Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-04-11

errors not conlroverted by Sir Thomas Brown, il
to the effect that the most feroclous lion will
leave virgin unframed. We have greater moral
miracle to recouHt Various surmses are abroad as to
who the real pacifcator of the Canadian frontier,
and TO whom the praise Of reconcns the angry ele-
ments of discord is TO be attributed On cur side OF
the line we very naturally give the credit to the gal
liant General Scott to that fine spscimen of soldier,
Colonel Worth, to the proclamation of the President
and to Governor Narcys Jealous and personal CO.
operation in the work OF cementing the breach which
was about to eopardise the tranquility Of the nations
To the north of the line they claim the same merit
for Sir Francis Head, the rhetorical governor, and
for the doughty Colonel McNab, who thought the
shortest road to peace was by sending steamboat
over the falls of Niagara. Both parties are equally at
fault and have not yet hit upon the real secret by
which the moral CONFUSION was SO speedily and ef
fecuRlly quoted; we know il, however, and will i'm
partit.
In the first place, we readily admit that there was
fearful array of oafers scattered upon the frontier
osecreumstances and sentiments admirably fitted
them for the foremost of the most desperate for
lorn hope. To them the condottier of Italy, the
Jacquerie of France the parzans Of Wat Tyler, and
the practical philosophers who swore by the maxims
of Mr.. John Cade were comparatively gentlemen;
nay, we doubt whether King Herod would have adj
milted them into the rank and file of his body guard
who slew the innocents But although loafers are
loafers still they are human; in the raggedest and
lowest specimens of humanity there is a still small
voice that is constantly whispering to them 10 stand
upon their character, and TO think in the spirit al
though they cannot express themselves in the words
of the Latin dramatst, ''Homo sum- nihil me hu-
manum alienum puto'-they are gallant in their
way, and have an instructive liking, although it can
be called reverence for the fair sex. Some one
who knew them well, and had penetrated into the
secret of the craft hit upon the notable expedent of
having two or three hundred Autographs of Queen
Victoria struck off, and circulated among them with
line or two under the effigy stating that the
try they about to despeil belonged 10 the mild
and modest young lady whose Portraiture they were
gazing en- The effect was electrical-the honor of
loafersm was touched in its most delicate point and
one and all vowed they would sooner suck rum
through straw on the quays of Buffalo or Detroit
or rob the henroosts of the southern shore of
Erie and the ST. Lawrence, than cause a wrinkle
on the smooth and quiet brow Of the fair haired
daughter of the isles The age of chivalry has not
departed, Mr. Burke too hastily asserted and one
Of its brightest displays witnessed among the
canalle of Ro chester, Buffalo, and Sandusky when
toerably rich booty was invitngy open to them, and
they had such especial oafers TO lead them What
president governors generals and colonies could not
effect, the picture of pretty girl brought about with
the spell Of talisman. Truly il is much to the ere
dit of our national loaferism! whole heart and
ragged pair Of brseches are necessarily incompA
tible