The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-07
VOLUME XIII.

only eighteen months ago was directed To be
done when commission was appointed 10
treat with these Southern Utes Of Colorado.
ana when, according 10 the report of the
Comm missioner of Indian 4 fairs. which |
nave before me, they declined to cede a por-
Iioh OF their territory. Then it was never
pretended that this Government ought To
ask these Indians to do anything else than
10 make such cession As TO them might seem
proper TO be made voluntarily, in accord
, ance with the treaty stipulations already
made
Mr.. SANFORD. desire to ask whether the
. amendment offered by the gentleman from
Mississippi carries out, in letter and spirit,
the existing treaty?
Mr.. HOOKER. 1t does IN totidea uerbis
! 1t carries out the stipulations of the second
article of the treaty, and it is moro particu-
larly designed to carry out the stIpulations
OF the sixteenth article with reference to
these people, who no doubt feel that the
spirit expressed by the gentleman from Hill
nois Mr.. Springer would follow them,
whether they were in Colorado, or whether,
according to the humanity of the gentleman
! from Colorado, they were removed for the
time being to some new Territory, to become
there in turn an obstacle in the way Of civ
ilization, and thus to be brushed away with
out reference 10 treaty stipulatiOns and the
solemn compacts and agreements of our
Government.
You are temporizing with the question
when you undertake this proceeding. You
are doing it at a time when, in my judg-
ment, it is not manly TO do it with reference
to these Southern Utes. If they have To be
treated with hereafter, let them be treated
with. Let them give their free assent before
they are deprived Of a single rood of land
which by solemn treaty stipulations you
have said shall be theirs, and which you
have 50 secured TO them that 1t cannot be
Welded unless three-tOurths of the adult
members of the tribe agree.
One word more and | am done. 1t has
been said b. the gentleman from Illinois
Mr.. Springer and the gentleman from
Colorado Mr. Bedford that because of the
value of these lands, their rising value, they
must be cedeI that the tide OF Anglo-Sax-
on civilization Is sweeping over this CONT
nent, and that the Indians must yield To 1t
a savage tribes have ever yielded. / say,
Mr.. Chairman. that such proposition
comes with bad grace1 from the. Reprcsen-
tatIves of a. Government which has pledged
its power by solemn constitutional amend
ment and solemn legislative enactments
that the recently emancipated people of this
country belonging the African race shall
receive forever the protection OF the Govern.
ment in the new rights, the new duties the
new powers, with which they are invested
a citizens. when you extend this prQtec-
ton to members of the African race, shall
YOU say that the Indian, though ne Is con
nected with you on every page OF your ms
tory, and his beautiful language has named
your States, your rivers; your Territories,
your towns, your hamlets, and your valleys
from where the first ray of the morning sun
gIids the spray of Niagara TO where bis last
parting ray sinks into the golden gates of
California, Is to be robbed of what he has
merely because he is weak and powerless
and incapable Of protecting himself? lap
plause.