Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-06-18
THE NOBLE E MAN.

subjugated, on the Plains. The Nation
Of white men, Of pale face intrudcrs is
making treaty by battle with the de-
%scendants and natural heirs Of the first
possessors of the land. We have no
word in favor of a gentle policy toward
the Indian. Long ago we came to the
practical knowledge Of the fact that
under the system of caring for" the
Indians, now pursued by the General
Government, wars must come, in retail
iation and for self preservation on the
par, Of the whites and that they should
be made up of sharp and decisive fight
Jog, on the determination line. until
a certain peace is conquered. We do
no, know, but we hope that such a
character Of war is now being prosecu-
ted against the Sioux.
w believe that the system which our
Federal Government has from the he
ginning adopted and still retains, in
treatment of the Indians, is a most uu-
fortunate one a system that should be
remedied by an entire re-modeling or
substitution. We thoroughly believe
that the red man is by nature far the
superior of the negro and the Mongolian,
with whom, in the common catalogue of
inferior races, he is now placed. Had
the General Government devised and
pursued a different course toward the
aborigiues. we are convinced they
would not now be spoken Of as
necessarily fading from the earth 'be-
fore the advance Of the Caucasian.
The system Of Civil Indian Agencies has
proved 4 most Ubiquitous system, rs al
most every person cognizant of the man
agement under such agencies is well
aware. Usually, persons who prove to
be only and nothing less than public
plunderers, secure these positions; and
both our nation and the Indian are
cheated and wronged and brought into
war BY the rascally Bureau Agents.
And when the Indian ouce gets on the
war path. his atrocities are unparalleled
Ii is true that in nine cases out Of ten,
where the indians after having formed
an amicsble compact, open war on the
whites, the prime cause may be found
in the bad and ~scouudrelly management
of ~'agents." On the contrary, where
the agents are faithful and competent
"those rare events'-the single act or
even outrage committed by the white
settler or immigrant against the Indian
does not provoke a war, but can be lad
justed' without any harm falling upon
innocent parties. While our efficient
agent, Parker, had charge Of our Reser'
vatious, did the Piutes murder any mar
or steal any cattle? 1t annot be truth
fully charged that they did. Why
Parker kept them supplied with food
gained t. cir confidence and really theil
affection, by his honest attendance
to their wants. But what is one agent
out Of many? The system could be
made 10 work we'll. But il does not,
On accoun; OF the liberty that bad med
in service have to defraud and exasper,
ate the Nations wards.
We say the Indian is uuques,ionably
the superior Of the negro and the Mongo'
liam. Prof. Wells, in his New Physi.
ognomy, indicates this. By his mora
organs, the Indian is called a I" natura
Christian" His theory of "the Great
Spirit" approaches more nearly TO the
thought Of the Bible Deity than do the
speculations Of any other heathens
That theory is, essentially, not heather
ish. In the development Of the spiritual
not the merely emotional organs, the In
dian shows his decided superiority to tn,
African. The genuine negro is a crea'
ture Of emotion, so near as he m &c
spirituality. The spiritual as com
pared or contrasted with emotional ,
is marked by dignity. The negro
character is without the element Of
spiritual dignity and sincerity. Pro
fessor Draper, in his lates: pub.
lished philosophical work. says that
tee negro will never be more ttan an
o]ver-grown child. Such will be his
best estate. The Chinaman, as he is
represented By those who come among
US, is entirely deficient in the moral
organs. But being shrewd, thoroughly
practical in his ideas, scquisitiveness
largely developed, he has a wholesome
fear Of the laws that exist against crime,
and is only SO restrained from crime.
The Indians, the very few Indians who
have been concerted to civilization show
that their race is competent as a race,
to assume a high place in enlightenment
and refinement. But it may be his
"deS.iny" to be utterly cut of from the
face of the earth. Cannot, will not our
Government make an effort, through a
new and better system of treatment, to
at least partially redeem this people
from their condition and seeming fate?
The purely missionary" efforts, hith-
erto, among the red men, are described
by Mrs. Schoolcraft as lacking nearly all
the essentials for success. While the
poor, ignorant negro is being registered
for the ballot, in the South, under Fed
eral law, and in view of the speedy en-
reimbursement Of the Chinaman on this
coast BY law Of like source and author
ity, let US at least express a regret at
the apparently inevitable humiliation
of the Noble Red Man.
SoNs Of the Northern editors disgraced
themselves in Richmond on the occasion
Davis's recent release. The Richmond
editors gave them an entertainment,
and the generous wines seem to- have