The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-30

presented to that body and their approval urged by
man who has never wavered in his fidelity to
Democratic principles. They haze been secuted and
put under the slo,D- death ordeal. But the act is
now we'll understood by the powers at Washing
ton as well as Albany, and hereafter the national
Democratic party will know who are it's friends,
and where to find Them"
Common sense is making Roadway even in
Canada, where the mawkish sentimentality of
abolitionism, albeit plentiful, is not omnipo-
tent. We showed few months ago that the
farmers in the southwestern section of the pro-
vince demurred somewhat to the tendency of
things to swamp them with runaway negroes.
More recently, the Toronto Leader, an organ
Of the ministry, ventured to suggest that the
colonists would never consent to assimilate with
negroes, and that Liberia, not Canada, is their
proper place of refuge. Now, the Hamilton
Spectator goes step beyond, and dares to
inquire whether slavery in the South is not,
after all, preferable to the condition to be en-
count red by the runaways in the North. The
formation:of an Anti.Slavery Society at Ham
ilton appears to have revived the controversy,
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Spectator penned these pungent interrogato-
ries:
care those gentlemen quite satisfied that in
bringing into this country class of people which
has never been taught the first social or moral OBJ
legation, they confer any special advantages on
the community? And do they think that in trans
porting these people from a state of slavery to
freedom, without making any provision for their
support, they perform real act OF philanthropy?
Are begging and crime. idleness and dissipation
in Canada, so much preferable to food and employ
ment in the South, even with the occasional lash
of the taskmaster, that the slave is benefited by
transfer from the cotton field to the jaiIs and
penitentiary of this free province?''
The negro question is not the only one on
which the Canadians are gaining enlightenment.
MIR. Inspector General H1NcKs has remembered
the injunction, "think we'll before you act;"
though, unluckily for his reputation, he forgot
another, e'think twice before you speak," He
spoke last September, and developed the marvel
lous policy of retaliation which was to frighten
the United States out of their propriety, and
ultimately enable Canada to procure recipro-
city on her own terms. When Congress sepa-
rated without having swallowed Mr.. SEY-
MoUR's measure, Mr.. H1NcKs sent forth an
other announcement, to wit, that retaliation
would be commenced without more delay. 1t
was limited from this side Of the line, in re-
turn, that the game is one at which two could
play, and that the suspension of bonding privi-
leges on our part might possibly cost Canada
more than she could gain from double taxation
on the Welland Canal. 1t was further limited
by the merchants of Western Canada that the
present position of things, without reel.
procity, is preferable to the condition of de-
pendence upon the St. Lawrence ports, which
must follow retaliation. March 18th was
fixed by Mr.. H1NcKs for his first
move, but the day passed without a sign.
We have since scanned the Geographic
columns daily for some inkling of information
upon the subject, but in vain. Mr.. HlKcKs
spoke fearfully but has not acted, and the To
ronto Globe of the Goth tells US that he will
not act, this time. The Globe says: "The
latest news from Quebec is that Mr.. H1NcKs
has abandoned his retaliatory policy"
Mr.. H1NcKs, then, is sagacious-as saga
cious in regard to retaliation as the Leade,
and Spectator are in regard to negroes
Let us hope that the better sense and better
taste do not come too late to be useful
Queen Victoria. it is said, is haunted with an
idea that she will be driven from the English throne
by revolution, and is he-efore investing largely
IN United states securities. 1t is even SAID .h.t
the Earrings have purchased for her at least1 half
street in the city of New York.-Pittsburgh naner.
w. ~"anect that the revolutionary idea is
oamron. H. - "half street" is
certainly nonsense.
VICTORIA, sensible woman as she is known
to be, may be "investing largely in United
otates securlties," as her acute friend. Iou,s
PHILIPPE, did before her. She can choose no
better security. 1t is possible, too, that her
husband, having an eye to profit, has bought
few sections Of prairie in the West. as the
FRINGE DE JoINvLLE did many years ago.
But that the EARRINGS are so ignorant of New
YORK law as to invest her majesty's means in
real estate, without the ability to possess a
valid title to any portion of it prior to the pro-
cess OF naturalization on her majesty's part, is
story too improbable to pass for aught else
than Joke, and dull at that. We expect
however, to meet our Pittsburgh contempo-
rary's item weekly for three months to come
at least.
iHE CENTRAL BANK is the name of a new bank
winch will go into effect in the city of New York
IN the Let Of April with capital of 5000 900 and
The privilege of increasing it to 81 zoo, OOo Ed.