New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-14

niebted the despfcd. IL is easy to sneer az 'na'
philanthropy which seeks its beuehc aries .. Tue
ends Of the earth; but are the sneerer' more hhei,
than the sneered at TO relieve that Virtuous necd
that clusters and shivers around their own door
steps' If all the Foreign Missions, so generously
impeIed and sustained In this country, were proved
10 have never converted one heather, We snouid
still deem their cost fully repaid in their nece''ar!
influence in difusDg sentiments Of humanity ano
mercy among our own people. Striving 10 DO g'ou
TO others is the sure way to loving them, anu 10
vital perception that they, with US, are the uiail
ing objects Of Divine care and benefcence
1t may seem unwise TO suggest an addition 10
the number Of the philanthropic associations winch
aspire TO National character and interest, wheh
their number is now generally esteemed too great
and yet we cannot refrain from urging the forna-
ton Of another, whose express object shall Dc lac
preservation and protection of the Aboriginal
tribes, or remnants of tribes still lingering on our
soil. Who doubts that the general treatment ex'
perenced by those tribes at our hands has been IN
consistent with the religion we profess and the
reputation we would have the world accord to US
Who will calmly contend that the expulsion or ex-
termination which the "Indians so uniformly
experience at our hands is either necessary or just
That it is not necessary, is proved by the example
of the Hispano- Americans southwark, and OF the
British Americans northward, from our territory.
That it is not just. the heart Of every Christian
must painfully attest.
We are no dreaming rhapsodists with respect to
Id roI.r Id H.. frflI7 af
Aborigines Of America are at best barbarians,
usually savages; and savage life is in the main
coarse, needy, cruel and wretched Some virtues
iuhere in the savage character which are denied to
what now passes for civilized society The Indian,
it is depOrably true, will scalp the wife and chill
dren of bis enemy; but he rarely eats up bis neigh
boris farm by usury, or turns widow and orphans
out Of doors because they cannot pay their rent.
He is remOrseless TO his foe but seldom ungrateful
to bis benefactor. He has done many deeds at
which Humanity revolts; but when his extermina-
ton shall have been accomplished, his destroyers
will mournfuly recall his nober qualities and better
impulses, and sigh that race evincing such ca
pacities has been utterly swept from the earth.
And this contamination is now imminent For
mery, he was assailed upon one side only, and BY
each defeat and eviction driven so much nearer to
the setting SUM- But at length we confront him on
the West as well as the East, and drive him from
the valleys Of the Columbia and Sacramento as
well as from those Of the Mississippi and the Mis-
souri, A few years more Of this process will push
the wretched remnant into the glens of the Rocky
Mountains, there to perish by the rgors Of Winter
and famine Such is the doom inevitably awaiting
them unless something decisive be promptly done.
We think a society should be organized by the
friends Of the Red Man among us, which should in
vite the cooperation of the most eminent and
worthy of our public men, especially those who
have ceased to aspire to place or popular favor
This society should have directors or cOunseOrs in
in Washington, where 80 many gigantic crimes
against the Indian, in the shape Of fraudulent trea
ties are consummated Special efforts should be
made to enlist the cooperation OF intelligent and
lust men on the frontiers of civilization, where 'ln
dian whisky is sold in defiance Of law and Indian
wars " are cOncOcted and fomented by yillanous
spectators. Such all organization, if thorough and
would be enabled to keep the unsophis-
ticated Red Men out of many snares, and save them
from many caamities. 1t would take years to win
for it the confidence and gratitude of the Indians
themselves but it could do them great good mean
time by investigating and exposing the origin of the
spectators wars which frequently devastate the
frontiers, and by preventing the confirmation of
treaties to which the tribes thus sold
out of house and home have never really assented.
1t would lay bare the arts Of the Manifest Des-
tiny" robbers, who act as if any means were lauda.
Bile which result in driving the Indians further into
the wilderness or decimatng their numbers. If the
Of our country are to be saved from
utter extinction, vigorous efforts must be made and
made soon.