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santly in the opposite direction. In 1818, in 

 the midst of the negotiations for the convention 

 of that year, a disconcerting illustration of this 

 fact was brought before the public by the pro 

 ceedings of the American general Andrew Jack 

 son on the Spanish soil of Florida. 



In the United States the most particular 

 abode of hostility to all things British was the 

 valley of the Mississippi the frontier region 

 where population was sparse but now rapidly 

 growing. Of the causes which nourished this 

 hostility, the most active was probably the tra 

 ditional relations between the British and the 

 Indians in both the Northwest and the South 

 west. Practically every village and settlement 

 between the mountains and the Mississippi con 

 tained inhabitants who had suffered personally 

 from the ghastly incidents of savage warfare. 

 That the Indians who butchered and burned 

 and scalped throughout the West had been sys 

 tematically inspired and sustained in their acts 

 and methods by British authorities, was an in 

 grained conviction among the American people. 

 The open alliance of the army in Canada with 

 Tecumseh during the late war confirmed this 

 conviction for generations. Long after the war, 

 Indian bands from the remoter regions of the 



