Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-01-19

r. dsdilS against power, may
laln.ly answer, that they will 90 If then
mus., aad u suitable place can be found
-tor them. AT the very moment, when
they are saying this, they will add their
conviction, that no suitable place can be
l1ound. In word, these tribes will not
remove, unless by compulsion, or in the
apprehension of force 10 be used hereaf.
ter. -
0. Inc Indians assert that there is not
suinclent quantity Of good land, in the
contemplated tract, to accommodate half
tneir present numbers to say nothing of
the other tribes to be thrust into their
company Even the agents of the Unit
ed States, who have been employed with
special view to make the scheme popu-
lar, admit that there is deficiency Of
wood go water. Without wood for fen
ees, and buildings, and for shelter against
the furious northwestern blasts of winter.
the Indians cannot be comfortable. With.
out running streams, they can never keep
i've stock; nor could they easily dig
wells and cisterns for the use of their
families. The vast prairies of the West
Will ultimately be inhabited. But it would
require all the wealth, the enterpize. and
the energy, of ADglo-Americans. to make
prosperous settlement upon them. Now
IT. the judgement of travellers is to be re.
lied on, will such settlement be made,
I'LL the pressure of population renders it
necessary. The most impartial accounts
OF the country, to the west of Missouri
and Arkansas, unite in representing it as
ooundless prairie, with narrow strips of
forest trees, on the margin of rivers. The
The good land, including all that could
be brought into use by partially civilized
men, IS stated to be comparatively small.
q. Government cannot fulfil its promis-
es to emlgrating Indians. 1t is incompar-
ably easier to keep intruders from the
Cherokees where they now are, than it
Will be to exclude them from the new
country. The present neighbours of the
Cherokees are, to considerable extent
men OF some property. respectable ag.i-
culturlsts who would not think of any en-
croachment, if the sentence of the law
were pronounced firmly in favour Of the
occupants OF the soil. Stealing from the
Indian is by no means SO common as it
J was tlfteen years ago. One reason is, that
the worst class of white settlers has mi
grated farther West. They are stated,
even now, to hover around the emierant
Greeks, like vultures. 1t may be laid
down as maxim, that so long as Indians
possess aay thing which is an object of
cnpId'ty 10 the whites, they will be expos
ed to frauds of interested spectators. or
the intrusion of idle and worthless va
grants; and the farther removed the In
dams are from the notice of the Govern
ment, the greater will be their exposure
to the arts. or the violence, of selfish and
unPrincipled men.
twenty years hence, Texas, whether
1t shall belong to the United States or not,
will have been settled by the descendants
of Anglo-Americans. The State of Mis-
souri, will then be populous. There will
be great roads through the Indian coun-
try, and caravans will be passing and re-
passing in many directions. The emf
grant Indians will be denational;zed, and
will have no common bond of union. Will.
it be possible, in such circumstances, to
enforce the laws against intruders
z. 1.-THE Indians remove from their ma.
tive soil, it is not possible that they should
receive a satisfactory guaranty of new
country. a guaranty is professedly
made by compact called treatv.
it will be done at the very moment
that treaties with Indians are declared not
to be binding, and for the very reason that
existing treaties are not strong enough to
bind the United States. To what conf
dence would such an engagement be en-
titled
1t is now pretended that President
Washington, and the Senate of 1890. had
no power to guaranty to Indians the lands
on which they were born, and for which
they were then able to contend vigorous
ly at the muzzle of our guns. Who can
pledge himself, that it will not be contend
ed, ten years hence, that President Jack
son, and the Senate of 1880, had no con-
stltutlonal power to set apart territory for
the permanent residence of the Indians
Will it not then be asked, Where is the
clause in the Constitution which authoriz-
ed the establishment of a new and anoma-
lous government in the heart of North
America The Constitution looked for
ward to the admission of new States into
the Union; but does it say any thing
about Indian States? Will the men of
1910 and 1850 be more tender of the
reputation of President jackson than the
men of the present day are of the reputa-
ton of President Washington Will they
not say. that the pretended treaty of 1880
(if treaty should now be made) was an
act of sheer usurpation That it was
known to be such at the time, and was
never intended to be kept? That every
man of sense in the country considered
the removal of 1880 to be one of the few
steps necessary to the utter determination
r. a.