make the cfforts for national progrcss of which they pable."

When their delegates went to the now treaty, they were alarned by the position taken by the Government that the nation, as a nation, had forfeited its rights. They wcre given to understand that "public opinion held them responsible for complicity in tlie Rebellion; and, al- though they could point to the fact that the only eonntenance the rebels rececived came from less than one-third of the popu- are ca- Washinglon, in 1866, to make lation, and cite the services of two Cherokee regiments in the Union cause, it was habilitated in their former rights by not in a position to refuse any conditions imposed. Such lan guage from persons they beliered to posscss the power of in juring their people intimidated the Cherokee delegates. They sold a large tract in Sonth-castern Kansas at a dollar an acre urged home to them that, before being a new treaty, they were rc- to an association of speculators, and it went into the posscssion of a railroad company. They also acceded, against the wishes of the Cherokce people, right of way through the country for two railroads. This ex- cited great uneasiness among the Indians."

And well it might. The events of the next few years am provision in the treaty granting to a ply justified this uneasiness. tions is as insatiable as their methods are nnscrupulous. The phrase "extinguisling Indian titles" has becomo, as it were, a mere technical term in the transfer of lands.

The expression is so common that it has probably been one of the agencies in fixing in the minds of the people the prevalent im pression that extinction is the ultimate and inevitable fate of the Indian; and this being the case, methods and times arc not, after all, of so much consequence; they ordaincd conditions of the great foreordained progression of The rapacity of railroad corpora-

merely fore are events. This is the only explanation of the unconscious inhu- manity of many good men's modes of thinking and speaking in