The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-04-08

| OF 1t; and the less able Canada was TO
oppose a conquest by the States, the
more secure she would lbeb from it, for
our folks would go right in and help 10
thrash out any set Of scamps who should
go in there to disturb the peace. But if
you don't believe in this state OF public
feeling, and on the contrary pc on9and
crowd IN fighting folks, and build war
steamers on the Lakes, our folks must
do the same to keep an eye on you, and
when we come to calkilate the expenses
ont, eweamay come TO the notion that
your folks are expensiveaneigilbors, and
the best way would be. to ge,9rid of such
Ineighbors, and then will come bad blood
and fighting, and if that begins, It won't
eend Till one or tother knocks under, and
you;can guess7which is the mos,elikely to
do SO as well as can. Warts bad enuff
between foreigners, but it is shocking I'm,
natural and ugly between, folks speaking
/ plain English. @.'I E . "
see also that some of your folks in
England think that there is d nat raj ami.
mostly growing up belwizs the two ma
lions of late. IL this is SO il is owing
mainly to yourselves, and it will keep
growing jist as fast as you take the
measures you do to protect, as you say,
f''her Males!y's dominiohs.p But this
luminosity, if any there is, is notrbecause
Canada is English-lor if the folks along
that line had any other mother, tongue
than English, we should have changed
the boundary line long and long ago
Do you think that we would have been
able to work along peaceably with neigh
bors whose line fence divides rivers and
lakes with us--dipping in here, and cut
ting across there--if their mother tongue
made "oui7 or ssh ~'Ja" spell yes!
See what quick work our folks made of
Texas! We are chips Of the old Anglo
Saxon block, and think the safest bounda,
ry line belwiXt US and nations That don I
speak plain English, is salt water. 1t
was Just SO when you owned this coun-
try - there was no peace and quiet so
long as the "oui" folks owned Canada
and Nova Scotia; and when at last you
conquered them, the only mistake you
made was in letting that lirgo'be spoken
there in the laws. This kept!up aeon
slant inward discomfort and grumbling,
till in few years il broke GU. in fres h
spot, and your soldiers was set on them.
and cut their throats and burnt their
houses. and this was considered strange
and inhuman by some of our folks near
the lines, who could not see the necessity
in country Of laws for this unnatural Sc
verify, that they 'brislled right UP, BY a
sort of nat'ral animal sympathy, ajist as
the pigs do when they hearGa squeal1 of
one Of their kind caught by a, gaze or a
dog -wiihout stopping TO inquire whose
pig he is, brislIes up, and shows fight
This is about the amount and cause OF
presen, frontier feeling, and it seems nat
raj to the Anglo-saxon family, and dies a
nal'ral death as soon as the cause is ex-
planned and examined into.
! don't care to say any thing in this
letter about the N. D.. boundary line, or
the burning of the Caroline, or the cap.
ture and trial Of Mcleod, or the taking
and examining our vessels on the coast OF
/ Africa, or the Oregon claims, and things
j Of that na,ur--all that is the business
! of, the Government, and they are all mat.
tiers Of law and treaty, and will go through
! that mill, aud will and must come on,
strait, no matter whose toes are pinched.
But there is one thing | will sav-tIlai
/ the, law will have lis way here, from a
Justices Court, TO the Supreme tribunal,
and no man or sci of men can prevent il,
and no ration can awe it,, and it is al
good old English law too. IF a treaty
says "a line shall rum ,hus or so, thus or
! SOFT will go-just as a deed otua farm
runs. If, in free countries like England
and America, folks have a right to &C
where they please. they may go, and il
| they invade other countries and get caught
/ it is their look out, and they must suffer
i the: conseQuences-,hey can't claim the
/ law of their country TO, protect them, tho'
they may claim, if they can, its a,ainia
! sympathy. 5 z'5.' ss.1 -'.,
Now, to show you how this works
what has been done bylthis country e
shield the folks who got caught in Cana
/ da, making war there from this side?-
! 1N9thiag2 You hanged some, and others
! you sent5to Boatany Bay, by Meliaso-
/ apo that was right, sprcsumings they ghat
4 fair trial and we shall do the same Of
4 all occasions, and that will keep thing:
4 straight bys The iasc; and be assured o
4 one thing, that we shall never hang a ma,
| here unless itiis clearly shown by ,ht
\ law that he richly deserves it-ios a MAI
\ has to make considerable interes, here Il
\ get hanged; the natur OF, our folks prefer
/ ring to shut him up if he is a BAD man
and keep! hims!rom doing harm till he j:
1 fit1o let out, and GET an honest living.
4 But TO return to general matlers-7iL yot
will take my advice--and it is honest
\ tliouglI ii may be Iiiisunderstood--if' yot
4 desire3to keep peace between two irnpor
4 ttant branches of the great sAnglo-Saxoi
family, and thus escape. the, scandal ufi'
|, great family quarrel, (lbe worst of al
! Squafreis1 don't give cause Of, jealousy be
I tween your possessions on this Contineil
! and ours. and bear in mind THAT what yoi