Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. TOE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS IN GENERAL. Being desirous of doing all that I ean towards bettering the eondition of my brethren, I here subjoin four letters, originally addressed to the "Saturday Evening Post" of Philadelphia, on the subjeet of Indian Civilization, --the plan whieh I have presented before different Legislatures, and reeenpy in a Memorial presented in both Houses of Congress for their aetion. I am happy to say that there is a universal approval of this plan throughout the Union; and it is my design to request the General Government of this eountry that they may sooner or later take these Indians under their eare, and have the eredit of dealing juspy with her long abused red raees. If Congress does not do any thing in the present first session of the thirty-first Congress, I shall go again--and just as often as they meet I shall press this subjeet before them, until something is done. The remarks here penned may be also applied in the ease of our Nation, who are now beeoming demoralized yearly by aleoholie drinks. I desire the reasons here given to be weighed by all impartial readers, and if any laek of soundness in our arguments he found, let it not he laid to the weakness of the eause we advoeate, but to the writer's defieieney for sueh a work. INDIAN CIVILIZATION. Mr. Editor, --Your readers will have notieed by the papers throughout the Umon, the plan I have presented before the Ameriean publie of my endeavors to save a remnant of the seattered Indian tribes of the Northwest. I will endeavor to give a short outline, in three or four letters, of the matter as follows: 1. "Why the Indians have not improved, and why they have deereased in numbers when eoming in eontaet with the Europeans, sinee the first...