Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-08-06
WHOLE NUMBER 500.

renee anu plOWf ana tnnt 'DrnVcE' are dis
inclined to any such steady, monotonong
exercise of their muscles, / believe there
is no essential difference 10 this respect be-
tween braves" of the Red and those If
the White race, since even our cohntry's
bold defenders have not been accustomed
to manifest their ihtrepdity in the corn
fields along their liue Of march. save IA the
season of roastingears and the verb 80
soldier" has acquired, throughout Chris
tendon and in all its moods aud lenses. n
Significance beyond the need Of GLOSSARY.
Briefly, the "brave,p whether civilized or
savage, is not worker, q producer, and
where the men are all braves with war
always on hand, the prospect for produc-
tive industry is gloomy indeed II, then,
the hope OF Indian renovation rested MAIN
ly on the men; it would be slender indeed
There is little probability that the present
generation of "brates' can be wgahed from
the traditions and the habits 10 which they
find certain personal consequence and
immunity from daily toll which stands
them instead Of intelligence and comfort
Squalid and conceited, proud and worth
less, lazy and lousy, they will strut out or
drink ont their miserable existence, and at
length afford the world a sensible reli cg By
| dying out Of it,
But il is otherwise with the women.
Degraded and filthy as they are, beyond
description or belief, they bear the germ Of
renovation for their race in that they are
neither too proud nor too indolent to la
Dor. The squaw accepts work as her des.
tiny from childhood. her fathers lodge.
as in that wherein she comes in turu to
hold a fifth or sixth interest in husband
for all Indians are polygamists 10 theory,
as all who have means or energy become
such in practice-she comprehends and du-
tifully accepts drudgery as her s'beculiat
institution" She pitches aud strikes the
tent, carries it from one encampment to a.
mother, gathers and chops the wood, and
not only dresses and cooks the game which
forms the family's food-when they have
any-but goes into the woods and backs it
home when her lord returns with the It'd
ings that he has killed any Tanning or
dressing hides, making tents, clothing, moe
casins Dc, all devolve on her. Under such
dispensation, it is not difficult to believe
that she often willingly accepts a rival in
the affections of her sullen master as pros
missing a mitigation rather than an aggras
walton of the hardships of her lot.
And yet even the Indian women are idle
half their time, from sheer want Of any
thing to do. They will fetch water for
their White neighbors; or do anything else
whereby piece of bread may be honestly
earned; and they would do ten times more
than they do if they could find work and
be reasonably sure of even a meagre re.
ward for it,
| L fhapofapa 1at -, Ga
to improve the condition of the Indians.
the women be specially regarded and ap-
pealed to. A conscientious, humane, capa-
ble Christian trader, with wife thorough
ly skilled in household manufactures and
handicraft, each speaking the language Of
the tribe with whom they take up their re.
sidence, can do more good than a dozen
average missionaries. Let them keep and
sell whatever articles are adapted 70 the
Indians needs aud means, and let them
constitute and maintain an Industrial school
in which the Indian women and children
shall be freely taught how to make neatly
and;expeditiously not only moceassns but
straw hats bonnets, and (in timel a hun
dred other articles combining taste with
utility Let farm and garden be started
so soon as may be; and vegetables grain.
fruits; given therefrom in exchange for Ius
dian labor therein, at all times when snch
labor can be made available. or course.
the School, though primarily Industrial.
should impart Intellectual and Religious
instruction also, wisely adapted in eharac-
ter and season to the needs Of the pupils:
and to their perception Of those needs
Such an enterprise, combining Trade with
Instruction. Thrift with Philanthrophy;
would gradually mold generation after
its own spirit--would teach them to value
the blessings of civilization before impos-
ing on them its seeming burdens, would,
in the course of twenty years, silently trans
form an ilidolent savage tribe into cisiIizs
ed Christian community. There may b
shorter modes of effeeting this trausfornids
ton. but think none surer.
OF course such an enterprise demands
rare qualities in its head--that of patience
prominent among them. The vagrancy Of
the Indians would prove as great an OBJ
stacle to its success as their paltry but in.
terminable wars Very often, in the outset,
the apostle of industry and civilization
would find himself deserted by all his pu-
pills. lured away by the hope of success else
where in maraudng or hunting. But let
him, having first deliberately chosen bis To-
cation, simply perseVere, and they will soon
come round again, glad enough to find food
that may be had even for solid work; for
all l can learn impels me to believe that
Hunger is the normal state Of the Indian,
diversified by transient interludes Of glue
tony. Meat is almost bis ouly food, and
this is plentiful at seasons, and at others
scarcely obtainable in the smallest quanti'
ties, or dried to the toughness Of leather.
The Indian likes bread as well as the
White; he must be taught 10 prefer the
toll of producing il TO the priFation Of lack
ing it. This point gaiued, be will easily be
led to seek shelter, clothing and ali the
comforts Of civilized life, at their Inevitable
cost; and thus his temporal salvation viii
be assured, otherwise, his eztermination Il
iitexorably certain, and cannot long be post,
poned. Ha
Beg- Bonner OF the Ledger and Wander
bilt Of the steamships are competing as 10
fast horses ftar BounQr bOn0ht Tantarn