The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-03-26

ana destroy Hunta Arenas. 1ne Gov
eminent had sent troops to defend the
place. sI
War Excitement in Canada--Ru
mored Treason in High Places
Feeling Towards the United
States.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Times,
writing from Toronto under date of
March a, dishes up the. following:
A %portentious story is at the present
moment passing from mouth to mouth,
and meets with some degree of credence.
It is confidently stated that a plot has.
been discovered, having for its object
the placing of Canada under the banner
of the stars and stripes, and that q num-
Der of men holding high Office in this
country are implicated in it. 1t is said
that when Mr.. Seward, sometime ago,
in the United States Senate, spoke of
the probable conduct of Canada, in the
event of a war with England, he proceed
ed not on vague estimate of the state Of
public feeling, but on tangible document
airy evidence, in the shape of lett rs from
Influential parties on this side, then act
ually in his hands. And il is added that
the conspiracy has been blown upon, and
that the Governor General is o in
possession of the names of eight mem
bers of the Canadian Parliament, and of
a Canadian Magistrate, who have been
engaged in reasonable correspondence
with Mr.. Seward.
Nor is the stor at all an improbable
one. Perhaps Mr.. Seward would err
egregiously if he took these letters as a
reliable index to the general sentiments
of the Canadian population, but there
can be 10 doubt that in the event of a
war there would be in Canada a consid-
cradle plumber Of sympathizers with the
U. s. In the fist place, taking the
state of feeling in Parliament. there
are some five or six members of it who
are Americans by birth, and more of
them have been known to give utter
ance to the idea that in the event of a
war, the interests of Canada are wound
up with this continent rather than with
England. Then there is the French
Rogue Party, numbering in Parliament
some IL to 90, who are almost to q man,
Republicans in theory, and who take no
pains to conceal that that the notion of
having to fight for England against our
Republican neighbors is abhorcnt to
them. H
MI. Benton Declines a Nomina-
ton.
A letter from "Old Ballion,p of
March 18th, published in the st. Louis
Democrat says:
I never saw the day I would DO will
ling to be a candidate for the Presiden-
cy, aud am now further from it than
ever. No earthly consideration could
make me a candidate. The Senate was
once agreeable to me. when there was a
chance to do something for the State or
the United States. But that seems now
to be over. and all Craftsmanship re
duced to a hurxah on one side or the
other of slavery. Even local interes+s
seem to crush under it-as the Pacific
Railroad.
Congress is no longer desirable to me;
politics have run down too low to have
any attraction for me. / spent thirty
years of my life in contest of great prin-
ciples-of great mcasures-of great
men, and cannot wear out the remainder
of my days in a slavery agitation, either
on the one side or tho other of it.
I have work enough marked out to
occupy the remainder of my life, and of
a kind to be pleasant aud profitable to
me, if not beneficial to a future genera
tion-which I think it may be. I pro-
pose to abridge the debates of Congress
from 1899 to 1850; also, to continue
my history from 1850 to the day Of my
death. This is work enough for me,
and of more dignity Ito say nothing of
any thing elsc) than acting a part in asla-
very agitation, which is now the work
of both parties, and which, in my opin-
ion, is to end disastrously for the Union,
let which side will prevail. Anew man
unconnected vita the agitation, is what
the country wants.
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