New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-30

The laws are good enough in themselves, o. derived
from those of Mississippi and Texas bat are perfectly
nughtory from negligent or corrupt administration
Hence IL is that so many influential men among them
desire now TO be brought under the territorial ursdc-
ton of the United States The most feariu crimes go
unpublished by their laws and If they are brought
before our irLunals for Outrages committed or white
men in the Indian country they can have any amount
Of false swearing to escape the just penalty OF their
crimes. Nor they ever deficient in means 10 en-
ploy the best talents the most INSCRIPTIONS adyo-
Gates 10 defend them. fear that this we are
scarcely behind them.
For information touching schools in the Territory,
refer the sIatst of the missionaries of the various
denominations among them. Methodists, Presby-
teriaDs and Bspts are aborng assduously for their
benefit Half-6reed Indians and quadrOOns generally
speak English derived from their parcntsi but full
blood lndsns, how good s0eyer their opportunities
seldom Learn il at school. They form among them
selves clques and, assocating almost exclusively with
each other make but very little progress in It's acquire
ment.
Amagamation, it mpst DC admitted, is the chief hope
Of IL dian civilization in the ordinary sense of that
term. Whether they improved by such civilization
is exceedingly questionable, il is sad to ingraft upon
its subject all the vices OF the white man, without
Graduating the bad qualities OF the original stock.
Decidedly the worst men we know among those tribes
af@nany halfbreed Indians Those of fall blood, If
mbued with the spirit Of Christianity are generally
the most honest and reliable Exceptions it is true,
on this almost every point Of human
character Some Of those full-blood Indians, when
Chr;stianzed, often though Ignorant of our lam
guage, the very best people on our borders.
The tribes Of every section want laws, and their due
aduinistI alton. They want schools. They want
Christianity and call for IT, That alone can impart to
them the proper civilization They want market for
their produce. They want railroads aud navigabe
streams through their country. Red River is always
uncertain, and very seldom navgable on their limits.
The mutations from high to low water in the Arkansas
sudden and nconveDient and i'll the transportation
of goods give frequent occasion to ruinous delays
Railroads alone coud hiring The Territory lmmcdl-
ate contact with the commerce Of the States, and
whenever railroads shal find their way along the But
tered line of stages from Arkansas still better and
easier branching from Texas the south and Kansas
and Missouri the north, shall have traversed those
beautiful plains they will uuquestionaby be freghted
towns and cities in every section Of the country,
with products as important as any other within our
borders.
The Indian is constitutionally nomadic. / know
very few instances of the best Indian half-breed or
full blood families remaining in one place for more
than period Of five six years They often, from
mere love of change, from better to worse
farming grourd and all of them influenced by the
movements Of their neighbors and friends. They have
no homestead in the in which understand the
term, though partial, of course to the large tracts
roamed over by their ancestors They plant not the
olive, the vine, the fgtree nor are their domestic
local affections strong enough to bind them to those
spots which others would hold sacred repositories of
their dead
Their country will soon be sectonized, and thrown
open to settlers, Whether for the benefit of the Indian
or not, time alone can determine.
AS respects the report of secret society TO prevent
any but shareholders from occupying Indian lands,
your correspondent has knowledge that amounts to
good evidence. He has heard it. like others, as a
rumor. 1t is scarcely possible that such thing should
be attempted; and it would certainly II attempted,
fail of success.
The opinion that the Indian Territory must neccs-
saIy be Slave State is based upon the fact that
Slavery exists in ii already, among Indians The
number of slaves, however, is comparatively small,
Texas ard other States in defiance of the Intercourse
laws, and find for the negro a more profitable market
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