The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-23

giving the red incentive TO labor Your COM
mee quite confident the result win be approximate
by the passage Of the bill under consideration sug
gess the general provisions of treaties TO be hereafter ne
goated with the Indians. Much Of the mere detail OF te
plan be supplied in the stipuatons OF the uete ana
In such rules and regulations may be adopted ny the
President Of the United States 10 give the system eeene
II eontempate the abrogaon Of their tribal existence ana
gives every member Of the band independent person
al and political individuality by changing the arbil
will law Of chiefs and sachems for the laws OF the United
States and the protection TO life and property winch the al
ford The councires extnguished, and appeals for
Justice are addressed 10 the and legislatures rather
than TO the eounehouse. II gives him a permanent
homestead in quantity dependent on the number IN the
family 10 exceed in any event one section OF land oy
higher and stable title than occupancy. His
dodge is converted into dwellings and becomes his
castle protected from unlawful invasion His affections
and the affections OF his children VIII entwine themselves
around its enclosures and the wild of rowing
life viii be disspaed When he sees his little boys and
girls growing up in that peaceful and happy home viii
stimulate him industry They must be fed and clothed
and educated and this will his thrift and econ
meet these requirements OF civilized ie Ills earn
ngs win he measured by his industry and dispensed
BY his yoltion When he the seed he VIII feel
assured that he will be moested in eapng the harvest
Fierce cruelty and cold neglect will longer be pciised
against his wife and his children His kindness VIII cher
ish and his affections command them
If sobriety and industry mark his conduct Tor PERIOD
of two years after entering upon and cutvang the home
stead reserved him by the BILL he Is elevated IN the
scale of social and political being to the high privileges OF
citizen Of this great republics and he will doubtless make
good citizen meeting every obligation IL imposes whether
il be in the camp the cabinet They are intellectually
capable of high culture and civilization. The oraory OF
the unetteed savage has not unirequeny delighted ed
Gated ears and the Indian blood has already marked its
suscepbiities for intellectual superiority on many pages
of our history.
If he should however cling his early habits, and re-
fuse obey the Divine command to till the earth and earn
his bread by the sweat of his brow persist in wandering
over the and lead the life of yagabond the President
withhold his annuity arising from The sale
of his land until he shall return to his home and resume
the pursuits of industry This power your committee pc
lieye will exercise saluary influence over the In
dian in keeping him at home and engaged in industry
But feature in the system best adapted to the cyl-
zaion Of the Indian i the y, n
neers will seek homes the virgin soil OF the Indian
country carrying with them their families thereby giving
earnest of their purpose demean themselves in manner
compatible with the high duties and obligations Of citizens
and Christians
A white population of worth and integrity will occupy a
large portion the coded soil in the midst of the Indians
to which they have hitherto been strangers Heretofore the
white has generally been represented by vicious out
laws desperate advenurers and this association has
degraded and debauched the poor Indian The habits and
appctte impaired to them by these adventures instead
elevating have destroyed all the native virtues OF the
savage
The bill will secure certainly the settlement of indus
trons moral white population in the midst of the Indians
and their example will nce the Indians to industry, the
accumulation of property, and the acquisition OF in'ei-
gence They will learn skill in agriculture by having con-
stantly in their vicnage practical frmers-when to SOW
and how reap and garner the uses OF the plong hoe
and spade the scyhe and sickle Seeds and roots adapted
to their soil and climate and suitable to supply the wants
of civilized life will be introduced by their white neigh
bors and the proper modes Of rearing and caring Tor
stocks of horses cattle and hogs will be learned The
white man will schoohouses and churches and the
Indian when be the superiority of his white neigh
Dor in all the duties Of life from his superior intelligence
and education will become the patron OF the schoo-house
and the regular attendant Of worship at the church His
traditions of the power and attributes of the Great Spirit
will melt before the teachings of Divine reveaton the
Sabbath viii be TO the service of the Great
Chief and desecrated by the war-whoop or the
sharp crack Of the hunters rifle.
This picture Of their advanced and ameoraied eondl-
ton under the operation of the system they recommend
your committee believe is not overdrawn; and If II Is
irue philanthropy and humanity would be supremey
elated at the happy change To rew the pathway OF life
of half million Of human beings with prosperity and hap
pness where il Is now illuminated only by the baleul
lights Of poverty ignorance desttuton and threatened
extinction benevoence worthy of the exalted intellect
and the benignant heart.
Your committee discouraged at the signal failure
of all former efforts to ciyze and domestcate these chill
dren Of the forest They founded in error first in
paving them money annnities, which debauched them
by furnishing them the of gratifying their appe-
tites and secondly through the Indian intercourse act
casting by its operation, on them awless class OF white
An earnest desire to protect the Indian induced Com
pess al an early day Tin 1902 pass act regulating
trade and intercourse with the Indians IL prohibited all
white persons from entering the Indian country except
such traders as might be licensed by the Indian agents
The agencies were extended vast amount OF terri
tory and the agents could not II they had been so IN
clined always execute the law and drive on iniruders
lis practical operation has been keep out OF the indian
country good men and TO introduce into 1t men whose
vices and crimes expelled them from decent society Inc
RIGHTEOUSNESS vice disease and death that have saked
with merciless strides through all their wigwams found
their germ in this most unfortunate and misJudged act
Good men have respected the law and kept out OF the IN
dian country while bad disregarded IT. and entered
upon their territory There honorable exceptions 70
this rule but the mass Of white who have renowned
the society of their peers TO make their hauns IN te In
dian country in violation Of oil law have been drawn
from the very dregs of society These are responsible
for most Of the murders and robbcrcs and wars which the
Indians have made. These have learned the poor
savages all the rices Of and none OF Its r,rfbts
If the system your committee recommend should ne
adopted class Of white viii go into the Indian cou-
try for whose virtue need not be ashamed and FOR
whose morality need not blush They will elevate the
aspirations Of the Indian and that this diffusion may DC
general and every vege of their tribal associations and
procyities oberated IT provided that not more Than
ak families shall make ootermnous locations This VIII
insure a white neighbor near every Indian settlement
There l. one in the bill 10 which the attention OF
the House specially invited II Is proposed 70 remn-
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