The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-07-17
THE INDIAN RY-MANIFEST
DESTINY

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DESTINY.
The New York Times Cone OF the best and
ablestpapers published on the American con-
tinent) of the 7th, has and interesting arti-
Gle on the Indian Territory. From it we
learn that it sis an absolute Garden of Eden.
1t is bounded on the north by Kansas, on
the south by Texas, on the east by Missouri
and Arkansas, and on the west by Texas and
| New Mexico It has an area of 10000
square miles, and population Of 10000,
comprising the Cherokee tribe in tho north,
the Greeks and Seninoles in the middle, and
the Choctaws and Chickasaws in the SOUTH
These have all been removed here within the
past forty years from their former homes in
North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,
Florida and Mississippi. The climate of this
beautiful region may be described as perfect.
1t has short, mild winter Of two months,
and long mild summer of ten. It knows
no severity Of either season. either of Win
ter's cold or OF Summers heat, but every sea-
son is so tempered as if the will of the Al
mighty had been to make it especially favor
able for the development of the human fam
lily. The landscape presents either plain,
enameled with flowers stretching out for hun
dreds of miles, level as billiard table, or as
rolling prairie, dotted with groves of fine trees.
Everywhere streams of crystal purity mean
der through the plains. TIE papaw and the
wild grape cluster on the banks, and in the
Fall season load the air with perfume. In
the south is region especially fitted for cot
ton. Insthe north, wheat and fruit, and cat
tie can be raised to greater advantage
than on any other land in the Union. It is
emphatically what the Hebrews described the
land of Judea to be, ndfowing with milk
and honey, picturing, in few brief words, a
country where the cattle wander over rich
pastur es, and where bees buzz in the caly.
xes of myraid flowers.
The Indians, who inhabit this beautiful
land may be termed civilized, though their
civilization is not American in Tone Blu,
they may truly be considered the pioneers Of
their race, and if anything save humiliation
may be predicted for> the red men it will be
from the effort of these tribes. The Chero-
KEGS are VIGOROUSLY the foremost of all the in
habitants' They occupy the northern part
Of the Territory and number about $4,000
souls their reservation containing 1914 ,70s
acres. By the the treaty Of 1865 they &C.
ded to the government over 100000 Of
&C es lying west of longitude go west, but
they have never yet received the first cent Of
the money They have newspaper the Che
rohee Phenir, edited by William Boudinot
brother Of the famous Col. Boudinot, who
; served with great reputation in the Confed-
crate ranks during the slave-holders' rebel
lion. They have sixty schools and two su
peru high schools, built of brick, in Tudor
style, one Of these being female. They hav.
language and an alphabet of their own, il
which their paper is printed There are nj
less than seventy-eight characters, but, strange
to say, children learn this prodigous aIphabe
without much difficulty. Inc Unerokees car
nearly all read their own language. They
dress in coats md pantaoons, and the women
who are very we'll made and good looking
attire themselves quite coquettishly in Amer
lean fashions. They have their villages ant
cities, their Legislature and their Governor
They raise great herds of cattle, but thei
weak point is in agriculture. And why? 30
cause the land is held in common, and though
there are several who would show an exam.
pie if they were to see the fruits of their Ia
borS, yet they will not work for the lazy ones
of the tribe
It is the same with the Choc.aws, aud the
Chickasaws, and the Seminoes.'
At the last session Of Congress petition wa
presented, BY the more prominent and intel
ligent Indians of the Territory, for admission
Tito the Uuion as State It was not acted
, upon. We doubt not the petition will be ia
: | WI AMY CUuSiueTGu NC rGAu hcselUuy anu
with the application modified for a territorial
government, until the population is sufhcien
for State under the statute, will be gran.
ted. A very brief period would elapse before
the requisite number ofintelligent, progress
sve Americans would flock there, to conform
to the law, in the formation Of State gov.
ernment As soon as the lands were opened
for settlement the intercourse with aud immi
grafton to the territory would be very great
There IS 10 country On the globe more attrac-
tive, and with the advanced state of civiliza-
ton that now exists there, rapid aud ad-
vantageous commingling of races, would make
it one OF the most attractive States in the
southwest.
| 1t is useless to attempt to stay the III arch
OF the spirit Of manifest destiny. The Anglo
Saxon race is destined to predominant on ev-
cry section Of arabic ground under the juris
diction of our laws and it is merely an idle
sentiment of humanitarianism that raises OBJ
jections to the opening up of this prolific
country to the adventurous spirit of our peo-
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