"I have watched every account natrowlv from the seat of
eivi! war ; and I do not find, neither have I yet met o ith aliy tme who believes, ti at a singh. American has been engaged in the inenmetion. Doce not this fact prove,
even to the most sceptical—first, that America, as a nation, possesses too high ;
sense of honour to forward scenes of rebellion and bloodshed In a country with which she is at peace ; and secondly, that the absence of her private citizens
from the contest (in which, as individuals, they had an undoubted right to join) is a tacit evideuce that the Cailadians are not fighting for freedom."— correspondent of the Morning Chrunirk.
This was written from Philadelphia on the 8th of December, by a person prejudiced against the Canadians ; of which the few lines quoted furnish a proof. The battle of St Denis was fought on the 2:3d of November, and the battle of St. Charles on the 2Gth ; yet the letter-writer assumes that there is to be no sympathy in America fbr the Canadians, because he, iii Philadelphia, had not in less than a fortnight heard of any Ainerican having been engaged in the insurrection. There might have been several, though he knew nothing of it. Besides, the insurrection was sudden ; there had been scarcely time given for the Americans to join the insurgents. Moreover, it happens that Browne, who commanded the Canadians, is an American.
" So strongly are the American: resident in Lower Canada convinced of the truth of Oda statement, that the American citizens of 3Iontreal have held a public meeting, the requisition for which was sifnied by nearly 100 respectable natives of the United r:tates, for the purpose of recording their opinions of the injustice of the rebellion, and stating their determination to support her Majesty's Government, as established in that province."
Let it not be supposed that the persons who held this meeting were American merchants residing in Montreal. and therefore representa- tives of American feeling. Inn the third resolution, they describe themselves "as British saljects of American birth and origin ;" and from the names given it may be guessed that the leading persons at this meeting were 13oston Tories—men who saw no harm in the Sid. mouthand Castlereagh proveedings of ISIS. For evidence of the feelings of the people of the United States, tine Chronicle's corres- pondent should have referred to public meetings in Philadelphia, New York, or Boston. It is silly indeed to send us to 'Montreal to ascertain what people think in Philadelphia. Yet the Chronicle refers to the letter for proof of" how little svmpathy the Canadian so-called Republicans meet with from their neigh 'hours in the United Slates."
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