New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-20
ANNEXATION OF CANADA.

The finest portion OF the British PROVINCES IN North
America is the peninsula lying west and south OF
Lake Ontario and between the Niagara and Detroit
river 1t is projected into our territory like bas
ton. separating the States of NewYOrk and Michigan,
and living across the most direct line of communication
between the ports which receive the great mass Of
European emigration and the fields Of the North west
which they come to cultivate. IL has been heretofore
isolated by the want of harbOrs on the Canadian shore
of Lake Erie, and of interior routes.
On the 18th nst the completion of the railroad run
mig across this territory from the Suspension Bridge
at Niagara Falls to Detroit, celebrated at the lat
ter city and but few days before the opening Of the
branch railroad intersectng the main line at Brant-
ford and connecting it With Buffalo the occasion
Of similar festivities The Of travel henceorth,
from Detroit to the seabOard will be the Canada
Road across the Suspension Bridge aud the Niagara
branch of the Central Railroad TO Rochester and
thence to the Eastern cities and the stream Of emgra-
tion will pursue the route in the opposite drec-
ton Canada West is thus annexed by iron bands to
our Union and it is to be the highway for hundreds of
thousands of our citizens every year their journeys
to ana from their Western homes
Beating swords into pillow shares striking and
fOrcbe figure in its day, but compare it with the fact
stated 10 on extract from Western paper to the eff
feet that Bennett Marshall & Co, Of Pittsburgh,
have bought quantity OF large iron cannOns in Cana
- a, which they will convert into railroad iron The
cannon were used against the United States through
out the war Of 1872 and it is said made sad havoc
"among our troops at Maiden and Lundy's Lane"
Ponder the significance of this fact and then consider
how long it likely to be, after the boundary between
them is but scratch rail on the Suspension Bridge
over the Niagara River which trains feighted
with citizens of both Governments shall dozen
times day, before the people of the two countries
viii take security that the rails shall be
verted into cannon, by celebrating tie political di-
visions aud taking down the two flags that float
at opposite ends of the bridge to replace them by
aroLer with an extra star its field. The precise
cssion and the mode in which this consummatoo will
be reached not now apparent but it is none the
less certain because neither party is at present dis
posed to take any steps with a view of hastening it,
At the Brantford celebration Mr. Wadsworth of Buf
alo referred the fact that wheat which obtained the
premium at the great Worlds Exhibition was grown
in that town. while the line of that road is yet skirtel
by forests covering land capable of growing such
wheat Cultivation has hardly begun aud land is very
cheap. These circumstances will be apt to attract Yam
kee settlers throughout this portion of the peninsula
adjoining the avenues TO market, AMI every of
them will find fresh arguments for a political union
with has mother country Ii is unnecessary to refer to
the obvious considerations showing that these Rail-
roads are potent agents of annexation. If things are
well let alone it will come soon enough.