Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-04

unnecessary resorted qulDDles
circumscribDg them within certain boundary was not
including them within it. Sir you may as well tell me
that if you bring Indians within the jurisdiction of
State Territory they not subject to the laws pre-
vaing there. Look at Georgia. at Tennessee and see
how soon they extended their Jurisdiction over the In
dan and how they svept from the face of
country. There has been initance where,
Territory formed, the authorities have not claimed
immediate jurisdiction then. The very moment they
became sovereign State they would claim jurisdiction
such every foot Of land within them The Indians
would be situated by the passag, Of the bill in cond
ton from which they could not xtrcate themselves and
the only way in which the Government redeem the
pledges given to them is to exclude them in fact not in
fiction. Then, sir they viii have their guarantee secur-
ed and the counrys honor and pledges will be redeem
ed. But il it is foregone conclusion that they must be
exterminaed be it SO. This progressing rapidly and
this bill is bringing it to contamination for the iney
table consequence is that these Indians must be driven
from the country guaranteed to them by the Government
Of the United States.
But, sir will speak in reference to the Indians, and
the advantage which arises when they justly treated
Within my recollection the first missionary or school
master went to the Cherokee nation on the Tennessee
rverfor that the northern boundary OF nation
and found myself in boyhood located within six miles
of that boundary and every upon the banks of that
river and its adjacent tributaries as familiar to me as
my right hand had every opportunity OF becoming ac
quainted with them, and knew the nation before there
Indian unless it is the present chief and one or
families who could read word Of the English lam
guage write legble hand and the majority of them
could not speak one word of English. know when the
first pair OF cotton cards and spinning wheel were intro
duced among them when the first mill was erected, and
when the first road made through their territory
municating between Tennessee and Georga-the great
southern market for the produce Of East Tennessee and
the only outlet then known. was familiar with them
then. They in savage state they had no refine
ment recoect whom the first farmer sent there to
teach them agriculture and perhaps at later pc
riod the Chckasaws the Choctaws and the Creeks had
the first germ of civilization planted among them What
are are
all the comforts of fe They agricultursts, mechan
les; they educated refined, enlightened and re-
ligous people, with their own native ministers Of the
Gospel educated in the semnares of the United States
Schools and every evidence of civilization and chrstani
zation also manifested in those nations The Sabbath
is regarded holy day They are initiating all your
civil and political Institutions they have their country
laid off in judicial DISTRICTS and have delegated powers TO
their principal chief similar to those confded to Pre-
sident and in every respect they forming their nst
tutions the basis of own initiating them to the
very letter This is the condition of these people. Are
they remain separate and distinct? Do you wish to
encourage that spirit which has called them from state
Of savage existence to civilized and improved conditions
With every disadvantage surrounding them even the in
PRODUCTION of ardent spirits surrounded by chicanery
with vicious taking protection among them with
every embarrassment thrown in the path Of their progress
they have broken the manaoes which surrounded them,
and have arisen to be of intelligence, character and
distinction.
Sir aid them in their progress sustain them, enable
them to advance still further and you will give that ee
walton to their which Heaven by their formation,
intended they should attain. They not inferior in
intellect sagacy moral excellence to any people who
born upon the earth and though the charge of per-
fdy has been made against them for ages back, have
lived for many years in connexon with them, and
strict observer bear testimony that knew
Indian nation violate treaty which was made in good
faith and observed by the white deny any charge
to the contary and if you probe it to the bottom and
find where the truth lies you will that the Indians
misrepresented that there cccumventon in the
treaty contrary to their understanding and that it
the maintenance of their rights and not violation Of
good faith their part that led to any nfaction You
will find that all treaties have been violated by double
dealing of those who were sent to negotiate with them
Now, these people be sustained in their political
institutions and in their civil rights :? They can. You
receive from each nation of the four have numbered
Delegate upon the floor of the House of Representa-
tves and Delegate to the Senate, to tell their wants
and to understand more thoroughly institutions
that they will be enabled exactly to copy them and
perfect their own and quarter Of century, pro-
crossing they have done for the last century, will
der them hit associates for any people community
Of men, This be done and it rests with the Ameri
people to say whether they will aid and sustain
them Their intelligence recommends them to your
sideraton and the benefits derived from intercourse with
Them and the acquisition of their territory, have i'm
posed obligations upon towards those people which
only redeem by sustaining, unfolding and chershng
every high impulse they possess and giving it maturity
and perfection. This be done with the civilized por
ton of border brethren alluded yesterday to the
frontier Indians and the probability of civzing them BY
expenditure much less than is required by gar
There is one man within my knowledge who, with
thousand men, armed and equipped he would sug
ges in New Mexico ard Texas from his chivalry, for
he is brave Pyrrhus from his integrity for he is
just Arstdes from his sagacy, for it is equal any
emergency, cvze every border Indian in the
of years. if you will give him the that be
withdrawn from other branches of expenditure and ap
proprate it to that purpose refer to Ben Mccullough,
the Texas ranger, whose thoughts high
Heaven and whose impulses would adorn the proudest
character that ever lived in the annals of history He
accomplish all this. never conyersed with him
the subject but know his properties of heart his
dness of hand, his manliness of soul.
Here Mr.. President shall terminate my remarks
the subject Of the Indians. leave them to the vague
and uncertain future. What kindness and justice the
American people may exercise toward them is in the OBJ
security of the future All that do is to invoke that
benefcent spirit which prompts us, occasions to
extend them justice and right.
might here close my remarks in relation to this bill.
On branch of it have endeayored however imper-
fectly to present my objections to it. have indcat
ed ut least reasons sufficient cause to vote in the
negative upon it. Nor is there necessity for coupling
three such important subjects OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
tanning population not sufficient to warrant the organi-
zation and which is nearly oil Indian terrtory Kansas
which is entirely held and occupied by Indians without
white settler and the repeal of the Missouri compro
mise important and substantive consideration for the
American people. All these placed in this omnibus
shape and presented the Senate for action They
to be separated, presume SIR and my position
in relation to the repeal of the Missouri compromise, if
unexplained might not exactly be comprehended Unjust
speak of it. This subject is not one to me-
have met it of DID, not in its present phase but in
equally formidable and imposing the present
sion. Although stood alone in the South with the
exception Of Southwestern Senator Mr. BENTON, of
Missouri expressed my opinion and voted my princi-