada can obtain her ploughs and cotton cheaper by Ia
king them from Pittsburg and Lo oil, would she
send to Glasgow and Manchester for them
Free trade having become fixed on the English policy
Canada will become of more importance to her com
mere tally, if independent than dependant. Our own
nation is an illustration that dependence does not al
} ways give aid to the mother country while indcpen
dence does the consumption by us of English manu-
factureS since 1870 has been far ahead of wha, would
| have been had we been tagging on behind the i'm
peria Canada has since that time. Tie Jour
nal oil Commerce estimates that in 1854 alone tht
Impor ortaons of English products into the United
States were equal those INTO uU the colonies Of Grca
Britain put together,
One great object in securing dependency in col
ony has been home for emigration asylum
for the pcnt up myrads Of the overgrown cities o
Europe Australia and Canada Lave been convencn
receptaces for the Masses who ehad reached thei
ultimate happiness in England, which was very
moderate proportion the world goeS-saiutary val
yes fol the outetling of explosive elements in o
!, societies spheres where new race might b
= begun and new hopes opened But it is suscepti
ble of demonstration that colonies do attract EN-
graon so much a> independent nation Max
y Canada and Australia free to-day, and the United
j states would soon feel the effects Of it, not only il
the decrease Of her carrying trade, but in the decreas
of those pecuniary and muscular elements of wcaItl
which emg ration always brings.
Sir William MoIesworth proved, in 1848. that o
1874 600 persons who had left England within
twenty years $685. ,564 had einigraled to the Unite
States not reckoning the large number OF those wht
had come here bv the way of Canada. In 1850, Lore
John Russell showed that of 787 400 who had sae(
from the United Kingdom within the three prece
ding years $685. 1856 were destined for this country
and OF 280.844 emgran,s in 1850, 3,O78 were II
swell our population. Colonies were thus irrefraga
by demonstrated to be the last resort Of wanderer
( from their native land.
, their eyes agaze upon the plain Tact that cOlonia
Q dependence is not the most prosperous condition o
. Canada The colonial establishment OF Great Britain
: is maintained al expense Of twenty millions o
dollars per year and this is increased by war; which
us that with the Car, compels Eng land 10 SEM
fleets and armies around the globe to protect be
vast empire from the probability of an attack.