Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-01

something in this, but we suspect not much.
The problem with them is quite different, and
much less perplexing. Their settlements, in the
first place, have grown much more slowly, and
therefore have given the Indian less uneasiness
/ than is caused by the rapid eneroaehments
of our restless pioneers. The people Of
| French descent also, who are generally well
TO the front there, accommodate them
| selves more easily to Indian ways,
intermarry with them and make the saw
ages feel their inferiority less keeny. The Hud-
sons Bay company, which has had the control
of all the unsettled Canadian territory, has dis
couraged settlement and given congenial en-
ployment TO the Indians as a means Of making
profits for itself The peculiarities Of the coun-
try and climate also in those northern regions
have, no doubt, had some effect in checking the
tendency to hostilities by making expeditions to
| considerable distances and in large Numbers
more difficult.
The Indian policy of the present administra-
ton was very generally praised at first, and
great and immediate good results were expected
from it. 1t was prompted, as all agreed, by the
best intentions and by intelligent study of the
problem. The Indian policy OF the government
previously, if it deserves the name of policy,
was, as general thing, meant to be fair and
kindly, and was often generous; but it was il
regular and spasmodic, and entrusted 10 agents
who perverted it without scruple from its Origi-
nal intention, and often shamefuly deirauded
the government and its wards General Grant
attempted 10 introduce systematic policy and
to employ agents who could be trusted to carry
cut their instructions faithfully and to deal
honestly with both parties. This policy has not
been so brilliantly successful as many seem 10
have expected. 1t is criticised very unfairly in
some quarters, and loudly declared to be fail
ure. 1t certainly has not yet tanned the fierce
| Apaches, nor put stop altogether to Indian
hostilities; but there has been no general out
break Of Indian warfare since this policy has
been tried; some tribes heretofore troublesome
have been placed on reservations, and have
| sensibly improved in their condition and temper,
and others have been brought to consider the
question of retiring to suitable reserves away
from the line OF probable settlement, and show
signs of yielding to the persuasions of their
agents, though as yet unwilling to consent
1 Inc NlSltS VI llluldu utlG4AllOiS 10 W aSUlUG-
ton have been ridiculed and condemned very
freely by some critics. There is much reason
to believe, however, that the expense of these
visits has been wisely incurred. Nothing is
more important in dealing with these people
than to convince them of the utter hopelessness
| of resistance to the whites. Not more than ten
or twelve years ago, some tribes in the north
west believed that, by uniting all their strength,
they could defeat and drive out the whites. Now,
when several chiefs Of every important tribe have
traversed the breadth Of the country, seen
our great cities full Of people and the marvel
lous works OF our knowledge and strength, il is
safe TO predict that, whatever other motive may
lead. to Indian warfare, it will not be prompted
by the hope of overcoming the white race. The
| conviction impressed upon all the savage people,
that the whites are infinite in number and ire
sstible in power and resources, is-of great value
as means Of preventing hostile combinations.
|
Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire, after
stating in private letter that he will soon enter
the canvass for Grant and Wilson, says: "There
are reasons why Mr.. Greeley should not be
elected, which, strangely enough, seem to have
| Ueen Iltle discussed MI. Tfecle} 5 uDututsS
for the presidency was pointed out very dis
tinctly, soon after he was nominated. This was
| legitimate topic, and his supporters were in
yited to discuss it; but they carefully avoided
| all discussion of this kind. How, for instance,
could the New York World undertake it, after
having sought for more than two months, to
show its readers Mr.. Greeley's utter unftness
for the presidential office? And how could
those liberals" undertake it, who had expressed
the same estimate of his character, and who
mourned in music and curses, when Frank Blair's
little game" gave him the nomination at Gin
cinnati? They knew that Mr.. Greeley, as can
didate, could not bear discussion. Therefore
they have sought TO have all concerned talk
about something else, and to furnish so much
Indictment to other talk as might Withdraw at
tention from the unftness of their candidate
| They have contrived all sorts of sensational
calumnies, and filed the land with them, their
| purpose being chiefly to keep as far as possible
from the discussion to which they were invited.
Hence there are, as Mr.. Patterson says, reasons
why Mr.. Greeley should not be elected which
"have been little discussed"