breaks promises, will no more be respected or unpunished than a man who steals and lies and breaks promises. It is possible to go still farther than this, and to show that a nation habitually guilty of such conduct might properly be dealt with therefor by other nations, by nations in nowise suffering of her bad faith, except as all nations suffer when the interests of human society are

"The interest of human society," says Vattel, "would authorize all the other nations to form a confederacy, in order to humble and chastise the delinquent." "regards no right as sacred, the safety of the human race re quires that she should be repressed. To form and support an unjust pretension is not only doing whose interests are affected by that pretension; but to despise justice in general is doing an injury to all nations."

The history of the United States Government's repeated vio- lations of faith with the Tndians thus convicts us, as a on account injured. When a nation injury to the party an nation, not only of having outraged the principles of justice, which are the basis of international law; and of having laid ourselves open to the accusation of both cruelty and perfidy; but of having made ourselves liable to all pnnishments whieh follow upon such sinsto arbitrary punishment at the hands of auy civilized nation who might see fit to call us to account, and to that more certain natural punishment which, sooncr or later, as surely comes from evil-doing as harvests come from sown seed. To prove all this it is only necessary to study the history of any one of the Indian tribes. I propose to give in the follow ing chapters merely outline sketches of the history of a few of them, not entering more into details than is necessary to show the repcated broken faith of the United States Government to- ward them. A full history of the wrongs they have suffered at the hands of the authorities, military and civil, and also of the citizens of this country, it would take years to write and volumes to hold