New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-16

bsma will continue to hide and skulk in the mo-
rasses and everglades Of Florida, but the savages
who used TO harbor and cherish them hsye been
thoroughly extermnsted or deportei at coat ofnot
more than $25 600 per head-cheap as dirt The
CLerokees, whose LANDS we stole in the lump, in
spite Of their inveterate peacefuness, their good
neebborhood their Christianity and advancing Ill
izatop, occupy lands west of Arkansas which We
have not yet coyeed so they are safe for season.
The Sioux and other tribes at the North-West are
30 intent on killing each other that i! would be sheer
waste and WaDtOnnes in US 70 interfere With view
10 Fastening The inevitable ctnsummstlOn. The
miners are using up the AborieiDes Of Calltorni,
at the rate Of ten per cent. per annuu, and whs'
remain Of them are SC d.based aud enervated by
their contact with "tbe arts Of civilization that no
respectable fight Can be got out Of them-in fact,
they resemble SICK calf, who must be held up il
you want to knock him down. The Texas Rangers
are doing the business ofthe Comanches With reason
able CELEBRITY; so that there remain only the wild
aud hardy tribes Of the Columbia RIVER. These
would be far more easily acd cheaply destroyed
through the fundamentally Of traders thsn Of
soldiers; since every regular by the time he reaches
the Daes will have cost the Government $1,000,
while barre, of Indian whisky" which could be
laid down at that point by contract for Sl5 to $50,
would do more execution than two average dra-
eoons, who sometimes finch or fall sick, While the
whisky never misses. The cost of regiment OF
Dragons, iudicously invested in this frontier lux
ury, and faithfully distributed among the tribes be-
tween the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains,
would clear the whole region of Indians within
five years-the few that rejected the " fire-water'
being tomahawked by the madmen who eagerly
absorbed it, or slaughtered in the Wars which
it would inevitably excite. But the chances for pub
lie plumber through an Indian War in that far-awsy
corner are so vast and dazzling that no economical
means Of comprising the end have any chalce OF
adoption. Out of the short and Insignificant hos
Titles melted and prosecuted in defiance OF Gen.
Wool during the dull season on the Columbia two
or three years ago, claims against the Government
TO the generous amount of Five Millions Of Dollars
have already been fabricated and the placer IS not
vet exhausted. These claims await the relief of
tie Treasury from financial cramp and atrOphy to
be vigorously prosecuted and put through. The
new War now hopefully inaugurated cannot IN
view of the exsggeratiOn of prices on the Coli
naturally caused By the opening Of gold-dlggugs in
New Caledonia be reasonably expected to cost less
than Fifteen or Twenty Millions. There will prob
ably be quite as many pretty fortunes made out of
il as will be washed out of the sands Of Frazer
River
Do Americans ever ask themselves how and why
we are visited with SO many more Indian airs thar
our neighbors For more than thirty years COM
meIcirg with the conquest Of Fort Astoria in 1872
the Briti,h, through the Hudson's Bay Company,
held prsctica possession of the Valley of the Co
lumbs they hunted, trapped ard fshed over the
whole country thus interfering directly with the
sayaees' means of subsistence: they traded and ac
auiIed lands: but who ever heard Of their being
thereby involved 10 an Indian War How many
serious Indian Wars have the British had in all
the region north a US durirg the century which
has ali but elapsed since they conquered Quebec
OF course, we know that some savages living on
cur side or under our influence have been launched
agsins. Cansds in OUT wars; but that is quite an
other matter. We firmly believe that our Govern.
ment has paid more for the prosecution Of hostties
against Indians in the paltry peninsula Of Florida
during the forty years that We have held i than
Great Britain hss expended fer like purpose in all
North America during her cen.ury of possession.
Yet the British have, il the average, been in
tact with Indians over as large surface as we
baye ard with tribes as formidable and belGgerert
as ouls. Ard al history proses the British very
far from models in their treatment Of weak and
barbsrous races. Nay; the French, VINO had poe.
session Of Canada for the century and half pre-
cedipg the British conquest, quite as fortunate
in maintsiDirg the babituL friendship Of the
savases within their colonial jurisdiction.
Those who provoke or begin war can always
make out q colorado preteIt for it, especially as
against . savage race. "Liors are not painters"
and one side Of the story s never fully ard fairly if
at all, presented. But tie fundamental truth is
that our people habi.uay crowd TIE Indians, bully
them, rob item, nsltreat them. They are It
geIded by our border population as game to be
hunted or beasts Of prey to he sxteruinated.
They too hke the pegroes, sre practically in
cluded in Judge Tsueys category of races "hav-
"irg no lights which white men are bound {, re-
"spect" A white bordeIer out hunting who
espies en- unsuspee.irg and unprotected Indian,
irstinctiyely regards him as prey. "Gls b.esst
"pIesented so fair 5 marx as he stood up Tiers,
"ihst / couldn't help shooting him. was the mat
tsr.ofcou excuse of a white man who thus
Killed 81 Indian rather more ws1tonly taan ieemed
jus;ifAbie even 10 his wild companions. How
Indian women are abu,e1, when in the power Of
white men, throughout the wild regions Of tue
West, 70 chrOnic.er has ever begun to intimate
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