The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1895. AMERICA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 187, 6 January 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1895. AMERICA.

. «. . Thebb are dangers to the United States contingent upon the recent action, of the President which that bellicose individual could not have anticipated. He certainly may have known that Canada would stand firm in her allegiance to England, not only from mere habit, but from a feeling of direct antagonism, for the Canadians do not like the Yankees much at any time, and still less when there is a probability of a raid over their border. As a matter of fact, however, what the President has most to fear, in the event of his being foolish enough to provoke hostilities with England, is an outbreak of the colored races. The hatred which exists in the Southern States between the latter and the white population has been growing more intense day by day since the termination of the civil war. The result of a revolt of these people can easily be imagined by those who have studied the history of former uprisings of the ■ blacks against their white oppressors. Education has made vast strides among the mixed races, and from among them may arise a leader as skilled and as brave as the oncefamed Toussaint L'Ouverture, who endeavoured to give freedom to St. Domingo. The idea of an independent Government has long been prevalent, and each succeeding wrong — whether real or imaginary — adds to the intensity of the feeling. There are three good reasons why President Cleveland should avoid a war with Britain. First, the English Navy is the most powerful in the world; second, Canada is arming to resist invasion and to carry the war over the border, and, last, but not least, the colored people of the Southern States are eager to find an occasion for a revolt with some chance of success, and that chance would be given them by a war between the Uuited States and England.