New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-08
CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE.

Mr. Uuptin gtOn one of the ablest leaders OF
the Dominion. will we are advised by tele-
graph, bring forward the question OF hide
pendence in the Parliament which meets at
Ottawa on the 12th. With the Lon. John
Young and others, Mr.. Huntington las lahored
to represent in facts aad figures the conFlc-
tons of that large portion OF tho people OF
Canada who, are opposed to Confederation.
He is identified with the doctrine that Inde-
incidence with a ZOllverein for all North
America would DO more natural and rational
condition for Canada than Confederation
tethered to Imperialism, and starved Tor want
| of Reciprocity. A sharer of his views, has even
proposed that if the United States will consent
| to reduce by five per cent. its tariff On manu-
| Pictured goods imported from other countries
than Canada, Canada will conform to- the tariff
and excise laws of the United. States upon the
plan of O. Customs Union. The ZOllveTein
idea will probably form part of MIR. Hunt
ington's expected proposition.
The titled managers of Canada will feel III
duty bound to denOunce Mr.. Hnntipgton's motion
as an overture to annexation Bat let Cana
dams consider whether any state OF affairs can
be SO favorable to annexation as one which has
neither sound Federalism nor honest imperial
ism to recommend it-which is neither mon
archy nor a republic, Dor yet satisfactory
Union of odds and ends. Nova Scotia denies
that Confederation is worth What 1t costs, ana
votes it down. Newfoundland tells its Gov
| ernOr that both Confederation and ITS repre-
| sentative in authority are andeservipg OF con-
| fdence The people of Prince Edwards Island
have discovered that Confederation in 1868
would have brought them f9S,47O against
| f9e.020 taken from them, and are inclined to
declare that it will not pay. British Column
bia has petitOned Tor Annexation because the
| Canadian scheme fails to supply its needs.
| Winnipeg is rampant just for want OF a GER
tain independence which Hudson Bay owners,
| ready-made Councils, and fOrdly Governors
cannot give 1t.
| The gentlemen who come ont from England
to settle the Red River grievance to urge
Confederation and a transcOntinental railroad
and Lind an tho general lnnseness of the
Dominion. will have much to observe and to
learn. We believe that they will find Confed-
Grafton in itself failure too far gone to be
galvanized into activity by counsels or prom
ises from the Mother Country. Canada must
find her genius and her destiny in herself, and
begin to consider herself American, and not
English She may send her commissioners to
England, or she may send her pioneers to the
West; she may cling to the imperial apron
string, or she may cut loose; she may depend
on England to build her railroads, to buy hel
territories, and export titles for her nobility
or she may find nearer help and more home
made men. In word, she may go to great
distance to obtain what in the nature of things
she ought to obtain for herself or procure neal
at hand in short she may depend on COnfed
Grafton, and if that will not suffice adopt Gov
McDougall's ancient threat, and look to Wash.
ngton. There can be no disloyalty in looking
and Washington, whether in view of indie
pendence or annexation, is much nearer than
| London