The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-17

its importance 20 the United States should 4
it be, as now seems more than probable, au- !
nexed to this republic Our correspondent
reports that the agents Of the Hudson Bay /
Company are busily engaged MISUNDERSTANDING
the insurgents and attributing their present |
belligerent attitude to difficulties arising from
church matters. The falsity of these reports |
must be apparent TO all who are familiar with |
the causes which have brought about the |
insurrection in the Red River territory. II is
not improbable that Governor McDougall's
policy was q conciliatory one; and if the
statement be correct that he is an advocate of
the annexation of British America to the
United States,it is evident that he is a man of
sound Judgment in some respects But
neither conciliation nor advocacy of political
union between our Government and the
Canadian Dominion can do away with the
merits of the revolutionists' cause Their
interests imperatively demanded that some
steps be taken to avert the ruin that the rule
of Canada would entail upon them With q
vast amount of pluck they resorted to force
rather than submit to the Canadians. Their
ardent desire to become citizens of this re-
public, and the efforts they afe making to
this end, fully attest their sincerity and
earnestness
That the end of this popular revolutionary
| movement on our northwestern frontier must
| be the absorption of the territory by us, any
| person conversant with our history will not
| deny. 1t therefore becomes a matter Of more
| than ordinary interest to the American people
to know that the climate and agricultural and
mining resources of Rupert's Land, which in
cludes the Red River or Winnipeg country,
are admirably adapted to the wants of man.
1t may be true that great portion of the ter
ritory sis occupied by lakes, forests, and i'm
| passable tracts of snow and ice;" but there
| are three hundred and fifty thousand square
| miles of prairie or natural meadow land" of
the richest character, and capable of yielding
larger crops than the land of many of our
States does. The difficulties attendant upon
transportation are the present great drawback
to the comfort and prosperity of settlers.
There are no railroads there, and even the
ordinary highways are of the most rugged
description. These disadvantages are inherent
to all countries sparsely populated. Many
persons are living now who remember when
| Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and most of our
| other Western States were vast tracts of ter
| ritory, uninhabited save by nomadic Indians
and adventuresome hunters The present
population of the Red River territory is small
in numbers and somewhat motley in national
| ity 1t comprises mainly Americans English,
Scotch, and French, the 'half breeds" or the
offspring of the Caucasian and Indian, pre-
dominating. OF these people our correspond
ent writes at length, and his account of them
will be found especially entertaining. The
trade of the territory is also referred to, en-
abling rs to form some idea of the business
transactions of that tremendous monopoly
the Hudson Bay Company. Before many
months can pass away we hope to see the
ardent desire of the people gratified and to
welcome another star in the galaxy of States.
WHO KILLED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF NEW YORK?
From the NJ Y. Sum-
Is the Republican press of this city to
blame for the chickering's and the impotence
of the Republican party here? We answer
decidedly that it is not; and we speak with the
more readiness because we do not belong to
the Republican press, and judge of the Re-
publican party, as of all other parties, from
its character and its acts, and not as if the
San were one of its organs.
The Boston Transcript denounces the quar-
rels, mismanagement, and weakness of the
party in this city, and AYERS that ''the con-
ductors of the New York Republican news
papers are responsible for this condition of
things" This is nonsense. What Republi-
can newspaper is it that has put great offices
here, that should have controlled and built
up the party, into improper hands? What
Republican newspaper has sold the Republi-
can organization to Tammany Hall? What
newspaper has broken the party into three or
four conflicting factions What newspaper
has employed Democratic repeaters to carry
Republican primary elections? These are the
evils that make the party here byword. They
are connected together, and should have been
cured together. But it has not been done.
and probably cannot be.
1t is not the Republican newspapers that
have broken down Republicanism in this city
and State. 1t is General Grant He is the
assassin of the Republican party in New
York, and he has done his work thoroughly
and well. 1t was weak before he took it in
hand; he might have made it strong and sue
cessful instead of that he has knocked it IN
the head