The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-17
CANADA's oHAGRIN.

From the NJ y. World
The annexation of Canada is discussed with
such earnestness by the radical press In the
United States that the Canadians, IL they were
of less phlegmstic turn, might well begin
to shiver in their shoes. Whatever NAV be
the secret convictions of intelligent Canadians
in regard to the policy of the proposed mea.
sure, there can be no doubt that the preju.
dices of the Canadian people are very strongly
against 1t. The Toronto Leader, speaking in
behalf of this prejudice alone, affects to deride
the annexation talk on both sides of the bor-
der:-"Not the rawlings of a silly New Bruins
wicker, nor the unnatural excitement of the
Nova Scotsns, nor any number of annexation
letters or dubious editorials" says the Leader,
"are true indices of an annexation feeling In
Canada. There is no such feeling. An odd
person here and there may be fool enough to
pIate 1t. But the heart of the country is
sternly opposed to 1t. 1t loves monarehical
institutions; II venerates the mother country"
All which leads us to infer that Canada is
rather alarmed and stirred mp by this subject
already-as, indeed, she may be. when she
duly considers her unfortunate dependence
upon the mother country, and the fact that
the United States Government, as admins
tered by an ambitious military President, is
currently reported to intend to accept or
snatch the new Dominion as moderate off
set to the Alabama claims. President Grants
in the Worlds Washington correspondence
some days ago. and the tone of radical jour
mails like the Tribune, Herald, Times, Phila-
delphia Inquirer, and Cincinnati Commercial,
indicates that those propsnsities are not alto
gether unpopular, Under the circumstances,
the best recommendations we can offer to the
Canadian press is that it devote itself, not to
vain protests against destiny which it might
| be impossible to avert, but to an Immediate
| systematic "cryipg up" of the value of that
| territory as dwelling place for good Ameri-
| cans. BY this means the newspapers of the
| period In the New Dominion will obtain far
| more subscribers, and the land owners of the
| period many more shekels for acres, when
| annexation is a fact and the hordes of New
England shall pour across the border, than
they otherwise will.
THE HAYTlEN PROJECT AND ITS IN
FLUENCE.
From the NJ y. Times
Although with the adjournment of Congress
the Hsytien project, in It's triple guise of pro-
lection, purchase, and annexation came to
an end, yet SO did not, probably, its insidious
influence. We shall almost certainly see it
again next December; for familiarity with a
proposition, however odious, often paves the
way to success, especially if the right, sort OF
details are made manifest and the right sort
concealed. 1t Is in politics, sometimes, as in
the poets line, we first "endure, then pity, then
embrace" and it is something Of triumph for
the San Domingo project that We have been
| able to "endure."
OF course we do not mean to assert that in
politics, as in physics, the axiom that "aetion
and reaction are equal and in opposite direc-
tions," is msthemstically true; on the con-
trary, we hardly believe any "reaction'' next
year regarding the Banks project will induce
Columbia to embrace as her children the sons
OF Hayu and daughters of Domingo. Still,
the rebuff Of the last session will not insure
the abandonment of the misohievous project,
which is more likely to be held in abey-
ancs till something favorable "turns up"
Now, exactly how much humbug there Is In
the Hayti business, and how much swindle in
the St. Domingo, it is hard to say. We only
| know that it has been pressed unblushingly,
despite universal popular disapproval; and We
know that the very presentation Of such pro.
jects Injuries our credit and good repute in the
eyes of the world. 1t is with reason that the
| London Times declares that sit is through
such discussions in the House as that on the
protectorate of Hsyti and st. Domingo that
the American character is inexperienced;
and it is truth which we feel quite as keenly
as do transatlantic observers, that "the sound
conclusions of the majority are scarcely able
to eface the memory Of the wild theories
! that are broached, and apparently received
with respect until the final decision is ex-
pressed"
The truth is-and 1t Is a very annoying and
shameful one-that the lobbies of the national
Legislature have come to be the resort of all
classes OF foreign as we'll as native schemers.
Baez, for example, takes it for granted that by
adroit management he can foist off San Do
mipgo upon as, and il not that, then at least
Samana, in order to replenish his exhausted
treasury, and thereby maintain some time
longer his insecure seat. That the protecto-
rate proposition is Overwhelmingly defeated,
that the purchase project is not even ventured
that the annexation resolution is not suffered
to come to vote, are facts which do not de-
stroy the bad moral influence exhaled by the
very reception and discussion of such schemes
In the House.