The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-04
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PHILLIPS AND THE INDIAN.
WHITE NEWS TREACBERY TO THH
CHILD OF THE PLAIN.


The Question that Looms Up in the lima sin.-
tion ofthe Great Bostonian now that Nesrs
slavery has been Finally Disposed Of
A large audience listened to wenderl
Phillips lecture upon "rns Relations Of the
Government to the Indians" In Steinway Han
last evening.
The speaker said, In opening, that IL was hb
fortune In former years to address New Yorn
audiences upon topics that were capable q
yieldi ng some amusement. That which he pro-
posed to present on this occasion, which he haa
tried In vain to render amusing to the people of
his own city, was vet the chapter Of Amer ioaa
history that would Rd tho pages OF poetry ana
romance In the coming generations.
This nation, now In its centennial year, hes
added a new fact to history in that It has proved
by hundred years OF trial that man ia able -
govern himself; that it is safe to truit man vita
the rights that God has given him. Tho Rood
men who wrote the words all men are created
free and equal' really made two exceptions
Indians and negroes. u took ninety years, one
hundred pitched battles, three thousand ulii-
Hons Of money, to free the negro; but the
Indian is still subject to the exception. Cen
kept with Indians and that is the basis upon
which they have been treated uniformly
Take the Sioux who were sent to a ressr-
vatiOn, one-third Of which was to bs
theirs In perpetuity, the rest for twenty
years. For this they gave up theii own territory.
They enjoyed their reservation few years,
when the white men Imagined they found gold
there. The squatters and prospectors approach
ed, and the Indians protested. They refused to
take:six millions for their rights, and were told
that the squatters would he allowed tn squat
until tho redskins came to their senses and
were ready to take the offer. After this breach
OF faith do YOU wonder where the Indians
lies and cbeats2 when lIarney was before
tho Congressional committee two years ago
his testimony was that, In hfty years service 90
| the frontier, he had never known an Innap 70
violate hospitality or break its faith with othee
keep its faith with them. A general, while Cd
| the plains, burned aPawnee VILLAGE, and brought
on war which. cost the Government six mli-
The Modocs were told to leave their homes
and move to another resetvatlon, "a place, ia
has no rights" AS well die nshting as die
starving" was the reply Of Captaln Jack. So
Gen Candy was sent vito 1000 men to COW
lava beds, and Gen. Csnbv. sncamplng within
seventeen miles sent nag q truce. Durins
horses OF the Indians" Captain Jack de-
lDanJed the return Of tho horses. After the
treaty Is made" said Gen. Candy, who mean
| while had advanced his camp 10 within mile
| OF the lava beds. His own report shows that he
| movcu there under a nag of truce, SO that ~
| they do not treat they will be at my mercy
Tue horses were not returned. and the treaty
| with a sagacity that Outwitted Candy, drew his
enemy into his tolls. lhere Is no law Of nations
| that did not justify the MpdOc chief, and yet he
| was captured and hanged.
\ wear or two after the emancipation Of our
| negroes lhe creeks ana tnnct tNs uet-finiheo
to free their slaves. Although ours had toiled
| TO make the wealth Of the country In
| which they enslaved aud freed,
| they were sent upon the world without
| any part lot IN the property they had done
80 much to accumulate. Tue lndl.ns nos
| you helped make this property for us; half %
| II Is yours" That Is The savage idea Of justice
| and honor. And yet this half civilized brute v
| not capable Of self government Great Brit ain
| has not soied a SPOT Of Canadian territory with
| the blood ~ her Indian tribes. They are her
| citizens, and zmenable to her laws, and hnvs
| been since the time of George II. That IL the
| contrast between the policy Of citiZonsnip p aua
| that of tIeachery.