The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-03

Az last, It is found absolutely necessary to re. 1
move the few still lett TO the Indian Territory |
west OF Arkansas. A history go full Of blood |
SIZED and OF misery, both 20 Indian and white |
man, and involving such immense expense to |
the Government, cannot, even At this day, be |
read without astonishment and indignation. The
process of extermination has been rapid beyond
belief, and furnishes a record OF inhumanity TO
both races which will long remain reproach
TO the country"
The policy pursued towards the tribes
south of the Ohio the General thinks much
more humane and effective. BE says:-
"Warned, seemingly, by the unfortunate
result OF the sys'em OF reservations pursued
north OF the Ohio river, the Government, in
dealing with the Indians of Tennessee, Mlssis-
sippl, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and other
Southern and Southwe tern States, so modt-
fed this policy of reservations as TO obv,ate
many of its evils. An extensive region of coup.
try west of the State Of Arkansas was selpcied
as 'HIndan territory" AID the tribes inuaOiting
the southern States Uere. after more or less
difficulty, at once removed TO 1t without under.
gong the intermediate stages which had marked
the course of the more Northern Indians.
Compare the condition OF the Northern and
Southern Indians who have at last been brought
together in this common territory The Southern
tribes are still numerous and strong, and, so far
as Indians can be, prosperous end improving. 1t
IS not necessary after what have already saio to
describe the condition of The Northern tribes,
now Drst brought into contact with their race
tIom the Southern States Poor feeble, help
less, and hopeless, they have at last found
place where it is to be hoped they Will be per
mlttcd to die in peace, and their tribe and name
to vanish from the earth. ID this difference In
the history of the tSo great branches OF the
same race, may be found the difference between
q system of reservat ons located in the country
or ginally occupied by Indians, from which
they are only removed from time to time by the
pressure OF necessity, to other reaeryationst
from which they must again and again be re-
moved Tor the same reasons, and system OF
reservations in a territory selected for the ex-
elusive occupation Of Indians, and so far re-
moved rom their original country that return
to IT is impossible
The General then discusses the question of
the disposition to be made OF the tribes OF the
Plains, who are now causing great anxiety by
endangering the routes Of travel to the mining
regions of the interior, and who have become
an item of vast expense to the Government
on account of the military force required to
keep them in order. regard to these, he
proposes to remove them entirely from the
country in which they have lived; to carry
them to the rear instead Of to the front of
advancing emigration; to march them TO-
aUGTdS instead of from the sources Of cheap
supplies; to place them in the vicinity Of
society and institutions well organized and
public sentiment, and where the laws are
equally enforced against all offenders; where
the Indian, secure under the protection
OF the law and certain of punish
ment for any wrongdoing of his own, neither
depredaes nor is deprecated upon; where
feelings OF kindness and humanity towards the
Indian are entertained, and not bitter and
hot Will +bo tn l
ected under the best conditions to all the
influences of civilization and Christianity, and
where his return to bis own country is forever
hopeless, leaving free and open to the occu-
patton of civilized man the great region which
the Indian has thus vacated
In favor of this proposal the General argues
with much force, closing with these re-
arks -
with every tribe OF Indians thus removed
from the West a considerable military force
would be Withdrawn from these remote regions,
until Lnally, with the departure Of the Indians,
the large and expensive military establishment
now kept up on the frontier would cease to
exist. Let us consider, too, what wonderful
development of the great mining regions and of
such agricultural districts as exist amongst
them would immediately, follow the departure
Of the Indians from this country. Let us
reflect that scenes OF brutal massacre and in.
human atrocity would become things of the
| past and that the fearful loss of life
and property, now familiar in every
| davis experience, would be spared us in the
future. How is it possible for any man, in view
of our past history, or in anticipation OF the
| future welfare and prosperity OF this great
region, west of the Mississippi, to douot what
| course both humanity and economy point out
in the adjustment of our Indian questions It
seems hardly necessary for me to state that do
net propose to accomplish this deportation of
| the Indians in year, or even in ten years. /
| carry it into effect, which looks to an end Of
| Iudian wars and massacres. We have too long
| been the victims of temporary arrangements
| and OF policy as shiftless and aimless as 1t is
| unsatisfactory and Inbumans II is not my pur-
| pose to anticipate the time when necessity de-
mands the location of an Indian tribe upon
| reservations.n
General Pope in this able letter has touched
upon one Of the most important topics of the
hour. Something must be done with the
Indians Of the Plains. They are to-day re-
tarJing most dsastrously the settlement and
development Of Arizona, New Mexico, Colo
RADIO, Idaho, and Montana, Each OF these
Territories has great mineral resources that
ought to be developed and added to the
wealth of the nation. The expenses OF our
military system on the frontier, for the pur.
pose of affording protection against the In
dians, are simply enormous; and yet the pro
lection is not afforded. What we need il
what General Pope urges, wise and com
prehensive system which shall remove thu
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