The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-05-18
THE STATES AND rHE cANApAs.

The Canadian and American Frontier The late
report n Lord DuRnAA On the afirs OF Canada thus
contrasts he appearance oflhe American and Cana
dian shores =
son the Ameri On side, all is activity and busile
The forest has been widely cleared every wear nu-
merous settlements are formed, and thousands Of
farms are created ont of the waste the country Is
ioterserted by common roads; canals and railroads
are 6oiShpd or In the course reformation the WAYS
Of communication and transport are crowded with
people and enlivrned by numerous carriages and
large steamboats,. The observer is surprised al the
numb.r of vessels they contains while bridges, ari-
fetal landing places, and commodious wharyes are
formed in all directions rs soon as required
HGo,d houses warehuu ses, mills, inns, villages,
towns, and even great cities, are almost seen 10
spring up out of the desert. Every village mas -
schno-house and place Of public worship. Every
Town has many OF boh with lis township buildings,
It's book stores and probably one or two hanks ana
newspapers; and the cities with their me churches
their great hoels their exchanges, courthou>es aha
municipal halls al i ne marble so new and fresh
as 10 mark the recent existence Of tie forest where
they now stand w4uld be admired 10 any pari az me
old world. On The British side OF the line, WIN inc
exception Of n few favored spcts, where some aP-
proach Ia American prosperity Is apparent al seems
waste and d.s late There is but one railroad IN All
British America, and that running between the ~.
Lawrence and Lake Champain Is only ID miIes
long. The ancient city of Montreal, which Is natu-
rally the commercial capital 1.-THE Canadas WIN moi
bear the least comparison In any respect win buna-
To- which is creation Of Yesterday.
sBut IL is not In the difference between the larger
towns the two sides that shall hnd the best evil
dence Of our own inferority. That painiul put nn-
deDiable truth is most manifest in the country dis
trics through which the line of national separation
passes for 1000 miles. There, on the side OF bpth
The CaDadas and also Of New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia, widely scattered population, poor and APP
parently unenterprising, though hardy ana indus-
rious separated from each other by tracts oil INFER
vening forests. without towns or markets, almost
W ihout roads, living in mean houses, drawing lille
more than rude subsistence from ill cultivated land
and seemingly incapable of improving their condi-
ion present The instructive contrast 70 their
enlerprising and thriving neigbbors on The Ameri-
can side"
The Winter Studies and Summer Rambles"
of Mrs. JAMisoN has a, passage TO The same enecl:
al hardly know how to convey to you an idea Of
the difference between the two shores; il will appear
To YOU as incredible as il Is to me incomprehen>ibe
Our shore is said 10 be The most fertile and has been
the longest settled but TO d,at between ihem, las
did today in LILLE canoe made OF hollow tree,
and padded bv halfbreed imp OF boy) to bshod
on one side city with its towers aid spires and ani-
mated population, with villas and handsome houses
stretching along the shore and 100 vessels or more
gigantic steamers bridges schooners, cros ding the
port, loading and unloadng all the hustle, In Short
of prosperity commerce; and, on The other SIDE
a Little sraggling hamlet, one schooner, one ltlii.
wretched steamboat. some windmlS, catholic cha
pei or two supne ignorant peasantry, all the symp.
toms of apathy, Incidence, mistrns', hopelessnesS
Can any one help wondering at the difference, and
ask whence il aii>es1 There must be cause Tor II
surely-but what is i'll Does il lie in past or ~
| present--in natural or accidental circumstances
In the institutions of the Government or the cbarac
Ter Of the people i il remediabel is il necessity
| Is il mystery What and whence is il Can You
tell2 or can you send Of colonial officials
across The Atlantic, to behold and solve the diff
| culty2