Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-06-14
THE IERICANPEOPLEFROAf
A CANADIAN POINTC9F VIEW
[sIonl BE- .IontresI nsraIi, lLsy a

TIE PEOPLE FROM
a CANADIAN POINT62F VIEW
ESrona The Montreal Herald, Nay 81
While the American government is doing its
best to provoke war with England, state of
anarchy, sufficient to engage all its energies ex-
isis in its own dOminionS Congressman CON-
init murders Senators are al but beaten to death
in her legislative chambers, and baudsof armed
ruffians desolate the Territory, assasSinate the
citizens ard fire the buildings IN Kansas The
North sends men, money and arms to the inva-
ded Territory, and the South accepts the chal-
lenge by similar demonstrations. One thing
only prevents a war with England, one only
stays a civil war in Kansas. The American
eagle is halfbrccd between carbon yulture
and a dunghill rooster. He lacks the courage
necessary for fair combat, and he crows theIoud-
est when furthest from his enemy The men
of the Revolution arc dead; their inferior chill
dren OF, 1872 are in their. dotage; the present
generation, raised on hot cakes and sweet fix
ings, and stimulated with tobacco juice, is al
talk and no cider as destitute of the stamina on
which courage is founded as its mothers are OF
flesh.
Look at the Notwithstanding at sixteen, IA
ded at twenty, toothless at twenty-five, hideous
at thirty, dividing their time between their rock
ing chairs and their beds, incapable of exertion,
incompetent to exercise, ever ailing, istess. lnzy
straight up and down, like an old fashioned
clothcs-pin, making up the deficiency of their
arc these the things to suckle heroes9 The
race has deteriorated, and is dwindling away;
and but for the constant introduction Of new
and healthy blood from the immigration, would
disappear in century.
The moral deficiencies of the people are equal
to the physical; the boys slang each other, but
never fight; the men assassinate, but never
come to blows; they talk terrible things in pub
lie meetings, aud confine their terrible doings
to concealed shot OF sudden stab at an un-
prepared enemy. Ministers of the Gospel adj
wise blOodshed, and take up subscriptions for
rifles; everything necessary tor combat IS
sent to the scene of contention but pluck; the
men are white ivered, and afraid of each other;
and if one party advances, the other runs away;
houses are piundered and burned, and unarmed
people butchered; 1.-THE assaulted pick up conr-
age and advance again, the ASSISTANTS run IN
their turn and like SCENES follow their footsteps
Indignation meetings are held in all the cities
of the States, money is subscribed for arms and
ammunition, for food and clothing; patriotic
Orations Numbered from the rostrum; and in
cendiary declarations from the pulpit; the
North is about to vindicatc its liberties; the
East to y to the assistance of its children; out
ragged liberty is to he appeascd with the blood
of the marauders, the freedom of the soil of
/ Kansas TO be relieved from the approbrious dcs-
Potism of its invaders Now surely there viii u
be fighting. No, gentlemen, not bit ofit; 1t
is still all talk, very tall and Supcrls'ive talk,
but still roe az pre:ercat n1ittL
/ For n year we have heard Of civil war in Kan
sas, its territory invaded, its polls mobbcd, its
I Legislature ovcrthrown and usurped by ruthanS,
records of TnOnStrouS OutrGgeS, OF violations OF
property, and of civil and political rights before
/ lnheard of in civilized con- t.y. We were told
/ the day of rctribution was couiing-that the free
! soil men were in arms; the WHOLE Territory was
4 a huge camp entertainments were thrown up,
and cannon b-istled OH them; rifles were there,
and tons of powder and lead. Terrible things
were these ritics-thcy fired twenty times in
minute, and killed their man at annie.
/ Then came further wrongs. The President
I had conspired against the freedom of Kansas
; United States troops were sent in to disarm the
true citizens, and to leave them at the mercy of
individual rufiianS Now then comes the tug of
war-thc law-abiGing people have borne the last
outTage-now Kansas will avenge herself The
women make cartridges and practice with rcvOI-
ycrs; the men flourish their weapons and talk Of
| Bunker HILL The invaders arrive, sheriff with
| a dozen ofimen marches into the stronghold Of
the desperate freemen, and 10 the war spirit is
distinguished like n farthing ruShlight in a tub
of water; the braveSt y like sheep, without strk-
ing blow or daring 90 fire their long range rifles
even at mile, and the rest surrender their arms,
and hide, covering with their wB1nen and chill
dren, whiic their dwellings, are burned, their
property plundercd, and themselves threatened
I by heroes like themselves. Oh, shade Of Wash
i6gtOnl Oh, apple sarse and punkin pie! Oh,
! lasSes sweetniu' and chicken fxins THAT the
Star spanglcd Banner should float ever such c
pack of coward braggartsl
| And those are better than fair specimens of
the people who talk Of going tc war with Eng
land in the same way us they do Of conquering
Nicaragua who propose TO make weeks ex-
I curSiOn for the conquest of Canada, and would
have been glad the Job of taking Sevastopol in
"a fortnight.
We do not think tliereis much occasion to be
afraid of them, whether there be war or peace.
\ contest in which there are more hard knocks
10 be got than plumber is exactly the one IN
which our degenerate cousins have the least de-
sire to engage. Let them hold Kansas meetings
and Summer meetings and Champion indigna-
ton meetings if they please; talking in their pc
culiar amusement. With population which, ca
ger and ready to invade the rights and property
of Others, is without the courage TO protect its
own; with an army made up of the congregated
scoundrels of all nations, and feet manned fee
bly, as It's, with such set ofTit:raff that while
4 Onc-half the crews are in irons, guard boats,
while in harbor, have to watch day and night
to prevent the desertion Of the others, and the
service so unpopular that single steamer has
taken months after it was commissioned to OBJ
7 tain crcw-there is no more to be dreaded
from war yaporing, or the reality of it from the
United States, than from similar gascoaade, or
actual action, on the part of his Serene High
ness, tie Emperor of Timbuctoo.
1t is simply ridiculous, and should be treated
l like any other burlcsque.
I -$S1DsA-
y PERTrHED BEEGTH.-yThatlady gentleman would
ing the BALN or raors4sD FLowras dentifrice would
only render but leave the teeth white aabaS