New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-10

tice of their own manufacture, and who
are SO deeply panied because the su-
preme Cour: checkmated them, will dc
well to wash their hands before they again
| approach the temple Of justice.
TIE PLEA FOR THE CANBg AssAss,NS.
! The Indian question has long occupied
the American mind King Philip. Pow
hatan and Tecumseh had each his day Of
terror. William Penn and other peace
commissioners have fed, clad and eiU-
Gated numerous half and full breed In
dams. No impression has been made in
their habits, if We except a partial adop-
ton OF our usages by the Cherokees.
In truth there were two hostile modes Of
sociology brought in collision by the E.-
ropean discovery Of America. The savage
subsisted by hunting, the white by agri-
culture, hence the progress of one inter
fered with the subsistence of the other.
The Indian knew tina. the advance OF the
white man was the extinction OF his tribe.
His known mode of warfare" said Mr..
Jefferson il the declaration Of 1916. sis
the indiscriminate destruction Of his pris.
oners." Frontier history is filed with
the foray OF the Indian and the retaliation
O: the white. Cresap and a party muir
dered some Indians: the colonists invaded
Ohio and burned the Scioto towns. These
acts Were in retaliation for the nlurde.: OF
white settlers. Tue British authorities on
the northwestern frontier are believed to
have paid the savages for American scalps.
Probably the Indian massacre Of the
Kentuckians at the River Raisin, and the
retaliation of the Western troops alter
ward, is one of the most striking exam.
pies of the normal relations between the
whites and Indians on this continent.
At very late date the Mohave Indians
inassacred ali of the Oatman family Oh
their way to California, except two little
girls. one Of whom died of brutality and
starvation, and the other was redeemed
by Captain Burke, in command Of 8
frontier post. The endeavor to invest the
Indians with any excep: some individual
traits Of courage or fidelity is fuitless.
Tie American idea Of the savage has beer
fixed By warfare Of some centuries, and
is not to be changed by philanthropil
essays Or legal pleas. The Indian is 6
savage In ali his ideas Of pesce and war
Of moral obligation and Of treaty faith
He is to be dealt with as
Gagged tiger. fed and cared for as the die
tates Of humanity require. but lot to b
trusted beyond the control of discipline
There are millions Of people starving il
Europe. There are tens Of millions O.
acres here occupied by wild beasts ani
savages. The alternative Of cultivatine
these acres is rendered to tie savages
European immigrants have taken t.;
Indian lands O.: Iowa. Agriculture ROW pro
duces twenty OF thirty million bushels o
grain where there was not enough raised by
the sayages TO si.bsist them during tie win
ter. There is about one million OF peop.,
subsisted O. {. territory where there was 10
perhaps thirty thousand. 1t may be con
siiercd that this is unitarian view who'll,
Invested Of poetry or justice. We DO no
advocate violence toward tie ss.vages
bu. when two such social condition.
come i'll confic: we prefer the progres
Of civilization OF moral and Luma
nitarian grounds. We have seen PIE:
filed for the Candy assassins, under t.,
!: amendment Of ISIS. which recites;
That all persons born or natura!izeL i:
the United States. and subject to tie iura
! dic:iOn thereof. are citizens OF the Unite.
States and the State wherein they reside.
The author CT this treacherous MASSACRE
is. therefore, held to be entit.e,
to some form Of civil trial. al
though not suhiec: to its juri:l:ic
ton. II being assumed tia. tLer
can DC 10 public war with savage, IT,
relations of an Indian to the goyernmer
of tie United States are well ascertaire.
by the constitution itself At the date @
its adoption there were Indian tribe
within mos: Of the States. Representative
and direct taxes are apportioned anon!
these States. according to their respectiv,
numbers, excluding Indians not taxed.
The Indian not taxed by tie United State
is no: represented nor subject to taxa
ton. !. is indeed. gcamnatically ques
tioDable whether he is regarded By III
constitution Is =. person. The NUM-
bers within tie States shall be de
terEined by adding 20 tie who.
number Q. free persons. includin:
those bound 70 service for a term Of year.
and excluding Indians not taxed. three
ttths Of al! other persons. We leave this
question 20 tie g:a-..:l.ar classes. Tht
legal condition. Q: TIE Indians is tia: g: i.
sera-a:e people living within the jur.sd:c
ton o. tae United States. Tina. they are
IN some sense separate people is shoUi
by the fac: that We make treatie. Will
them. :. ting 70: done with any citizen.
They arc il. one sense den;zens. strangers
or foreigners admitted to residence and
certain rights il az adopted country. a.
all events, rs t.. Indian has neither q
representative nor vote under on. con.
stitUtion, be has no right. as al American
citizen. which any military authority is
bound to respect. We dc not doub:
these savag.s will he dealt with Justly.