The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-12-13
THE INDIAN CHARACTER.

furnished an eloquent article on the recent VISIT OF the
Winne6ago Chiefs TO Washington City. These Chiefs
have visited many of our principal cities and towns,
the spendors and attractions of which they behed with
that cold Indifference. that fxedness of countenance
which so remarkable trait in the Indian character
and which is well described by the writer alluded
to- from whose communication we make the following
interesting extract.
"The Indian in the first pace-who and what is he Much
he has been studied much and keen his has
been scrutinized, he exssa thinking breathing, moving
enigma Gdpus could not unrddle it. We know some
thing of his visible habits, it is rue-somehing his outward
features and thence presumed too
hastily to pronounce the elements of his mental NOR
al nature But these AFFIRM defy satisfactory solution at
least, the principles of all ordinary laws intellectual
pathology \
The North American Aboriginal appertans class al
together anomalous in the family of He stands alone
grand in his pecuary-a being mposngly distinctive b
from the very myserousness which wells his character and
ognI have gazed heretofore upon the proud old obesk
the glory of Thebes but which since have served TO
sentinel in mute and solemn state, the majesty of bued
Rome have Intercepted the mystic characters deep car
we'd on their surfaces by hands that wrough-aye rest
ed from their tosthree thousand years gone by and
have contemplated their scrtable import, have felt
sensation of awe stealing within and pervadng my spirit
With such feelings of involuntary reverence do ab
natives that still free and untamed along the skirts of
countrys population. There coseneSs about il IN
Shch invites curiosity only to dsappon it, In savage
bosoms the points of and affinity wanting or ar
yet be discovered which give the capab;y of mutual
coaescence all the other classes of the human race
Communion have with them; they claim it. thew ask
it of us. 50
And who think of the ills that have befaIen and the 10
fate which hangs this nsuaed speces-one no til
less than its gradual eNrpation without emotions Of II
strong sympathy? Who withhold the homage due TO
greatness of SOUL witnessing the ortie and hnh
and unbowed spirit exhibited by these numerous and
formidable lords OF The soil occupy as-reduced 10 Of
remnant pest upon by the fast advancing tide OF civilized pr
race, which to mpracticabe TO mnyie With IS 10
be os-they yet slowly retire. M from the approach tn
IF their white nirnde and calmly acquesce in the destiny
$ hlch the fates have bound around them' sci
They repe it VIII be said, the of civil society II
they court not the hmanizng arts of peace. If hapy t
hey among and mark in prosperity and great h
people the truth of the maxim that kuowedoe is
ower they look around them for the purpose of mta er
ing. but rather of stunning the applications of the skill
which mocks their untuored simplicity Does this diminish
hen the respect should bear them They have their p
Justification in the instincts they possess Those instincts in
each them that to drop the of savage life would be
sink the Indian, without acquiring, unless by long and
anful oaplage, the superior benefits of civilization 1t %
'oud be the assumption of yoke which neither inbred I
sposons their cherished habitudes would make endua
;. &c Ssclse Oh T'eoon knowedge yea
onscious nferioty and their stubborn pride woud