Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1854-12-19

lew Mexico, seeming not to understand that
be territory belongs to the United States.
lost Of the other tribes Of the Plains have
% respect for the United States, and emigra-
ing parties have generally to buy their way
through the country. These depredasions
however seems to be from necessity, as their
'ood the buffalo is rapidly disappearing.
One agent states, thatwithin- his limits, mt +
east four hundred thousand Of these animals
are DESTROYED annually. Of course then 1t
cannot be considered strange that the Cney-
enfe., Arrapasoes and Sioux have been in
starving condition.
The Commissioner recommends an effort TO
domes.icate these tribes Of the plains. The
Choctaws, and Chickasaws, and the creeks
and Seminoles, the Commissioner thinks ~
quite desirable, as the Seminoles in Florida
might then be induced to emigrate. lie also
recommends Congress grant the Choctaws
an appropriation to aid them in establishing +
public schools. Which they are DESTROYS OF {
doing without having the means. II IS IN
contemplation to collect and colonize the
Texas Indians on three reservations granted
for the purpose by the State of Texas, where |
they are to bepar,ially subsisted by the United
States for year or two, until they can be
induced to cultivate crops, raise stock, and
thus provide for their own subsistence. SIM
liar arrange mants are Recommended for the
Indians in New Mexico and Utah, and with
out these the commissioner thinks depreda
ton cannot be prevented unless the Indians
themselves be exterminated. The report
says:
"This system IS in progress in California
with some prospect OF success. Ii IS ABOUT
u = ito nd
in New Mexico and Utah should be no long,
er delayed. Though expensive at first Its
cost will not equal the amount Of the losses
sustained by our citizens from the depreda-
tions Of the Indians.
.sThe Governor Of New Mexico estimates
the cost Of putting this system into operation
in the Territory at $67 800 for the first two
years, DC, 900 for the third, and S30, 900 for
each of several succeeding years.
s'He reports the amount of losses sustain
ed BY the white population of the territory,
during the year past, at about $ll2,o0O.
That the obligations of Christian duty as
we'll as the dictates of humanity, demand the
efficient action Of the Government must be
too obvious to require discussion. Wee
have to some extent taken posses: ion of thr
land Of these Indians, driven them from their
CHERISHED resting places, and destroyed the
game their only means of support. W.
should now aid and teach them to live with
out this resource, or their destruction is in
| evitable.
appropriations were made at the last
session Of Congress to enable the department
to negotiate treaties with the Indians of these
territories, for which provision should be
made for the Inauguration Of the policy re-
fcrrcd to. 1t is to be regretted that these
appropriations were delayed until it was too
| late in the season to send out the goods and
| other pr sents, without which the negOtia-
tons cannot be attempted with q reasonable
prospect of success. They had therefore
ncce> sarily to be deferred till next year. In
the meantime the governors of the territories
| have been called upon, in their capacity OF
superintendent of Indian Affairs for infor-
nation as to the extent. and nature OF the
various Indian claims, with maps Indicating
the boundaries of each, and such other in
formation as would enable the department
to issue the necessary instructions, and also
as to the character and d .scription Of the
articl most useful to the Indians and best
suited to aid in the accomplishm ut Of the
object in view.
1.-THE reasons which prevented the accom-
4 piishment this season, Of treaties with the
Indians in New Mexico, and Utah apply with
equal force to the Blackfeet and other Indians
Of the Upper Missouri, and adjacent to the
territory of Washington. Measures will at
once be adopted so as to insure a council
with them early the next year.
j Appropriations have also been made for
the like purpose in the territories Of Oregon
and Washington, the articles intended for
presents were promptly procured and shipped
BY the way Of Cape Horn, and the superin-
tendents in those territories instructed to
proceed as early as practicable with the ne
gotiations.
ssIt is hoped that these will result in salts
factory arrangements for the permanent set
Element of the Indians, and in the establish
ment Of such relations between them and the
whites as will prevent the occurrence of su h
inhuman scenes and atrocities as hav taken
place in Oregon during the past year, and In
which it is due to truth to state that the lat
ter have in some cases been the aggressors
and shown themselves to be as barbarous
and cruel as the Indians. Indeed the usua
order of things has been reversed, the de.
,. partment having to invoke the aid Of the mil.
itary for the protection Of the weak and help
less Indians, from the persecution Of thu
whites"
Mon LAWN the towa o. Tuskag gee, Alabama
: lately, Col. benjamin W. Walker Sent 10 jai
for refusing to obey order Of the Court directing
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