Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-10-27

SPIRIT OF THE CANADIAN rRHss.
From the Montreal Witness. Oct. 81.


urers starting from our territory for
he purpose of aggression on the terri :
ory of our neighbors, has just received I
wo striking combinations. From Der.
nuda we learn that the attesnpt to use '
hat British colony by Certain persons
claiming to be in the Service of the Con-
federate Government, for the purpose of
naval warfare on the Federals, has led
to the arrest of the privateers; and,
nearer home, we have accounts of an eX-
petition, which apparently started from,
and certainly returned TO, our border,
whose object was the robbery Of the
banks of neighboring city. These last
mentioned desperadoes, Of course, could |
have no hope of security, except such as
they might expect TO find in refuge af- |
forded them by Canadian soil. They, |
no doubt, hoped that some or all of them
might, by hard riding, escape hither af- |
ter having enriched themselves with
the spoils of the banks, and that when
here the sympathy which they have
been led TO expect from the support
which certain part of the press has
heretofore given to such proceedings,
would save them from any serious pun
ishment for their crime.
The above extract is from the Herald
of this morning, and we have no doubt
of it's correctness But for the tone of
bitter hostility to the United States,
which has so long characterized por-
tion of our press, and the marked SYM
patty with that tone of many of our
prominent men, no such attempt as this
Al. II l..
been dreamed Of The danger of foster
| ing such raids by malignant abuse of
the late United States Consul and every
thing American, has been pointed out
over and over again, but in vain, and
| the attempts to seize vessels on Lake
| Erie, and to rob banks in Vermont, are
the results. Sure it is time to pause in
| our career of Americophobia.
| The prompt action of our Government
| in this st. Adams raid, is worthy Of all
| praise, and will, we trust, tend power
fully to give new and better tone to its
organs Of the press.
From the Evening Telegraph, Oct. 90:
TIE st. AlBans Raid.--The following
| appeared in the Gazette of this morning:
| "We are informed, on good authority,
| that the parties who recently seized on
the town of st. Adams and depleted the
| Golfers of the banks, are Confederate of
ficers and men duly commissioned by
the Richmond government to retaliate
on the North for it's violation of private
rights and property in Virginia and the
Southwest; also, that the ablest coun-
sci in the country will be retained to
defend the prisoners who have been ar
rested on the frontiers. Their leader is
aaid to have President Davis commits
sion in his pocket. In crossing the lines
his party threw away their arms, con-
sidering themselves in safe asylum"
Admitting this statement to be sub
stantially correct, as there is reason to
believe, we repeat that the act was not
one of war but of brigandage. The
party were not in uniform, and acted
not as beligerents 5 BIT as nr ra6bers It
ish neutrality for an expedition to have
been fitted out from Canada, if such was
the case, for purely belligerent acts such
as the capture of fort the destruction
of an arsenal, navy yard, canal or other
government or public property but the
party If they proceeded to their work as
I aImilitary expedition in uniform would
/ be entitled to be treated as belligerents.
But going in plain clothes to do robbers
work, they are by international law
only robbers, and as such will no doubt
be surrendered under the extradition
treaty. No one can doubt our sympa-
thy for the Confederate cause; but SYM
pathy does not imply shutting our ewes
to the true character of the brigandage
! at St. Adams. a ait aaaag .s.t
! The Witness Of the 22d also comments
on the Gazette's paragraph as follows:
The Montreal Gazette of this morning
has the above paragraph, which proves
clearly what we said yesterday, that
such raid as this On St. Adams would
never have been thought of but for the
conviction that Canada was so friendly
to the South, and SO inlmical to the
North that the raiders would be safe.
whatever atrocities they committed if
they could only jump back across the
lines and no wonder they arrived at
this conviction. When the late Ameri-
can Consul General was being baited to
death by contemplate conspiracy, a
| portion of our press bounded on the
conspirators; and all who sympathized
with that press were ON the same side.
When Vallandigham-the very chief of
| the northern traitors-was feted, and
free passed through Canada when Con-
federate officers were conveyed to the
boat in which they were departing for.
active aggressions on the North, by the
band of one of our regiments; and when
a considerable portion of the Canadian
press continue day after day to manifest
bitter hatred for the North, and is sup
ported in so doing by considerable pro-
portion of our most influential men
when all this is going on before the ewes
Of Southern refugees, what other con
clusion could they arrive at than that
Canada is a safe base of operations
against the North and if Mr.. Cartier
continue to manifest the commendable
vigor with which he has commenced in
this case, he will be going directly in
the face of all his most Jealous friends
and supporters throughout the country.
Lord Monck, too, in directing our mill
tary to act against Confederate raiders