The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-09
.i iAMIABILITY RESTORED.

clal, from Wmcn tney nave no immediate pros
pect OF being able to extricate themselves
That these difficulties, in place of involving
us, should on the contrary tend to bind us to-
gether both in politics and in trade, is result,
which however natural, they can scarcely be
expected to regard with equanimity.
The following, however, from the same pa
per, shows that our northern neighbors are
obliged to indulge in an occasional dessert Of
SOUR GRAPES.
Much TO their surprise they have discovered
within the last twelve months that we can
live without them, and that the mere they i'm
pose duties with view to exclude our pro-
duce, the loss is only felt by their own mer-
chants and consumers, While the prosperity OF
the several Provinces has increased to an ex-
tent never before equalled. At the eud of the
year which was to see us knocking at the door
of the Union to save us from starvation, Cana
da, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have had
the largest and most profitable trade they have
ever known, and the finances of their respec-
tive governments are in a more flourishng
condition than ever before. The political un-
ion that is now practically accomplished is
with view to increase this prosperity by con-
firming our independence of the States COM
mercially. This, at least, may be considered
the great result to be arrived at. The idea,
we believe, is one that has yet scarcely dawn
ed on the egotistical minds of American poll
ticians.
The above is refreshingly cool. If suspen-
sion of reciprocity has been so beneficial to
our neighbors, how happens it that Nova
Scotia passed retaliatOry acts which even now
she refuses to repeal, and thus, to spite us
taxes the very bread with which to feed her
population. In relation to the burdens of the
two countries, it is notorious fact that Can
ada has public debt which, in proportion to
her population and resources, is nearly if not
quite equal to ours, and even IN time of peace
is increasing that debt through the enOrmity
of her expenses compared with her small rev.
enues. 1t is also notorious that labor IS oe'-
ter rewarded here than there, insomuch 'u''
oae of the crying evils OF that co'"'' = ~
mwillngness of the better ciasS VI mum
orants 10 sion there, and the increasing dispo-
% .,o,,no men-and women too-to en-
s'''o- .I,o States-the former because of bet
-. business prospects, and the latter to work
y, our tactories and besides this, it is the
constant refrain of all enterprising Canadians
that they want Yankee enterprise and Yam
kee capital to develope their resources and to
build them up in wealth and prosperity.
PARTY SPIRIT.
The administration papers in Canada
those which support thepresent ministry-are
generally deprecating the party spirit likely to
spring up in connection with the Inauguration
of the conlederated government. The To-
ronto Leader says:
1t is an alarming proof of the partial de-
bauchment Of public sentiment when any con-
siderable section of the population can venture
to propose the formation of party without
any guiding principle. Still worse is it when
the necessity Tor any such light to guide them
is ignored, and when all exhortations to wait
till some issue on which men can honorably
divide are passed over in sullen silence or de-
rided with contemptuous jeers.
This is the general teaching of that por-
tion of the press which has opposed repre-