New-York tribune., 1841-12-10


Of the T. States U.s. Samuel L. Gouverneur, Gen
Jacksons Postmaster in this City. These debts
and thousands like them the present Adminstra-
ton arc obliged to pay; whcreuPon Loco-Focoism
cries out that the Wings are iacurrinr National
De5! Is this honest?
Mr.. ScHooLcRAFr's LrcrURE.-OnWednesdn
Indian character, fruits, &c. was delivered in the
Tabernacle, by II. Il. ScHooLcRArr, Esq. before
a very numerous and gratifed audience The Lee
turer, from the indis,nct and unsatisfactory knowl
edge which has as yet rewarded the study and re-
searches of the curious into the origin and early
history of the American Indians, preferred to take
/. rather general of them through their natural
characteristics than to draw any one line of OBJ
serva,ion which would necessarily lead in
quries for which the data at present possess
are insufficient The Indian, he said, was scholar
of nature; every bird Of the air and every quadru-
ped had for him voice of admontien. OF that
school the tales and instructions of his youth
and they arcbu iorcibly confirmed as he advances
IN experience. blia impulses and passions and
virtues are strong aad energetic. His hospitality
is proverbal-his affections for his friends and
family warm and devoted, and he laments them
when dead with sober endurance and manly for
ttude. His war-pa,h is not soug ht through
thirst for blood, and it. in his reasoning the infer
onces are wrong, it Is because his premises
roneous.
Voltairc considered the American Indian
of the seven independent Jciicrsons belle!
was that he was indigenous thus easily disposing
of the question OF migration; while Franklin,
whose mind was active in universal inquiry, avoid
ed any decided opinion on this interesting question.
The Lecturer here drew progressive picture OF
the state Of society in the East in the earlier ages.
Basing his own opinions uFon the deductions of
Christian Philosophy, and the fact that nothing is
easier than national decline, he observed that the
barbarsy of the old world was tho paren, Of bar
barty in the new; thus acquiescins in the doctrine
OF migration. Although the manner of their
ing this continent is not yet known, their Gus
and usases when found here in li92 satisiac
tory proved them to have emigratcd from the East.
rcalia,ion-thc strong were the rulers OF lAe weak.
Columbus called them Indians fully believing their
state, manners, and mode Of life 10 be suiicien,
proofs OF their Asia.ic origin. In this belief he
lived, and in tnis belief as Irving says, he died
The recent researches OF Cass, Gallutip, Dupon-
ceau, Pickering and others have placed these in
quirics on higher grounds and given those proof.
the analogy of grammatical concord and the
strucuon and adaptation of words TO maax and
motion; while so unchanged was the Indian chara.-
ter, that if Columbus should see them now, he
would find them the same in all their habt.des and
passions as when Ferdinand and Isabella sa, upon
the throne of Spain. Indeed, any departure from,
this rule OF caste was deemed degrading; and thus
are we enabled to accoun, for their continued op-
position 10 agriculture, letter. and the laws of
civilization; and as was Brandt amid the ruins o.
Wyoming, in policy, purpose and nature. were
Tecumseh, Black Hawk and osccoa
Consistency is prevailing and enduring charac.
,erstic of the Indian and on this, with its asso-
cia,e disregard of dangers, depend. much of the
poetical glory which dwells around the Indians
life The Lecturer then drew very interesting and
spirited picture, corrobora,ve of those remarks,
1.-THE public career OF me famous ehieftain Pontiac,
who 50 Distinguished himself in the Canadian wars
between the French and English during the reign
Of George H., fully sustaining their consistency
through all hazard. and ingenuties to attain MS
purposes, TO the period OF his tragic death. In
conclusion Mr.. Schoolctaft remarked on the re
quently proposed ques,ion-Can the Indian be
civilized and was CT opinion that, as in the
analogcal case OF Prince Lee Boo in England, ii
such can be effected. ii be through ,he agency
81 religion as revealed and laid down in the sacred
Scriptures.