New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-18
AMERICAN INDIAN POLICY.
ENGLISH CONDEMNATION OF OUR TREATMENT
OF THE RED MAN.

ENGLISH CONDEMNATION OF OUR TREATMENT
OF THE RED MAN.
The London Standard of July has long
article condemnng in severe terms the policy toward
the Indians hitherto pursued in this country IL says
The account which the American Republic will have 20
give to posterty OF her neghOOrs WIN not uaye,
very creditaDe 70 .sr 1IaS cr t between the Nj
sissippi and the Rocky Mountains and west"aIdlr3n
cultivation, there no necessity why the process
should be accompanied by any cruelty or injustice W iup
Indiana There IL surely room T bo SIU r u s repfdaeh
England with her atnent OF the INFERIOR races - az
erci 80 with which certain of our humantalah5 are ou
of treating their virtue but IT is only just to ourselves
to say that conduct as compared WIN that oI 'e
We DO not aiege That Individual Of cruelty and OPP
pre- ssion are unknown In the history o BRUSH ooA'
OF modern civilization, can be made out against
our Government Of systematic illreatment OF aDorgnes
at all comparable with the story OF the wrongs vi o
The remarkable feature about the Indian policy OF The
United states is that il is entirely neongruos WIN
the spirit which the governing party mas 9ieetea - %
play the OF the negroes VINE the iast.i HSn
been pampered and favored, even exalted ABOVE VIZ
heads Of their white neghbOrs the Red Men Nho nay"
certainly not less claims upon the AnsreaH bIoP
with the whites assuredy not 80 hopeless nave Den
hurried to destTG0I ha5 IS w MIL The ~ is due not
much to love Of the black brother as " ha'reu VI MS
white rivall
The telegraph on the same subject employs the follow
ing language reference TO the visit Of Red Cloud anu
his party TO Washington
No doubt the object Of the Washington eoySfhi9ent
was served in letting the Sioux leader for himself h
power and resources OF the paefaces The oihees OF
The President duly tOted the " Red Cloud ana ms
companions round all the sights fired big smells AT nv
mile ran ges for his edhcatOn overwhelmed nm WIN
wonder which he too much OF prairie stoic "
betray and treated him with extreme klndilness bLs
I'm his parting speech the noble savage showed cleary
enough that his spirit heavy and not nght Tlthh
him There is something pathetic in his hrewel sen
fences, which the utterance OF a Whole r4,"
doomed-and consciously doomed-to prompt improve,
ment off the face Of the earth" You have your laDd
fenced in" said Red Cloud and do not want us 70 come
on it. We have our lands fenced, ana 90 NOT
want YOU to intrude on us. All the nalon,'
are around us. / do not want 10 make war WIN
tle Great Father want TO show 10 away pedceapc,
want 10 raise my children my land, ana therefore
want the Great Father keep his children away rom
me. l was never raised by my father on horses Inc
Mexicans showed how to ride them L want gool
horses-the you gave 70 Spotted Tan; am hOt
mad with you. L have got better heart an 5p!Ag
home. IL you will not give me horses, very Well Coz
Almighty raised me naked. / am much pleased with
your offer to give presents but do not want them
Poor Red Cloud" lie may get his horses, but i buy
faoes and the beavers viii grow scarcer ana -cars
until he and his melt away like the sunset Eeath5
from which he derives his given name" spotted
Tai and the others will not last long after him. but ~
should be the desire OF people like the Americans 10
make the process OF natural selection a. pleasant and
gradual possible for these hafconsclous victims 10
the Darwinian law.