Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-10-25
Views Of the CaAaaian Press.
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.

From the Quebec Morning Chronicle, Sept. llth
At the comm nencenent, of this deplora.
BILE struggle, there can be little doubt that
believing it to be simply a question oi
slavery, from an imperfect knowledge oi
its causes, and national impulse on the
part of British subjects to support the
powers that be, the strongest disposition
was manifested throughout Canada to
advocate the cause Of the Northern
States but gradually, as the clouds Of
doubt and uncertainty which surrounded
the questions were by the actions, "man
ifestoes" and "messages@ 6f the Washing
ton authorities dispersed, we have been
taught to believe that the struggle. now
only commencing, is simply one between
the mob law and tyrannical abuse Of the
North, against the constitutional freedom
and the right to proper representation OF
the South, and somewhat sudden revul-
sion of feeling displayed itself, not only
in Canada, but, we may say, throughout
the whole civilized world.
When we find the President in his mes
sage, misquoting the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, "all men we're created equal, -
suppressing the "free," as if the idea
were unpleasant to him-when we find
the doctrine advanced that "the Union
created the States, and not the States the
Union when we find the argument used
that since Louisiana and Florida were pur-
chased, these States have no right to ':re-
BEL" without the remembrance of the fact
that the sale of lands to the residents in
these States has repaid the treasury ten
fold the amount of the purchase money
when we know that even in the Northern
States the negro is infinitely more of a
real slave and worse treated than iii the
South--when we see before us daily the
grossest instances of corruption and pee
ulation in the transactions of dignitaries
when we read of the wholesale resigna-
tions of educated Northern, officers and
thier greatest General hurried to defeat by
the pressure and howlings of an outside
mob-when we read of thousands of sol
diers insisting on their discharge on the
ground that theiF tern of Office bad ex.
pired, and marching homeward through
their advancing fellow-soldiers, to the mu-
sic of the booming of the enemy's can
nons-when we read and learn all this, and
witness the disorder, the deception, the
vain boastihg, in short, the toa Dioboli
which pervades the mob of the Northern
States, is it any wonder, Indeed, that We
turn with loathihg from the contemplation
of such picture, refuse our sympathies,
and while thankful that our own Consti-
tuition preserves us from ever being simi-
larly Situated, deploring sadly and deeply
that civil war should rage among some
twenty five millions Of our own kinsfolk,
speaking the same language as ourselves,
exclaim from our inmost souls-God pre-
serve the right.
1t is sheer nonsense to endeavor to
identify the Northern cause with freedom,
either for black or white. Freedom is UNI
known in the North. Universal suffrage
has thrown the power of the, Government
in the hands of the mob, and the educated
and thinking masses, for the most part,
hold themselves aloof from any participa-
ton in It's sentiments or actions, Lincoln
seems to have become the mouth piece of
the Northern rowdies, who gag aud con.
troll the press and insist Upon heing re-
galed with series of disgracefpl, vain
boasting, and offensive articles directed
against the British power, and advocating
the conquest Of Canada. AS British sub
jects and Canadians, we naturally feel these
optrages and insults, (though we can we'll
afford to laugh at the threats and have
just cause to feel the strongest antipathy
to the Northern Statos apart altogether
from cur syihpathies from what we must
call justice to the South.