Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-05-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

VUA w vIN se0& aSsS7
Con So Id ton ef Indian Telbes-Imperial-
| Ism -Rsdital Officials -Empendtug F2-
| nanctal Crash Re pad ia sion--Gosd and
| United States Bonds-The White House
| Patents Deca pisation of tierks-Dyer
| Court Notwithstanding the Press-sen-
| ator Fenfon, DC. sc.
| WASHINGTON CIT1, ID. c., May Is, 1869.
! Deu, Journal An interesting episode
in the history of the Aboriginal race OF
America occurred yesterday, which to the
poet or romaneer is replete with mournful
features, and affords much food for retlec-
ton to the philosopher and the political
economist The old and stored race of
! Indians, the Delawares, whom Heckwalder
and others describe as the noblest tribe
that ever lived on this continent, and who
are immortalized in the novels of Cooper
and Murray, have yielded up their indivld-
uality as distinct tribe, and been incor-
porated with the Chefokees. Yesterday
| two hundred and seventy-eight thousand
dollars in bonds, chiefly of the United
| States SKIES, the property of the Delawares,
were transferred to the invested fund of
! the Cherokees. The Delawares, by this
arrangement. give up their old traditions.
their old institutions, abolish their nation
atty, and become to all intent and pur-
poses, Cherokees, assuming the obligations
and responsibilities, while receiving all the
rights and the privileges of the latter.
Each Delaware is to receive one hundred
and sixty acres Of lands at the rate Of 81
per acre. similar arrangement has been
made between the Shawnees and Chero-
KEGS, with this difference, that the former
maintain their separate tribal organization.
! The Shawnees are an otfsnoot In early
times from the Cherokees, and SO late as
1925, recognized the consauguinity, il not
the q"asi authority, of the mother tribe.
The Indian Bureau have announced the
determination of the Department to con-
solidate as many tribes as possible, and
will take immediate steps to destroy the
separate organization of the small tribes
This determination has been reached os-
! tensibly for the purpose of lessening the
general expenses of the government for
/ oLaG puIpOSS, du4 W Save Guo
much trouble But the shrewd politicians
Of the Radical party, thoroughly imbued
| with the New England idea of consolida-
ton and imperialism, have deeper motives
than the surface one.
BY preparing the public mind for a
change IN the organic structure Of the gov
eminent through means OF daily invading
and destroying parts Of that structure, to
finally convert the Republic into an en-
/ pire, whose rulers shall be the emasculated
fanatics Of New England, has been the
deep and settled policy OF the Radical
party since the election Of Lincoln to the
! Presidency in 1860. Even when the masses
OF the North yielded to the sudden bonn
bastic reverence Tor 1.-THE old flag when
that was trailed in the dust at Fort Sum
ter, aud the people were generally disposed
to pardon every thing for the sake of
"In!on, they would have shrunk aghast
from those violations Of the Constitution
III which they tamely acquiesced wear
later. This vigilance had been iulled, and
by daily witnessing petty attractions of
, constitutional Jaw. they did not observe
the prodigions c"neu>ltire effect of those
petty miraculous. Growing bolder day by
day and pressing steadily forward to the
ultimate goal OF their purposes monorcHy,
Radicalism and its partizsps accomplished
! the eniraDclllstment of the gro, the dis
frauchlsing OF thousands ot whites. au
aristocracy OF bonds, &c. Now they are
vaulting with gigantic leaps towards the
final realization of their intentions. They
| have established an organ Of Imperialism.
! openly advocating monarchy, owned by
Minister of the Administration. patronized
by the President. They have changed the
government into q despotism lie Cnctn--
they are rapidly has,ening to convert it
into despotlsm 60 nOmine. The consCli-
dation of the civilized Indian tribes is q
| step towards tho final abrogation of State
lines and State governments State sover~
eighty having long since been DESTROYED.
Eft long we shall And, in other acts, more
sternly the Imperiaiistic object of Radical
ism, Of which this Indian business is but
an additional round in the ladder.
The Washington City Councils having
passed bin creating the office of Superin-
tendent of Public Schools, Mayor Bowen
last night sent TO the Board of Aldermen
for confirmation in that position the name
! OF Za!mon Richards, 4 member of that
body from the Second Ward, Mr.. Richards
came to Washington nearly twenty years
! ago, and started the Union Academy"
an institution which many of your readers.
conversant with this city years ago, will
! doubtless recollect AS fair Academy it
+ WIS lot " lSiiB Iine With put one rival.
! When The war broke out Richards sus-
pended his school, it having been sup
ported principally by Southerners, and
j was appointed Il clerk in the Treasury.
! Here he developed intense Radical pro-
clivitles, was transferred finally TO the De-
partment of Education, with q salary of
eighteen hundred dollars year. When
the negroes were allowed to vote Mr..
Richards took a prominent part in ad-
dressing them, and by their votes was re-
turned to the Board of Aldermen. The
salary of the new Office is fixed at twenty
five hundred dollars per annum, and
Mayor Bowen, who has had his share of
good things" in the same way, proposed
comfortable quarters" to his old friend
Zalmon. This new Office and his clerk
ship would give Mr.. Richards forty three
hundred dollars per annum, besides the
salary from his Aldermanship, aggre-
eating total of about $1,000. Thus you
see the leading Radicals of Washington
fully appreciate the merits of fat places.
and with commendable zeal display vast
capacity for appropriating them. It is no
matter that the teachers are paid starvation
salaries, and receive even that miserable
pittance once in three or six months. It