The Van Buren press., 1869-02-16
Rouge ct Hoir.

gambling tale, though harratise VI sucn
would I've worth the telling, and Arkansas
furnish the facts, Only on dry politics
do propose here to scribble.
Red and Black have exercised our gov
crnment and our people ever since their
fathers landed on American shores Up
10 1866 the Black was wisely put to his
Legitimate use and brought wealth TO the
Nation. lie was then contented and hap
NV. Since then the silly Soions of to
day have displaced the Constitution, dis
turbed nature, and sacrificed hundreds Of
thousands of lives and spent billions OF
treasure, all to make the Black freed
man, and tax TO the Nation. He is now
miserable and worthless.
Bat different role is the Red. The
poor Indian has been cheated, wronged,
torn and tossed til he has lost a Cont
nent and is now confined tonarrow strips
aud corners. Even this scant territory
| is a source of jealousy and envy, while
the greedy Caucasian casts longingly his
eyes thereon. The game on the Red is
yet playing, though just now betting on
the Black is more the rage, SO much SO
that government and people are stranded
on the niger From the first to the last
Indian treaty the history is one of wrong,
oppression and deception, or violence to
the Indian; and his barbarous and until
torcd passions have been aroused to their
deepest and deadliest blaekuess. Here,
however, is not the true place to descant
upon such a theme; for it would take
tens of volumes Of your journal to tell
the tale. But one may take glimpse
through the crowded array of scenes, facts
and histories, though it will not bate one
lot the hate of the white man, nor turn
the destiny of the red. Even the pious
courticr, Penn, trapped tor Indian lands.
He dcluded the confding Indian in his
purchase Of their lands by buying, as pi-
Gus Encas from Queen Dido, only so
much AS an ox-hidc could cover. So
small parcel of land the Indian willing
" sold never dreaming, ignorant savage,
that the hide cut into fine thong would
stretch around a large tract. And so it
has been, from Maine to Oregon, from
that dav down to this When the loyal
Scminolcs in 1866 sold to the United
States their country for the sum of fifteen
cents per acre, and then purchased Of that
great and powerful Nation tact of two
hundred thousad acres along side at fifty
cents per acre, which that same magnani
nous government had just bought from
fhe loyal" Creeks at thirty! The pro
ceeds whereof went in part, to the pay
ment Of the losses sustained by thes,
same 'loyar' Indian allies in the servic,
of the United States! .... r....
Take the single treaty of the Cherokee
with the United States of 1856, not We
fulfilled, and the history thereout Of cor
ruption, frand, wrong, auts anu blood
shed wonld fill as many volumes as Ram
says Universal. But, 10, the poor In
dian" What recks itl lie has no sym
patty from civilized power He was ncve
the pet, like the "nobly fighting Niger
the mythical hero of the crazy Radicals
whose courage was only displayed o
paper, and that by mania bitten whites
never the pet Of Congress and Presidents
never the plank in national part
platform. Not he, although he coul
and did fight. He has been pushed to hi
, doom, as the Yankees pushed the Pequod
into their burning villages, his enemy tn
. while praying, singing psalms and goin
to possess the vineyard OF the Lore
Let loyal liar bruit story Of nigge
, getting horse-whipping in the Soutl
and straight way Sumner, Wade, Kelley
Forncy, ct id omne genus, set up mos
incontincnt howl. But when they hea
of the destruction of thousand India
lodges, or the swindling of the civilize
Indians out Of hundreds of thousands {
dollars, u Choctaw and Chickasa'
, loyal losses money, and the trickery b
t which they are forced to part with vas
domains for songs, ugh their great soul
: are as calm as summer morning.
In the New York Herald of Januar
4th, see that the Cherokee, Choctav
t Chickasaw and Creek Delegates now i
7 Washington, have respectfully demande
an investigation into General Cuatar
"battle" with Black Kettles band {
: Cheyennes and other Indians with hin
| some of whom were Union Cherokee sole
iers there trading-lately fought o
the Canadian near the Antelope Hills.
doubt me not the result of this investigs
ton will develope another Reserve CC
.,onob, p;ntorv and that Custor'S Ian ral