Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-06-07

put the Indians on such footing as is
occupied by white citizens and denl-
zens of the United States.
Their responsibility for the viola
ton of law should be the same, and
they should so far as is possible be
made amenable to the same laws.
That we are in the midst of an In
dian war is evident. That hundreds
of homes are imperiled. not knowing
at what moment the inmates may be
scalped and murdered, or be carried
away subject to outrage worse than
a thousand deaths, is also painfully
true. Many Eastern journals, and
Eastern sentimentalists, set up cry
of "the poor lone Indian" and even
among US, there is a class whose SYM
pathies are on the side of guilt and
murder; but thank God, they are only
found in the haunts of vice and wick.
edness.
The Indian can never be other
than he is, roaming, degraded be-
ing; his very activity is but the action
of Incidence, and no example that may
be set for him, or effort to teach hin
can reclaim him from this persistent
Incidence. Other races have multi
piled and grown strong under i'll treat
ment-he has diminished in numbers
and maintained the same disposition
to anarchy under the nursing Of kim
government, and it does not matte
whether originally he was lacking il
that vitality which goes out in im
prOvement, or whether in the opinion
of great German writer he is "wor1
out" the fact is the same.
His contact with civilization has no
improved, but rather made him worse
The negro has been treated with ever
manner of oppression and cruelty, ye
no sooner are the chains snappe
than he leaps forward to meet the DE-
mands of his new condition.
Every race now standing in th
l. van came up ont of great tribuIation
/ from depths as degraded as the Ind
an. But it was in them, and in spi
of circums tances. il became manifes
The tree is judged 10y its fruits. ;
with the Indian who is today roar
ing over the plains. He cannot
other than he is aud he never will b
" As they cannot be civilized, eXte
> mination Is the inevitable consequent
When the two meet "a has become j
evitable, which must give way, civi
zatiou or harbarism? Shall t
great tides OF enterprise that rise
in the East 10 find an outlet in t
: West 90 back into nOn-eXistence. Wi
their Institutions, that expand The
teIlect and cultivate the soul, to
y replaced with the wigwam of a IA
~, whose existence is the violation
nj eveX law Of civilization? OF couI
p not. If they still persist in retardi
the progress of the other races, tn
bo push them aside. 1t is hut a matt
n of time and they will have faded 0
- | know this is sad, but it is the Inc
~ table law of God. Other races ha
ii gone. No trace Of them left. WhC
~ are the NineviJes, the Assyrians, |
- bylonians and Modes? All, all hG
vanished. They pushed themsel'
ho out beyond the limits of recovery, a
iii. determination was their only desG
ID, Thus a few years more and the l
man VII have laid away his scalp
knife forever. His wigwam will hi
given place to the fine mansion, &
the site of their rude village shall
>, occupied by the great city.
would rather their future was in
line Of high civilization; but it can
Nv be, constituted as they are. He
it is our duty to make quick and
, rible work with them when they thr
-. themselves across the path of ent
Eat
- prise and progress. Delay in
=, matter is but injury to every inter
= held sacred by an enterprising {
- progressive people. A diane
TT,
- weighs against mountain; so
must conclude in the worlds civil
p ton. NJ. l.. SCOTT
Or The Union Pacific Railroad Fl
ent Omaha, Nebraska.