New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-09
anrs.o,UrroN OF THE UNION.

The Canadians have 8 Union. Those OF Tue
Lower Province The it. They OF the Upper do not
Ike il. They have grievances with the politlcai ITO
bot binds them. Central grievance OF all Is the
cone,uitnl ontsgousm b,tween Saxon and Celt.
Patent grievances, ing right on he surface OF the
Union. the domination IN the Provincial Parliament
ty the Lower Canadians OF theeUpper Canadians
a d. spotic rule of majority by minority pro-
fuse expenditure of Upper Canada money tr Lower
Canada uses-the deirat0 measures Ofpureiy Upper
Canada concern, by the priestly influence IN the
Catholic Lower Province, on the grouOd that they
are Of dangerous spiritual liberaliiy-sn increase
of taxation, and a wasteiul public expenditure,
which will crush industry aud property il unchecked
and especially the cor1uptious OF public men, by
the s,stem of bribery necessary to enable minority
to rule majority. Manifest, to all people Amer-
ienps ~ Wen as Canadians a governmental Unloo
which infcis such evils is not worth maintaining.
Six hundred of the very best men in Upper
Canada were Delegated to meet in Toronto, aud
fId some prompt and eilectual remedy tor the
unequal yoke-elI, wshp of their Province. Their
desire was 10 smash the Union, az an initial nea-
sure ard IL 60 home leaving il smashed, as hnal
MEASURE. and compend of relief. A little practical
difficulty restrained them. The two Provinces had
joint property interests-@ere cOpartnefs 10 canals,
raihond,, pOs,-ofice establishment, aud the navi-
CATION of the river ST. Lawrence This tie loo'o
and readlustable, az sOme men might deem 1t. but
tighter than the GOrdi8n knot, held the two Pro-
vinces together. The six hundred Swallowed forth
their idea of central federal authority to manage
the joint property-sOmething strictly administra-
live, ord incapable of mischief from want OF
authority; and, after quiet but thorough talk OF
tWO-aDd-o-half days, went home TO their consti-
uents with their measure of relief. That was tn,
forma alton of two or more local Governments,
with that /" Central authority" loft somewhat
vague in the debate, because IT was difficult to
make il sufficiently weak and yet leave it power.
The epd is clear 10 see. a confederation Of States
"a R6Tublc-wl sEan British America from the
Pacific 10 the Atlantic. 4" BOUNDED on the north
BY tie Canadian Republic" is alteration TO be
some day made in the terminal description OF the
United States in our school biographies.
Two things we're noteworthy in this Canadian
DisuDiOn debate, within the convention Of the SIX
hundred and outside of it. The object ons to dis
union were that il would enlarge the liberty of the
Canadians, and give them nm impulse to democracy
that would probably be irresistible. The value of
tie Union as a clog upon freedom was freely be-
trayed by the Catholics of the Lower Province,
aid the aristOcrats of both. The practical TO-
stroDt UPON disunion, as summary as the cutting
Of rope, was that paramount consideration
smcrg meD--conyenience. ave Upper Canadians
"w8bt TO 60 to the Atlantic those Lower fellows
will want TO come up 10 the Lakes. We will
need 10 use their canals and they will have 10
"use ours. Letters will forever DO written back
ard forth between US, and railroad useful 10
both Of us runs through the territory Of each;
and, ON the whole, though they have tyrannlzed
'' over IA aud used us sbominnbly, we will MAN.
- tain political connection enough with them not TO
" hurt cur own interest"
principle lies beneath this fact, which it might
be profitable 10 study on the south side OF the 81.
Lawrence. political union between democratic
States, formed upon a representative basis, an
b. und by material interests is IN ts nature iDdis
aud eternalIy ndi.soluble. 1t
is susceptible OF chaDge-may be modified Over and
oyel-but destroyed il can never be.