Indians under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Respectfully submitted,

A. J. POPPLETON,

JNo. L. WEESTER

"Early in 1800 the Governor of the North-west Territory, in his message to the Assembly, invited their attention to the condition of the Indians, of religion and justice, it was the interest and should be the pol- icy of the United States to be at peace with them; but that could not continuc to be the case if the treaties existing between them and the Government were broken with impunity by the inhali tants of the Territory. He referred to the well-known fact that while the white men loudly complained of cvery injury commit ted by the Indians, however trifling, and demanded immediate reparation, they were daily perpetrating against them injuries and wrongs of the most provoking and atrocious nature, for which the perpetrators had not been brought to justice. ** Ile stated that the number of those unfortunate people who had been murdered since the peace of Greenville was sufficient to produce serious alarm for the eonsequences. He added, further, that a late attempt to bring to punishment a white man, who was clearly proved to have killed two adult Indians and wounded two of their children, had proved abortive."-BURNET's Notes on North est Territory He observed that, irrespective of the principles

Among other falsèlhoods it has becn asserted confidently, but without a shadow of argument or fact to sustain the assertion, that they cannot be brought to a state of civilization, or he in duced to form communities and engage in the pursuits of agri culture and the arts, in consequence of some physical difference between them and the Anglo-Saxon race. This hynothesis is contradicted by experience, which has abundantly shown that the two raccs, when placed in the same situation, and acted upon by the same causes, have invariably resorted to the same expedients and pursued tlhe same policy