New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-04
ADDITIONAL WIZ Ne US.
DARCY MCGEE ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.


| While the ministerial supporters and organs o.
Canada are sneeiug at ill the efforts being made BY
the United States Government, tie Opposition, WINE
not evincng any particular parfiay are neverthel s,
disposed TO be candid ia considering American Affairs
DAIRY Niece, few days since, made a general
speech at fee in Chauteguay, and thus aiiudeo 10
the United States:
/ repeat here, at the earliest opportunity have
bad, what said in my place In the last Parliament,
that all this wretched small talk abont the failure OF
tie republican experiment IL the United States ought
TO be fowped down wherever it appears by the Ca-
madam puDlic. am not q Republican IN poll
tics; long before these troubles to head
In the American Union, / had ceased todogmatse
upon any abstract scheme Of Government; but have
no hesitation in declaring my own telief--a belief
founded upon evidence accumulated through several
years of observation-that the American system, so
far from having proved failure as yrants and toad.
eaters all he world would wish It 70 be-that
that system will emerge from tbs its frs, great do
mestc tIial, purified, consolidated, disciplined for
greater usefulness and greater achievements than ever
before. [Cheers
It s then, it seems to nee, the duty of Canadian
statesmen 70 look through the temporary TO the lasting
relation we are 10 sustain 10 our next neghbor; 10
suppress and dscountenaDce ell ungenerous exutaion
ut the trials and tribustions which they are now IN
dergong 10 show them, the contrary, In tins the
day If their diversity that while prefering ra-
tonal grounds the system of constitutional monarchy
for ourselves and our children-wbie preferripg TO
lodge within the precincts of the Constitution eb-
GRATED through ages by the highest wlsdom OF the
British Islands, we can at the same time be just, nay,
generous the merits Of the kindred system founded
by their fathers in the defensive and justifabe wars
OF their Revolution. II we freemen, 10 are they,
and the public calamities which befa one free people
can never be matter of exuta ion 10 another long
the world il half darkeDed by despotism as II Is
Ii the American ext erimept were indeed TO fal the
hope kindled on the affairs OF tie Easthe old Greek
fire of Freedom-would at last be quenched and Tor
eyer In the far West IL the American experiment were
10 FAIL not their fathers aloue but all the nstrous
company OF freedoms martyrs would have hved and
bled in vain. In vain Koran yirue resi.ted Roman
ambitions ia vain bad Christian cbivslry fenced OIL
the cmetsr and the supentition Of the MussulElan;
in vain had the great charter been drawn and Ban
noekburn been fought, and Switzerland been freed,
"Wbst time the hardy peasant sate
On I'M. rost Ia close divan,
Apd winged the arrow sure a. fste.
That sseertsinsd the rights OF man."
Loud cheers.l American liberty IL the product OF
The highest political intelligence of modern times,
working in the freest field cast adrift from all Euro
Jean ties BY be madness Of an arbitury minister
blind to all circumstances of tine and place; II tht
fabric -houd be destined to fsll-as firmly believe u
will not, in our day, nor at an early day-the whole
world feel the shock, and the civilized paris OF
the earth mig well be clothed in mourning, they
only understood tie value II what they had lost
lCheers.