their power to bring on Indian wars for the suke of the proft to be realized from the prescnec of troops and the expenditure of Government funds in their midst. They proclaim death to the Indians at all times in words and publications, making distinction between the innocent and the guilty. They irate the lowest class of men to the perpetration of the darkest decds against their victims, and as them from the justice due to their crimes. Every crime com mitted by a white man no judges and jurymen shicld against an Indian is concealed or pal liated. Every offence committed by an Indian against a white man is borne on the wings of the post or the telegraph to the remotest corner of the land, clothed with all the horrors which the reality or inmagination can throw around it. Against such infiuences as these the people of the United States need to be warned."

by any one sndden stroke of legislative policy possible, to undo the mischief and burt of the long past, set the Indian policy of the eountry right for the future, and make the Indians at once safe and happy, is the blnnder of a hasty and nuinformed judgment, The no- more prevalent, that simply to make all Indians at once citizens of the United States would To assnmo that it would be easy, or tion which seems to be growing be a sovereign and instantaneous panacea for al their ills and all the Government's perplexities, is a very inconsiderate one To administer complete citizeuship of a sudden, all round, to all Indians, barbarous and civilized alike, would be as a blunder as to dose them all round with any one medicine, grotesque irrespective of the symptoms and needs of their diseases. It would kill more than it would cure. Noverthcless, it is truc, as was well stated by one of the superintendents of Indian Af fairs in 1857, that, "so long as they are not citizens of the United States, their rights of property must remain insecure against invasion. The doors of the federal tribunals being barred against them while wards and dependents, they can