The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-01-12
The Passport System and the Brftish
Provinces. wufN


s Provinces. a wuEN
Canada makes great fuss over the passport
system in her press, and sends delegates 10
Washington to tell her grievances Since Tho
war began the sentiment of the whole Canadian
people toward the United States has been one
of distinct hostility. England led The race in
her sympathy with the attempt to destroy our
government and in the support which she gave
to our enemies By all the means that she could
employ without open violation Of international
law. Then the Canadas proved that they were
truly British provinces. With that real turnkey
nature that has always distinguished provinces,
they went great way further in tho same
direction than the mother country. They cric1
up the South and cried down the North in oil
things. The Canada press forgot that it had so
lately reviled our slave system rs the shame Of
the century, in the fulsome laudations that II
heaped upon the attempt to sustain that system
upon the ruins of our government Southern
men suddenly ceased to be "brstal slave
drivers" and became gallant men, battling for
their native soil. No one was brutal any more
on the face Of the earth; no one was cowartlly,
contemplate and dcspicable wretch-except
the man who stood up for the Stars and Stripes,
and vcntured life in defence Of the country the
Canadians agreed 70 hate.
All this was Canadian sentiment as expressed
in the Canadian press, and in conversation IN
the Canadian hotels, streets, steamboats, and
cars, wherever Canadians and Americans met
This was . sufficient cause to estrange any
DAD "a Is~r~ han,
They feted the rebels In their cities, and gave
them special trains on their railroads. They
harbored our enemies and gave them aid and
comfort in the most offensive way TO us. Evea
these demonstrations Of Canadian neutrality"
might have been endured. But besides all this
they connived at the murder Of our citizens and
the escape Of the murderer They permitted
their "neutraln soil to be used as base nom
which operations were carried on egainEy
our commerce and territory, and they screcnsd
from punishment the infamous wretchcs who
carried ON those operations. Nothing is better
recognized than that wnrlike operations ca mot
start from or cross neutral territory, AZ d yet
the Canadian Judge tells us tina. the St. .Albana
murderers are not murderers, but 3 outherD
soldiers, with commissions from n edmond
in their pockets, and that the ~raidD on
st. Albans, organized on their soil AZ d starting
thence, Ia legitimate operation OF war, Ike
Sheridan movement up the Shcnani loah valley.
BY such pretexts they show only the: 1t 10 inn
possible for us to have justice a their hands.
AS the last Of all me laughab 10 prctexts to
screen these scoupdrels Mont cal judge now
calls in question whether or mo- Vermont ia part
of the United States.
Since such an unmistak' bio disposition ie
shown by the provincial pc ople and authorities,
our government has wisely concluded that IL
muss make It's own provb ions for the protection
Of our soil and people. II has therefore deter
mined to apply the passport system against
all the British provinces II those pro