The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-08
COLu[MyBIA.
saturaay morning, june 8. .lss7.
The New Nation OF Canada.

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Canadian Provinces into one nation
ality, under the title Of the Domi-
nion of Canada, appears to have
evoked q superfuous amount of SYM
patty among the New York journals,
because, as they allege, the people of
these provinces were notconsulted in
relation to the new Federal Union.
The New York Albion, conservative
organ of British opinion in this
country, notices these allegations
and utter denies them. It says that
the Imperial Act designed to create
the new nation from the provinces
commences with the following pre-
amble: "Whereas the provinces of
Canada, Nova Scotia and New Bruins
wick have expressed their desire to
form a Federal Union under the
British Grown, for the purpose of
government and Legislation based
upon the principles of the British
Constitution, be it enacted" &c.
This appears to put to rest the allie
cations of the Northern journals,
and shows them to be entirely un-
founded and gratuitous. They are
thus rebuked by the Abion:
SIN behalf, then, Of this prospe-
rous, rising, free and eminently for
tunate people of British North Ame-
RIGA, we would say to our over-anx-
ious American cousins 'Bestow your
sympathies and counsels upon your
own disfranchised, disheartened and
responding countrymen, who are
now lying PROSTATE at the feet Of
military commanders word is
law, till another order is issued from
these headquarters Confer your
criticisms upon your own self-willed
despots of high places in your own
land; but forbear further mis-state-
ments in reference to your neigh
bors, until you can, at least, compre-
hend the spirit of freedom and good
government. The very foundation
of these cherished liberties the
Northern Provinces are determined
to perpetuate on this continent, and
before the close of the present CEN
tury, there may possibly be other
communities on this continent de-
sirous of joining the stable and we'll
governed Dominion of Canada
This is stinging rebuke to those
political agitators who have thus far
delayed iIe reconstruction of the
American Union. They are not 10th
to waste their sympathy upon the
people of Canada, or lavish it on the
dwellers of Crete, or any other TO-
reign country upon which buncombe
resolutions may be put forth, while
they neglect the more importan t
duty of giving little of it to the
Southern States, formerly their
equals in the Union.
The prediction of the Albion about
other communities being desirous of
joining the stable and well-governed
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merely part and parcel of the rebuke
which it felt justified in administer
ing to the American journals referred
to. The people of the present ex-
cluded States will be perfectly con-
tented to be reconstructed under the
Constitution of the United States,
and restored to that Union framed
and bequeathed to them by those who
threw off the British rule in 1776. If
wisdom, justice and patriotism, there
fore, rule the councils of this Go
vernment, and the South be restored
to her rights and privileges therein,
her citizens, nor the citizens of any
other section of this country, would
seek to form no new alliances or fede-
rative union with any other Govern
ment, no matter how stable or we'll
governed. Give us back the Union
of the American fathers-the Consti-
tuition as it came from beneath their
hands and seals, and no Government
on earth could seduce an American
citizen to join his fortunes with it.
The subject thus incidentally
brought to their notice should receive