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WELCOME INrELLIGENCE.-Our readers will
| remember that some seven months ago train
| OF emigrsnts to California was attacked by
Indians st Sweet Water in Utah, and nearly
every person in the company was slaughtered.
Subsequently Mr.. D. c. Mitchell, of Arkansas
notified the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
that there were several children with the train
| to whom he was related, and he requested
| that inquiries be instituted as to whether they
were among the murdered The Commissioner
promptly responded to this call by direc ting
the Superintendents of Indian Affairs in Cali
fornia and Utah to investigate the matter tho
roughly. The California Superintendent re-
ported some weeks since that his search was
| unsuccessful.
The Commissioner has recently received the
answer of the Utah Superintendent, Dr. Forney
dated at Salt Lake City, June 2Sth, in which
| he states that a Mr.. Hamlin, living near the
scene of the massacre, has a child belonging to
some of the murdered emigrants, and that
fourteen children, also belonging to the unfor-
| tunate ain, are in the care of whites in his
immedia te neighborhood, having been ran
somed and otherwise recovered from the In
dians, after the latter retained possession Of
them several days.
DR.. f. also reports that within twenty DAYS
previous to the time of his writing, four Ger
mans were murdered about so miles south of
Salt Lake City, by Indians, it is supposed
The Indians on the Southern route to Califor-
MIA are said to be troublesome, and DR.. i. has
been importuned to visit them. 1t is 400 miles
from Salt Lake city to the farthest Indian set
Element on that route, and 800 miles to where
the children are But DR.. I. will make the
visit, and on hi, return bring tho children to his
SUPPLEMENTARY. He intends starting in about
four weeks. DR.. F. has not yet visi ed all the
tribes in his superintendency, but his reports are
encouraging as to the maintenance of pacific
relations amongst them, and between them and
the Government
| "OUR FATAL INDIAN Potter We regrc
to have read in the Union, of Tuesday last, an
article on this subject, which inculcates doc
trines tending only to public Generalization :;
and is an attempted vindication of what has
always been acknowledged to be great wrong
The writer finds fault with the manner in which
| the Indians have been treated by the whites,
| 81 nee the earliest European settlement in this
country, but instead of laying the censure, for
the most part, at the door of the latter, as has
been usually done, he endeavors to transfer it
| to the Indians, and seems even unwilling to
admit that they are entitled to the eauivocal
humanitarian consideration they have received
| at the hands of our race. Their recognition as
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| same country with ourselves is characterized
as absurd; and the money paid them for their
land is alleged to have been an actual curse
| to them, in that it enabled them to procure
"hquOr' wherewith to " feed their passions. -
To its influence is attributed nearly all the
frightful border wars that VIC have inherited
from our Indian policy" The schemes for
the civilization of the Indians are all unhesi-
| tatingly declared ntopiau," and the policy
| recommended to be hereafter pursued by this
Government, is to cease to regard them as pos
sessing any rights, to abandon the practice of
buying their lands, and to raise the standard
of the Republic in every part OF the Indian
country. Indeed, says the writer, . the ne
cessity has become apparent that We shall no
longer have any Indian country. 1t belongs
to the white race" 1t is further maintained
that the progress of the white race is such as to
render it certain that the Indians must submit
to early humiliation yet this is adjudged No
hardship" no unjust INVASION of their
rights. They have no rights, says the Union
They were created and placed here in the
wise economy Of the Almighty, to be driven
back and finally exterminated''
We regret the appearance of this article sim
cerely; and is 1t not a cause for regret that any
respectable press in the country should advo-
cate doctrines SO utterly at variance with every
commonly received sentiment of Justice and
religion That any should be found so unrea-
sonable as to contend that Deity only created
the Indians for determination" For our
own part, we believe that the Creator placed
the Indians, as well as all other created be-
| ings, on this earth for some wiser purpose and
when their mission is fulfilled, he will either Fl;
them for some other position, OF permit them to
go out OF existence. But even if We knew that
determination was to be the inevitable fa of
these " fast-disappearing" tribes, it is none the
less our duty to deal justly with them while
they exist The Union does not present any
plan for their future treatment, and the only
Inference we can gather is, that it supposes the
sooner they are extcrminated the better. The
policy advocated degrades them to level with
the brutes. Similar ideas respecting this SUBJ
Ject are surely not entertained by any consid.
cradle number of persons in this country, we
| hope, and at least by no department of the Gov
eminent, for the Indian policy of the present
Administration, we arc glad to say, has thus
far been the very reverse Of what is here pro-
posed, and we truly hope it may continue to be
| so, for humanity's sake. '..
JOHN LEroHER Tho Richmond Engni.
rer is making fierce war on the proposition to
| make this gentleman the next Democratic can
didate for Governor of Virginia. Its work
after that fashion is being done through the
pens Of correspondents who assail him and his
pretensions with great bitterness The cause