Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-11-25

The experiment of placing the In
dams under the control of the Qua
kers is a demonstrated success Wher-
ever it has been tried. Ridicule Of
the Quaker policy, as well as denun-
citation of it, was universal when it
was inaugurated; and chorus of ma
Iignant assaults upon it was made by
the Indian conspirators from one end
of the Union to the other. And what
is this Quaker policy? In what does
it consist, and for what object was it
instituted?
Very simple and very short an
swers are required to these questions.
All there is in the Quaker policy to
distinguish it from that which has
cost so much life and property, is the
simple matter of honesty. 1t is the
policy Of honest, frank, just dealing
with the red men; and the object was
to displace dishonest combination
of scamps and scoundrels whose bust
ness it has been for the last ten years
to rob, first the Government and then
the Indian, in the execution Of pol
icy which was intended to be gener-
Gus and humane. Itmight be called
the Harvey policy as we'll as the Qua
ker policy, for it differs from it in no
essential point.
Gen. Harvey has always main
tanned that the straight and sure path
to peace with the Indians, and secu-
rity. to the inhabitants of the from
tiers, was policy of honest dealing
with the red men; and he has also
repeatedly declared, in orr hearing,
that all the, sufferings, all the lives
that have been lost, and all the prop
erty that has been destroyed since
the Eruption Of hostilities on the bor-
ders four years ago, were caused by
the long series Of wrongs aud outra-
ges previously perpetrated on these
Indians by white miscrcants, Agents
and others, whose business it was to
prey upon and rob them.
/ 1t is idle to deny SO plain a truth
in the face Of the experience of men
now among us, who know that for
more than ten years before that out.
break, men, women and children by
the hundred thousand passed through
the villages and hunting grounds O
, these red men, not only wholly un
! protected, but likewise wholly un
molested. In those days, families ii
a single wagon, hundreds Of miles
} out Of reach Of any other protection
} than the fidelity Of the red man t.
} his professed desire for peace will
D the white man, crossed and recrosset
q these great western plains in perfec
4 security. Not a white life was los
! in all these peaceful years, that wa
q not taken by white murderers; ant
q Indians not only did not steal stool
o from the whites, but when, from
stampedes and estrays, twas lost
O in multitudeso Ut Instances it was re
3 stored to them BY these Indian
q without fee or reward. And this i
q history as we ourselves and thou
q sands of others witnessed and expe
rienced it,. 81 g
We say, had justice been done thes
70 Indians, had the Quakers or fe,
% Hnrneys been sent among them I
% execute treaties with honesty an
fair dealing, the awful horrors ths
have occurred from Indian massacre
had never occurred-never. TIL
blood of the victims Of Indian slaugi
70 ter stains the hands Of the infamol
70 Chivingtons, and the other butcher
sol and thieves whose ambitious gree
Is and cruel wrongs made common ira
20 fic Of the peace and security of thel
30 borders.
30 The Quaker policy inspires US wit
50 gratitude to God and Grant for til