Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-10-25

Their militia are thoroughly armed and equipped and respect
ably trained with the of the country and
like all the bodeers most cordially detesng and eager for
an opportunity Of attacking the British What them is the
probable fate Of the Canadas in the Of war And war;
we repeat, is nearer than is imagined
CAT the present the returns Of the Indian depart
ment would show that the tribes located in the provinces
British North America could afford draught of 5000 or
10000 fighting In Western Canada alone from 900
to 1000 Indians might be collected and enrolled for service
The nations of Chppeways, Hurons Wyandot and Potta
waamies and several smaller tribes could bring into the field
imposing body Of warriors and under proper leading would
form admirable defence that exposed frontier Any
who of the feeling of dread which the Americans
have to the vicinity of Indians may imagine what moral
effect body of 5000 Indian warriors would have with the
pugnacious sympathixers the borders.
The equipment Of ten Indians would about the same
which it takes to provide and equip militia
And each Indian in Canada the Government from
f3 to "a per annum, follows that the expended with
little benefit to the Indian and to Government would
furnish efficient force take part in the defence of the
country. rifle, knife, and omahawk and blanket complete
his kit His commissaat travels his back in his rife
The sky is his tent under which, after march Of forty
fifty miles, he sleeps contented the soldier in his baac
ROOM His power Of enduring hunger, fatigue, and cold is
proverba; his qualities in well known They would
employed. and on the first requson for volunteers thou
sand warwhoops would be raised, thousand strong arms
and steady eyes would be ready strike the warpos for
their great mother Depots might be formed of the
principal Indian stations, where the could be collect
ed under their chiefs and organized into regular either
Tor temporary or permanent service. II would not only be
rendering service to humanity by giving employment the
Indians and thus saving them from the consequences of their
present state of idleness and irregular mode Of @ but would
give to Canada disposable force Of efficient kind
either to oppose the designs of their troublesome neghbors
to act with effect against internal commotion.
The drunken lazy vagabonds hanging about the large
towns should not be taken fair sample of the Indian but
without joining amongst the wild tribes Of the Provinces who
byheby not to be compared the forest Indian spen
did may be met with on the Western Lakes of Huron
and Superior who not contaminated by inter-
with whites. 1t is from these that Indian force
should be collected and with few thousand rifles on the
frontier Bul-frog Yankee will think twice before they
sympahize rebel agan-with few red Indians their
scalp ends to remind them of the honess of life and the hz
Of ready tonahawk."
PARIS, OCTOBER l, 1916.
Most of the London papers have rung all the
changes on the affair Of Mr.. CAssIUs M. CLAY,
whom they create a brother of Mr.. HENRY Clay
1t is differently treated by several of the Paris editors
Homicide, they remark is not murder, in a case of
self-deience; the same principle obtains in favor
of communities situated are the American slave
holding States, with tenfod force The liberty of the
press like every other liberty is subject to instant
repression, when it is rendered extreme license,
threatening the public safety with extreme dangers.
Such is the French view. An American who reads |
the letters in the British AntSlavery Reporter con-
corning the Lexington case must feel, if he be in
clined to blame the proceedings, as if he combined
with mortal foes to his country and race.
Mr.. THEIRS has played the hon in Spain. Att
Madrid he received public dinners and gave them
to the highest dignitaries. We are informed that
he takes, on his return, the route of Portugal and
England. If suspicion and jealousy were awaken
ed by the Prince of JoINvMLE's peep into Dover
harbor, and recent apparition of two French war;
steamers at Sheerness, the presence of Mr.. THEIRS
in London must be deemed more ominous. His
own supposed projects Of war in 1910, when he
was Prime Minister, and his opposition since to the
entente cordiaie have exhibited him in the light of
determined, persevering enemy he has visited
Spain and Portugal in order TO survey the battle
grounds of Napoleon and the Imperial Lieutenants
he can be presumed to have some design in Eng |
land, of seeing how the shores should be approach
ed and the capital reached by grand French ar
mazda and glittering hosts. The fourth and fifth vo-
Tunes of his History The Consulate and the En-
pire strike me as intended mainly to revive Napo-
icon pTOJecl vi INVASION, anu 10 persuade the |
French nation that it perfectly practicable"
and is now more plainly so from various new cir
cumstances. have just finished an attentive peru
sal of his fifth volume, which was issued week
ago. Ii seems to me an ADLER narrative with a |
larger quantity of fresh and very impressive matter
than either of the antecedent. 1t is peculiarly ne-
resting and admoniory for England, in those copious
parts wherein he reveals, from the confidential, in
edited correspondence between Napoleon and his
Ministers, the imperial plans, measures, and feel
ings in the enterprise oil invasion, which the bogra-
pher earnestly affirms, and, indeed, sufficiently
proves to have been real-he very reverse of feint
or stimulation. Detailed explanations Of the desis-
tance-the necessity of which deeply chagrned and
disappointed the Emperor-are given in the 2lst
book. In this book, also, is the exposition of his I
design to destroy the British power in India, which
are likewise adapted to these times The creation
of the Imperial Government in France, the negotia-
tons for the presence and agency of the Pope at the
and the formation of the third grand Bri
hsh and Continental league against Napoleon, are
related with characteristic force and perspicuty of
dichon and arrangement, and with the general par
taity that was to be expected and can scarcely be
blamed. Mr.. THEIRS does not spare republican
ism, and he opines that it must every where end in
anarchy, oligarchy, military or absolute rule. |
AT the end OF the volume he excuses Napoleon for
not having encouraged Fulton's conceptions and ex-
periments OF steam navigation, in aid OF the enter
prise OF invasion. He maintains that if Napoleon