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the cultivated and rich have time and money to spend on 

 such benevolences ; and, second, because they start right, 

 and are thoroughly in earnest. Their hobbies are good 

 hobbies; and their only mistake is in riding too hard, in 

 pursuing each his own object, without reference to the 

 rights or objects of others. These persons see but in one 

 direction, listen to but one side. Indians murder a family 

 of settlers with all the usual horrors. It touches no sym- 

 pathetic cord in the philanthropic breast. Troops pursue, 

 overtake, and kill some of the murderers. At once there 

 is a storm of indignation against the assassins of the 

 ' noble red man/ 



A large class of most excellent people conscientiously 

 and most firmly believe that the Indian is a supernatural 

 ' hero,' with a thousand latent good qualities, needing but 

 the softening touch of Christianity to develop into a model 

 of all virtue. They are right, only in that he is a de- 

 graded human, and can be improved. He will not 

 voluntarily receive improvement, and must be coerced 

 into it, just as among our own people it is beginning to 

 be found out that education must be compulsory. 



The theories of these good, sentimental hobby-riding 

 people, of exceptional good in the Indian race, must be 

 set aside as amiable, but fallacious ; their pleas for con- 

 stant forgiveness of Indian outrages should be kindly 

 entertained and quietly ignored. 



The Indians should be put on reservations, under the 

 control of practical men, who have no pet theories to work 

 out, no fortunes to make. They should be well treated, 

 fed, clothed, and induced, not forced, to work. They 

 should be taught by precept and by experience that an 

 Indian is no better than a white man ; that comfort and 

 plenty will be the reward of good behaviour and industry ; 

 and that crime of any kind will be followed by sure and 

 immediate punishment. 



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