Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-10-08
From the Globe.
L IOIlA lllS
DOTY'S TREATY.

Our information from the West put strange
face on Doty's dealings with the Indians. It
is, however, just what might have been look
ed for from such an inscriptions intriguer and
speculator-one who makes his politics cap.
ital for the selfish and mercenary schemes, in
which he embarks all the corrupt men of in
fuence who can make the Government pander
to their accomplishment.
We learn that Doty's treaty with the wild
Sioux, will. it ratified, cost the Treasury from
six to eight millions Of dollars. In defiance of
the rejection of some provision to make an In
dian Government in the Far West, under
white management-a provision which was
attempted, clandestinely, to interpola,e in some
law having no reference to such poilcy-Do-
tvs treaty proposes at once to domesticate and
civilize and citizenize the rowing bands of pro-
datory Sioux, who are moro utterly incapable
of settled life than any other tribe on our con-
tinent. For these people Doty has, we under
stand, reserved 100000 acres of land In sep.
arate district within the ceded territory, for az
riculturaI purposes. 1t is to be ploughed and
worked for them by the United States-ten
acres, we believe, for every family. Some
seven or eight mills are to be built, and at an
expense, if we include other provisions of like
kind. greatly exceeding that which was denied
to the establishment Of a Western Annoy, to
furnish the people Of the Great Valley with
weapons obedience. Spinning wheels, ploughs
and every species of domestic utensils are to
be provided for these wild banditti, who spend
thei1whole time in pursuit Of the buffalo. The
Government is to fund million Of dollars, as
national debt, and pay them forever an an
nual interest on it. 1t is also to assume their
debts to the different traders, who will fabri-
cate claims to suit the occasion; and these we'll
provided savages, when set up in house-keep-
ing, at the expense of the Treasury, under the
fatherly care Of Mr.. Doty, are to be admitted
to all the rights, civil, religious, and political,
which belong to the people fany of the States
The vast national outlay of some six or eight
millions-to convert rowing bands that have
lived for ages, on the trails of buffaloes, into
staid farmers, millers, and spinners-whle it
has the appearance of ambitious philanthropy
in the protector and administrator Of this new
scheme of Indian Government, means nothing.
on .he part of Mr.. Doty, but opening up Of
new avenues to make spoil OF the Treasury of
the United States, under cover ofthe ignorance
and perfect Indifference of those savages, for
whose benefit it is ostensibly designed. All
the house building, milling, farming, furnish-
ing aud teaching, would be contracted away
under the auspices of Mr.. .Doty, and. under
sham preparations, the money would be paid
and nothing done. The whole expenditure Of
this Indian Government would fall into the
pockets of MIR. Doty and his coadiutors at
Washington and elsewhere, who cooperate
with him and, while the Sioux pursued their
game on the distant prairie, the reservations
and funded debt would at last come into the