The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1861-11-01

From the quebec Chronicle sept III
AT the commencement Of this deplora.
Bile ruggle there can be little doubt that.
believing it to be simply a question OF
slavery, from an imperfect knowledge OF
It's causes, and a natural impulse on Che
part Of British subjects to support the
powers that be, the strongest disposition
was manifested throughout Canada to ad.
vooate the cause of the Northern States,
but gradually as the clouds Of doubt aud
uncertainty which surround the question
were. hy the actions, maniiestoes and
.uieaaee 81 the Washington anlhori
lieve That the struggle now only com
mencing is simply one between the mob
! law aud tyrannical policy Of the North,
against the constitutional freedom and
the right to proper representation Of the
South, and somewhat sudden revhlsion
of feeling displayed itself, not only in
Canada, but we may safely say, through.
out the whole civilized world
When we find tile President in his mes
sage, misquoting the Declaration of lnde-
pepdence, call men were created equal, "
suppressing the word 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
purchased, these States have no right to
"rebel, without the remembrance Of the
fact that the sale Of lands to the residents
in those States has repaid the Treasury
ten fold the amount of the purchase mo
ney-when we know that even in the
northern States the negro is infinitely
moro Of. real slave and worse treated
than in the South-when we see before Us
daily the grossest instances OF corruption
and peoulaton in the transactions OF dig.
nitares--when we read OF the wholesale
designations Of educated northern officers,
and their greatest general hurried to de-
feat by the pressure and howlings of an
outside mob-when we read of thousands
of soldiers insisting on their discharge on
the ground that their term Of office had
expired and marching homeward through
their advancing fellow-soldiers, to the nlu-
sic Of tho booming OF the onemys cannon
rwhen wo read and learn all this, and
witness the disorder, the deception, the
vain boasting--in sort, the Vor Dioboh
which pervades the mob Of the Northern
States, is it any wonder, indeed, that we
turn with loathing from the contempla-
ton Of such a picture, refuse our sympa-
thies and while thankful that our own
Constitution preserves US from ever being
similarly situated, deporing sadly and
deeply that civil war should rage among
twenty-five millions of our own kinsfolk,
speaking The same language as ourselves,
exclaim from our inmost souls God pre-
serve the right
Ii sheer nonsense to endudv0r 10 iden-
tify the Northern cause with freedom,
either black or white. Freedom is un.
known In the North. Universal suffrage
has thrown the power Of the government
into the hands Of the mob, and the educa
ted and thinking classes, for the most
part, hold themselves aloof from any par
icipation in It's sentiments and actions
Lincoln seems to have become the mere
mouth-piece Of the Northern rowdies, who
gag and control the press, and insist upon
being RECALLED with a series Of disPraeeiul
vain boosting, and offensive articles di
rected againss the British power, and ad
yocatng the conquest Of Canada. Al
British subjects and Canadians, we natur
ally feel these outrages and insults, tho
we can well afford to laugh at the threats,
and have just cause to feel tho strongest
antipathy to the Northern States, apart
altogether from our sympathies with what
we must call justice to the South