Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 June 1870 — Page 2

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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1870.

The Indian.

The Government is at the present time in consultation with several of the chief men of some of the Western tribes of Indians. Speeches have been made to the red men, and the red men have responded to the speeches. The Government promises Red Cloud that ail of the treaties heretofore, and hereafter to be made with his people shall be faithfully adhered to. lied Cloud responds iliat the Government agents are liars and deceive his people. He says he wants no forts on, or railroads running through his lands, and appears to have but little faith in his pale face brothers. This talk between the white and red man will end, as such talks have ended, for the last two hundred years on this continent, with a mutual disagreement. Paper promises amount to nothing on either side. The white race has no faith in the Indian, and t-lie Indian hates the white race. The red man is in the way of the white man, and he must stand aside. It is inevitable. It is destiny. It is the old thing over again. History repeating itself. The inferior race receding before the superior. A higher law thaw the puny statutes of man controls this matter. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail will have their talk at Washington. .Gen. Cox and President Grant will promise everything. Reservations will be set aside lor the

Indians, will be promise

Food, clothing, and arms given him, and he will with his lips to cultivate

the soil, and become civilized. But his promises are like the idle winds, fie can't cultivate the soil and become civilized. It is not his nature. He never was made for civilization. The Great Spirit intended him for the forests, just as much as lie intended the wolf and the bear. You may subdue him and tame him, but, when let alone, he again, instinctively, returns to savage life.

The red man has lived here as long as the white man has lived in Europe. The European, following the impulses of his nature, becomes civilized, and builds cities, erects cathedrals, turns the dome over St. Peter's, carves the Apollo Belvidere, and worships the true God. The Indian, following his instincts, builds his wigwam, hunts the buffalo and the bear, makes his bow and arrow, carves his rude implemeutsof industry and worships the Great Spirit. Both pursue their instincts. One reaches what is called civilized life, the other reaches what is known as savage life. Both afford food and raiment for the body, and it has puzzled philosophers to determine which condition is productive of the greater happiness. Upon this particular question we have no doubt the white man and the Indian will differ.

The Indian question in this country is a difficult one to solve. It will never be solved by treaties. It will solve itself. It has been solving itself, ever since the young Pocahontas practised gymnastics before Sir Walter Raleigh's sailors, on the banks of James river. The inferior race has and will continue to recede before the superior. War between the two races will last, just as long as the two races last. The Indian will be driven back, back, back, as has been his fate, since Miles Standish landed 011 Plymouth Rock. This warfare will end when the red man is pressed to the shores of the Pacific, and can go no farther. Then he will have but one resort left, and he will adopt that—suicide. He will die, but he will never be civilized. To him death is preferable.

It is well for the Government to seek these interviews with the chiefs of the Indian tribes, but it is a sickly ^sentimentality thrown away. If the Government does not remove her forts from the Indian territory, and cease building railroads across the same, Red Cloud and Spotted Tail will go back and flglit. Of course the Government Avill not do this. She can not afford it. It is our destiny to build the roads—the Indian's des tiny to be unable to prevent it. The locomotive will dash through his lands, and he will be powerless to stop it. The white man's cabin will cover the site where the smoking ruins of the wigwam are still to be seen. The sharp crack of the rifle will supercede the whiz of the Indian's arrow. Courts of justice Mill will take the place of the council lires. The chase will" give way to the school house, and the

Poor Indian, whose untutoivd mind

Sees God in the clouds and hears him in the wind," will be wholly and entirely supplanted by the superior race. This will not be done in a month or a year. It will take many months and many years to accomplish it. But time alone will settle the the Indian question, as time alone settles a great many other questions.

From the Chicago Post.

The Duty of Congress.

If Congress does not do something for the good of the country, members may calculate 011 hanging' their harps on the willow trees. Their records during the war will not save them. Their records in the period immediately following the war wili not serve their purpose now. There is a time for laughing and a time for weeping. There is also a time for generalities and heroes, and a time for downright hard work and practicality. Tliie men who understand the situation well know that though Congress has been in session nearly half a year, it.has, as yet done nothing of benefit to the country in those practical matters in which every merchant, every mechanic, every laborer, every citizen of the republic of whatever calling, is interested, is that particular which is of all things most potential in the shaping of politieis and the control of public affairs—the pocket.

It is not to be denied, that the administration has, as a matter of fact, done much more for the country than Congress has done. It has inaugurated economy. It has saved much money for the people. It has demonstrated the most important truth that the- Government can be carried on for many millions less than it had been carried 011 before this administration came into power. But Congress has been frittering away its time.

has spent weeks on the tariff

question, and the tariff question remains in statu quo ante bellum. Much time has been consumed on the Funding bill (a measure clearly forecast by the National Republican Convention of 1868), and we are. apparently, no nearer the funding of the

national

debt than we were when

Lee surrendered to Grant, not

whit.

The distribution of the national currency, outrageously unjust to the West, remains as it was. Pig-iron, salt, and

coal monopolies continue omnipotent. The laud grabbers arc not in »acK seats. In short, the Forty-first Congress has not yet done anything for the relief of the country against the ills which oppress trade and commerce and retard progress and prosperity. Every section, every city, every really great interest, and the general good of the people at large, are injuriously affected by the practical operation of laws which, in war times, were not only well enough, but wise and statesmanlike, but are now unnecessary and unjust. A call for 500,000 men to put down the Piegans .would not be more out of place, more unw ise, more unstatesmanlike, than the financial demands of war times are out of place, unwi.se, and unstatesmanlike in the time of peace.

But Congress does nothing. Ur to speak more exactly, it has yet done nothing We can understand the difficulties of the situation. There have been other qnestions forced upon the attention of our national legislators. The Southern States have not yet been gentle as so many sucking doves. Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, have given trouble, and required attention. So too have other States whilom of the Confederacy. The old question has demanded attention. We acknowledge the fact, and make due allowance for it.

Nevertheless, the Forty-second Congress is to be elected in the fall of this present year. It cannot be elected on the Fifteenth Amendment. That is safe, thanks to the pluck and persistency of the Republican party. It cannot be elected on the reconstruction question. That is among the things of the past. It cannot be elected on the general "enthuse" plan. The peoplfe understand that the questions of the most moment now a re on of do a an a these, as the case stands, involve issues of natural right and of universal truth, of the greatest importance and the greatesf interest. They therefore demand practical statesmanship—measures looking to the reduction of taxation, both direct and indirect, the extension of the National banking system, and other things whereby the emoluments of officers may be reduced, and the interests of the general body politic enhanced.

Now, there area large number of Republican Congressional districts which the change of a very few votes would make Democratic. Every one of these close districts will go against us, if Congress does not make a good record for the country. This record of good for the country must be reduction of taxation improvement of the National banking system, so that all parts of the country shall have equal advantages the beginning of the abandonment of that commercial injustice which afflic.ts ihe people in the name of "Protection," but which is, in truth, robbery.

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Your time is well nigh out. You must, we do most solemnly assure you, improve what remains of it to better advantage than has been the case thus fa.i, or many of you will be called upon by the suffrages'of your constituents to fill that post which was regarded Jefferson as the post of honor—the private station.

We believe that the debris of the past being now removed, or nearly all removed, Congress will proceed to legislate for the country in such away as the people will decide to be wise, politic and beneficent. The sooner such legislation begins, the better, both for the country and for members of Congress. A resolution to adjourn on the loth of July having passed both houses, they must henceforth, to the end of the session, do more and better work than has yet been done, so that a large portion of'tlie Representatives may not come to grief at the fall elections. Efficient work henceforth is necessary to preserve the ascendency of the Republican party in Congress.

From the New York Sun.

The Needs of the Democracy—A Policy and a Leader. During the 16 yeais of its existence, the Republican party has done the work of an ordinary naif century in the history of politics. Measured by the calendar, it is time it was beaten by its opponent. And so it would be in the next Presidential election if the Democracy had a wise and consistent policy, and a skillful and courageous leader.

Ever since the issues were raised on which recent battles have been fought, every stand taken by the Democracy has, after a short, sharp skirmish, been followed by a disorderly retreat. For example, when the Southern States began to withdraw from the Union, and the North awoke from its lethargy tor the vindication of the National flag, Democratic leaders and journals protested against the doctrince of coercion, and declared that not a regiment should enter the South until it had passed over the bodies of millions of Democrats. But ere six months had elapsed, Democratic chieftains, in the language of Gen. Logan, were hewing their way to the Gulf with their swords.

When the contest had made it apparent that slavery must be destroyed in order to preserve the Union, and Mr. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the cry rang through the land that the Democratic party would never consent to such an unconstitutional invasion of the the rights of the South, and that the war was uot waged for "the benefit of niggers." But. as the combat deepened, the great mass of the Democracy became practical abolitionists, and finally acquiesced in the engrafting of the popular will upon the Constitution in the form of the Thirteenth Amendment, which forever prohibits slavery in the republic.

The war being over, President Johnson began the work of reconstruction. But Congress soon took the matter under its exclusive control, and proclaimed that the President had no authority in the premises: and they struck out a plan of reconstruction and embodied it in the proposed 14tli Amendment, accompanied by an act which made it a condition that ere any insurgent State could be fully restored to the Union, it must adopt a constitution conferring the right of suffrage upon negroes. The Democracy took their stand against this policy, denouncing it through all the notes of the gamut of vituperation, the New York World leading the pack by declaring with foaming lip that the Southern blacks would never be allowed to vote but would be slaughtered should -they dare approach the hustings with the ballot in their hands. But the elections of 1866 took the noise out of the theatrical thunder* the Fourteenth Amendment in due time became a part of the Constitution and after the colored voters carried Virginia and Tennessee against the Republicans, the World began to think that negro suffrage in the South was a pretty good thing after all. And so the whole party retreated in disorder from a lost battlefield.

And now ardent Republicans began to insist upon a Fifteenth Amendment, granting the suffrage to all men, everywhere, irrespective of color. With one united shout the Democracy declared that this was "the last ditch," and that they would conquer hi its defense or fall upon their own swords. And on this issue they fought the Presidential election of 1868, and were beaten. I11 due time this amendment was proclaimed apart of the fundamental law and lo, the Democracy after making a very wry face, kissed the rod that scourged them, and are perhaps now drawing consolation from the fact that, inasmuch as the negro has turned out to be a repeater in a small way at the recent election in this city, they may by-and-by make something out of him. At all events, the whole party, with here and uninfluential exception, Ameiidmern.

881,1 on the

enforce the aSuiment

Fifteenth

Thafta'the

last ditch, and there the party isnnwin trenching itself only, how?ver, in all

probability, to be routed therefrom, as it lias heretofore been driven from one point to another during the long series of defeats and retreats which havemarkedits career for the past ten year?,

EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE. A

Vernes Montreux, May 13,1870. Editor Terre Haute Gazette On Thursday we drove out to the Castle of Chillon, a photograph of which I enclose. It is half an hour's drive from here, along a fine road bounded on each side by the most romantic scenery. On one side is the lake, with the Alps rising abruptly on the other side. Most of the land that is under cultivation, and which has dwellings perched upon it, has been redeemed by the toil of man from the rugged hand of nature.

Although there were probably no more deeds of horror committed in this Castle, than many others in Europe^ during the middle ages, yet owing to the poetic pen of Byron, there attaches to this one an interest which is seldom experienced in regard to many others in Europe. The front and sides of the castle are washed by the lake. The dungeon is on the side which you do not see in the picture. The castle formerly belonged to the Dukes of Savoy, but since 1798 has been used by the Swiss Government as an arsenal, and a portion of it is now used as a prison for criminals. At present there are seven prisoners there. It is hardly necessary to add that the castle is in a perfect state of preservation. The visitor is shown a long hall on the ground floor, over 100 feet, I should think, in length. This is unevenly paved with stones of all shapes and sizes. It hasii wainscotted wall, a huge fireplace, in which half a cord of wood could be put at once, and in one end is a large wooden pillar, which was the post of torture. This room, formerly used as the Hall oi Justice, is now devoted to storing artillery wagons. A pair of stone steps led from this chamber to a subterranean passage. From this passage you enter on one side the dungeon. Its roof is as finely arched as if the work was to have been expended in a church. It is supported by seven circular stone pillars, the eighth being built partly in the wall. The walls of the castle are at least five feet thick, and light and air were admitted in apertures six feet long by seven inches wide. We saw the pillar to which Binnivard was chained for six years, put our fingers through the iron ring to which his chain was attached, and also, our feet into the stone that had been worn down several inches from his walk during the weary years of his imprisonment. On this pillar, and also on another I saw the name of Byron carved, doubtless by his own hand. In leaving the dungeon you cross the passage, and an other derk, gloomy place, and you see a bed of stone. It is hewn from the'solid rock, is raised at one end to make a pillow, and is reached by means of two steps On this bed a condemned prisoner was compelled to pass his last night on earth, and by him sat a priest during the dreary hours. Next to this bed, in the gloomy place above referred to, there was on one side a vault, and over this vault we were shown a beam, black with age, from which the condemned were hung. Opposite there was a large hole in the wall, out of which the murdered man was thrown into the lake. When not in use, it was rudely filled with stones.

On the other side of the Castle is a place of horrors which, although I knew it before, is a fact that I believe is not generally known by those that are even well'informed. A condemned prisoner—but his condemnation unknown to himself—was taken into a small chamber. In it there was an aperture in the floor large enough to go down stairs. The prisoner would see but little, as the passage appeared dark. His cruel tormentors would make him go down. There were only three steps, and then he walked off, and was dashed upon the rocky bed of the lake, hundreds of feet below. Aside from these places, the visitor is shown the chapel where the Duke and his family worshipped, the Duke's chamber, and the room of the Duchess, adjoining it. The tower, in which you see the two windows looking out upon the lake, was the great dining and reception room, or the chamber of state, the most elegant room in the castle. On the left hand side of it, Avhere the roof is the lowest, and which I have marked, were the rooms of the Duke and Duchess. Formerly the great dining hall was splendidly embellished with fresco paintings, but now they are so much defaced that we can not form much of an opinion about them. This room is now hung around with flags, some of Switzerland, but mostly with those captured in battle. There are also a great many guns ranged along the wall. The castle is entered by the bridge which you see in the picture. This leads into a court, around which the castle is built. To-day it is as warm and pleasant as it is with us in early summer. Lake Leman is as placid as glass, and as blue as the sky. The early spring flowers are in blossom on the hills, and from our graden,. washed by the waters of the lake, we have a view of loveliness and grandeur which excites one's wonder and admiration at the beauty of the earth.

Next to the beautiful scenery, my admiration was attracted by the exquisite French needle work executed by the women of Appenzell. This is a canton in the northern part of Switzerland, and there the women earn their living by needle work. They embroider collars, cuffs, and handkerchiefs the latter beautiful beyond description. Much of this work is made for the American market, but the finest specimens I have never seen in New York. Their handkerchiefs are embroidered upon cambric linen, the threads of which are as fine as the haif of my head. The other day I was presented with one, with one of the finest churches in Paris embroidered in one corner The church takes up one-quarter of the space of the handkerchief, and the dome, windows and statuary upon the edifice, are as perfect as if produced by the brush of the painter. At St. Gall, near Appenzell, is the place where a great many of those beautiful bands and insertions are made, which are so largely imported into the United States also much of the fine jaconets and fine barred and striped muslins, which are imported into America almost exclusively from Switzerland. Much of the cotton used in the manufacture of these last named articles is brought from Persia, and the goods are all woven by hand in the dwellings of the peasantry. At Appenzell and St. Gall one can buy the most exquisite embroideries at a mere song the only thing I have heard of, or known of, being veiy cheap in Europe.,

M. K. G.„

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