Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-30
From the Toronto Leader.
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the Quebec Chronicle Of the 18th ult:
THE STARS AND STRIPES ON AMER,cAs
SoIr..-W ashington's Birthday was recently
celebrated at tie Port of Clifton, Suspension
Bridge, by one Price, in the employ of the Great
Western Railroad as Station master al that place
by hosting the Stars and Stripes on tl,e gao
staff belonging to the Great Western Railroad
and on Their premises in front of the Custom
House. Mr.. Leeming, Rector OF Chippewa.
personally requested Price TO take the fac down
but without effect After this one of the maois.
rates was appealed to by party of the towns
people for his PERMISSION to haul il down by
force, but being breach OF the peace, he rcfas-
ed TO give his CONSENT
" Our correspondent assures us that the state
ments herein made are correct. Not alone on
the las, anniversary of Washlngton's Birthday,
did this agent Of the Great Western Railway
insult the People of Clifton by Haunting in their
faces the Stars and Stripes; but he is ia the
habit Of doing the same thing on the recurrence
of the anniversary of the Declaration Of lnde-
pendenee of the late United States Under or
dinary circumstances no objections would be of.
Tered 10 flying the flag Of the Republic by the
side of the Union Jack on most occasions of
general rejoicing; bat when done on the an
niversary OF Washingtons Birth-day or Ameri-
can Independence, it is very like celebrating
the battle OF Waterloo in France. And such a
display Is intended TO give olfense More par
uculafly is this the case when the flag is heisied
under circumstances which render it impossible
that the Union Jack can be uniurled by its side
As general thing good sense must be left TO
regulate such matters; but surely in such case
as this the authorities of the railway should give
their agent notice that it is not his business 10
hoist the American flag this side of the Niagara
River"
The Rutland Herald says:
The above article is of much more than Or
binary significance, and will merit the most serl-
Gus attention of the American People and the
American Press.
In these days of National danger, disaster and
apprehension, when brave men by the tens of
thousands are sacrificing their precious lives for
the preservation of our institutions and the estab-
lshment Of Republican government, when the
safety for the present and the future of thiriy
millions of people and the cause of freedom aud
liberty forever, are quiverIng on the balance.-
every true American citizen is bound to feel
grateful to all nations who sympathize with us
in our fearful Struggle, and to feel indignant at
every nation, people or community thai looks up
on our sacred cause with Indifference.
The majority Of the American people are des~
The language of England is the language of
America-the literature of England has become
the literature Of Ameiica-~-the common law of
England has been adopted as the common law
'af America
The American people have always sympathiz-
ed with the English nation in all their efforts TO
ameliorate and improve the condition of their
people, and to extend to them the privileges to
which freemen are entitled.
In the fearful struggle between England and
Russia in the Crimea the wishes Of the Ameri-
can cation were with England.
We made treaty with Great Britain called
she $ Reciprocity Treaty by which the Cana
dian Provinces gained many more advantages
than the Americans We have the power 10
terminate that treaty at any time--yet we have
allowed II 70 Temafn.
When famine visited Ireland the American
people contributed food in immense quantities to
save subjects of the English governmen, from
aeath by starvation.
Under these circumstances. the American peo-
pie have the just right to expect that when their
National exlstance was III danger the English
nation would extend TO them their sympathv,
and at least manifest some anxiety for our sue
cess, and for the safety of Republican institutions
Bat il is ,fow well understood that, with a few
nobie eSceptiJrs, the Eagaiss, people, aad The
prominent men in English Government in Cana
da as well as Great Britain, have sympathized
with the rebels, have slaHdered the President and
bis Cabinet have ridiculed the bravery and the
drill OF the Federal troops, and have anxiously
desired that our Government should be over
thrown, the American people reduced to a COM
munity Of warning factions, and that they have
hitherto only refralned from considerations Of
fear or tolicy,
Mr.. PrEco, mentioned in the above paragraph,
is evidently an American, who sold bis services
but not his soul or his patriotism to the "GTeat
Western Railway"-wlich runs from Suspen-
sion Bridge westerly through " Canada" and
terminates opposite Detroit, which city it CON
meets by I" Ferry" 1t is constructed upon
foreign soil and wholly by English capital,
butis mainly supported by "American" travel
and the transportation Of American" produce.
While we regret to see such marked manifesto.
lions of ingrattude by our Canadian neighbors,
ii is truly gratifying TO know that we are in no
ways dependent upon them for the means ofcon-
yeyance between our solid little New England
and our Great and Glorious West. We have
several Railroad lines of our osca, among the
most prominent (which is the "4meISraa" bake
Shore Railroad Lime, extending from Buffalo by
the south shore Of Lake Erie through Ceaveland
and Tuedo TO Chicago, and which is constructed
upon American soil and was built with
4" American capital, and for speed, safety and
comfort is eScelied by no road on this continent.
1t therefore becomes the imperative duty of
every American citizen who has sufficient pat
riolism TO feel indignant at the injustice and
want of gratitude which has been exhibited to-
wards as by English people and the English
press, TO hereafter patronize the railroads con-
strueted by the enterprise and capital of our own
citizens, and wnully refrain from yielding any
support to road running upon foreign soil and
through community which 'hates' the Ameri-
can flag with such intensity that they propose to
mob the man who unfurls it,
Furthermore, it ought not to be vain appeal
to the patriotism of our people to say, that under
the tax bill now before Congress, and which will
undoubtedly pass in few days, the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Line will pay one dot
lar and secen cents on each passenger who goes
over the route from Buffalo to Chicago, and IN
that proportion to intermediate stations beyond
those points in passing either way. 1t will thus
be seen that every citizen of the United States
who passes over The British. Canadian Roads vir-
tually robs his government of this tax Of one dol
lar and seven cents, so much needed at the pre-
sent time to support and carry on the war; the
rates for passage and freight on both the Ameri
can and Canadian lines being in all cases the
same.
In addition to the above it is not improper to
observe that tie Great Western Railway"
acts in unison with the Grand Trunk Raj way,