The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-04


shall be deprived Of will not augment the profit of
the United States.
What Is to be Done with Canada.
rrOm the London Times, June III
What are we to do with Canada3 Are we to pro
claim it independent at once7 Are we to 20 ON for
generation or two more on c0ld-blooded cork
jacket system, telling it cooy that 1t must manage
for itself before long, and meanwhile will help to
keep 1t ahoat Are we to proceed on the hypothe-
sis Of union or on the hypothesis OF separationf We
must, some rigorous reasoners inform us, do either
one thing the other. What shall we do ii Canada
rebels? What in the event of a WAT? Are we to
bribe her? Are we to brighten herr Are we TO fos
ter her jealousies with neighborng republic, or
We to avert collision by arrangements Of mutual
benefit Stop, farsighted spinner Of logical alter
natives and political impossibilities. Spare your
to save your head. Submit TO be generous, simple
and kind. grain of common feeling will help
you more than ton Of uncommon philosophy
Not once, but dozen times, during the last
thirty years. the provinces of British America have
imposed on our rulers the choice between little
and great deal Of vision. Some of the most
painful instances were considerably brought up on
Thursday night in the Lords; and il by any chance
the same things could again occur, and the same
knots have to be solved or cgt it may easily
be seen how those Lords would decide them.
Happily the British Parliament has dealt as it
ought to do with two millions of our own fellow
ton than the same number Of us who sit still
at home, but rather more. We have done to
them as Englishmen in all ages have insisted on
others doing to themselves. We have gone on
as much as possible, granting their reasonable
demands, as far as Canada itself was concerned,
and in other respects submitting Canadian as well
as British interests to those laws which control the
common veal Of nations. We have run what we
were told were great risks. We were told that it
was dangerous to give Canada sefgovernment-
even the measure that 1t already enjoys We were
told that we must continue to govern it, in Orange
fashion, by an exclusively British faction that we
must continue to secure the loyalty of two millions
on the other side Of the Atlantic by showing the
smallest possible consideration for them; we were
to insult and degrade the patriotic, aud, by way
of set of, create some knavish sort of class ute
rests; we were to make the St Lawrence line
of military posts, of an exclusive traffic, and an
artificial manufacture; we were to perpetuate
every grievance that ranked in the Cana
dian breast, and, even If an overbearing fac
ton had ehown some signs Of human kindness,
we to 60 along with Il in it's subsequent angry
and dishonest recantation. There is nothing in
genious and wicked, president and suspicious,
we have not been asked to do in Canada; and il we
had done but 1.-THE of it, Canada might indeed still
have been ours, but 1t would have been ours to our
cost and discredit; ours to our perpexty and dis
aster; ours to show the world how i'll a use we can
make Of SO great blessing and what singular in
humanity we can show TO those who have such
claims on our kindness and respect
Time has brought round another of these occa-
sions, and the opportunity was eagerly seized on
Thursday night to remind US that confidence is
consecutive policy and that If we are asked to do
generous and natural thing it is because we
have been SO imprudent as to do the like before.
IL js impossible to interpret Lord Ellenborough's
speech otherwise than as q sarcasm, for we cannot
suppose that nobleman whor blessed with q little
brief authority, showed such readiness to annex
alien and semi.barbarous populations with whom
could really be in hurry to cast off and fling over
to another rule several millions OF our actual kith
and kin. The sarcasm is, that we have
made these people so independent that we may
left of the connection may compromise but
cannot benefit us. Therefore either draw the cord
tighter, or cut it altogether. If more serious
meaning was intended-if the authority of
Of Lord MetcaIfe really thought to the purpose,
never did device so iecoil on its author The
colony which quarter Of o century ago Mr..
Huakisson thought on the eve Of separation
vas one governed on the principles Of coercion and
insult. On the pretence of sounder religion and
oyaty, a few families divided the spells Of Office
aud power; and revenue and territory were alike
squandered on o clique that made the name of
England stink in the nostris Of the people. The
COMPENSATION for tyranny as costly and perilous
to the mother country asst was dsagreeable and in
furious to the colonial population was the sup
posed advantage of market for our manufactures
and commerce. As Mr.. Husksson justly held
this to be no advantage, but the contrary he
could contemplate without regret the gradual
weakening Of a tie of which all that could be SD
was, that perhaps it did az much harm to one Re
as to the other. Lord ketcalfe's views also
no longer t exists, and which has ceassd 'h be
cause we have adopted the policy which Lord
MalmesbuTy deprecates and Lord Peterborough
thinks ft subject for an elaborate sneer. The posi-
ton Of the present Governor is Of course open to
of IN hat
contrasts rather feeby with the greater dsp ys of
policy and power now exciting 80 much intercs 1t in
the Old World. Lord Elgin Is neither at war with
his neighbours nor with his own people. A child
can step across frontier, which, for some thousand
miles, separate Canada from mighty and ambitious
commonwealth; while, in Canada itself, the lions
and the lambs, that used to raise such roaring
and such bleating whenever IL answered their
purpose, are reposipg by one another on the
best possible terms. The population, the trade,
the shipping, the railways, the bridges, and
all the signs Of improvement, are rapidly In
creasing. This Is very tame work, all the tanner,
alone, and Of allowing heaven, for once to take It's
own course. We are aware that Lord Malmesbury
would have done very much better, and that Lord
Peterborough would have made more show; but we
son TO desst from that policy Of reasonable conces
sion. OF which the actual results are 80 far unex
ceptionable. Letus 60 on as we are, that s in the
same course. Lord Peterborough cannot ay worse
~ ~ tnhn tnat ~ gives Us notmng 10 Talk about
how long Canada is to be ours we are content TO
leave to higher powers, but it is some comfort to
think that separatists annexati ,nists have now
to contend not 30 much with the mother country
"a with their own fellow Canadians.
InE GLAMoRGAN SLAVE CAsB.-The case of Capt.
eAares kehlman, master Of the brig Glamorgan,
was resumed yesterday In the United States Circuit
Court. The principal evidence for the defence was
contained In the testimony Of John Mccormick, the
mate, the essence Of whose statement was that the
vessel from first to last was under the control OF