The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-03-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
A Society That Needs n FunernaI-Red
Cloud-Carl schurz-The Tariff, Etc.

ClOud-Carl schurz-The Tarif, Etc.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.-An ancient FL
stitution of this country which still
survives is the American Coloni-
zation Society. 1t is not a survival of the
fittest. 1t was organized in January, 1917.
with Judge Bushrod Washington as its Presi
dent. He was succeeded by such men as
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, James Madi-
son and Henry Clay. Many good men, from
time to time, were drawn into its support.
but the Society never had decent excuse
for its existence. 1t was a scheme of i'm
posture and inhumanity in its inception,
and it so continued. The object was to send
TO Liberia the intelligent free negroes of the
South, whose influence might else become
injurious to slavery. The shareholders did
not disguise their purpose to make the COL
onizstion scheme means of tightening the
chains of the slave, and perpetuating the in
stitution. The Northern representatives of
the Society, however, proclaimed differ
emit gospel. They represented the
movement as the handmade
OF emancipation, and the leading
abolitionists of this country, like those on
the other side of the Atlantic, were at first
zsalously enlisted in the cause. Their eyes
were finally opened to the truth, and they
became the most inTeterate enemies of the
scheme. They fought it while slavery lived.
and completely succeeded in exposing the
hollcwness and hypocrisy of the movement
The Society recently held its annual meet
ing in this city. at which Mr.. J. H. Latrobe
was re eleted Secretary, which position /
think he has held nearly forty years.
The Society holds some property, and thus
supplies small living to its officers What
other excuse it has for not getting itself de-
Gently buried it is not easy to see. 1t ought
to have its quarters in the museum OF
fossile remains in the Smithsonian Institute.
had an Introduction to Red Cloud re-
Gently, and was quite interested in the study
of his strongly marked Indian features.
His face is a remarkable one and impressed
me quite favorably. He is here
asking indemnity for horses taken
According Hm to his intsseh @arf Tiaeds
these horses were worth from $50 to 500
per head, but Secretary Teller is only willing
to allow him $40, while Hiram Price, our
Indiana Commissioner, is only willing to
allow him So. / have been q good deal
amused at the tone of Red Clouds friends
in dealing with Price. He is a leading man
in Methodism. wears a brosd-brimed hat
and hes sort of puritanical or sanity look
But these champions of the Redman handle
him without mercy. They failed in adjec-
tiyes descriptive of his badness and sum it
all up by saying that ''hell is full of such
men as Hiram Price," have long known
Mr.. Price, and am not willing to credit the
estimate of HIM TO which L refer.
Among the once famous but now dis
honored men OF this country is Carl Schur5.
10 rora t-c no
His management OF the Interior Department
is more indeieDsible than that of any Of his
predecessors. While always on parade, in
the airs of virtue, he was always ready
to serve himself by helping along
any scheme of monopoly or plumber. II is
not strange that the palsy of moral death
has fastened itself upon the New York
Evening Post and the Nation since bis edi-
torial connection with them.
Old Zach Chandler, with all his faults was
a saint in comparison with this Secretary of
the psalm singing Administration of Hayes
The tariff question is the most unmanage-
able elephant the Republicans have ratified
for. Their Commission was packed in the
interest of the monopOlists. They hoped to
have an easy zoarch to victory in a satisfac-
tory settlement Of the difficulty. They had
the power in both Houses, and confidently
| believed that before surrendering the party
helm their wisdom in dealing with this
question would be such as powerfully 70
aid them in rcgainiDg their lost ascendency
Their desire to atone for the loss OF popular
confidence, as shown in the late elections.
was undoubtedly perfectly sincere and
| heartfelt. But they are doomed 10 disap-
pointment. The grand old party" can't
harmonize. 1t is dead in its trespasses, and
| this last failure will ntly rea1firm the pop
ular condemnation of last year.