Arizona miner., 1867-10-26
INDIAN CHARACTER.

of the Eastern States, even the most inte'i r.nt and best informed. thcm-who have ( derived tpeir information of the ."nVhlc red
 r,an of the forest" I" from the poems of Long fellow and others the pleasing romanccs of
 the late Mr. Fenmore Cooper, and the TO-
 uapcing narratives of Henry R. Schoolcrait
 and other Indianopliists- Indian pre-
 .cnts himself as an ill-fatcd and persecuted
 vet heroic being; whose native savagery oi
 character and manner of life is more than
 a,gned for by a thousand ennollng virtues, unalloved by the vices and weaknesses which |
 50 easily beset the aggressive pae-iacc, who | pers: Is iu wrorgfu,iy driving him from his | ] hereditary hunting grounds V is not diff ! ] cult cur these who have formed such an esti- !
 rate of Indian character to find ready eXcu-
 scs for their tawuy hcto when he turns upon
 and butchcrs. with circumstances of hpckest
 perhdy and tho most atrocous cruelty, bis
 too coufding white neighbor with hs wife
 and children. lt s but natural that they
 should give implicit crcdcnce to the lying
 twaddlc-lyipg 20 less because it's authors
 may deceive thym-clyes os well as others
 of those mi hjcvous pseudo PnIanthropists
 who circulate stories e! terrible wrongs sui
 f,red hy the Indian at the hands of white
 pioneers, before the innermost depths of his
 noble nature were arouset to seek ven
 rcaace commensurate with his injuries. And inc logical rt-ui, ct 1t all is, that the set tlcrs in the remote western Territories, who , 90 through fartul re;iis and priyations to
 prepare the way fer the extension of enlight-
 1 cued and Christian Institutions over the whole land. get very little sympathy from their eastern cousins when they fall victims, as they frequently do, to savage airocity That , sympathy which ought to flow in broad stream toward tho nartys in the cause of pro
 ,gress. is withheld from those to whom IL is
 justly and naturally due, and avished upon , the cowardly and pitilcss murderers Co whose | stony hearts womanly loYelincss and childish C innocence alike appeal in vain; and the pro il lection which the settlers in new and saw
 age Tcrritcry have a right to expect from the ' General Government, is hesitatingy and in l efficiently extended because our chief civil r. and military authorities have never got be- z, yand their juvenile is. s.prcssions of the "no- r, Lle red man." and pcrsisicntly attribute the
 stories of his tfcachtTy and larbari;y, which
 constantly reach them from the frontier, to ' the cunning cuFjdty of army contractors and ?, spcculaior-, ,whO hope to make q good thing n by supplying the troops sent forward 10 sup I positions scene N4 lNIldii ibrtitti itH
 We have had some opport~nites of stud '' dying Indian character, on the plains and du 't ring residence of more than fifteen years Tn l. different States and Territories thIs side of 2 the Rocky Mountains We have had ex- l. periencc of ''Lo in peace, in var and in
 captivity; we " know his tricks and his man ' ners:' how worthless degraded. bruta. he is 1t hcw devoid of noble instinctr how faithles: S and untrustworthy at all times ard in all ,t places There have been a few noteworthy al exceptions, individual and tribal; but thc
 general Indian character may be iitly summed
 up in one word-iendish. Beside it the t. treachery of the serpent is honesty, and tn, e, ferocity of the wild beast gentleness itself .e For proof we appeal 10 all trU1fR frontier T history.
 l. gives us unqualified satisfaction to ob ' serve that the stern and impartial hand Q r. historic truth is rending away the romantic d covering of seadomaiesty which envelopeC h some of the copper colored rascals who llay' n heretofore cut respectable figure Fl onr col c, onial history, but are now being presented il et their proper aspect, which ls sufficiently de cl tcstable The latest "yiilain unma,kcd et is the rcdoubtahie Philip of Mount Hope rc over whose melancholy end. as depicted b sh the eloquent Everett, We have sadcened an st perhaps sniifled in our early boyhood. \ re en cent historian of Rhode Island with ster lk regard for truth and little reverence for rc at mantle traditions, nas uutuntbed the facts a Philips career. and shown him mp as a SOFT a villain indeed-not King of the Wampanoag at but petty chief f the tribe, without info -al ence t0 control or courage to lead his people ll, utterly wanting in diplomatic or warlikc skill st and whose pitiful fife was unredeened l. IT, tue cxhibitinn of anything approaching [ at manliness in his death. We await in conf ny dence the time wien the ptiless iconoclasi Zt, Truth, shall hun from the places they no' ng usurp in the popular estimation the nigmoiie he of Logan Osceoa, and other apOtheosize T braves, for whom imaginative writers in er romantic age fabled heroic deeds ana fabrics at ted mock-Ciceronian speeches. Ibey wei nd Indians; and if they ever displayed any nobl for characteristics they simulated them for pu to pose. They are all alike, and all unworth las of sympathy or consideration from gqyerI he ment or people, beyond what enlightened hI lot manity youchsaies even to dumb brutes Tn .ly history of our country from its first settl sd- ment to the present time, abounds with ey
 a dence to sustain our allegations-we ha' pa- not space now to adducc it The recent Col Ter duct of JuareZ, the Indian President of Me. Try ico--the learned jurist, profound state nd man and fable commander.n for bepraisir
 whom some of our own public men will a ith biush--proyes that the instinctiye deyili. md qualities of the Indian will outliye the mo
 m thorough and careful mental and nor ,rt, training.
 en- We do not ask for the extermination of Il n a Indian; but a race which has shown itself