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tempts to Anxlicize the program now

tempts to Anslicize 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 study will by no
means augment the world harmony
which is one of the ostensible aims of
this joint celebration. The hypocrisy
and self-righteousness of Great Brit
aims protestations of love and friend
ship for the United States of today,
are disclosed in all their hollowness
when We consider the early history
of the relations Of the two countries.
The pages Of history will be searched
in vain for a parallel to the cold
blooded selflshness and inhuman
cruelty manifested by Great Britain
towards the people Of this country in
the early days Of our history.
In the Declaration of independence
one of the accusations launched
against the King of England reads:
HE has melted domestic insurrec-
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"
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
Entrusted 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 "hairbuyer." Ham,
ilton attained his evil notoriety dur
ing the War of the Revolution, but
his example was afterwards emulated
by 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. 1874, 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 a fort at Miami Rapids on Am
erican 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 Eng
lish peoples" describe the furnishing
| of rifles to the Indians by one Mckee
British Indian agent among the north
! western tribes at war with the United
States, and the hospitable reception
which Mckee afforded one of the In
dian war parties which presented him
with six Of the American scalps taken
by them in q skirmish with the Am
! orleans.
No British historian has ever seri-
ously attempted to deny these accusa-