Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-03-02

III
quote these remarkable passages:
ask years ago no human being could
have imagined the present condition OF
the United States. But if no one would
now venture to forecast the future des-
tiny of the States, as little car we assign
now for that long fringe of the Old Do
minion which Providence has mysteri-
ously left athwart the New World. IT
all things have their purposes, what Is
the purpose Of this remnant? We
answer nothing; but, with no future we
cau shape before US, we reply that our
regard for our fellow subjects is proved
BY its endurance when all selfish schemes
OF colonial power and imperial vanity
have passed away. .ah'
"By a growth aud enlargement as
simple and natural as that Of their W
forest trees, the British North American
Colonies have burst bond after bond,
till their position is rather that of friend
ly allies than Of the partakers Of even a
federal tie. For this result, indeed,
some preparation was made, from the
very beginning, in the jealousy which
refused to the Colonies the least share
in the government or legislation of the
Mother Country. But n by one the
Colonies cast off the dominion Of a IA
vored Church, the tyranny of q clique
of loyal jobbers, the preponderance Of
imperial influence in the struggles of
colonial party, and everything that in
terfered with the absolute right Of self
government and free action. For all
those practical purposes which weigh
more and more in the mutual relations Of
independent States, these Colonies are
now their W masters, and are fully
capable.of protecting their own inter-
ests. They meet US with hostile tariffs,
as they have a perfect right to do, and,
on the other hand, they drive no small
profit from the financial difficulties Of
their highly taxed neighbor.
Then, it so happens, for good or for
i'll, we see and know singularly little Of
| Of our own Colonies, having to seethem
as it were, through the vail of the inter-
posing States. Our social link is rather
with the States, or political rather with
the Colonies. The spontaneous devel-
opmeut of hat community which we
see and knew we cannot doubt. As lit
tie ought we doubt that of the Colonies,
made Of much the same materials, d.
verging, indeed, somewhat at the same
passage OF their history, but following
the same laws of social change as their
neighbor. 1t is then utterly useless, a
| wild assumption Of forethought and an
impious pretension Of power, to say
what line this country will take in the
emergencies into which this practically
independent Power-now bound by a
common personal allegiance-may some
| day precipitate itself. Tell US what it
will be and what it will do, and perhaps
we might attempt to guess; but no n
| can tell us this, and we therefore are
not possessed with the conditions upon
which any attention is to be framed or
any promise made.
"But if the practical independence Of
| these Colonies be now established and
inviolable, if their spontaneous growth
can not be arrested, if their ~self-action
can not be controlled or their public
opinion so much as influenced by this
country, it certainly behooves them to
consider we'll, and in good time, the
very great difficulties and onerous con-
ditions under which the Imperial con-
nexion is maintained.
That conRerion noto costs US the Gbstrdc-
zion Of $4,000 soldiers from a military
force Which re are told on all sides is in
adequate TO the ]pretensions to be maintained
and the york TO be done. 1t costs them
separation BY the breadth Of An ocean,
and the insulation Of the greater part
of them in the heart of a continent. 1t
costs us the perpetual observation Of a
frontier which stretches from n ocean
to another. II costs US that large pro-
portion of our navy which, on any emer-
gency, would have to be detached for
this work. It costs US the perpetual
weakness we suffer in comparison with
our neighbors or rivals, far or near, BY
the notoriety Of his necessary deduction
from our ~disposable power. This is
what it costs us, and to the Colonies
themselves it costs ever more. Though
| they would have us to bear the brunt,
the quarrel, if any, would be with US,
and u conuexion would be the politi-
cal weakness through which they could
be invaded. Any question in which
they may happen to have absolutely no
concern, may become the occasion Of an
attack which, if not fatal to their indie
p~endence, will have to be resisted at
fearful odds, or bought off by intoler-
able penalties. In any possible conflict
with their neighbors, they will be the
dwarf and England the giant of the
fable, and no victory whatever will com-
pensate for the actual injuries that the
weaker may have to pay for it. These
are considerations that would hardly
have been applicable in the good old
days of Imperial unity and Colonial de-
pendence. But they are everything
now" '
Plainly the Time, is manufacturing
public opinion to let the Colonies slide,
and "the signs of the Times are that
Canada will, before this generation
passes away, be independent; and, now
that slavery is at an end, and slave
politics also finished, the inducement,
if w speedily put ourselves in good
financial condition, to the Canadian
States to become Of the United States,
would be very great; and the impulse
Of the Canadian people to be partners
in the power and sharers of the prestige
of the Great Republic, would become
irresistible. With the South recon-
structed and Canada annexed, the
growth Of the population by emigration
and natural increase for q few years,
would make US not only of the great
Powers, but the first Power upon the
globe; and this now seems "manifest
destiny"
NEVER attempt to strike the guilty
where, by a misdirected or too hasty a
blow, the innocent, the gallant, and the
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