Wilmington journal., 1876-07-28
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l-o, THE &c POOH uNDIAN!-HOW IS
THIS TGIUSP
Tt has been the boast of the Repub
lican party since it's organization. that
it was not only the party of grand
moral ideas, that it not only desired
the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der, but that 1t literally overfiowed
with the milk of human kindness and
Christian sympathy for all rankind.
more particularly for those who were
apparently oppressed ard trodden
down. Now the practice of this virtue
would be highly commendable if to it
were added that other one of equal
Importance, sincerity; and if also there
were no distinctions drawn, and no
differences made between different
peoples. A kindly, generous feeling
towards our fellow man, and q tangi-
BILE expression of that feeling in a way
that may be felt, is worthy of all
praise, and gives one a better opinion
of human nature, but to be sincere it
should be universal and not distribu
ted for the benefit of the few to the
great injustice of the many. Let US
see if there is not slight difference
between the professions OF the Radl-
cal party and their general practice In
this, the proudest feather, as they
claim, in their political cap.
No one who reads history will fail to
admit that the Indians of the North
American continent have been more
cruelty treated by the whites than any
people in the world. They were the
original owners of the soil, and from
the advent of the ''May Flower" with
the Pilgrim Fathers, who we are
told emigrated to this country so that
they might worship God in peace.
until the present time, system OF fraud
and deception, of robbery and murder
have been increasingly practiced upon
them. Admit that they we're and still
are savages, and such as are left of them
cruel and treacherous, yet surely they
were entitled to some consideration,
some little protection of property and
of life from the best government in
the world. so-called. Have they ever
had an approximation even of scant
Justice done them, much less generous
treatment Treaties have been made
with them time and again, and made
but to be broken; they have been
driven loot by foot towards the setting
sun. and their lands wrested from
them by the Unsuitable greediness OF
the whites. Cheated on all sides, sub
iected to most cruel treatment, not
only by individuals but by that gov
ernment to which they looked IN vain
| for protection, is it any wonder that
the fierce passions of their savage ma
ture should break through all restraints
and urge them to deeds of violence at
which humanity shudders
We are far from attempting to ex-
cuse the atrocities of the Indians, we
only say that the civilized and Chris
tian whites should have set them a
better example. If this had been
done, had they received proper treat
ment from our people and government
we would not now be compelled to
mourn the fate of the gallant Custer
and his men.
Now we are curious to know why it
is that the Radical party. with it's pro-
fessed sympathy for suffering hu-
manity, has never yet been able to
discover any wrong done to the poor
Indian, nor has it ever, as far
as we have been able to ascertain, given
them even a kind word. Can it be on
account of their color, that they ap
proximate too closely to the white
and are we to understand that the
talismanic key which will open all the
foodgates of radical sympathy and rad
ical affection must always be dyed in
the wool 4? The Indians presented
fine opportunity for the display of that
philanthrophy which the Radical
party 80 falsely arrogates to itself. An
unfortunate peo lie, driven from pillar
to post. cheated at every turn, robbed
and murdered, appeals to the gen
erous sympathies of human n .ture, of
radical human nature particularly, for
it is their boast that they alone possess
superfuity of that article and are on
the lookout continually for fit objects
upon which to expand it, but appeals
in vain: The poor Indian happens
not to be negro, consequently he is
neither a man nor brother. It mat
ters not that he Was bo m free and the
other slave, SO much the worse for
him, he would have Jared better had
he been bondsman;it matters not that
he was lord of the soil and gave names
to populous States and mighty rivers,
he could never be made a voter, and
that was enough to seal forever the
fountains of radical sympathy. Their
bowels yearn only towards the negro,
him in the exuberance of their affection
they elevate to high position and thus
attempt to make the base the apex of
the pyramid
When the white man emigrated to
this country we found the Indian here
free as the wind that whistled through
the forests which he called his own, the
negro was brought here slave and
slave he remained for a century.
The one has been driven from the
lands he occupied and the fiat has
gone forth for his utter extirpatior,
and not one word of sympathy is
breathed by radical press or radical
orators; the other is elevated to a