The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-06

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to the article that appeared IN Tue onns
Post Yesterday morning, is necessarily DE-
ferred until to morrow, when we promise 10
give such facts as cannot fan TO SATISFY 'ne
nublic of the injustice of the charges brougnt
aga;ns, both the Proprietor and the paper
carr or THE cANApAs TO THE UNITED
STATES.
The Philadelphia Times says 1t mas goou
reasons to believe that the sale OF the Jana
das To the Government of the United States
;s about to be taken into consideration by
the British Cabinet, and to be submitted 10
Parliament. This important step, 1t says
has been suggested by the accommodating
debt of England, now amounting to about
EIGHT hundred millions of pounds sterling, or
four billions of dollars; the amount of new
burdens which the war is casting upon an
already over taxed people; the financial en-
barrassments entailed on the mother coun.
try by unproductive colonies, and the formi-
dable attitude of opposition recently assum-
ed by the commercial classes against the
rule of the aristocracy, and the evils of their
political supremacy. 1t is stated that many
of the leading statesmen and political econo'
mists of England advocate the sale of some
of the principal colonies. with their own
consent, or the concession to them of ma
tional independence The Times quotes Nc.
Cullock, who says: H
Our eoiouissin America and the West Indies have
furnished one farthins towards defi.ying any
part Of the general expenditure OF the United ktng.
from any such ehsrge ct the same time that the fleets
sSs the security Il peace are all supplied the sI
fish nation, and coat them nothing. The only sdvan.
tage, in national point OF view: dehyaote Itom
them must therefore, IL IL exist at all, be found in
the trade or intercourse We carry on with them
Butit has been shown over and over again. that the
from that with foreign countries that unless It be
naturally advantageous for both parties cannot De
for the mother country to engage IN H. ana tnat u
be naturally advantageous Il will be carried On to
the same or greater extent were the colony an in
dependent State The gleat and growing intercourse
We have continued to keep up with the U States
since they achieved their independence Ia practi-
Ga, proof of the truth of what has now been stated
Oar trade with Cars is on the ether hand proof
Of the mischief occ.soned by fore ng intercourse
where there Ia no natural aptitude for one. While,
however, the forcing trade with colonies is no ad
vantage, but the the effort to keep them in
an unwilling ftate of dependence after they are de-
sirous to be independent, entails a very heavy ex
psnse on the mother countries Our ascendsncy in
Canada, at this moment, Is wholly dependant on the
presence of large military force, oceasionlng one
way and another direct outlay of little less than
8Iooo oOo year and this enormous direct ana ma
vantage, and with full conviction in the mind OF
every man of sense in the empire that IN some ten
or twenty years, Canada will be indedendent, or an
integral portion OF the United States"
There are some objections to the above
arrangement, which do not seem to have
occurred to our contemporary of the Times,
or to his chief authority, McCullock. As
Stunning that Great Britain is willing to sell
out the Canadas, of which we have seen no
proof and that the Canadas are willing to be
sold, which is still more doubtful, it remains
TO be shown that the United States will con-
sent to buy. That is a consent which will
never be given, unless the North consents to
a simultaneous acquisition of Cuba, with its
present institutions. The free States already
have an overwhelming preponderance in the
House of Representatives and majority in
the Senate, with prospect of adding twenty
or thirty more free States from the present
territories in few years. Yet, even under
these circumstances, the prospect of adding
one more slave State in Kansas, creates the
greatest excitement and opposition among
Northern free sellers, who have raised the
cry that not another slave State shall ever
be added to the Union. Do they suppose
that the South, under such circumstances.
will consent to the acquisition of Canada, or
would remain in the confederacy, if that
reeking mass of abolition were added to the
existence free-soil preponderance? The idea
is too absurd to be thought Of
There is another objection to the sale of
the Canadas. No British writer advocates
that sale without their consent, and that con-
sent will never be given. Great Britain
may be willing to free herself from the ex
pense of Canada, but Canada has no objec-
ton to being defended by large fleets and
armies, at the expense of Great Britain
Nor are the progress and prosperity of the
Canadss as slow and languishing as the
Northern journals declare. The Canadian
authorities give very encouraging statistics
ON these points. Besides, if the Canadians,
the most loyal andsubmissive subjects whom
Great Britain has on the face of the earth,
were willing to be sold, like so many cattle
in market overt, the United States is the last
country on the face of the earth which they
would permit to buy them. The British peo-
pie have no such hatred and contempt of
Americans as the provincials Their feelings
arethose of nobleman's footman or valet
towards the rich psrvenu next door. You
could never prevail upon them to take ser
vice with one whom they regard as an up
start. If the provincials ever consent to Sc
psration from Great Britain, it will be ON the
condition that they set up for themselves,
boon which we hope may be yielded to them;
and, by way of enabling them to set up house
keeping in handsome style, we propose that
our Government sell or give them the State
of Massachusetts.
THE LATE ELECTION In KANSAS.
I'd 1t cannot be pretended that the last cleo
ton in Kansas WAS carried by an armed
force of "border ruffians." The Kansas