The daily union., 1854-12-14

I ton law OF July %, 1854. ?. .. F.
II is well understood that these parties acquire no
title to the lands thus claimed They must be sold at
public sale to the highest bidder and the stpulaons
the treaty complied with in good faith and the
ment should at once nerpose its authority and expel all
who are tresassing on the Delaware cesson The effect
has already been injurious to the peace of the DeawaIes
and il due to them that such prompt and unmisakabe
action be had will them that the United States
will keep its faith. The Indians should under crcum-
stances be permitted become dsprted lose conf
dence In the public authorities for ii they do all efforts
TO ciyze them to improve their condition must be
avang ProcrastnatOn or delay in this will induce
Others to trespass the similar cessons made by the
oways and kaskakas and Others if upon the homes
reserved by these and other Indians
In view Of the facts above stated | constrained to
submit few suggestions in relation to the emigrated
tribes in Kansas Territory who by the policy of the gov
ernmeut adopted than thirty years ago and euc-
tany acquiesced in by them, removed TO- and be-
came inhabitants Of the country embraced in this
Territory Already many of them have ceded and it is
expected that others will cede the larger portion of their
lands TO the United States for the and occupation
citizens The faith of the nation pledged in the
most solemn FORM before these tribes removed to the
gon west of the Mississippi that they should have the
disputed possession and control of the country and that
the tracts assigned TO them therein should be their perma
nent homes 1t called the "Indan Territory and the
intercourse act made il unlawful for white go into
it, except license obtained and for special purposes
and in this secluded home II was believed the efforts of
the government and the philanhrops to cvlize the red
man would be more successful than before Such
not the case however Our population advanced rapidly
10 the line which to be the barrier and with the emf
grafton consequent upon acquisitions from Mexico and
the organization of Territories necessarily sub
eced the Indians to that kind of contact with the whites
when to entail them the vices while deprived
Of the good influences, of civilization
In the recent negotiations for their lands the indians
dwet upon the former pledges and promises made them
and generally to the surrender of any portion
of their country They said that they were to have the
land as long grass grew water rum and they feared
the result IT they should consent yield any part of their
possessions When they did consent to SELL it was only
the condition that each tribe should retain portion Of
their tract as permanent home All unitedly and
firmly opposed to another removal So fixed and settled
was this idea that propositions clearly for their interests
were rejected by them
The residence of the tribes who have recently ceded
their lands should therefore, be considered subec
few cases to ontracton of lins) permanently fixed
Already the white population is occupying the lands be-
tween and adjacent to the Indian reservations and even
going west OF and beyond them and at distant day all
the country Immediately to the west of the which
is worth occupying will have been taken up And then the
current OF population until within few years flowing only
from the East sweeping like avalanche from
the Pacific coast almost overwhelming the indigenous In
dhns in its approaches 1t is therefore, in my judgment
Gear beyond doubt question: that the emgrated tribes
in Kansas Territory are permanently therehere to be
thoroughly civilized and become constituent portion
OF the population there to be destroyed and exerm
mated What spectacle for the view of the statesman phi
lanthropist Christiana subject for the most profound
consideration and reflection With reservations dottng
the eastern portion of the Territory there they stand the
representatives and remnants of tribes powerful
and dreaded as they weak and disprited BY al
ernae persuasion and force OF these tribes have been
removed step by step from mountain to valley and from
river to plain until they have been pushed halfway across
the continont They go no further the ground
they now occupy the crisis must be met and their future
determined Among them may be found the educated,
civilized ard converted Indian the benighted and inve
erae heather, and every intermediate grade But there
they are and they are, with outstanding obligations in
their behalf of the most solemn and imperative character
voluntarily assumed by the government Their condition
is critical one-such as TO ene them not only to the
justice Of the government but to the profound sym
pathy of the people determination may be their fate but
no, OF necessity BY union of good influences and proper
effort believe they may and will be saved and their
plete civilization effected.
BE that il may however the duty of the government
s in my opinion, plain 1t should fulfil with the greatest
promptpess and fidelity every treaty stipulation with these
Indians rown down. at the first dawning, any and every
attempt to corrupt them that their ample annuities
directed faithfully to their education and improve
mont and not made the of their destruction inces
sanity resist the efforts of the selfish and heartless
who, by specous plans and devices for their gain
may seek TO distract and divide them require diligence
energy and integrity in the administration of their affairs
by the agents who may be ntrused with their interests
and welfare and visit the penalties of the law
all who violate its sauary provisions in relation
them Let these things be done the cooperation of the
civil officers magistrates and good citizens of the Territory
secured and the most active efforts of the friends of the be-
neyoent institutions now existing among them be brought
into exercise for their moral cuurc and by harmonious
and constant effort and action change may and il is be-
eved will, be brought about and Kansas become dstin-
guishod ms land in which the complete and thorough
civilization of the red worked out and
plished.
The agent tor the Upper Platte and Arkansas agency
perenced difficulty in obtaining the assent of the tribes
who parties to the Arkansas treaty. the amend
ment Of the Senate TO that instrument except the Apaches
and he expresses the belief that the Comanches and Kio
ways have faithfully complied with the stpulatons of the
same except in their torays citizens of New Mexico
seeming not TO understand that that territory belongs
10 the United States When the agent the Apaches he
without an interpreter and therefore could not submit
the amendments to them.
II s stated that the great orty Of the Indians of that
agency have respect for the govcrnmcp, of the United
States the citizens thereof that emgrang parties have
generally to buy their way through the country and that
the military force AT the different posts render
sstanoe being indeed unable protect itself beyond the
reach of the guns OF the forts.
The Osages Pawnces and Others have also annoyed the
emigmnts and committed deprelations upon them The
roads the principal routes the Pacific have be-
very important thorougbfares Thousands of emf
grants and many merchants who with their property
the amount Of several millions in value pass annually
the plains entitled to the protection of the government
The weakness OF the present military force operates njn
ously in various ways and IL would be much better TO
withdraw Il entirely and LET emgrans have notice that
they must protect themselves and their property and leave
the Indians 90 bc dealt with by agents alone than
permit tho posts TO remain in their present weak and
eebod condition
The report Of Agent Whitfield rciterates the admouon
of his predecessor IN relation 20 the impending fate Of the
Indians OF the Arkansas the Platte and the Plains
policy be not introduced by which their habits tastes
and pursuits may be changed The buffalo which they
mainly rely, only for food aud clothing but also for
the means of shelter Is rapidly disappearing and must
90 be OF reliance aud dependence Tor
support The best policy TO be adopted meet the eN
gency IL difficult TO determine satisfactorily But that
something should bc done and that speedily must be ap
parent TO every rejecting mind.
In the report last year Of the late Agent Fitzpatrick be
states that in his then visit he found many OF the
Cheyennes Arapahocs and Sioux in a starving condition
on account Of the scny supply Of buffalo aud the Upper
Missouri agent in his last years report also states that
within his agency there are nj least four hundred thou