156 HOW TO LEGISLATE [PART I. 



ing a prisoner and clearing their country of bad 

 characters. 



The native constable, or magistrate, who would 

 thus be established in every tribe, must be paid; 

 and it must be made his interest to further the 

 views of government. The principal object in 

 making the appointments should be, to show the 

 natives that we treat them as we do Europeans. 

 By thus manifesting that we believe them capable 

 of fulfilling the duties of their commissions, we give 

 to their self-esteem and to their sense of dignity 

 that stimulus which renders them subservient to 

 ulterior views for their own improvement. I 

 would also recommend that a dwelling should be 

 erected for the native magistrate in the principal 

 village. I would furnish that dwelling with some 

 of our domestic comforts, and by this means 

 make the natives acquire a taste for the rest. A 

 colony is established ; all the Europeans soon have 

 furnished and comfortable houses. In the neigh- 

 bourhood lives a native tribe in slovenly huts; 

 they have relinquished their own solid architec- 

 ture, and have no means of competing with the 

 Europeans. They continue to live in the old way, 

 wandering from one patch of cultivated land to 

 another, and constantly changing their place of 

 abode. But if the chief, whose civil office will now 

 add to his importance, is encouraged to build him- 

 self a house on his reserved ground, perhaps in an 

 improved native style, a point of centralization will 



