The republic., 1851-12-19
A Canadian Call for Intervention.

Our Canadian neighbors are ordinarily among
the most jealous of mankind. They have all
the selEcomplacency and concet of the parent
JOHN BULL, with very small modicum of his
warm hearted generosity. Divested Of nation
ality themselves, and having no avenues to use
fulness or ambition beyond those furnished by
the cramped requirements of colonial life, they
appear to experience peculiar pleasure in sneer-
ing at the prosperity and progressive proPensl-
ties of JONATHAN. We form this opinion from
the tone of envy and detraction which pervade
their journals, which seize with avidity every
circumstance that can by any ingenuity be
twisted into an excuse for charging upon US all
the vices and crimes that are alleged to follow
inordinate ambition. Every addition to our ter
ritory is traced TO a greed of plunder; and
every assertion of our manhood is dwelt upon
as proof that we are on the high road to ruin.
On all these points the Canadian journalists
revel in multitude Of extremely ridiculous
notions.
With such an estimate of our character and
tendencies, it is somewhat novel to find Ca
madam paper sending forth the subioined appeal
in favor Of an alliance between England and
the United States, against the proceedings Of
the French government in the South Sea:
''Most ferventy is il to be desired that the United
States will persevere in their efforts tho
Sandwich Islands from the dominion of France
The inhabitants Of these beautiful islands having
cast away their idols and embraced Chrishanity
from the teaching of British and American mis-
sionaries, have been most cruelty treated by the
French. Their religion Is trampled on, and their
rising prosperity and independence checked on the
very threshold. The British government. we fear,
have not done their duty in this matter. They
should make common cauze with the Americans in
driving the French from the posssssions they go
unjustly acquired"
The paper which thus recommends the
British to "make common cause with the Ame-
rcans in driving the French from the posses
sions they SO unjustly acquired" is no other
than the Toronto Globe, a very able paper
in the radical interest, but one that is pre-
eminent in its hostility to the principles, poll
cy, and even the people of this Republic.
| The Globe very often reads us solemn homi-
lies on our imputed wholesale forgetfulness of
| the Christian maXim--on our disposition to
meddle with matters that do not concern US
between US and Britain, until we modify our
habits and institutions to suit the tastes of sun
dry officious personages. Are we to conclude
that it s prepared to renounce its former here
sizes, to seek absoluton for all its sins against
US, and hereafter to exercise more rigid disci-
pline over it's thoughts and pen2 Does 1t pro-
| pose Intervention in this instance because it
happens to disapprove of the conduct of
the French in the Sandwich Islands, or be-
cause i. has enlisted under the banner of
| those who propose to wage @ war of
! liberty" over all the world If the latter,
has the Globe any objection to begin with
| the application of its own principle to its
own province? Suppose, for example, that the
French habitanS of Lower Canada, tired of the
| dominion of their British conquerors and mas
| ers and of the insults which their religion en-
| dures at the hands of ultra Protestant teachers
| in Upper Canada, should send delegation to
| Washington to seek an alliance with the Gov
ernment Of the United States to aid them sin
| driving the" British ''from the possessions
| they so unjustly acquired" = what would
the Toronto Globe say then And yet such
a step would be precisely similar to that il now
proposes, and on many grounds as warrantable.
Without endeavoring to palliate, much less
TO justify, the conduct of the French in the
South Seas, and with an earnest desire TO see
the independence of the Sandwich Islands es-
tablished upon the most durable foundation. we
may YET remind the Canadian advocates of in
tervention that their country should be the last
in the world to talk of "'driving" from posses
| sions simply because they have been "unjustly
acquired" Ifthatrule were applied to Britain,
we should like to know how long she would be
able to boast that "the sun never sets upon her
dominion ns."