The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1889-06-12

a song and Louisiana became q
part Of the republic
Sixteen years later the Spanish
government unable to maintain q
colonial empire from which she was
separated by three Thousand miles
| Of trackless ocean relinquished all
claims to Florida and the aLand
| Of Flowers passed under the domin-
| ion OF the stars and stripes. s.
s In 1845 the people Of Texas shak-
ing off the yoke Of colonial bondage
asked for admission 70 the Union
and the Lone Star q Texas was
| added to the glorious eSastellation of
the States. This is a brief history
| of the republics frat annexations
| the history Of the extension Of her,
boundaries southwark and westward
until they embrace in one vast do
main the wealth, the prosperity and
the diversified industries of forty
two great and powerful states. To-
day q few of the ambitious members
of the fiftieth Congress forgetting
the admonitions Of Jefferson and
Webster, chat orr institutions
could never become permanent if the
! boundaries of our country were CON
tinually extended look to Union
with the Great Dominion' as the evil
dent and manifest destiny Of the re-
| public, pointing ccnfdently to those
early annexations &c the solid found
alton Of their argument for Union.
They forget however that the case
lof Canada Is different, infinitely
difgarsnf fren1 thaf ct all the territor-
les acquired during the early part of
the nineteenth century. These were
unpeopled lands annexed by pur-
chase or by contest They were
| without history, permanent institu-
tions or any form of internal govern
ment while the proposed annexation
of Canada means the addition of avast
district, populous interoceanie en-
pire with a separate history, perma-
nent institutions a territory of five
hundred thousand square miles and
a population Of six millions of peo-
pie. Her government drafted by
the imperial parliament of En- gland,
imbued with the doctrine of divine
right of kings" and preserving
throughout the monarchical spirit
of Capitalization is diametricallY
Eoppesed to the sacred principles of
equality in which aar repnblican
eoV1fN iiVek GNItf 0Nd hns IN
being. With them Queen Is the
recognized executive the Senator'S
are appointed for life by her Royal
Majesty and the Canadian eonstitu+
ton retaining the very elements
which the early statesmen Dc Amer
lea hated with such bitterness,
would clash irrecc oncilably with the
constitution Of the States.
The population Of Canada embra
cling six and half millions con.
sists of two distant and separate
races. The provence Of Quebec Dor
dering upon the St. Lawrence and
the Gulf is inhabited blythe OBJ sti-
nate and sinimitable French Cana
dian: "a conservative of conserve
I tiyes," q firm believer in the old pa
pal doctrine Of the inseparable nnion
of church and state and bound by
indissoluble bonds to religion
whose fondest hope has been to build
up in the new world a'great hierarchy
that:would absorb the existing govern
ments of America and restore tie
fading glories. of the temporal power
of the papacy. Possessing such On
intense passion for the pomp and
ceremony Of monarchcial government
such hatred for policies alien to tie,
principles Of his father and thor
oughly imbued with the doctrine gof
his church, the French Canadian
would remain forever an unassimila-
ted mass in the government of the
republic and liberal democratic
| policy could no more change his
ideas, destroy his convictions Cor
stamp out the evident manifestations
Of the nationality that it could
change the savage nature of the.
mild and untaught tribes of the
Congo" {
The provinces of the north were
colonized by the English tory, whose
descendants have Inherited the des-
potic doctrine that the monarch is
the State" the idea that democratic
| government is a dangerous lex
pertinent and that no nation can hope
for stability or, peace that does not
recognize what he has been pleased
to call the sacred 'sprineiple of he
redity.'' "A natural antagonisrn
for the, American republic has also
been part and parcel of the inheri-
lance that the tory left his issue. its
embers were re-kindled by the ca
lamitous war of 1872, and the affairs
Of '37 while the boundary quarrels
and the disputed fisheries keep its
grim ioutline on the political hori-
zon, continually reminding the Ca
madam loyalist that his ancient
cause of violent separation from the
States has not yet ceased to color
this commercial relations.
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