The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-10
New Excitement In Canadn--How the
Grand Trunk Corporation Is Squeezing
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political results. The immediate effect seems
to be The probable abrogaton of the existing
reciprocity treaty with us, and the ultimate,
tie possible annexation of Canada TO the United
States.
Our Washington correspondence refers to
the efforts that are being made to divert
the trade Of Western Canada and our
Northwestern States through the CONNER
cial channels of Lower Canada; and we
reprint to-day in another column an arti-
Gle trom the Toronto Globe commenting on
The effects which these efforts are producing on
the practical working of the reciprocity treaty
with this country. 1t refers to the fact that Mr..
Batch has lately been appointed by the Presi-
dent 10 examine into the causes of the general
dissatisfaction existing all along our northern
frontier in view of the altered character of the
reciprocity treaty by the recently adopted
tariff Of the British provinces north of us.
When that tariff was enacted the HERALD
pointed out the peculiar character of its proyi-
sions, and showed how it was made to bear ia
vorably on certain interests of private nature.
The fact is, both Upper and Lower Canada
are fast becoming the mere instruments of a
vast moneyed corporation which extends its
notifications to both sides Of the Atlantic The
Grand Trunk Railroad holds continuous line
Of communication from Detroit through Upper
Canada to Montreal, and thence over the At
lantc and st. Lawrence Railroad-which it has
leased for ninety nine years-to Portland,
Maine; and it is prosecuting its schemes every
where to divert trade and travel into its own
channels. For this it has procured the passage
of the new tariff act by tie Canadian Legisla-
turc, thus cutting Off the trade TO New York, as
pictured by the Toronto Globe, and endanger-
ing the very existence of the reciprocity treaty
For this it has advanced a portion Of the money
that was necessary to complete the Great East
ern, making il a strict condition of the bargain
that the ocean monarch should 60 to Port
nd--the ocean terminus of its vast line. For
this it has taught the English press to regret, as
one of the journals recently expressed il, ''that
the Ashburton treaty had given up to the United
States so large portion Of the State of Name
with the magnificent harbor of Portland
For this it is stimulating the British govern
ment to survey and open the summer route to
the Pacific ocean, along the Saskatchewan val
ley, and to quarrel with us now for the island
Of San Juan, which happens to command its
outlet through Puget Sound and the Strait of
Fuca.
Thus is this great railroad corporation with
out soul, and looking only to the selfish prose-
cution of its own interests. twining its boa CON
strictor folds around Lower and Upper Canada,
and casting its slime over the relations be-
tween both the Provinces and the mother coun
try and the United States. It's policy has de-
stroyed the popular satisfaction that existed
with the reciprocity treaty, and it aims at de-
stroying the treaty itself, as the large trade OF
Upper Canada with New York will then be
forced to seek an ocean outlet through Mon
treal and Portland, and pay tribute to the lines
of the Grand Trunk Railroad The Globe
opines that Messrs Gait and Rose seek to carry
out their old scheme of annexation by enforc-
ing their present unpopular commercial policy.
Messrs. Gait and Rose are active men of the
poltico commercial school, and if the Globe
will look little deeper into their motives, we
think it will find that they are intimately con-
nected with the managers of the Grand Trunk,
and that they have no design Of pushing their
old schemes through such deep policy as is
intimated. They merely wish to make the Pro-
vinces tributary to the corporation they be-
long to, and if the Upper Canadians do not
move soon and sturdily in the matter the
schemers will succeed in their projects.
They should move at once, and in various
directions. By agitation they should show to
their own people how their interests are being
intrigued and bartered away; they should send
commission here to confer with our New
York merchants, who are deeply interested
that the people of Upper Canada should have
free transit to the nearest ocean port; they
should send committee to Washington to ex-
plain to the Cabinet the true state Of affairs
before it resolves to recommend to Congress
the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty; they
should send an agent to London to open the
eyes of the government and people of England;
and they should declare their unhesitating de-
termination not to be made the serfs and tri-
butaries Of selfish moneyed corporation. A
few months, and it may be too late. What does
Upper Canada say?
The TERRY-BRoDERfcK DuEIe--SoCETY AND
Politics IN CALIFoRNIA.-The result of the hos
tile meeting between Judge Terry and Senator
Broderick, mentioned yesterday, and given more
in detail to-day, is one of the consequences
of the present peculiar state Of society in Cali
fornia. There has been no State in the Union
where SO large a population has been so sud-
denly developed as in that territory. The
peculiarly of its character, and the continual
activity and constant excitability of the people
Of that region, growing out Of sudden &C
QUESTIONS of wealth, have led to more gam
bling, more insanity, more dues, more murders,
more crime, than have characterized any