The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-01-04
The Hon. Joseph Howe and the Can.
ada DOminfon.

There has been q strong effort In the Canadian
Dominion Commons to incorporate British Co
lumbia Into the confederation. An Ottawa cor
respondent of the st. John IN. b. Globe says:
sThe important State reasons to which Mr.. Cartier
referred last night, as making II desirable that
the matter should be settled during the present
session, refer no doubt principally to the efforts
Mr.. Seward IL making to secure the territory,
and TO the fear that the British Government will
transfer II to him." The Hon. Joseph Howe,
from Nova Scotia, opposed the measure In the
Commons, in a mastery argument. He said:
'They were told what the United States had
done-how they had bought up everything In
their way, and had gone ahead at tremendous
rate, but the United States had a population OF
0,ooo, 1000 before they had purchased a single
acre. The territories purchased by the United
States lay close to no enterprising neighbor.
We were asked to buy q country every road to
which was dominated by another Power. Wealth
and trade on one side-poverty and desoiation
on the other When the United States annexed
Texas her population was 100000. When she
annexed California and Northern Mexico-dis-
tricts outlying as Is this from ourselves-her
population was q, 900 900. The speculation which
was wise and just In man worth twenty -four
millions would be madness In man not worth
tenth of the money. When we by
pursuing such schemes as this, which would add
ton up to that of the United States, there would
be many who would long for a connection with
that country"
The Canada parliament has closed Its first SEES
sion, and the members from New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia have returned home more disguised
than ever with confederation, and Nova Scotia
has prepared memorial to the Queen, asking
to be released from the Union. Howe Is the
leader Of the opposition. A more able states
man, It Is conceded, there Is not in the Dominion
and he and the people Of Nova Scotia are de.
termined to get out of It, peaceably II possible,
or forcibly II necessary. Mr.. Howe, though
hitherto a thoroughly loyal man, Is an ardent
admirer of the American Republic His sor
fought In our late war for the stars and stripes
and Is now a resident with US; and It Is no
among the improbable events that his father ant
his colony may soon apply for admission int
the Union.
We have few able statesmen In America, an,
the State Of Acadia, with Its coal, iron, gold an,
fisheries, added to the Union. and Howe, as on
Of its representatives In our Senate, would be al
acquisition at once ereditable to ourselves an,
every way beneficial to both the new State an
the Republic.
The papers and the people In Nova Scotia ar
almost unanimously opposed to the Dominion
as II was sprung upon them without their con
sent, and has caused their taxes to be double
without affording them any corresponding con
meroisl advantages. A gentleman recently rt
turned to Washington from the maritime pre-
vinces, says that the feeling Of dissatisfaotion
very general In New Brunswick, while In Nov
Scotia two thirds OF the people prefer a unio
with the States before confederation with Canads