Year: 1879

proposed change by the United States would not Injure, but individ- ually might be beneficial to him. His great opposition was based upon his

 firm convictions that it would in every way be injurious to three. fourths of the people of the Territo- ry, because they are not willing to have, nor arc they prepared, for it. To fully understand the con dition of nffairs in this Territory, you must consider the fact that about three-eights ot the Indians

 -it is 50 at least among the Chero- kees-have white blood in their veins. Many of them have so much of this white blood, that neither in feature, form nor complexion, can you discover the Indian blood. Many of the women are very far, having blue eyes and light or auburn hair, and one handsome woman we saw had red hair, and like others, was full type of the Anglo saxon.

 When you talk with these intelli

 gent mixed -bloods, and they express themselves freely and fully as they generally do, they will soon reveal to you the fact that Tn instinct, in feel ing, and in all their aspirations, their white blood is telling, and they can't help it. This blood asserts it's superiority here as it does in all countries; and from that fact there is a deep seated prejudice between the full hloods and those in whom the white blood is large or predominates. The history of this continent from the time Columbus discovered it, down to this day, shows a conflict of races that teaches with striking force the fact, that neither the Indian, nor the Aztec, nor the China-man, nor the negro, can resist the force of the civilization of the Anglo saxon. And that irresistible force of the white blood in the Indian, in this territory, will take the people forward in all departments of civilization, until they, themselves, will ask to De po- litleally associated with, and made a part of, the United States.

 In all portions of the territory where I hays been, and with the ex- ception of being at Muscogee. l have not been out of the Cherokee Nation, the evidences of increasing progress are everywhere to be seen; and no thing is more creditable to the Indi- an than the interest they take in their schools, and the education of their children. The school buildings, and from what we could learn of the qualifications of their teachers, we think their common school system much more efficient and beneficial in it's results, than that of Arkan sas, admitted as State in 1886.

 These people are the most exclu- sively agricultural people in Ameri- .ca. There arc no towns of any i'm portance, and what few professional men there are, live upon farms. No land is cultivated except the most fertile along the streams and along the edges of the fertile prairies. The land produces enormous crops of grain of every kind when sown, and the blue grass grows finely wherever the seeds are thrown in the timber. It is found growing spontaneously in the northern part of the Cherokee nation. The Indians generally ex- hibit very little architectural taste in the construction of their houses or any of their improvements. If you see residence where any modern taste is exhibited in it's structure or the use of paint, or see flowers blooming in the yard or vines shad- ing portico, you may safely con clude that the woman who dwells therein, if not her husband, has white blood Tn her veins. In fact, from what I saw of the Indians, in dress, manners, sociability, and in telligence, l came to the conclusion that the Indian women are superior to the men, and constitute the most progressive element in the Territory. 1 The Cherokees, among whom I was, almost entirely, are the most advanced in civilization of all of the tribes in that extensive territory. They present to the student of social ogy very interesting study in many respects. Every proportion 1 of white and Indian blood can be seen, from the full blood who can