The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-06

Ekexdipg 'tha Indian - a enemy, lot
[tesm regard hh6 ~ ifriend, and they
1iilaImost su{f receAe hts frienaehip
and esteem. 4they VIII look upoh him
% on unfortunEe human being, deserv.
lipR their sympSthy and: care, instead OF
avid. beast. 10 be feared and defeated.
then THAR own hearts have removed she
chief danger.
Aside from determination, this 10 the
only alternative NOW left us. We must
kake-th savage as We find him, or rather
"a We have made him. We haya spent
800 years 9ur grating the present state OF
things II, we. can oisilize them in
twenty-five years, it will be vast i'm.
provement on the operations of the past.
If We attempt to force tho older Indians
tgom the cha@, it iilinyolSo Us in war.
The younger ones ktlE follow them into
hostility, and another generation OF
savages will succeed. When the buffalo
is gone, the Indians will cease to hunt.
A few years OF peace. and the game will
have Disappeared. In the meantime, by
the plan suggested, We will have formed
. nucleus of oivilisstion among the
young that will restrain the old, and fur.
nish them homo aud subsistence when
the game is gone.
The appeal Of these old Indians is
Irresistible. They say. 1--WE know no
thing about agriculture. We havs lived
on game from infancy. We love the
| which the vast herds OF buffalo roam.
In the spring they pass from South to
North, and tho full return, traversine
thousands Of miles. Where they go you
have no settlements; aud If yon had,
there is room enough for us both. Why
limit us to certain boundaries, beyond
which We shall not follow the game? II
you want the lands for settlement, come
and settle them. We will not disturb
you. You may farm and we will hunt.
You love the one, we love the other. II
you want game, we will shnre it with
you. If we want bread, and You have it
to spare. give il to ua; but do not spurn
us from your doors Be kind to us and
| We will be kind to you, II we want am
munition, give or sell it to us. We will
not use 1t to hurt you, but pledge yen
| all We nave, onr word, that at the risk Of
| our own We will defend your lives"
II an Indian is to be trusted at all,
he must be trusted to the fuli extent of
his word. If you betray symptoms of
distrust, he discovers it with nature'a in
tuition. and at once condemns tho false
hood thas would blend friendship and
suspicion togethe !, hatever our peo-
pie fday chooss to sdy OF the insincerity
or duplioity of the Indian, would fail TO
1e1pfees the estimate entertained BY
many Indians Of the white mans chm.
! raoter in this respect. Promises have
been 30 often broken by those with
whom they usually come in contact, Gu
pidity has 30 long piled its work deaf to
their cries OF suffering, and heartless
cruelty has 80 frequently sought them in
the garb Of charity, that to obtain their
confidence orr ptbaaises must be scru.
pqlonalyt fnIRllsd snd our profession, OF
friendship divested of all appearance OF
selfshness and duplioity.
| Naturally the Indian has many noble
qualities. He is the very embodiment
Of courage. Indeed, at times, he seems
inaensibie of fea.. Il ha is cruel and
revengeful, it is because he is outiawed,
and his companion is the wild beast.
Let civilized man be his companion, and
and the association warns into life
virtues OF the rarest worth. Civilization
has driven him back from the home he
loved; it has often tortured and killed
slave. As We have had 90 little respect
! lux bAobo "o VIZ OnoAnvOs W bo VOAnldb'
ent this element OF Indian character
should challenge some admiration.
| When the Indian goes to war, he en-
ters upon it's dreadful work with earnest.
ness and determination. He goes on an
errand OF vengeance. and no amount OF
blood satisfies him. II may be because,
with him, all wrongs have to be redressed
by war. In our intercourse with him,
We have failed. in large measure, to
provide peaceful means OF redress, and
he knows no law except that OF retalia.
ton. He wages war with the same per-
tipsoity, and indeed in the same spirit,
with which party litieant, in full con"
viction of the right, prosecutes his suit
in court. His only compromise is to
have his rights, zeal or fancied, fully con-
oeded. To force he yields nothing. In
battle he never surrenders, and is the
more excusable, therefore, that he never
accepts oapitulation at the hands of
others. In war. he does not ask or ex.
pect mercy. He is, then, the moro con-
sistent that he does not grant mercy.
So little accustomed to kindness from
others, it may be strange that he ofteu
hesitates to confide himself. and yet con-
scious of the contempt of tho white man,
when suddenly aroused by some new
wrong, the remembrance OF old ones still