| Show NOVA SCOTIA FOR a considerable time past our telegraphic dispatches and exchanges have occasionally contained allusions to the discontent prevailing in the british province of nova scotia As most of our readers are aware the british provinces of upper and lower canada new brunswick and nova scotia were con federated a little over a year since under the name of the dominion of canada this scheme had been on foot for several years before its final consummation indeed as early as 1854 the colonists had expressed a wish that this union or confederation should be effected in 1864 the preliminaries and details of the scheme were arranged at quebec and early in 1867 a conference of colonists consisting of delegates deputed by the governments of the several provinces summoned by the home government assembled iu in london for the purpose of settling 9 and ratifying the proposed scheme when they lad iad had completed their preliminary labors a measure for the confederation of the provinces was introduced into nto the house of lords and 1 in about a month had passed both houses and almost immediately after received the royal assent it being or dered that the measure should take effect from the of july 1867 from that time the fiery little pro ance of nova scotia has been continually mani maul manifesting signs of the deepest discontent and the most determined opposition to the union their first step after the issue of the royal proclamation announcing the inauguration of the new dominion was an attempt to withdraw by the consent of the dominion parliament but finding no ground for hope in that direction they memorialized the home government there too their appeal was fruitless being defeated by about majority since that time the wrath of the little province has been exceedingly hot and secession from the confederation and annexation to the united states has been loudly talked of bf and our dispatches recently announced announced that it was rumored at halifax that an official letter had been received from a U S general offering the province assistance si against great britain if they were determined to secede and annex of course nobody believes such a wild rumor as this but it serves to show the state of feeling existing in the province and nd in all probability Js what the di dis s affected portion of the people would very well like the grounds stated for this great opposition to remain in the confederation are various the nova Scot ians declare that they were forced into it against the wishes of the majority of tb the people that they were taken by surprise thal that the real object of the confederation was to enable canada to pay off a portion of her large debt by taxation and tariffs on the resources of the maritime provinces that will deprive them of their fisheries etc so far from being forced into the confederation it is a fact that before ane union was effected its constitution was submitted to and accepted by the legislature of nova scotia then in session while the statement that they were taken by surprise seems to have little foundation in the debate in the house of commons on their memorial for the repeal of the confederation mr adderly in reply to hon john bright the chief advocate of the nova Scot ians gave ample refutation to the latter statement in the course of his remarks he said that the subject of confederation was mooted as far back as 1854 that the people of nova scotia were the originators 0 of the scheme and that in 1857 a delegation from the now disaffected province was sent to england in order if pos possible sible sibie to effect the union that in 1861 a resolution in its favor was unanimously passed by the parliament of nova scotia and that in 1864 a pro on the same was again brought forward and they again passed a resolution in its favor the real grounds of discontent and the desire for annexation to the united united states seem to be that novia scotia which is a maritime province and whose manufacturing operations are very limited has been injured by the termination of the reciprocity treaty with the united states which has to a great extent prevented the interchange of p products between the two and this bo blocking eking of the channels of commerce has of necessity caused a falling olt off in the prosperity of the little province and so soured the feelings of the people another cause of popular discontent is said to be that the patronage of the post office and revenue departments the lighthouses light houses and public works is vested in and controlled by the general government and that the officers appointed are in most instances men who are distasteful to the people then again there is the fear that very naturally arises on the part of nova scotia as it was in the early days with some of the lesser states in the american confederation that being the smallest of the provinces composing the new dominion she might be compelled to submit to unjust legislation by the dominion parliament li if in addition to these varied causes real or imaginary for discontent the fact is considered that the I 1 B british r 1 ti s h north american provinces have been one of the most prominent fields for the operations of the feniane Fen ians there is nothing at all surprising in the fact of discontent existing in nova scotia it is said that in neww neff ne brunswick this feeling exists to an almost equal extent as in nova scotia and that the former is only waiting for the latter to take the initiative whether it be secession from I 1 the dominion and a return to its old status as a separate british province or annexation to the united states canadian commissioners havo visited the province of nova scotia in order if possible to heal the breach but they and their overtures were treated with scorn and it seems as if nothing short of the repeal of the union will satisfy the people there it may be however that the negotiations now pending between this country and great britain for the renewal of the reciprocity treaty between the united states and the dominion which will no doubt be completed at an early day if not already will have a tendency to restore that prosperity to nova scotia the loss of which she so mourns and so mollify the present bitter feelings of its people be this as it may it is hardly presumable that great britain will sit quietly by and see the secession and annexation to this country of one of the most valuable of her north american colonies the hold the mother country has upon those provinces Isse is arcely scarcely more than nominal nominal still it is acknowledged by theman theland the mand nova scotia has been hitherto considered as amongst the most loyal of all her numerous dependencies should the present state of feeling in nova scotia ripen into an attempt to secede and annex to the united states the chances of success would not be very great unless the whole of the provinces act in concert in the latter case it is hardly likely that the efm eff efforts orts of britain would be very strenuous to restrain them should britain however decide to draw the sword in defence of her authority it is not very likely that the united states laboring under an immense war debt will go to war to effect fact the annexation of provinces when at no very distant day it is highly probable that will be effected leacea peaceably er ay and by the mutual consent of all ail parties concerned we take the following from an article in a recent number ot of the 1 frontier antler index under the caption I 1 how far we favor the mormons cormons Mor mons for it tells some plain facts concerning the tha people of this territory there are many parts of dakota wyoming arizona new sew mexico and california that are far superior to utah in natural advantages and yet those parts are roamed over only by wild game savage indians or herds of the spanish landlords the mexican g greasers barbarians of russian america alaska chinese indians and negroes and all inferior races are to have the right of suffrage before white people who have fed our mining camps supplied the immigration to the pacific coast in early days and who even now are the most self sustaining community that america or the balance of the world orld can boast of the peasants of all nations the poor down trodden and abused serfs of tyrannical governments have pleasant cottages in these mountains of refuge the traveler is hospitably entertained if he behaves himself as he should among the shakers or quakers but if he abuses them he heis heia Is treated as he should be by an outraged sect while if the mormons cormons were not there he would faveto have to fight the Indians day and night the Uinta hs of whom kit carson used to say they are the bests hots and the shrewdest of all the indians in the mountains those roam all along the uintah and other tributaries tributa ries of green river to the south of the uintah mountains it is they from whom the mormons cormons bunner suffer most in southern utah and it is they who up to this day have driven out every party of mentho men who have attempted to prospect the tributaries tributa ries on either side of the green river eiver to the south of us who supplied the mines of california nevada montana idaho arizona sweetwater and continues to supply them who furnished johnsons army with bread meat and shelter who relieved the suffering thousands of mon in 64 when flour was not to be had for one dollar and twenty five cents per pound who supplies green river biver with bread meat vegetables and fruit A few weeks since flour was thirty cents per pound here who reduced tha the price who is building two hundred miles of the union and central pacific railroads rall Eail roads who but negroes and would have been teeming into these mountains if the mormons cormons had not been here who built the first telegraph made and educated the first boys and girls in these mountains who built the finest theatre and the largest tabernacle in america verily not the scalawag sports who have been frozen out from among hardworking hard working self sustaining people no but theone the one hundred thousand white people who are feeding us here bore at green elver biver |
