The New York herald., 1870-12-26
UNTICATON OF AMERICA.
The Proposed Annexation Of Canada to the
United States.
Correspondence Between the Canadian Patrio
Papineau and the Canadian Union
Club, Of New York.

correspondence between the Canadian Union Club,
OF this city, and the celebrated agitator and pub
licst Louis Joseph Papineau, ia another indication
of the tide that IL gradually but surely setting In
toward the fnl6lment Of ardent authorizations enter
tanned upon bolh sides OF the border that separates
us from the British possessions in North America.
II Is full Of matter for rejection, and Ii peculiarly
w0rthy OF note at a moment when the condition OIL
political AFFAIRS in the Old World seems to be pre-
pairing the way for many great changes In the
New.
SKETCH OF PAPINEAU.
Louis Joseph Papineau, now In his eighty y-sixsh
year. entered Parliament at the age Of twenty-five,
and was Speaker OF the House Of Assembly OF Lower
Canada from 1914 to 1887, when the Insurrecton
broke out price was set upon his head, when he
took refuge In the United States. He returned to
Canada in ls47 and took a prominent place in Cana
dian politics. HIS love for constitutional liberty
and his hatred OF English rule are as strong to-day
as ever. Although retired from pubic life his in1ll-
ence ON public opinion Is still powerful with the
radical party.
LETTER or PROFESSOR G. BArcHELoR TO L. j.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2s, 1870.
HONORABLE AND HoNoRED SIR-The Canadians
OF New YORK have just founded political assoeia-
ticn under the name OF the "CaEadian Union CLUB,
with the object Of promoting the ''union OF Canada
with the United States.n
/ send you the circulars and resolutions published
by The club accompanied by pamphlet on the
unincatlon OF North America, which mas supplied
the broad foundations OF our programme. Con-
scous OF the lively interest you always take In the
emancipation OF our native country i thought you
would be glad to learn what we propose TO DO 10
effect this desirable consummation.
You would be received among our people with the
greatest enthusiasm IL Is 10 the expression oil this
grateful sentiment that owe the pleasure OF lnvlt-
sneeches ~ or socepv A. The third monthly
meeting on the 10th December next. Ii, as IL Is 10
pc feared. circumstances keep you chained to the
House, we should be happy 10 receive In lleu OF tls
forced Absence Of those Instructive letters for
which you hold a patent.
The American people, whs are rested from their
gigantic struggle with secession. are gong TO re.
sume at the point where II had been left, their his
torlc mission OF continental reconstruction. They
need torches To lgnten their way into the countries
not forming part as YET OF their domain. You can
eloquentiy supply that need.
Now, q paragraph about our own association. The
founders OF the Canadian Union Club said 10 them.
selves. "AnneXation Is process, union Is result.n
In the eyes of many people annexation implies the
absolute absorption of the weaker Canada, by the
stronger, the United States carried out through
some kind OF vloence-an idea that wounds our
national pride Let us, then adopt the conciliating
titles OF Union and Unl0nist. IL will make peo-
pie understand the better that by throwing aside
colonial thradOm they may enter the American
Union on an equal footing with the ether States and
not rs a conquered people.
Please accept my patriotic greetings.
GEORGE BATCHELOR
Secretary OF the Canadian Union Club or New York.
6sS BROADWAY, ST. Charles Hotel.
LETTER or THE HON. LOUIS JOsEPH PAPINEAU ON
THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF CANADA.
In answer TO an invitation Of Professor George
Bachelor. secretary OF the "Club Uni0niste Cana
diem de New York. the Hon. L. J. Papineau, for
forty years the popular leader OF Lower Canada,
has written the following important letter. trans
lated from the original, In French. expressly Tor the
HERALD:-
MONTREAL, Dec. II. 1870.
RI
applaud with all my heart my dear c0mpatriots OF
New York, voluntary exlles. because they cenld not
endure the shames and injustice which the foreign
master and his mercenary followers, born on the
soil but traitors TO their country, daily inlct upon
grateful hearts, OF your ardent patriotism OF your
passionate love for human dignity and freedom, as
well as or the emancipation oI our dear country at
the earliest date.
ON the 18th Of October last you assembled In Ma
sonic Hall for Two great, legitimate, virtusus mani
1estations-that Of your venerati0n for genius and
that OF your devotion Tor your country; for honor
ing the name, gr.ct among all, Of Columbus, and
contrving the best means for sweeping away from
the American Continent colonial vassalage. II You
invite again for the celebration Of this glorious
anniversary will undoubtedly carry there my full
elghty-siX years.
Union Club in New York. I associate myself with
you and all others who shall openly protest against
the degraded position made us by the British Par
lament. 1t has become portion OF the pubic law
Of the European Continent, ,mOra!zed by the enlght-
enment and the poliIical philosophy Of The nIne-
teenth century that men living In society
have InalcnaDle rights inherent to their
autonomy, and that the latter cannot be
altered without their consent freely exercised Two
despotlslns more brutal than the others, that Of
Prussia aud that OF British torylsm have alone re-
mained strangers 10 these principles OF justice.
They have disposed OF the men OF HolSten and Of
British Continental America, respectively, as oi
tnings without rights and without sons, having
nothing 10 say concerning the disposition wncn
their absolute masters might make Of them. Be-
yond these two odi0us exceptions, no changes in the
constitutions or domlnions IN Europe nave been
1.rn fttyyutn nny lncr
ratIed by the interested parties III conventions Oh
constituent assemblies elected for that purpose by
and diplomacy acquiesce III them alone can uni
yersal suffrage moraze and make them valid. That
Is the avine right Of the nineteenth century, divine
since it is Just and is derived from the free choice O
men to whom reason and conscience have been
given 10 conduce them 10 happiness
The confederation OF the British provinces was
passed when, for the last time hope and believe,
the old 70 lyish arstOcracy was dominant. 1t was
passed with criminal designs, with view TO con-
is TO say mult ecity OF places, sinecures and pen
sions for the mnons OF the nobility, and IN favor o
commercial monopoly, for the maintenance and eX
tension OF which England has made all her war,
and shed, by Its armies. but much more by It's sub
sldies more human blood since two centuries thar
all other causes or pretexs OF war have ever done
Ii was passed principally with another object, the
most culpabe or al-that OF setting lew thousand.
of weak co0nists spread over spaces too Jast to bt
defended on any single point against the innumera
BILE battaions Of the most powerful nation of mod
ern times, the NEST assured OF an untram
meled future the most progressive among al
the Powers OF the earth. Fear and yratl
are bad counsellors. Sucn are The ignoble
passions which have deranged the brains OF the pro
moters OF that becose C0nfedcrailen. 10 preserve
IL until a diculty with The United States should
occur they vote millions for the establishment OF
nter-colonia railway. IL Is true they confess tina
for fifty years ana more 1t Will not pay expenses
but no matter; 1t would enable England TO send
limited number or troops In winter from Halifax
provided an avalanche Of Yankee soldiers would MOI
gobtle them their way 10 Quebec. Still other mil
lions are more Iooiishy spent in fortihcatons t.
shelter the defenders OF the country What could &
small army such could be raised here do agains
those who could raise in u short time, armed an,
disciplined, twelve hundred thousand combaants.
In case Of war the Canadian Carnot, without the
genius or the patriotism Of his prototype, viii
organize victory TO defend with his i've hcndret
thousand mlanen, In the plains OF Canada
the interests OF his dear old England
1t was for having v0cilerated such al
atrocious impertIncuce that he was GounC
worthy of climbing the footsteps OF the angus
hierarchy OF British barOncts or Knights, / do no
know which. Such were the means Of making q
fortune have seen succeed for long years OF PAIN
full political life, during which Downing street ant
their Official Wallets IN canada soil the annals OF tht
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