The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-13

rhs Indie. w.r-Ge.er.i sAer-a. and ths
speculatsrs.
We publish In another part OF the HERALD
. letter from Dakota commenting severely on
General Sherman. We give it place in our
columns a. we are in the habit of letting all
sides be heard, and a. we like to see every
subject well ventilated but 1t is evident from
the whole tenor Of this communication that It
comes from SPECTATORS, who want to advertise
their schemes and TO make money by having
the war conducted in their own way. Indian
agents, contractors and other spectators,
favored. it is to be feared, by the Indian De-
partment at Washington, are jealous Of the
military, and are afraid General Sherman will
close up the war too soon for the success of
their speculations These cormorants upon
the Treasury are the cause, generally, Of Indian
hostilities, and keep them unsettled as long a.
they can, to mako money out of them. An In
dian war, in fact, Is the richest sort Of mine to
these fellows, and hence their abuse of the
military, and OF General Sherman in particu-
lar, who is going to make short work Of this
war if the government win let him do so.
Az to the charges and insinustions against
have no foundation II is absurd to suppose
man with his high reputation, character
and position would be influenced by unworthy
motives. He has too much at stake and il
above that. We have no doubt he is the right
man for subjugating or paoifying the Indians,
and have reason to believe he is doing the best
to accomplish that work, Notwithstanding the
clamors Of spectators and the jealousy of
the Indian Department. II he should not
succeed the fault will lie, probably, with the
civil branch Of the government having control
Of Indian affairs, or with the War Department
al Washington. We do not believe the evil or
danger so great or widespread as is repre-
scented by Interested parties If full and un-
trammelled control be given to General Sher-
man, ss it ought to be, he may soon CLOSE up
the war. But to accomplish this it is not only
necessary to intimidate the Indians by such
vigorous action as the General is capable Of,
but it is necessary, also, to fight down the host
of agents, contractors and schemers who foment
and spread hostilities to make money out Of
them.
The question arises, then, what is to be done
after the Indians are pacifed to keep them at
peace and to civilizs them as far as possible
Let them be located on ample territory within
the limits Of their present homes or localities.
Admit them to civil rights. We have given
the suffrage and full civil and political privi-
legcs to negroes an inferior race to the Indians,
and why not give them to these original lords
Of the oountryi We have seen how much can
be done in bringing this race to civilization in
the case Of the Cherokees. Let us no longer
drive them back with the sword beyond the
limits Of Subsistence, but locale them in one or
another Of the new States or Territories to which
they belong. Abortion of tbs sympathy and
attention SO lavishly bestowed upon. the ne
groes, who are inferior to the Indians in the
scale Of human nature, might we'll be given To
them. This would be paying but . part Of
what is due to them. Why are the radical
silent about the red man, when
they are so noisy about the black woolly-
headed negrof II civil privileges are to be
extended beyond the white race-if this Is to
be . mixed government-an amalgamated
republic Of white and black on an equality,
surely the red man, the original American,
ought to be included. We say, then, let Gene
raj Sherman have full power to end this war,
and when ended let all the Indian tribes be
located and admitted with the negroes to civil
and political privileges. This, and this alone,
is the natural and logical solution of the whole
matter.