The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-16 00:00:00

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MB. APLEOD.
The case of the Caroline,, as turning on the incarcera-
tion and trial of •M‘Leod still causes excitement and
anxiety in the United States. We repeat a statement of
the case :—M•Leod is a prisoner of the State of New
York. Great Britain avows her responsibility for the
net with which he is charged, and demands his release
li•ore the General Government. They answer that they
,e-annot interfere except by constitutional and legal
means,—and that these include the removal of the case
to e. general Court, or the trial in New York State, and
t‘atbaequiint exercise of the President's prerogative. The
latter seems preferred as the better mode, and British
enthoriJes are asstired that if the prisoner be con-
victed, the nsual consequences shall not follow, but that
he shall be discharg,ed, and the affair of the Caro-
line be referred to diplomatic agency. The question
now is, should GNat Britain defer to this rather farci-
cal and childish proeceding—will it recognize the diffi-
culties of the position of the General Government, and
allow it to work out of them in its own way—or will it
demand immediate action and iectir the imminent hazards
y ? Etiquette, and points connected with pride or
place, may be of consequence occasionally, and some per-
sons speak as if they should be preserve.". at every risk ;
but perhaps the bravest Minister, the one moat likely to
would not be •
readiest to incur the
abide time brunt,
re-
sponsibility without the deepest thought. An expe7di-
olveon-
of treasure—nations driven hack in their
tore a trillions
a.d.elluge of. blood—involve
course of improvement,
which onperat,ii e yd, emend the most cautious
eiderations
course of preenedince—elera ,Scot
ei'ew York Sun has the following sen-
the Indian troubles which still infest
sible remaelcs
the frontiers, and which threaten te increase under the
treatment a
war with planned for their sippr.ession:—" In the
event Great Britain, it may not he amiss
of-
to inquire what is our prospect with regard to our "red
brethren.' Will they return the compliment of the
Thilanthropists who so term them, and style US their
man of them; we know it, and
`white brethren?'ho ever heard the name
.71, say it. There isNLtt
a
Id it in abhorrence, and
or an American, that does not
a man wbo
feel otherwise. On
it is not to be expected they should
•erence the English.
tee other hand, they love and lei •
We drive them, we slaughter u—t he English do
tee'
st the En-
neither. Not a tribe raise the hatchet again.
glish. Not a tribe did the English ever dispossess. Let
us see what our chance is with them.
When our Government appoints an Indian arent, it is
•
almost always a man who has never been among Indians,
who knows nothing of their language, manners, habits,
customs or fvelingt, who has no claims on their respect
or affection e, and-who, therefore, knows not how to ma-
nage them. Ile may learn, indeed, but that takes time.
The English ale men of experience in the wools and
prairies, men who have lived in the smoke of the In-
slian's wigwam and shared his blanket and his boal.
VLat American agent could ever do half so much 1
:Alore—the American agent has but a paltry pittance for
the wants Of i,is" red children." Until the late treaty
whereby ties lower Sioux of the Mississinpi were cheated
(tut of that beautiful and extensive tract commonly calk('
Carver s ea rant, whereby they became entitled to a paltry
anntiity. they received but 1.50) dollars a year—not a
plug of tohaeco a piece. The English agents had an
uinirnited supply of Indian goods, and distri-
buted them bountifully to all corners.

We have dispossessed very many powerful tribes of
tbe:r law?. It was, perhaps, right awl necessary; but it
b 3 dillicult,•to reconcile them to it. The English
Government, on the contrary, of Teri them a home in

Canada, and uses means to attract them to it. A colony
or Indians from within our borders is, even now, actually
planted on the Manitoulin Islancl,;. Last year great
number 3 or Indians from the Mississippi crossed the
country to Canada over the D3troit River to receive
pre3ents from the British agent at Malden. Did the
Indians about Chippewa offer their services to Colonel
)lae r)r Gen. Van Rennsellaer during the late
;rouble in '[...rpper Canada. Not to the latter, we trove.