East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-12-17
CANADA.

ing aspect of affairs between England
and the United States, advises 'Canada
(" to prepare at once 10y disciplining her
+" militia aud drilling volunteer army.
" Canada," il says, ''should not rely too
"much on us or too little upon herself y
We are apt TO believe that in case OF
war with this government, England
will find little enthusiastic co operation
ON the part of the people Of Canada. =
The subsidized press may buster, and
the official hirelngs of the home gov.
crnment play brag and bully, as they
have been doing for some time past, but
the masses, the sturdy yeomarry whose
intelligence, bone and muscle constitute
the present power and give the only
hepo for the future greatness of tho
provinces, feel too kcenly tho subordi.
nate position they are compelled to oc.
cupy, socially aud politically, to DO in.
duced hastily to take sides against both
their interests and their convictions of
right. 1t has been supposed, and with
reason, for long time, in Canada, that
there is underneath the calmer surface
of the waters powerful under current
that may upheav, any day; the course
Of government has never run very
smooth there, and it is not uncommon
to see, in portion of its press, precisely
the run of thought that preceded the
revolution of our thirteen colonies
Such was the case in the judicial ques
ton that has been lately discussed in
Parliament; when the talk by the advo.
Gates of Canadian rights about British
interference with the Canadian Judiciary
was exactly in the tone of what was
heard in Massachusetts when the Crown
endeavored to make tho Judges OF
NJ massachusetts, dependants on the Crown.
Indeed, the old questions of liberty keep
constantly coming up and only put on
new faces; and Canada has had about
the whole list a..- ia i..
If we look back along tho Inc Of Can.
adian history We find succession of
,!issensions between the provincial
Houses of Assembly in Upper and
Lower Canada; their respet tive govern.
ments; and controversies in which the
home government was fairly drawn in.
The colonial machine at times has
worked badly, shockinglyi and because
on the one side was oligarchical power
and on the other side eternal rights
About twenty years ago, was an Execu
tive that ceased to act in harmony with
public feeling and in fiat opposition to
the popular branch OF the legislature
The truth W as that greedy mobiles guided
the course of greedy governors; and the
object of all was to make of Canada
which has so spirited people, com
plete pasture ground. These officials
tried to get AS much feed as possibl, ou
of it for themselves. This grew to b,
; utterly unbearablc. At length Lower
Canada dared to ask the right of con
trolling the appropriations and public
Offices, ard one petition had s7,o0(
signatures. A thing like this had no
been heard of since the American Rev
olution. Lord Gosford yielded few o
the demands, but denied the main part
especially those of any account. This
was in 1886. "The following year,
says the British writer whom We follow
SHE wholc of Canada broke om INTO opc
: rebellion" aud that continued through
!, out the years 1887 and 1888.
|, Vigorous application of British arm
-about twenty Thousand troops wer
in the fe,d,--resiored peace to tn,
l
country, or rather suppressed he re
: belIon. Still the ground work Of dis
!, content remains The people canno
/, but remember the spirit in which Lor'
i John Russell, in his 1888 speech sal,
!. that though the time was not yet,
!. 5 might come, wien he, mortal man
i "wuud not be lndisposcd to give tn
,4O0, 900 of our present fellow subjects
who are living in the provinces of Mort
America, participation in the pcrfe,
freedom enjoyed by the moth,
country" We suppose the inteligen
ie prosperous, resolutc Canadians do nc
"a hold their liberties by gifts of I.or
III John Russell, but by virtue Of the
a.