The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-01
sination OF as brave race as eve
breathed the air of Heaven.

| SlnatlOn OF as brave race as ever
breathed the air of Heaven.
wrote the above scathing rebuke Of
the American people when | was fifteen
years of age. ran across the disserta-
ton yesterday. As general rule it
takes youth fifteen years of age to ar.
ra;gn Congress and Jerk the Admins.
tration bald-headed. The less he knows
about things generally, the more cheer
fully will he shed Information right and
left.
At the time l wrote the above crude
attack upon the Government | had not
seen any Indians, but had read much.
My blood boiled when thought of the
wrongs which our race had melted out
to the red man. 1t was at time when
my blood was inst coming to boil that
l penned the above paragraph. Ten
years later l had changed my views
somewhat relative to the Indian. and
frankly wrote to the Government of the
change. When am doing the Admin
.istration an injustice, and / find it out,
l 60 to the President candidly and say:
Look here, Mr.. President. have been
doing 70 wrong. You were right and
l was erroneous. l am not pig-headed
and stubborn. l just admit fairly that
have been hinderiug the Administra-
ton, and l do not propose to do SO any
more.
So wrote to General Grant and told
him that when was fifteen years of
age wrote q composition at school in
which had arraigned the people and
the Administration for the course taken
toward the Indian. Since that tine I
had seen some Indians in the mount
ains-at distance-and from what 1
had seen of them l was led to believe
that had misjudged the people and
the Executive. told him that so far
as possible l would like to repair the
great wrong so done in the ardor of
youth and to once more sustain the
arm of the Government.
He wrote me kindly and said he was
glad that l was friendly with the Gov
ernment again, and that now he saw
nothing in the way of continued Ma
tional prosperity. He said he would
preserve my letter in the archives as a
treaty of peace between myself and the
Nation. He said only the day before
he had observed to the Cabinet that he
didn't care two cents about war with
foreign Nations, but he would like to be
on peace footing with me. The coun-
try could stand outside interference
better than intestine hostility. l do
not know whether he meant anything
personal by that or not. Probably not.
He said he remembered very well
when he first heard that had attacked
the Indian policy of the United States
in one Of my school essays. He still
called to mind the feeling of alarm and
apprehension which at that time per-
vaded the whole country. How the
cheeks of strong men had blanched and
the Goddess of Liberty felt for her back
hair and exchanged her Mother Hub
bard dress for a new ca It iron panoply
of war and Roman hay knife. oh, yes,
he said, he remembered it as though it
had been yesterday.
Having at heart the welfare of the
American people as he did, he hoped
that would never attack the Republic
again.
Aud l never have. l have been
friendly, not only personally, but Of
ficially, for a good while. Even if
didn't agree with some of the official
acts OF the President would allow him
to believe that did rather than harass
him with cold, cruel and adverse crit
cism. The abundant success of this
policy is written in the country's won
derful growth aud prosperous peace
Bill Nye, in Detroit Free Press.