The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-21
The Canadian Question.

Canadian independence, either absolute,
or as a means of attaining annexation to-
the United States, has passed from a ia
booed subject IN Canada to the most prom
inent topic of the hour, though still care
fully and guardedly discussed. Mr.. John
Young, in his recent speeches at Quebec
and Halifax, argued that, if her people
wiled, Canada would become an inde.
pendent power with the consent of Eng
land Sir John Rose, who is about re-
moving to New York to enter a firm OF
bankers and brokers in Wall Street, at
farewell dinner gwen him at Montreal,
was guarded, and advised that they
should not be too eager and impatient
to anticipate their destiny which, IN
spite of his own intent, only shows that
there is strong latent eagerness and i'm
patience on the part Of the Canadi'n
people TO anticipate some destiny wh4el
Is either independence or annexation.
The Hon. L. S. Huntingdon, IN recent
speech before an Agricultural Society, at
Bedford, spoke as follows OF the supp
sed advantages of the connection between
Canada and Great Britain:
=" l am inquiring after the special ad
yanta ges of the connection. These are not
to be found in our commercial intercourse,
for mere we are left to compete against
the world 1t is not that her abundant
capital, attracted by our loyalty and affec-
ton, flows in upon US because we are
dependency, to develop our resources and
to awaken the hum of industry along our
shores for that capital seeks only safe
return of its investments, and it is often
drawn where it is better rewarded among
strangers 1t is not that the prestige OF
the connection gives us a position among
the people of the earth for our powers
ar merely local and municipal, and bear
che faint of lnferlorlty and dependence.
There remains, therefore, but one edvan
tage, and we end d, Mr.. Cameron began
for us-the advantage ofthe connection is
narrowed to the solitary matter of defence,
an We shall see, as we proceed, that even
this is OF doubtful utility. Defence presup-
poses attack, which we have only to
dread from our Republican neighbors.
But the difficulties W tn tn m are always
Of an Imperial character Tie Trent af
fair, the Alabama claims, the Irish Fen
ian Qnarrel with England, were all as
foreign to us as the China seas, and inter
ested US only in the consequences. 1t is
Liverpool or Dublin, for hundred reas
cns, but especially because they are part
OF the British Hes, and are represented IL
the British Parliament. We have no
voice, and cannot influence the foreign
policy of the empire. There is only for
US the duty If awaiting till WIZ is de-
clared, and the luxury of becoming the
field of blood, the theatre of desolation"
When Canadians begin thus to compute
the financial advantages Of the connection
with great Britain, it cannot take them
long to learn that che legislation which
really affects their interests most poten-
fatally for good or i'll, transpires at Wash
mgtou and not at London. This beng
SO, the only remaining question is wheth-
el 1t is better to remain at the outer gate
tor the crumbs, or to come in and 81,
down at our table, to be represented in
the Washington lobby by special agents"
or in the Senate and House by twenty or
thirty Senators and Congressman