That, As I Take It, Was
The Evil Against Which We Of Great Britain And Of Canada Desired To
Guard Ourselves.
But I doubt whether 2000 or 10,000 British soldiers would be any
effective guard against such inroads, and I doubt more strongly
whether any such external guarding will be necessary.
If the
Canadians were prepared to fraternize with filibusters from the
States, neither three nor ten thousand soldiers would avail against
such a feeling over a frontier stretching from the State of Maine
to the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. If such a feeling did
exist - if the Canadians wished the change - in God's name let them
go. It is for their sakes, and not for our own, that we would have
them bound to us. But the Canadians are averse to such a change
with a degree of feeling that amounts to national intensity. Their
sympathies are with the Southern States, not because they care for
cotton, not because they are anti-abolitionists, not because they
admire the hearty pluck of those who are endeavoring to work out
for themselves a new revolution. They sympathize with the South
from strong dislike to the aggression, the braggadocio, and the
insolence they have felt upon their own borders. They dislike Mr.
Seward's weak and vulgar joke with the Duke of Newcastle. They
dislike Mr. Everett's flattering hints to his countrymen as to the
one nation that is to occupy the whole continent. They dislike the
Monroe doctrine.
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