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MOVEMENT OF THE BRITISH IN CAN.
ADA

MOVEMENT OF THE BRITISH IN CAN
ADA,
DEAR siM In late number OF the "Union,"I
noticed that you doubted The truth OF what the DEM
ocratic paper at Chicago had published respecting
the movements of the British at Penetangushine
and vicinity, in Canada Knowing what do in
this matter, | should have written you, 10 set you
and the country or nation cannot look on all this
right, without feeling some nterest1 by return mail
but for the fact that the same person who sent the
news to the Chicago Democrat, also sent it to the
proper department at Washington, where supposed
you could obtain the requisite information.s But
since one of your correspondents has undertaken
to blind the eyes of the public, by technical OBJ
lection to the word sdrdgooh," feel bound In ius-
hce TO ask short space In your columns for ex.
PLANTATION.
Who your correspondent is, l have no means Of
Judging, except from his language and sentiments
Those say he is an Englishman, or, what Is all the
same, forty-ninth-dcgres fnan-one who, TO APP
pease Great Britain, would, like Arnold give up
hla country, or at least five degrees and forty min
utes of 1t. Ifnot So why attempt to blind the eyes
OF the American people TO the steathy and neen.
diary operations of Great Britain
If | should state thtt, IN travelling through Can
ada, have BEEN company after company of negroes
cdfnmanded Ivy her Britannia Majesty's epauleiied
gentry, and that gathered facts whilst there sufi
cient to satisfy me that the British government lit
may be indirectly, yet knowingly paid bounty
to our abolition kidnappers for running slaves fran
the southern States TO Canada, ne hight raise a
technical objection OF some kind to this But after
ALT the material facts would exist. There would
be the fugitive slaves by the hundred and there the
British officer in command, and the aboliionist
with his bounty. A great nation, by making it's
diplomacy small, can creep through very little
pace! Your correspondent could, probably, spo.
ogise for the burning of the Caroline, the murder of
Durfee, Or the kidnapping of Groghan. Ay, per-
haps he could gloat over the immense number Of
noble spirits who, Gin patriot times" in the Ian
guage of the official organ Of Canada, were ''sen-
fenced in advance, and only imprisoned that they
might be fatiened for ne ga.ioos,n | have often
thought tiiet England had as good friends here as
at home--in the American Congress as in the Brit
ish Parliament. Your correspondent may be one
Of these. should think so, from his writings-the
only way know him.
see the American press is loud in lis denuncia-
tons OF Mexico, All this is well enough. But Is
Mexico our worst enemy wish could saw 10:
and, what is more, wish could 80 behave
II has appeared 10 me, for long time, that our
people were wully blind to the operations of Great
Britain in Canada. If had time, sir, would tell
you in detail her immense expenditures the present
season for railroads, for canals, for exploring par.
ties all through her country, both real and claimed
even to the Pacific, for Notifications, shipment OF
troops from almost all her other doniinicna to Can
ada, bounties 70 Indians and negroes, Cher common
alliss,l NC, &c.--all having their eye TO military
operations. For some reason, Great Britain is at
'cork in Canada and all her preparations are against
us. Why so' Are not the two nations at peacei
And does not the lenient policy Of our government
towards Great Britain, after receiving outrage upon
outrage, unatoned forsafter OUR giring spirit, mani
Tested on the eastern Boundary question, and daying
spirit On the westerii--show that we are submitting
TO almost everything, rather than again break a
lance with her who ought not to possess (and,
trust, will not loDg) an inch Of soil on the new
continent ANer Stating this much in express
siohs Of feelings which have prompted me, for
the past six years, to watch with jealous eye the
dongs of Great Britain in Canada, | will now ex-
press my firm belief that the statements in the CHI
cago Democrat are essentially correct 1t may be
that the two regiments of Highland dragons should
DO 'tWo regiments of Highlanders." But the Amer
lean people care not for this difference. Your cor
respondent may split his own hairs.
When recently at the straits of Mackinac, harmed
facts similar to those in the Chicago Democrat from
person whose business it was, and now is, to at
lend TO such statements He believed them correct
and he gave me his authority. | saw another per-
son, at Detroit, whose business it also was, and now
is, to inquire into such matters. He rave me his
authority, and believed them essentially true. These
persons are IN tie employ Of government, and will
When called upon, give their authority. But do
not feel authorized 10 do in this public manner
without first consulting them.
may as well add here, that between Penetan-
guishine and Green Bay, and also Milwaukee Lit
tefort Chicago, Michigan city, ST. Joseph, and the
other towns on Lake Michigan, there 10 but singIe
American fort, and that is at Mucklnac This fort fell
before the news of the last war had reached it, Ev-
cry officer that ever commanded there has given il as
his opinion that two-thrds of the men on the island
would be traitors and tories in of another war; and
belevei But aside from this considerations the fort
when best manned, and with the best guns can nei-
ther command the island nor the passage. No
wonder, then, when Penetanguishine is within only
from So to AZ hours unobstructed ride Of the Lake
Michigan towns, that not only they, but all the
towns in the Mississippi valley, should watch Brit
ish maneuvres there, and especially when they see
Indians deserving Drummond's isle to get pay at
Manioulin. II was in letter from the member
of Congress Of the Chicago district to the Committee
of Public Lands, in favor Of ship canal that the
British operations at Penetangushine and Lake
Smcoe were brought before the last Congress-; and
by the same person it was urged, in favor Of port
of entry at Chicago, that vessels could pass
Mackinac without observation These statements
have not heard gainsayed.
But as these matters will be brought before the
next Congress- which is expected to do It's whole
duty, and pass the Oregon BILL which was defeated
in the Senate by two votes, Chose of the South
Carolina senators,) extending our laws to the
Russian boundary, will trespass no longer on the
patience Of your readers.
FIAT JUSTITIA.
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