The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-04 00:00:00

TUZ INDIAN WAR.

LETTER FROM BISHOP wunTut

At the bee/lion of the Indian Commisaion, held
es the 9th ult. in Chicago, the following letter from
Mishap Whipple, of Minnesota, was read :
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•• Trusoat Hines. Oct. 7. 1688.

" Gentlemen,—l write to you as freely, ato • es*
mission appointed by the nation to examine and redress
wrongs which have been inflicted upon the Indians, who
are wards of the government. Your conni,mion was ap-
pointed at the earned request of Christian men who have
T attempted to secure justice to the Indians. To you
we all look, and of you the nation will require a strict ao-
count. I more keenly this history of shame, because
it cuts a foul blot on the nation's honour • because I be-
lieve God is just, end will require that we shall reap
exactly what we sow. The sad experience of a °ea-
tery ought to teach us that where robbery and wrong m
the seed, blood will be the harvest. lam aware of the
fearful clamour for vengeance which rises along our bor-
der. I know by the bitterness of my own experience the
horrors of savage warfare. I have too many friends in
nmaidese graves to offer one excuse for savage violence.
Bet even this does not and cannot release us from the
claims of justice, of humanity, and of our fear of God.
We are making history, and as true as God's words are
true if we continue the mune we have followed His curse
will LW on us and our children. There is no ganglion
that our Indian system is • blunder—more than a crime,
because its glaring evils would have been redressed if it
bad ever been calmly considered. We recognise them as
nations, we pledge them ourfaith, we enter:lde solemn tree-
Backend thee treaties are ratified as with all foreign powers,
by the highest authority in the nation. You know—every
man who ever looked into our Indian affairs knows—it is
a sal melees lie. The treaties am often conceived in
fraud, and made solely to put money in some white man's
yetket. We send them agent+, knowing at the tine we
said them that they must steal, that they cannot anal will
nit live on limir pittance of salary. Toe agent and his
emy loyis are appointed a 4 a political reward for past ser-
vice. Then folios:* fraud in cantritets, pilfering in unisai.
ties. violation of solemn pledges, and fro pent ren wilt.
The savage is thus left witLoat law to protect, with a.'
incentive to labour, with harpies to plunler, and vies and
crime holding a carnival of death, until, maiden I with
lieu y, he wieuks his vengeance on inuocwit pro* of the
hoick r. '1 hen fellow our vain attempts at redress. Ins: as lot
calmly looking at the causes of the war and rod:vas:kg
along, we Christian men wage a blind war, often destroy-
Mg our own ti lends,. and it ties happened that we have
wantonly nsurdeted helpless women and children.
We spend millions, we kill ten of our own people to
one Indian, and finally settle down on the Devil's own
idea that our only hope is in extermination. There is
only one Being who can exterminate, and a wi'iou with
a half million of graves over which the grass ha+
hardly grown ought to learn this truth. I admit
all you can say of the difficulty, but I do know
that if we give God the will he will find u 4 the
way. The army may and mud protect our people. It is
a false protection if they repeat scenes which have taken
place, and which only served to arouse into tenfold more
of hate all the passions. of • savage race. In many in-
stances, if time were given, of, if friendly Indians were
employed, murderers would be given up by the Wises
themselves, and if not, we should war on the guilty. The
=know that it is cheaper feed than to light la-
to
There is • great heart in the Saxon wkiah
although slow to act, will issdrees wrong. Tlndians
can be taught to labour. They can receive the Limpet. I
know of no histedans among our own race of greater
Moldy than some of these poor Indiana during the war.
I will not detain you longer. If you will allow me, I will
forward to you in writing detail of the history of the
Sioux war, and the operations of our Indian system in
Minnesota:, which I made verbally to-day. Permit me to
assure you of the sympathy, aid. and prayers of many who
pity the helpless, and who believe that their cry ascends
to God.—Youre respeetfully, 11. B. Wsurrin. '

A JEwien TIMATItE.—A Jewish thestro has
been erected in Warsaw. It in conetructed to hula SOO
potioir. The internal arrangements are excellent, and
the decoration tasteful. The pieces to be played will bo
selected from the principal episodes of the Old Testament.
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The actors, thirty in number, will be all Jews, and the
parts of the females will be impersonated by young boys.
The dialogue will be in ilenaau.