The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-12-22

lncomers. from time toiime; giving oe-
casion 10 mechanics, aud 10 other husi-
ness people to supply the mechanics
with their needs And so on. until a
great city is agglomerated, These fine
residences built by the moneyed, fash
ionable, and ambitious, is the point Of
resemblance Washington is the capital
Of Uncle Sam no matter who for the
time is President Il has heretofore
been something ofa written work for
wealthy and cultivated people from the
South; but had feeble attractions for
corresponding classes from the North
Now, however. the wheel is reversed
All the non residents Ia this list who
live in mansions Of their own that AIN
aware Of. are from the Northern States
Senator'S Morgan, Sprague, Sherman,
Pomeroy, think Of just this moment.
Hon Ira Harris, ex Senator, Ger.
Butler, aud others ! cannot stop to
mention, own fine residences, or torn
houses, here, and a day or two ago Fer
uandU Wood added himself TO the list
by purchasing a corner dwelling facing
Senator Morgans, on one side, and
Senator Pomeroy's on the other, for
$4,000 cash. Houses in town arc
plainly getting to be Washington in
stituton.
A daughter Of Hon J D. Defrees, Of
Indians, superintendent of Public
Printing, is this evening married to
James Sample, Esq, of Indiana, in the
Treasury Department.
There are two opposite opinions
about the treatment proper to the In
dian, held by two equally respectable
classes of persons. Commissioner Tay-
lor thinks ii better to feed the Indians,
/ if necessary, than TO fight them; and
attributes their outrages to non-fulfill-
ment of our Government engagements
with them, by the bad fai th and cupid
! ty Of Government agents, impositions
upon them by other whites, in some in
stances, &c; thut they attack settlers
sometimes under the goadings Of abso-
lutte hunger; and being engaged on a
mission Of violence, cannot be expected
/ to stop short Of murder, if life stands
/ in the way Of thoiy purpose. They are
sayagcs, it should be remembered, with
out the advantages and responsibilities
Of civilization; and ciyilizing influences
should be brought to bear upon them.
rather than the military power Of the
nation
/ Mr. Highly. Representative from Cal
ifornia, took similar ground the other
day in the House This is high view
very creditable to the humanity Of those
who take it. But it 50 happens that in
the mixture of good and bad, of which
human affairs consist the highest view
| is not always the truest The other
class think that the numbering of limo.
cent men, women and children, and all
sorts of diaboical outrages, which have
no possible or imagined connection
with any bene6tto the perpetrators, are
no more acceptable or tolerable to the
/ victims or their friends, or to humanity
at large, because committed by savag-
es Wolves are animals still lower in
the scale of being, and have had still
fewer opportunities of learning better
/ yet it may be confidently affirmed that
such things would not be tolerated in
them 1t may be that some of these
Indians will be cheated again by white
men, in the matter of whiskey, tobacco
and gew-gaws; but are we willing an
indefinite number of innocent people
shall be tortured in the most insulting
manner TO their humanity, and slaught
cred with all the refnements Of cruel
ty therefor? We must prevent it, and
we must adopt mode of prevention
suited TO the nature OF the animal -
Gen Sheridan's winter campaign anC
consignment of the Indian Bureau /,
the War Department, are thought b,
some the nearest approach to this mod,
practicable.
Still, the ultimate judgement Of Con
gress should be governed by all th
facts ascortainable by giving the mos
earnest attention TO the subject 1t i
) a great moral question, no less thai
one concerning life and public expendl
ture. The Senate will no doubt care
fully consider it.
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