﻿No. 
  122.] 
  117 
  

  

  and 
  utensils 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  gifted 
  race 
  of 
  Indian 
  lineage 
  within 
  the 
  

   limits 
  of 
  our 
  Republic, 
  as 
  the 
  nucleus 
  of 
  a 
  general 
  Indian 
  collec- 
  

   tion, 
  the 
  way 
  is 
  fairly 
  opened 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  for 
  successfully 
  ac- 
  

   complishing 
  an 
  enterprise, 
  Avhich 
  is 
  both 
  full 
  of 
  historical 
  inter- 
  

   est 
  and 
  worthy 
  of 
  its 
  enlarged 
  munificence. 
  It 
  is 
  greatly 
  to 
  be 
  

   hoped 
  that 
  the 
  time 
  is 
  not 
  distant 
  when 
  one 
  collection, 
  at 
  least, 
  

   may 
  exist 
  in 
  the 
  country, 
  which 
  is 
  sufficiently 
  general, 
  and 
  suffi- 
  

   ciently 
  minute, 
  to 
  illustrate 
  the 
  social 
  life 
  and 
  the 
  artizan 
  intel- 
  

   lect 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  Indian 
  family. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  collateral 
  consideration 
  which 
  cannot 
  be 
  over- 
  

   looked. 
  In 
  the 
  fabrics 
  of 
  the 
  modern 
  Iroquois 
  there 
  is 
  much 
  to 
  

   inspire 
  confidence 
  in 
  their 
  teachableness 
  in 
  the 
  useful 
  arts. 
  

   When 
  their 
  minds 
  are 
  unfolded 
  by 
  education, 
  and 
  their 
  attention 
  

   is 
  attracted 
  by 
  habit 
  to 
  agricultural 
  pursuits, 
  as 
  has 
  become 
  the 
  

   case 
  to 
  some 
  extent, 
  there 
  is 
  great 
  promise 
  that 
  a 
  portion, 
  at 
  least, 
  

   of 
  this 
  gifted 
  race 
  will 
  be 
  reclaimed, 
  and 
  raised, 
  eventually, 
  to 
  a 
  

   citizenship 
  among 
  ourselves. 
  In 
  that 
  great 
  work, 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  

   the 
  State 
  have 
  a 
  part 
  to 
  perform. 
  It 
  would 
  be 
  a 
  grateful 
  specta- 
  

   cle 
  yet 
  to 
  behold 
  the 
  children 
  of 
  our 
  primeval 
  forests 
  cultivating 
  

   the 
  fields 
  over 
  which 
  their 
  fathers 
  roamed 
  in 
  sylvan 
  indepen- 
  

   dence 
  ; 
  and 
  worshiping 
  that 
  God, 
  in 
  the 
  fullness 
  of 
  light, 
  and 
  

   knowledge, 
  whom, 
  in 
  the 
  Great 
  Spirit, 
  however 
  imperfect 
  their 
  

   conceptions, 
  they 
  most 
  distinctly 
  discerned. 
  

  

  All 
  which 
  is 
  respectfully 
  submitted. 
  

  

  LEWIS 
  H. 
  MORGAN. 
  

   Rochester 
  y 
  January 
  22, 
  1851^. 
  

  

  