The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-04-15
[ NUMBER 30.

saxon DOCK, ana tIluk Tue Safest DcuDUaIy
line betwlxt US and nations, that don't
speak plain English, is salt water. |, was
Just SO when you owned this country-there
was no peace and quiet SO Icing as The
I"Oui folks owned Canada and Nova SEQ.
TIA and when at last you conquered them,
the only mistake you made was in letting
that lingo be spoken there in the laws
/ This kept up constant inward discomfort
and grumbling, Ill a few years ago it
broke out in fresh spot, and your soldiers
vas set on them aud cut their Threats and
burnt their houses, and this was considered
so strange and iuhuman by some of our
folks near the lines, who could not see the
necessity in a country Of laws for this un.
nat'ral severity, that they brslled right
up, by a sort OF q nat'ral animal sympathy,
jjsl as Toe pigs do when they hear a squeel
Of one of their kind caught by a gate or
dog-wiIhout stopping TO inquire whose
pig he Is, brisiles Up ard shows fight
This is abou; the amonnt aud cause Of pre-.
sent frontier feeling, and il seems nal'rai
TO the Anglo Saxon family, and dies a nat.
raj death as soou as tie cause is explained
and examined into.
don't care to say any thing in this LET.
Ter about the n. +. boundary line, or the
burning of the Caroline or tho capture and
I trial Of Mcleod, or the taking or examin-
ing our vessels on the Coast Of Africa, or
the Oregon claims, and things Of tina; nat.
ur all that is the business of the Govern.
nent. aud they are all matters CT law and
treaty, and will 90 through that mill aud
Will, and must come out strait, no matter
whose toes are punched. But there is one
thug | will say-that the law will have lis
way here, from Josiice's| Court to the
Suprene tribunal, and no man, or get Of
men can prevent il, and no nation can awe
i,-and il is all good old English law to-
/ It a treaty says line shall run thus or so
thus or so it will GO Us. as deed Of a
farm runs. If in free countries, like En-
gland and America, folks have RICH; to
90 where they please they may go, aud il
they invade other countries, and get
caught, It is their look out, and they must
suffer the consequences, they can't claim
the law Of their country to protect them,
though they may claim, If they can, IFS
animal sympathy.
Now, to show you how this works
what has been done by this country to
shield the folks who got caugh, in Canada
making war there from this side Moth.
ing. i ou hanged some, and others you
sent to BOTANY Bay, by the law,-and
that was right, presUmins they had fair
triul-and we shall do the same on al! or.
casions, and tha. will keep things strait
by the lQw,-and DC assured of one thing,
that we shall never hang man here, IN.
less il is clearly shown by the law he rich.
Iy deserves it,-lor a man has TO make
considerable in,erHf: ',,,o nrofa-7;nr to shnt
him up if he is bad man, md keep him
from doing harm ill he is fit to lie, out,
end get 40 honest living.
But to return to general maiiers-It you
will take my adpinn- - ',uHes''
tnn'utgni Il nay not be undersiood-if you
desire 20 keep peace between two imeor.
tant branches Of the great Anglo Saxon
family and thereby escape the scandal Of a
great family quarrel, (the worst of all guar.
rels) don't give cause of jealousy between
] Np0i I0SSCsSlbtiS vi AuiS COLkbSub uuu
ours; and bear in mind that what you call
protection against attack, may be consid.
cred here as intention 10 attack and that
may bring gun fer gun-and then guns
want scaling occasionally-and salute
may be mistaken--4lh of July and 22d
February, and slh Of January may not
agree with some Of your great days, and
slight mistakes nay lead TO great events;
and our folks don't like to pay for the ex-
pense OF watching neighbours. You would
see this at once, Il line of boundary dlvi.
ded your river Thames, or cut across one
of your counties, and red coats on one side
and blue coats on 'uther.
1t may be that you think that force, and
the fear oil being licked may keep US quiet
This would be fatal mistake, for it would
be the very thing, Of all others, that would
stir up strife.
don, pretend to account for it-but
such is the nature Of the breed-a Milling
ness to fgh if only to show they are not
afraid of being licked and there is no
other people since the days of Adam who
have shown this like the people who speak
English ra,'ralIy. They never was known
yet (excep, among the, - to agree TO
stop fighting because they feared they
would have the worst of ii, and this comes
from their true religion, and true law, and
their love Of both beyond all other consld.
erations.
Now, as before said, if you take my ad.
wee it is-Dont vast money in an idle
protection as you call it, Of your Colonies
here just keep military force enough to
aid your civil authorities in executing the
laws, and if such force is required, make
It militia as far practicable. Good Laws
won't require much TO aid them; push tho
Common School principle, and that always
makes good laws and militia too; for 1t
creates a common interest. Give your
soldiers "quarter sections of land IN Can
ada, and put them all on half pay, to aid