New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-27
The Feeling In Canada.

The Toronto correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes:
''To Arms To Arms " is the cry from Quebec
to Sarnia- Gen. Williams, the hero of Kars, is
ing the immediate repair Of old forts and the cree
ten of new ones. At the old forts Of Toronto
hundreds Of soldiers are working, and large guns
and great quantities Of ammunition are being plen-
taul!y supplied. A body Of artillerymen have ar
rived to teach the soldiers of the 30th, stationed
here, their art Accompany of sappers and miners
are expected here immed ediately. They have been
brought from Halifax By. way of River de Loup.
The lawyers, merchants, and university students
have formed rife companies others are also ac-
lively at work, and the militia IS being stirred upy
after long inaetion. So you may easily understand
that we are in earnest preparing for war;
b y From the Toronto Leader, Dee 81 4
\ The MILITARY SPIRIT ARouszD.-The military
spirit of our people Is evidently becoming aroused.
On every hand measures for self-defense are be-
ing adopted. The active volunteer force is receiy-
ing large aecessions TO its numbers new compa- j
MES are being formed everywhere and old ones >
filled up; the pfivates are most assidnous in mas
tering the drill and the officers are directing their
attention to the study military tactics of ahgher
order. The sedentary force, too, is awaRing from
its snmbers The country Is fully alive to the dam
ger Of being ulled into false IDEAS OF security and
its spirit Is fully equal to that which mbusd the
Men who, in 1912, turned out to repe the boastful
invader In Toronto this spisitis manifested every
where, and among all classes, showing itself in the
military musters which are held every day. Sas-e
urday, for instance, was busy day among oar
embryo soldiery, and at night military matters
formed almost the sole theme of conversation iii "
public places. =
From the Mag Correspondent of the Leaderf W
DEFENGEs FOR REPEfLING NyAsIeN-The abb
eserbing topic in Canada West, especially along
the frontier, is consideration Of defenees end
our means of repelng q sudden invasion in case
of war will not enter into Details but will state
in general terms that in view of the total want Of
preparation, without fort or battery, without
single regiment Of militia that is possessed of the
first rudments of drill, without, In short single
means of defence to rely on in o sudden emergen-
cy, feeling of intense anxiety prevails all classes
We see the western portion Of the province, with
all its accumulated wealth, its loyal populations ita
towns, villages and happy homes exposed to q. pos
| sble irruption from numerous and yindictve foe,
and liable 70 be overrun, plundered and devastated
| before means of defence are organized With
the best material In the world to defend country,
our actual capabilities, for want of organization,
are about the worst. Should a war break out sud
denly, nothing we have at present could prevent
Western Canada being invaded and perhaps oc-
cupiea by the enemy. Our people would. 6ght
with all their native unsked yalor to proteettheir
country, but at what loss of loyal life and prop
erty compared with that required were we, organ
lied and prepared. ii
In view Of the immense interest at sta5e, our
immediate future depending on such threatening
contingencies 1t is the imperative duty of tho pro-
| .yisonal government at once to commence discip-
lining the militia by at least taking the Gearse
etfectnal before the breaking out of the war of
| 18l2-that Of organizing for permanentduty flank
companies in every militia regiment in. this pros
vince. This step was the salvation of Upper
Canada in the late war, and its necessity is soob.
vious that every day our Government delays TAX.
ing this preliminary precaution, it is mourning the
| most terrible responsibility Of exposing Western
Canada to disastrous invasion. One month Of
American occupation would involve the loss Of
| more life and more destruciion of property than
would pay for our whole militia to be kept on q
war footing for five years, to say nothing Of other
considerations. Every days delay increases fu-.
ture danger therefore letit be impressed on the
Government of this Province that its plain, imme-
diate duty is to organize the militia and pat such
portions Of it permanent service as the exigen-
| cy requires. ',5