New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-25
DIR CANAnLlN FRIENDS.

Orr Northern and NORTHEASTERN neiehbor'
who hold (as we do) that dc fusion OF British
America with the United States would signally
benefit all concerned, appear unable to com
rehcnd the seeming apathy where'9i'h the
sabicct is regarded and treated by most of us.
They ask, "What are you doing in the States
"to secure or hasten Annexation I" "Noth'ne"
"What are you intending to dol" Nothing
own you help defray the inevitable cost OF g
"systematic canvass OF the Provinces in behalf
/" of Annexation 2" Not cent for that, nor
"to sustain journals advocating Annexation.
ain short, we will do nothing whence il can
"be inferred or argued that Annexation is
"more desirable to us than to You"
Oar Canadian friends should understand us
4 monarchy may acquire new subjects; re-
public can only receive an accession OF clilz9ns
If Canada shall unite Lor dcstines with OuIa,
her people will have exactly the same rights
and privileges as the rest OF us-ncithcr less
nor more Her Public Debt will of course be-
come ours also; and we regard her a. quite rs
deeply in debt, all things considered, as we
are. That is to sly her Debt makes as heavy
an annual draft, all things considered, upon her
industry and capital as ours docs upon the
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Navy, Public Buildings, FOrtiications, Light
Houses, Nayy-Yarls. &c, &c, are of greater
Yrcporrtonatc value than hers.
! We do not doubt Tat our people would be
icnally benefited by Annexation. 1t would
! greatly reduce the cost of collecting our
| Revenue from Imports, and preclude much
Certifying AID GrniDE on our Northern from
tier 1t would groatly diminish the chances of
collision with Grelt Britain and the sacri-
fees required Of either nation by War, in case
| War with that country shall ever again
befall us. 1t is thoroughly understood on all
sides that an overture from the Canadas to
| this republic looking TO union would be promptly
and heartily responded to.
| But, in the absence of such overture, we
dcprecate agitation or effort in the States
with a view to Annexation, as inevitably pre-
| judicial to the end it meditates. Whatever is
! done here, or i'll the Canadas under inspiration
from orr side, cannot fail to embitter prcju-
dice, inflme jealousy, and excite hostility,
across the Lakes. If Annexation is ever to be
effected it will be not by reason but in spite OF
whatever may be done or instigated by our
people to hasten it.
If well let alone by us, it cannot be pre-
| NCnJeu. lnCIc Is not II pine Ill tHc NdbO pilil-
tive forests of the Dominion not an acre Of
Canadian tillage, not an available waterfall
! not front on a Dominion harbor, that woulC
not be worth far more the day after Annexa
ton than it now is. There is not Count
, in any of the Provinces that would not III
crease rapidly in population, production. an'
, wealth, in consequence of Annexation. Their
is not Tory squire between the Lake of th'
; Woods and the Gulf of st. Lawrence whC
would not hold his farm and his crop TO
higher prices if he believed that Annexation
would be effected next Spring. These are
facts of wide notoriety; and they fOreshadov
what must be. If orr people can but be re
strained from demonstrations which can serv,
only to emharrass and impede efforts which
we can nowise promote, the Canadas-havint
first peacefully severed the tic which bind
them to the British thrOne-will have foun,
their true place in our Union before the clos
| of this century.