Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-08-14

the Government makes money. Let Congress on
ly give to u.a part of the two hundred and twcn-
ty-four millions of acres. and we will soon find
suituble route to the Pacific.
Every person of energy and prudence can make
money. No country OH earth offers better field.
Lands purchased at Government price in short
time command from Sl0 to $50. Town property
increases in still greater ratio. Everything is
done on the cash principle
In no new country have ever seen more re-
| ligious and moral community. We have preach
ing three times OH every Sabbath and l have
seen as respectable, intelligent and attentive con-
gregations here in the wilderness, and heard as
good sermons us ever heard ut your fine chur-
ches in Richmond.
There seems, too, to be fixed purpose to edu-
cate the young. One of the first things attended
to is providing good schools.
Thousands of emigrants are arriving; they
come from all parts of the United States and Eu-
rope and ere another Presidential election comes
around you will find Nebraska asking for admis-
sion rs State, and with q population which will
entitle her to two representatives. She will have
four votes to bestow, and they will be Democrat
ic votes. Her people are thoroughly Democratic.
Only eighteen months ago this whole country
was in possession of the Indians. No white man
trod its soil except by sufferance. Here they held
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their dance, their sports, &c. Behold the change!
Now beautiful city is being rapidly built, and
on one of the most lovely and enchanting sites
ever beheld. Nature seems to have fashioned it
for large and beautiful city. Take it all in nil,
it cannot be surpassed. All is life and animation.
By the dawn of day we hear
The hammer and the saw,
and at night
The fiddle and the how.
The "Western' people are "sm gsneris'-bold,
independent, self reliant, generous, brave, conf
ding and open and manly in oil their acts They
recognize no artificial distinctions in society eve
ry man s placed on his own merits. One man is
considered as good as another if he acts well his
part. 1 confess love the Western chnracter.-
There is fidelity in it which is not to be always
! found elsewhere Western man your friend,
and he will leopard his own life for you. II your
enemy, he is openly so-never strikes you in the
dark nor stnbs you in the back. | find many
Virginians here. They soon become identified
with the Western character. They generally
stand well here, not besause they come from the
first families, or even the second bnt because the
Virginia gentleman stands we'll every where
| Coming. as do, from Virginia, ! miss the sight
of the ''ebo shins."
The treatment of our Government towards the
"Children of the Forest is parental, and under
the wise and humane management OF the able Sec
retary of the Interior and his sHbordinates is en-
inently kind Every thing is done for them which
the Government can do; yet their fate is scaled.
They are doomed soon to disappear from the face
of the earth their march is onward, onward to-
wards the "setting sum-" Year after year they
are required to go "farther West" The white
man wants the Indians land, and the Indian must
go to some other ''hunting ground" Rapidly
are they marching to the .'happy hunting
ground" 1t is melancholy t. see them, (as do
now from the window at which am penning
these lines, by hundreds, wandering about the
streets, broken in spirits, brooding ever their fate
Thousands come down to trade. Among them
see one of the most dignied and eloquent Of their
race, "White Cow" the successor Of the gallant
and noble logan Fontanelle," the friend Of the
white man. ''White Cow" wears ten feathers, to
which he is entitled for having taken that num-
ber of scalps in bnttle. He has just called to tell
the Governor and myself of the wrongs he has
received at the hands of the white man. He wants
his "Great Father to know them.
have written hurriedy, expect to be in your
midst for short time in July, and will take
pleasure in affording any further information
which mny be desired. Such statements as have
now given may be relied on and will esteem it
favor if the sWhig" and other Virginia papers,
whose readers desire information respecting the
West, will give place to this letter.
J. A. p, of Virginia.