The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-08-22

lncat. For the rest, / know of no 9TH
crs among lis SO utterly depraved, as
10. to bid 'God-speed' to measures
wach have a direct tendency to elevate
the poor savage. Sir, there is nothing
d prevent the civilization of the Indian
yace They are gifted with high order
ot intellect, and an aptitude for acquiring
knowledge fully equal to that possessed
~ he whites; and this nation will be
held responsible before God and man, if
!. longer neeiects to provide for the pre-
scr alton of the remaining tribes.
But, Mr.. Chairman, | remark in
inclusion, that if any thing is to be
done, it must be done now. The busy
hum of civilized communities is already
heard far beyond the mighty Mississippi.
Aou are about 10 remove the Oregon
ln1ians to the east of the Cascade Noun
tains. The settlements in New Mexico
gnd in Utah, are driving the tribes that
roam the prairies in that quarter, to-
wards the East and the North. Your
pioneers are encircling the last home of
the red man, as with wall of fire.
Their encroachments are perceptihle,
H. he restlessness and beligerent dem
onstrations of the powerful bands who
lnnabit your remote western plains
You mus, approach these with terms of
coaciliation and of real friendship, or
you must very soon suffer the conse-
qucnces Of bloody and rcmorseless
Ind an war. Sir, what is to become of
the fifty or sixty thousand savage war
rio-s and their families, who line your
frontier, when the buffalo and other
game upon which they now depend for
sub sistence are exhausted: Think you
:hcv will lie down and die without a
struggle, No, sir, no. The time is not
far distant, when pent in on all sides,
AMI suffering from want, Philip or a
T'ecumseh will arise TO band them to-
eether for last and desperate onset
sIpon their white foes. What then will
a,sl the handful of soldiers stationed
20 guard the frontier: Sir, they, and
your extreme western settlements, will
BE- swept away as with the bosom of de-
ssruction. We know that the struggle,
an such case, would be unavailing on
cessarily end i'm their determination
Bat this nation will subject itself to addi-
ti0nll and awful retrbutions of that
Providence without whose knowledge
and permission mot even sparrow falls
TO lie ground, if it fails to use every
cnje to avert such catastrophe
Tas Republic is even now expiating its
81, 20 h.,
the yisitations Of pestilence, and the
woakening Of that bond of harmony
omong its members which was wont to
exist. While nanifesting an active
sympathy for the nations of the Old
World, who arc down trodden by des-
potic power-while like the Pharisce OF
old, we thank God that we are not as
other men are, we seem to forget that
we are still pursuing line of policy
iowa IDS the Indian race, which has al
read destroyed countless thousands of
them. Sir, this nation of more then 20
millions Of people, can well afford to
reach forth its friendly hand to rescue
the residue of this unhappy people, from
degradation and death. You are taking
from them their lands, their homes their
all, md whatever return can be made
them in this hour of their greatest need
should be granted with an ungrudging
and generous hand
More truth and eloquence were never
com bined in the same number Of words
The appropriation bills are still under
discussion, and we may look confident
" fer large appropriation, for Indian
purposes 10 the Territory.
JUSTICE.