There is but one hope of righting this wrong. It lies in appeal to the heart and the conscience of the American people. What the people demand, Congress will do. our shame be it spoken-at the demaud of part of the people that all these wrongs have been committed, these treaties broken, these robberies done, by the Government
So long land occupied by strong and unserupulous frontiersman ready to seize it, and a weak and unserupulous politician, who can be hired for a vote or for money, to back him It has becn--to as there remains on our frontier one square mile of a weak and helpless owner, there will be a
The only thing that can stay this is a mighty outspoken sentiment and purpose of the great body of the people. sentiment and right purpose in a Senator here and there, and Representative here and there, are little mnore than straws which make momentary eddics, but do not obstruct the tide. The prccedents of a century's unhindered and profitable rob- bery have mounted np into a very Gibraltar of defence and shelter to those who care for nothing but safety and gain That such precedents should be held, and openly avowcd as one more infamy addod to the list. such logic employed in the case of an individual man, how quick would all men see its enormity. Supposc that a man had had the misfortune to be born into a family whose name had boen blackened by generations of criminals; that his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather bofore them had lived in prisons, and died on scaffolds, should that man say in his soul, Go to What is the use? I also will commit Right standards, is only Were robbery and family help me! I will do what may be within the power of one man, and the compass of one generation, to atone for the wickedness, and to make clean the name of my dishonored house "
and get the same must have done?" Or shall he say in his soul, "God gain by it whieh my