The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-06-14

6ONDhED rEAhS OF FEANE
BETWEEN THE 1.-TWO GREAT
BRANCHES OF THE ENGLISH
PEoPLE"-No REASON TO COM.
MEMoRATE ITS CENTENARY
AS A LoVE-FEAsT.
The following extracts from the
Memorial Day address delivered by
the Honorable d. w. Lawler, of ST.
Paul, at Fort Smelling, Mimi, cites
the facts of history to prove that Eng
land violated the rules of civilized
warfare in her dealings with the
United States at the time of the
Revolution as well as after the sign
ing of the Treaty of Client. The pro-
posed centenary of this treaty, there
fore, which occurs next year should
not be made the occasion for an un-
warranted laudation of England's atti-
tude towards this country.
"On the oath of December of next
year will be celebrated the one hun
dredth anniversary of the Treaty OF
Client, entered into by the United
States and Great Britain for the pur-
pose of concluding the War of 1912.
1t is entirely appropriate for Amer
leans to celebrate this victory over
Great Britain, but if the present ar
rangements are carried out the OBJ
servance of the anniversary will not
be consistent with the dignity of this
country, and will teach no lesson OF
patriotism or national independence.
"The anniversary Of the next year
will naturally cause the people of this
country, and especially the younger
generation to study the causes of the
War of 1912, our second war with
Great Britain. The grotesque at
tempts to Anglicize the program now
being made by the representatives of
Great Britain and their toadies among
our own citizens, will cause a careful
study into the conduct of Great Brit
ain during the early history of this
country Such a study will by no
means augment the world harmony
which is one of the ostensible aims of
this joint celebration.
"In the Declaration of Independence
one of the accusations launched
against the King of England reads:
HE has melted domestic insured
tons among us, and has endeavored
to bring on the inhabitants of our
frontiers the merciless Indian saw
ages, whose known rule of warfare
is an undistinguished destruction of
all ages, sexes and conditions
England melted Indians to PiIIage.
Before the war for independence
was over the statesmen of England
had supplemented the endeavor of
the King and had let loose the red
man with all his nameless atrocity on
the frontiers of our country. The
officers in command of the frontier
British forts, particularly Detroit and
Mackinaw, were commissioned not
only to furnish the Indians with
whiskey and firearms, but the annals
of those days narrate in detail the
amounts which were paid to the In
dams for the scalps of the butchered
colonists, and the hospitality showered
by distinguished English officers upon
savages returning from fire and mas
sacre red with the blood of their
slaughtered victims. The conduct of
the war in the West and the entire
management of frontier affairs was
intrusted by the British government
to Henry Hamilton, British Lieuten-
ant Governor of the Northwestern
Region, whose headquarters were at
Detroit. His particular Office was to
organize the Indians and encourage
them in their work of slaughter. The
colonists on account of the interest
which he manifested in the American
scalps which the Indian war parties
brought in, knew him by the grue-
some title of the 'hair-buyer. Ham
ilton attained his evil notoriety dur
ing the War of the Revolution, but
his example was afterwards emulated
by a distinguished and courtly Eng
lish statesman and gentleman, who
in a time of profound peace, true to
the diplomatic traditions of the coun-
try which he served, plotted with the
savages against American lives and
homes and honor on the frontier. On
February 10, 1894, when Great Brit
ain and the United States were at
peace, and when war between the In
dams and the United States was
threatened, Lord Dorchester, Cover
nor of Canada, in an address to
chiefs of the Indian tribes of the
North and West, given in all the
standard histories, directly melted the
Indians to war against the American
government. In April of the same
year Simcoe, the lieutenant governor
of the British Northwest Territory,
built fort at Miami Rapids on Amer
lean soil, in the very heart of the
hostile tribes and garrisoned it with
British regulars, infantry and artil-
lery, with the effect, as a British off,
cial wrote to another, of putting all
the Indians here in great spirits to
resist the Americans The Canadian
Archives for the year 1894, among
other records which will be of inter-
est to the amiable mollycoddles who
are talking about a hundred years of
peace between the two great English
peoples describe the furnishing of
rifles to the Indians by one Mckee,