The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-01

dstng used statesman then ia private ta and whose
party had postponed his claim, peiermed il. or in
common paanee laid him on The shelf said that when
the Missouri agitation quoted he was held throughout
the land great pacihcator and u he had committed
unan Of SINS that single achievement Of tranqullzng
the great republic giving permanently peace and growth
10 ITS Institutions would have overbalanced them all said
that Henry Clay deserved monument Of bronze, OF
BILE OF gold TO be placed in the otunda OF the Capitol
for in aiermes of great excitement TO contemplate
and look upon the who blessed his country That
the sentiment entertained and II from veneraon
not only for the man. but for his achievement securing
that time the needed restoration of harmony native
land Were | TO make such declaration now, Il would
be thought that IL endeavor bring this bill into
dscredl. No, sir nothing is necessary from 10 dis
credit IT, for il is its condemnation under the circum
stances ia which is presented here, at this Tine the
midst Of unity, peace, and harmony, while all at rest
with not ripple the vast ocean Of our community.
have agitation and bitterness before recoect, when
ventued make the first address IN this chamber the
subject of the agitation in 1850, with what dscountenance
received SO hule was there disposition har-
monte, that when suggested that six senator's without
regard to party section might be selected from the mem
bers Of this body who could compose address and send
abroad harmonic the country and hush the herce
of political agitation that then lashing the base
of this Capitol, met with response Indeed, was
thought to be almost treason then for me TO make such
proposition
Well subsequently obtained peace and harmony Let
preserve it, And there mode by which we can 80
efectuay accomplish that object by rejecting the pro-
having attained my present period of life, should pass
the residue of my days. be they many few in peace and
tranquility; that as found the country growing up rapidly
and have witnessed its Unreasonable expansion and de-
vclopmen when closed my eyes scenes around me,
would least have the cherished consolation and hope that
M my children N happy sss
shed the desire and the expectation from 1850 until after
the Introduction of this bill My hopes less sangune
My e but WHY sssa the
Of the agitation, but shall live to its
close the youngest child born, am apprchenslve
viii not live TO witness It's termination. There will be
gloomy disturbed future for this country if this
Southern gentlemen stand up and defend this
measure. They may accept il from the northern gentlemen
who generously bestow it, The North may be poorer
for it, and the South viii certainly be richer But if il
beneficial To the South has not been asked for, and
under the circumstances would not take II, even were
beneficial IL asked for will It be accepted by
the people Il furnishes those in the North who enc
mics of the South with efficient weapons contend with.
The democracy in the North have stood firm to party
ties They have fought gallanty for rights II we
pass this BILL how they maintain themselves! How
their representatives, return TO Them and say "We
you fahless servants and will put you down; you
dssraced your party; You have given away sacred
thing, pledge compromise thirty flour years DID, which
was venerated for antiquity and national benefits de-
rived from ii" Depend upon it, they will be held to
strict They will have TO answer for it | call
upon you sustain those who stood by you of The South
opposition those whose anatcis and prejudice and
misguided feeling would have wrested your rights from
you If you place them and their party 10 the predica
ment which have mentioned, you will te doing them
great injustice. You will, will say entail upon your
selves disgrace but you will do yourselves great honor
Mr.. President, have very little hope that any appeal
which can make for the Indians will do any good will
be of any service them the Of humanity
The honorable from Indiana Mr.. PETTIr says in
substance, that God Almighty has condemned them and
has made them inferior that there IS no use IN at
tempting do anything for them. With great difference
that senator, for whom have cherished any but
kind feelings, must be permitted to dissent from his opn
ions He says they not civilized, and they are not
L1.,n and he nj the uyhI
They cannot be civilized Mo- SIR it is idle TO tell me
that. We have Indians western borders whose
civilization is not inferior to is within the rec
election of gentlemen here that than twenty years
ago. President Ross, Of them, held correspondence
with Mr. Adams upon the rights of the Indians TO the
Cherokee country which they possessed east OF the Nus
sissppi, and mnnaned himself the controversy with
great credit and ability and the triumph Of Mr. Adams If
one much ess than he had obtained the
dplomas Of Spain, Mr. De onis, in relation TO the oc-
oupaton Of Florida by General Jackson The from
Indiana says that ancient times, Moses received com
mand go and drive the Canaanes and Moabtes out of
the land OF Canaan and that Joshua subsequently, made
the experiment of Incorporating tribe Of the heather
with the lsraeltes but It finally had to be killed off, there
fore, the senator concludes, the Cheokees cannot be
civilized, and must be killed off, He did not say hat but
that Is the completion of the parallel There may have
been something satesnanke in the policy, but do not
discover the morality oft will say, however, that there
is analogy between the The people of Ju-
des who killed. exterminaed, doators, and
the object keep the people of Israel free from the
faint Of idols and idolary under the command Of Prov
became necessary. But the Cherokees have been
dolaors neither have the Creeks, the Choctaws
the Chicknsaws They believe Great Spirit--in
God--the white mans God. They believe in his Son Jesus
Christ and his atonement and Precipitation for the sins of
They believe In the sanctIfyng efficacy Of the Holy
Ghost They bow at the Chstans altar and they believe
in the sacred soume Sir, you may drive these people
away, and give he lands to the white man; but let 1t not
be done upon the justification Of the Scriptures think
that the white will 60 UNPUBLISHED for IL They have
well organized societies. they have villages and owns they
have their staehouses and their capo they have females
and who would grace the drawing saloons Of
Washington they have weorganized judiciary, trial by
Jury, and the writ of hattas corpus
These the people for whom demand justice in the
organic alton Of these Territories They are men Of educa
ton. They have than hundred native preachers
in those tribes have heard They have their colleges
remarked in my former address the Senate this
subject. They become associated in friendship with
young the various institutions in the United States
and they prepared to be incorporated upon equal terms
with But, If they wild Indians, untuored,
when you deprive them Of what would give them kno
and discourage them from making effort to become civil
LIED and social beings by continually driving them off TO the
West how can you expect them TO be otherwise than saw
agei
When you undertake TO tame wild horses do you turn
them from you and drive them into the desert do you
take care OF them and them with humanity These
Indians inferior, intellectually, white John
Ridge educated and married in Connecticut, not nfo
rio point Of genius to John Randolph His father, in
point Of native intellect, inferior TO any man.
Boudno Ross, and hundred others, might also be men
toned instances Of their mental capabilities Look at
their socnl condition in the nations which have alluded
Look the Chckasaws who remain in the State Of Msss
sppi. Even among white men, with all their prejudces