The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-16
POLITICAL.

! MN AAo0uENSE. 4 uC iVHOWil& PuAoH ioPuo
close MIR. spragues Speech on the Indian
Question, in the United States Senate:
| 1t is said that their existence cannot be pre-.
served; that it is the doom of Providence, that
they must perish So indeed, must we all !; bat
| let it be in the course of nature; not by the
hand of violence If in truth, they are now in
the decrepitude of age; let US permit them TO
! live out all their days, and die in peace not
bring down their grey hairs in blood, to a for
eign grave.
| know, Sir, to what ] expose myself To
feel any solicitude for the fate of the Indians
may be ridiculed as false philanthropy and NOR.
bid sensibility. Others may boldly say, their
blood be upon u.s." and sneer at scruplos, as a
weakness, unbecoming the stern character of
politician. If, Sir, in order to become such, the
necessary to divest the mind of the principles Of
good faith andmoral obligation, and harden the
heart against humanity, confess that am
not, and. by the blessing of Heaven, will never
be politician.
| Sir, we cannot wholly silence the monitor
within. 1t may not be heard amidst the clash
ings of the arena in the tempest and convul-
sions of political contentious but its "still
small voice" will speak to us-when we med
tate alone at every tide i'm the silent watches
of the night when we lie down and when we
rise up from solitary pillow ;-and, in that
dread hour, when" not what we have done
! for ourselves, but what we have done for 9TH
ers' will be our joy and our strength; when
to have secured, even the poor and despised In
DIANA spot of earth on which to rest his ach-
[ ing head, TO giveto him but cup of cold wa
ter, in charity; will be greater treasure than
to have been the conquerors of Kingdoms, and
lived in luxury upon their spoils.
! Mr.. Everett, in his recent eloquent Speech
on the Indian Question, thus alluded to the fla
grant enormity which was perpetrated here.
But return to the question, what has the
! Cherokee to fear from this law of Georgia.
He has this to fear. The citizens of Georgia,
admit, freely and cheerfully to be as orderly,
vlrtuous and humane people as the citizens
OF any other State of the Union. presume,
however, that in Georgia, as in every other
State, there are individuals, in considerable
numbers, who regard the law only for its ter
rors; whom justice and honesty do not control,
( except at they are enforced by the law. Such
men exist in all the States they keep our
Courts of criminal jurisdiction constantly en-
ployed. In my own State, and in perhaps she
most orderly community in it, the country has
lately seen, with horror and establishment, that
there are men capable of atrocities, which
would shock the brigands of Calabria. Well,
then, sir, suppose the State of Georgia to con-
tain some such they have but to cross the
Cherokee line; they have but to choose the
time and the place, where the eye of no white
H'"A S0h AObL upOn Luouy anu LHey may Durn
the dwelling, waste the farm, plumber the prop
erty, assault the person, murder the children of
the Cherokee subject of Georgia, and though
hundreds of the tribe may be looking on there
is not one Of them that can be permitted to
bear witness against the spoiler. When am
asked, then, what the Cherokee has to fear
from the law Of Georgia, answer, that, by
that law, he is left at the mercy of the frsbrand
and dagger of every unprincipled wretch in the
community. Am told the laws of Georgia
are kindly administered towards this people;
that they have often obtained Justice in the
Courts of Georgia? do not doubt it know
it, on the best authority. But the law of which
| speak, is new law; it has not yet gone into
operation; and when it has gone into opera
ton, let 1T be administered as mildly as you
please, 1t cannot admit an Indians testimony
against white man not resident in the nation
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS have
been placed at the disposal of the Secretary of
! War By the bill which provides for the removal
OF the Indians beyond the Mississippi. What
] will he do with it? He may perhaps employ
unprincipled devotees of bad Administr ation,
who will stoop to bride the Chiefs of the Indian
tribes, and induce them to betray the confidence
which has been placed in them, and yield to
the wishes Of the Cabinet. We certainly have
reason to apprehend that such disposition may
be made of this appropriation. What has the
Secretary hitherto done? In May, 1929, he di-
rected General Carroll, who was sent as an agent
OF the government to induce the Indians to re-
move, not to meet the Cherokees in general
council" fer the consequence would be what it
always has been, g. firm refusal to acquesce;"
but to " take the Chiefs alone and make offers
to them OF extensive reservations in fee simple,
! and other rewards" This recommendation of
the Secretary of War is worthy of his Satanic
! Majesty himself, who did not attack Adam and
! Eve while together in the garden, but took tho
feeblest of the two, and by his artiice succeed.
ed in uniting her power with his own to subdue
her partner. Certainly the Hon. Secretary of
War is more apt scholar than we had suppos-
! ed him to be. And who are they who are to be
bribed in this way? They are those people to
whom the faith of the government has been
often and solemnly pledged for their protection.
And what are they to abandon and where are
they to go They are 10 leave their comfortable
dwellings, their cultivated farms, their pleasant
gardens, their school houses and chapels where
the phianthropc missionaries have taught
them the rudiments Of education and the pre-
cePts of christianity; and $4,000 in number, 20
thousand miles through the wilderness, to a
comparatively waste and barren land, already
in possession Of other tribes, with which a con-
tention for occupancy might be their total an
initiation. Can they rely on the government
OF the United States for protection They
cannot, for its promises have often been violut-
ed. If possible measures ought to be adopted
to protect the Indians from this high-handed
act Of an unrighteous government.
Lo1otH Journal
PLAIN TRUTHS. When Judge Mclean, the
former able Post Master General, left the Post
Office Department, there was a surplus of about
$2O0,O0O on hand. One year has elapsed, and
MT Barry, the present Post Master General,