The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-25
ANNEXATION.
From the N. Y. Sun.

Senator Pomeroy of Kansas offered in the
Senate on Thursday last resolution request
ing the President to open negotiations with
the Government of Great Britain, to ascer-
tain whether the British North American pro-
vinces can be annexed to the United States
upon terms honorable to both parties This
proposition is probably regarded as wise
one by some of the more ardent and thought
less among our people. We observe also
that a movement in favor of annexation is
going on in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Societies are organized, public meetings
are held, speeches are made, and pam
phlets in favor of annexation are distri-
buted. tf..9 ..-r...,.-.. -. -
All this is so much labor lost, especially
the resolution of Senator Pomeroy; it can
come to nothing Great Britain cannot con-
sent to the annexation of her colonies to the
United States, and the efforts of the friends
of annexation on the north of the border will
all be of no avail, except SO far as they may
influence public opinion in their own neigh
borhood.
The destiny of the North American prov
inces is independence. They are separated
from the United States by the great lakes in
the centre, and by the st. Johns and the st.
Francis rivers on the east. They have every
resource necessary for the establishment of an
independent power. They have a Constitu-
ton formed for this very purpose, and capa-
BILE, like the Constitution of the United
States, of indefinite expansion over new
provinces aR1 territories Great Britain has
already procis Red her desire to see them set
up upon their Swn account, and take place
in the family II nations. AS they now stand,
they are to her cause of great weakness;
and were they separated from her and Termed
| nto friendly State, with republican, aris-
| ocratic or monarchical government, the
trength and security of the parent country
would be much increased She has accord
! ngly of late improved every proper oppor-
tunity to stimulate them to such a policy.
| There is no doubt that whenever they may
resolve to enter upon it, she will afford them
| every possible facility and advantage. This
then is what they ought to do, and what pa
triotic men within their borders and judicious
men without ought to urge upon their con-
| sideration.
| The idea of annexing these provinces to
| the United States, however much it may fiat
| ter the vanity of theorizing statesmen among
ourselves, or however agreeable it may be to
! impatient spirits in the provinces, is entirely
impracticable. The majority of the people
north of the line are opposed to it, and cannot
be brought to favor it; and the pride and
| prestige of Great Britain render it equally
inadmissible. Let this notion, then, be dis
missed so far as possible from the minds of
practical politicians everywhere; let the pro-
vinces enter upon their career of indepen-
dence, and let us here in the United States
give them all suitable encouragement and
aid in taking this great step. No feelings
but those of friendship ought to be cultivated
between the two countries We are neigh
bors, and our interests in many respects are
identical. With independence, our relations
must become much more intimate; and the
sooner the new nation is formed and put in
motion the better for the Canadas the better
for England, and the better for the United
States.