| Show protection AND ELEVATION OF dihe THE INDIANS A lange LARGE rne ine meeting eting has been recently i held at the cooper institute new york at which it was resolved ved to form a society for the prot prod protection action aud find elevation of we the indians in the territories bo so we werdie Were informed by the ea eastern dispatches h few aay oay lays ago we have buve heard beard no ho fur respecting thenorma tion of ane effle society or the steps which ar are likely tabe to be taken to accomplish the objects of i on I 1 there is a iare largi barefield lare nield field in Iri which a society having such objects in view can labor men whose hearts overflow with sympathy for the negro and who would rather see the republic rent into pieces and a fratricidal war raging throughout the land than that the negro should be kept kert from what they view as his rights smile approvingly at plans for the extermination of tile the indian the negro is a man nian and a brother and for his big benefit the blood and treasure of the nation should by be freely expended and the very existence of the nation itself endangered but the indian is a wild beast a creature whom it Is meritorious to ki kill ilund llund and whose extirpation would be a most desirable consummation every unprejudiced person who is fa millar with the capabilities of the two races raees es must look upon this difference of feeling as most strange the rights of the negro is a subject upon which politicians and editors are never tired of df dilating it is the mhd most popular and thoroughly ventilated topic of the day it is the hobby hubby upon which hundreds expect to ride into power powei the redemption odthe of the negro is to be achieved let the consequences be what they may he must be fully enfranchised and at leat be placed on an equality with the white race but who cares for the indian whole tribes of that race may maybe be ruthlessly blotted out of existence and whose sympathies are aroused the few who dare raise their voices against the gu trages outrages that are perpetrated upon them are ridiculed and their protests are disregarded there is no political poev r to be gained by urging the claims of humanity in their behalf but it is more corb profitable and popular to magnify fy their thein crimes paint them more bloody and cruel than they are and cover up the crimes of the whites which in many instances are the foundation of the re tal tai fatiori which the indians indiana inflict the old puritans were credited with entertaining the idea that the indians were the counterpart of the idolatrous heathen of canaan whose inheritance was to be given into the hands bands of the children bf of israel according to their harsh irsil theological opinions the indians were werd children of regenerated un nature and reprobate and accursed of god assuming that they themselves thenis elves were the covenant people and the others the idolaters idol aters who were wera to be I 1 cleaned out they had gadbut but few scruples cru ples pies about fulfilling agin in this respect what many of them imagined to be the divine will nowadays now a days it involves too much trouble to go to the bible for reasons and justification for killing the indians other pleas are set up advancing civili civil and necessity demand their annihilation they are on the track in which empire is marching and colens colens volens must be removed the flat fiat has gone forth respecting them but we are glad to hear bear of the formation of a society for their protection and elevation it is needed though they are a bloodthirsty blood thirsty and ferocious race experience has proved that like other human beings they are not insensible to kindness boutwe but we have serious doubts about the society accod accomplishing the objects contemplated in its formation |
