Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1837-08-29
descendants of France, and speak the

descendants of France, and speak the
French language.
"Their rooted hostility to the tyranny of
the British aristocracy has been unequiyo-
calIy shown at every general election of
representatives during the last twenty
years.
"Ther leaders arc bold, resolue and de
termined men, full Of fire and energy but
cool, calculating and prudent. And to these
leaders, the great body Of the people are
enthusiastically attached.
"The Canadians are well armed, hardy,
Injured to fatigue, abstemious in their hab-
its, thorough republicans in principle, as
well as by the French laws of division OF
wealth Guns are 10 be found in every
house.
GAS marksmen they are infinitely supe-
ror to British soldiers, (thanks to the alb
sence of game laws,) and they are accus-
toned from infancy to the use of firearms.
Their courage was well proved in the war
of 1879, in which the chasseurs, the Volt
Eeurs, and battallions of militia of Lower
Canada were as gallun', fine looking, bold,
and effective troops as any in the service.
"Thore are thousands, aye, tens of thou
slnds of Englshmcn, Scotchmen, and above
alI,ofIrishmon now in he United States, who
only wait I'LL the stand lrd be planted in
Lower Canada, TO throw their strength and
numbers in the scale Of democracy. Those
who have read Cubbeit's Life of President
jackson will see that Irishmen do not easily
forget their cottages burnt, their mothers,an1
brothers and fathers murdered and Danish
cd and mlimed ana incarcerated because
they loved Ireland, and hated CastlereIgh
and their coun,ry's oppressors.
at is of course to be expected that if the
Canadian STANDARD be uniurled, they will
offer by procllmlton s,me three or folr
hundred acres of the Church Of Ergland'S
reserves, the crown lands, and the Lower
Canadl Conprny'5 fraudulent purchase, to
each solder and volunteer who may Join
their flag. The effect Of such an offer we
need not dwell upon.
ave are Of opinion that the Colonial Go
vcrnors possess 10 adequate means of re-
eisting the CANADIANS. The great majority
of the Irish, great number of Scotch and
. English, and the Americans in tho townships
almost To a man would be reused under the
standard Of liberty The Montreal mer-
chants in ii state Of things like that, woald
he for lrcod)m-and in a state of things IN
which a tho IsaR1 chances TO one would be
for the Canadians, tories of property, and
placemen Of the existing order OF things,
would not be tonl of trying their luck IN
coaliscallns ami excl lsions, in order to
prop filling house. Nearly every body
is tired Of ID pWnng street"
The New York Piaindenler, commenting
on the above remarks, says, "lt is not one
Canadian newspaper only which holds such
bold and explicit language as the foregoing"
This is not the braggart vauntlnI OF SIN
gle journalist. We infer from what we see
rec and hear from various quarters. that the
spirit of fnrciblo resistance to British au-
ihorily is very widely dllfused; not the moi
sy and easily subdued spirit Of mere &C.
casinnd insurrection-an unprecedented
and powerless commotian-
LED on by youth. guarded with rage,
And countcnanoed by boys aud beggery;
BIT spirit slow to be excited, and slow
10 be appcased-a commot;on in which CON
siderate men take part, and lend their aid
10 "dress the ugly form of instruction. -
IA ne IGaOcT Oh tUc TCNO.ullOtbAlh p"lNN 10 AVA
Papineou, a man Of education, fortune and
talents.
That Canada will, mt no very distant day,
declare lis independence, we have not the
shadow of a dnubt--that, aided as she will
be, and as Texas has been, by the rush oil
thousands to her standard, from the United
States, she will maintain that Independence,
we have iIst as little. Her destiny alter
wards will be a question of deep import
md anxious solicitude. Will she, too, seek
admission into orr confederacy? Perhaps,
in view of this not improbable termination
Of,hc approaching struggle, the annexation
of Texas to the Union will not be so strong
" resisted at the North, as, but for this cm-
b?yo element in the adjustment of the ''bal-
ance of power" between the slaveholdIng
and non-slaveholding States, 1t would have
been. As the Enquirer is wont to say,
'.great events are on the wing"
To cure fomdcred horse.-A highly
respectable gentleman of this county, few a
days since, communicated to a friend of ours