Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-17

tere, legal manner When the white population
egins the limit Of desert inhabited by n savage
tie, the Government of the United States usual
y disl atchcs ENJOYS to them, who assemble the In
dians in large plain, and, having first eaten and
drunk with them uccOst them in the following man
nor: What have you to do in the land Of your fa-
ihersy Before long you must dig up their bones
IN oider to live. In what respect is the county
you iEhabit Letter than another? Arc there no
woods, marshes, or prairics except whore you dwcl
AMI can you live no where hut under your own sun?
Beyond these mountains which you zee at the hori.
zon-lcyond the lakes which bounds your territory
On the ves-thcre lie vast countries where lcass
Of chase are found in great abundance Sell your
tudes'
after holding this language they spread bcf re
tie eyes Of the Indians firearms wOOlen garments
Kegs of brandy, glass necklaces bracelets Of tinsel
earrings and looking-glasses. If, when they have
behed all these riches, they still hesitate, it is in
sinuated that they have not the means of refusing
their required consent, and that the Government
itself will not long have the power Of protecting
them in their rights What are they to do? Half
convinced, half compelled, they 60 10 inhabt new
deserts where the importunatc whites will not per-
nut them to remain ten years in tranquility. In
TINS manner do the Americans obtain, at very
low price, whole provinces which the richest SOW
erelgns III Europe could not purchase"
The Grecan Plutarch deemed it necessary to re-
side forty years in Rome to qualify himself to wrio
the lives Uf some Roman citizens, and then made
mistakes. European writers do not deem it neccs-
sary to reside IN our country at all in order to write
our history. n sUjOurn Of some months in the
principle towns; rapid flight along some great
roads, the gossip Of the steamboat, the stoam-car,
tic stagc-coach, and the hotel the whispers Of
some cdr-wigs, with the reading Of the daily papers
and the periodicals. all more less engaged in par
tisan warfare, and the view Of some debate or
scene IN COngtcss, which nay DC an exception to
It's ordinary tpturUm and iutplliupuga. tlpsp
sututc modern European travellers qualification
To write American history No wonder that they
commit mistakes, where the intent Is honest.
And no wonder that Mons de Tocqucyillc, with
admitted good intentions, but with no forty years
residence among US should be no exception to the
rule, which condemns the travelling European wri-
ter Of American histCry to the compilation Of facts
manufactured for partisan effect, and 10 the iuyen-
tons Of reasons supplied from his own fancy. /
have already had occasion several times to correct
the errors Oi Mons. de TOcqueyic. 1t is compli-
mcnt 10 him, implicatiyc Of respect, and by no
means extended to others, who err more largely
and Of purpose, but less harmiuly. His error in
all that he has here written is profound, aid is in
furious, not merely to General jackson, TO whom
his mistakes apply, but to the national character
made up as it Is Of the acts Of individuals; and
which character it is the duty Of every American
to cherish aud exhalt in all that is worthy, and to
protect and defend from all Just inputaton. II
was in tins sense that marked this passage in De
Tocqueyille for rcfutaion as soon as his book APP
pearcd, and took steps 10 make the contradiction
$50 far as the alleged robbery and cheating Of the
Indians was cOncCrncd) authentic and complete,
and public and durable as the archives Of the
Government itself In this sense had n call made
for full numerical, chronological, and official state
mcnt of all our Indian purchases, from the begin
ming Of the Federal Government in lTS0 to that
day, lS4O-tribc by tribe, cession by cesson, year
by year--iur the itty years which the Government
had existed with the number Of acres acquired ut
each cessiOn, and the amount paid for each. The
call was made in the Senate of the United States,
and answered by document No. 6lB, lst session,
10Th Congress, in document Of thirteen printed
tabular pages, and authenticated by the signatures
Of Mr.. Van Buren, President; NJ. ponsctt, Sec
leiary-at-War; and Mr.. Hartley Crawford, Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs From this document
il appeared that the United States had paid 10 the
Indians oighly-ivc millions Of dollars for land pur
chascs up to the year lS4U to which five or six
millions may be added for purchase sincc-say
ninety millions. This is near six times rs much as
the United States gave the great Napoleon for Lou
lsiana, the whole Of it, soil and jurisdiction, and
nearly three times much all three of the great
foreign purchases-Louisiana, Florida and Cali
ornia-cust us! and that for soil alone, and for
much MS would only be q fragment for Louisiana
or California.
Impressive as this statement is in the gross it
becomes mere So in the detail aud when applied to
the particular tribes whose imputed SuicrHgs have
drawn so mOurnlul picture from Mons. de TUcquc-
Vile. These are the four great southern tribes {:
Greeks Chcrokecs, Chickastws, and ChOctaws.
Applied to ihem, and the table Of purchases and
. payments stands thus: 10 the Creek Indians TWEEN
ty-fye millions Of acres; which is seven millions
more than was paid France for Louisiana, aud sew
cnteen millions more than was paid Spain for Flor
ida. To Tie ChUctaws, twcnty-thrce millions O
dollars, (bcsidcs reserved trucs,) for twenty mil
liens Of acres, being three millions more than wa,
. maid Or IOuiSi mud klnriIo M .ba hnr,toas
Tor eleven millions of acres, was paid about fttecr
millions of dollars the exact price of Louisiana
California To the Chickasaws, the whole net
amount for which this country sold under the land
system Of the United States and by the United
States land officers three millions Of dollars for sis
and three-quarter millions of acres, being the way
the nation chose to dispose of it. Here are itysx
millions to four tribes, leaving thirty millions to 60
to the small tribes whose names are unknown to
history and which il is probable the writer ON
American democracy had never heard Of when
sketching the picture of their iancicd expressions.
| will attend TO the case Of these small remote
tribes and say that besides their proportion of the
remaining thrty.six millions of dollars, they re-
ceiyed kind Of compensation suited to their con-
dition, and intended to induct them into the com
forts of civilized life. OF these | will give one
example, drawn from treaty with tho Osages in
1929, and which was only in addition to similar
benefits to the same tribe in previous treaties and
which were extended TO all the tribes which were
in the hunting state. These benefits were to these
Osages two backsmith-shops, with four black
smiths, with five hundred pounds of iron and sixty
pounds of steel annually; n grist ana saw mill
with millers for tho same; 1000 cows and calves
1000 breeding swine; 1000 ploughs LOCO set o
horse-gcar; 1000 axes 1000 hoes house eacl
for ten chiefs, costing two hundred dollars apiece
to furnish these chiefs with six good wagons, six
teen carts, twenty-eight yokcs Of oxen with yokcs
and logchain to pay all claims for injuries COM
mitted by the tribe ON the white people, or on 9TH
er Indians, to the amount Of thirty thousand dol
ars to purchase their reserved lands at two dollars
per acres three thousand dollars to reimburse that
sum for SO much deducted from their annuity in
1925, for property taken from tho whites, and since
returned; and finally, three thousand dollars moro
for an imputed wrongful Withholding Of thai
amount, for the same reason, in the annuity pay,
ment OF the year 1929. In previous treaties hac
been given seod grains and seed vegetables, witl
fruit seed and fruit trser, donesho fowls lanorsr