The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-07-22
EreeIey and the Indiana.

Mr. HORACE GREELEY, editor of the New
York Tribune, in his letters from the West,
gives an account of some OF the Indian tribes
whom he has visited in his travels, and with
whose habits of life he is not altogether salts
fled As he passed over those magnificent
bottoms of the Kansas, which form the Reser-
vations Of the Delawares, Pottowatomies, &c,
Constituting the very best corn land on earth,
saw their owners sitting around the doors
cir lodges, at the height Of the planting
on, and in good, bright planting wea-
er sun and soil ever made. The indus
Gus soul of GREELEY was vexed within
m and he tells us that he could not help say
ng, These people must die out--there is no
clip for them. God has given this earth to
hose who will subdue and cultivate it, and it
vain to struggle against his righteous de-
cree" However, he tried his powers of per-
suasion on LEFT HAND, one of the chiefs, who
talks English in favor of a farm of two hun
dred acres, for n beginning, to be broken and
fenced by the common efforts of the tribe, and a
patch therein allotted to each head of family
who would agree to plant and till it. 1t is I'M
necessary to say that HAND proved i'm
peryious to reason, and preferred TO continue
in the way in which his people had lived from
time immemorial. 1t would have been pleas
ing to have beheld the twain engaged In dis
cussion.
Mr.. GREELEY is a philosopher and we dare
say SO is LEFT-HAED He has . process OF
getting enough to supply his wants without
working for it, and if he considers that the
perfection of happiness there are good many
white men who will concur with him in opin-
ion. Moreover, 1t is probable that the Indian
philosopher will agree with the white man
that his race "must soon die out" any way,
and such being the case heis right in conclud-
ing that it is not worth while to work himself
to death. Mr.. GREELEY does not favor MS with
the points of the conversation with his Indian
friend but we dare say the latter might have
told him that Yankee rum and Yankee traders
had exerted as much influence in driving out
the Indians as have their barbareus habits of
life. Mr.. GREELEY says, "God has given the
earth to those who will subdue and cultivate
it," The founders of New England 4" resolved
LIST, that the Lord has given the earth to the
saints; and, I'd, that we are the saints - and
they and their descendants have carried out
the resolution by tomahawks and fire-water
until the red heather have nearly disappeared
from the land. Very likely LEFr-HAND is OF
opinion that, If he should take Mr.. GREELEY's
advice, and cultivate the soil, some enterpris-
ing Spectator from down east would swindle
him ont of it rs soon as it was worth having
and divide ii up into townships, with free
schools, factories, and other denominations of
civilized life. On the whole, the philosophy of
LEFT HAND, under all the circumstances is
equal to that Of Mr. GREELEY. Neither OF
them have long to live, and each should be as
comfortable as possible in his peculiar way OF
life-one neglecting his business, and the other
attending not only to his own, but other peo-
ple's