, 1869-03-30
New Friends for tho Indiuux.
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New days ago you said that II the In5,Iaus of the
platus and mountains could be settled on rese.ya.
lions where they would be within reach Of Civilized
people there would directly he jealous emulation
among the different Esctz OF Christians n the work
Of converting them. Red men are, doubtless AZ
good subjects for religious Instruction as the nhabI
tats Of Central Africa or the FeJee Islands antf On
this prescription JUSTIFIED. Dut even before week
has paf and while the locating Is only mater Of
probability, there appears delegation OF QuaIers
before the chief Of the American people, modestIy
proposing 10 gre themselye. the work Of prepar-
Ing the saraSes for citizenship unde. the present
forms and on Email Ecale to begin with ty WY Of
testing their theories IN actual practice. The
QoaseFs have the prestige Of SUCCESS; 10. did not
VIM. Penn treat the Intltan A. man and brother.
and Ike an honest Friend, pay him ruundly for hts
Land, giving him, In some cases, as many % dog
en- 1sh-hools or Is much rs pound Of giass beads
for farm Of hundred acres, tnstcal Of stealing
1t, as the naughty Puritars did !:
OF course the Quakcrs are the natura, and
hereditary Indian Commissioners aud Agents. or
ought to be- aud this Is seen By our exceIlcp, Pres
idcnt, who forthwith lets 1t be known that his
friends, the Frends arc elected by him for tho,e
much-coveted situations
And now the good time which haa teen 30 long
IN coming seens at Last to have made definite and
early appointment with the poor, patient Indian.
AA14C1t A4CA ~ l48 RuuHll1GAl fkACNSOl4
men TO teach him the nrts OF pc4cei Men OF not
orer larse discourse TO preach to him, anu faithful
Friends to stand between him and the government
Of the Great Father at Washington, whose agents
have cheated him and whose soldiers have hunted
him time out Of ntud! Surely now, ever, L the
time to be m Indian.
at never rains but 1t pours" The vision OF
come hundred thousands OF Utes and Sioux snd An
pahoe1 converted, and atttlng tn Quaker meeting
h1,aAu nI~ fhM<Nn = d..
coats and broad-bT4mmed hata gTay auk gowns and
suga1ncoop-nonneta, already rises belor the mind
Of The philanthroptc PRECEDENT, when new friends
Of the red man pre-cnt tnemfelves and desire to
have hand In the work Of ciytliztng and Chris
t!ao!zing him The telegraph on Saturday brought
rs the following:
IT appears that Mr. Stuart and ofhsr gentlemen
not QuakcsS had conceived the ide4 Of larger Ia
bors through IN unpaid commission oE nve OF
seven gentlemen Of high standing, ami on Wednes-
day these peEEonst with two or thfec QuAker1, and
ME. Z TobeJ, Of Boston, who Was invited to 70 a.
representing the New England CongrrEationA(lsta,
called on The President and developed thar y4eWa
Tnelr plan nAs pot Jet been presented In detail,
out II looks to the appointment, ~ already stated
or commission Of 1ve OF seven pefsona without
compensation. who sha1l aid the government In the
work Of c1y1llItng aud Chr1stianzng the 1ndIans /"
little further on It told us ne MAY soon be
called upon to say that delegation from the Epis
copa1 Church have also grand plan Of making
High churchuen Of the sarascs; that tho p1esby-
terrain General Assembly are moving In the sa,ne
direction OF that some understandable Blshop In rhe
name Of that most Jealous sntl successful of All
churches in pioneer work Is willing to send ont
come local preachers 10 help make The Int!ans
into gupd Mcthodlsts
One 1T a time, gentlemen, There Is work er,ot7pt,
for you all the Job is not likely TO be closed ont be-
fore you have ali had chance a, 1t: lo. 1ror what
We know Of tho noble red man he couYerts slowly.
VAST a sh.ewd bit Of st1aseny on tina tsrt nf
President Grant to tell nj the rood ncnn1e in the
country That he was going 10 give the onaseYa the
nret chance at this noble work, expectinr thereby
to arouse the zeal and emulation of III he other
aects OF ChItstlanss The despatch In your sa,ur-
day paper tells us thst one gentleman MIS- Invited
to represent the New England Concrep1tlouallsts
before the President What other denor,ins-
tiona were represented the wires did not
tell uA4 but none Of them viii be Backward In COM
ing forward the government has few millions
OF dollars to spend for Indian miazons by the
hands Of men representing any sect whatever
AT this distance from Penn and PENNSYLVANIA
We arc unable 10 tliscetn what ntness there IL In
appointing QuakeH. IA Qaakers, to the management
Of Indian Affairs, my more than Conversational
Lists, a. con3resuti,nalias, who, by the way, hare
converted more 1ndians, nn,. done 1t better. than
any other sect on this continent And II these two
sect8 arc to tc Known In the couusels Of the M.
ton the IsTesjdenf will have bpzz ahant his pars
to which the nhistne ot nn,lets vi, ~ no.nIn1 n,