Of these three treaties Schoolcraft says previous treaties. "These three conferonees embody a new course and policy for kecping the tribes in peace, and are founded on the most en larged consideration of the aboriginal right of fee-simple the soil. They have been held exclusively at the charge and expense of the United States, and contain no cession of territory.

They ple of Northern Illinois were beginning to covet and trespass on some of the Indian lands, and commissioners were sent to to werc the last treatics of their kind. In 1828 the peo treat with the Indians for the surrender of such lands, The Indians demurred, and the treaty was deferred; the United States in the mean time agreeing to pay to the four tribes $20,000, in full compensation for all the injuries and dam ages sustained by them in consequence of the occupation of any part of the mining conntry."

In 1829 a benevolent scheme for the reseuc of these hard- pressed tribes of the North-western territory Mr. J. D. Stevens, a missionary was proposed by IHe suggested the formation of a colony of them in the Lake Superior region. He says-and his words are as true to-day, in 1879, as at Mackinaw. they were fifty years ago "The Indian is in cvery view entitled to sympathy. The misfortunc of the race is that, seated on the skirts of the domain of a popular government, they have no The whole give. They are politieally a nonentity. vote to Indian race is not worth one white man's vote. If the Indian were raised to the right of giving his suffrage, a pleuty of poli ticians on the fronticrs would enter into plans to better him; whereas now the subjeet drags along like an ineubus in Congress

It did, indeed. Appropriations promises made to the Indians could not bc fulfilled, simply because there was no money to fulfil them with. In 1829 a were sadly behindhand. The Washington correspondent writes to Mr. Schooleraft: "There