The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-03

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PRINCE ARTHUR IN CANADA


the bearer of the gift was surrounded by enc
mics, and could hardly of his own resources
dnd his way out of the difficulty, he had but
to blow his horn, set his foes jumping and
iigging and escape amid their painting CON
fusion. The Dominionlsth III Canada seem to
be trying an experiment borrowed from the
lively cantos of Wieands poem. They appa-
rentiy hope to get out of all their difficulties
by setting Prince Arthur and all parties and
sects, and the population generally,
dancing to the registering music OF
the Highland reel The Prince danced
with everybody, danced down everybody,
danced as only princes in newspaper descrip-
tions ever do dance; and he carried away the
affection of a populace OF perspirlng competi-
tors ''Dance hight, for my heart lies under
your feet, love-" Is the refrain of pretty bal
lad which all the loyalists of the Dominion
might have chorused in the modest ears of
Young Arthur. Where are your anti-Doml-
nionistS nOw-your annexatlonlsts, your
malionants who were wont to set the mari
time provinces i'll roar Danced away, ap-
parently, as sad thoughts are said to be in
another ballad whereof we remember nothing
more.
Still. somehow, there remain difficulties
hanging over the future Of the new Dominion
which your only jig-maller though he be
prince. cannot cuarm away. Doubtless the
Queens third son is very popular in Canada.
He seems a winning. intelligent lad, who has
not vet arrived, and we trust never may
arrive, at the season of Schneider. and can
can, and music nall He appears to have
lent himself to the festive business of the
visit with thorough good humor, and his
presence, no douU-, has been a social success.
But if it was seriously proposed to use it
as a counterbast to the dissatisfaction of
certain portion of the Canadian people, it
will prove decided failure. The
loyalists of Cana 1t are already loyal enough
in all conscience; 1t is only squirting the will
inc horse to administer fresh stimulant to
their devotion Indeed. there still exists
among certain c,tsses in Canada senti-
mental, high-hoNl, medieval loyalty. which
died out of Eusl nd with the Stuarts.
really loyal Cana IAN Of this stamp, when he
visits England, ex xpenences chilling shock
to find himself among people who hardly
understand his raptures. and have forgotten
all about the So. of lyric loyalty which ami
mates his chiyal 3 bosom. They tolerate
his highfowa e.thusiasm about queens
and princes and JtinceSScs Just as a prosaic
papa might listen to his daughters
accepted lover pouring out the elusive
ness of his adm ration over a young lady
who appears to her father a very good
sort of girl indeed but moi q bit of an angel,
goddess, seraph, ot sylph. On these devoted
Canadians the pre,sncc of Prince Arthur will
have little additional effect, and on nobody
else will it have any effect whatever more
lasting than the heat of the Scotch reel or the
bubbles of the hampagne which followed.
The future OF Canada will be settled by
strictly practical and prOsaic considerations.
The Nova ScOtiu~ who are the bitterest enc
mics of the Confederation measure, are among
those of the population who have always been
most noted for loyalty; and yet their 10y
atty did not two years ago, and does not
now, prevent them from declaring loudly
for annexation to the United States
rather than federation OF the British Ame-
rican provinces These men see no advan-
tage in the Confederation scheme, and they
do see that the situation of the maritime pro
vinces, the vast and dreary distances lying
between them and Ottawa. the total dissimi
larity of interests and objects which forms a
still drearier intervening distance, render il
impossible to think with patience of the per
manent cohesion of the Dominion. They see
TOO. quite clearly that England wants to be rio
of them. We commented few days age
upon the remarkable franRness with whicl
Sir John Young conveyed to the Canadian
the assurance that England is ready to le
them go whenever they please The dele
gates from the several British American Pro
vinces found ont this for themselves, to TIN
great surprise of many of them, when the
went over to England to agitate for an
against the Dominion project. Th
notion taken up by some of our Ne,
York contemporaries, that the English Gov
ernment have sent Prince Arthur to Canad
for the purpose of offering him to the Cani
dams as king, is utterly chimerical, and, il
deed. shows a curious ignorance of the fee
ings of the English public and the opinion
of English statesmen. We may all rest a
sured that Prince Arthur $ mother and Prime
Arthur's friends would more allow him
accept the crown Of Canada than the crown
Dahomey. "The GenoCsc give themselves
me. said the gracious French King, ''ct M
je les donRe az dj06'C. Prince Arthur wi
never, we fancy, receive any such offer fro
the Canadians; bpt, if he should, his answe
although not couched III Just the same la
guage, would assuredly be to much the san
effect.
If there is any political significance in Il
visit, it is simply in the fact that the Domi
ionists are trying TO make capital out of
SO far as England Is concerned, it mea
nothing. Canada will, in fact soon find he
self practically driven to choose between tr
ing to set up for an independent State al
annexing herself to our great republic. VIII
it comes to this even the most antiuuated
monarchists, even the most ambitious of tit
loving politicians, will look at the one sid
on the energy, the progress, the amazi
prosperity of the United States: and at
other, on the slow, lethargic, unsatisfactc
process of half development which Canada
a colony and Canada as a Dominion has
hibited, and then willchoose a safe partn
ship rather than precarious Independent
10! THE POOR NEGRO.
From the NJ o. Picagune
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