The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-12

ander, MS neart was lmDued with q sovereign
contempt for tbem-a contempt with which he
was strongly impressed that it led him to
turn his back upon them, and enabled him, like
the high.mettled racer to make the best run
ming time on record. There is, however an ad-
vantage to be derived from such chivalriC
action. The advantage is portrayed in burning
verse, and has been q theme for the pens OF
many poets. DR.. Butler-we mean the Doctor
OF Hudibrastic fame, and not the author of the
Dutch Gap-blurted out its dement's in the
couplet:-
"For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do mats slain"
And before Buffers day, Tertullian and old
Erasmus gave to the world the same apothegm
IN the mother tongue oil the Roman conquerors,
and Meuauder in that Of the Gree an heroes;
while, in the age in which Butler lived-we still
mean the poet, and not the warrior of that
name-SCaTron put 1t iniO the vernacular of the
nation over which in later Years the great Napo-
leon welded sovereign sway. But poor easy
gong Oliver Goldsmith transposed It INTO the
lines that are now so popular; they are written
in the language that the gallant Banks learnt
to lisp when but babe, and read:-
"tor ne who fights and runs away,
May 1--we to tight another day;
But ne who is III battle slam
Can never Use and fight again."
Alas! it does not always happen that Old
Father Time presents that other oay to impetu-
Gus Inortas. The man may be ready, but the
opportunity Is not at all times forthcoming.
kortune, however, iavors the Maor-General of
Massachusetts, and oilers to him new fields for
conquest new lan0S 1Or suOJuRatOn. lie Is not
again to march from Harper's Ferry in the dIrec-
ton Of the equator, with marital ardur burn
ing" nor to tramp from New Orleans in the
track OF the setting sun; but he is now to turn
his face towards the aurora boreals, aud make
the North pole his objective point He is to
cross the British border-ot course, without any
fear OF neutrality proclamation staring hum in
the igce-march tar into the bowels of the
land"-of course, again, without impediment"
and, when he reaches that most enviable spot,
he is to be enabled to exclaim, in the WORDS OF
mighty Cesar, Vena, Vid', Viotp
But how is all this to be accomplished? How
is the Few Conquts st OF Canada to be achieved?
BY the sword? Oh, dear, no General Banks
sword has long since been transformed, not into
a ploughshare but into a prunng-hook-an
implement with which he can at one blow lop
of few States from the Union, and at another
shave off few millions from the pockets of the
public tor the behoof of his manufacturing con-
stituents. How is the conquest to be wrought,
| then? Why, by act of Congress.
| To sink metaphors and descend to fact, the
Honorable Mr. Banks-fsr that ls his present ap-
! pellation-has laid before Congress the draft of
BILL which we have already printed, for the
! annexation and Iuture government of the
! Canadas and other British American provinces.
But, however we might approve OF any measure
that would bring the northern part Of the
continent under our own Government, we do not
think that, under the present aspect of Amer
can politics, the time is AN opportune one for
this country to make advances in that direction,
nor do we think the nation fortunate in the
choice OF its commander If it hopes to achieve
q victory.
1t must, nevertheless, be a relief to the Ka-
nucks and the Blue Noses this hot weather to
find that they can be spared the necessity of
squabbling about confederation, and can have
all their little matters arranged at Washington,
without their being even so far troubled as to
| have their consent asked. In the bill every
| thing ls 90 nicely cut and dried for them that IT
\ is impossible they either can have, or should
be allowed to make, any objection to the arrange
l ment. Our own brethren at the South are not
4 troubled to give their opinions in like cases;
and, therefore, why should We show more cour-
tesy to comparative strangers than we do to
them In tact, the bare thought of so doing
would seem to be an absurdity, and is beneath
Mr.. Banks notice. That he looks upon the
whole affair Qn fat Gccompl is evidenced
in the fact that before he gets to the end OF
the bill he speaks of 'said States" and 'late
Provinces" He also, without the sanction OF
the parties most interested parcels out States
and Territories in the most delightful manner
imaginable, and with all the methodical taste
of a landscape gardener. He weds Province TO
Province, and turns them into one blessed State,
just as the Freedman's Bureau deals with
negroes down South without as much as saying
by your leave. Cherries Newfoundland how
ever, he desires to be doubly blessed, for he
| gives her two bedfelows; in one clause of the
bill she is united TO Nova Scotia, and in another
to Canada East-a polygamic proceeding that IS
worthy of Brigham Young. He builds rail
| way from ocean to ocean, and, generous man
gives away thousands Of acres of land which he
does not possess, to people that have no exist.
enCe. anu, aUOVe ALL ne pays Cne colonial ueDl
with stI oke of the pen-a plan of getting rid
OF national burden almost equal to the sponge
process which Cobbett proposed to apply to the
oppressive debt OF Great Britain.
Now all this is very fine; put it does not
appear that the people of Canada have been
made any party to the mice little arrange.
ment," and it is hardly likely that they will be
willing to be tarred with the radical brush that
is already almost worn out in any attempt to
turn the South into black republic Under
Its present auspices and with its present sur
roundings, the benighted Britishers will be not
, unlikely to look upon the whole affair as s
hoax; or perhaps they may decide that it is
, 10 the peculiar position in the heavens of the
dog star, at this particular period of the year
+ that they must look for the key OF what musi
be to them mystery.
r We may, perchance, be wrong in our surmises
and should, therefore, advise Mr.. Banks to make
. areeonnoissance in force. Let him march into
! the British Provinces with the "enabllng act,
as II Is called, IN one hand, and the new Morrl
! tariff In the other Let him point out to the
provineials the folly OF their Jogging along witt
the paltry payment of three dollars and Tor ty
hVe cents per head taxation when thew can 6t
! enriched" by having the amount duadrupled
ana put In the shape of An annual contribution
to aVariclous manufacturers and ironmasters Il
. say nothing about their having their wage