The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-25


[From the Buffalo Express, June ISL
Our statesmen have been pointing to the g mani
fest destiny" of the British North American Pro
yinces as lying in the path of annexation to the
United States. This has awakened the people and
statesmen of those Provinces to proper eXamina-
ton Of then geographical, commercial and physical
importance in the scale Of nations, and to fresh
understanding Of who and what they are: While
we open arms to receive them into the family of
States they put themselves upon the dignity of self
reliance, and discuss boldly the question Of union
of the British North American Provinces under an
independent form Of government. We haye recently
Assembly by Mr.. Howe, which is full of food for
our people and statesmen to reflect upon He is OPP
posed to annexation to the United States, and as
serts that opposition in the following explicit
Sir, do not deny that any who sincerely and
honestly advocates annexasion to the United States has
and would esst such step by all means within my
reach believe II would be- unless forced upon us,
breach Of faith pshed 10 brethren the water
for more than 100 years. Of course, il they expect
tsirg anything ec UPON their heads and not on onrs
be the of the separation which when this
is APPARENT will be inevitable prefer full incorporation
with Tho M in one great enpirc-fec participation with
ttem in its good and evil fortunes, it's peris and its dis
tircons. All this believe to be practicable and shall
not despair Of its fulHlment.
In connection with this sentiment he hiscussesthe
question, Have we territory, broad enough to
make nation ~ In answer to this plain inter-
rogatory he spreads out the map, and points to
territory lying north of the United States extending
away from the Atlantic to tie Pacific, containing
1000 600 square mics-while all Europe, with its
family Of nations, contains but 3,10S,00 which is
292 1000 miles less-and the United States includes
3,330,572 square miles, 769l2S less than British
America. These British North American possessions,
therefore, it will be seen, cover ninth Of the ter
rtory of the whole globe, that being some 81 000-
GOO square miles. This vast extent OF country is
sub divided as follows:
Cono da includes ln0 600 M p,ilas
New Ian" , ,o,oo0 Il
Noyascotia ............,............ l9bOV0
4 " a,ani ZOO
Making IN aH....... sSO,oVV So miles,
A very pleasing and interesting comparison is in
stitute between this territory and portions Of the
Old World which we are apt to magnify in our &C.
neral opinions. The great province of Canada is
equal in size to Great Britain, France and Prussia
combined. Take the Italians Pc, the Frenchman's
Rbone, the Englishman's Thames, the Germans
Rhine, and the Spanards Tagus, and roll them into
one channel, and they all only would make stream
equal to the st. Lawrence. The great lakes Of Ca
NADIA are larger than the Caspian Sea- and the Gulf
of ST. Lawrence, which contains surface Of 100000
square miles, is as large as the Black Sea.
Our attention is directed to the maritime provin-
ces of British North America, which cover SIG, 900
square miles of territory and are half as large again
in size to Holland, Greece, Belgium, Portugal and
Switzerland, while New Brunswick alone is as large
as the kingdom Of Sardinia, and even Nova Scotia
is larger than Switzerland.
This picture of the broad expanse Of territory
which is spread out between us and the frozen re-
gions of the North, and known as the British Ame-
rcan Provinces, might suggest the propriety in dis
Cssing the question OF union OF the United States
that we should be annexed to them instead of their
coming to us. There is, however, another view OF
this matter to be taken. We must lool; at the ply
steal condition and relations OF the two sections Of
this hemisphere, and see what amount Of people
inlabit the vast extent Of country to which our
British North American neighbors point with 50
much satisfaction and pride. In return for remind
ing us that we are T6S12S square miles less 10 ter
itory than they we desire call their attention TO
tie comparative numerical strength of our popula-
ton. On their side of the line the figures show
that
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