New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-20
CANADA. a.

CANADA.
Those who favor the policy of union with
Canada do not imagine that their purpose will
be accomplished in year or two. 1t is a work
requiring time. In the first place we have to
consider the manifest indsposition Of any class
of people to change their condition. The good
old conservative doctrine of letting well-enough
alone acts as kind Of anchor upon commune
ties, and as there are no manifest signs OF dis
comfort in Canada, the people would naturally
be disposed to remain Just where they are.
Another objection to union would arise from the
presence of the large body of English officials IN
the Provinces. The Governors and their stats,
the armies on full pay and nominal duty, the
Young noblemcn who flourish around the Cana
dian capitals with their stars and scarfs, and the
legion of English retainers, oifice-holders and
Office -seekers, and all who live in the sunshine
of official favor, would oppose union which
would send their stars, searfs and pageantry
home to England This class, which controls
the patronage Of Canada, has built up party o.
its own, has always repressed any feeling OF
sympathy with American Union, and ex
! aggerated in every way the dangers
OF connection with the Americans. When
the war came upon Us, and the South
threatened TO take hold of the Government,
this party became the great Secession party,
and did what it could 10 aid the Secessionists.
They even went so far as to hope that when
the Union was dissolved, the New England
States might even be induced to become a
Canadian ally, and that Massachusetts, would
find the protection Of Her Gracious Majesty
necessary TO save her from the aggressons Of a
new and wsrlike Republic. In vain Gods
DEGREES were otherwise written, and the dream
Of these gentlcmer eHded. Y.
Now the great dread is the National Debt.
80 Join with America" they eSclaiin-" and we
shall be ruined by the great War Debt There
! is something in this. The American debt islarge,
larger in figures and interest tables than most
of US imagine, and not to be paid in a short
time. Business men would not be very apt TO
enter INTO partnership with bankrupt house
and so Canada is told to beware of the Amer
lean Union. A Canadian paper m t ~. lnileres!
Of the English party, says Of America; The
lowest estimate admits that when the war debt
and expenses arc squared, the National Debt OF
F, the Union will be $4,000, DOC, 600, and the yearly
interest will be 100000 GOO or 81 per cent.
Other estimates are much higher" Argu-
ments like these eagerly copied from
. n poIu riv IA
the country and its obligations are
cast abroad over Canada, and have the desired
effect. At the same time we see newspapers
like The 81. Catherine Post confronting these
fabrications with plain facts aud showing that
the burdens of Canada are greater now as an
English Province than they would be as part
of the American Union. 1t is estimated that the
assessed value of the real and personal property
in Canada amounts to about $3.50, 200, OOO
which, added TO the $2I ,0OO, 600 900, the esti-
mated value of the real and personal property
in America would make the Canadian share of
il SOC, 000, 900, or a. The Post remarks, ICON
siderably less than the cost of Confederation,
including the Intercolonial Railway, the pur-
chase Of the marsh lands of Newfoundland and
the North West, the subsidies TO other maritime
provinces, Notifications, a., without any
equivalent whatever in return" The interest
the Canadas would have to pay would be a
little more than S3,000,00 or "probably as
much as they would have to pay yearly in in.
terest on cost and maintenance of the Inter.
colonial Railway alone"
The Canadas certainly find no nducement
to remain in colonial condition by the action
of the English authorities. Parliament has yir.
tually told them to take care of themselves, TO
build their own Notifications against the
Yankees, to keep their own ships on the lakes
if they want ships of war, and to expect nothing
but sympathy and a blockadng squadron
that would cost England more in year than
all her colonial dependencies. We have no in.
tcntion Of fighting Canada or England, but it is
very plain that the first effect of a war with
England would be to throw the Canadian Prov.
inccs right at the feet of America, to be terri
tories when peace came, and divided up accord
ing TO Congressional enactment, like the pos.
sessions that came to us from Mexico. Would
it not DO better to come into the Union at a
time whom they would be welcomed, and given
high place, and all the political owera accorded