Author : E. C. Terrill
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ISBN 13 : 9781330820438
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Book Synopsis Canadian Sympathies in the American Rebellion (Classic Reprint) by : E. C. Terrill
Download or read book Canadian Sympathies in the American Rebellion (Classic Reprint) written by E. C. Terrill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canadian Sympathies in the American Rebellion Though moved by a love of home, and home institutions, I am yet cosmopolitan to the very centre of impartiality; for I am both Canadian and American by descent and residence; have dwelt among the rouge and bleue of Canada, the pro-slavery and anti-slavery of the States. To know Lower Canada, is to know the more unfavorable of the four Provinces, if we except the city influence. She is divided, as to her American sympathies, into the Eastern Township Party, the French Country Party, and the City Cliques. The first is for you, the second against you, the third divided. The Townships are very largely populated by American descendants and foreigners allied with them by marriage. Though not generally annexationists, their sympathies are largely with you, and almost without exception with the negro; while the principles advanced by some, fugitive New Hampshire men, startle and shock them by disloyalty to northern and humanitarian principles. Annexation may be some time brought about; but it will be worthless to you, unless it emanates spontaneously from Canada. The minorities are some influential families of British lineage, and the laboring classes. The former have an erroneous notion of their responsibility to preserve British sentiment and exclude natural convictions of the propriety of good fellowship with you. You sometimes regret the loss of that kind of men whom you stigmatize skedaddlers or scatterers, but they do not surpass in number, and are not to be compared in manliness to the laboring class you have drawn from us, while the corruption, their lawlessness, immorality and noisome politics produces is really deplorable. The French country affects you but little, for it is inland and quite uncommercial. It has no press to contaminate public sentiment, no supplies to withhold from you. They simply chat that Louis Napoleon likes Beauregard. Beauregard's early Adam put on his moccasins on the banks of the St. Lawrence, and Louisiana was once French. Our cities are Quebec and Montreal, but aside from shipping, the latter is the only city in fact. Halifax supplanted Quebec, or she would have fitted out blockade runners. She has a detrimental influence upon members of Parliament, but they have a greater and a beneficial one upon her (on American affairs). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
