Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1812-12-21

ilhlgovcrnment In Canada, ioremploY
ing its red fubJeets IN defence Of that
country, is truly pitiful' The Canada
InJians own large tracts Of land, on:
of none of which have they ever
been cheated by fpeculators and SWIM
dlers the government having sccur-
cd it TO them beyond the reach of i'm
petition. They hold their lands clear /;
nor are :hey quite without natural
affections. In common with all the
tribes of the earth, they have iome
regard for their wives and little ones,
for their fire GdeS and for the places
of their far,hers' sePulchres. And
when they see all these wInionly in
vaded by foe breathing out threat
ming and laughter can it be reafonabIy
expected that they would ltand BY as
quiet spectators, or that the govern
ment fhould refuse to employ them,
in common with its other subjects, to
zepeI mUaE5n Especially as the inya
ders had threatened to cverwhelm
the whole country By Valt superior
ity of force
For many years back the Canada In
dams had never once itained their
garments with the blood Of war our
women and children contiguous TO
their borders, we're in perfect fafety.
And what has provoked them Of late.
to dig mp the Ratchet they had 70
long buried =? Let Mr.. Madifon and
the majority of congrefs anlwer-
And after all, they have done moth
ing yet, but merely repel inyaflons-
Though armed" as the melsagc
truly Jays, "with the horrors Of those
" inftruments of carnage aud torture,
" which are known 10 ipare neither
age nor fex." hitherto they have not
uled thofc inttruments, except ag4lntt
their invaders How many defence
Iefs helplefs families Of women and
children, in the town of Detroit and
the whole Michigan territory, and on
our wefern and north-ealtern from
tier, might they not have murdered
ere this time They have commit
TED no fuch murders, though highly
and juttly provoked by Hulrs Procla-
nation, and by repeated invallons OF
their territory. The truth Is, their
ferocity has been Curbed in an unex
ampied manner, by the Britilh OIL
GERS, and particularly BY the late Cen
Brock, whole death the mehagc no
tices rather exultingiy.
Is the eye of Mr.. Madilon fo jaun-
diced with prejudice, that while it
fees no iniquity in the French, It
fees nothing but iniquity in the En-
glilh Is it nothing, thai of our two
captured armies the whole of the
militia were spontaneously rcleafed
from captivity, and lent home to
their families and friends, beGdes
fome of them gratuitouily prefented
with clothes TO cover rheir naksdneG?
Is it nothing. that for month or two
after the declaration of war, the Bit
ifh armed ihips Gcarcely interrupted
our coating trade, and that divers Of
our homeward and outward-bound
yehcls, after beng brought 10, were
fufT-red to proceed Is it nothing,
that although two hundred of our
towns at leaf, are within reach Of
the enemy's cannon, not one of them
has been moleited /? Can Mr. Madi-
ION re no moderation, no humanity
in al this ? If it be the obj56 of war
for each party TO do he other all
the harm it can, we know, and MIR.
Madilon knows, that our enemy has
voluntarily lei Zip many opportunities
for accomplishing this object ; that
during the pre(ent war, he has con-
duete towards us generally fpeak-
ing with forbearance. land not to fay
humanity which gives no room for
prejudice itfeif TO vent reproach or
utter complaint. We fay not this
as partizlns Of G.. Britain, for fuch
we are not but we fayit as friends
of truth and fairneis, and detefers of
falfehood and meaness and wicked
nefs 10 high places. Conn C9Hant.
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The following nun perforate the heari Of the
mn obRir1ts aud make the fs!ai az Life! be
leve that our administration either want
heads 20 pisn--or hearts 20 execute, iuch