Show tiie THE EJECTED INDIANS SHOULD THEY NOT BE reimbursed 7 tim tun indians are a feeble race aa as to general intelligence and organized ad power compared with tile the whites but the indians are the original owners of the soil having inherited it and held heid it in fee simple for countless generations it has been handed down from father to son eon from time immemorial if there is is any original 0 ownership of the soil they have the clear indisputable title which they have enjoyed from prehistoric pre historic times if the whites own any portion of the soil it has been secured from the indians almost universally on one of two principles by commerce or by conquest by purchase ot or by blood sed purchase is the only way by which the whites could obtain an honest title to the lands which have belonged exclusively to the indians for centuries yea for thousands of years treaties of coercion are not honest treaties and the gains secured by the them thea m aro arc dishonest gains if the indians have a title to the lands they have a title to 7 lands produce either spontaneously or as the results of their jabor abor the indians on or near the malad but forcibly ejected by the federal military the other otiler week were cultivating about acres ot of land in grain etc they had been cultivating it all summer and the harvest time had come when they naturally expected to reap that naich which they had sown but lo 10 a sudden hue and cry baseless as the fabric of a vision went up against them and they were immediately and peremptorily ordered off virtually driven off by the military and their crops lerr left standing stan dine dinc or cuty cuts cut as is chanca chance might be could thisbe called christian conduct was wag it humane was it reasonable was it creditable to the powerful government and intelligent people of the united states state the christian rule is do to others as you would have them do to you sou tou you now let us reverse the positions of the tile parties suppose the indians had llad suddenly raised a hue line and cry against the people of corinne who had squatted squal equal ted led upon the land to which the in indians d I 1 ans had th the e clearest title and suppose the indians had required the corinne people one i and all to decamp forthwith and without the shadow of a nay upon pain of extermination how would uhe the Corin have relished such treatment yet that is the very measure wh which ch 11 has hag g just been meted out to the indians by the whites with the exception named as to title row now ought not these indians to be reimbursed for the loss of their crops of which they have been so suddenly causelessly causel lessly cruelly mercilessly ci deprived if the indians have any friends among the whites ought not these whites to take a careful inventory of the losses caused to the indians by this summary ejectment and ought not such inventory with a true state of the proceedings to be presented to congress witha with a request to rela reia reimburse burse these indians and ought not congress to listen favorably to such representation and appropriate for the indians and have honestly and prudently disi i them such amount of indemnification as is just and right if there were reasons to alope that justice would be done strict justice would require that the people of corinne who were dhe ahe guilty cause of the ejectment of nt tile the indians should pay every g cent of a just indemnification |