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more stringent than those of 1803, but differed little 

 beyond the substitution of the Superintendent (a paid 

 officer) for the Prote6lor. 



The results of this change as far as the Indians were 

 concerned were virtually «//, and even the Superinten- 

 dents and Postholders were suspended during the financial 

 crisis of 1842. True, the churches began to bestir them- 

 selves ; already there were several mission stations, and 

 efforts were rr-ade to establish others. Bishop Hart, in 

 his charge of the 18th of July 1839, said that there were 

 many circumstances favourable at that moment to the 

 conversion and civilization of the Indian tribes. The 

 negroes were free and the Indians would therefore no 

 longer consider it degrading to work with them. Though 

 still too much addifted to the use of intoxicating spirits 

 yet a check had been legally put upon the too easy ac- 

 quirement of that bane of their race, and the Indians 

 themselves were in many cases manifesting a laudable 

 anxiety for clothing and domestic comforts. 



In August 1857, whatever existed of the Postholder 

 system was merged in the Sub-Registrars, who were 

 succeeded by Commissaries and the Crown Lands De- 

 partment, sine e which the Indians have been left alone, 

 except for the Missions. 



When we review the position of the American Indians 

 of to-day, we are compelled to admit that they cannot 

 live in presence of the Anglo-Saxon race. The Spaniard, 

 on the contrary, notwithstanding his cruelty in early 

 times, did not exterminate the native from the continent, 

 and now it seems as if his descendants will ultimately 

 be merged in the true American. Something of this may 

 also be seen in British Guiana, as long as accessions from 



