New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-13
ANNExArIoN oF oArAnA

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| A bill has been introduced into CONGRESS,
for the admission Of the British provinces into
the federal Union. Mr. Banks of Massa-
ehusetts reported the bill from the committee
on foreign affairs Mr.. Banks IS the gentle
man once known as General Banks, and who
after career of brilliant failure as a military
chieftain finally settled down to the practice o.
the law in New Orleans, and declared, in {
speech last year, that he considered himself
citizen Of Louisiana. Either, however. tht
quendam general found that nobody else con
sidered him a citizen of Louisiana, or he dis
covered that there were, in point Of fact, nc
| citizens at all in this State for simmediately
after making this announcement he returned
to The congenial rocks of Massachusetts and
was thence semitic Congress. He seems to
have forgotten, by this time his citizenship OF
Louisiana to have forgotten even that there
is q State of Louisiana. At all events he has
for several months stfoutly denied that there
is any such State, which accounts, we. pre-
sumo for his haste to introduce the
Canadas to supply the hiatus caused
by the extrusion of the South from the federal
Union. But what is remarkable is that the
bill just introduced into Congress does not i'm
pose on the contemplated States the ratifea-
ton of the constitutional amendment as a con-
dlSion precedent to admission Tt does mott
even require the acknowledgements Of negroes.
OF whom there are many thousands in Canada.
On the contrary, it proposes to pay out Of the
United States treasury a large sum of money
for railway improvements and to assume the
provincial debts From all Of which il Mainly
appears that what is remarkably fine samoa TO-
the Southern goose, is no sauce at ali for 10
Canadian gander.
The main object is, by the terms Of the bill
to be obtained by the joint and voluntary
action of Great Britain and the Provinces
This being obtained, the list Of States is to be
enriched by the addition of Nova Scotia. New
Brunswick, Canada East and Canada West :.
and Of territories by selkirk, Saskatchewan
and Columbia Thus, while eleven Southern
States, which are legally in the Union. are to
be kept foroibIy out, arrangements are made to
bring IN four others which have never asked
to be admitted.
E NeAe'AAiN2o 10 bilA1 dllDL1lGi liluSLfQ-
lon o. l the arrogance and presumption which
MARKS everything coming from such sources
as Banks and his associates. We are s,n-
prlsed to see that the New York News thinks
u hardly possible that the COMMITTEES 81,
foreign affairs would have authorized M
Banks INKS to report the bill unless thew wars :,
possession Of positive information wbicb |
|oald justify them in submitting the prorosi
tlon q her maiesty's government and Il tba
people OF the proyinces,n On the contrary Il
IS only Characteristic Of those persons to fancy
hat all she rest Of the world is anxiouslv DE-.
irous Of lNaying homage to their sagacity and
irtue, and Ashat the people Of the British prr.
inces tired of governing themselves are 90.
ag to beg tho radicals of New England b
ssume the care and direction of their affairs
tut there is no Indication that any such hal /
lcination has yet Seized on the Canadians