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supporting episcopacy in England, presbyterianism in Scot- 

 land; the Roman catholics in Canada; and idolatry in India! 

 The British government boasts of their efforts to send mission- 

 aries to the heathen! For every sixpence which they have 

 thus expended a thousand pounds have been spent bv them, in 

 shedding human blood, and in enslaving mankind. And, this 

 nation, thus steeped in human gore, dyed deep in infamy of 

 all sorts, now employs itself in reading moral lectures to us, on 

 the impropriety of our holding slaves. [See the Appendix— III.] 



Doctor McKeehan, was finally released from his imprison- 

 ment in the succeeding May, but, his bodily constitution was 

 entirely destroyed, by the treatment which he had received. 

 He returned to his own country, but death, has long since re- 

 leased, the sufferer from his pains. 



The sufferings of this Northwestern army at this time, may 

 be fairly estimated, from the contents of a letter of a Pittsburgh 

 volunteer to his friend : " On the 2nd day of our march, a 

 courier arrived from General Harrison, ordering the artillery to 

 advance with all possible speed. This was impossible from tho 

 snow, it being a perfect swamp, all the way. On the same 

 evening a messenger informed us, that the General had 

 retreated eighteen miles in rear of the rapids, to Portage river. 

 As many men as could be spared determined forthwith to rein- 

 force him there. 



"Our company determined to advance. Early next morn- 

 ing at 2 o'clock A. M. our tents were struck, and in half an 

 hour, we were on our way advancing. I will candidly confess 

 that on that day, I regreted being a soldier. On that day, we 

 marched thirty miles, in an incessant rain. And I fear that 

 you will doubt my veracity, when I tell you, that for eight 

 miles of that thirty, it took us over the knees, and often up to 

 the middle. The black swamp, four miles from Portage river, 

 and four miles in extent, would have been considered impassa- 

 ble, by any men, not determined to surmount every obstacle. 

 The water on the ice, was about six inches deep — the ice was 

 very rotten, often breaking through four or five feet. That 

 night we encamped, on the best ground we could find, but it 



