Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-07-07

lniest, yes, ATTEST the western border oil the
white population, will annoy us more fatally
than even the Indians themselves. Surrounded
thus by the natives of the soil, and hunted by
such class of whites, who neither ''fear God
nor regard man." how shall we be better off
there than where we now are?
Having said thus much as to our condition
after removal, under the supposition that we
wish 10 return TO and continue in the habits OF
life which prevailed when the country was first
taken possession of by the Europeans, | pro-
ceed now 10 say, that we do not wish so to do,
and 10 repeat il, that so far from it, we desire
TO renounce those habits of mind and body and
adopt in their stead, those habits and feelings
those modes Of living, and acting and thinking
which result from the cultivation and enlighten-
ing of the moral and intellectual faculties of man.
And on this point need not insult your COM
mon sense by endearouring 10 show, that II is
stupid tolly TO suppose that removal from our
present location 10 the western wllds would I'M
prove our condition. What. leave fertile and
somewhat improved sofia home in the midst
of civilization and Christianity, where the very
breezes are redolent of improvement and eXal-
tation-where by induction as it were, we must
be pervaded by the spirit of enterprise where
books and preaching, and conversation, and bus
mess, and conduct, whose influence we need
are all around u.s. so that we have but to stretch
forth our hands, and open our ears, and turn our
eyes TO experience in full their improving and
enlghtening effects; leave lhesei and for what?
and echo answers for phat? But methinks
hear the echo followed by the anxious guieful
whisper of some government land company
agent-for one or two dollars the acre and a
western wilderness beyond the white mans
reach, where ali Eden lies in all It's freshness
of beauty for you 10 possess and enjoy. But
ours, | reply, is sufficiently an Eden now if but
the emissaries of the arch fiend, not so much in
the form Of serpent as of man, can be kept
from its borders.
But | will relieve your patience by closing
my remarks; 1t were perhaps needless, perhaps
useless, for me TO appear before you with these
remarks, feebly and hastily prepared as they
were; but, as | intimaied in the outset, the cri-
sis which has now arrived in the affairs Of our
people furnish the apology and reason for my
so doing. And now | ask, what feature Of our
condition is there which should induce lis TO
leave our presen, location, and seek another in
the western wilds? Does Justice, does human
lty, does relIglon, IN their relations TO US, de-
mand il? Does the interest and we'll being oil
the whites require ii? The plainest dictates oI
common sense and common honesty, answer
No | ask then, in behalf of the New York In
dians and myself, that our white brethren will
not urge US to do that which justice, humanity
religion, not only do not require, but condemn
! | ask then to lei US live on, where our father.
have lived-let us enjoy the advantages which
our location affords US: that thus we, who have
been converted heathen, may be made meet ior
that Inheritance which the Father hath promised
to give his Son. our Saviour: so that the deserts
and waste places may be made TO blossom like
the rose, and the inhabitants thereof utter forth
the high praises Of our God.