Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Tbrockmorion's Mastery specc" y"
the Indian Question:
Tho Rod and Black Raccs-Flsil oil ohe
and flesh of the other.
wo,,horo in the Speakers Chair-An
Honor 10 Texas.

nortun's speech on lndlan sli'uis W.
b;s criticism of the conduct OF lhe II
hien bnrenu wrought proper Results
and crrtninly changed the opinions on
the reading public TO an extent r''reIS
effected by congressional uistuss,"',7
of This race question. IL ~ tOu,
cnrious fact, .liat Republicans oIiisr
as widely from one another "s w.
Democrats in reference 10 illnt'eis az
feetipg these red men, WINE an ll.se
Republicans, without dlsseh',,s
voice. raise the warwhoop lor we
negro when he collides with Whi.e
man. II happens that mr. in,1on
morton, in discussing ihe feia'i"hs
of Indians and white men, ana lne
character and virtues anu Nices
of indians, was master OF !fc SUI,
ject. lie had been itoiIieisl,Iai'
through many years ne Cla,ineu
among his personal iriehus. many y,
the best aud truest Oh Tue ieu rue, "hu
as thoroughly did he amor VIZ, ,t'h,n -,
character and conduct distinguishing
,na,,y trihes and their chieftains.
W1t / only proposed to commend
tba Snea,h of this distinguished repre-
sant4tive If Texas to the attention OF
Tho people of his state and 10 readers
of The GAZETTE in the lnainn Terri,
tory. Nav it not he suggested, ana
especially 10 those Republicans con
,,,.i,,,,' In Mfr. ThTOck-
mortou's opinions based upon
the rersonal observation oi
facts and races disclosed. thati' the
Texans opinions in reference to the
irrepTessibIe negro question are rs
thoroughly Just and weIl'founded as
those affecting the red races. lie con
templates neither of these race qurs-
tions rs do pattisans. He was never
''secessionist and never therefore in
Cured the suspicion of hating the ne
gro as "A iigurehead of the Union, and
since the whole white population OF
South coucurs with him rs regards
African fitness for offices OF citizenship,
Is it not probable that they
are wise and right, ana
that the people OF the North
affected solely 10y their sympathies
and prejudices and by observation at
Il distance, are wrong, and Throck-
morton aud the people of the South
right. Wings, Douglas Democrats,
Sam Houston's followers and South
ern people who fought in Union
armies, of whom there were ten thou
sand Texans and forty thousand Ten
nesseeans, all find perfect exponent
and mouth. piece in IhTockmOrlon.
Are Northern optionlsts and philan-
thropists wiser or juster without prac-
teal daily contact'and personal inter
course, or better prepared TO determine
and define the relations
of races Ia the South than all
these Southern classes of
political thinkers, most interested rs
they are in accepting the wisest con-
illusions? Should not the North ac-
cept the conclusion, rs final, that
negro government will never be toll
Grated by white people, and that II
military despotism Is to be preferred.
Since this despotism cannot be a
Southern without becoming North
ern fact, does not the question now
sought to be forced upon the country
by John Sherman resolve itself int
this: "Do we prefer the Empire Il
the Republic" Such Is the issue, and
none other than this is presented by
the ilaunters of the bloody shirt
And then it happened, only yes
terday, even while Gen. VIM. &
Wickham OF Virginia was testifyini
before the Danyille riot investigating
committee, that Gen. Grant telt
graphed an expression OF his SINGER
regret that he could not preside at tn
meeting in Cooper institute in beha
of the purpose to raise money 10 foun
an asylum for helpless Confederat
soldiers in Richmond. Even Will
this message was fitting along til
wires, John Sherman, for selfish pa
tisan purposes, was pulling the Mort
aud South apart by appeals to every r.
source of sectional malevoleuce.
Grants conduct TO be admired or onl
Sherman's to be abhorred? We W
have this aspect of the sectional issr
fully ventilated when the investigation
OF the Cincinnati riot is begun by u
committee having In charge the ipqu
ry affecting the comparatively triiliI
affairs in Copiah and In Danville.
wELI.BoRS AS PRESIDING OFFICE
Mr.. Wellborn has won fresh laur,
in IA new field OF action. For the p,
over the deliberations of {
mousse in committee of the VIII,
on the state of the Union. His be-
ing and conduct in this difficult n
untried position, and his readiness
determining questions arising unc
the complex rules Of the house, h,
given him AN enviable position in
estimation Of the house Yesteru
one of his decisions was discussed
great length by Messrs. Read, Cam
Hiscock, CallSins and others, fameo
parliamentarians, Mr.. Wellborn x
his reasons clearly aud succinctly
his opinion, and hehonse sustained
by vote OF ia 10 IA. This Ia ho
enough for one session, even Ii lie
because of the hardness Of congress
disposing Of business before 1t to sec
the enactment by the house Of Sem
Coke's scheme for the final disposii
Of the Indian bureau and its CO
adjuncts by making Indians IL
owners In severalty aud eifecting I
remissisn to laws OF nature and II,
SHY for support as defined for civil
peoples. THIS Indian mendieg
and bureau roguery will be no more
IL the Indian die under the process,
extinction will he the result of his
folly and ineapaclty for tasks OF
maintenance, suicide then suppl
murder, or, civilization and the ch
may accomplish their benign purp
But Mr., Wellborn has won en-,
honor for himself even IL he must
without fault of his own, TO assur,
enactment Of tho senate bill reft
to, and thus fail TO serve the cou
aud the red race.
Fast Time.