The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-08-28

on the cash principle.
In no new country have 1 ever seen a
more religious and moral community. We
have preaching three times on every Sab.
bath and have seen as respectable, intel
ligcnt, and attentive congregations here in
the wilderness, and heard as good sermons
as ever heard at your fine churches in
Richmond.
There seems, too, to be q fixed purpose
to educate the young. One of the first
things attended to is providing good
schools.
Thousands Of cmigrants are arriving
they come from all parts of the United
States and Europe and ere another Presi-
dental election comes around, you will find
Nebraska asking for admission as State,
and with Il population which will entitlc
her to two representatives,. She will have
four votes to bestow, and they will be Dem
ocratic votes. Her people arc thoroughly
Democratic.
Only eighteen months ago this whole
country was i'll possession Of the Indians.
No white man trod its soil exccp' T., suffer-
ance. Here they i,cii their councils, here
they smoked the calumet, Lad their dance,
their sports, &c. Behold the change -
Now beautiful city is being rapidly built,
and on one of the most lovely and enchant-
ing sites ever bchcld. Nature seems to
have fashioned it for large and beautiful
city. Take it all in all, it cannot be sur.
passed. All is life and animation. Bv the
dawn Of day we hear
The hammer and the saw,
and at night
The fiddle aud the bow
The "Wcstcrn" people are "Sui yeneris'
bold, independent, seli-rcliant, generous,
brave, coniiiing and open and manly in all
Heir acts. They recognize 40 artificial dis
t;nc,ions in society; every man is placed
on his own merits. One man is considered
rs good as another if he acts well his part.
| confess love the Western cil,,rauter.-
There is a fidelity in it which is not to be
always found elsewhere. a Western man
your friend, and he will leopard his own
life for You. II your enemy he is openly
so-ncvcr strikes you in the dark nor stalls
you i'll the back. find many Nirginans
here. They soon become identified with
the Western character. They generally
stand well here, not because they come from
the first families, or even the second, but
because the Virginia gentlemen stands
well every where. Coming, as l do, from
Virginia, | miss the sight Of the "ebo
slins"
The treatment Of our Government to-
wards the "Clil,ircn Of the Forest" is Ia
rental, and under the wise and humane
management Of the able Secretary Of the
Interior, and lis suborlinates, is eminen,lv
kind. Every thing is done for them which
the Government can do; yet their fate is
sealed. They arc doomed soon TO disap-
pear from the face Of the earth; their
march is onward, onward towards the I" set
ting SUM-" Year after year they are re-
quired to SO farther West" The white
man wants the Indians land, and the In
dian must so to some other Hunting
ground" Rapidly are they marching on
to the happy hunting ground" 1t is
melancholy to see them, Gas do now from
the window at which am now penning these
lines,) hy hundreds, wandering about the
streets. broken in spirits, brooding over
their fate. Thousands come down to trade.
Among them see one Of the most dignilied
and eloquent Of their race, White Cow"
the successor Of the gallant and noble
" Logan Fontanclle," the friend of the white
man. White Cow" wears ten feathers. to
which lie is entitled for having taken that
number Of scalps in battle. He has Just
called to tell the Governor and myself Of
the wrongs he has received at the hands of
the white man. IIe wants his Great Fa-
thcr" to know them.
| have written hurricdly, expect to be in
your midst for short time in July, and
will take pleasure in affort!ing any further
information which may DO desired. Such
statements ms have now given may be re-
lied on, and will esteem it n favor if the
" "Wbig" and other Virginia papers, whose
readers desire information respecting tue
West, will give place to this letter.
J. A. p, of Virginia.