Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-03-21

children the probate justice shall record tia snA and e.
master mistress his her. or their heirs shah be emit
tied to the services Of the said servants unless
feited as hereinafter provided if it shall appear that uc
servant or servants into the Territory of their own fire.
will and CHOICE
This pararchal institution when upheld by real Nor
mon patriarchs, assumes new shape 1t calls thing
by softer NAME and instead of sarss we have ser
wants. So reluctant too Mormon masters to punisl
their servants that appears have been necessar
to make it their Imperative duty by law to correct al
punish their servants Thus, in the laws as aforesa
page 161, sec. g.:
his servant in reasonable when it may be nee
~, being guided by prudence and humanity"
The Mormons are making some effort to esablis
culture OF cotton, sugar, and rice in some parts q
Territory and should they be successful in this un
taking it might tend to increase the black servant =
pulaton but the heterogeneous character of the en-
grafton, coming from any where almost but the Unit
States with opinions may be supposed hostile to any
system OF servude and the occasional years of famine
years of drouh and the grasshopper when the people
have been driven to the means of subsistence
living upon pumpkins in some nstances-has operated
and may continue to operate against the increase Of this
class of their population
But there is another type Of slavery to which win
ca the special attention Of gentlemen who going I'd
ask the unanimous apprehension of Congress against the
Coolie traffic Not less than four hundred Indians chill
dren or adults to-day held in bondage in Utah unde
the pretence of apprenticeship 1t viii be observed tina
this is the same sort of whipping the devil round t
stump that is practiced in the Coole trade They an
purchased of Indians who steal neghborng tribe
for sums any where from twenty to forty dollars eacl
utterly regardless of the of capture or abduction
This traffic with Indians is directly encouraged by til
Mormons and under color of law. Any minors NAV b
bound to service wide Territorial Laws D. 1867 and it
made the duty Of the selectmen and the courts bind
out to service all the idle, the vagrant or the coas
minors OF co1rse all Indians are easily rankedn sau6
one or all of these classes They have also law for the
transfer of servants and where there is WILL of course
,,1y r.cl d. -
accomplish the object they have later law in words adj
uniting of no doubt double meaning; and curiqusly
enough the title of this act is printed An act fos the
RELIEF Of Indian slaves and prisoners" On pags 173
of the Territorial Laws will be found as follows:
Sec l. Be IL enacted by the Governor and Leoislof;,e A
semby Of the Territory of Utah. That whenever any white
within any organized county of this Territory shall
have any Indian prisoner child woman in his possession
whether by purchase otherwise, such person shall mme
diaey together with such Indian prisoner child or
man. before selecmen probate judge of the county If
the opinion of the seectmen probate judge the person
having such Indian prisoner child woman suitable
person and properly qualified raise and educate
SAID Indian prisone child woman, shall be his their
duty to bind out tia by ndenture for the of
exceeding twenty years. at the discretion of the judge
lectmen."
Sec. s The sectmen, in their respective counties
hereby authorized obtain such Indian prisoners children
or women, and bind them to some useful ayocation."
Thus it appears that any Indian prisoner, child or
WOMAN, that may happen to be in possession of any
white person., whether by purchase or in any other
way relieved by being bound ervitude for twenty
years and the only consolation for the Indian is that
there is nothing in he act to prevent renewal of this
kind of relief" at the expiration of the first period Of
service for twenty years more.
However cruelty we may have treated the Indians in
other respects either by encroachments upon their hunt
ing grounds, with or without treaties or by harassng
wars no party and no government in this country has
for ages sanctioned the idea of reducing the red of
the forest TO slavery However bitter may be the ulti
mate fate OF the American lndian-and as distinct raS
1t IS rapidly approaching extinction-ths is dreg
placed IN the bottom of the cup by Utah alone, Terri
tory which the United States is sometimes repr
scented to have the right of sovereignty and eminent do
main.
Now, sir, gentlsmnn may make their resolutions a,
tho please touching the Coolie trade
they can hardly be strong for me-but hope they
will not weaken all lower their emphasis when they
approach the NORM Utah trade in Indian prisoners
children and womenf Let therace King Philip Oceoa
and Pocahontas VIII ch has chased the sun almost hat
round the earth in ofder to catch few golden
mens, not be subjected to- iron letters in their expirn
moments Let the fercest warrior of them all as hill
ebbing pulse 't<ingS h,---
spirit, Saia. -ur~-
81 as freetas Nature first made man. i
Ere the basel Jaws of servitude began,