, 1873-04-17

TIE PEACE PoLIcY.-The treacherous
and horrible assassination Of Genera
Candy and the Peace Commissioner
by the murderous Modocs, the full DE-
tails Of @hich were given in our dis
patches Of yesterday, though in itself a
national calamity by the loss Of such an
honored and distinguished official as
General Candy, was probably the one
thing necessary to dispel the delnsion
that the trencherous, thievish and blood
thirety savages are to be conquered by
kindness. propitiated by favors, or held
in subjection by any sentiment of graft
tude or love for their hereditary enc
mics q sentimental delusion which mas
cost tho lives Of thousands of innocent
men, women and children in the from
tier settlements and upon the overland
lines Of travel across the continent. So
long az the victims we're only among
the settlers and the emigrants in the
humber walks of life, they COM
manded little sympathy from the Gov
ernment and their murderers were pro-
pitiated with beads and blankets, which
furnished profitable jobs to party favor
ties. Occasionally delegation of these
red-handed fends we're invited to visit
Washington. to be entertained as guests
Of the Government, and receive the ova-
tions uf sentimental Christian men and
romantic women, while their lodges in
the wilderness were garntshed with the
he scalps of white women and children
tortured, outraged and slain in wanton
arati6c,tion of their fendish lusts. The
pioneers of civilization have too long
suffered from this sentimental policy to
regard its advocates as any thing less
than ignorant or hypocritical pretend
srs. .EEbey know from observation and
experience that any policy established
founded npon the theory that the savage
nature of the Indian can he reformed by
the arts OF civilization, or that he can
be made q consenting and useful mem
Der of civilized society, is rs untenable
as the theory that the Wild animals of
the forest can be tanned to domestic
drudgery. like the horse or the OK. Ma
tnre may be converted or subverted by
art in individual cases. but not as rule
The pet tiger may be subjected to a su-
perior will, but the nature of his kind
remains the same, and his posterity Is
not improved'by his subiusationi like
the converted Indian, his natural in
stincts are only suspended, not eradica-
ted, and he is useless beast and do
mestic failure; his native instincts being
in irreconcibIe conflict with his educa-
ted sentiments. All experiments ever
tried to either civilize, Christianize, Or
amalgamate them with the whites. have
proved failures. In the providence of
God, like the heathen of old they and
their posterity vanish before the advance
of civilization, like the wild beasts. No
human power has e-ef yet been found
equal to the arrest or postponement of
their fate; all attempts to civilize them
have thus far only appeared to acceler-
ate their doom; the tribes most advan-
ced in the arts of civilization are the
first to perishs In view Of these patent
.acts,. it is, folly and madness, no favor
to them and downright cruelty to the
whites, 10 temporize or treat with them
AZ if they were influenced by any
other sentiments than the iEstintt;ye
hone of reward and fear of punishment.
The policy heretofore pursued, of tenn
porizing with and trying to propitiate
them, has neither won their respect or
alarmed their fears, and not only the
distinguished victims of the late treach-
erous assassination, but thousands be-
fero them, have been sacrificed to this
most pernicious policy; under it, the
Government has been the chief instiga
tor and most powerful ally of the sava-
ecs in all their crimes upon the whites.
Such men as Crooks and Sheridan are
the only proper peace commissioners to
treat with the Indians, and it would be
only an act of iustifiable homicide in
self-dcfence for the people living con-
tiyuous to -Ind.inn territory. to hang eve
~ peace commissioner caught tamper-
ing with the Indians with the view of
compromising their crimes.
FIRE N JACKSONVILLE. The town of