Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-01-05

4 past HclI dppCdIduCc duu COufCIed-
ton were very progressing. Indeed
the department of the whole family was
such as the most refined in manDers would
have been pleased with. MIR. Williams
himself is TOO well known to need my EN-
lcomiums would to God, that all Our ma
ton were like him He appears TO be q
lover oil science, and has parlor gar orna
inented with very handsome library.
Do not these people merit the attention
Of their fellow christians ? Ought not we
TO watch over their rights and Interests
with the sane solicitude that We manifest
for others of our countrymen Ought
they TO be coerced from their reservation,
back into savage wilderness
1t is said that those nations of Indians
who live far in the interior OF our CONT.
nent, and who have not been much &C.
quainted with white men, are less suspi-
cious aud more accessible than those ou
our frontiers Ii this be true, what does
1t intimate Have we conducted towards
them in such manner as to make them
worse instead Of better! Alas it is too
true, that however attentive 10 their in-
terests our government have been, they
too frequently are treated by individual
White men, as beings possessed of no un-
at,enabie rights" IT'S true they gene
rally prefer their own mode of living to
ours: but thosc who have seen with Wiiat
difficulty ciuitised rphite men change from
the habits and pursuits to which they
have long been accustomed, ought to be
able TO make some ALLOWANCE for the slow
ness Of Indian advance in the practice OF
our arts.
In reading Messrs. Lewis and Clark
tour across the continent, | was struck
with establishment al the instances of H.
dian hospitality described by them. The
Mandanes particularly who live 600
miles up the Missouri, and at or near
whose towns our Government have lately
established military posts, were very
friendly and seryiceable to Messrs. l.. and
G. The Shoshonces also, who reside
above them, manifested some traits Of
character, which would have done honour
to any natlon. Would it not be expedi-
emf to send Missionaries among them be-
fore their minds have become preiudiced
against US by the experience OF our ava
rice, and the observance Of our vices
They are considerably numerous pro-
pie, and much more easy OF access, thar
some eastern nations whom American am
/ European Missionaries are now visiting
| Their languages are easily acquired, a
has been evidenced by the traders, who
have visited them.
/ We know not how many other tribe
would feel the influence of the gospe
l.. leaven," should we seud it TO these PEG
lple. And it appeared TO me that it woulc
be the cheapest and surest method OF pre-.
venting future wars with them, TO SEND
men among them who should Instruct
Them in religion and 10 the practice of the
useful arts; and educate their childrei
6 in the way in which they should go,
that when they become old, they may moi
depart from it. Fifty years hence. VT
shall probably have highway opened
from ST. Louis, 10 the mouth of the Co
lumbar river. How pleasing to antici-
pate that the weary Christian traveller. on
that long road, shall then be able to rest
himself beneath the roof of civilized and
pious Indians And should the opinion OF
some enlightened Christians prove we'll
founded-that these people arc the descend
ants Of the ten tribes Of Israel, how hap
py shall We be to find ourselves engaged
in bringing them back from their captiyi-
| ty, to the knowledge Of their God and
their Messiah w.