The Arkansas advocate., 1831-03-16
THEINDIaNS

Those political phantilropists, ,whohave such large floods of tears to shed at the laudable at tempts of the President to colo;Iize the ss,oati,e, Indians, on the west of the Mississippi. in pnf- suaace of the original plano of Mr. Jefferson. will doubtless have theirslaees of griefopened afresh lat the following quotations from the annals Of New I3ngand:
 Cotton AIather says, s.not only English. but fudianShave been debauched by those who call themselves Christians, who have put their bot ties to them and made them drink also.'
 The same author says, ssthat in the depth of. winter descent was made upon them, (the h. dians,) and the day was wonderfully carried d. gainst the tawny infdes. Their city was laid in ashes. Above twenty of their chief captains Iwere killed; a proportonable desolatlon cnt of the inferior salvages, (savages;) mortal sickness l. andhorrid famine pursued the renainders of'em. SO that we can hardly tell 7cAere onv of ene are lleti alipe upon the face of tue eqrM.
 The same author, in giving an account of the storming of an Indian fort says, .but the wig vans or houses which filled the fort, consisting ichefly of combustible mats, we set fire 10 them, and presently retireing out of the fort, OH every lside surroundedit. The fire, by the advantages ] of the wind, carried all over it, and such terri l ole confusion, overwhelmed the soIvaees. that many of them were BROILED into death by the revenging flames: many of them climbing on the tops of the paltieadog (pallsadoes) were a fair mark for the mortferous bullets there :and many of them that had the resolution to issue forth, were slainby the English who stood ready to bid them zcelconse??o
 Of taking of another fort, the same author says, "On the Lords day, they got up to the fort, undiscovered, where, to their sorrowful dis appointment, they found no more of the enemy, iQndans) than one and twenty, wherefore they took and slew TWENTY,
 How different the policy which the present administration propose to pursue with these chil- dren of the forest? They propose to move them toa rich, fertile region, teach them the ciyilizing arts, and prepare the way for eventually receiy- ling them as American citizens. How different this from the course pursued by our pilgrim Ea- ltherse And yet there are men among Us Sc biinti- | ed by political prejudice, and excited by hatred to our ralers. as to hold up the pilgrims as mo dels for imitation, while they denounce the pre- sent administration and their friends as mol- sters in cruelty. Why do we not hear these con sistent gentlemen mourning over the destruc- ton, the cruel destruction of the Pequods. in Connecticut? The case of George Peters. the Indian hung in Oneida county for the murder of his squaw; or the case of the Indian executed |in Madison county for similar offence? Where were all their sympathies when Soonongise was eoavicted in Erie county?
 Why have their tears been reserved for the Southern Indians!
 The answer is plain. The question in rela- io to the Southwestern Indians is attempted to be made political one. Hiac ilie laelsrisna!
 From the London Quarterly Review.
 THE MISSISSIPPI.
 @The Mississippi offers an example of a re- markabe photographed law, namely, that the width of river is by no means porportioned 10 its volume of water, but, on the contrary, after the junction of two or more continents, the unit cd stream often occupies less space than either