Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

In the negro Is WomaH recoSulAeu w oo
on full equality with man, in none
more than the Indian is she locked up
on with contempt.
This is no race with long years of
servitude behind them, and with the
instincts of servitude burned into them |
by the fateful laws of heredity. But
by these same laws they have burned |
into them sense of wrong and iDjus-
tice. They have stealthily watched the
white man, and in their inmost souls
they find reluctant admission of the
fact that he is their superior. They
see that to hold their own. or even any
smallest fraction of their own, they
must learn his language and his ways.
The admission is wrung from them by
long years of steady watching of the
tide of events. Like discrowned kings,
their chiefs treat with the United States
government. They do not want to
yield, but the logic of facts is too strong
for them to resist In their inmost
hearts they, too, are ambitious to 60 the
'white mans road because they dim
ly feel that that is the channel in which
the stream of the time runs. But they
do not want to appear to want this or to
acknowledge it.
While thus one of our wards comes
to us trustfully and unconsciously to be
petted. to be taught and praised. the
other witbdraws from our touch, stands
aside, and assumes indifference to our
words. But we may be very sure that
nothing escapes that watchful eye or
that tense ear. She does not want us
to think she listens or cares. But she
does not forget. She can not come to
our side, like the other. She is lit
tie afraid to acknowledge that she cares
for US or for anything. She is to proud
to ask favor or to thank US for kind
ness.
There seems to be sort of intense
self-consciousness in the Indian. He
watches not only us, but himself, and
in this again he is the exact opposite of
the negro.
Is it not evident that for natures so
entirely different, entirely different
methods must be used
When visitors are in the rooms of the
colored classes at Hampton, the pupils
are only stimulated to more activity.
There is no sense of antagonism. But
when visitors are in the Indian classes.
the pupils become shy and distrustful.
They seem conscious that they are the
objects of curiosity and attention, and
this, instead of pleasing them, frets
them. They can not be unconscious of
themselves, and so they make very hard
work for the teacher. The visitor feels
as if in the way, and as if forced to re-
tire. And 1 cannot believe it good for
them to be visited in their class-rooms
Had l the power, would put on the
doors, positively no admittance, and
they should be alone with their teacher
in whom they soon grow to have conf
dence. 1t seems positive blocking Of
the road to subject them to scrutiny il
the painful effort of their stiff minds tc
grasp a new language. The Indian
does not mind being noticed if he is do
ing anything in which he excels. Blu
when he does not excel, and is painfully
conscious that he is doing his work very
poorly, when he can follow so slowly
the clear utterances Of his teacher, anC
she only young girl, his sense of NOR
tiication and humiliation makes hin
sullen.
Laughing Face will not even smile o
show any sign of intelligence, nor viii
he condescend to respond in any wa.
except by grunt to his teachers effort
All this before strangers. But whel
they are gone, Laughing Face, wit
much difficulty, writes on the board
81 sorry not try" for his teacher
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