Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1849-04-06
Affairs Of Canada,


Though we have not been no ready as some
other journalists 10 predict an immediate revo-
ution in this part Of British America, we arc
nevertheless Of opinion that Canada is i'll at ease,
and Is pretty rapidly becoming mo better" II
is undeniabc That when the intelligent portion
OF the Canadians compare their condition with
that Of their neghbors over the border, the con-
trast is sufficiently startling, and the feelings
awakened by il must be far from feeding their
self-complacency as British subjects. No doubt
loyalty is powerful principle, where the opera
ton Of II is not neutrazed by some antagonist
passion or interest but these are times when
peoplc-colonists especially-are aptt take the
economical rather than the poetical side Of
question Of practical politics. There was 10y
al Englishman who enjoined it upon his son 10
"stand by the crown,l though il hung upon a
bush" We rather think this sort Of enthusiasm
has mostly passed away--at lcas; on this side Of
the Atlantic, and that the main inquiry is likely
TO be whether the bush be worth sticking by, for
lis fruit or is shelter, and not whether there DO
a crown on Il.
Plainly, the Canadians sec that we are better
off than they are better fed, clothed, educated,
housed, governed, manned, horsed, and wived.
Our towns grow faster than theirs; our lands
and houses increase In value more rapidly; our
farmers, traders, and artisans outstrp theirs in
earning money all the activities Of life 20 on
more vigorously and more successfully with US
than with them. 1t is impossible that the
Canadians can see these things, and not In.
quire the csu-e; and il is impossible that they
can fail TO discover the cause in the political in.
s,itutions Of the two countries. Knowing this
fact, il becomes a sort Of mathematical problem
how long they will continue TO be satisfied with
the government under which they live. No
doubt il is a pleasant thing to be loyal subject
TO Queen who must have 10000 pounds ster-
ling from Parliament for every new baby with
which she blesses the nation but the pleasure
Of living under Queens and babies must be lit
tie dashed BY the thought that the queenles. Yam
KEGS over the line save their money for their own
babies, and get great deal more Of it to save.
In fact, the Canadians have already begun to
speculate upon the possibility Of their being
transferred from the condition Of British subjects
TO that of citizens of the United States They
do not openly, indeed propose TO throw of their
allegiance to the British crown, but they put TO
the consideration Of one another the hypothetical
case Of such a change Of condition. a Montre-
al paper thus specifies the advantages which an
admission into the American Union would Sc
cure to the inhabitants Of Canada
ut would do away with all fear of our becom-
ing involved in war with the United States.
Il would do away with all custom.houses and
smuggling along our very extended frontier, and
establish free trade with the North American
continent
dollars and cents, and the American postage sys-
TEN would be Immediately extended over Can
ada.
Ii would introduce American capital freely
into Canada, to erect factories, to carry on man.
ufactures, and purchase the produce Of the soil.
1t would raise the value Of fixed property in
Canada to par with property similarly circum-
stanced on the other side Of the lines.
1t would greatly promote the construction OF
railroads in Canada.
II would cause great part of the produce of
the West to flow down the st. Lawrepee'
The enmity between the French and English
| population Of Canada seems at present to be as
fierce and bitter as on the day when Montcalm
and Wolfe met on the Plains of Abraham. A
French Canadian paper utters the following Ian
guage;
awe inhabit that section Of Canada formerly
called Lower Canada. In that portion Of New
France we count 500 900 souls Of French origin.
We form a nation, small il you will, but still
a nation. We have a language, religion, and
laws, all French. Our customs, our habits, are
those of France, not Of England. We have our
cities, our country, our churches, our colleges,
our priests, our advocates, our notaries, NJ
French, and we have our motto, Nos insnf,ifioss,
notre langue, ef nos lois All these we have in
herited from France. By treaty Of cession, Eng
land is bound, obliged, to guaranty and preserve
TO US these institutions, which form the ground
work of our nationality.
They have, by an act worthy of Nicholas Of
Russia, crushed the French population, which is
the majority, under the English population, which
is the minority. They have given US many rep
resentatiyes to Upper Canada as to Lower Can
ada, well knowing that the English represent
atives Of Lower Canada will always unite with
those Of Upper Canada for the sake of power,
(as is so fully exemplifed at presently Our in
that England promised them by the treaty. We
are left at the mercy Of our political and reli-
gious enemies. The treaty is then violated, or,
at least, on the eve of being so. We are no
longer subjects of England we are placed un-
der the domination of set Of our FELLOWSHIP
jects. And we should be justified in demand
ing, it not the Intervention, ut least the media
ton Of France, who was party to the treaty
The United States, far from extinguishing in
our hearts the sacred fire of nationality, would
puff ii into blaze for they know well that, in
con6ding the safety of the St. Lawrence to the
French Of Canada, it would be as well guarded
as was New Orleans by the French Of Louisiana
The enemy might getin, but he never could get
out"
Neither the French nor the English party ap-
pear to have much confidence in the power or
the viii of the British government to reconcile
the factions, and restore tranquility to the coun-
try. In such q state Of things, it is no way sur
prisng that they should begin to talk Of taking
the matter into their own hands.--Bosf. Courier.
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