Show independence OR annexation there was considerable e talk f a few years years since about the annexation ot ot canada to the united states there awas also a great deal said sald about ab ut canada wishing to throw off the lie british yoke and erect an all independent government of their own the sub subject J has been agitated again of late but we believe the majority ot alie canadian people would pr for fer to remaina mainu part of fihe the british ariti ai empire about three weeks ago sir john mcdonald McDo the head lead of the canadian I I government delivered a speech in toronto on this subject in ill the file course cou roof of which lie said j I ence en ce is a farce sir john Ir declares that canada must belon belong cither either to the british system or the Anic american rican system said lie here we arc are wi with th von four r and a halfin liala million illion of people lying alongside of fifty five millions the most unhappy p position position in which a nation can be placed the most crushing to its energies and its intellect telle ct the most destructive to its t prosperity is that of living next door to and alli at the sufferance era n cc of a powerful neighbor after referring el to the condition of belgium and holland of which lie says the former trembles for fear of being gobbled up by france and the latter of being bein absorbed by germany ho lie further says looking at the question of finde independence pen dence that if we nye had to make a choice between independence and annexation I would rather that we z should have annexation and join with the united states at bs be here a small nation a dependent nation obliged to raise the tile phantom liantoni kjall ol 01 an army and navy obliged to have foreign ambassadors ambas at t an enor enormous expense and after a brief existence to be absorbed as texas and as california was absorbed and as mexico will be absorbed but after all that ho be lias has gaid above sir john A mcdonald really prefers that canada shall still ie ic main a the british dominion suba setto set to the british crown |