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Show "CAROLINE WAR" WAS SHORT Border Trouble Between United States and Canada Threatened for Time, However, to Be Serious. The "Caroline war" was a border trouble between the United States and Canada, in which a few persons were killed, but the trouble did not last long. In 1836-7 there was a strong republican re-publican spirit rife in parts of lower Canada, which culminated In December, Decem-ber, 1837, in an unsuccessful insurrection insurrec-tion In Toronto. The leaders of the Insurrection fled to the United States, and one of them, a newspaper man : named Mackenzie, with 25 or 30 men. Including a few from the American side who had joined him, seized an Island Is-land in the Niagara river and set up a provisional government. Their navy consisted of a steamboat called the Caroline, and one dark night while she-was she-was lying on the American side a party of Canadians crossed the river and burned the boat, killing several men. on board of her. The affair caused great Indignation. President Van Buren issued proclamations proclama-tions demanding observance of the neutrality neu-trality laws. The New York militia was called out and placed under command com-mand of Gen. Winfield Scott. President Presi-dent Van Buren characterized the. burning of the Caroline In Amerlcaa waters as "an outrage of a most aggravated aggra-vated character" and concluded by asking ask-ing congress for "such appropriations as the circumstances In which our country Is thus unexpectedly placed require." re-quire." The affair dragged along a few years, but was finally settled without with-out further bloodshed. |