Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-08-14

must be removed A part of them yielded and wen
TO the new seats assigned them beyond the Missi.
sppi, but the body of the nation (some Is 000) vi
terly refused, declaring that they had made up thei
minds rather to perish every soul of them, than /
leave the homesteads that had now grown so dea
TO them. Reluctant as they were the Office O
tearing whole people from their hearthstones wou
have been most unwelcome one to any man witt
a heart, even had they been submissive but the,
were warike, and the despair of brave race, album
dainty armed, skiltul, and possessing in their coun
try mountain and forest Businesses was too likely t
make 1t business at once bloody and inglorious
Scott ever the man resorted to when things are diff
cult or disagreeabe, was again the person pitched
upon by President Van Buren, for this sad service
lie executed it, however, so humanely as well a.
efficiently as to take away the chief part of wha
threatened to make it melancholy Arriving among
them with several regiments Of troops, he began by
securing all their strongholds. He next issued al
address to his men, enoining the greatest kindness
and care towards man, woman, and child, and de
nouncing severe punishment for all i'll usage of any
Indian AT the same time he published an address
to the nation full of reason and affection, that
they, little accustomed to be dealt with in so good
| and brothery manner, were completely won from
all their stubborn purposes, came cheerfully into
his measures, and were, under his careful and be-
neheent arrangements, transported to their anew
abiding places
HE PREVENTS A WAR ABOUT THE DISPUTED TER.
RITORY IN MAINE
! Just after this came his other service of peace in
settling the quarrel between Maine and the British
authorities OF New Brunswick a quarrel which was
on the point of coming to blows, that bloody ma
tonal conflict would have been sure to follow. The
difficulty sprang out of the uncertain terms by
which original treaty of peace with Great Bri-
tain Chat of 1889 had described the limits that
were to divide us from the British province. Re-
peated conferences of ambassadors and commissions
ers had attempted to settle how the line should be
drawn, according to the treaty; but they had all
failed. In this manner thing which would at
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 from any settlements
on either side, gradually to be approached from
both sides byt the spread Of populations nay, to have
within 1t, at several points, small settlements part
OF them made by Americans and part by British.
Each OF these claimed, of course, to belong to the
country from which the settlers came and looked
the settlers from the other side as intruders So,
too, the respective local authorities both Maine
and New Brunswick held the jurisdiction to be
theirs Both sold the timber on it; for the soil
was worthless the timber alone of any value, and
the business of numbering the only pursuit which
he'd 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 between the two superior
Governments to settle the right: nobody could carry
off the soil but not so the timber that the lun-
bermen on either side would have been sure to run
away with before any negotiators would agree about
the true boundary. WE'LL the result of all this had
been violent quarrel between Maine and New
Brunswick Both had sold to their people rights
to cut timber; both considered themselves bound to
uphold their own jurisdiction and the rights they
had conveyed to their citizens. First their lumber
men fell OUT then their magistrates; and finally
their governors and Legislators. At first it was a
war of writs and arrests; but presently there was
resistance and the posses had to be called out Posse
however, met posse, arrest met arrest; until, at
length Maine called out her militia and the Governor
of New Brunswick marched his troops; while our
Congress, taking up the note Of war, placed at the
disposal of the President ten millions of dollars and
fifty thousand troops. War seemed almost certain
| blow had only to be struck; and both Maine and
New Brunswick stood ready to strike it. 1t was in
this very threatening state of things that Cen Scott
was sent thither. The Government had already
interfered and concluded pacfcatory arrangement
with Mr.. Fox, then the British ambassador here
but it stipulated for the withdrawal of the troops of
Maine, without exacting the same of New Bruins
wick and the consequence was that this clumsy at
tempt aggravated the difficulty it was meant to
settle Scott fastened to Augusta and opened
there at negotiations with both the authorities
of Maine and with Gen. Sir John Harvey, the
Governor of New Brunswick, his warm personal
friend ever since the Canadian war, when they had
often met in battle, often seen each others gallant
acts, often joined in those deeds of humanity or
courtesy towards foe which soften the ferocity of
war and give it grace beyond that Of bravery
BY an act of this sort, in truth, Scott had saved
Harvey's life He had unbounded confidence in
Gen. Scott; and, very coming into his elevated
views, consented to make the concession to Maine
of Withdrawing his troops. Maine alone, then, re-
manned to be brought to reason. This Scott now
soon effected and thus, by his prudence and hu-
mainly for the fourth time deserved that noble title
of the Peace maker, which great warriors have sell
dom been good enough men to earn.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS OF 1910 AND 1874
POLITICS.
Between the Maine affair and the Mexican war
Gen. Scott had nothing to perform beyond his ordi
nary military duties, except SO far some impor-
tant public conjunctures called him to the duty of
taking some action or expressing some opinion on
matters of high national concern In 1840 when
the delegations from New York and four other States
we're about to bring his name forward in the Harris
burg Convention as the Wing nominee for the Pre-
sdency, he wrote letter declaring that he thought
the nomination was due, first Of ALL to the public
merits Of Mr.. Clay next, if he could not be elect
ed to Gen. Harrison and, lastly, that it should
only ha oivan IN himcalf obanoas s,,aoon.