Stales, to visit the different Indian reservations, and to exam ine all matters appertaining to Indian affairs."

In the report of this commission are such paragraphs as tho following: "To assert that 'the Indian will not work' is as true as it would be to say that the white man will not work.

"Why shonld the Indian be expected to plant eorn, fence lands, build houses, or do anything but get food from day to day, when experience bas taught him that tho product of his labor wll be seized by the white man to-morrow? The most industrious white man would become a drone under similar circumstanecs. Nevertheless, many of the Indians" (the com- missioners might dians) the assertion that 'the Indian will not work. cape from thc inexorablo logic of facts.

The history of the Government connections with the In- forcibly have said 130,000 of the In- at work, and furnish ample refutation of more already are There is no es- dians is a shameful record of broken treatics and unfulfilled proinises. The history of the border white man's connection with the Indians is a sickening record of murder, outrage, rob- bery, and wrongs committed by the former, as the rule, and 0ccasional savago ontbreaks and unspeakably barbarous deeds of retaliation by the latter, as the exception.

Tught by the Goverament that they had rights entitled to respect, when those rights have been assailed by the rapac- ity of the white man, the arm which should have been raised to protcet them has ever becn rcady

The testirnony of some of the highest military officers of the United States is on record to the effect that, in our Indian to sustain the aggressor. wars, almost withont exception, the first aggressions havo been made by the white man; and the assertion is supported by ev ery civilian of reputation who has studied the subject. In ad dition to the class of robbers and outlaws who find impunity n their nefarions pursuits on the frontiers, there is a large class of professedly reputable men who nse every means in