Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-11-07
F.on the aUston ID Advertiser.
Sixty Millions a Year far the right Of
buying more ND Lands /!

o'Ffy H1"4'oHS q fearJor the right Of
buying more ND Lands :!
II Is now reduced to certainty, notwith
Standing the hrsi clamours, that all that
Great Britain insisted OH absolutely, was,
that we should not buy any more Indian
lands.
The question of impressment,is abandon
ed This war, more changeablc than Pro
teus, and with more heads than Hydra, IL
now waged because Britain Will not consent
We shall drive off the Indians IRON the lands
we guaranteed 20 them
This is question which is SAID to touch
our interest and honour. 1t was false, the
report, that they asked an absolute cession
OF any hing TO the Indians or to themselves
on the Western frontier
AS to our interest,", we now own about 20
millions OF acres TO which the Indian title is
extinct, probably more, it we include the 40
millions coded by George, where Jackson
has pretty nearly exlirpatsd the more civil
lied red tribes.
These lands would accommodate, at 100
acres a family, (suppose family 10 consist
OF persoDs,) about 1900, 600 OF people
There are IN Inc States already created
wild lands amounting 10 at least IS millions
more. (This State alone has wuhin its
boundaries, owned by the State and lndivid
uals, at least 5 millions, | am inclined TO
believe lo.) This would accommodate 2
millions OF souls more.
The United States only sell to the amount
OF 100000 dollars year, that is 400, 900 ~
cies At dolars. AT this rate il would take
one hundred and seventy five years 20 sell
all The land We nlzo hold.
The constant acquisition Of new lands
tends to keep down the price OF the old II
We were TO agree to let those poor Indians
alone, and no, chea, them out oil any more
lands, which is all that Britain asks, the u
ni;ed States lands would rise III pii.s and
In demand.
he several States too would have
chance Of selling their wild lands, which
they how cannot do, Our State might pei
haps get enough to pay Tor the immense
expense she is put to IN doing that which
the United States undertook but refused 10
do.
Our population also would be more con
een.raled, the country stronger, richer, lap
pier.
AS to cur hcnour, We are no, requii ed to
yield any OF our lands--we are only reqlir-
cd 10 Let the indians live in peace AS
proc. OF this, B,stalD proposes TO renew tse
boundaries OF 1885,, with tlining exeep-
ton AID sill 10 recognize our ola ms quite
to Lake Sapeiior. nis includes all the
lnuian lands which We are 10 agree not 10
Buy But IL shews that the country is still
10 be under our Jurisdiction as between her
and us
Let men look st this idea, and ponder |
upon II, and they will see that there is no
proposition.
II amounts 10 this, we strengthen our
selves at home, and extend ourselves iol |
one hundred years, Tor which we have mos, j
ample room, and then le, postriiiy Ia a.
mother century make new Bargain.
Alter all, wha. is proposed will only las, |
MI the tlrst Indian Wal, and Heaven knows |
that will come sooner than it oue ht 10 do, |
soon enough tor our interests. " hen We |
are at war with tie Indians, it is only say
ing they are aggressors, and The treaty is
at an end.
We shall probably say this with less
stretch OF conscience than We can say" Brit |
ain full-armed and fu!l-handsd forced us
into the war unarmed and unpgepared," as
the Sage OF Monticello will have it.
We conclude as We begun, the true ques.
ton is whether We will expend 60 millions |
a )ear to buy an article OF which we have |
now more than we can either sell or use |
Such are the opinions OF
Il Man soho looks hstie INFO Funr,ty.