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Show HIM'ILIA IIUllMSS. Ills claimed that another cbajttr la added to " Two Centuries of Dishonor" by Ihu rijiort which haa been ma te concerning the transfer to the white ieo le ol the famous Cherokee atrip, It might aa well be said In addition that hot only tbo report but theacllona to which It refers and a host of others of tho same character nnd In the tamo vicinity arti at disgraceful to tho nation as thty are oontemptlble and rcx!ly In the perforators. The lands held by Hie 1 udlant weru wanted by tho whllo vxttrmluatorn, who were aa at the beginning be-ginning of the country, "smarter" and moro capable of driving a bargain with but one side to 11 than wire the own ertof thoajll, and thire was no ruch dmikir to tuoouutor aa In tho case uf det living and defraulliif a white man, who knows that the courts ofequityaie nlwuvaopeii and willing toglartllef, Hotbe ndluu.asutusl, bad to no. An able authority on the treatment cxtendod und kept up by tho Inter-loperu Inter-loperu to tho natlvu Americans, a few uars ago In a burnt of rlglitoous In Ug nation declared tho fact was that tho Uulti I Btatoi government had not lept one of Its treatli swlth tho Tndlanr, While thla la perhagie un uxiggi ration, l la not as far from the ttutti ui could bHWlthed Bill', we would no burilin the gavernmuil with so muili of re-spoi re-spoi tlblllty tor u hat tiiliMi lacn its that rlttr dois, That It la murally runpon Bible Is umiuifctioiiulilo, but that It tuu control or be jrocily aiisuvrable fur all Ihu raaeally tiuntactlont of Its agente and trontlersmon la out of the quittlon, An txthange says "At long as the couutr was In the luslmss of ate illng Ian I Itsilf thin waa probably unuvold. abb; but mjru recently Ithainula many I retentions toward relorm.whlih lio ono can reconcile with th Indian commlulon'a act. To havo mado the recent report nn tbo Cbsrokee busl net7 complete the commissioners hiAiId have slated who did the chest Ingand who pocketed the promt of the fraud." This Is outspoken enough for tho most exacting Thole can bo no mltlsko mail -urn to the wtllei'a mean Ing. And ye" who can aa that It la not lubtlantltlly Just and radio ally correct? Tho fact la, wo havo aa a nation got to locking upon the aborlginea Intruders InttMd ottsk-Ing ottsk-Ing that unweluomo rota upon cur select, tho native's rights Io property or redress for grievance become lest as his numbers and selons became less, and ovrry natural Indication lolrilstotbe flat of fsto that ha will soon have neither bunting ground nor habitation, himself living only aa a tad and fatetn I chapter In a dark and dreary lilttory. |
