Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-07-21

A CURE Ff lNDIANs-WHAr MARX
| TWAIN PREsCRBED FOR THE lNFLlCTIoS.-
| When Mark Tssln, in 1867, resigned his
clerkship TO theUniied States Senate com
mittee on concDlogy. 1t was partly caused
! by his tender OF the following advice con-
corning the treatment of the Indians in the
West Il mex went to the Secretary Of
War, who was not inclined to see me at
all until he leaned that was connected
with the Government. II had not been
on important business. | sapposs | would
not have got in. | asked for a ligh; (he
was smoking at the time) and then told
him had no fab to find with his defend
ing the parole stpulations of .Ieneral Lee
and his c0mrads IN arms, but that could
not approve Of lis method of fighting with
the Indians on tie Plans. said he fought
too scattering. lie ought to get them more
together-get thin together in some con-
yenient place, were he should have prOyis-
ions enough fr both parties. and then
have a general Massacre. ! said there was
nothing SO con incing to an Indian as a
general MASSACRE If he could not approve
OF the massacre | said the next surest
thing Cor an Itian was soap and educa-
ri0n. Soap an. education are not as sud
den as q MASSAGE but they are more deadly
Indian may reever. but il you educate him
and wash him. it is bound to finish him
some time or oiier. Ii undermines his con-
stitution it strikes at the foundation of
his being. 'Sl.' | said. the time has come
when blood Guiding cruelty has become
unnecessary. inhict soap and u spelling
book on evey Indian that ravages the
plains, and ld them lie y
Tue Nrs PosrXSTKR GENERAL.-The
New York Tribune c,ntains the following
sketch of Mr.. Tyne, the new Postmaster
General: James \. Tyner, was born at
Brook ulle, Ind, on Jan. Il, 1926. He re-
ceivet good common school education,
and ,pon reaching manhood studied law, and
began its practice as sprofes-ion. He took
psrt in political comets in Indiana while |
yet Young man, ana at the age of 81 was
elected, in 1857, Setr,tary Of the Indiana
Senate. He served il the Office for the three |
following sessions of The Senate, and was
chosen Presidential .l,ctor in 1860. From
1861 to 1866 he acted a, a special agent of
the Postofice Department.
In 1868 the Hon. d. [. Pratt was elected
q member of the Forty-fst Congress from
the Eighth Congressional District OF Indiana,
but was subsequently elected United
States Senator by the State Legislature. A
special election was held t, fill the vacancy,
and Mr.. Tyner was elected on the Republi-
can ticket. lie was also elected member
IF the rty-Second. and OF the forty-thlrd
Congress. In the Forty-third Congress he
was a member of the important Com
nittee on Appropriations" In the fall OF
1874 he was not nominated by his party as
| candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress;
n the FOrty-third Congress he supported
he policy of the administration toward the
south, and when the Force bill was before
he House, in the winter of 1872, voted
very time it vas passed upon by that body
n favor of its becoming a law. be was one
( the 100 Republicans who voted in favor
t retaining the 18th section OF the Dill,
Ghich authorized the President to suspend
he writ of habeas corpus. Several OF the
republican Congressman who had not been
lected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and
Tho voted for the Force bill, we're after
ards given Offices by President Grant. MI.
yner was then appointed to bis present Oh
&c, and has since hold the petition. u