Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-10-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
trrom our Regular Correspondent
WAsuINGToN, ID. C., Oct. goth, 1884.

WAsHINGToN, ID. T., Oci. 2uti, 1861.
A strong pressure will he brought TO
bear upon the approaching session OF Con
gress TO do something toward lhe anchor
alton Of the present condition OF our In
dans. What a terrible story comes to us
Of the furnishing Piegans who are beins
decimatcd by disease brought on for want
of proper food And the stories are true,
because they come from official sources
dispatched by the Government for the e1-
press purpose OF investigating them. In
this Indian business we have held most
unhappy position from the time that we
have undertaken an Indian policy. The
solution of the aboriginal problem has been
tried by every President from Washington
to Arthur, and Mr.. Jefferson whose Quaker
policy was first inauguraied made a more
dismal failure of 1t than Grant did hall
century later. "We should govern them
by Kindness" said Mr.. Jefferson, and so he
sincerely endeavored to do, but the con-
tractor was abroad in the land MS he has
ever been since, and the Indian Bible OF
Eliot has been transformed into euchre-
deck, and the principal English that the
Indian first acquaints himself with Is that
! u ,ed for the choisest of profanity. Though
the maintenance OF an army ot school
teachers may be cheaper Than that OF sol
dlers, aud school books less than cannon.
there is still sentiment among large
portion of the American people that
civilization has got to be crammed down
the throat of the red man, as turkeys are
stuffed for Christmas.
From official data furnished by the di
rector of the mint, we find that the whole
circulation of money in the country on
October 1st was 81 500 .423, 054, or thirty
three dollars per capita, were ii not for the
fact that more than one.quarter oil this
vast sum is lying idle in the Treasury
vault! or the 1914, 900 in gold and
silver coin in existence here, 1886 900 600
or nearly one half lies rusting in rotten
canvass bags. not only earning nothing but
depriving the business interests OF the
country oi the means to contribute to the
prosperity Of the people. And the useless
taxation OF tile people continues on. In
stead then, OF having thlrty.lhree dollars
per capita of circulation, we only have d
little more than lwenty-foar per capita
which Is less than that of France, Germany
England, or even Italy with all her pau
pers. What kind OF stslesmanship IL D
that thus boards up in the Government
CO ilers the money that Is absolutely rob
bed from the people in The way Vi Iaxation
when there is no earthly occasion for il
Another beautiful i.lus,rationof our mon
eary system is The fact Of our coming
1000, 600 silver dollars per month unde
the requirements of the law, when we hav
142, 600 900 oil these same dollars locked M
and all the available space in the Treas
ury vaults filled mp wIl them
In the quiet of Sabbath afternoon
visited the dark aud bloody ground a
Bladensbnrg, whioh is about twenty min
ule's horseback ride from the capitol. J.
The memorable epoch Of duelng, whe
every mans wounded honor carried il
appeasemont ma vicious looking horse
pistol, this spot wa. the chosen field Ia
both civilians aud knights OF war. 1t WA
mere ilihl lle yoltillul lJeca'HT We'll W W
, dom by The nnerring aim al Barron
was here that Cilley, ~ member Of Congress
. from Maine, Bit the du-l when Graves, q
/. Kentucky, got in his work first. II Wa
here that Clay received the lire oil Ran
dolph after delivering his own, aud each
, finding the other unhnrt, fell upon enc
Others necks and wepi. 1t was here lln
, Thomas H. Benton, Henry 4 Wise, and
scure oi other CongreSsnien have met AM
. settled their differences either by he cod
/ or by compromi-esani mutual concessions
3 The place il peculiarly adaple, by nntur
, Tor the purpo,e to which ihese tensilv
, public men put il, for II was nt HAT tim
\ surrounded by dense forest OF trees. at
I suitable distance from the road to nval'
d scrutiny from meddlesune passers hy
The sppt Ia u broad plat Of ground just ear
. of the Baltimore turnpike, and by The sid
/, OF a sluggish litile stream that has il
= source AT spring near the village OF Bla
, densbnrg. There IL II willow tree p!anle
-, The exact spot where Cilley fell, whic
e has now grown To large proportions, am
e the traditions Of the spot nre suggestive q
e The difference in the intensity OF regar
!, for one's honor then and now,
n DON PEDRO.
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