New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-02

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The Beaver Island band Of Indians have bad no PRES
missionary among them but are V'sted once yea
the priest from the Gross Their fisheries we're We oest
m TIE skes and new were the most succe .sful shernea
Suce ls4s there have been traders constantly among
them and the FIRE water has been there.
In lsls there four hundred families OF hen anu
their csrnfelo IA portion Of which have now 10 c1rvA
To thousand acres 10 extent Then the nquc1
~ss ought among them bat twice year 90 not kne
when their decay commenced. bat when srsf visited
th n in So they redG ed 10 between forty and nty
families, yet was assured that bad eniyrsted
When they separates fros their former associates. the A
and winter of s5i the traders and hsherm had affiliated
with the hormons, and there bu, tvenysev fsni
lies Winter just setting IT, and they we're in state OF
tsuiion Not family among them hsd hs OF Ut
getting through the winter As the winter
" severe think that bat for they would have general
~ persisted and the band been annhilsied
In very short time that they have been under our ia
fuercs their condition has mach i'm proved that
they are the pride and envy Of all the other bands.
our policy has been 10 keep the d,hin Business in th.
bands Of the Indians because they can earn as msch A.
thstss white men can and to carry mutually oenen
cnl trade amor them by furnishing them with what they
really need and purchasing of them what they have Tor
market prices which would be honorable oetwsea ~ne
=,
And submit, that this the policy, no, Ouy Of human
iv but Of an enlightened self interest For We are settlers
there, having -rmSnen interest IN the 'Ie Rv
pery, the institute rs of the country lac iSaAns
are best not merely in trsde out IN tns NE
chsncs and agricultural productions when we nave con
sspty 10 sell But than ALL IS the pleasure Oh seeing
Jew Of the vast Of red men, redee nsd ron u-f
Surihisiion and b. able TO say, This - my work
indians how destructive to them spirituous liquors
sre They generally ndsposed to drink traders gong
among a band who have bad none tor some time usuNy
find IL get them to taste But when once the
ton, bed their appetite guawlDg and insssoe There
MOTH, thew will not sacrifice indignity they viii not
ubn 70 for more But they hate the man that sells II 90
nem-though under the influence OF liquor they wan
serve the dealer tor any purpose no matter now wicket
yet aside from their attachment Is TO those "no 10 ue
good.
The Beaver Island band residing on Garden Island
were only little more than two years ago armed ana
hunting me for my s-set on by those VINO we're c1usNl
ing esint me that tme-eIcted by liquor aud sured
BY the offer of for my head yet tor -'xh-"n
months pat they have surrounded many children
busih.ss or pleasure calls them 10 SAINT es As though
they were mbers of my family But there Is no Va
grsncy-nO vsgabondsm among them Ihey are csreia'
unsoi il, d. to brig much as they use .
Such has been their prosperity since they suuated win
us that the more sedae and orderly of other bands have
come and Joined them, that IN yesr and a hall ths
band more than doubled Among those who nave mus
ioir I'd them is the brave and noble hin me one whom
The reader If Miss Strickands winter Studies and sum
"m-r R-mbs" will remember as her particular tsvore
at hsckinac. .
the Indians left the other fisheries where wins
Ky was sold and came to Beaver where 1t WAS not until
there hundred boats and about SIX hundred souls
of them there No whisky being there, and no persons
hut Mormons and Indians not word was heard ABOUT
stealing. The fact is significant
All the Indians for fifty miles around Beaver, when IN
ured by white man. 20 me for redress ana hsVlnS
ot mmited \ caus. 10 my hands heard %
con plain Of the deposition OF IT, Nab Mesa chlet OF
noble pres nee ana great influence - years o age
last wear took his boat when gone to Msckinac
and met mt thirty miles out 20 tell me that there vas
white man Garden Island Offering liquor "a the Indians
Shabbons well known throughout orthern Illinois ana
distinguished for his diplomacy in opposition to Black
Hawk Al the opening the SAck and Fox war; came, last
wear from his present home beyond Missouri 10 VISIT hi,
place ana h relatives at Little Traverse Day anu
fneIl
his way TO Beaver leland express 70 me- person ty
bis q altitude for my krdnss and beneficial protection to
the Indians.
his annual visit TO the Beaver Island Indians last year
argt them last Of ALL that they got toto any difficulty
they should 90 TO Suang anybody cheated them In7y
should 20 SraDg if anybody came smong them selling
whisky they should 20 TO Srang but they must not 81 To
hear Srraug preach This priest Is smpe hearted and
devout scavoBisn, who mas gwen his HE to the meora
ION Of the condition of the Indian according II the
Cahoc faith With the prejudice OF his faith and the
narrowness OF his experience, ne could not mistake what
going on at his door.
Subsequently, when in Detroit, invited by the
Right Rev Bishop his house and there received from
him personally the expression OF his gratitude and thanks
or The Efficient aid which bad rendered ia saving those
sin hearted ana smOt helpless and hopeless members
Of his flock from utter destruction
These are my trophies Such these come pouring in
upon continually With them am content, and with
and Tor them wiling to live aud die hated Of any aud
every man who ofers Lynch law and mob violence a
remedy any OF the evils Of society be they what hsy
may.
Butlough this question Of the liquor trade is the sole
cause Of IN. presentemeue at Macknac there many
co,t rs questions which, As matter Of course involve
themselves IN II.
Mackin4c an old town. built under the guns Of the
fortress when the country filed With powerful and fee
quently Tribes Of hostile Indians Traders settled there
the best natural advantages but there
military immovable improvements not because ,ck
nsc presented large amounts Of money in buildings
wh4ryes, and other protection there.
these iDvestme us have become fixed capital the value
lich q MAcktntg
But At the the trade OF the place Is RAPIDLY
dying out The fur trade, which, am told, at one time
I'd three thousand boats and in which the outfits
hackin,c involved capital Of two million dollars
employ boat and probably amounts to less
than two thousand dolars per annum.
The indian trade growing out of the payment Of Govern
ment 10 the lnoisns Is not one fourth what
var and end in l5,t BY tae expiration Of the annui
tie payable here.
Tsehtytw, unorganized counties in the Lower PENN.
ua well large portion Of the Upper were attached
10 hackIsc Tor Judicial purposes and her jurisdiction
'eIced from Saginaw Bay to the head Of the NeaOmee
RIVER. more Ii Al quarter Of the State
Whatever Of patronage the administration Of the law,
over 20 large territory would give M4ckinae had. But
sttLe late Session 81 tie l. gslafurr thea new counties
organic. in this territory and all the territory south
Of the Straits and all the productive Islands included ~
thr jurisdiction dlyestu MaoAnac three "a .rters Of
t.rteuoIy, and building up three county seats, With
C.rcui Courts IN her Immediate vicinity.
Considering that the bills erecting these new counties
w.r. introduced and carried through BY Mormon, 4
member of the Legislature hsIinE from Beaver Island,
VI, the people MAcknac, attempted 10 drag from bis
Eat By gross 0utrsg the House Tor which they
eovda deserved rrbuke pos-ioy they may be excused
fl telling little annoyed. But cannot ses that that
fsel would justify departure from the due admins
trattl If th- Law.
Thee are several small politicians in and about Msckt
nae managing email Clique there, who have h-r-tDpre
occssioas held office b. the votes OiM rnous ~ Beaver
Iand so looked tor continuance 0ffh-sefayOfs Inese
urn prfessro be- friends solely from regard %
he night and A. tie expense Oh h-r interest AZ home.
L. md fl.sf' Z
Tn net, e,t - them IN b p-les inJrty 10 Htcknac.
II thy time serving men, and hypocrlcA friends,