The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-14
JN1IoiN,, JN1I ON, NOW AND DdFoRnvHR.s ONE
RALEIGH, tN.sstlssCC No, o., C.,ss WEDNESDAY,
Z The' 1ndianh anhQuestfon.a

The Billed Recorder is stiIl liarping npon
the Indian question and cruslies The Stan
DsRD by Informing it flat i man namtd
NABnTlI hal q vineyard which vas taken
from him hS person named AfIAB Neither
of the gentlemen named by the Recorder
being naturalized citizens Of tits country, We
don't consider that their dispute has any
thing to do with the Indian question. The
Recorder also states that a female named
JEzEBEL (sur-name not given) wrote letters
about the garden, and got soinc boys to
throw stones at NABoTH We cannot per
ceive tha, Miss JEzEBEL has any connection
with the Indians, but viii assure Bro. Mills
that if size ever has, she will stahtl first
class chuhce of having her hair " raised, or,
in civilized parlance, she'll get scalped.
Now, with all due Difference to tile gigantic
intellect Of the Recorder man. we must ex-
press our 5clief that he has no intimate ac-
quaintance with tile subject Upon Which he.
endcavors 10 discourse. In the first place
the savages of tn. plains have neyer been
recognized Ivy the government as" citizens
and voters" On the contrary by d recent
decision of the Attorney General of the
United Suites they are enemies Of the
United States" This simple Fact entirely
,lisposrd of that part OF tlie Recorders little
piece 1.i ''i h-+ .=i'.'' .''i'Dii-t i'i'
In the next place, lastly, the Recorder says
that, if the government will provide for the
civilization of the Indian,n y'ff9 '"i 20 50 .i.
prosperous schools and churehcs towns and
cities will dot our western plains, and our
present cruel skull-scrapers will beat their
bloody ytonahiwks into peaceful ploughSharcs,
ana their scaiping knives, into pruning hooks;
and they shall sit every man under his vine
anJ under Ills fig tree, aid none shall make them
afraid .f.. .,.-. Il tfs, .,i5t, i-r ,.,,,-,s .
To mperson acquainted with the nature
and hloof.tlIirsty disposition Of the Indian
this Rhapsody is simply ridiculous. The
government has made many attempts to
''civilizci the redskins but the s'untutored
mind" of the 'nol,le savage" failed to sob-
serve the point, and the eivilizers, alter hay
| ing been relieved of any superiauus hair
they possessed, were peacefully killed, and
| their bunes left to bleach upon the plains.
| In addition, if the most sanguine dreams of
| the Recorder man. were realized, there
wouldn't be any Zig treel fora the Indians
to sit under, because fig trees don't grow
ont there. The Recorder man should go out
| West himself and commence his civilizing
process at once If he should We'll bet that
Wait wouldn't insure his life upon any
terms In conclusion we would respectfully
request our BiJlieaI neighbor, to state what
| NABoTH, AHAB, sEsqs. had to do with the
Indians; also what influence Miss JEzEBEL
! possesses over 'Spotted, aTql, y , and other
sanguinarly inclined nsapages. a We are
| somewhat exercised upon this point and
| want tue Recorder to give full explanation
as we don't like to take the trouble to
''search the scriptures" above once for every
three lines we read in that paper.aIA .gil