Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-06-22

ernl, and who is yet fanatical in his re.
ouirement of homage from interiors, and
in the enforcement OF all those petty
Acknowledgements OF Difference to the
great which are practical indlgnity TO
the humble, can hardly become popular on
this side of the Atantic-not even in
Canada. Haughtness Of bearing and
tenacity of forms are so nearly allied to
narrowness of mind, that people accus.
toned 10 reasonable share Of social
equality if not of political freedom will be
very apt 10 confound them, and to infer the
latter from the former.
We regret to perceive already the evil
dences of Lord Durham's unfitness for his
new. position. He began by dissolvng the
old Executive Council-whch was right
and organizing new one Of his imme'
date satellites and retainers-which was
wrong. He is thus at this moment vested
with a power over British America as
despotic as that of Nicholas over Russia.
His Inaugural Proclamation is windy
document, which abounds in grandiloquent
sentences, yet developes nothing OF his
proposed policy except that he will DO just
what pleases him. That we understood
before. But so far he keeps on bis own
ground. His later Proclamation, however
the one Offering reward Of one thou
sand pounds for the apprehension of the
des,royers Of the Sir Robert Peel-taken
in connoxion with the Samese display of
his man Sir George Arthur, (which ap
neared in our last)-is Of q far more
cxceptiuaable character. The Two indi'
cate mutual ignorance OF the condition
of affairs on the frontier, if not of the laws
of nations, which are deporable in the
occupants of such important stations.
This destruction of the Sir Rober, Peel
was a gr,ss and guilty outrage-an act Of
the cleaest piracy and robbery and for
chat VEN reason not q subject of inter
national adjustment. The perpetrators
should b, visited with the severest penalties
of the violated laws; and we trust they
will be sand il any peace officer admits
them tobai he makes himself a virtual
accomplee, and should be so treated
But TO Tx of the affair as an outrage on
Canada " the United States is a gross
insult, witch can only be excused by the
ignorano of those who perverseIy so
regard il And yet Arthur makes this the
text Of salf column Of rigmarole and
cluster, abusive of republican institutions
and eulgistic Of monarchical, not forget.
ting td praise the exemplary conduct
throu obut Of the Canadian authorities
ard peole! and Durham very grututously
induIrethe hope that the Government of
the Uned States will vindicate its own
dignity.nd honor! This is vastly kind Of
been spred. Our Government has acted
throughput with the most perfect alacrity
and god faith. 1t has loaded no invaders
of Birth territory with honors-it has
done noping to instigate mutual ill-feeling;
Git has dne much to repress border cols-
ions. Ve wish it had done more; we
think might have done something more i;
but lhi error, fit exist, is one Of judg-
ment OILY, and by no means Of dispos.
ton. Where it had not the ability to do
good. his been careful to abstain from
doing arn-ah example which might be
'iuutatd With profit.
A bad Of desperadoes-mai Cana
dian ressees. though that does not matter
-have.onspired to plumber and burn q
Briishteamboat by night, at n lonely
woodin place amid the forests which
overshlow the st. Lawrence. That
woodir place happens to be on our side +;
and thvlllany is successful. The Cover.
nor ofhis State and our Federal aulbor.
ties ar instantly on the alert. and every
thing done to punish the perpetrators OF
the ouage. What more would our stately
nelghurs have OF US? To talk of the
affair ,growng out of defect in our
insti,uons, or the neglect Of precautions,
is nonsnse. 1t might have happened with
huntd thousand regular troops on the
frontie, under an able general clothed
with u3mited powers. That it was ia
vored 18th bad spirit cherished by some
portion of our frontier people is very
probab.; but that is an evil not confined
to this ountry. nor yet to republics: nei,
Their wuld standing army be likely to
subdueit Let the magnates across the
Lakes ,lk sense, even if they cannot cease
TO be isoIently vain glorious. This Sil
RobertPeel outrage was most wantor
and abmnable one, but of no polllca
bearing not half so much as the subse
quent fling on the American steamboat IA
Brockvlle. Now there are those on TIT
fronlierwhose business it seems to be t
aggravde all these unhappy occurrence
aud crete serious breach if possible
but we do hope that they will no more b
counteanced by men so high in authorit
and pdent in influence as Sir Georg
Arthur and Lord Durham.
RIGaT OF WoMAN--The New Eng
land Anti Slavery Convention, at their r.