The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1867-07-04
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1t is = matter Of sincere eonerstul.-
''0o' that Col. Mcclure has gone to the
"est' and is carrying his common sense
WITH him. His letters are having an
extensive iodueaoe, in opening the eyes
Of the American people to the mon
st'ou' absurdity Of our Indian policy
No nation can afford to have a foreign
power in her midst; but the Republic
Ut America has dozens such. E,erv
separate tribe Is separate nation, lode.
pendent in its action, add owing no
obedience to our laws. IF one comes
upon our territory aud commits mur-
de', our Laws in theory, hold him re
sponsible; but if any con,idersble num-
ber eombiQ Qe and commit anv number
OF murders, they are 1t once recognized
- oeiligerants. Those religious peopie
VINO are most Jealous for the enforce
n'ent Of the law "Who 90 sheddet6
mans blood, by man shall his blood be
snea, are foremost to denounce as bar
tari.o', : al who would apply this law to
Indians. No number, or atrocity, Of
murders can bring tho red man under
the penalty and the reason given is
that ne has been wronged. Is it not
generally admitted that vast majority
Ut ail Criminals have been wroneed, and
that their crimes. are, more or less, the:
result OF that wrong, but who On that
&C account: advocates immunity in crimey
lne Slave vas certai1ly as cruelty
wrooged as ever has been any great
class Of the human family, but even the
most f.oatical Abolitiouist never gives
this - reason Why he should ,avenge
his wrongs BY numbering the innocent
or that if he had attempted to do 80,
the course Of Ju*tic. should be sus-
pended on account Of bis wrongs. The
true state Of the case il that Slavehold-
ere and Indians have 80 compelled the
respect Of the working masses, By their
sovereign contempt Of labor, that they
have been our American aristocracv.
and We have regarded them much as
the peasantry Of England do their Earls
and Hukcs. They are our privileged
classes. A Stakeholder could hiss into
the faces Of the working men of the
North, bis contempt 'Would you
have xs black our own bouts, and cut
our 1rewood, and our wives aud daush:
tern work in the kitchen?" He could
do this. and Afterwards command their
votes by the hundreds of thousands
An Indian can shoot white men to ex-
press bis contempt for their meanoess
IL hoeing corn, and white labor;ne
men uoite in the cry of "Poor Indian
to shelter him from the punishment OF
his crime. We have been so Impressed
with the magni6oence Of
The master who waves
His whip Of dominion DER hundreds Of
slsves,''
and the wild independence of our DO.
ker-playing-la.y Indian, that We forget
the meanness of stealing the wages Of
the poor; anu the FL h and crsvline
creatures which Inf st the person of one
class Of our aristncrsts. Honest industr,
has bowed before the savagery aud
crime Of idleness, and rride. The Slave
holder and the Indian have been PAM
pered aud pitied, aud made the scourg-
es Of this nation.
To ,emedy this evil these classes, AZ
classes, must be extermiuatel. =, 1t is
notnecessary to kin I'll the people; but
We ate rapidly exterminating Slavehold.
srs, by taking away their power t.
live without lsbor, aud We mus: do ~
much for the Indian We must take.
away his treaty right to commit mur-
der. Stop the whole treaty business.
treat them Us subjects of our Govern
ment, amenable to its laws, and ;enti.
tied to its projection, give each head o,
. family an ina'ienable fee simple it'll.
to l6O acres IF land. whenever b:
chooses to select 1t, compel him to work
on public roads and other necessry iu,-
provemeuts, tax him, and make hin,
wor< out his taxes When he works
protect him in holding the proceeds Vi
bis industry; make him send his chill
dren to school; it he steals, ,mprison
him If be commits murder, hsng him
it he loafs, let him starve. Why should
white men toll aud p.y taxes to teeu
1ndians, aud support them IN thei,
naughty contempt Of labor? VII,
should our enormous taxes be swcllrd
by millions, spent in mischievous mill
tary parades, called expeditions sgains,
Indians: Indians regard these expedi.
:tivns With even more cuntempt than
Lee did sPLellan's Washington dress
parades. They 60 around our military
like hawk around a barny.rd hen
and Sighting them by the rules OF civil
ised w.rtarc is simply contrivance fo,
furnishing salaries aud tat Contracts to
officers and contractors. It is impossi--
bls they should do anything effectual iu
preventing Indian outrages.
-. JANE G. SWISSHELM.