Kansas weekly herald., 1854-10-27

which appeared ID their names aahor time
since; never or oriigifnated with themselves,
and if it ever had their assent, it was Tes
luetantly conceded, onrepeated applications
to an influence they are not accustomed to
resist. .se4 . 5IsisFess
These Indians are willing TO- make "a
new treaty, and, though earnestly exhorted
by would be spectators and parties in their
interest to adhere to that of July, readily,
see that they would be the gamers by fund,
ing fixed sum, rs the price of their lands
instead Of waiting for the indefinite and
protracted results of the system of valuation
and payment required by the present trea-44
ty. 30 20 s2ds
That price which the Indians have al
ready offered to receive, and which the
United States can pay without loss ON sales
lnadesat the Goyernmen mt minimum TO pre-
if funded with other dues from
the United States, would give an annuity
of about forty dollars to each man, woman
and child in the Delaware nation, and leave
every family on their present magnificent
reserve, in possession of five times as much
land as our e-emption laws allow to. each
of us. : Es&.s-.s
Under their present treaty they will receive
in a few days the large sum now due them,
and what their necessities or reeklessness
have not consumed by anticipation, will be
wasted by most Of them, in weeks de
bauch, leaving them, for the two years which
must intervene. before they can receive the.
proceedsaof sales of their lands--to wait in,
idleness and destitution as they now are
doing, the next contribution from Govern
ment of too liberal means for their further
degradation.
Such a process wastes, by rapid con-,
sumption, their vast capital, and will hasten
the ruin and extinction of this remnant of
the proudest and bravest of all our Ineian
tribes. Certainly a change in the treaty
which shall give them fixed homes, induce
ments to industry, and well regulated and
uniform system of pecuniary aid is imper-
tant-not to say essential-to their presr-
vation. - - : - = si
But what will be the effects, upon the IN
terests of the Territory, of that mode which
the Commissioner of Indian affairs proposes
of executing the present treaty. ,s.3 -sls 81
The white settlers, who came here in
good faith, are>to be driven from the ceded
lands at the point of the bayonet; their cab
ins given to the flames, and their families
left homeless and destitute. The region
thus vacated isto be waste and unoccupied,
both by the Indian and white man; for two
years, while surveys are going on,
and all the necessary arrangements pro-
eeed for the first great sale of Delaware
lands. t....-,.-z go ~
Theexpelled squatter too poor to await such
a remote opportunity, or to make it available
will be out of the way of capitalists, who
will buy up the choicest portions of the
lands, and curse them into unproductiveness
by nonresident ownership, while waiting
for the time when the progress of the sur
rounding country, which they have imped-
ed, shall force the actual settler to pay a
price to suit their greed, and make their
investment ''gaat speculation. "
The injury which the Territory will sus-
tain, by this state of things, is not to be
estimated by the loss of the limited area
thus withheld from early settlement. 1t is
the peculiar geographical relation of these
ceded lands to the Territory, which will
render the exclusion of the settler from them
disastrous to IFS prosperity. They lie at it:
most convenient entrance, and where the
immigrant population, arriving by the natura
route of the Missouri river, could most cas-
lily obtain supplies from the adjacent State
and, from the nucleus thus formed, rapidly
extend along the great military roads te
the mountains. @ -..
/ 1t must be remembered that very little o.
the front of the Territory, and of its bes
soil, is really open to settlement.
South of the Kansas river the State O
Missouri intervenes between the Territory
and the Missouri river, and the best of tina
portion both on the Kansas and south of i
is absorbed by Indian reserves, : -
North of the Kansas the Wyandots; Del
awares; Half breeds, and Potawatomie:
/ have a wide belt extending west, on the
fine valley Of the river, for, oneiohundred
miles from Its mouth. Z - - = ga
,,ohthe Missouri the wyandots, Dela
/ ware, Munsee and Military reserves &C.