this also. Now, I cannot see how this decision of the Indian Department is consistent either with justice it is certainly inconsistent with both the spirit and letter of Articles six and ten of a treaty between the United Siates of America and different bands of Sioux Indians, coneluded in 1808, and ratitied and proclaimed lebruary, 1809. **What I ask for them is that our Government restore to them a part or good policy, and of what we took from them, and give them the same chance to give our conntry, whether white or black. ** That some aid is rery ncccssary must be obvious to you, who know how difficult it is for even white men, trained to work, and with several hun- dred dollars in property, to open a new farm in this TWesteru Their number is probably greater than you are When I administcred the Lord's Supper there on the first Sabbath of this month, there were present seventy- seren communicants of our church, besides quite a number of other persons. *** It is owing to the Santee Sioux-partly to those on the Big Sioux River, chicfly to those uear Fort Wads worth-that in the last five years not a single white inhabitant of Minnescta or Iowa has been murdered by the wild Indians, while many have been cut off in every frontier State and Ter live and thrive which we to all the other inhabitants of aware of. ritory south-west of the Missouri. So long as the Christian Sioux ca be kept on the fronticr, the white settlements are safe. In conclusion, I wish again to call your attention to the fact that these Indians on the Big Sioux purchase citizen ship at a very great sum, and to entreat you to do all in your power to secure for them that protcction of person or property for which they bargain, and without which nothing our Government can do will make them prosperous or happy.

No attention was paid to this appeal; and the next year the indefatigable missionary sent a still stronger one, setting forth that this colony now numbered fifty families; had been under the instruction of the American Board of Commissioners