The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-05-22
rHaAnNExAr1oN OF CANADA.


Itwould seem that the Canadians do no
all boast Of being the Queens own. In
New Dominion 10 not accepted as the mos
uerfect and desirable Of Colonial devices b,
the ent;,e body of Her Majesty's suject
who dwell upon our northern border. Doubt
lees the extreme loyalty of the office hold
srs and their irrepressible Tory. adherents i.
intensified by the investiture of second hanG
royalty but the people are becoming FESTIVE
under the restraints and expenses Of gov
eminent in which they havs- 40 Par. and for
Which they have more taxes than sympathy
The Canadas would not now, probably, by
popular vote, decide in favor of ahne xation
to the United States ;, but-tne agitation of
this step has taken an exceedingly lively
form, and there is, doubtless, steady aug
mentation of the party which favors it.
There are many Signs Of the Times ITO
warrant US in this opinion The British
Minister to this country, Mr. Thornton, being
about to visit Canada to ac9uaint himself
with regard to the prevailing sentiments
there. The Montreal Star, a daily paper of
large circulation and muck influence. talks
IS follows:
"Mr. Thornton will see a country 5000
miles from England more Tory than the
strictest Conservative, and clinging to the
name of a connection which carries as much
practical significance as the He facet on a
nameless grave: a country with the finest
water-pcser in the world holding, like
geographical ponrif, the Keys which unlock
the Ocean and the Inland, which open the
great gate through which pass the manufaet-
ures of one continent, and the corn Of an
other. and which commands the great high
way between Europe and Asia. And
country which, while possessing these treas
ures. like cock on a dunghiil, would give
them all for a grain of barley: A country
where all the business is done on credit,
where ten per cent of its tradesmen are in
solvents spualy, where for miles one may
ride BY depopuiated farms, whose starving
inhabitants have emigrated BY thousands,
and whose population is decreasing at the
rate of SO. 00u-a year per million: A country
ruled by Government, oanl. and a rail-
vay-a Ministry whose policy is Self and
whose Practice is Jobbery-and a mass of
prominent citizens running to a railway
ish intensity Of so many ours after a spaniel.
Mr.. Thornton will find all these phenomena
sprin cing FROM one cause-British connec-
siop"
There must be some serious cause for so
bold an expression of feeling as this. 1. lis
evident that there are some earnest, capable
thinkers in the New Dominion who are de-
tcrmined to compass the annaiment Of the
present disastrous, unnecessary and unnat--
ural relationship existing between Canada
and the British Government. Toryism cam
not but reta-d the life of 4 new country and
the fact that it has been SO long dominant
in Canada explains the appearance of age
and decline 50 wildly sketched in the fore
going and 50 evident to visitors frsm the
United States. Canada has accepted the
grandeur and simmer of an aristocratieal
government long enough to illustrate to its
more Independent thinkers that loyalty is
incompatible with taat general prosperity
which follows unrestrained enterprise and
! liberal public policy. We are prepared
for such an announcement as the
from the Washington Chronicle Of
he 18th inst:
Intelligence received in this city states that
majority of the anti-unionists, or repealers,
10 they are called, of Canada, will early ia
he summer openly advocated the annexation
4 the New Dominion to the United States.
\ general anti-union convention is to be 1
.eld in June, and at that time the annexa-
ion party IL to develop itself. Meantime the
.embers of the anti-union party are being
ounded privately as to their views on annex
tion, so as to make the party in favor of it
IS imposing. as possible at the start, and to
ave n proper understanding in advance.
here is evidence to show that annexation is
. be the dividing and Controlling issnc in
4 Canadian politics for some time to come.