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

- regard hS - Sariena, and they
lIkImost s1xs& recetae hfs frien4 n4Ahip
apd esteem. Mthey lpl lodk upohhim
o. On unfortunHte human bedng, dtssfv.
tue their symp&thy and; care, instshd OF
avid besst, 70 be feared and detested,
sEen thar own hearts have removed the
chief danger.
Aside from exteruination. this is the
only alternative NOW left as. We must
take. the savage as We find him, or rather
SIS Ne have made him. VS. have spent
800 yeantucsessing the present state of
things; Ii; we: can cisilize, them: in
twenty y:fve years, it will be q vast i'm.
proyement on the operations of the past.
II We attempt to force tho older Indians
fkom! the chaR, It Will,iuyolye as 10 war.
The younger bnAs ktiI 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
q nuoleus OF civilization among the
young that will restrain the old, and fur
nish them home and subsistence when
the game is gone.
The appeal OF these old Indians is
irresistible. They any, I'VE know no
thing about agriculture. We have lived
chase. Here are the wide plains over
which the vast herds Of buffalo roam.
In the spring they pass from South to
North, and tho full return. :zsysrsing
thousands Of miles. Where they go you
have mo settlements; and 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
md settle them. We will not disturb
you. Yon may farm and We will hnnt.
You lows the one, We love the other. II
you want game, We will share it with
you. If We want bread, and yon have it
to spare. give il to us; 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 ns. We will
not use 1t to hurt, you. but pledge you
all We have. our word, that at the risk Of
orr own We will defend your nves.''
II AN Indian is to be trusted at all,
he must be trusted to the foil extent of
his word. If you betray symptoms Of
distrust, he discovers it with uature'a in
tuition, and at once, condemns the false
hood that would blend friendship and
suspicion together: I Whatever our peo-
pie Hay CHOOSE to say 'of the insincerity
Or duplioity of the Indian, would fail to
express tAey estimate Ten tertained, by
many Indians OF the white mans oha.
racter in this respect. Promises have
been so often broken by thoss with
whom taey USUALLY come in contaot, Gu
pidity has 30 long piled its work deaf to
their cries OF suffering. and heartless
cruelty has so frequently sought them in
the gsgb Of charity, that to obtain theis
pqlodelyi fnlH4lSd Ind our profession. OF
selfshness and dnplioity.
Naturally the Indian has many noble
qualities. He is the very embodiment
OF courage. Iudeed, at times, he seems
insensible Of fear. II he is cruel and
revengeful, it is because he is outlawed,
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
him. but it never could make him Z
slave. As We have had 30 little respec,
for those We did enslave. to be consist
ont this element OF Indian character
ahould challenge some admiration.
When tho Indian goes to war, he en-.
ters upon its dreadful work with earnest
ness aud determination. He goes on an
errand of vengeance, and no amount OF
blood satisnes him. It may be because
with him, all wrongs have to be redressed
by war. In our intercourse with him,
We have failed. in q large measure. &c
provide peaoefa! means Of redress, and
he knows no law except that OF retalia
ton. He wages war with the same per
tinacity, and indeed in the same spirit
with which party litieant, in full con
viotion of the right, proseoutes his suit
in court. His only compromise is te
have his rights, real or fanoied, fully oon
ceded. To force he yields nothing. II
battle he never surrenders, and is the
more excusable, therefore, that he never
accepts oapitulation at the hands 0!
others. In war. he does not ask or e1
pect mercy. He is, then. the moro con.
eistent that he does not grant mercy.
So little accustomed to kindness from
others, it may be strange that he Often
hesitates to confde himself, md yet oon
scious OF the contempt Of the white man
when suddenly aroused by some new
wrong. the remembrance of old ones still