Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
From the d" Sluve PolOer."
What has the North to do with Slavery.


What has the North to do with Slavery,
General JaskSon's Campaign of 1918 quoted
the Indians for while, and in 1921 Florida
became ours by purchase. The Indians in this
territory believed then to number about two
thousand in ALL scattered in little villages and
hamIets, were collected into tract, near the
centre Of the peninsula, where Notwithstanding
the neghborhood of a strong military post they
continued still to harbor negroes. For this and
other reasons, their presence was unwelcome,
and in 1926 proposal was made to them, on
the part of the United States Government, to
remove beyond the Mississippi; which, however,
they positively declined to entertain. In 1882
the business was taken up ag3in more resolutely,
and by the treaty of Payne's Lending, they con-
sented to an arrangement, according to which.
if delegation from themselves to expole the
country provided for their settlement, should re-
turn with favorable report, they were to consent
to emgrate.
This treaty was differently interpreted by
President Jackson and the Indians. A large
part of the nation, burning with a sense of for
mer wrongs, and believing themselves to be now
over-reached and outraged anew, refused at all
events to remove. The President sent a militia
ny force to compel their acqniescence, and at
the close Of 1925 another Seven Years War
broke out, in which few miserable savages de-
fled the whole power and resources Of this igor
GUS nation The President estimated the num-
Der of the Seminole warriors at four hundred
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hundred and fifty. The disbursing agent in Flo
rida reckoned the whole population, including
men, women, and children, Indians and negroes,
at three thousand. Against them, in addition to
the regular troops, had been marshalIed, as early
as 1910, more than fourteen thousand yoIun-
teers from the neighboring States* and in the
middle of that year the expense already incurred
had been estimated at twenty millions of dolars.f
But the runaway negroes, more or fewer, whom
few hundreds of cutlawed Indians could har-
Dor, were to be caught again at whatever cost
Of American life and treasure 81 have to ask
your particular attention wrote the Secretary
of War to the Commanding General, January
2lst, 1886 "to the means indicated to prevent
the removal of those negroes and to ensure their
restoration, You will allow no terms to the In
dans until every living slave in their possession,
belonging to white man is given up" This
was the great sane qua non Of pacfcaton. --
/ Without it, there must be ntermiuabc war
The North had plenty of lives and money to
spare, and these must insure Georgia and Allb1-
ma against the loss of single runaway negro.
What worthier test could there be Of northern
blood and money!f
They did not quite get us into a war with Eng
land about the sefemanci pated slaves of the
Enterprise and Creole, but it is no thanks to
Mr. Calhoun or his Thrasonic hackers that they
did not. 1t seemed at one time getting to be a
very pretty quarrel, and had John Bull been a
more favorable subject for Southern valor tc
practice upon, it may be that we should have
argued it to the 1.-THE part of hair.
What has the North to 10 ociM tile Si7o
Powcn Just as much as belongs to its share
of the waste, annoyance and disgrace which the
cupidty of the hayward and domineerihg Slave
Power is continually bringing on the country.
Report of the Adjutant General, in House docu
ment, No. s, Both Congress, I'd Session.
tSpeech of Mr. Everett Of Vermont in the House
July 18th, 1910.
fan order of General Jessup of August 3D., 1887
respecting captured property of the Seminoles an
nouncng that then acgroe, cattle and horses, will
belong to the corps by which they are captared"-
This was an army which we of the North paid to keel
in the field But what has the North to do with Slaves
According to another order, Sept 9TH "tho Seminole
negroes captured by the army will be taken on &c
count of Governments and held subject to the order
the Secretary of War.