The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-09-20

mission Co the CboctAws, be overlooked. Yet
 it must be acknowledged that, as yet, ne ef-
 forts corresponding to the greatness of the
 work, or to the ability Of the churches, have
 been made tp save these tribes from desuuc-
 ton, and to elevate them to the condition of
 civilized Christian American citizens.
 Until the Indians have reached that level,
 1t will be necessary to surround thena with
 tho protection of the law, and to shield them,
 as far as Government can, frem the conse-
 quences q their o~D lvsts and vices. The It.
 quor -deabr must be more per-empterily dis
 missed iD their vsinity than from that of white | drunkarjs. And it rpay be necessary to pro-
 bibit the sale of the Indians honIestead for | two or three generations. The cost of com- |
 mon schools for the Indian children would be |
 a mere bsgatelle compared with the cost of
 allowing them to grow up savags>, to be slain |
 at the rate of ten thousand dollars each for |
 this is what 1t costs our army to kill an In- |
 dian. Whatever necessity exists for the
 common school education of German, Irish, l
 French, Negro, or American children, exists
 in far greater degree for the common school
 education of Indian children. And if com
 palsory education is necessary In Prussia and
 Massachusetts, how much more is it neces-
 sary to the safety of the nation that every Indian child be compelled to attend school,
 and to learn to read and write, and work at
 some useful trade In one word all the use-
 fu appliances of modern civilization should be brought to bear upon the Indians, to raise
 them to the high level of American citizens. Chief among these agencies is the influences
 of religion, the power of the Gospel of Christ
 Indeed, all the agencies already naDed--of Legislation, government and education are so
 many applications of Christianity to civil life; for modern civilization owcsal its glory
 to the Christianity which distinguishes 1t from that of Rome. Civilization, however, is
 merely the dress of Christianity; religion is
 it's soul. Before the savage can appreciate
 the power and use of civilization, be must
 first be raised above tho brutal condition,
 and recognize himself as child of God. Then
 he will try to live worthy of high vocation. Livingston tells us that tue first result of
 the conversion of naked Katfir was the mak- ing of shirt and pspts. We learn that last year the Zulus imported blows to i've times
 the coat of the missions among them, besides | a large expenditure for wagons and cloths.
 Religion is the grand inspiration of humanity,
 and missions to the hesthens have been the
 great bestowers of this inspiration. The Kaf-
 frs, who, . few years ago, were shooting down British soldiers, and risking their own lives to get the brass buttons of their uni
 forms, are now building and operating the , South African telegraph line, learning Ger. man, French, Latin and English, chemistry, , carpentry, snith-work and painting, and ex. : pending eight hundred pounds (S4,0O0) ou
 the Alexander High School.
 The savages of America are as capable o s civilization as the savsges of Africa an l aware that this will be work of great diff g culty, and that 1t will not be accomplished ir g ayear or two. Bst h is practicable. W, ]. have seen It accomplished where the coudi '' tiors have been fulfilled. It cannot be done Q merely by acts of Congress, ner by Che bull r lets of our soldiers; though have presented 1 both these agencies as indispensable for the o governme nt of evil-doers. Bot 1t can be done + by the combination of law and gospel. The | Kansas Indians, of Miami. county, Kansas . are now as well dressed and drive as good r horses s.nd wagons to market and church, &: l, any young gentlemen and ladies of that re. s zion 'Ind the chiefs principal squaw has built of tS 900 frame.house, and furnished it with m better supply of bed and table linen thar le any Waite lady in Psola. These Indianl n were permitted to hold their Iands in sever II sity, like other people, and the industrious 't have grown wealthy, and the drunken have J. sunk, just as drunken White men do in simi n lar circumstances. The Chippewa Indians al r. Bayfield,, on Lake Superior, own Mackinaw 'e boats, cure ard barrel fish, work Tn saw-mills D. rent cottages, sleep in beds covered lwitt l- patchwork quilts hold prayer.meetings D, catechisings, and play the organ and sim - hymns, when their Catholic missionary pas b tor i. ahsent holding pab.;c worship at hi d other stations. And the British Indians, un D. der A sense of personal responsibility to gov st ernment, and obedience to law, are also be IS ginning the. career of improvement and hav d ceased to devastate the settlements with In
 dian wars. The civilization of the Cherokees ss under the iniiueficc of the Presby terian ms m sionaries, is too well known to need reel taI le Their broad blow lands, their extensive barns re their fine-bred cattle, their reaping machines of and thrrshing machines, their saw ibiIls, thei i'll steam grist-mills, their schools, their printn
 presses, their newspapers, their legislature re and wealth, attest the capacities of the ns ne tive Americans for the arts of peace.
 CT If 1t be granted that some tribes are, eithe to by nature, UT from circumstances, more fierc ,t- and untamable than these, stll even these ar st, not irrecfairnable. That indomitable courag R. which impes them to face oyerwh helmin u- forces of their foes, may, if properly di on rected, become an element of the highes n- Christian heroism. Under the Influence ( by the gospel, preached to them by Irish mi. of sionaries, the ferocious NorthmeB, the Bel
 serkers, who stripped themselves naked, an ,ct rushed sword in hand into the villages ot Er at gland and France, slsying priests and peopl ly men, women and children, in sacrifice to The y, and Woden, became tho civilized S~edss an en Danes, who gave to Europe Tycho Brahe, tt be father of astronomy; Lnneus, the first sy 'v- tematizer of natural history; Gustayus Ado pm phus, the preseryer of the Reformation; Tho ne waldsen, the prince of modern sculpture, an be Alexandria, Princess of Wales, who Adorr " the British Empire with all the graces of CT, lady and all the virtues of a Christian. " he It is one of the recently proclaimed law Ies of Nature, that the simple Is less exceller nd than the compound, that the higher being w. are constructed of the greatest number of el, Iv- ments and organs, and that thus the man o- superior to the oyster in proportion to th he greater number of elements entering into hi VII structure. Tue like analogy holds good in th es, history of nations. The great empires pr, as- clalmsd their superiority by uniting in then nd selves the excellencies of the various nation