The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-02-28
Capt, Corners Indian Speech.

We arc in receipt of u publish
cd speech delivered lin tho House
Of Representatives by Congress
man Conner, on tho 18th ultD, rela-
tive to tho establishment, by Con-
gress, of a government for the
"botter protection of life and prop
erty in the Indian territory" Mr..
Conner looks at the question from
u Texan stand point, and can see
no sense in tolcating longer the
fruitless efforts of the quaker move
ments towards the protection of
those national rights which the
"gontle savagos" are constantly vi
olating. His speech is full of facts
in which he clearly shows the
tendencies of the whole Of tho In
dian breed to return to their orig
iual barbarism, and how they are
ever ready to take saxon life with
out cause, reason or right, upon
the slightest pretext. Mr.. Corners
head is about level on this Ques-
i ,;on md we arc ready to believe
thntbo .ot talking by the book"
when he unveiled. the motives of
the Indian delegates inNEs. 80 .
reports they make Of the p.es,s. ,
of that people, and in the deep
toned protests they never tail to
submit whenever Congress begins
to consider any plan whereby their
places may. become vacated by
change Of the policy Of tho general
government in its Indian relation
ships. We think, as does Mr.. Con-
ncr, that the per dioms and stcaa-
ges Of these sanctimonious scoun-
dreIs who supervise Indian affairs,
hasall to do with the sangnine hopes
they arc always expressing Of tho
rapid approach of u higher civiliza-
ton, and the consequent absence of
any necessity for u change in the
Indian roles, which now furnish
to them their daily bread, and
which they eat cvery day, notwith-
standing the fact that it is favored
and colorcd by whitemen's blood
spilled by the bullets and scalping
knives Of the red-skinned children
of The President. If some of our
old Texans could be allowed to
stand on tho gorgeous floors of the
national council rooms and toll
what they know about the advanc-
ed civilization of the hair raisers--
of the respect they entertain for
the rights of others, and of their
reverence for law, we are sure that
it would tend to the establishment
of something which would place n
quiotus upon the invasions and
outrages these internal devils Of
the plains are constantly making
within the confines Of this State,
where two separate and distinct
civil governments profess to be all
powerful in the protection they af-
ford to "life, liberty and the pur-
suit Of happiness. There is no
longer any virtue in trying to civ
ilize the Indian. All the qualers
and missionaries beneath tho heav-
ems can never convince them that
it is o moral as well as civil wrong
for them to murder q whitcman
whenever and wherever the OPP
portunity to do is afforded. Gen.
Howard and his entire bureau, cd
ucated in scoundrelism as they
were during the roign Of that piece
Of national furniture known rs the
Freedman Bureau, can do moth
ing with them, oxceptto so manip-
ulate the entire Indian scheme OF
legislation as to turn its sresu Its
into dollars and cents, and empty
them whole and unbroken into
their own pockets. We have hun
dreds of thousands of acres OF the
| finest lands on earth which are now
| idle, uncultivated and wasting be-
cause it is not safe for immigrants
to people them on account OF the
presence of the "poor Indian"
Give to tho furnishing thousands Of
thrifty men and women in tho OLD
States who are longing to come to
this, beautiful country a0me Gu ar