St. Cloud Democrat., 1865-03-09

| 10 that OF our western Indians to the one
in which Cortcs found them. If, the
it was possible for tn, red man to. crc-
iate,of he own force, q civilization, c''
it be doubted that it i. in the power Of
superior race, under Just and wise laws,
to communicates civilization to him.!
+ In these remarks I have sought to
avoid considering this question in any
Of its phila"thropical aspects: but have
cndcavorcd to prove that the tivillxa.
tior Of the Indian IS Of the first consc-
quc"ce to the white man, whether the
subject be regarded ii its pecunmry :c-
lations "r with view to the safety Of
our frontier population. The Indian
misgovcr"ed, oppressed, and trca:cd un-
justly, must always be brutal ana a
dangerous nc;ghbor. The Indian train.
cd under wise, just laws, honestly exc
cutcd, may become in time good citi-
zen and practical christian, a credit
to his race and benefit to his country
We can neither destroy nor ignore three
hundred thousand human beings with
the same right to lite which we our
selves possess nor can We, if VIC re-
gard simply our own safety, permit
their slow destruction by n'isgovern-
mont. We will find, as We have al
ready found, amid suffering and DESC
lation,-
| "Tlat We but teach
Bloody instructions; which, being taught, rcturn
! Toplaguc tho inventors"
But there is beyond al this other
considerations which elevate this qucs-
tion to even higher dignity.
We Of the northern races of Europe
expelled the Indian as we colonized
the country; but in the regions of the
continent settled by the Latin races
thi. has not been the case. In Mexico,
in Central America, in South America,
the aboriginal population continued in
the occupancy os the land, and from the
time of their conquest they have been
steadily absorbing by intcrmarriage the
European blood among them, so that at
this day those countries possess less Of
white blood than they did a century
since. AS the native population AVA
kens from the torpidity Of subjugation
and begins to feel the power of supc-
rior numbers, it is seeking to regal" 20.
litical ascendancy. The Creole popu,
lation does not increase in numbers !;
the Indian, on the contrary, is advanc.
ing with rapid strides. To-day, in Pc
ru proper, the whites arc but 240,0O0 :;
the mixed bl"ods and negroes S40, 900,
! while the Indians are 100000, or
more than three times the entire popu-
lation of every other kind. From a
condition of slavery they have risen il.
to freedom. Formerly excluded from
the schools, even as our own slaves were
excluded in the Sonth, all the institu-
lions of learning are now thrown open
to them, and they are entering in large
numbers the colleges of the country
While we find Mexico electing, iu
the person Of Juarez, an Indian to its
presidency, We are at the same time in.
! formed that secret movements are on
foot to re-establish the sovereignty of
the ancient race in Peru, Bolivia, Ec.
uador, and Chill.
Let rs not be blind to these great
movements they are Gods solution of
the vexcd questions Of races which now
asisate the world. Who shall say that
the Indian shall not, through tie in
strumentality Of our institutions and un-
der the protection of our great govern
ment, establish once more upon this
continent the civilization of the Monte
zumas and the Incas, kindled into new
splendor BY the genius Of universal lib
erty, and softened into refined beauty
by the touch of christianity? The
custolians of civilization which we did
not originate, we have no right to with
hold it from those races, whatever may
be their color, with whom we may come
in contact; nor can the naticn find
nobler task than that Of so bending the
energies that this entire new world from
one extremity to the other, shall exult,
through all its diversities Of climate and
all its zones Of color, in one continuous
and unendins display Of human indus,
try and happiness. In that not distant
day, when vast communities of black
men along the: gulf; ard still larger
communities of red men in Mexico and
South America, shall be united to US
by all the affiliations of commerce and
all the sympathy ofkindred institutions,
let US not have to reproach ourselves
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