BRITISH AND AMERICAN POLICIES CONTRASTED. 2 I I 



ences, thus showing that the French, in this respect at 

 least, admit the superior tactical knowledge of the 

 British over any other nation. * Then again, hear 

 the evidence of an American bishop, speaking upon 

 the respective merits of the British and American 

 systems of dealing with the red Indians: 



" On one side of the line (i.e., the British and American 

 boundary line, Lat. 49 N.) is a nation" (the Americans, as 

 they call themselves) " that has spent 500 millions of dollars 

 in Indian wars. A people who have not 100 miles between 

 the Atlantic and the Pacific which has not been the scene 

 of an Indian massacre a government that has not passed 

 20 years without an Indian war, and which celebrates its 

 centenary (1876) by another bloody Indian war. On the 

 other side of the line are the same dominant Anglo-Saxon 

 race (the British) and the same heathen. They have not 

 spent one dollar in Indian wars, and have had no Indian 

 massacres." f 



The Right Reverend prelate does us too much 

 honour; but it is not our place, in these pages, to 

 enter into matters of historical controversy; we could 

 not therefore think of being so rude as to contradict 

 him. Moreover the conspicuous success with which 

 the British have managed their Indian wars throughout 

 their North American possessions is notorious, and it is 

 worth noting that the official recognition of the Native 

 Tribes in our public documents is always as " The Indian 

 Subjects of Her Majesty," and by no means as indi- 



* See " Strategic et grande tactique des derniers guerres, par le 

 General Pierron, 2 Vols 8vo, Paris, 1887. Travaux et fortifications 

 tontre les tribtis sauvages, Vol. i., pp. 313 to 322. 



| Extract from a letter addressed in 1876 to the President of the 

 United States by Bishop H. B. Whipple of Minnesota quoted in the 

 Introduction (by Mr. William Blackmore) to The fainting Grounds of 

 the Great West, by Colonel Richd. S. Dodge, U.S.A., pp. xlii 

 and xliii. 



