history of crime. Such are the contingencies of war, that the
innocent are dragged into the vortex by the guilty, and that those
who choose to adopt a flag and are found armed in its defence, are
constructively the enemies of the invaders, and according to the
usages of all nations amenable in the field for the conduct of their
rulers. Whatever may be said to the contrary, then, by English
sympathizers or weak-kneed patriots, so long as Canada is a portion
of the British empire, so long is she a legitimate point of attack
for the enemies of that empire, and no description of special
pleading can make it otherwise. And here we would advise the people
of the New Dominion to look into this matter and weigh the
consequences of being influenced by any seeming or real hostile
attitude to the government of the United States, or the mighty hosts
which are now gathering in battle array in the cause of Irish
freedom. England is fallen! Her power and prestige are gone forever!
The star of Irish liberty has already emerged from the clouds that
have so long lain piled up along the horizon of the land of the
enslaved Celt, and no power on earth can obscure its growing Lustre,
until it blazes forth in the full meridian, splendor of Irish
nationality and independence! Let our neighbors, therefore, we say,
not be betrayed into raising a puny arm against the tremendous force
that cannot fail to be exerted ere long in this connection, or their
redemption from the British yoke and their consequent absorption by
the great American Commonwealth may be reddened with more blood than
the circumstances of the case really require.

When Barry had finished his few observations on this topic, Greaves,
in further pursuance of the subject, and with the apparent view of
gathering the tone of Canadian opinion upon it, observed, that if all
the Irish population of the Provinces were as true to the sentiment