Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-04
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Rebellion has moved with rpid
In Winnepeg. Not only has
Governor McDoneaH beenrepndiated,
defeated and ignominioualy driven
from the Territory be came to rule,
but those who took up arms against
Canadian supremacy have gone 50 far
as to issue a proclamation, or rather
declaration Of independence, in which
they renounce allegiance to the Hud-
son Bay Company, whose government,
they allege, did not meet the require
ments of the people, and that they
became unworthy Of being obeyed and
respected when they transferred the
people they professed to rule 70 a
strange power. The reyoltcrs, there
fore, proclaim, In the name Of the
people of Rupert's Land and North
west Territory, that they have estab-
lisheda Provisional Government, and
hold it to be the only lawful authority
existing in the aforesaid land and ter
ritory. TO support this assertion Of
authority they pledge their oaths,
lives, fortunes and sacred honors. So
now the Dominion has a full blown
rebellion on its hands, and no means
Mt its disposal to crush It out. Efforts
will doubtless be made by the Canadian
authorities to bring the Red River
region to where the Hudson Bay COM
pany had transferred Ito the New
Dominion-whose rapid growth was to
oyershadow the United States, and,
above all things, show them how con-
solidated provinces could get or with
out rebellions. It is but justice to the
founders of the Dominion to say that
they never took the people Of
Rupert's Land into consideration
at all, regarding them as the in
habitants Of unexplored wilds, whom
they could buy Of the Hudson Bay
Company, in the good old feudal style
that obtained halfadozen centuries ago.
But progress has permeated all the
earth. The Northwest Territory has
heard of the new and better theory Of
government Winnipeg heard that
Governments exist for the good of the
governed, and that a people cannot, in
this age, be transferred from n set of
rules to another, like a herd of cattle.
The Red River revolt, seemingly q tri-
fe at first, has rapidly assumed serious
dimensions, and must exercise a pow
erful influence on the future Of British
rule on this Continent. A love Of the
Dominion exists only In Canadian
hearts that beat under official uniforms.
The n~on-o1ice holding masses, from
bankers, merchants and manufacturers,
to mechanics and mskilled laborers,
are heartily tired Of their dependence
OIL Great Britain, and look with long
ing ayes to their more thrifty, because
better governed, neighbors Of the
States. Where this feeling Is strongest
there the Red River revolutionists will
find most earnest sympathizers. The
people of Nova Scotia themselves,
weary Of the Dominion and the expen-
sive shadow Of royalty by which they
have been blighted, will not aid in the
subjugation of the independence party
Of the Northwest Territory. They,
too, desire to be free ; and while they
loudly express this wish, 1t is answered
by ~portentious murmurings Of discon-
tent from every part Of Canada. The
new and growing party Of Annex
ationists may change their tactics, and,
like the oppressed Of the Red River,
strike for independence rather than
transfer to the United States. There
is no longer any need Of troubling our
heads about the Monroe doctrine, our
example alone Is sufficient to raise up
champions for Governments for the
people by the American people
throughout the length and breadth Of
America. There is an unmistakable
ring of the Declaration Of Independ-
enee in the concluding sentence Of the
proclamation issued by the leaders In
Rupert's Land. May their efforts for
self-government bring forth results as
glorious as those which followed the
practical enforcement Of the principles
enmciated In that most momentous Of
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