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From the lllin. is Monthly Magazine’
N THE INTKftCOUHSE OF THE
AMi'.ltIC iN PEOPLE JViTH. THE
INDIANS,
' ^COPTlNltffiD.), ,
jKeod we pursue the navigators Of
lese and other tiulions tp the diffei-
#| quarters o*" the globe into which
uieutitic curiosity., mercantile enter-
lise'ahdjfri^l skill v h«,“ penetrated?
u 'h ah^jVesligation. would but 'add
ew fan is lit Support of the positions
e have taken; & We think it nnueees-
ary to buitlifrian article like this
,’ilh an aceuriauialed.mass of testimo-
y. We prefer to "throw out ttic
inis, leaving intelligent readers to
poke the application, and to draw
he proofs from ihe stores of his own
memory, „ .
We in ay pause here to. inquire, how
it has happened, that wherever the
civilMd European JiM place his foot
upon heathen soil, he seems at once
to have beenjransfqrined into a i>»r-
barian. All the refinements of civi
lized life, seem to have been forgot-
ten. 1.1 is benevolence,-his sensibility
his high sepsa.pfj^nttery'hw-mee: per
cept ion of' justi $ his gua dt'd de
portment, his long habits of integrity,
punctuality and kindness, eve all
thrown aside; and not only has he
beep less honest than the savage in his
dpaCmgi, hut bs? far out-stripped hilfc
ill ail the Worst propensities of huuion
Mature—in avarice, revenge, rapine,
and
giant classics were carefully conceal- w
M>ffdm the .public dye; and the
ciences which - were at all ~
d,**wer<MJfJv#laped ig tbe jari
t; the dead languages, No * system
( ^ould have been more M«#oe or
-more sucgegjf^ than tbits to clothe
the treaties of Ijglwledge. in*
guages difficult of.aUainmcnt, anttac-
cessible only to the Jiigh-bbrn and
.vvcglthyr? for as the latter are pre
cisely Uie persons who seldom under
go the labor of.unlocking the store?
of ^earning, and who still less fre
quently teacli what they • have ac
quired, tfl,others, la ov turn their acqui
sitions to any profitable account,-such
a system amounted in practice Jo a
monopoly of learning in the hands of
the priesthood. ; And if i? curious to
retnark-i-if I may lie indulged in mak
ing thq, remark in this placer-that
Uie monastic system of education,
ftius originating in a ’foul, conspiracy
against the intellect of man., and de
signed Jo''accumulate the stores of
ki.ioyvle'dge in Hie 5 hands of a few, and
to wither Up the vigor and enterprise
of the common people in the imbe-
f lu^dlgss ignorance, was the
plan wtiieli hit file colleges of Europe
at first \vkre' founded, & is 6till the
plan. 'with but little variation, of all
our seminaries of learning; the alumni
of which, il they ever acquire distinc
tion, obtain it not by the aid, but in
spite, of their college educations.
Nut only were the people of that
day destitute of education, but the
intercourse,of nations ivith each bt.hr
““ '“■ i '' i! *“vto,|J e discovery of tile
rtrraei » b
he frmthn press ion
, . ,
Jhe nrftfltnpressfons; h>
ift evil example^ how dii
eradicateprejudice;
possible to eojifthet
Cited passion
andkiiidi’elationsfJn'i
rii- toll AOs oHwinult, eri^
-i-it is not difficult
chain of circuinstasces, he
the tertaiuiy of cause a,
which'haVe perpefu
and misdeeds of till*
ADVOCATE,
Vp*. IV,
WBM
the statesmeft of his day. lje not on
ly knew that such arts were dishonest,
intercourse with" and condemned them as against con-
agl
the saitie moral ob- science, but he alto saw that lionesiy
was the*best polfcy, ‘‘His great mind
rtas uniform v influenced’ s ih_ his inter
course With tile aborigine? by those
immutable principles of just wo.
Ihrdhgh the daspiiBMi^. m
their descendants, and ooeratimr with
eqtiaf power upon thfeTiliappy vic
tims of oppression. : "T,
in the settlement of North America
conduct of the wbit*4wdAt£
Indians was lar less blameabJe than
the instances above quoted; hut it,
was by no means free frotq., violeuoft;,
1 lie founders or New England
pious race, »»ho brought with
political creed far moreenligl]
and a much purer system ofiT,
action, than any portion of
had yet learned to tolerate
ere 7 disposed to act conscient
th«:ir public, as welJ as their
vate concerns; and their reia
itb the Iadiaifs ivcie. cqi
qify and good faith,
init v
ev,
matjitier’u compass, ,ivas extreniely
limited; dnd (be.,w.onder%l facilities
for gaining and diffusing intelligence,
afforded by v the art of 'navigation, had
mrt jntrto
of (j.olumbus aftd Corte?.; '
Again, the era, of which I - sp
was a |nartial age. The people were
every whet to, accustomed to scenes
of Vrolphce. The right of con
uust was universally acknowledged;
The act of gairt and the power of
holding, Tiy fraud or force, city ays
vested a siiffieieht title. Private
pro
rights, whether of person o^j. p roper-
ty, wttfe but little underiUioir anu ii-
‘HtrersuHy disregarded; knd national
jitstiCtoV in any Enlarged systematic
sense,, w as neither practised nor
fessed.
4( way? besides, an of intoler-
topeevbigotry, superstition and cleri
pul^leBpotism; when those who reg
ulfltod the injnds and consciences of
teeth, iverto monsters of depiavit)
monuments of perverted taste, Intel,
tect; and morals, arrSidolies iiVthe in
ltfe--me,i iyho
irom society,; aliein
from its business, gtrangers to its do
JUpodthirstinesB, and iVhoton to
^ t t f • ; ■ tei course of human
In searching out ih# moving causes lived ^nslfahg'^'
of this apparent l> unotnaltou^ op "
«f(he humdh toiwilt»% MW*
**. nn «i rue. numan Binurwy mnw,ri, tneslic relations, .enemies to its best
n / , ..{«cumstances Rtoetd to hgve Interest, it? nobligst virtues, its kind*
b|t wife ytot presided
«1 uSS.ltSwrh.riP*"' 7 ' 1 re -l"' '■ h »'“'“f ■ to? IM«i 01 > m
mark 1 , Orrfj'.lrf*, 4 Hy
tff iliicoiJWf wM »ii ag# « iei
Nona’of fltto great fhuntatns of
hadjet been opened to poilr o?
penetrated Jo
globe*.and t "
soverers
1‘tons ef
Id have governed
■civilised men* in
epk^they were loose
8%; Jbey threw off the or-
rafets of social Jifef the
sober virtues were laid a-
- to-hjlle ; aS individuals they
m m ; T , ; s?i#h'fidenoe by their irregu
larities, they lost it as a body politic*
by weak councils, and bod failh.—
It is th be recoHacted that the colo
nies were infmdeis in a strange fand;
they wad ; to islablish a character.—
S"®ir very- coming, was suspicious.
There was rig s reason wUy the natives
oufd f think them beUpr- than they
; .but many, why they might
" to be worre. > < -Pbe* hi-
virlues in their sim-
BOtise those w hioh^they
4 nctuality; >a~
the iaith-
whicli
evtory where, and lor all 'purposes
must be regarded as fnndaitnerital, if
human exertions are. to be ,,ciowned
with noble and permanent results.”
{Fanx 7 8 Jtmicersary Li course.) * In
the 18th, 14tjiand 1 Slh sect lops of
the const i t ill it n 6/ his colony if w as
provided, as follow s*. i ; i I£o man shall,
by any ways Or meane, in wo<d or
deed, affront or wrong an Indiaii, but
l»« shall i^jeur the same ‘penalty of the
law as ij'he bad cOmnp’Ud it against
his felldiv planter, nn(J if 'any Indian
shall abuse in w ord oi deed, any plan-
t er of t he province; 1 lie shall not be
his own judge upon the Indian, but be
Shall make his i ompfaiut'fojhe gov
ernor, or some interior, magistrate
near him, who, shaft to the uunost of
his power, take care \\itb lk«^hg of
tbe;.said Indian, that : allTreasonable
fault p r as tiieir religious
Theirs,was an intolerant a
not surprising that a Jiei
persecuted one another qn *
seciarian differences ol opipi
have little charily for
They who burned old w«l
ulging in the in iocent p»«p
mg on broom-sticks, lined quaSJ'
wearing broad brimmed hots amf eh?
actisd, from tho purest impulse .©I
a| i
jmI
principle? of/oniluot'tvhteh now reg*
ulate tho intercourie tf meiv and of
nation?.; Jin Eu.rAptor.4bc• ^roat.
o f tfe? p
f?hh sfcootl EnbfhtlthtoThrene and
iustt»k>vh'?qtj who lidld the heart
stl'-iegB of h«d> the peer,
and wielded Urn empires,
prliile they grasped tlie havd earning
qfthe industrious poor, it wi*
shorty ’ tho age of the inquisition and
the rack when opinions were regu
lated by law and enforced by th#
* tbsrrpearv aid when de-f
from > r«tnbli«hed maxims
etdv andftUrah. *
ov such
thp irttteto
n
_ e rs »wb<vled>.the, way
overy end colonization, of <ptr new
[•Aftac lauclcd themselves, pririltived
to oppress Hie 'uncivilized liidfan.
They could not brook the idea of as
sociating uiill beatlieos as vvilh e-
quals, they looked Upon them with
scorn, anti negotiated With them as
vf.il h mfuiiuis. flow ever a sense of
duty might. I'edfrgiA them from open
iii&ult or injury, they could not con-
teal their Jibhorronce of the persons
and principles of their new allies.
That a free untamed race, accustom
ed to nq superiors, should long re
main in amicable intercourse, with a
precise sectarian people .tvbo held,
them iuaWiler aversion, was not to he
expected; and accordingly^ wet find
that tlib Utolfrvfv friendship of these
parties w’a8 soon interrupted. Tbto,
stern ancestors of the Warrens, P«t-
nams, and Adamses, however well
they understood lbc farther in , re,
w ere buf indifferently skilled in the
suapifer in mode. Wars etisutod, and
sting peace was over restored,
until the Indian tribes were* eAtim,
guifhed or driven frorrf the cpnntry.
In the southern coldhiesf we find
the same consequences, resulting
from nearly the same causes, eVinc-
tojJ,. however, lb a bdmewhat different
modus operandi: The English . were,
kindly received by the natives, but
no'sustained eflbrt bras Vystemtotlcally
made by the formtor td mnintaiu the.
cordi ' 1 *- ***
OW
‘ JM
111
unprestinna
made jipon the Indian mind!
tVe mention these facts for tSie
purpose of showing that civilized na
tions have never yet made a fair ex
periment of the practicability of
cliiislfanizing the savage tribes; for
although efforts of this kind have been
attempted upon a limited scale, they
have every where been preceded and
neutralised by injuries and insults" of
so flagitious a character, ns to induce
those upon whom they were perpe
trated, to look with jealousy upon all
Subsequent advances, however ap
parently benevolent,. from the same
quafjim'’ We do not mean to infer
tbatjhto breach jsjo wide that it can
never lie repaired; but merely to re
fute those lylio tell us tha#the Indians
cannot be ciyTlized, by allowing that
their assertjpns are pot supported by
lJeforcwe coujd admit a
ftanrie
^
mode and measorV's of jnstice ia pfr"
scribed to both; and while bis strict-
adiieienee to the great principks of
civil and rcligibus freedom, entitleth©
virtuous renrto the highest place ti
a lawgiver and benefactor of man
kind, it justly.earned for him, from
the Indians especially, (he affection*
at© title by which they always spoke
ol him, ‘-their great and good OmJ.”
1 lie result. Was,-, (hat so long aS’
Pennsylvania remained under the
immediate government of,its foun
der, the most* amicable rclaions
were maintained with (lie natives..
His scheme of government embraced
nu military artn; neither troojix, forts,
nor any areied peasantry; The doc
trine of keeping peace by being pie-
pared for war, ebtered" not inio his
' ! befdre ihat enterprise
yaqjefAOedv “The emigftitftij. ntot^
withst'anding. he orders they rbceiy*
and Jiad neither mked permission w
^ they oecupied their couht ry, nor'
en n price fer then valuable pr< ‘
which was. .*?**—*•- - t
The miserie.to.
'evidence.
conclusion which, would present <so
strange a paradox in the pluJosophy of
the human mind- it must be shown
that civilization ha? been presented
to them in an amiable aspect, that it
hqs been offered upon tire terms which
they qould accept tynh credit and ad
vantage, and that the invitation has
btoem given by those in whose profes
sions they had some* reason to place
confidence., ;
We llimk that we can prove that
we have rightly estimated tho con-
ducEpf ujje wjhitea,'in the live last in
stances which jvfe have quoted; hf ro
te ir in g to two others in which a cpn-
bo *. u
lich the results justify our posi
x .. ........ into his -
ysteni; his maxim was to avoid “a/Z
occasion, of heart ''burnings, and niis-
chiafs,” ami to retain the friendship
of ins neighbors by neyer appearing,
to doubt if, The Indians, savige as
thoy are represented to be; and as «n-
deed’lhey .»re, were awed and wop
l?y a policy so fost'ffnd pacific; and
tli® Quakers liad no Indian wars.—-
The horrors of the firebrand, and the
tomahawk, af which- other cplonist
had such dreadful experience, w ere
unknown to them, and they cultivated
their, farms in pettfeto, with «oj»thcr
armour, fhmiptlttt. powerful name of
Penh, & the inoffensiveness of their
owa live?. In VPatsoh^s “Account of
inowl- covery anu coimuzauui
rie»t?v »«<?tteiie«nAVtee with
piiestatheftoldiej, and thomsr- (&»« a
inert man inured to cruelly, vio1enee der tho
eon- aud rapiue, and from wh&se codes of all th«H
The first is the' case of &iH- vania, we find the A
own was therefore, to discover fiie tnotiveft sufficient respect Tor the Indians to me newy artifices^ of diplo.nBcy,
. 9 Tho'an- ivffich governed all their actions: and treat them with civility, or negotiate | which were considered justifiable by
enirgtitened'mab
ct„ consulted, his con-
ofrrffhfraw.1 wrrng,
^Knowledge of human nature.
si
Buckingham and Solebury,” {in Penn
sylvania^ puldWied in the Memoirs
oflhto Historical Society of Pernisyl-.
| vania, we find the following sitiking
in remark*i “In I«90, there were ma
tt- ny settlements tef Indian? in these
in thtoir honour
e%ity his own
and
with
iliod, and responsi-
,,Jru*{ing implicitly
and pledging hi sinr
He was a mao of en-
townshlps.^ ' * * •
“TradHiWi repwrtr tlfat they were
kind neighbors
people .with
witlh* b
views, whose mjnd was almve course
’ " ‘ simplicity relgne
tent. The uiffie
9*
erence
W ivhito
UfiMift
bles;
h
andk
tyere
armo^
inter-
m*'
greatest ex*
between the
