Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-08-01
What John Bull, Dr., Says.

The news of the defeat at Bulls Run has
reached Canada, and is the subject of much COM
ment in the provincial press. The Montreal
Gazette cites the facts of the attack and repulse
and then remarks in this unfriendly tone
General Scott did not believe his army in an
efficient state or the proper moment come for
his forward movement. But the New York
Tribune and other papers urged with such clam
orous persistency that the President and his adj
visers interfered with the plan of the campaign
a premature advance has been made, and we
see the result. The 'grand army" that was to
eXterminate the Southerners is in full retreat
upon Washington. utterly beaten by the superb
or tactics of the Southern General, which has
enabled lin SO to mass his troops as to do what
the Northern intended to do-overwhelm the
enemy. 1t was not pleasant thing for philo-
sophie minds to see that this defeat of the North
ern army was received rather with satisfaction
than regret, by people on the streets here. The
North has Dragged so much and so loudly, has
been so insolent in its tone. not only towards
the South, but towards Britain; it has Dragged
so much about threshing Great Britain, and
crumpling up poor little Canada, that sympa-
thy has been alienated from the braggart and
the bully We did not believe that where SO
much gasconade was, there could be the true
metal of which armies are made, and when we
discovered so much lying in the newspaper re-
ports about the Northern and Southern armies,
we learned to distrust all that they said. The
South has been hemmed in by great masses of
troops, portion of her territory wrested from
her-her ports blockaked-her every effort jeer-
ed at-her prospects of successful fighting for
her own territory turned into ridicule anti nc
Io1Y1 in he
qa,t aoorsted, and the much abused South, driue7
to ban, ac1iere success Let Northern soil be
invaded and the current of sympathy would
change at once. Ones sympathies, all unreal
soning as they often are, will turn towards the
side Of the weaker power or the party In most
imminent danger. So the people of Britain al
ways sympathized with the Greeks against the
Turks, and the Turks against the Russians, with
the Spainiards and Portuguese against the French
and the Italians against the French and Aus
TRANS. Nay, large numbers of her people sym.
pathized with the Americans against the troops
their own government sent against them IN the
Revolution And to-day the temporary defea
and humiliation Of the most insolent and over.
bearing power in the world is not regretted by
the majority here No one believes the South
can conquer the North and no one regrets tina
| the North is unable to conquer and subjugatt
the South in the ueni, uio, vici style which news
paper critics and noisy demagegues so confident
| ly anticipated.
The Quebec Chronicle has the following:
The New York press will doubtless be sadly
downcast, now. For ourselves, we have not ex
ulted over the much vaunted Northern victories
and see no great reason to rejoice in a Northern
defeat. All our desires is that the war SHOULD
cease, and that we should be spared the specta
Gle of seeing brothers in race and language en-
gagged ia mortal combat. Neither the Nortl
nor the South can subjugate tue other, LIE
them agree to what we call separation de biens
and be at peace. There is room enough on thi
great continent for three great nations-a Uniol
| of the British colonies-a Union of the North
ern States, and C5nfederacy Of the Southeri
| republics.