New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-17

PIE FED MN RON ANOTHER SIDE.
In this so-called Indian problem. The chief
difficulty IA to its settlement is that but one
side of the character Of the red man Is
usually presented to the public. We hear all
the details of every massacre Or bloody raid
made by the worst of tho savages, and con-
tent ourselves with the Vagrest idea Of the
rest. Cooper's noble chief-lofty, poetic, gen
erous-we have learned to laugh at: our no.
ton of the Uncas Of to-day is a dirty,
thievlng, drunken savage, equipped in Il
blanket and battered beaver hat while
his squaw, equally filthy, drudges
in the corn-fed, with her pappoose strapped
on her back. One idea il just as Incorrect as
the other; but AZ long IA the latter Is the
popular one we arc likely to remain as indif-
ferent as now to the wholesale cheating prac
ticed on the Indians by the Government
agents, and TO silently acquiesca in the
rayases among the tribes by smallpox or
starvation, or their butchery of each other, rs
The probable means used by Providence for
their desirable determination.
1t is certainly worth our while to look at
the other side OF the picture, If there be Que.
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appointed by the Episcopal Church as Bishop
of tho Indian tribes, which We commend TO
our readers. We specify this account of them
because it is the fullest in detail, although the
work OF Outstanding the Indian is as zeal
ously carriod.on by other Protestant sects as
by this one the Society of Friends accord
ING to Mr.. william Welsh, himself an Episco-
palian. and an authority on all Indian mat
ters) having shown peculiar devotion and
met with exceptional success In the work.
Bishop Hares inspection WAS confined to
tina tribes east of the Rocky Noun
tains. and his = report Ia not only
founded on his own observation, but on the
testimony of the men and women who have
been working among them for years; their
own lives, to speak moderately. are instances
Of steady discomfort and deprivation patiently
borne. We have every right to expect from
such source an Intelligent and i'm
partial statement. With tho popular typical
figure of tue Indian in our minds, we read
with an amazed incredulity of Mr.. Hare's
sojourn among the Oneidas, on their ReSerya-
ton. of which twenty thousand acres have
been cleared by themselves of their " frame
houses quite equal to those of white settlers on
the frontier y of " the neat tables set with
white cloths plates, etc. about which gather
the families who twenty years ago squatted
ION the ground about huge bowl, into which
leach plunged his SCOOP of the church
built by these quondam savages in the last
year at cost of nearly $1,000. Passing into
the Indian territory at the time when the
Modoc massacre was creating an cutlery
through the whole country, and demands for
revenge and extermination were heard from
many otherwise sober and prudent men,
the Bishop says he could not but wonder,
as he Travelled among the Cherokees, Creeks.
"and Choctaws, numbering fifty thousand, as
"peaceab!e, taW-Gbiding, aud moral people as
cover moved among, that tho treachery Of a
"mere handful of saVagos' was allowed to
prejudice public opinion against their whole race
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