"This averment is sustained by a reference to the white people who have been taken prisoners in childhood and brought up among the Indians. In every such case the child of civilization has become the ferocious adult of the forest, manifesting all the peculiaritics, tastes, and preferencus of the native Indian, Ilis manners, habits, propensities, and pursuits lhave been the same, so that the most astute philesophical observer bas not bcen able to discover any difference between them, except in the color of the skin, and in some instances even this has becn removed by long exposure to the elements, and the free use of oils and paints."

The many instances which there are on record of cases in which persons taken captive by the Indians, while young, have utterly refused in later life to return to their relatives and homes, go to confirm this statement of Judge Burnet's

On the other hand, he says: "The attempts that have been made at different times to inprove the minds and cultivate the morals of these people have always been attended by success

"On an unprejudiced comparison between the civilized edu- cated white man and the civilized cducated Indian, all this the ory of an organic constitutionnl difference between the European and the native Indian vanishes

"In what respect have Ross, Boudinot, Hieks, Ridge, and oth- ers differed front the educated men of our own race Inasmuch then as the reclaimed educated Indian becomes assimilated to the white man, and the European brought up from infancy among the Indians becomes identiied with them, this alleged difference cannot be real, it must be imaginary.

The fact is, the difficulty of civilizing the natives of this eon- tinent is neither greater nor less than that which retarded the improvement of the barbarous nations of Europe two thousand years ago. Men uneivilized have always delighted in the chasc, and had a propensity to roam; both history and experience prove that nothing but necessity, arising from such an in crease of population as destroys the game, has ever induced men to settle in communities, and rely on the cultivation of the earth for subsistence. given way to the pastoral state, and that has yielded to agricult ure as the increase of numbers has rendered it necessary.

"As soon as the Cherokees and the Wyandots were surrounded by a white population, and their territory was so contracted as to cut off their dependence on hunting and fishing, they became farmers, and manifested a strong desire to cultivate the arts; and In the progress of civilization the chase las