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the older city of Albany ; and Leeds does not feel sorer 

 against Bradford for intermeddling with its trade, than 

 the Albanians do against the Trojans for intercepting 

 their foreign traffic. 



The railways from New York and Boston are con 

 tinued from Albany to Troy, and measures are in pro 

 gress for extending the line through Vermont and into 

 Canada. The completion of such a line would interfere 

 with the plans both of Boston and Portland, and secure 

 to New York a portion of the European traffic which 

 each of these ports has sanguine hopes of being able to 

 divert exclusively to itself. 



There are many in the free States who covet a 

 closer connection with the shores of the St Lawrence 

 than that which canals and railroads would produce. In 

 whatever form, or by whichever class, the Annexation 

 movement is brought forward in Canada, it will find 

 ready sympathisers in the Empire State. I heard, as it 

 may be supposed, many opinions and discussions upon 

 the matter, to which I shall not here advert. The 

 following resolutions, brought before the House of Repre 

 sentatives during the present session (1849-50) by Mr 

 Wheeler, member for Franklin County, (a county bor 

 dering on Canada,) and ordered to lie on the table, are 

 here, however, not quite out of place : 



&quot; Mr Wheeler, of Franklin County, offered the fol 

 lowing resolutions, which lie on the table : 



&quot; Whereas, by the original articles of the Confedera 

 tion adopted by the States of this Union, it was provided 

 that Canada, acceding to this Confederation, and join 

 ing the measures of the United States, shall be admitted 

 into and entitled to all the advantages of this Union. 



&quot;And whereas , recent occurrences in the Provinces of 

 Canada indicate a strong and growing desire on the 

 part of the people thereof to avail themselves of the 

 advantages of the foregoing offer, and to apply for 



