The New York herald., 1872-10-22

ernnent-The Right Plan 1T Last.
Through special despatch from Washing
ton We have the information that another
change in the Indian policy of the government
h impending; that the various officials con-
nected with the subject-civil, military and
volunteer, Quakers, parsons and men of war-
arc broaching new theories of Indian manage
ment; that General Howard's announcement
that the fighting Apache chief Cochise wants
peace and board and lodging for the Winter
provokes only dcrision; that the deputation of
redakins under Captain Alvord at Washington
are generally regarded as loafers, who ought
TO be set 10 work for their living. and that. to
correct the evils of our present loose and inef-
fcient Indian system of maudlin philanthropy,
the policy will embrace the following compre-
hensive reforms -
First, the civilization TO be taught the red
man is 10 be the civilization of the white man.
with all its reciprocities Of protection and
responsibility. The Indians are to be placed
upon suitable reservations and held there.
The tribal relation is to be broken
up so far as concerns the possession
OF land and other property, each family hay
ing its own farm or shop, and being assisted
in gaining support from its own labor. and
protected in person and property. But the
brave who puts ON his war paint and sets out
upon the warpath or who struggles off from
his reservation must take his chances as an
outlaw or vagrant No vagabondizing whites
are 10 be permitted on the Indians reserva-
ton. although he is TO be allowed certain priv
ileges Of intercourse for purposes Of trade with
his white neighbors. And these Indians are
taught the English language, and reading,
writing and arithmetic The reservations will
be under the charge of the Indian Bureau, and
each will be provided with small detach-
ment Of troops as police force Neither the
Sioux, the Comanche or Apache is to be bribed
convenience nor will he be conciliated with
presents or supported in idleness, nor carried
about the country for the glorifcation of
agents and missionaries. nor for tho edifca-
ton OF curious old benevolent women and
street Arabs.
This is good news. This new Indian policy,
as foreshadowed by our correspondent, il fairly
tried can hardly fail of success; for as he pre-
sents it. while on the one hand il discards the
Eastern philanthropists view of tho 'noble
savage" as a simple, courageous and truthful
child of nature, on the other hand ii rejects
the Western border settlers estimate of him
as n ferocious, crafty and cowardly brute fit
L. - l.. 4. Ill Il. e u.
thropy or too much Of cruelty our noble saw
age has been and is being hurried ON the way
to determination. The old Puritans of Massa-
chusetts, following the example of the children
Of Israel with the Amalekites and Jebusites,
believed they were serving God in staying the
heather, hip and thigh; and among the rec-
ords of the colonial government Of Old vir-
ginia there is one appointing q day for 80
hunt Of ye savages this year, the same as we
had last year." And yet Captain John Smith,
who was anything but Roundhead, UNDER
stood the treatment required for the Indian
better than Miles Standish. The Cath
olic colony of Maryland got along very
well with the aborigines and William Penn's
original Quaker policy, adopted in his peace
treaty under that famous elm tree, was q great
success. The Dutch settlers Of New Amster-
dam, being of peaceful temperament and
intent upon trade
For Indian furs and other skins,
fought their copper-colored neighbors only
when absolutely necessary but still in these
occasional sorties, those pacific Dutchmen
made sad havoc among the natives.
From the Allegheny Mountains to the Mis-
sissippi River, including the tier of States on
the other side, the history of our Indian re-
lations is q record of exterminating border
wars, and Lord Byrons ''Man Of Ross run
wild, who
Was Daniel Boon, backwoodsman OF Kentucky,
was distinguished above his fellows mainly
for his superior skill in killing Indians. And
the success in this branch of civilization Of
General Jackson at Emuckbane and Tai
ladega contributed to his election 10 the
Presidency as the Indian slaughter Of
Tippecanoe contributed to the election
Of General Harrison, and as "old Colonel
Dick Johnsons" killing of Tecumseh. more
than anything else, made him, in the old negro
slavery tines, our Vice ITesluent as tnc cnolce
of the democratic party, notwithstanding his
negro wife in Kentucky, fat as a porpoise and
black as the belle of Ujiji. President Van
Buren, Florida war, for the subjugation or
determination of about q thousand Seminole
braves, cost us some forty millions of dollars;
and after the Indian subjugation the proud
chief, Billy Bowlegs, in the picture gallery Of
our City Hall, boasted that he had faxed out
big man Scott and half dozen other generals,
and came very near taxing out old lack
Taylor"
But while pursuing these wars of Indian ex-
termination the calls Of humanity were not
entirely disregardcd, and among the benevo-
lent enterprises for civilizing the noble savage
was Colonel Dick Johnson Choctaw Academy