New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-14

always retain the geographical area and cou'
Sguration they now present-that charges may
and will be made, in the interest OF human
we-being. May not such changes be enec'eo
without convulsion and blOodsbed we holo
that they may and should be. But ho"f Lev
us elucidate by examples:
North aud North-East Of the United States
stretches the vast area of British America, WIN
some Three Millions OF civilized inhabitants, ana
including q considerable extent OF fertile SOL
under cold vet tolerabc climate. We believe
this region, or at least the greater part OF H.
will ye. unite it's destinies with those OF our
own Republic. Its timber, its minerals, Its
fisheries, its agricultural capacities, must
render it of great value to US; It's nbsorp-
ton into our Union would utterly dispense
with two costly and vexatious lines OF Gus
tom.houses and reduce smuggling to mr-
imum; in short the region north and that
south Of the Great Lakes would both be
immensely benefited by such absorption. There
is hardly an acre Of the Cauada', Sick OF
timber in their interminable forests, that would
not be increased in value by their union with
the States. But, While we regard such union
as already desirable, Likely to become more
and more papably 30. and sure to be Ultimate
y effected, we protest against the conquest OF
Canada by this country and against any insur'
rection in the Provinces designed to terminate
by force their connection with Great Britain.
They have Free Schools, Free Speech ahd
Free Press; and these will suffice. In few
Years. they will have Ten Millions OF People;
and whenever Eight or Nine Millions OF them
earnestly desire to be released from their de-
pendence on Great Britain and Incorporated
into our Union, that earnest desire VIII surely
work ont its own satisfaction. Their govern
msnt by the present system will then be found
lnpracticablc, and the Mother Country VIII
gain peace, prosperity ana strength ny terin'
mating an outgrown connection. We see ind'
cations already that Great Britain will be
willing to relinquish her hold on the Colonies
quite as sooh as they will be prepared to re-
oice in and profit by such surrender. Hence
we hold insurrection to effect the transfer IN
ouestiou at once blunder and crime.
Take the case Of our own Pacific empire
rs further Illustration. No doubt, the fevpie
of California and Oregon are to-day loyal ana
(eryent in their devotion to the Union. But
they arc mainly natives Of tho Atlantic OK
Culf States-s. bone of our bone and Gesh oi
our Hesh"-and their loyalty is matter OF
education Of feeling, and Of habit. Fifty years
hence. when our Pacific coast shall have
population Of Ten or Twelve Millions, mainly
born on that slope. it will be very different.
With that population, Union or Separation will
be A question of material advantase-of SO much
for SO much--and the little poetry that still in
vests and hallows their connection with the
Great Republic will be harshy dispeed BY the
rirst clash Of opposing iDterests. In our judg-
ment, if the present generation should not, by
constructing Pacific Railroad, practically
annihilate the thousand miles Of dreary desert
that nov separates the Atlantic from the
Pacific States the next will see rival Con-
fcderacy on the shores of tho Pacific, perhaps
reaching 40 far east as the Colorado if not to
The CTests OI ltoch. N"un'ai"''
Now, should the time arrive in our day when
the great body of the People of our Pacific
States shall Say deliberately, kindly, firmly, to
those this side OF the Rocky Mountains, " You
are stronger than we-Older, more wealthy,
more powerful-but we ask you to let us go;
for we believe We can do better by Ourselves
than with you've shall respond, and urge
others to respond, $50 in peace, and Heavens
blessing attend you" We believe that is the
right, the wise, the Christian answer to such
a request, and that the world will yet perceive
and recognize the truth. But if the demand for
separation were that Of violent, domineerng
faction only-a faction suppres.ing all adverse
opinion by menace and violence, denouncing all
whose hearts cluDg to the old Union rs trai-
tors and Tories, carrying elections at the point
of the Bowe-lnife, and seizing the mints,
sub.treasuries, forts, armories, &c, of the Re-
public in order to arm themselves for rebellion,
corrupting our military officers, and through
their treachery making prisoners of the
soldiers raised, equipped, and paid by us
for their defense against savage foes, and
by all manner of fraud, falsehOod and Outrage,
compelling the timid and irresolute to plunge
into rebellion as tho only path Of safety, and
finally commencing open war ON the Nation
when it had not yet fired shot in it's own
deiense-why then We should hold it the i'm
peraive dictate of National honor, dignity aud
self-respect, to chastise the scoundres that had
thus wantonly inaugurated Civil War, and teach
their dunea that il ia 10 ipht matter to Lift I'D