The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-08-27
4 CANADIAN OPINION.

$500 - 80 hea'f
Ia cooirss, With 50 many Of the uufricnd-
/ d expressions Of tie English journals, it's
gratifying TO haze from Canada 80 strong
& manifestation Of good will and so intelii-
/ gent appreciation Of our position, as is con-
tanned 10 The following extract from a
speech BY I. Darcy Niece, a member
o. the Canadian Parliament Cor Montreal,
delivered at Chaieauguay on The l7th.--
The speaker had just been referring to
The recent increase Of forces in Canada
< II may be what is called an error on the
night side, bat ! confess 10 you, ladies and
7 gentlemen. / would look for The prescr,a-
ton OF peace between ourselves and the
American people far more 10 the culliva-
ton u a Just aud generous style Of dealing
Hith the national troubles OF that people,
lhaa ! would TO the presence here Of a few
thousand regulars more or less. CHEERS
We haze everything to lose, and nothing
% gain, BY adopting any other tone orany
other tactics, and | repeat here, at this
earliest opportunity ] have Had, what
said in my place in the last Parliament,
dat al this wretchcd small talk aboutihe
failure Of ne republican experiment in
tho United States ought to be irowned
down wherever il appears by the Canadian
public. am not a republican in politics
long before these recent troubles came to
head IN the American Union, had ceas-
ed 10 dogmatise upon any abstract scheme
Of government but | have no hesitation
in declaring my own beliefa belief found
ed on evidence accumulated through sew
eral years Of obseyaton--tha the Amer
lean system, so far from having proved
failure as tyranis and toad eaters all over
the world would wish it to,--that that sys-
tenn win emerge from this. its first great
domestic trial, purified, consolidated, dis
ciplincd, for greater usefulness and greater
achievements than ever before. (Cheers.)
Ii is then il seems to me, the duty Of Ca
madam statesmen TO look through the tenn
porary to the lasting relations We are to
sustain to our next ncighbors to suppress
and discountcnance ALI ungenerous exuta-
ton at the trials and tribulations which
they are now undergoing TO show them,
on the contrary, in this the day Of their
adversely, thai while preferring TO lodge
within the precincts Of the Constitution
elaborated through ages by the highest
wisdom OF The British Islands, we can at
the same time be just, nay, generous, to
the merits Of the kindred system, founded
by their fathers, in the defensive and jus
tifable wars Of their revolution. If we
are frecmen SO are they, and the public
calamities which befall one free people,
can never be matter of exultation TO anoth-
er, So LONG is the world is halt darkened
by despotism, as il is. If the American
experiment were indeed 10 fail, the hope
kinded on the affairs Of the East--the old
Greek fire Of ireedom--would at last be
quenched, and forever, in the far West.
Ii Tie American experiment were to fail,
not their fathers alone, but all the illus
lrious company Of freedoms martyrs, would
have lived and bled in vain. In vain had
Roman virtue resisted Roman ambition
in vain had Christian chiyalry Tended oil
the cimetar and the superstition of the
Mussulman in vain had the great charter
been drawn, and Bannochburn been fought
and Switzerland freed
"What time the hardy peasants state,
On Urls rock in close diyan
Aud wing'd the arrows sure as fate,
That aseertained the rights Of man. =
loud cheers American liberty is the
product Of the highest political intelligence
Of modern times, working in the freest
field, cast adrift from all European ties, by
the madness Of an Arbitrary Minister, blind
to all circumstances Of time and place; if
that fabric should be destined to fail--as
firmly believe it will not in our day, nor
at any early day,-the whole world must
feel the shock, and all the civilized parts
Of the earth, might well be clothed in
mourning, If they only understood the val
ne Of what they had lost. (Cheers)