Daily Davenport Gazette

Reciprocity.

It appears by the following paragraphs from the Cleveland correspondence of the Chicago Tribune, that some of the Canadians assisted the Clevelanders in celebrating the Fourth:

"I must not omit, before closing this hasty sketch, to mention one feature of the celebration, which marks the beginning of a new epoch, in our political relations with our northern neighbors. Two large and splendid companies of firemen came over from London, Canada, bringing two fine bands of music with them. They were the guests of the Cleveland firemen, and joined right heartily in the procession, their bands playing "Hail Columbia," and "Yankee Doodle" as naturally as the "natives." The men cheered the patriotic toast and American emblems of liberty-the eagle and stars and stripes-as lustily as the genuine Jonathans, and for the time felt as free and independent on American soil as the regular Yankees.

This is one of the first fruits of the Reciprocity treaty. A few years of unrestricted trade and social intercourse with our colonial neighbors will suffice to induce them to exchange the title of "subject" for the more glorious one of "citizen;" to cause them to emerge from vassalage to a European island, and join the great American Anglo-Saxon family of the sovereign and independent States. Freedom and Annexation are the ideas growing fastest in the brain of Young Canada, and ere long both will be realized."

Like Barkus, Jonathan "is willin." He is ready to spread the wing of his eagle over that portion of the continent, in obedience to the mandate of his "manifest destiny."