The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-04-18


influences cannot be brought to bear upon them; 70
be-. But let ours mingle with theirs, and GU vii
find tho result variety, without inleriory They wi.
be flutes on different keys and hurnonze the better
Aud how is this elevation of all races to DO effect
cd? by that which workcth ALL miracles, in the
name OF Jesus--lhe LAW LOVE. We must no
teach as superors; we must lore as brothers, Here
is the great deficiency in all efforts for the igno
rant and the criminal. We stand apart from them
and expect them TO feel grateful for condescen-
sion in noticing them at ALL We do not embrace
thoIn warmly with sympathes, and put our souls
into their souls stead.
An Indian of the Kcnnebec tribe, man Of great
worth and uprightness Of conduct received grant of
land from the State and settled upon it, in the neigh
borhood Of several white families. lie well
treated according to the common acceptation of the
term; but he was Indian, and therefore they did
not sympa,hze with him, each other. Ills child
died. and none of his neighbors came to the burial
Sadly he looked forth earth and sky. His soul
was like hiocl of corn stuhble, waving alone and
blshted in the winry breeze 81 can no live here ;"
he said 'When white mans child die, Indian sor-
ry-he hop bury him. When my child die no one
speak to make his grave alone. | can no live
here" Ilc rclinqushed his land dug up tho body
of his child and carried it with him two hundred miles
through the forest to join Canadian tribe.
Yet separated thus from sympahes; accuslom
ed to smooth decellful talk when we want their
lands, and to tho cool villainy with which break
treaties when purposes gained; receiving gun
powder and rum from the very hands which retain
from them all the better influences Of civilized life;
cheated by knavish agents, ca oiled by government,
and hunted with b!oodhounds-s still, under all Nhese
disadvantages Indians have shown thai they can be
civilized OF this, the Choctaws and Cherokees are
admirable proofs Both these tribes have regularly
organized, systematic govarnmertin the democratic
form and printed constitution. The riyht of trial bv
jury, and other principles of free government are
established on permanent basis, They have good
farms, cottonginS. mills, schools and churches.
Their dwellings generally comfortable, and somo
Of them are very handsome buildings. The house in
which the legislative assembly meets has convenient
rooms for committees, and gallery and or spec
Tutors. The last annual message ofthe Chief orthe
Cherohees is highly interesting document, which
would not compare disadvantage with any of eur
governors messages 1t states that more than $2,-
500, goo Is due to them from the United States; and
recommends that this sum DO obtained, and in part
distributed among the people; but that the interest of
tho school fund be devoted to the maintenance Of
schools and the diffusion Of knowledge.
There was time when our ancestors the ancient
Brtons, went nearly without clothing, painted their
bodies in fantastic fashion, offered up human victims
to uncoulh idols, and lived in hollow trees, or rude
habitations, which should now consider unfit for
NJ (o- A.
state of the world ii is much to be questioned whether
they made more rapid advancement than the Cher0-
KEGS and Choctaws. They raise corr, wheat oats and
cotton; and their women spin, knit and weave Bor-
derng the States Of Arkansas and Missouri, their
improvement is greatly retarded by the influence of
white men, who bring down the river, and ihro'
this subtle agency indocrinatc them in sensuality,
fraud and crime, But temperance societies have
lately been formed among them; and they have pass
ed law that all spirtuous liquors found at any time
in their nation, shall be poured on the ground Yet
those are the people whom we gravely pronounce to
be totally incapable of civilization We assert there
is absolute necessity to extermnatc them because
they savages Our fathers did their part of the
work by fire and sword; are doing ours by rum
and treaclery.
We call them sovages; but probably the whole ter
ribe history of Indian warfare furnishes nothing to ex-
coed atrocities in Florida. Cabins were burnt.
harvests destroyed, women shot, and now and then
batch of wanderers hung before breakfast Tor sport,
and their scaps nailed the door of United States
forts Fragments of these things and then leak
out, being told good jokes by military officers, over
their wine but the rshtful amount of our national
gull. toward these people, is known only to the All
Seeing
Some incidents which are recorded imply The char
acter eff thousands more unwrten and unrevealed.-
We copy one from the Biography ofthe Apostle Eli.
OF, by DIR c. Francis:
"A barn in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, full orhny
and grain was burnt to the ground. This was after
ward discovered to have been done by some skulkns
Indians of the enemy's party. But the inhabitants of
the place at once imputed the crime to the Christian
Indians OF Wamesit; and in the heat Of resentment,
without further inquiry determined ON revenge Four
teen men from Chelmsford went with arms to their