Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-16
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the Indians is more difficult TO solve tbau in
The early part OF the present century. when
Government imagined IL had cut The Gorliu
knot oy removing the remaining tribes TO
certain reservations on the western border
OF the Mississippi As far as those tribes
The Choclaws, CherOkces Chickasaws. Oma-
haws and kickashaws-wer concerned, the
experiment was success The descendants
and companions Of the stalwart races OF saw
ages who gave both Harrison aud jackson
SO much trouble during their early military
I experience, settled peaceaby down on the
/ lands provided for them, according to con-
tract. and have grown into number Of
I thrifty agricultural and trading communities.
Many of the leading men have proved them-
selves possessed of talents that would not
| disgrace the legislative halls of the whites
How far such an undertaking might succeed
in the case OF the Arapahoes Camanches
and other warlike tribes in the south. il is
hard to say They have already their own
manufacturing arts and understand the til
lage of the soil, but have for so long u period
enjoyed their freedom that it would doubt
less require superhuuan eXertiuns on their
parts TO adopt The usnges of their civilized
neEhbors even were they entirely conquered
and possessed of the disposition to do So
The possibility Of ciyilizing the Indian
tribes has been demonstrated. Within a
period of sixty years, the Cherokees have
become civilized and refined have presented
the wonderful spectacle Of Nation spring
ing, as 1t were in an instant, from the very
depths OF barbarism into high degree Of
social, moral and eudcationl advancement.
Other trites, with less rapidity however,
have also advanced in a like manner. This
fact amply proves that the widest of the
wild tribes on this continent may be civil
lied,
Those who deny the practicablity Of civ
ilizing the Indian are ignorant not only OF
the character of the Indian, but the history
of the world They are in the habit of sup
posing that the savageism of the Indian is
peculiar to himself, instead of common, as it
is to all barbarous nations alike. They for
get that the Indian tribes of North America,
who are civilized, have become so in a space
of time less than one tenth of that which
brought the white races Of the Old World
to the same degree of Advancement. No
longer back than the days of Tacitus, the
English ladies had n plurality of husbands
and were allowed them 10y tie law. 1t is
now considered horrible thing 10y the de-
scendants of This same people. that a plural
! ity of aciges, let alone husbands, is allowed
among the Indian tribes The wild Indian
is now looked upon 10y many as being en-
] lal 70 lou hot
he is supposed to be so low in the scale of
being. But, what does history say about
that noble British ancestry" which is so
much vaunted? Macauley says, that when
the inhabitants of Britain were first discov
cred by the Tyrian mariners, they were
little superior to the natives of the Sand
wich Islands y The I2dian of the plains is
supposed to be outside the pale of humanity
because he lives in a wigwam, and don't
wear "store clothes" The Brilons, of the
period to which we aliude, lived in mere
novels and were clad in the skins of foxes,
wolves and other wild animals. SO low was
the estimate placed upon the English by
their proud Norman conquerors, that when
Norman ruler on a certain occasion, es
poused British princess, the marriage was
looked upon by many of his barons, says
Macaulay, in the same light as that of
white planter with quadroon girl would
now be regarded in Virginia.
The Scotch justly pride themselves on the
high character Of their ancestry. But they
were, not great many hundred years ago, a
race not whit superior in their social con
diton to the rudest Indian tribe east Of the |
Rocky Mountains They lived in dirty,
smoky huts, had the itch and were covered
with Uermin. So history says, not we
They frequently had their heads all smeared
over with tar, las you have seen the Diggers
in this country) in order to protect their
scalps against cutaneous diseases The men
made their wives do all the work, while
they hunted or lounged about, taking their
ease. Some people are ignorant enough TO
suppose that the custom of making women
work is the sole characteristic Of the "in-
fernal redskin." They had their feuds and
their bloody wars between clans and tribes,
just as the Indians do now, shooting one an
other from behind rocks, or stabbing an ene-
my in the back. The Scotch are a great
people, far advanced in the path of human
progress, and have given great names to the
world. But all this makes no difference with
the fact that their ancestors used to live in
dirty huts, afflicted with the itch and vern.in,
The chiefs were more cleanly than the com.
monality, and some trihes more ceanlv than
others. The same exceptions are to be found
among the Indians.
The Irish are great people, but what
were they, few hundred years ago? They
resisted, for a long period, every effort at
civilization, and murdered and pillaged the
civilized English settlements, just as the In
dians have murdered and pillaged the white
settlements upon the frontiers They lived
too in huts not mucn better than dog kennels.
SO has it been with all the nations Of the
earth, in their savage state. One has been
20 better than the other If the great
leading powers of the earth have arisen from
such beginnings as these, it is hardly good
logic to pronounce the civilization of the
wild Indians an impossibility.
late Eastern paper says: Southern pa
pers continue to publish disunion rhodomon-
tades, and the New York Herald is occupied
In sounding new olarrns dailv lint op ,La