The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-19
Prom the Columbus Statesman aud Democrat.
,n,,N ppnsprrTe OF INDEPENDENCE.


IN. movement She has the symmetry and strength 10
move in an element OF Sedependenee Her policy has
been training her for her regulation Of her own al
fairs and all tina, is necessary for the consummaon Is
little sacrifice Of pride the part Of Great Britain
Within the past week event Of more than ordinary
significance has occurred with reference to OanaaA
preparation for the of British soldiers sent io he
protection Thus follows one the inevitable results o.
tina, commercial interchange which fortnight hence wa,
be in active operation. Force leaves when hee uAue
comes The bonds of international sympathy ana
are stronger safeguards than fleets and bonus aruS anu
guns. ,..,..,..,
indicates another fact daily becoming more hAeu-'hu i'
is that the bonds which bind Inc government OF oahaa"
10 that of England are becoming loosened ihere Is no
sudden rupture no hasty clipping OF them in twain but
Gradual and graceful unloosing of the tie WHICH when II
Is accomplished will Canada and the parent country
on better terms with each other than ever
In commenting upon the proposed removal OF the British
troops from Canada Montreal Herald of last week says
Sooner or later their removal must have come about as
The natural result of the gradual separation taking place
between mother country and the colony and Of the de
termination of the former since she has more advantage
or control in Canada 10 be at no expense on her &C
count The colonies must cast about for new phase OF
existence they make their laws have courts
Of appeal Of their limits pay their own troops if
they any, choose their governors and in short
be What Scotch acquaintance say of their houses self
containing II is well these changes should not upon
us suddeny but come they must and we ought to
look forward them earnestly though boldly and prepare
for them beforehand"
The colonies must 'cast about for phase OF exist
ence How easy the transition from colonial dependency!
She has already her Provincial Parliament, regulating
mostly her home affairs She could continue her legisla-
live department elect her governor and in far as her
foreign relations are concerned in under the protect
ing egis Of the Union She could then bear her ex-
penses as State and receive all the aid which strong
federal arm could give her in her general relations of
foreign commerce.
What an impulse would such give to Cana
dian enterprise and interest What relief TO English
sn1ey and the English exchequer
The day has gone by when colonies TO be held in
rassaage for the benefit of the mother country Since the
American revolution, which much commercial as
civil revolution there has been immense progress in
colonial policy Coonsts have held higher heads; have
been less modest in their demands conscious OF their
rights forbidden that monopolizing authority which
was wont colonial dependence fair pucking
and have gone far as in the of Van Dienan
Land and the Cape of Good Hope to stop the transport
alton of criminals their shores by threatened insurrec
ton.
This change in colonial policy has been FASTENED by the
progress of free trade 1t has been asceraned that
reciprocity between the parent nation and the colony tends
to crcnnnscrbe trade and mpoverish the colony 1t has
been ascertaned that the colony supplies be obtained
by each from and for the colonies cheaper esew here than
from CUBS and the United States cheaper than from her
own tropical dependencies think you she would do
so2 If she obtain wheat whether it from Cam
ada Ohio, through New York. cheaper than from Mon
treal would she not do it? If Canada obtain her
podghs and cotton cheaper by taking them from Pitts
burg and Lowell, would she send to Glasgow and Man
chester for them?
Free trade having become fixed English policy Cana
da will become of more Importance to her commercially
ation that dependence does not always give aid to the
olher country, while independence does The consumI
ton by Of English manufactures s0 has been
ahead of what would have been had been tagging be
hind the imperial Canada has since that time Th
Journal of Commerce estimates that in 1874 alone the i'm
poratisns of English products into the United States
equal TO those into az he ciones Of Great Bgtaia PIT 10
ydtAeg.
pne grea, object in securing dependency in colony ha
been as home for emgrationan asylum for the penul
myrads Of the overgrown cities OF Europe Austraif
and Canada have been convenient receptacles fer h,
masses who had reached their ultimate happiness in Eng
land which very moderate proportion the world
goessalutary valves for the outlettng of explosive ele
ments in old soeieties--new spheres where race
might be begun aud new hopes opened. But it is suscep
Bile of demonstration that colonies DO attract emigra-
Ion 50 much as an Independent nation Make Canada and
australia free to-day, and the United States would
feel the effects Of IT. not only in the decrease of her carry
cula elements Of wealth which emigration always brings
Sir William Wordsworth proved, in ls4S that Of 1913
900 persons who had left England within twenty years
s2564 had emgraied to the United States not reckoning
the large number of those who had here BIZ the
of Canada. In 1850, Lord John Russell showed that O
1s4Oo who had sailed from the United Kingdom within tn,
three preceding years 525I36 destined for this
try and of 2sosl9 emigrants in 1850 223,o7s
swell population. Colonies thus irrefragabl,
demonstrated be the last of wanderers from he
native land
So will be seen that English statesmen have their eye
aga2e upon the plain that colonial dep endence is
the most prosperous condition Of Canada The colonia
establishment of Great Britain ia maintained al ex
pense Of twenty millions of dollars per year and this
increased by war, which that with the Gar com
pss England to send fleets and armies around the gob
to protect her empire from the probability Of
tack
hat is there for Canada and Australia sharing
the risks and disadvantages of quarrel between Vie
oaa and Nicholas of Abdul Nejd Why should
Syney be ecpardcd On Of the Greek Christians
o. Why should Halifax be threatened of h'
balance power in Europe? What practical conneSor
IS there between these throes with which Europe is in
travail, and which it must be confessed have as yet
Drought forth little and the interests Of the Canadian
farmer and the Nova Scotian fisherman If Rone then
why should the colonies of England suffer from the mu
is2lltie7 OF English politics and diplomacy Is there
eley reason oripdependence- economical political moral
VIZ not the good of England which IS SO readily
approving of the Canadian treaty Of reciprocity With The
United States and which is about TO withdraw her soldier
from Canada in short time accomplish the form as sh,
hes nearly accomplished the fact Of separation between her
nd trt5t ". IL.