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Show TRAVELS TJIROUGII UPPER CANADA: concluded b tw en them an d t 11 l.: pcop 1c. of th. e Sta. tes ,h a.d• preemac ~m e d un b ro,'{ l.:ll ft) r {o {hart a time, and c• xprellw r ]H. s defilcf th·t t tbison· fb ou ld be mol.e , 1a 11:"l l1,J , h", l)rOt)o{ed the tl.::lflng up o , , k } . . b ·fore tht.:m, and the burying of the hat IH.:t unccr a large oa t Jat 61 . 1 , . . . w . t . ·fi Ana h er chief i~tid, that t would for ever remalll a 1 c . 1 t w 1 1 l.: J · 1 t y r·t t<.: they tr'e e wct.e 1t'·a bl e t 0 I1 e lev ·lkd by tlw orms; t 1, t a an_ ' 1 1 I Icc t . and that :1 tl cy were ddirous that a perpetLta p~ acc wou l < • Y' · 1 · . he concc:Jvcd ihoulJ l cfbhli(hcd between them .md th ·Jr ate cncmJes ,. . . , ·. . 11 I)Ct tcr to uury th' h: tchct under the tall mountalll w Hch Ltrofc 1 t vou l - I n- bl . " As l 1 . J tl e wuoJ A third chief in turn adc.lrdlcd t 1e a ucm y. )e ) Ill 1 1 ' • l · · th of r. " r. ,· . J lie " I am but a man, and I have not the i tcng H J01' l11C J i. u ' ' " the o-r~at fpirit to tear up the trees of the forefl by the roo! ' or _to re" mov~ mo mtain ' under which to bury the hatchet; bIt 1 propoie that " the Jut het may uc thrown into the deep ~Ltke, where :~o t~1~rt~l c_an " ever fi n d 1. t, "•• t1d where it will remain uuncd for ever. I 11 pto· - ol~ll was j oyfully ace pt d by the afil:mbly, and the h.Ltche~ wa Ill ~onfcquence can with great folemnity into the water. The IndJJ. IlS llO~ tell you, in their figurative language, that there mufl be p a~e fo: ever. , , On Hr 1rm 1. tu· ne s. , " 1r;a y th y , " when the hatchet was buned, 1t w• as " only Oightly covered with a little earth and : few lc.we~, .and bemg " a I ways a v .r Y tl.OLlblefome rcO:lds crea.t ure, tt foon cont_r.L vt.:d. to find ,, its way above ground, where it never f:uled to occaiion gteat confufion " bdwe ·n liS and our whitt.: brt.:thrcn, and to knock a great many good " people on the h ad; but no\v that it has been throw~1 it~to the d~~P "lake, it can never do any mer mifchief amon?fl us; tor 1t cannot u(e tc of itfclf to the furfacc or the Jake, and no one ran go to the bottom " to look for it.''- And that there ould he a permanent peace bctw crt them I have no doubt, provided that the people of the Stales would ob.rcrvc the articles of the treaty as punCtu ally a~ the Indians ; but Jt requires little (.1 o-acity to predict that this will not be the cafe, and that ere long the lut:hct will be again rcfumcd. I ndeed, a lit~le time before we reached Malden, mefi'engcrs from the fouthcrn Indtans had arrived to found the difpoiition of thofc who lived ncar the lake, ar~d tr! .if they were ready and W.l ll.w g to enter m. to a fir c al wa• r · Nor IS thiS. cagerncis ' R E M A R K S. J7! agcrnc(<; for war to b~.; \VOndercd at, when from th rrport of thr: commiHioncrs, who were lent down by the fcd cr,tl govcrn111ent to the new flatc or Tcnal1cc, in ord r to F ut th treaty into cff~:ct, and to mark out the bnunchrie. of that flnte in panicular, it :1ppcar ·d that upwards of five thoufand people, c ntrary to the il'.)lJ!ation of tht.: ·t.:nty latc'y cnt red into with the Indians, h ,td ellcroach e,l tlj on, :1.nd Jcttlc:d thcmldves down in fn dian territory, which people, th · cot1tn it1iont.:rs tti I, onhl not be pcrfuaded to return, and in their opinion ot ld not b(! forced b:tck again into the States without very o-rcat di!licul ty :·. A large por tion of the bacl· fettlcr , Jiving upon the Indi m fronticn. , are, according to the bd1 of my information, far greater f.tvages t .tn the Indians tbc:mfdvcs. It i nothing uncommon, I am told, to f<:e hung up in th eir chimney corner,, or nailed againfi the door of their h.lbitations, fimihrly to the ars or bru01 of a fox, the [calf s which th~:y have themfelves torn from the heads of the Indians whom they h ave ihot; and in numberle[.o; publications in the United tates I have rcacl accounts of their having fbycd the Indian s, and employed their fkin s a· they would have done thofe of a wild bcat1:, for whatever purpofe they could be applied to. An Indinn is confidered by them as nothing better than a ddl:ructivc ravenous wild beJfl:, without rcafon, without a foul, that ought to be hunted down like a wolf wherever it make it appearance; and indc d, even amono-11:: the bettcrmoft fort of the inhabitants of the wdlcrn country, the mofl. illibcr,1l notions arc ent Ttaincd re[pdl:ing there Llnfortunatc people, and arguments for their banifl11ncnt, or rather exti rpa tion, arc a iopted, equally contrary to jufl.icc and to humanity. " The Indian," f.1y they, " who has no idea, or at leafl: i unwilling to tc apply him{df to agriculture, requires a thou6nd acres of bnd for the " fupport of hi fami ly; an hnndrcd acres wi ll be cnou/')h for on · r ., m and our children ; why then 01ould thcf(; h e.1thens, who have no " notion or ;tt'ts a.nd ll1;1 t111 :f.tftur ·s, who nev r h ave made any improve- " mcnt in ii.: icncc, and lJave never been the inventors of any thing "n ·w or ufcfu l to tl c human ij)ecics, be fuffc red to 1 c:umbt:r th foil?'' • Th<' fubflancc of thi '; report nppe~rcd in an cxtr3{l of a letter from Lnington, in Kentucky, which 1 Joyldf l:uv, and which was publifhcJ in many of the ncwfrapers in rhc United State~. 3 l3 2 ,;( TlH: |
