Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-09-17
G~rivance. of the Eez Perces Indians.


circular containing the speech # tie head
ch;et shadow Of tie Mountain LAWYER
20 Gov. LYON. ani the Governor : reply. We
have rad thu same With mach interest. has-
ing he, n satisfied "a, a long time that giea,
abuses .xis.rd un that reservation. The tone
Of Gov. LYONS speech induce, the beli'i that
a radic~l change OF policy will b. inanSuratrd.
and tina, the ar which has been wace! upon
those who Lav- done so much tor their spirit
u4l welfare. i a, an ed. Those who have
openly secuted the flea o: relying upon rclig-
ilus iufu. noes as thu gr.a, lever Of cisI.:za-
,ioa. have ds-racrl ih~ s-rvic, long enough.
AID We iru>, tina: the places Of all such VIII br
filed with hon~s,C Christian men. A. long as
avowel Disciples of Tom Paine and Hume
are employed in the glorious an p~hi'an,' roplc
work Of Outstanding the Indians. the re-
.ul,s will he melancholy f'ilurrs. The mil
lions that have been appropriated 10y Com
gre>s in god faith for this purpose. have gen
orally been squandyrcd. Nohoiy acquainted
with The service upon this coas, will hesitate
10 believe that mos, OF the tribes which have
bern gathered UPON reservations, and subject
Cd 90 thu control Of Government employers.
are to-day in a wors. condition. morally and
social. than they were before a doillr had
been expended upon item.
There is at least one bright exc rp'ion to
this general rule in the Washington Sup-rin-
tendency upon which the eye If the Christian
philantlropist can rest with pleasure and
hope. Thrs,. green spots, scattered here and
there over a desert of general de>ola'ion. are
solely attributable to the fact that those
placed in charge Of them ale honest, ~sealous
Christian men, who nave laborrd in faith, re-
lying upon the Great Ruler of the universe
for blessings upon their labors. The same
fundamentally employed elsewhere would
have been attended with similar results.
The teachings of those holy and devout
men, Whitman and Spalding, have resulted
in raising mp, in the Nez Perccs nation. u
class of religious men aud women which will
do credit to the most highly civilized commu-
mites. Their head-chief, Lawyer, is n tai
en.ed Christian man and if the Christian
world could have been present to hear him be-
wall the degradation of his people. resulting
from association with corrupt. unprincipled
whites, and the apparent bad ia til of the Gov
ernmrntt hey would rise up en- n.asse and
demand that their churches, school houses
and religious teachers should DO at once re-
stored to them, and they be hereafter protect
ed from the invasion Of those who not only
disregard their present and eternal welfare,
but whose influence and example only tends
to debauch and degrade them.
If Governor Lyon receives the support
which is his due from Washington, we have
no doubt but that all the abuses and S%ricvan-
ances of which complaint is made, will be re-
moved, and that hereafter the Nez Pcrccs ma
ton will hail his arrival among them as tho
beginning Of a new era in their history, only
second in importance TO the arrival Of Whit
man and Spaulding nearly forty years ago.
REruRNEp.-W. II. Waterman, Esq, SUI.
pcrintcndent of Indian Affairs, returned to
this place on Wednesday evening last from a
visit of inspection to tho Simcoc reservation.
He went by the way of the Columbia river,
and returned over the mountains, with two
Indians for guides. They proved to be
" blind guides" for they lost the Matches
trail ON which they started, and after wander
ing about two days, struck the hcadwatcrs of
the Cowli'z, and shortly afterwards the trail
leading from Olympia to Winsor's Silver.
Mine, Mt the foot Of Mount Rainier. After
seven days hard toll in the rain (and it rained
every day but the two last) he arrived here
looking a little rough and weary, but in 70.
bust health. 1t was, altogether, rather a
rough Introduction to a man from a prairie
State. We believe he is the first Snperin.
tendent, if We except Governor Stevens, who
has made the trip from the upper Columbia
to the Sound, over the mountains. We doubt
very much whether he will care to make the
trip the second time. until a trail is cut which
can be more easily followed. However. sew.
eral persons have lately come through by the
Natchess trail. and report they came through
without difficulty. and that but very little la
Dor will make it a most excellent pack trail
and more than an average wagon road. W.
hope that before another season. a road will
be- opened hy that or some other ronte. 50
that emirr3nts can conp th,OuOh IN thu
Sound with their wagons and stock without
difficulty.
WeLarn from Mr. Waterman that he En,nd