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upon himself, a result never to be arrived at so long as his 
lands are held in common. 
That some would fall a prey to the speculator and become 
_*still lower in the scale of degradation, must be expected ; but 
they would be but a minority, and not to be considered in the 
ultimate benefits, and situated as we are towards the red man, 
it is our duty—as it should be our earnést desire and plea- 
sure—to atone for his wrongs by affording him every reason- 
able facility for his possible improvement. 
My sympathies are with the aborigines, and I cannot better 
express them than by advocating, with voice and pen, a 
measure which seems to me to be fraught with more ultimate 
good results for them than any heretofore promulged by our 
statesmen. Let them once be involved in common interests 
with white men, and a new impulse would be given to them. 
They would substitute practical life for sensual existence, accu- 
mulate wealth where they now barely scratch out a support, 
and, instead of degraded peasants, would become wealthy 
agriculturists. 
It is not the ability that the Indian wants, it is oonhumgiles and 
to be brought daily into contact with the results of well 
directed industry, both of body and mind. This would be 
effected by the bill proposed, and which no well-wisher of the 
Indian can for a moment oppose. 
Though the days of Tahmehund and Logan, of Tecumseh 
and Red Jacket, have long passed away, and though their 
virtues, energies and moral worth live but in history, still 
