Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-14
THE INDIAN.
A morning paper Of this city says

A morning paper OF this city says:
aThe Indian delegation now in Washington
have had almost, il not quite, daily conferences
with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at his
Office. We have understood that the appre-
hended difficulty TO reconcile them to the con-
clusion of new treaty was overrated, but that
some considerable exertion is necessary to in
duce their acceptance Of such terms as are best
fitted to their feeble moral condition, with pas
sons and appetites almost uncontrolled by
reason. Their tendency to improvidence is
SUCH and their weaknesses have been SO prac-
ticed upon by the traders that were they to
have their own way in the treaty, for few
years they would revel in money, and then for
the rest Of their existence as individuals and
tribe they would be left penniless beggars"
We would ask any Of the Pro Slavery parti-
sans in the United States to inform us what
argument they have to offer in defence of the
ensavement Of the negro race that is not here
presented to sustain the policy Of enslaving the
Indian To our apprehension, if the argu-
ment Of incapacity for individual selfgovern-
ment has any weight it applies with the greater
force to the Indian. In the struggle Of life, he
perishes where the more provident negro proc
pers, and he consequently needs the more a
protector under the "patriarchal system" Can
il be that the sole reason for the enslavement
Of him Of the sable hue is the gentleness and
resistlcssness of his nature? Impossible, where
a people renowned for chivalry and magnan-
unity are the superior race by whom the whole
some and benefcent thraldom is imposed
Coleridpe, in one Of his inimitable essays,
speaks Of certain sense Of recognition which
accompanies the sense of novelty as we listen
TO the music of the great masters, and init
mates that the same is observable in the peru
sal of history. This is strikingly true, and no
less so in relation to persons whom we casually
meet in society," or the marts Of business, or the
thorouphfares of travel How often have we
met and formed the acquaintance OF persons
whom it seemed that we must have known ut
some former period of our life, and with whom
the progress of intimacy appeared like the re-
wing OF sympathies forgotten or made torpid
by absence. rather than the institution Of
friendship. We never 20 among strange people
without encountering one or more persons who
approach us smilngly, with the look OF recog.
milton on their countenancee and often, the
warm grasp Of friendship in their hands, when,
alas a second glance brings an apology and q
polite adieu. This sense Of recognition doubt
less springs from the perception OF certain traits
or features common to the stranger and some one
you either know or have known--and the same
principle Of identity in certain prime respects
will account for the corresponding phenomena
in relation to music and history-an identity
which for the moment throws the varying at
tendencies into the background. II is perhaps
very simple, but nevertheless the copious spring
of interest and refined pleasure to us ALL
Louisville Journal
The foregoing paragraph is Of itself, to our
mind, an exemplifcation Of the theory the
writer would promulgate. II is new TO us;
but its truth, it's clearncss, it's simplicity, i'm
press us with the conviction that II has AVA
kened, not created, the idea we have realized.
DARING ROBBERY or THE PITTSBURGH Gus.
roM-HousE.--O Friday night about o'clock,
John Hastings collector Of the port Of Pitts
bureh, Pa, was knocked down in Allegheny,
and robbed Of $3.50, gold watch, and the
KEYS Of the custom-house doors and. the safe.
The robbers then entered the custom-house,
and stole bag containing $40, 900 in $40 gold
pieces. Mr.. Hastings is in precarious cond'
ton.