CANADA A KINGDOM.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 97, 19 November 1877, Page 2

CANADA A KINGDOM.

Writing in Tinsleys Magazine, Mr J. Hutton thus points to the future of the •' Dominion " : — Canada has a long memory for things that immediately concern her welfare, and her public men are .continually talking of the future of the Dominion, Some of them are firm in their belief that the welfare of Canada will only ba maintained by remaining an integral portion of the British Empire ; but the shrewdest and most thoughtful of colonists see their country's reward in perfect freedom, or annexation to the United States. Still at the bottom of all thought and speculation as to the future there is a strong layer of old English sentiment. Outsido the province df Quebec, the great pioneers of Canada, the English and the Soottish, look across the broad waters of the Atlantic and think of home. They feel proud cf the fl.ig which is only to theti a national symbol, but a link between the far-off settlement and the churchyard where their fathers sleep b'eyoud the sea. Year by year, however, the impulse of patriotism is being transferred to the adopted land ; and unless the natural associsitioa and influence of her great neighbor sucks her up like a sponge, absorbs her as the larger flood absorbs the smaller, Canada must ere long govern herself entirely under her own flag, stimulated by the music of her own liymn, and made strong by those dangers and sacri floes which belong to the common growth of great and indepen* dent nations. There is something almost pathetic in Toronto's recent ofier to Britain of a battery of artillery for service in tlio East, should we unfortunately find it necessary to engage in the war which is now exciting the ambition of certain European nations and agitating the whole world. If Europe were true to the faith that is in her, she would put down, the barbarism of K'ussia and Turkey with a '•high hand. But caoh power has its own game to play, and it is convenient for the chief aggressor to operate unier the sacred name of Christianity, the first principle's of which it outrages and blasphemes. Canada thinks she sees mupli trouble

a head, for Great Br.itain, and she offers to. ibe mother cpuntry her money and her blood,. Americ^ has sufficient on her hands, just now in the management of her already vast and, grow, ing population. Iljer ambition finds its" outlook in the, Wess. She never coveted Canada; and she wou]s care less than ever at this moment to have such an additional responsibly, thrust upon her as that great British, colony would be. It is sufficient for tho Government of Washington to consolidate tlie Union , to weld together the factions of North and South ; to work out the great problem^ of. raceß which she has tried to solve on the field and in the senate, and to bring in gocial, political, srnl commercial harmony, varied and contrary forces of the gritnd Republic, which is a glory and honour, to the English-speak-ing people of the wo.rjd. Now is the time for Canada to emulate the example of America, warned by her. mistake, encouraged by her wisdom j. or to lay the foundations of her new life on the model of our British Constitution, vvhich com" bines republican freedom with, monar< ichial strength and . dignity. Let the Dominion tako a king from thai British princes, and join the great family of the nation.