Star.
London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

`LONDON.

- - FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1811
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The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this morn-
ing, but furnish nothing worth extracting,--Five per
Cents. Monday, 78 fr. 10 c.

It is with some astonishmeat we have read an at-
tempt in a contemporary Journal of this morning to
vindicate the barbarous Order issued by General
JACKSON, for "plating to death every hostile ( Indian)
warrior that may be found" within a certain ranz,e of
the territory of West Florida. •
The Indians, it is said, " spare neither man, wo-
man, nor child ;" but the Americas do spare the
women and children, and only massacre the men, so
that the Americans are, to the amount of two-thirds,'
less barbarous than the Indians. Again, the Ameri-
cans " know that if they do not destroy the Indians,
the Indians will destroy them." Nay more, " a long
expet ience has convinced the Americans that the in-
dependent existence of the IndiaLs is perfectly i:!con-
sisteot with the progress of civilization."

Now first a word or two, as to the matter of fact.
It is oily very palti illy true that the Indians spare
neither man, woman, nor child—women and children
they spare generally, their male prisoners very fre-
quently; and in many instances they have shess n ex-
amples of humanity and kindness, from whi;:h their
more civilized neighbours need not disdain to take
• example. Neither is it true, that if the Americans
" do trot destroy the Indians, the Indians wiil desliey
them." The assertion is palpably false—the Indians
have every thing to fear horn the encroaching ra)::-
-,ity cf the whites, but if the whites will be content
with the territory which they have already usurped
rroin its aboriginal owners, and not seek to press any
/archer upon a brave, persecuted race, they have no-
thing whatever to fear from the Indians. The Ame-
ricans—the great Yankee Nation destropd by a tribe
of wandering Indians! The assertion must look redi-
-,ulaus even to the Yankees themselves.

So perfectly untenable indeed, are these grounds
of exculpate es, that immediately afterwards we find
it is not the existence of the Indians, but their "
ilvenzlent existence" which is quarrelled with as in-
consistent with the progress of civilization.
It will he observed, however, that the present is
not a question as to the independent existence of the
Indians—but a question as to their existence at all in
any shape. The order of General JACKSON is not
.one of subjugation—of conquest—but one of utter
itermination—Every hostile sunrrior is to be put to
dm:A—their wives and children alone are to be spar-
:J. And were it even a question as to the independent
existence of these people, by what principle, it may
be asked, of reason or justice are the Americans
entitled to assume to themselves the power of deter-
mining that such indopendcla existence is " perfectly
inconsistent v. kir tl:e progress of ?"
The Americans, we pre..unie, mean to favour the
world with another new law of nations on this sub-
ject, to place by the side of that which they have so
tugeniously devised to justify their seizure of the
Fanidas.
Were the conduct of the Indians even as bar-
barous as it is represented to be, it can be no jus-
tification of a nation pretending to be champions
.of the " progress of civilization," that they have
only done what savages are in the practice of doing.
It is not necessary to exterminate in order to subdue ;
and it is against the practice of all civilized nations
to carry the horrors of war further than the principle
of r.ecessity can excuse. Theorder of General JACK-
son appears to us altogether indefensible on any
principle of justice, equity, or buminity. It is
a barbarous, inhuman act of proscription, against
an unfortunate and persecuted race of people.-
It, is an edict of massacre, and, next to issuing such
a mandate, we know nothing worse than the act of
sittir.g down in cold blood to defend it. •

Mails from Holland and liamburgh arrived this
forcnoon. The following are extracts: