New Orleans Republican., 1868-12-19


hoped and trusted were fighting each othe
in the fereest and most deadly strife. 3
! the going down of the sun of the Fourt
e of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three
$ leaving darkness to vail the ensaDguine
field OF Gettysburg, the side that wrough
on those terrible summer days for the grea
principle proclaimed eighty-seven year,
E before, had triumphed, and the death blow
) of human slavery had been struck. But il
the conflict of which this battle was only {
sad incident, victor as well as vanquishet
suffered. Ofthe wickedness Of slavery thu
whole country had been guilty, and with th'
close OF the dies irae of retribution North
South, East and West, were bowed in la
mentation and suffering.
Has this nation yet learned the lessor
thus given to it? Count him its foe anG
worst traitor who would beguile this peo.
pie from its truths or dull the ear to it
warning. as one who would again bring
upon his country the avenging sword O.
justice.
May the full need Of right, rendered to
that race whose wrongs we were compelled
to expiate, testify the effect of our punish
ment. But to go unscatbed of correction,
we must do right to all; are we doing it -?
A young American, full of pride in his
country, with all its faults so full Of true
glory, determines to journey over its
grand eypanse and view it in
all its beauty and grandeur of nature and
art from the noble rock-edged State by the
sea, which guards our most Northeastern
border, to the golden shores of the Pacific.
and from the pure regions Of Minnesota to
this sunny State by the guilt. But with all
the varied objects which crowd upon bis
mental and physical eye, the sympathetic,
free-born youth remarks with sadness,
among the throngs of his own people, those
| who seem to represent far different race.
1t is marked and peculiar one. He
encounters its solitary children in the
woods by the Kennehec and Penobscot,
on the borders of the Guyandotte and the
Chattahoochee, in the lovely valleys of
| the Teehe and the Alabama, and by the
waters Eof the Dakota aud the Yakima.
But wherever he meets them, whether
with yet independent air-in the wilds of
the far West, or among the people whose
vices, so strange to his nature, have blasted
their once erect forms, the young inquirer
sees either the hostile, defiant glance of the
Ishmaelite or the broken, crouehiug aspect
of the Pariah. Who are these strange
beings whom our rowing Childe thus notes
in his wanderings? They are the rem
nants of mighty nation who once pos
sessed this broad land. They are the con-
slant witnesses of the foulest wrongs and
and the blacklist injustice Of US who now
lord il over this fair heritage. Aud at this
very time, with the judgments of the God
of nations yet heavy upon the country,
this Government-always Of course of the
superior race-now tolerates the most out
rageous and shameful oppression of this
peeled and scattered people.
The Treasury coteries, the whisky ring,
and other like circles are foul enough, and
in due time we will do full justice to them;
but the basest and meanest villainy sneaks
and prowls under the sheltering wings of
the "Indian Bureau"
That this contrivanee, for its inability to
effect the objects Of its establishment, as
we'll as for the fraud and crime it begets
and conceals, shall, by the will of an indig-
nant, humane, though thoughtless people,
cease to exist ere many moons, let us hope
and believe. Doubtless, however natural
the retaliation of the aborigines for the
wrongs they have suffered from us-always
of course, the superior race-it must be
firmly repressed and peace established on
our borders. But we are sure that by far
the most of Indian hostility and its conse-
quent acts are the result Of the outrageous
impositions Of wicked and corrupt men,
always, of course, Of the superior race
under the civil administration of Indian
affairs. n 4
Read the graphic reports of General
Sherman and others, which do credit to
their humanity as well as prove their sound
Judgment, and from them note the rea,
causes of our Indian troubles. They de-
clare that Of the many millions annually
appropriated to the Indians as their
right, they only receive small share.
More than this, these distinguished officers
place the responsibility Of all their dis
turbances, massacres and raids upon the
swarm of scoundrelly,f Ihieving, loa6ng
whites connected, either officially or I'M
officially, with the "1ndian Bureau Many
of these, broken down at home, have gone
to the border to thrive and flourish in any
way possible. But to the natural greed of
gain, which this class possesses, is added
that damnably mean feeling Of superiority,
which prompts them to ill-treat the Indian
SeesTse be Is an Indian. Just as in this
reEioa' aye, and elsewhere--in the North
as s~sll a the South---the assassin, the
hear'lss sorfppter Of Innocence, the de-
taulter ana Las sObber are quick to abuse q
decent menses q the African race, be-
cause be is N Agsiesn, 50 theshameless
debauehee, the deteeIz smbezslsf md ,he
proaigate, outlawsd sE6a decent soeietv
to the frontiers, proudly ,onpiders Ne
lone Indian, whose fathers Hanld haks
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