The Litchfield County post., 1829-01-01
SECRETARY OF WAR.

the Presidents Message, is too ong for our columns; We must therefore, rontent ourselves by giving abstracts of it's contents.
 The two military schools of practice" have suffered much in the elimination of members by the necessity which existed of supplying officers at different points; nor have all the benefits proposed by their estab- llshment been realized owing to a want of proper equipments.
 The quarrels with the Winebagops; dis turbances in the Leadmine District, and ln Name, have rendered it necessary to garrison the forts of Chicago and Prairie du Chien.and of stationing force in Maine. It has also been found necessary to station ferces along the Niagara frontier, to prevent smuggling publickly threatened Officers for the above purposes, have been chiefly drawn from the Military School of Practice, at Jefferson Bar racks.
 From the School of Artillery at Fortress Monroe, officers have been taken for the for along the Atlantic frontiers. The system of instruction will, as far as practica- ble, he continued at dferint forts.
 The general view of the army, and of its staff, is represented as highly satisfactory, both in military discipline and fiscal econo- my.
 One portion of the corps of engineers is engaged in constructing works of military de- fence. and the other actively employed in the civil departments. The Quartermaster Gen eraI is engaged in erecting places for accom- modating the soldiers. and also in construct ing roads and bridges; "and the ordnance department with the force under its controul. displays a corresponding energy and skill, in the fabrication of arms and other munitions of war, as well as fer the militia of the states as the army. lndeed the reports from these partments, exhibit the army of the UsStatrs, not in the light winch standing armies in time of peace have usually been regarded, ,as drones as body Of and dhs haHFy of @nshHsrs ,htrs sn sn
 ticers, and laborers. who probably contrib teu more than any other equal number of cit
 izens, not only to the security oft tke country
 hut to the advancement of its useful arts.
 The Military Academy at West Point is mentioned in terms of appreciation, and its concerns declared 90 be in highly grstif, ing state. A compliment is paid to congress for its wisdom in giving employment to so many ci>i engineers.
 The policy ofextending its military posts so far within the Indian country, (say Fort Smelling, Fort LcavenwOrth, ,S1c.) is question ed. They are more likely to- provoke than to prevent aggre"sIon; and in addition to the great expense of supporting them, they are annually exposed to the ravages of an un, healthy location.
 r The removal of asportion of the men who compose the most remote garrisons of the Indian country is recommended.
 The addition offour surgeons and ten as- sistant surgeons, is recommended; as also graduation of the pay of the medical staff.
 The law constituting the department of the Commissary General ofSubsstence. will ex pire on the third of March next.
 It is recommended that a code of regulation be formed, by which that department should be governed in it's transactions with the In dians to this end General Clarke and Gov ernor Cass are now labouring in Washington. :, 1t is also recommended tu de> ote more at tention to the comfort and welib+ing of the lndians-to take them more under the espe- ciai care of the government. The plan of them beyond the limits of the states good in itself, is likely to be defeated by the use that is made oi another we'll meant enact ment:
 "The annual appropriation of S1O.OOO to the purpose of educating Indian children, and teaching them the mechanic arts. has had the effect to draw almost 'o every Indian reserva- lion in addition to the agents and interpreters, a considerable number of missionaries and teachers. with their families. who, having ac- 4u;"ed principally by the aid of this fund, ve- ry comfortable establishments, are unwilling |" be deprived of them by the removal of the Indians and thus we have found that, while The agents specially employed by the govern nen' for this purpose are engaged in persua, dug by rr"iuse distributions of money and presents, the Indians to emigrate, another set 't government agents are operating, more se- ,rt'ly t" be sure, but not with less zeal and fleet. |" prevent such emigration"
 He also recommends division of the new lands among those who W ill remove, and ldds:
 "L Let the BIO ,OOO appropriation be applied within the new colony exclusively, to the ame objects for which it is now expended md add to it from time. so much of our an. 'uaI contributions as can be thus applied with l ut violation of public faith"
 Those who remain should be provided for 1 but they should come under the municipal l avs of the state in which they may reside.
 He thinks that the education which some '' me Indians receive. only tends to teach nem 'ht love of mOney-'and then these half 'Oucdied men are turned lOoSe nmon~ th.,;.t