Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-03-31

change his connection. He is cordially
embraced as a brother and minister in our
connection. We hope and pray that God
may make him a rich blessing to the
! church and to the souls of sinners.
Comm.
ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE WAR WITH
THE INDIANS.
lit seems 20 be the opinion Of many that
this "war' is in no point of view very
creditabIe to our nation. It's said in the
/ first place, that the body Of the tribe, and
even the majority Of the chiefs, never con-
scented to the treaty for ceding away their
country, but that the treaty was Whetdled
and bribed, and threatened out of few
| chiefs who had no authority to make it
Hence the desperate determination ofthe
! Indians not to remove alive.
Then it is said that all this commotion
has been made by a handful ofmCn. Ger
tain it is, that when the L. S. government
was making provisionsto remOre The tribe
! to the west, It. Harris, the dlsbursing
officer, reported that only 1900 people
were to be provid d for. And this has
! been the number st down for the Semi
mole tribe, in other government documents,
! But 1900 people could not furnish more
than 400 warriors Have 400 men made
all this uproar? 1t is true. that now the
story goes. that there are 300 WNtriOrS.-
: Where did they come from! And how
came the government to be making pro-
vision for only 1900 people, when about
10 reraove the whole tribe into the wider
ness ! And further-if 1900 Indian war
riors can so shake the whole south, what
would become of their boosted security in
case five hundred thousand men among
them more injured and more hardy should
attempt to redress their wrongs at the haz-
ard of their lives? We find an article
copied from the Philadelphia Gazette, and
said to be from a gentleman we'll informed
on the whole subject. which furnishes
matter for serious consideration. IN. Y.
Evangelist.
The treaty by which they relinquished
their possessions here, for larger and bet
ter in the west, and under which they
were to remove, was not unanimously as
scented TO- Some few violentIy opposed i.
Among them was MicanosSa, the head
chief Of the nation, stupid, stubborn, and
obstinate old fellow, who, with all his stu
pidity, retains a large influence over the
minds of his people, from their hereditary
veneraton for their legitimate prince
This man is under the most complete
5 control ofan artfuI, shreWd and cunning
negro, until lately his slave. This negro
had ACQUIRED such an influence and as
tendency, not only over his old masters
mind but over the minds Of most Of the
: other Indians. that he was chosen as one
f ofthe dcputation to visit the western coun
try intended for their future homes This
fellow is, hv appointment Of the old chiCf
Governor OF the Indian negroes. To hin
all appeals are made by them, all contro
s versies settled. He is Judge and jury
# consequently eXerts great power and infu
. ence over his own people. There is est
mated about 800 in number of grown per
e sons. They are a band Of laweSs runa
o vavs. and the descendants of runawavs
e pirates and banditti-nominalIy slaves
. but really, forallthe purposes they require
: masters, exercising an unbounded sWa'
over their more ignorant pretended own
L ers. You may judge ofthis by the rcpI
If of an Indian who claims to own twenty
three ofthcse masters. Some person at
St tempting to pass some joke upon him
a. "You no need try fool mc-got real mig
J! ger sensc,' said he, in so much Englist
and with an air oftriumph.
These people have ever been violentl
> opposed to removal. They believe i
B. the first place that the siUnal for startin
Of from their long concealment would be I
=, restore them and their children to the
rightful owners, and they have Teen S
Is lentlv at work for the last two years,
exciting the Indians to diSafection ar
resistance. How far they have suCceede
events have shown, and how violent ar
n' rersevering have been their efforts al
IN determination, their barbarian feroci
p sufficiently exemplifed on the fatal 28th
re They are powerful, muscular, and at
"a. letic race, averaging nearly SIX feet
- height, hardy, and accustomed TO exposu
and privation; and in my view present Il
most formidable force that can be broug
of to act from the nation-uniting the tndi
ptv habits of woodsmen and hunters with t.
- more powerful bodily strength, and gre
n'O er capability of endurance, as also t
'Ip- skilfnl use ofthe musket and rife.
s." The conclusion you will draw frc
n my premises is, that this is rather neg
than an Indian war. 1t is both. L
our smothered and -hereditary hatred of t
Indian to the white man, repressed by