The Portland daily press., 1869-06-14

thus delivers himself in the late Anti Slavery
Standard:
All hail and farewell to the Pacific kaliroad.
The telegraph will tell us that tne inulanS
have begun to tear up the rails 70 sno2S pas.
sengers and conductors on this ROAD. we see
great good in this At last the poor victim
has found the vulnerable spot in his tyrant
"Thank God, America has resisted" cried
Lord Chatham. Our feeling is the same. Fol
seventy years and more the Indian has begged
this great nation to attend to his wrongs His
cries have been unheard. Ruthless and un'
needing we have trampled him down. To-day
the worm turns and sting US.
I'VE see great good in this" We, meaning
himself and his meek disciples. If Mr.. Phil
lips ever condescended to slang, as he does tc
slaughter, he might in the exuberance of his
hilarity exclaim, Bullyi Tearing up the rails.
Splendid! Shooting passengers? Bravo
Shooting and scalping conductors? Bully
When the Pacific through train comes thun-
dering down the Sierras, freighted with five
hundred cheap white men, and falling in the
darkness upon the broken rails gets tossed in
to q ohasm. one promscuous heap of wood,
iron, bones, flesh and blood, Mr. Phillips will
stand on the brink and rub his hands with ex-
quisite satisfaction. If he can have few hun
dred yelling, painted devils, lurking around to
cuOue cOoA Ae6hAoAbo VI buG WT6Ck as nave lll0
enough to crawl out of the heap, he will be so
convulsed and overcome with laughter, as to
require the arms of some less amused Indian
brother to keep him from tumbling into the
very centre and scat of all the fun.
To-day" exults this gushing lover of man,
fifteen thousand warriors ON the war path,-a
thousand miles of exposed road; this railway
the plaything of the American people! Would
that our words could reach every Indian chief.
would tell him, lay down your gun, but allow
no rail to lie between Omaha and the noun
tains,"
Why cannot his words reach every Indian
chief? Mr.. Phillips is q man of elegant lei
sure. What is to hinder his going at once to
the plains? Mr.. Durant will sell him ticket,
give him comfortable seat, and be as Jealous
for his safety and ease on the way as if he were
Christian. Only an incarnate devil would
be suspected of going upon such horrible
errand. He is put down at a remote station,
his valise and documents are courteously de-
hvered to him, and the distinguished reformer
makes his way to the nearest Indian lodge.
To arrive at it without being shot, will be the
Difficulty, but Mr.. Phillips has charmed New
York mob, he will find some eloquent panto-
mine in which to assure the noble Canlanche
warriors that he takes their view of the use-
lessness of railways. The chiefs assemble at
his summons; the po,o- begins; in grim ST.
lence the stern warriors are squatted round
upon their naked launches and grunt re-
sponses, while toe silver tongue thus persuades: !:
Lay dOaon your gan." It is a poor tool
against flashing train. You get one shot,
which hundred times to one, fails even to
woundi before you reload, the train has gone
mile. Lay doion your gum" Tug at that one
rail; break it, If you can. If not, light q fire
ON it, and make snake s-head in the way Of
the advancing train. 1t passes this spot at
midnight. Close to that sweep it can't be seen
hundred yards. Sit still afterwards and see
your salvation. have come all the way from
Boston to tell you this. y .b8emaolI 81 lsI
Now if we wished to accomplish the utter
determination of the Indians, as SO much hu-
man vermin, this is the very counsel we would
give them. For il the issue is made between
preserving the Pacific Railway and preserving
the Indians, the American government and
people will decide upon the former. We
must have the connection between the people
OF the West and of the East. These lonely
marches of peaceable men, women and child
rem across the desert, and their exposure to
starvation, outrage, massacre and mutilatiou
must be succeeded by more rapid, cheaper and
safer modes of travel. The railroad benefits
the Indian as well as the white man. In fight
ing against it, he fights against civilization.
against the continuance of his own race a.
What this nation owes to civilization is this,
to extend its Sovereignty over the whole of its
domain. The tribal independency is incom-
patible with this sovereignty, and must be
blotted out. War dances, scalping, violating
women, mutilating and torturing men, and all
the other savage deviltries for which the In
dian has natural appetite must be put an
end to. That shadow of land title which the
Indian once had to the soil he marauded over
mere rowing right to hunt and ambush and
murder each other, has been extinguished over
and over again by bounties and gratuities
The noble Indian may be found in the pages
Of Schoolcraft, of Cooper, in Hiawatha's song
and Jefersop's speech of Logan. 1t is the po-
etical Indian about as authentic as the stage
Yankee. You may find the real naked, cruel
nasty savage depicted in the sketches of Park
man and the grave history of DIR. Palfrey
This latter kind has left his tradition in Cor
ham, in Deerield and in Schenectady, and is
the kind met by the Western settler and the
lonely smigrant of the prairie. at
We do not give up as too tough the problem
Of converting him into man and brother and
ultimately into fellow citizen. But first Of
all he must be conquered. The first step in
treating with the rebellion was to subjugate it,
Until it was overpowered and disarmed, it
would not receive our ideas of justice and
equal rights. The negro yields to and adopts
our civilization, in part because he is doeiIe
and patient, but also because he was subiugat-
ed and taught donaesticity in the hard school
OF slavery for two centuries. The old African
wildness was fogged out of him, till he for
got his native language and his native religion.
First catch your hares," was Mrs. Glass's
sepsihle direction as to the mode of cooking
that game. You must catch your Indian and
subject him to the restraint of some human
hprse-training, before he will cast off his ideas
and become docile to yours. Making treaties
with him and bribing him with beads and
blankets only fatter his barbarous self-con-
ceit f,...
In previons Standard Mr.. Phillips had ex-
a]ted that the United States government, af-
ter year or two of war with Western tribe
have killed just four Indians, and pleasantly
hgured how many millions per head the
slaughter had cost The Florida war was cit.
ed az an instance Of the utter ineffectiveness
OF civilized warfare against savages. If these
reproaches are Just, it is very clear the blood
OF the Indians is not on our skirts. If Yam
kee wars were all the casualties of an Indians
life, insurance policies might be negotiated for
him at very favorable rates.
Mr.. Phillips triumphantly asserts the supe-
rior policy of the British government, under
which there have been no Indian wars in Can
ada fog hundred years. But Canada has not
been very rapid or aggressive in its advances
into. the domain of the savage, and over lar
ger region than she has been able since to oc-
cupy, the once powerful tribes, that had their
seats at Hochelaga and by the shores of Lake
Huron more than hundred years ago exter-
minated each other IN detail in wars the hor-
rora OF which are told by Mr. Parkman. It
has not been the rifle of the settler nor the
musket OF the United States Regular. that has
tbinned the dweiier Of the forest and the prai-
ries, but the terrible and chronic nossaoros
and surprises, in which whole families and
tribes of savages have persisted at the ba nds of
each other in that pastime of Indian life co,l.d
war.
HMpa STANT0yS advises that avar,,