Ivi INTRODUCTION. 



and then, strictly confining them to their reservations, feed 

 them with rusty bacon and condemned flour ; adding that 

 he believed that in less than a year they would all die 

 off like rotten sheep. 



With the existence, then, between them of such feelings 

 of antipathy and animosity, it is impossible for the savage 

 Indians and semi-civilised white men to occupy the same 

 country. All authorities who have investigated the subject 

 are unanimous in predicating that the Eed Men are a 

 doomed race. The edict has gone forth, ' Delenda est 

 Carthago ;' and the Indians will as surely disappear before 

 the progress of the more energetic and aggressive Anglo- 

 Saxon, as the snows of winter melt away before the 

 summer sun. 



But sad as the fate of the Eed Man is, yet, even as 

 philanthropists, we must not forget that, under what ap- 

 pears to be one of the immutable laws of progress, the 

 savage is giving place to a higher and more civilised race. 

 Three hundred thousand Eed Men at the present time re- 

 quire the entire occupation of a continent as large as Europe, 

 in order that they may obtain an uncertain and scanty 

 subsistence by the chase. Ought we, then, to regret if in 

 the course of a few generations their wigwams, tepees, 

 and mud lodges, rarely numbering more than one hun- 

 dred in a village, are replaced by new cities of the West, 

 each equalling, perhaps, in magnificence, in stately struc- 

 tures, and in population (exceeding that of all the Indians), 

 either St. Louis or Chicago? Or if in supplanting less 

 than 300,000 wandering, debased, and half-naked savages, 

 we can people the self-same district with a population of 

 many tens of millions of prosperous and highly civilised 

 whites ? 



The countless herds of buffalo, which formerly ranged 

 the plains, will be superseded by treble their number of 

 improved American cattle ; the sparse herds of the 



