The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-11-04
ZACH AND THE ABoRIGINEs.

Cabinet 1t Is an insult to. Secretaries
Bristow, Fish and Pierepont, to invite
him to their company But what else
coulI be expected Of the boom compan-
ion of Shepherd, Babcock and the late
Jim Fisk2 AS patriots let rs look for
the silver side of this shield. Is there
anything which Chandler can do for his
country after having been discarded by
his State Bending to this all the en-
ergies of philosophic minds, some Of our
temperance friends may see and say
that it Is by process Of quite natural
evolution that Zach Chandler occupies
the chair vacated by Delano, and turns
wise and wary eye, moist with benevo-
lence and 1920 MonoDgahela, on the
somewhat deranged and disordered af-
fairs of the great American abOrigine.
The post which he assumes has, it is
true, large and various duties other than
those which concern the corralling and
70 ddering Of the gentle savage, but these
are the conspicuous ones. The money
is in them. They were the rock on
which (if we may mix an image) the fox
like Delano and his coVetous son John
split In the discharge of them it is
likely that the new Minister viii spread
himself and make record. He viii
train his weather eye on the Red Clond
mission and the Ogallalla reserves with
an intensity alone worth his salary
which would, indeed, be cheap at any
price, and if anything goes wrong in the
way of horned cattle or flour or navy
plug tobacco or Mackinaw blanket, let
the delinquent look to himself. The re-
buking-gaze Of the Senator would gor-
gonize him into stone, nor would Distance
mitigate its potency. Petrifed by that
indignant glare, the. zSavilles and Nc
CAMS and Wilders would be arrested
and benumbed in the very act of their
iniquities, and left on the plains as ex-
piatOry lamps of Roman cement, as Lots
wife, in more saline and soluble meta
morphosis, was left in the middle of the
wastes of Gomorrah. These petriffed
pilferers would stand there Tor all time,
s tony and grim signs Of warning to
future agents, contractors and commits
sioners, and very useful for tn passing
army mule to rub himself against At
least, these consequences would IN
doubtedIy ensue if the robust Senator
could make his glance the potential We
hicle Of his Indignation. He is wont to
affirm that he hates a scouDdrel as the
devil hates holy water; that be gets up
at night to hate them and though, in
the Chamberlain categories, the men
whom Chandler don't like are indiscrim
inately embraced in that convenient and
compendous classification, We have no
reason to doubt that his hatred of the
particular grade ofscoundrel which prey
upon half famished Indians and wien
and whitening squaw5 would be une-
quivocaI sincere and not unaccompa MED
with profanity. Not only will he have
the power, as we have no doubt he viii
have the disposition, to abate the iujus-
tice which the Indian has so long suffer
ed, but if he is disposed he can avert
from them some of the calamities which
flow from the consumption Of an inferior
article Of ardent spirits. The Indian, as
Is well known, is not critical as to the
quality Of his stimulating beverage. So
long as it makes him drunk swiftly and
inexpensiyeIy, it suits him. lie there
fore gets, through the iDiquity of traders
and frontier puTveyors, sort Of tippie
which, il its mildest ap plication, would
take the hide of a rhincc eros, an which
in its more condensed manifestations
wonld peel an ALI gator like n banan a
Indulgence in this 20 xious fluid narrowt
his understanding eorrupts his morals
and burns up his inside, so that he ear
be neither civilized nor converted nor
persuaded into pastoral or agricultural
ways. Nobody knows better than the
new Secretary what diferen ce there is
between good whisky and Bad-how one
expands the beue violent sentiments, il
cites to deeds Of charity and chastity and
! valor, while the other plants guilty and
remorsefuI emotions in the soul, causing
Wis ions Of snakes in the boots and sid
ereal systems of air-drawn grifins, dra-
CONS and'centipedes, all Glazing at the
unhappy tippler, as if to drag him away
to the pit. Now, if the Senator, recog
nizing the sumptuary difficulties Of keep
ing whisky away from the Indians alto
gether, sees fit to devote his attention to
the improvement of its quality, be may
thus greatly signaiize his administration;
and, if he-ever pays visit to his copper
colored wards, he need not himself hesi-
tate to toss a hospitable fagon with Red
Cloud or an-Afraid-of- His-Horses. If
any man can bring about his result, the
new Secretary is the man. In the even
of his success, he should have In the de
partment, when he goes out of Office
/ carefully labelled samplee Of aborigna
/ tipple as he found it when be took al
the burden Of Indian affairs, and as h,
left it when the burden was laid as de
r 1t wouldn't be bad achievement for hin
to rest his fame on. Some Of his pFede
cessors have carried into retirement tht
) repute of having been accessory to tht
: ,Ir,ndar Of tbzea mn banDv peopla 4,