The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-12-12
MSS CANADA AND UNCLE SAM.

The article Of which we reprint the second
part this week speaks of the advantages to
Canada of an incorporation with the Ameri-
can Union. II belongs rather TO journals on
this side Of the line to speak of the adj
vantages to the United States, II they are not
already sufficiently obvious. II Us ono OF the
happy features of our Federal system, apart
from the efficiency and comparative cheap
ness of the home rule which II affords,
that annexation, so difficult with most re-
publics, becomes simplifed and easy to both
parties. The entering members have little to
sacrifice in the way of name, autonomy, and
domestic institutions: the present members
have little to fear in the way of Interference
with their own. There would be, Of course,
the usual petty maneuvring and squab-
bling among politicians and factions on both
sides of the line to gain an advantage by the
sudden accession of political power; but
as in language, so in moral and funda-
mental opinions there is nothing to
divide the two peoples or prevent their
understanding each other perfectly. The
Dominion would doubtless be divided very
much according TO its present provinces into
several States, the question of Senatorships
governing the decision Of this question,
and the vast outlying regions of the present
British America would be placed under Ter
ritoral government, or included with Alaska
under a new kind Of provisional rule yet to be
devised. The advantages to our own country,
or rather to the new country thus formed for
us, besides those purely commercial, would
be in the first place breaking-up OF the old
csse.hardened party lines on both sides
The names of Democrat and Republican
Canadian voter, just as his Little
Pedlington politics, half English, half Cana
dian, would be to us. new adjustment
would be necessary OH still broader lines
than of old, and in this modern principles
would have chance to come to the front
and antiquated issues be relegated to limbo
The evil of the party division in the United
States is that its associations are all with
civil war; that in the Dominion, as abov
indicated, is petty, and infected with a rub
bish of trumpery knighthoods, and othe
disturbing influences sent out from tn
mother country. In the next place, as ha
often been mentioned in this connection,
we are ever to extend southwark, it behoove
northward first, and bring as many Of ou
own race and tongue into the balance wit
us as possible. There is no slavery now I
make this a sectional question, but all pure
blooded Apglo-Saxons will agree that if W
are to venture on any infusion of semi-trop
cal Spanish and Indian mixture into til
body polite, there should be a preponde
ance of the original element sufficient to pr
harm out of the question. Our five millior
ofnsgroes already supply sufficient motive
this end.
The reasoning of Mr.. Clarke, we rcpea
seems to us unanswerable. The coloni
connection Of Canada with England is /,
anachronism, it is becoming more and mo
so, and any change in their delicate al
strained relations can only accelerate
make clearer the process. Between the a
traction of Il small island three thousal
iniies across the ocean, and gigantic repu
lie equally near in kinship and lying clio
alongside, there can be no compariso
The Canadian money, the Canadian postag
their system of government, their protect
policy, all testify to this powerful magnetis
Jealousy and local pride may hold out again
it, but this is the era of common sense
public affairs and of the unity of peopl,
and Miss Canada may be expected to foll
bodily where her inclinations and interei
now lean, to an honorable wedlock wi
Uncle Sam.