Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-18

opportunities TO yield your new ABODE. Well, the
treaties made the promises all given and the
Indians induced to remove, though with much diff
Guilty Even military force had to be employed to some
extent if do not mistake the history of the country
win not speak of the hardshps Of that journey Of
greater hardshps which they must have
ed when they found themselves In the far West without
dwellings and with inadequate subsistence. This
sure had in fact little reference to the true interest Of
these unhappy people, whatever suggestions that effect
may be found in the public documents but much to
the advancement Of the States from which they
moved in population and wealth. Hence obligations
arise which appeal to Heaven and which the highest con-
siderations of duty require to and fulfil What
Mr.. President these treaties? find that they di
vide themselves into three different classes First
ties which stpulate in express terms that the lands ceded
shall be included within any State Territory with
out the consent of the Indians secondly treaties which
contain the stipulation without any qualification
whatever, that is to say the words without their
sent are left out that the stipulation is absolute
and in the third class there is nothing said in express
terms about their being included in any State Terri
tory but language is used of equivalent character
The language in every instance imports that these lands
to be their permanent home and final abiding place.
ask honorable Senators to tell when it is said to
Indian tribe that they shall have certain tract of
country permanent home, what is meant by it Do
you not intend that they shall understand it importing
guaranty that they shall have it abiding place
forever Indeed consider the language Of those treaties
which contain only general words importing the same
thing the precise stpulatons Of the first two
classes of treaties particularly as their general words
connect themselves with the third section of the act of
$780,
But, Mr.. President, my friend, the chairman Of the
Committee Territories insists that he has delivered
the bill from the objections which urge. In the
first place. it is admitted that the lines sweep
within such Territory the Indian lands thereto apper
tainng in other words the exterior lines Of Nebraska
embrace portion of these Indian grants and the
rior lines of Kansas the residue thatthey all in
cluded either in the or the other This it admitted
would be clear and palpable violation Of the treaties
In order obvate this difficulty my honorable friend has
inserted in much q the bill relates to Nebraska the
following proyiso
"That nothing in this contained shall be construed to
impair the rights of property pertaining to the
Indians said Territory long such rights shall remain
xnguished by treaty between the United States and such
Indians include any territory which, by treaty with any
Indian tribe not without the consent of said tribe, to be
included within the territorial limits jurisdiction Of any
State Territory but all such territory shall DO excepted
boundaries and constitute part the Territory
Nebraska until said tribe shall signify their the
President of the United States to be included within the said
Territory of Nebraska" a ..>. ,@
And then he has inserted similar proviso in that
part of the bill which relates to Kansas
My honorable friend, the chairman, thrusts them all
into the Territories and them in order to relieve the bill
of bad faith he snatches them out where they
main until they shall signify the President of the
United States their assent to be included within the pro-
per Territory" How signify What amounts to sgni-
flying of their assent? Will they write letter to the Pre-
sident Are they to send Indian talk? Is delegation
to appear at the White House to smoke with the Execu
tive the calumet of peace There suggestion of
treaty. The Senate is to have nothing to do with the
SUBJECT; out something S 10 DC uOne WHICH, JUG
ment of the Executive, shall amount to sgnifying of
assent; then they are to jump rightih.
You sweep your boundaries around them in the first in
stance and have them momentary, then put them out
with great parade of fairness and then you set snare
for them under the head Of assent signfed, knowing
that it would have precisely the effect if all this
juggery of in and and again not resorted to.
| Now, Mr.. President, am plain man. and desire to
saw in broad terms and in measured language that this
is mockery complete mockery " You keep the word
of promise to the year. but break it to the hope Now
want PROFOUND to my honorable FRIEND the chairman
Of the committee one question. want to know If this
is not final act of legislation? Does not this bill in
cude within the Territories all these grants future, and
all the residue of the country comprised within the exte
rior limits in present.? And maintain that to include
them by final act of legislation, though future, is just
much breach Of the treaties would be to include
them present. You do the very thing which the Indians
provided against by these stipulatons They knew that
if they were included within the limits of any Territory
State every effort would be made to get away their
lands And do you gain any thing, far the ques
ton Of good faith is concerned by including them the
Territories in future and then embarkng instantly in that
very effort Does it make any difference to the poor In
dams in what order the facts occur? The purpose to in
cude them in the Territories and to get away their lands
is entertained at and the moment, and that is
avowcd on the face Of the BILL Ibeg Senators to con-
slider what the object of these treaty spuatons not
to be included in the limits of any State or Territory
Was 1t to secure to the Indians their lands? No! Be-
the treaties declare in express terms that they shall
be theirs forever Was to to them the right of
self government? Not at all for the treaties equally
explicit that point What, then, was the OBJECT OF IL
1t was to protect themselves against the acorruptng
effect of gittering gold They had experienced the
bitter consequences of such seductons before Indeed it
is well known that it has been the settled policy of this
Government for the last quarter of century, naugurated
by the late President Jackson to separate the Indian
wholly from people, and to place them by them
selves where they could be educated, civilized and if
possible chrstianized where there would be motive
either on the part the General Government the peo
pie of any State Territory, for dspossessng them of
their lands. All this is to be reversed. And how
long you expect to escape the reproach Of just and
good men every where?
this body refer my friend from Texas, (Mr. HoUs
Nwho has long been the protector and guardian of
these poor people, and who will endeavor to assert and
vindicate their rights under the treaties to which have
referred. He is much competent to do justice to
the subject than am and rejoice to be able to turn
the case to his faithful hands. If you commence
the policy Of dspossessing you will pursue it to
summation. Where these unfortunate people to 60
Will there not be vast population in Minnesota
immense column Of enlightened, intelligent patriotic
freemen rushing forward from the Mississippi to the
ing that barrier and occupying the territory beyond
ask you, then, they go North? No, sir manifesty
no Will they 60 South will you turn them down upon
the State Of Texas? Would it be just to that State to
do so? And how long could they exist there Is there
mighty column advancing from the Gufof Mex
leo to the North and Northwest which long give
the State Of Texas amount Of population and wealth
which will render her little if any inferior to any State
in the Union!
You first lay hands all their territory east of the
Mississippi and you lay hands all their territory
is have that result to dead certainty If you pass
hin a0ainst the nhnhit-