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condition of the Native Americans in Kansas. The 

 orator kindly consented and thereupon discoursed as 

 follows : 



" The Indians of Kansas are divided into the wild 

 and the tame. Both alike cover their nakedness 

 with bright handkerchiefs, old shirts, military coats, 

 and many-hued ribbons. The principal difference 

 in point of dress is in the method of procuring it. 

 Among those tribes which are at peace with the 

 government, the white man robs the Indian ; among 

 the wild tribes the conditions are reversed the 

 Indian robs the white man. In the one case the 

 contractors and agents carry off their half million 

 dollars or thereabouts ; in the other the savage bears 

 away a quantity of old clothes and fresh scalps. As 

 he finds it difficult to procure sufficient of the white 

 man's justice to satisfy the cravings of his nature, 

 he feeds it with what he can and whenever he can 

 of revenge. Wise men tell us, gentlemen, that re- 

 venge is sweet and justice a dry morsel. All Indians 

 beg when they get an opportunity. The tame ones, 

 *if they find it fruitless, divert themselves by selling 

 worthless pieces of wood with strings attached, as 

 bows. The wild ones, in a like predicament, relieve 

 their tedium by whacking away at our ribs with 

 bows that amount to something. The principles 

 actuating both classes are alike. It is simply the 

 application which causes difficulty in the one case 

 an appeal with bow and arrows to our pockets, in 

 the other to our bodies. 



"All our wars w;th these people, gentlemen, are a 

 result of their political economy. They believe that 



