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Show YlXOL.NT COM.VEll's INDIA.V I'UL- kt. There is a great deal of truth in the following, which we clip from Theodore Til ton's Golden Aye: It is the fa.-diion jut nuw to ridicule Vincent Collyer's attempt to pacilieato the Indians of the Southwedt and crack poor jokejj at his expense. Of course lie has not succeeded in transforming trans-forming these barbarous bronaes into i civilized white men, nor in developing i Indian instincts into all tho graces aud virtues of the Christian character. Such things are not done in six months among civilized people, and it is foolish fool-ish to expect Mr. Collycr to do with flavaes what our Methodist and Presbyterian rovivalista cannot effect with those born in Christian homes and nurtured in the best influences of society, A great policy poli-cy of "justice ami humanity cannot be tested by tho results of a summer. Ti70 hundred years of injustice and degradation cannot be erased by the ncratch ol a secretary's pen, nor cancelled can-celled by a commissioner's promise. Indian human naturo is not easier to work upon than Anglo-Saxon human nature; but there is good reason for thinking that it is made of tho same sort of stuff and amenable to tho eamo laws, and moreover that it will yield to a policy of kindness as readily as other species of human naturo. Perhaps this is what tho croakers aro afraid of. It is tho reservations they are chiefly anxious to convert and cultivate. The crimo of tho Indian is his land. The grievanco 13 a real one, for it is a grievance griev-ance of real estate. Tiie whites acho j for the Indian's acres. |
