Daily national era., 1854-02-08

Total -2,732, ,456
Nor is the real value Of these Provinces to
be estimated by their present population. There
is not finer agricultural tract of country on
the continent than the large peninsula of Can
ada West lying between New York and Mich
igan 1t is Of itself capable Of sustaining
population Of 5000 00OO Across il is the direct
line of communication between the Eastern
States and the great field Of Western emigrs-
ton; and upon the opening of the new railroad
between Niagara Falls and Detroit, hundreds
of thousands Of our people, and hundreds of
thousands Of tons in products and manufac-
lures will annually pass through this Province
in their transit between the Eastern and West
ern sections of the Union. We can already say
that Canada West is already annexed to us by
iron bands. A large portion Of her people
originated from the States have our language
habits manners, and modes Of thinking. A
majority of them on this very day would re-
joice to bc annexed to the United States. They
can see no valid reason why there should be
different flags floating at the opposite ends of
the Suspension Bridge. Hundreds fresh from
Yankee land, are settling down every month
upon these rich grain lands, and each of these
settlers carries with him strong arguments in
favor Of political union with has native
country
awe are no enthusiasts for annexation from
any quarter. But the acquisition Of the Cana
das would be attended with no untoward re-
suits, and while we believe that it would prove
advantageous to the whole Union, il would be
especially beneficial TO New England. Let
the custom house Offices on the frontier be
abolished, and a perfect reciprocity Of trade
with the Provinces be permitted and chan
mel of trade through the valley Of the Merri-
mack will bo opened, with scarcely less favor
able results than were seen in the Genesee
country to follow the building Of the Erie
canal. Our manufactures would find an ad-
ditional market and the grain fields and forests
OF the Canadas would cheaper some of the
staple articles consumed by our working
classes. Besides this the admission Of these
Provinces into the Union would incorporate
into our body polite no heterogeneous popu-
lation, composed Of the Indian, Negro, and
Spanish races, blended together, but it would
unite with us people, whose intelligence, en-.
terprise, and morals, place them on an equality
with ourselves Three-fourt of them are OF
English or American origin, speak our Ian
guage, and have views Of government similar
TO our own. With them we should have the
entire control Of the lakes, and access to the
vast forests above the Huron and Superior,
which alone can, fifty years hence supply the
Middle and Eastern States with lumber The
annexation Of these Provinces would also ter
inmate the difficulties now so disastrous to the
AMERICAN FISHERIES
The LATEST SHFr.--Tho Now York Com
merciaf advertiser Of Monday said:
"There was report that Senator Douglas,
who seems to feel the unpleasantness of his
position pretty keenly would once more shift
his ground, and introduce into the bill a clause
directly repeating the Missouri Compromise.
That would be honest at any rate, which can.
not be said of the Senator's bill hitherto, for in
it's present form it contains about the most
transparent sophism ever adventured upon as
the basis Of legislation When the gentleman
abandons his present position, we shall be in
ckned to say, Where thcro is shame, there
may be virtue'n
About the same hour in which this predic-
tion was being printed in New York, the Sem
ator was fulfilling II in Washington
20 Three gentlemen Of Paris it is said,
propose to establish hotels on the American
plan, of huge dimensions, and complete in all
accommodations with an eye 10 the.influx Of
strangers in the Great Exhibition in 1855.