The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-12-10

acquiring soil, and bear. no analogy Of The
proposition Of O.. Britain which requires the
abandonment OF both.
lie British plenipotentiaries state in their
last note, that q. Britain is ready to enter INTO
the same engagement with respect to the In
dams living within her line Of demarkatio
as that which is proposed to the y. Gates
The undersigned will not dwell on the i'm
mense inequality of value between the twJ
territories, which under such AN arrangement.
would be assigned, by each nation respective
~, to the Indians, and which alone would
make the reciprocity merely nominal. The
condition which would be thus imposed on G
Brit nm not to acquire lands in Canada from
the Indians, would be productive of no advan-
t7ge to the u. States, and is, therefore. no e.
gu vaieIt tor the sacrifice required OF them.
They do not consider that il belongs 70 the
United States IN any respect to interfere with
the concerns OF O. Britain in her American
possessions. oriwith her policy towards the In
dams residing there /; and they Cannot consent
TO any interference, on the part of Great Bri-
tam, with their own concerns, and particular
y " tn the Indians living within their terrific
RES. It may be the interest If Great Britain
TO limit her settlements in Canada to their
present extent, and to leave the country tn
ebe west perpetual wilderness to be forever
| irha5.ted bv scattered tribes of hunter but
twoIid infiict vital injury ON the ". States
20 Fave e line run through their territory,
oeyone' which their settlements should forever
be precludes from extending, thereby arres-
| ting the natural growth of their Formulation s.
strength placing the Indians substantially.
ty virtue cfthe proposed guarantee, under the
protection or u. Britain booming them to
perpetual baroarism, and leaving an extern
s've frontier forever exposed to their savage
ncursiors.
With respect to the mere question cfpeace
with the Indians, the Undersigned have alrea-
! dy explicitly assured the British pienipoten-
tiares, that 50 far as it depended On the Uni
ted States, 1t would Immediately ard necessa
rily follow peace with Great Bita,n. If
this be her sole OBJECT, no provision in the
treaty 70 that e..cc; is necessary. Provided
the Indians viii now consent to il, peace will
immediately De made with them, and thew
will be rcinstated in the same situation in
| which'they st1od before the commencement
| OF hostilit;es Should continuance of the
war compel the United States to alter their
policy towards the Indians, who may still
| take the part of Great Britain thev alone
/ must be responsible for the consequences of
her own act in having Induced them 10 with
Draw themselves from the protection ofthe
United States. The employment of savages.
whose known rule Of warfare is the inc,iscri-
mine tc torture and butche,y of women, chill
| or and prism RS, is, it'elf, a departure
| from the principles of humanity observed be-
| tween all civilized ard Christian nations. even
| in war. p
The United States, have constantly nro-
tested and still protest against it, as an nm
Justhabie aggravation of the calamIties and
| horrors OF war. Of the peculiar atrocities Of
lnd'an warfare, the niles of Great Britain. in
| whose behalf she now demands sacrifices of
the Y. States, have during the present war.
SHOWN many dcplorable examples Among
them, the mass lcre n cold blood, of wound
ed prisoners, and the refusal of the ryh,s of
oullai to the dead, under the eyes of British
othcers, who could only Plead their inability
to ccntrorl these savage anxiliarics. nave
teen repeated and are notorious to the world.
ne u. >. might, at ell times. have etn
pioyed the same kind of force against Great
oritain, to greater extent than Il was in her
power to employ it against them but from
their reluctance to resort TO means So
achorrent to tue natural feelings of humanity.
they abstamed from the use Of them until
Co'npeHcd To the alternative of employing
themselves, INDIANS who would otherwise have
been drawn into the ranks of their enemies.
ihe undersigned, suggesting to the British
fIenlpotenuar,es' the proprctv of al article
by winch u. Britain aud the United States.
should reciProcally stipulate never hereafter.
1t they should be again at war, to er,Dlov sa
wages IN it, believe that it would he Infinitely
more honorable to the humanity and Christi
AN temper OF both parties, more advantage
Gus 70 the Indians themselves, and better a.
dapted to secure their permanent peace
tranquility and progressive civilization, than
the boundary proposed by the British pleni-
potcntI rieS.
Wica reg. rd 10 the cession of part nj the
dls'r'ct OF Mime, as 20 which the British ole-
9potentiar'e3 are unable to. reconcile the OBJ
jcctiors made by the undersigned, with their
iTcVieus declaration, they have the honor to
observe, that at the conference of the sth u
tiIno' the British p!enipotentiaries stated. as
one OF tie SUBJECTS suitable fol discussion, a re-
vision OF the boundary line between y Bri-
t'so md american territories, with view ia
prevent uncertainty and dispute ind that it
was On the point thus stated that the under.
signed declared that they were provided with
instructions from their government: a decla-
ration which did not imply that they were in
structed tn make any cession Of TERRITORY in
any querter or to agree to a revision Of the
line, or to apy exchange ofterritory, where no
uncertainty or Ute existed.
The Undersigned perceive no upcertaintv
or matter OF doubt in the treaty of 17s3. with
respect 70 that part of the boundary of the
District CT Maine which wouIl be affected Inv
tle proposal OF Great Britain on that subject
hey never have understood that the, British
p!enipotcntiaries who signed that trea.v. nd
contemplated boundary different from that
fixed BY the treaty, a#d which REQUIRES no.
.i1it-g more in oitiertO he de6p,t.l,, &C.,.