Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-03
Miscellaneous.
From the Boston Courier
THERE WILL BE NO BOUNDARY WAR.
No. Ill.

The South is in the enjoyment Of
comfortable state Of hostilities-one so Pc
culiar. that il leaves all the advantages of
peace, and superadds those of war. The
burden is mainly borne by distant peo-
ple, who have not the slightest interest in
The result. The produce OF the South Is
raised and exported without interruption
or risk the spoils Of the dispossessed are
chiefly theirs, and the vast sums used IN
the expulsion Of the Indians from their
homes, and in the collisions growing out
of that wicked policy, have gone ana are
going into Southern pockets alone. Those
sums have now reached the enormous
amount of eighty millions Of dollars,
equal to the expenses of the last war with
Great Britain, and to two-thirds of the
whole expenses Of the Revolutionary
war Suspicion and alarm are awaken
ed on this subject, and well they may be.
Can any rational being believe that the
chivalry,' if in earnest, could not nulLify
In half a campaign poor remnant Of the
children Of the forest, already distracted
by treachery and seduction2 In lieu of
decisive action, corresponding to the vaunts
pended for Southern volunteers, we have
periodically horfid representation of an
Indian massacre--of mothers, infants, and
maidens shot, scalped and mangled. These
representations hit, and they refresh won
derfully, the feelings Of Christian revenge,
and reconcile us at the North to the con-
tinnance of the war. We seem to have
made up our minds TO leave this whole
business to the South, and to give Thorn
as H. Benton carte blanche for money
and hounds.
a 1t is said that some of the most atrocious
murders have been committed at the insti-
CATION of whites, interested in protracting
the contest, and perhaps by the hands of
whites, disguised as Indians. 1t is GER
tain that after Gen. Macomb's arrange
ment with the Seminoles, last year, the
inhabitants held public meetings TO de-
nounce the peace, and to declare them
selves for continued war. How easy,
with sach spirit. to have few nightly
shots and CONGREGATIONS, and to embroil
this great people anew with few unhap-
py men and women, Of whom our treaties
and laws have made US the guardians, and
we have become the destroyers. IHeg
have no means OF communicating to us
the dark and inhuman devices which may
be resorted to, to deceive US. We heal
but one side of the case, and thatfrom wit
nesses of doubtful character Osceole
could not tell US his story. 1t is too late
or if not too late, il is hopeless to entrea
this people to save the effusion Of limo
cent blood but they may listen little tt
the suggestions of self-interest
To give then to the North, who ar
paying for this war, our idea of the man
ner in which their money goes, we stat
the following as a specimen of transac
tons, become so common at the seat o
war as no longer to seek concealment.
A gentleman of Massachusetts engag
ed a passage on board a Florida steam
boat. in which he was to be accompanied
by friend,residing in the neighborhood
The boat did not depart at the hour, or or
the day appointed in two or three days
however, she proceeded on her trip.-Tht
neighbor passenger, who was we'll &C
quainted with the captain, took occasion
IN the course of the. voyage, to inquir,
the cause of the delay. The captain an
swered that it was speculation and or
further inquiry, avowed that he had made
contract with person in the employ o
the government, by which he was to re
ceive a thousand dollars more per month
for the service of his boat than he hac
hitherto received, but upon condition tina
he should divide equally the extra thou
sand with the government officer, ant
give voucher for the whole. This an
-eedote is derived from good authority, anc
we could recount many more like it.
The military expenses of the United
States have averaged in times of peac,
and of Indian a0Gr, less than three mill
ions per annum; and three quarters o
this expenditure has regularly been il
the South. Gen. Jackson, in his Florid;
trays, trebled the expenses of the depart
ment, and the heft Of our troops, and O
money for Qualifications. has been appro
priated to the South. This was to pro
tect the chiyalry' against its best friends,
as the SoRtherners affect to call thei
slaves. w. so s-i's
For the last four years, our military ex
penses have averaged eighteen millions 0
dollars per annum more than sirteei
millions of which have been expended il
the South, in pursuance of a policy ex
clusively beneficial to them, but iniuriou
to the interests, and fatal to the characte
of the country at large. During tn
Revolutionary war, our military expens
es averaged less than seUenteem million
per annum, and during the last war wit
Great Britain, they did not exceed eight
cen millions. In that war. it used to b
said by Southern members of Congress
that the North might furnish soldiers