New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-31

THE VIGOROUS LANGUAGE OF SENATOR INGALLS, ~
ADVOCACY OF TIE LAND IN sEvEEALTl BILL
DrNoUNCIYG AND COMPL!MTHIING me FED
MEN,
iBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUSEI
WAsHINGToN Jan. 30.-The Massachusetts
idea Of the Indian problem was forcibly stated by
Senator ingalls, Yesterday, in speech upon tie Sew
crafty bill follows:
Nix. PRESIDENT: 1t has been SAID. during the
progress Of this debate, that this bill would rcau' III
the establishment OF landed arlsocracy. Now, fiT
the Indnns to-day are the only adulteraied gri iun9
airSto tocracy III this country. They are pee u.idr
aud chosen people, like the Children oi lsraei, nav
ing hereditary titles aud privileges, possessing vast
nntaxed areas of the public duinti over Whth
they roam ut Will in savage pastlGc, and, Ike tue
old rnbber baIons of the Rhine, lcyying tribute and
cxactionS upon the private citizen aId TIE puhAc
Treasury with equal success ana Wild Impartial Ia
pacIy They tuil NOT. n"ltiirr do iheY spun tn'Y
p,v no taxes they subject to no laws: tGcv DnrD.
murder and plunder with IMMUNITY; th"y contribute
nothing and never have contributed any thing Wha'-
ever to the welfare of society LEI Ihey nave i"r
generations been maintained IN nsolen' liiCAtSS or
audacinIs hostility by the voluntary c0HIihuli'HS
of millions of money from the public revenues MS
has noi been because they douo possess the capciiV
aud intel iacnce to maintain Themselves ior tH'Y
have Oh many occasions given abundant evidence ul
the possession of both. In uiany san2nlnaIy wars
their wild cavalry has matched The trained lrEionS
OF the Rerubc. In diplomacy; within very short
period they have shown bniii& ana shllihR
capacity for lying that has never been surP 10
tar as | know, by any foreign Minister orSecTC'a;N
of State lpOn the uutenanird wilderness oi the
Vest exposed TO the Tigors and vic>Sltudc7 ni an
inhospitable climate, without seed time or harvest,
without trade manu- lacturcs or ClmlirIte or
agriculture or art, withOnt tools ol llhr. ~ MS,
without fabric, without vehicles r na"hlnert or
permanent babItatinns they have for centuries
maintained a rccedluG In; almost mNipei-
able barrier 10 the progress and aiNance ot
American civilization. 70 that AZ thc
cxmratiOn of thaa two centuries OF Efforts To
claugellze, To Chrlstidnz' 10 ClVihz' to cXicr-
inmate or TO cO.qucT, the American Indians present
e same characteristics and exhibit the same prob
lem To-day a. that winch confronted the eaillcst
colonjstS upOn the rock kbOund shores oi Nassachu-
sctts Bay. They are a persistent and ehdnring ty".
They are not a fugitive or tranSltOry people iHcf
is nothing about them Of the pathOs of PERI hing
race for there are very nearly as many Indians on
this continent now as wien Miles StandlSl Landed
ON that historic boulder called Plymouth Rock.
Notwithstanding tho pathetic platltudes about
extcrminatiOn and the danger that the red men
would soon vanish from tne face of the earth. the
SIN hh1rn fact remains that. IN spite of diseases,
vars exposures aud mgratlOns. there are very
nearly as many Indians to-day as there were III
IGIO Now what are you going To do with them
1 ask tle senator from Alabama and the Senator
from Colorado, who have been Tor DAYS and weeks
imnedinr the progress of this bill. what are you
gn,np 10 do with thtnf II is much easier to be
critic than 70 be an architect; 1t IS much easier to
mil down than to construct ash tncsc gentle
men who are attempting TO impede this bill, what
do YOU propose to give iD place OF III