Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-17
AMERI CAN Affairs IN CANADA.
Views of the Canadian Press.
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.


/ From the Quebec Morning Chronicle, Sept IL.
| At the commencement of this deplOrable stTug
gle there can be little doubt that believing it to b.
simply a question of slavery, from an imperfec
knowledge of its causes, and a national impulse OF
the part of British subjects to support the power
that be, the strongest disposition was manifested
| throughout Canada to advocate the Cause of tbs
Northern States; but gradually, the clouds O.
! doubt and uncertainty which surrounded the ques
tons were, by the actions, manifestoes" and ines
sages" of the Washington authorities dispersed we
have been taught TO believe that the struggle,
| only commencing, Is simply one between the mob
law and tyranncsl abuse Of the North, against the
constitutional freedom and the right to proper
| representation of the South and somewhat sud
den revulsion of feeling displayed ITSELF not only in
| Canada, but, we may say, throughout the whole
/ civilized world.
When We find the President in his message, mis-
quoting the Declaration of Independence, AL men
were created equal" suppressing the word Stree, !"
as if the idea were unpleasant to him-when we
4 find the doctrine advanced that 1.-The Union
created the States and not the States the Union
when we find the argument used that since Louis
lana and Florida purchased, these States have
| no right to "rebsf' without the remembrance Of
the fact that the sale CT lands to the residents in
these States has repaid the treasury ten fold the
amount of the purchase msney-when we know
that even IN the Northern States the negro is insey
of real slGUe and loerSs treated than IN the South
when we see before us daily the grossest instan
of dignitarles-when we read Of the wholesale
iZnations of educated Northern officers and their
| greatest General hurried to defeat the pressure
and hOWlings of an outside mOb-When we read Of
thousands Of soldiers insisting their discharge
the ground that their term Of Office had expired,
and marching hOmeWard through their advancing
fellow Iediers the music Of the booming Of the
snemy's cannons-when we read and learn all this
and witness the disorder, the deception, the vain
bsasting in short, the V01 D5dbO6 which perVades
the mob of the Northern States. is it any wonder
indeed, that turn with lOathing from the con
temptation of such picture. refuse sympathies
and while thankful that our own Constitution pre-
serves as from ever being similarly stuaed deplO-
ring sadly and deeply that civil war should rage
among some twenty-five millions of our own kius
folk, speaking the same language as ourselves ex-
claim from our inmost souls-God preserve the
right
Northern cause with freedom, either for black or
white Freedom Is ulJtRo1n in the North. Uniyers
sal suffrage has thrown the power Of The Govern.
ment IN the hands Of the mob, and the educated and
thinking Masses for the most part hold themselves
sloof from any participation in its sentiments or
actions. Lincoln seems to have become tie mouth
piece of the Northern rOl5dies to0 gqg and control the
press and insist upon being RECALLED with series of
disgraceful vain Boosting, and offensive articles
directed against the British power, ard advocating
the conquest of Canada As British subjects and
Canadians. we naturally feel these outrages and
insults enough We can well afford to laugh at the
threats and have just cause to feel the strongest
antpathy TO the Northern States, apart altogether
from our sympqies from l0hat must call justice to
the South.
CANADIAN REToRr To A YANKEE.
FROM the oaesso Morning chrsniele, Sept II
An unknown Yankee sends US an unpaid letter
from Ogdensburg containing the following extracts;
Here follow some three four extracts from
Northern pspeFs. relating to the Of British
subjects in New York for antLineOln proclivities
This, adds the Yankee, "is the way serve the
id Britshers. Come here and we viii serve you
likewise"
We might reply to this very polite nvition as Fus-
boa replies to BOmbates
Bom.-My sword well can uss,
t- So mind yoar P's and Q's.
Rus-I hank you, sir, bot I,
Must cautisn you Of that
But our anonymous correspondent really invites
our pity more than anger, or even laughter. It
may be gratifying to him to see respect for other
nations set at naughtin his Republic, which once