Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
THE INDIAN HUNT IN FLORIDA.

Some millions were spent by our slave-holding
ana Understanding government some years since
in hunting out the Seminole Indians from the
swamps and everglades of Florida. A portion of
this was spent'in the i'm portation, ana f%orarging
OF bloodhounds for the use of General Taylor and
his compatriots, and finally the great body of the
Indians were either slaughtered or caught and
transported west of the Mississippi. Old lack
ran away with the honor which the blood-hounds
earned and was rewarded by the nation with the
Presidency.
Some hundred or two, of these poor savages
escaped the perils Of the soldiers and the hounds,
aud lately. provoked by new outrages and the need
less presence and provocations of United States
troops, assaulted and slew some of their number
This was q sufficient provocat;on for o new declar-
alton of war against them by our magnanimous
and invincible nation, and companies of United
States troops have lately been transported to
Florida to engage in this hunt. The chiefs of these
conquering forces, are Offering rewards for the
capture of individual Indians as we learn from
the following %"offcial announcement :"
Capt. Casey, the Agent for Indian Affairs ia
Florida, is authorized to offer a per capita rev ard
or premium for living Indians who NAV be captur.
ed or induced tocome in for emigration to the West.
The following rates will be paid by him for Indians
delivered at Fort Brooke or Fort Myers, viz:
For each warrior, from $3.50 to $500
DO woman $50 to 200
Do boy over ten years 100 to 200
"The highest rate, as above, will be paid for all
except the intirm, bed-ridden, and helpless, in which
cases the rate mot less than the minimum above, }
will be fixed by the agent or q board"
This announcement (says the Florida Ieninsw-
tdr) looks like the Government has some object in
view. We will rejoice to see the Indians removed
from our State 10y the means here indicated vet
we fear this policy, dictated by humane sysmpathy
and Justifable when dealing with a rational foe,
is reprehensible in this instance. But we regard
this as an important move, which, if las we pre-
dict 1t does not end the race of the "red man" in
Florida, will soon prove its impracticability and
induce the Government to offer a reward for every
Indian captured dead or alive! This may sound
harSh, but the antecedents Of this bloody race
would justify such course"
THE HERO or CuRIsTIANA.-We cut the follow
ing paragraph from a late number Of the Proyin-
cial (C. W. Freeman
ave had the pleasure, on last Saturday, OF ia
king by the hand Mr.. VIM. Parker, the hero of
Chrishana. The memory of that conflict of flee
noble ~boadnen, unarmed, in protection of their
wives and children, against an armed gang Of thir-
ty wretches IN the en- employment of theU States
with the hIreling Kline. of Philadelphia. ard old
Gorsuch, or Gorsooch, and son, SHAREHOLDERS. of
Maryland, at She head, will neEec Sc eHacsd.
"Mr. Parker is a slender g,G.n, rather In. mild
and forgiving in expression and character, but as
decisive as death, a. determined as a hurricane,
and as brave as q Dessaline. 4 hundred such vii.
ia'ns as h'I;le, Of Penn ,yiyania. would be made
to tTsEiole and quake before the masterly eve Of
,s1ch a man as Mr.. Parker. Grant that his manly
arm could have reached the cowardly breasts OF
the whole thirty who assailed him at the time, in
stead OF only tro! His ever faithful wife suffer,
ed many privations till she reached lin; but they
are now happy in their ora domestic abode, under
protection Of the British Lion"
Sohn Little, q fugitive SLAVE, vino went iatc the
Canadian woods without a dollar, raised crops the
last wear that will hrinn him 50 lnNl liz .Li.LS