Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-10-15

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ersed equally with the United States by
the Lakes, and enjoying the magnificent
shores of the st. Lawrence, with its
thousands of islands in the River, and
Gulf, region grand enough for the seat
of great empire. In It's wheat-felds III
the West, its broad ranges of the chase at
the North, its inexhaustihle lumber lands
1.-The most extensive now remaining on
the globe-its invaluable fisheries, and
its yet undisturbed mineral deposits, |
see the elements of wealth. / find its in
habitants vigorous, hardy, energetic, per-
fected by the Protestant Religion and
British Constitutional Liberty. | find
them jealous of the United States and
Great Britain, as they ought to be and
therefore when / look at their extent and
resources, know they can neither be
conquered by the former, nor permanent
ly held by the latter. They will be in
dependent, as they are already self-main-
tanning. Having happily escaped the
curse of Slavery, they will never submit
themselves to the domination of slave
holders, which prevails in, and determines
the character of the United States They
will be Russia behind the United States,
which to them will be France and Eng
land. But they will be Russia civilized
and Protestant, and that will be very
different Russia from that which fills
all Southern Europe with terror, and by
reason of that superiority they will be
the more terrible to the dwellers in south
ern attitudes
The policy of the United States is to
propitiate and secure the alliance of Can
ada, while it is yet young and injurious
of its future. But on the other hand, the
policy which the United States actually
pursues, is the infatuated one of reject
ing and spurning vigorous, perennial and
ever-growing Canada, while seeking to
establish feeble States out of decaying
Spanish provinces on the coasts and in
the islands of the Gulf of Mexico.
shall not live to see it, but the man is
already born who will see the United
States mourn over this stupendous folly,
which is only preparing the way for ulti
mate danger and downfall. All South
ern political stars must set, though many
times they rise again with diminished
splendor. But those which illuminate
the Pole remain forever shining, forever
increasing in splendor.
Again on the Goth, approaching the
terminus of his voyage, he concluded the
subject thus:
1--WE are now in the midst of Lower
Canada. The long street of farm houses,
thickening up at distances of seven or
eight miles into villages, with huge
church in each, meets our sight on either
side of the river, and we seem to recog
nize localities and landmarks as easily as
we could on the Hudson River.
TIE FUTURE INDEPENDENCE OF BRITISH
AMERICA.
1t is, perhaps, as good a time as any to
complete my speculations on the possibil
ity that British North America will be-
come and permanently remain an inde-
pendent State. 1t is already about as
populous as the United States were at the
Declaration of Independence. 1t is gath
ering motives to independence as fast, in
the growing increase of trade, agricul-
ture and manufactures, and inthe enlarge
ment of the field of ambition. 1t has
not, indeed, the stimulus of oppression,
as the United States had, but indepen-
dence is the result always of political ma
turity, not of oppression. Our children
become independent when they become
men, whether they be dealt with kindly
or rudely by us. t7ia
1t will soon begin to be seen that it is
as easy, and safer, for British North
America to be independent of the United
States rs well as of Great Britain, than to
change its position, and surrender to the
United States the sovereignty which it
will acquire BY separation from the moth
er country. Every political fact that ex-
lists is the practical working out of po
litical idea. Does a distinct idea of in
dependence of the United States exist in
British America, and amidst its people ?
| say yes. For first, the precedent SYM
pathy is British, not American and sec
ond, the Canadians, free from Slavery
and seeing its workings, fear, abhor and
hate It, know it may be said that Brit
ish America is divided into distinct, dis
cordant provinces, some agricultural,
some dependent on trade and some onthe
| fisheries, and that the French element is
not homogeneous But the diversities of
circumstances and language are hardly
greater than those which existed among
the thirteen colonies which, by united
action, became independent in ITO
Fine and experience of the responsible
| ties of Government are rapidly producing
an assimilation. The French element
must become inert, and so less infuen-
| tial, because il is completely cut off from
all communication with France. The
French Government and people had al
ready forgotten that they once held an
empire here-nay, they hold no inter-
course with the descendants of the early
colonlsts, not any more than Holland with
the people Of New York, Sweden with
those Of Delaware, or the German States
with Pennsylvania
Some one might ask where would be
the capital and triumphantly say there
can be no nation where nature has not
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