Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-23

them to hostility! Can he be sane I?
Has not much power and undue lndui-
gence "made him mad"'-Or does ne
believe that his bare assertion will be
taken for granted in the very teeth OF
facts . The fact is, that the Governor
has attempted to bully the U. 5. gov
ernment into such measures as he
wished adopted, so that the Creek
lands might be annexed TO Georgia
during the present year, and acquire
for him such popularity as to render
more probable his reelection to the
Office he now fills. He has gone so Tar,
that he knows not what course to pur-
sue. If he go on, ruin stares him in
the face.-If he retractss his fortitude
as we'll as his sanity VIII be called in
question, and his political fate will be
sealed. In this dilemma, he still car
ries on his war of abuse and threats,
and we'll will it be for him and Tor the
nation if it end there ?
It's singular that it did not occur to
Gov. Troup, that the "God of the u.
States" whom he triumphantly says,
"is equally the God OF Georgia., is
also the God of the Indians. Altho'
the countrymen of Philip and Logan,
from some strange and unaccountable
cause, are daily decreasing in numbers,
and the remnant who survive are fast.
verging towards the setting sun-it is
not less the fact that they are children
of the same common Father as our
sekes-that they, as we'll as we, are
protected by the same hand, and che
rished by the same bounty that "feeds
the young ravens when they cry, and
.emyers the wind to the shorn lamb. =
The acts of injustice, which every
year adds TO their catalogue OF wrongs,
will, like the blood of Abel, cry to
Heaven for vengeance; and though
the day of retributiou may be delayed,
shall not our posterity see and feel 1t!
But 1--WE are neither prophets, nor the
sons Of prophets "-and if we could,
we would not draw aside the veil that
hides future events from mortal ken.
Our government is compelled, by cir
cumstances, to pursue towards the In
dams course Of policy which appears
harsh. Let US temper this policy by
mildness, not render it more unleeling
by rudely driUing them, eren before the
time stipulated, from the spot where they
were born, and with which is associat-
ed all their dearest recollections.-Let
US not believe that an Indian is unsus-
ceptible of these feelings. "Hath not
an Indian eyes? hath he not organs,
senses, dimensions, affections, passions?
fed with the same food, hurt with the
same weapons, subject to the same dis
eases, healed by the same means, warm
ed and cooled by the same summer and
winter as Christian is? If you prick
him, doth he not bleed? If you tickle
him, doth he not laugh? Ifyou poison
him, doth he not die? find, If you
acrong him, shall he not revenge9" They
feel, indeed, deeper vcneration for
the names of their ancestors than civil
lized men. 1t is natural consequence
Of their unsophisticated state and of
their religious belief. five wished an
evidence of it, additional TO those we
have already, we may find it in the fact
that the Quapaw Indians, similarly
circumstance with the Greeks, are pc
titioning that the Treaty, lately con-
cluded between them and the y. States,
may be revoked, declaring that sit
was painful to leave the lands where
the bones of their ancestors reposed."
But did Governor lizard adopt the in
temperate course of the Georgian? No.
He mildly advises them to be content
ed with the treaty--tells them that it
cannot be annulled-and shows them
the advantages that will result to them
selves from their removal TO distant
land. in avoiding the encroachments
of the whites. The result was, that
they retired peaceably; and however
unwilling they may be TO leave the wig
vans that have sheltered their fathers,
they will make no resistance to the
execution of the Treaty. Such is the
! effect of having wise, calm, and pru-
dent statesmen-at the helm of affairs,
instead of those fiery and turbulent spi-
rits, who seek every occasion to "shoot
madly from their spheres
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