dation that it is "the policy way encourage the spirit of rapacity which demands the throw- ing open of the Indian Territory to white settlement." IHe says, "the true way to sccure its perpctual occupaney by In dians is to fill it np with other Indians, to give them lands in severalty, and to provide enough to protect them effectually from any aud all encroach mcnts on the part of the whites."

Comment on these preposterously contradictory sentences would be idle. The best commont on them, and the most fit- ting close to this sketch of the Cherokce nation, is in a few more quotations from the official reports of the Indian Burean

Of this people, from whom the Department of the Interior Droposes, for "public policy," to take away " a large portion" of their country, it has published within the last tlree years these records: or purpose of this office to in any a government strong and intelligent

It has been but a few years since the Cherokees assembled in council under trees or in a rude log-house, with hewed logs for seats. Now the legislature assembles in a council-house, provided with suitable committee-rooms, senate chainber, representatire hall, library, and exccutive offices, which cost $22,000.

Their citizens occupy neat hewed donble log-cabins, frame, brick, or stone houses, according to the means or taste of the individnal, with ground adorned by ornamental trees, shrub bery, flowers, and nearly every improvement, including or- chards of the choicest fruits. Some of these orchards have spacious brick existed for nearly twenty years, and are now in a good, fruitful 1nsually good houso-keepers, and give great attention to spinuing and weaving yarns, jeans, and linsey, and make most of the pants and hunter-jackets of the men and boys. The farmers raise most of their own wool and sight, in a well-to-do Chero- kee farmer's house, to soc a sewing-machine and a piano. condition Their woinen are eotton, and it is not an uncommon