The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-08-31

tenth century.
Depend upon it," SAYS Gov. Troup
in bis letter of May 8, 1925, TO JOSEPH
Marshall; "my revenge will have. /
will be such as we have reason TO be.
lieve the Great Spirit would require
Such as cur Christ would not think ID
much - Horrible perversion of Ian
guage The names ofthe God Of Mer-
cy and the Teacher of pure morality
introduced to sanction this unhalIow ed
call for the determination of the help
less, unolfending natives of the forest
we cannot adequately express our alb
horrence of sentiments like these.
Again, in his letter TO Gen, Ware, he
says, : | sincerely trust, if these infuri.
ated monsters shall have the temerily
TO set foot within our settled limits, you
may have the opportunity to give them
the 6ayonet freely, the instrument! which
they most dread, and which is nsoSt Gp-
propriate TO the occasion.
Is this the spirit with which these
aboriginals should be treated? After
we have encouraged them to reIiDquish
their ancient habits, for the customs and
arts OF civilized life, we seek TO despoil
them of their lands by fraudulent trea-
~, and TO drive them again into the
forest, with habits united to sustain the
hardships of the hunting life, and with
aionging wish for that civilization which
we have encouraged them to hope, and
deoarred them from obtaining. In such
situation, shall we prohibit them from
complaining, or threaten them with THE
bayonet, because they visit justice upon
those violators of their laws, who hove
been the authors of their distress? We
stand IN delicate relation TO those La
dams. We inhabit the land of their an
cestors. We are powerful people,
beyond the reach of their arms, Or q
The arms of any who may undertake Il
avenge them.
They are weak and few in number
indebted to our sense of justice for pro.
tectlon upon the soil which they once
owned in absolute right. They have
attempted 10 clvilize the rising genera
ton. and have suffered the while mer
10 encompass them in their settlements
IN the hope that they might be preserv
ed under the protecting arm of TIN:
great republic, until, in the fulness o.
tlme, they should be received into, tbs
oosOui VI the american family, and De
ldentihed with US, as one people. We
stIIi have il in our power TO drive then
beyond the precincts of civilization
where, half savage and half civilized
they will soon fall victims to the diff
cultIes Of their situation; or, in resist
ing, they may bring upon themselve;
universal destruction. They may per.
ish, as they have resolved TO do, upor
the smoking, blood-sla1ed ruins Of then
huts, and leave not soul TO tell the
tale. Their race may disappear from
the earth, and no historian, nor orator
of Indian extraction, exist to narrate
their wrong, or TO call down vengeance
upon those who have possessed them
selves of their fair inheritance. Blu
will public opinion be annihilated? Car
we forget our own injustice Will no
the page of our history be inGelibll
stamped with the extirpation of the alb
originals? Our descendants will read
that, in the nineteenth century, the A
merican Congress ratified a fraudulen
treaty, by which an Indian nation wa
deprived of lis territory against its will
and wiihoutits consent--that this treat,
was made with small party of these
ignorant creatures, who were caiolet
aud bribed 10 be the instruments of de-
frauding their countrymen--thas the
Senate was induced, by deception, Il
ratity it;--and that still the nationa
government, in conjunction with tht
State authorities, proceeded to execute
it at the point of the bayonet, by The
determination of the Indians.
| Shall this last sentence close the rec
ord of this disgraceful transaction p
Shall our descendants see the bones O
these aboriginals whitening the western
plains of Georgia, as enduring testi
mony of our cruelty and injustice Sucl
a deed would not be entirely withou
precedent. We may find them 10 The
conquest of Hispaniola, in the subver
sion of Mexico and Peru, and in the re-
cords of the English East India Compa
ny. We may find them in the trial o
Warren Hastings; and we shall alsc
there find the almost super.human de-
nunciatious of his avaricious cruelty, by
Sheridan, Fox, and Burke, when they
yindicated the rights of India on the
floor of the British Parliament. Shal
these Creeks meet in the American
Congress with no corresponding feel
ing? Rome listened to the cries of Sic
lily, and Britain TO the complaints of In
dia. Is this republic alone TO be inseus
BILE to the voice ofsupplicating man IL
Congress only can these moor children