The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1852-09-18


seats assigned them beyond the Missis-
sippi but the body of the nation lsome
$4,000 utterly refused, declaring that
they had made up their minds rather /
to perish, every soul of them, than to
leave the homesteads that had now |
grown SO dear TO them. Reluctant as
they were, the office of tearing whole
people from their hearthstones would /,
have been a most unwelcome one to
any man with heart. even had they
been submissive; but they were war
like. and the despair of a brave race,
armed skilful, and possess
ing in their country mountain and
forest fastn was toos likely to
make it business at once bloody and
Scott, ever the man re-
sorted 10 when things are difficult or
was again the person
pitched upon by President Van Burer
for this sad service He executed Il.
however so humanely as well as eff
ciently as to take away the chief part
of what threatened to make it melan-
choly. Arriving among them with
several regiments of troops, he began
by securing all their strongholds. He
next issued an address to his men, en-
Joining the greatest kindness and care
towards man, woman, and child. and
denouncing severe punishment ior all
i'll usage of any Indian. At the same
time he published an address to the
nation so full of reason and affection,
that they, little accustomed to be dealt
with in so good and brotherlya a manner,
were completely won from all their
stubborn purposes, came cheerfully into
his measures. and were. under his care
ful, aud beneficent arrangements, trans
ported 10 their new abiding places
HE PREVENTS A WAR ABOUT THE rIs-
PuTED TERRITORY IN MAINE.
Just after this came his other service
of peace. in settling the quarrel be-
tween Maine and the British authori-
ties of New Brunswick aquarrel which
was on the point of coming to blows,
that a bloody national conflict would
have been sure TO follow. The dltfi-
cultv sprang out of the uncertain terms
by which our original treaty OF peace
with Great Britain (that of 1881 had
described the limits that were to divide
us from the British province. Repeated
conferences of ambassadors and com-
missioners had attempted TO settle how
the line should be drawn. according 10
the treaty but they had all failed
In this manner thing which WOULD al
first have been easy TO adjust became
at last very hard to adjust. For the
strip of disputed territory. small and
barren. which originally lay IN the
heart of dreary wilderness, remote
ftom any settlements on either side,
came gradually to be approached from
both sides by the spread Of population;
nay. to have within it, atseveral points,
small settlements. part of them made
by Americans and a part by British
Each of these claimed, of conrse, to
belong to the country from which the
settlers came, and looked on the settlers
from the other side as intrnders. 80,
too. the respective local authorltles;
both Maine and New Brunswick held
the Jurisdiction TO be theirs. Both SOLD
the timber on it; for the soil was worth
less. the timber alone OF any value, and
the business ef1& numbering" the only
pursuit which led people thither. 1t
was. in short, quarrel. not about the
land but the timber on it, But this was
all the worse: for. as to the soil, they
could have waited for negotiation be
tween the two superior Governments
to settle the right nobody could carry
off the soil but not so the timber: tor
that the lumbermen on either SIDE
would have been sure 10 run away with
before. any negotiators would agree
abont the true boundary. Well, the
result of all this had been a violent
quarrel between Maine and New
brunswick. Buth had sold 10 their
people rights to cut timber; both con-
sidered themselves bound to uphold
their own jurisdiction and the rights
they had conveyed to their Citizens
| First their iumbermen fell ont; then
libeir magistrates, and finally their
| governors and Legislators. At first il
Twas a war of. writs and arrests; but
i presently there was resistance, and the
| posses had to be called out. Posse,
I however. met posse. arrest met arrest
u1tiis al tlength Maine called out he'
militia. andthe Gnvernorof New Bruins
wick marched his troops; while oui
/ Congress, taking up the note OF war
| placed at the disposal of the Presl'
| dent ten millions of dollars and nifty
thousand troops. War seemed aifnosl
certain: a blow had only TO be struck
and both Maine and New Brunswick
stood ready to strike ii. Il was IN tins
vefy threatening state Of things thai
Gen. Scott vas sent thither. The Gov.
ernneni had already intelfereds and
Iceneladed pacifcatory ARRANGEMENT
iIwilh Mr.. Fox. then the British Fambas'
saaer here: but 1t stipulated for the
| Withdrawal of the troops OF Maine
without exactiug the same OF New
/ Brunswick; and the consequence was
i that this clumsy attempt aggravated
the difficulty il was meant to settle
EScoti hastefled to Augusta, and opened
there at once negotiations with Doth
The authorities Of Maine and with Sen
/ Sir John Harvey, the Governor of New