20 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS 
Six Nation Indians proved themselves brave and intrepid sol- 
diers, and faithful allies of our own; these being the fruits of 
their previous training in the hard and eruel school of warfare. 
Again, was the warfare that the Israelites were called upon 
to wage against the inhabitants of the Promised Land till they 
were completely exterminated, necessary or justifiable? Yes, 
decidedly, it was for the good of the race. The Amorites, and 
other races inhabiting that land, were so steeped in vice, that 
they were a menace to the morals of the world. The surgeon’s 
knife is necessary to remove a cancerous growth in the human 
body. So the use of the sword is oftentimes necessary to remove 
plague spots from the human race. Never was the punishment 
of war more just. Great were the benefits resulting to the race. 
Look at yonder scene in the streets of Paris. The mob 
frienzied, the streets slippery with blood, men’s heads being ear- 
ried about in baskets, the air resounding with the groans of the 
dying, and the execrations of the living—a most terrible pic- 
ture you say. Yes, but terrible also was the cause of it all. The 
court and nobility of France were diseased and rotten to the 
core. Profligacy, immorality, oppression of the poor, were the 
order of the day. The toilers of France had been erying to 
heaven for relief, and at last retribution came like a thunderbolt 
from the blue and removed those who were a disgrace to the 
name of king, and prince, and noble, the world over. Who can 
say what good has resulted to the cause of good government, 
from this great object lesson of a wronged and down-trodden 
people rising, at length, in their might and casting down the op- 
pressor? 
When at the battle of Plassey, India was won for the Brit- 
ish Empire, did any good result? Compare three hundred million 
people under’ several hundred native’ princes, whose 
government consisted either in making war upon one 
another or oppressing their own people with taxes 
and extortions; no safety for life or property; no hope of 
a better future; only a struggle for life that was not worth 
living; searcely a ray of civilization penetrating the darkness 
