Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-06-11
POIIEIcA6a
THE INDIAN QUESTION

PUEIFICAlEs
| THE INDIAN QUESTION.
On no subject, under the predetermined and ranco.
rous hostility oil the present Opposition the Admins
raton, have their been more indus.
trious, or unbushng. than the bin relative TO the
removal Of the Indians. II is, ind .ed Incredible tina,
any one can so lar deceive himself ina CINE that he
can deceive others into the that this bill i,
OF the character represented by its opponents The
National Journal describes it as " law violating the
national fah and the principles Of national Justice p
and says Is another deep stain liked on the Aneri.
can characer by the present Admnistra-
| ton! The New York Commercial Advertiser as
sert that 10y signing this act, the President will ix
stain upon the honor OF his country which can never
be washed away. Ii violates the nation al faith and
the principles OF national ustcv; and Its tendency will
De TO make the American name a bye word, scorn
and reproach among nation.!" The N. Y. American
complains that 1t will Outrage reason violate good
faith, and do signal wrong to humanity" The Secre-
tary Of the Hartford Cony lin whom polca Va.
nom aud pbari.aical cant exhibit themselves bv rare
unon) charges the government with ANTICIPATED ACT.
OF oppression and PLUMBER and says that he would
willingly incur the responsibility of egaizing crime,
o. sanctioning immortality by law, of destroying by a
legislative act all the distinctions between right am,
wrong all the rights of property and the security OF
peIons as to encounter The responsibility of this gro-s
national Injustice And through all the more
less and unscrupuous OF the Opposition prints.
We publish this Indian law as il passed both houses
in another column 1t will doubtless be read; but the
reader viii lock in vain for any thing Justify the
Imperative language OF these party zsaois 1t will be
perceived that IL conempia,es nothing compulsory
nothing that is Incompatible with the interests and
happiness OF the Indian tribes-and nothing at ALL in
deed, unless they shall choose" TO emigrate In tina,
case, with liberaty beyond the examples afforded BY
any OF the states it permits them to exchange their
lans, directs the payment Of appraised value of any
improvements thereon, and provides the means of emf
grafton and OF support for the year after their
at the public expense The congress have car
RCD out, with attributes more favorable TO the
poor Indian, the sugge .on. urged at pre- vious
.ions by nearly every Chief Magisrss, and particular
iy by Mr. Jefferson and Mr. J. Q. Adams.
But IL tho principle 10 monstrous, why is IL that
these editors. ravenous they for mot
esq Of complaint have long since raed their voices
in their own state! Why il it that these friends of the
oppressed and dcfrauded Indian (~ho at least taci-
y approved OF the proposition in MIR. Adams which
they now condemn in Gen. Jackson) have looked upon
the policy and uniform practice OF New York in s-
cnco? Ever since the organic aton Of the sat,.gov-
eminent, Newly has claim I'd and ex rcsed all the
ur'dc'ion the Indians in her territory tina, il
claimed now by the state OF Georgia; and has pursued
towards her local tribes precisely the policy
ed by the bill which is the subject OF these hollow la
menations BY virtue of this policy, our tribes have
emisrated year alter year, TO Green Bay under the
superinten6ence Of agencies appointed by the state
but not at the expense Of the states and in this
the national law is more liberal towards the Dave than
The truth is, they knew that the policy was wise
one;-hat its purpose was phauth ropic and its ends
sautary They knew that here, the Indian invvidual-
y was becoming extinct and that their condition was
far less comfortable and far less in conformity with
own notions OF happiness, than in the remote re
gion TO which, in latter years, they had directed their
tooot'tep--not by any compulsory enactment on the
part OF their "oppressors, but by their own voon and
choice. They knew that clanor against a poIcy
which all conceded to be right il humane in itself
and which had produced good results would be unive
sally reprobated. Nobody thought of complaining whe
all approved. But now in the vain hope OF proiu cling
political effect they are prompt to misre present and
oppose in the national government, what they have
looked upon in silence for years, approved Of al
home Such is the consistency of par,izan hatred and
| mock humanity! albany Argus.
THE COLONIAL TRADE.
The coalition papers indulge in the grosses mi,repre-
sensations upon this subject The N Y. CONNIE rcia
affects TO know the motives which led to the confidential
message OF the President and fabr,cates an account of
dent as is concludes with the assertion that its slate
ment contains "subsanially the facts in thi, matter
And the Troy Sentinel, in duty bound, copies the
TIC ion with pleasant embelli .hment OF its own
Now, we know that this tale IT, in all it's ,rs fab.
rcation We are assured by several membprs OF con-
that the despa che' received by the last arrival
at NJ Y. (and which the CONNIE rcal Advertiser states
were reluctantly communicated with the Preside Is
confidential message not received at the derart.
ment OF state until Saturday only after the
had been communicated, but after the whole subject
had been disposed OF by Congress. These despache.
we are also informed SO far from wing the Dprc
sion that nothing will be effected in relation to the CO.
lonia trade the above mentioned
are precisely ola contrary tenor, and show that he
ton is in train of speedy adjustment and Mr. McLane,
private letter, so tar from being of the tenor siat BY
the Commercial Advertiser ARE the reverse Of
cypress the conviction in direct terms that the ssus Of
the nrgoci'ons will be favorable, and at an early