only partially excrcise the rights of free government, or to those who make, execute, and construe the few laws they are allowed to enact, dignity sufficient to make them respecta ble. While they continue individnally to gather the crumbs tbat fall from the table of the United States, idleness, impror idence, and indebtedness will be the rule, and industry, thrift, and freedom from debt the exeeption. Thie utter absenco of individual title to particular lands deprives every onc among them of the ehicf incentive to labor and exertion-tho very mainspring on which the prosperity of a people depends."

All judieious plans and measures for their safety and salva- tion must cmbody provisions for their becoming citizens as give are fit, aud mast protect them till then in cvery fast as they right and particular in which our laws protect other "persons" who are not citizens,

There is a disposition in a certain class of minds to be impatient with any protestation against wrong which is unac- unprepared with a quick and exact scheme of remody. This is illogical. When pioneers in a new conntry find a tract of poisonous and swampy wilderness to be reclaim- ed, they do not withhold their hands from fire and axe till companied or clearly whieh way roads should run, where good wa they see ter will spring, and what crops will best grow on the redeemed land. They first clear the swamp. So with this poisonous and baffling part of the domain of our national affairs -et us first clear the swamp."

However great perplexity and difficulty there may be in the details of any and cvery plan possible for doing at this late day anything like justice to the Indian, however hard it may be for good statesmen and good men to agree upon the things that ought perplexity whatover, no ccrtain things that ought not to be done, and which must cease to be done before the irst steps can be taken toward right to be done, there certainly is, or ought to be, no difficulty whatever, in agreeing npon