The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21

the threat of war; But there will be no war.
The administration has only to be firm, and
the Spanish government and people will come
to their senses. The present excitement IN
Spain is simply little storm, which has been
raised probably for political effect, but which
will pass away and leave the horizon clear for
a settlement of the Cuban difficulty.
THE DOMINION NORTH OF US.
From the NJ Y. World.
The situation in the new Dominion north
of us is a very peculiar one. When the pact
of confederation was entered into by the
Canadas, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia,
it had the cordial consent of the home gov
ernment of Great Britain, for the following
reason-The home Government desired to
get rid of these American colonies, and be-
lieved that the consolidation would so
strengthen them in real power and self
esteem as that they would be then ready to
assume and maintain an independence which
could be yielded to them without dishonor by
the crown.
1t was q necessity to establish and foster an
intercolonial trade which should, partially at
least, take the place of the comparatively free
trade which the Canadas enjoyed with the
United States before the abolition of the Re
ciprocity treaty And of the proposed advan-
tages of the confederation, Canadian politici-
ans, merchants and financiers hoped to OBJ
into the confederation with similar objects,
though not without distrust of the result on
the part of a good many of her people.
Nova Scotia was betrayed into the confede-
ration by the votes of politicians who were
elected nearly two years before the question
came up
So, while nothing could have been better
devised for the prosperity of all the provinces
included deprived as they were of reciprocal
trade with us), no unanimity of energy or
sentiment resulted-no confidence and no
proud, patriotic feeling were engendered by
the fact of the Dominion. The Constitution
of the new Government was a hurriedly got
up, botched affair, leaving everything at the
mercy of the politicians who happened to be
in power. The most powerful politicians
were those of the Canadas The representa-
tives of the people of New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia in the Government and in Par
lament did not have the unmitigated conf
dence of their own neighbors and con-
| stituents.
The chronic discomfort of which we Just
now hear so much, therefore varies in degree
| and kind, according to locality. In Canada
| Cthe provinces of Quebec and Ontario) the
| young men are for the independence of the
| Dominion. The agitation for annexation to
the United States is confined to a class of
| second-rate politicians, scalawags, and no.
bodies. In New Brunswick, large and repu.
| table class but not a ma ority and in Nova
! Scotia, still larger and more discontented
| number, hate the Dominion and the Dominion
| government, and would hail, tomorrow, the
opportunity of going over to the United
| States.
There is in fact no homogeneity, no sym
| pathy, between the different provin ces Of the
| Dominion. Instead of these there is distrus
and rancor, and latent or active indisposi
10 .,.i,, hn,,l dc ,I la Of
The Governor Generals late tour through
the lower provinces rather excited and in
creased expressions of discomfort. Prnc
Arthur's visit has had no perceptble effec
upon the grumblers anywhere. He has beer
treated with great respect as the son of tn
Queen; but the grumbling continues all tn
same. The politicians are making, and will
make, the most of HIM, particularly in Ca
NADIA. There are plenty of persons who begal
as peddlers and would like to end as peers
and if q Vice-Royalty can be established il
the Dominion-with a colonial court an(
colonial titles-these persons will set it up ol
trial.
Meanwhile, the United States have tn
power to virtually decide the fate of thes
perturbed colonial communities. By wis
craftsmanship the Government at Washington
may foster such degree of intercourse be
tween the several ports of the Dominion an
ourselves as will enhance the prosperity O
the whole Dominion soften the present in
ter-colonial acerbities, and gradually enabl
the people of the Dominion to obtain an
maintain an independence of the mothe
country which would be alike agreeable an
prosperous to the English-speaking people o
this entire continent. Just now the Dominio
is not, as whole, in the mood to fall into ou
lap and would be, as whole, an inconve
nient burden. We may turn the Dominic
from an ally of Great Britain into friendl
and profitable neighbor, and by-and-by tn
time will come when by such an intercours
all preiudices and obstacles to a confeders
ton of the Dominion with the United State
will be rubbed away.