Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-08-29

reeion a snow and wind, irhabited chief.
ly By frsosh, Indians and fugitive slaves
In 1856 / heard Governor Ashhse p VIII
lard In political speseh draw pathetic
picture Of the poor negroes "seduced from
their sunny southern homes 70 stArvs and
freeze amid the almost eternal SHOWS Of
Canada" The wzr came, and the draft
i came. and thousands Of cur hghtfoosed
citizens suddenly acquired better knowi
edge Of that land. Even from my own
patriotic county seventeen good conscripts
departed between sun and sun. presum-
ably singing. -
"we are skipping. Father Abraham.
To CanAda's free shore"
The letters &c. T. T." chalksd or rcd
keeled on many an Ascending debtors
door in my early years, when Texas was
the land OF refuge, were changed to &c. T.
c., Gone TO Canada" No more fugitive
slaves ON the by wars Of Indiana then.
The boot was on the other leg. and aaid
leg Was white. A year or 20 later Canada
had notice enough In the newspapers. She
was in everybody's mouth, TO use . poet
ical figure. Dreadful stories were rife Of
dreadful plots by the fugitives from the
north and south, but If there ever WAS .
plot nothing came Of it Peace came sud
denly. The fugitives came home and told
| US wonderful stories of Canada Then the
Fenians went over, but did not stay long
enough to learn much, and soon after
came confederation and the Dominion,
| and We saw with surprise nation Of some
five million people come into existence on
our northern border Then took place
the last flight Of fugitives from Indiana,
school trustees and such, - celebrated In
| the popular song,
''There is country called Canada not far
It is English, y know, quite English. y
Our trustees and cashiers often go there
To stay,
For that's really quite English, y
know"
The extradition treaty ended all that,
and SO here We are again. In the old
days Of &c. T. T." the fugitivss used to
say there was no Sunday west Of the
Sabine, no law west Of Trinity and no God
west Of the Braxos Well, il the private
letters written by our sxiles in Canada
during the war and the later exodus could
be collected and published they would
form one of the most unique and amusing
books in the world. They were doubtless
the most homesick set Of men on earth,
for the consciousness that one cannot re-
turn is most powerful aggravater OF
that complaint. The reaction from our
civil war carried Canada much farther
toward consolidation than she had at first
meant to go. As in our constitution the
rule is that all powers not granted to the
general government are reserved to the
state, in hers it Is that all powers not
granted to the provinces belong to the
Dominion government. The general liber-
elity which prevails is a fresh illustration
Of how little mere forms Of government
prevail against the natural spirit Of peo-
pls-
The attendance at the fair continues to
increase at All almost uniform rate and
each succeeding day of special perform
ances draws u bigger crowd. British day
was great and Illinois day was greater.
and Chicago intends to have more than
both had on her day, Oct. Q. There Is
some new and refreshing popular amuse-
ment every day and the great stock show
is running like forty county fairs in one.
Today 243 Jersey cows are on hoof for
award of merits, and they are as pretty as
pet deer. Tomorrow they will make their
final showing. On Wednesday sixty seven
Holstein- Lusians enter the contest, on
Thursday forty nine Guernseys and the
I.emour and Ayrshires close the week.
There are religions, scientific and social
congresses in session every day, and We
are promised an analysis Of the univer-
soelum from the first indignation Of atoms
to that far future when the dissolution Of
the heterogenized cosmos shall restore
the original homogeneousness Of chaos.
And to crown all Professor w. F. Black,
of the Central Church Of Christ. Chicago,
announces that he has converted and bap-
tized two of the Japanese royal commits
sioners and has several more heathens on
inquiry. II he has, let him be no longer
Professor but Saint Black. He shall be
,anonized. The man who lives in Brook
lyn and does business in New York has
long been recognized as about the tough
est subject an evangelist could tackle, but
he is a spring chicken compared with
high caste Jap.