The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-15

Attention In ahe kaSf-StckneSS III the
States. Etc. Etc.
Editor Butte liner:
Having been or some months past, a close
observer of the legislative tendencies of the
congress of the United States, permit me to
state the fact, that but very few of the present
statesmen, controlling the government ad-
mlnistraLion, are aware that there is a country
west of Omaha, Kansas City and st. Paul.
All of our territorial Indian troubles are EN-
barrassed by the wilful selishness of political
leaders east of Buffalo and Cincinnati.
New Englanders ara, practically, jealous CT
the west, afraid Of the coming balance of
political power, who are slraining every sell
fish ana snrdid nerve and brain, to keep the
west M settling. Secretary Schurtz who
had thu enterprise to go among you to view
the situation and provide for ulr territorial
wants, has been pecked at by the "Dawes,'
ofNew England. Its time that we, oft the terri
tories, originate a plan of our own, and force
it UPON the Americon "parliament." 1t is a
great mistake that we should continue for
another generation, the political vassals of a
government controlled by the supreme
selfishness of a few bond and tariff Barons,
locally ensconsed aristocratically around
Cape Cod, without opening our intellectual
mouths, telling them that we have been once
citizens Of states, and that we haye not lost
any rights or the privilege of seeking life,
liberty and happiness, under the constitution
because We have stepped across the line into
a territory, with pillow, pick and shovel, in the
pursuit thereof. Our lives are, as against
Indian barbarity, as valuable to us as were the
lives of New Englanotrs when they made
war upon and wholly annlhilated the Pequod
tribe, for killing the whites, at a time when
Christianity there was as pure as now. There
is no difference between the Indians to-day
in the territories and the Pequods, prior to
their destru ction by New Englanders.
Two hundred and forty-four years ago the
Pequods, the N~aragansetts and others, were
destroyed to give place for a race that would
till the soil, gain an honest living and excel
in civil eXcellencies, and We, knowing the
nature of the treacherous barbarous hordes in
the territories, have never condemned the
conduct of our ancestors who sat the prece-
dent for others.
Why shall the states of Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Vermont, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky,
Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, after they have driven away the
aborigines to give place for those who cult
rofa tho coil naw caoE tn pracarya than, IL,
the territories in order to make sectarians of
them? The various denominations of Christ
ians should remember that after two hundred
and forty years of trial, no Indian can be
induced to partake Of tn sacrament, So long
as the Indian is we'll mounted, with gun,
tomahawk and scalping knife, ready for raids
upon the unprotected settlements of a~gricul-
t~uralists. The reason why there are no
Indians in the older settled states now, is
because they could not be Christanized. Is
anybody silly enough to think that the at
mosphere in the territories is better calculated
to cause the Indian to be born again, than the
air was in the older states?
The edict has gone forth to the inhabitants
of the earth, "Thou shalt TIL the soil and gain
thy bread by the swe 1t of thy brow" The
Indian territory is set apart, and every indian
who will obey the edict shoul be sent there
with all the agricultural privileges the whites
have under the government, but those who
continue the marauding career, to kill and
scalp, will be sent to their happy hunting
grounds, as our fathers did those aborig.neei
who murdered their neighbors. The Indian
territory is well adapted to their agricultural
wants. Let them be invited there, and those
who go shall become the wards of the nation
those who will not go, be considered out
laws.
If you shall see a proposition hereafter sub
mitted to congress, to consolidate the terri
tories, be assured it comes frem the brain o
a sordid, jealous Pharisee of the east. 1t yo'
hear of hinderences to our railroads, strivinI
to cripple them, it will be to hinder our set
Elements and put off the day when the con
stituency of the noble west can have a voic'
in justly directing the affairs pertaining t
our peace, prosperity and our happiness. Eve
that otherwise liberal and just journal, tn
New Fork Sun holds to the following lar
euage In its last number: "For our part W
do not see what there is in your mountain
to induce any sensible man TO 60 there fo