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CLEVELAND, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12. 1881.
SPEECH OF HON, JOS. E. BROWN
j Mr. President; 1 f 1 understand from the
amendment offered by the Senator
Massachusetts,[Mr, Hoar,] it is to con
j for ah the rights of a citizen of the
' United States upon an Indian who has
received his land on the reservation of
his tribe in severalty under this bill. I
j incline very strongly to think that the
radian who has settled liimsoif upon a
homestead is a citizen already, under
I ' the fourteenth constitutional amend
ment: but if he is not, I aui prepared
i vote to make him one whenever ho
j takes his land in severalty, - acd to give
i him the rigbtR 01 a Citizen It he lacks
anything. The history of our dealings
with the Indians is a sad history. And
I think we owe something to thorn.
Wheo the white people, few in number,
appeared upon the eastern shores of
this continent the Indians possessed it.
They wore powerful; they wera sover
eign; they were the monarebs of this
country; and it was by their toleration
that w'o rattled in their dominions.
Thera was no dictating to them by tho
persons who first came hero to settle
on tho eastern shores Tho white men
asked, may we purchase from you, the
owners, a homestead hero? The In
dians met them with kindness and bos'
pitality. When justice has been done
to them I belkve thoy have usually
been proverbially kind. Negotiations of land
were opened and certain tracts
were conveyed, not b| us to them, but
by them to us.
They had the power then at any time
to have exterminated tho settlements
upon the eastern shores of this conti¬
nent; and it would have taken armies
to plant colonies here that could have
sustained themselves. Thoy did not
tion think proper white to peopia do so. poured By tljaii| Bvind dera¬ in¬
tbe
creased in numbers uutil they became
most numerous, and commenced to dic¬
tate to the Indians; and the stronger
we became and the weaker they became,
the moro illiberal aud unjust was our
policy toward them. It reached a point
at a certain stage when it was adjudica
ted, I believe, by whole'territory our
that tnat Yve Yve owned owneii the the whole territory aod
they were mere occupants. It is true
we then treated them, I believe, as per¬
sons, but now the question is gravely
considered in the Senate and in the
courts whether th9y are persons under
the fourteenth constitutional amend¬
ment. The whole history of our deal¬
ing with them has, I think, been a his¬
tory of wrong, mostly on our part. A
distinguished officer of the Uuitod
States Army when approached on this
subject on one occasion said he never
know tbe Indian to violate a treaty, and
ho never knew the white men to observe
one. This may not be literally true,
but there is too much truth in it. I will
not go into a discussion of the various
outrages that have been porpetrated
upon them. As our people have ad¬
vanced farther west and found territory
they desired occupied by the Indians
we have soon found occasion to get up
disturbances or difficulties with them
that lea first to war, then to victory on
our part, then to negotiations and ac¬
cession of the territory on their part.
This has been tho sad history of our
dealings with them. We until have to-day grown
stronger and stronger we
number more than fifty million persons.
Thoy have beeu reduced all told as tho
last report shows, excluding Alaska, to
255,H38.
At the first settlement of the country
we were completely in theit power, and
they could dictate auy terms they pleas¬
ed to us. And when justly dealt by,
they were kind and ittdulgent to us.
Now they are in our power. We have
a right, at least we have the power to
dictate any terms we chooao. Have we
dealt as liberally with them as they did
us? We have driven them back from
vation. time to time, from reservation to reser¬
We have made treaties with
them that they are to hold the reserves
"as long as water runs and grass grows,’
but always get rid of the treaty when
we are dissatisfied with it or when we
covet the territory and determine to
have it.
Tbe biil now before us, as I under¬
stand, proposes to permit them to take
in severalty lands in the proportion
moDtioned in the bill within the reser¬
bill. vations assigned believe to they th'm. should I favor have tb§t tbe
I
same right that the white man has to
take homestead on their reservation,
and we should then give them a fee
simple title to it as we give to the white
citizen or settler. What inducement
have they now to labor to acquire pro
perty, to build houses, to clear lands,
and to tnako home3 comfortable for
their iuture dwelling, when i they know any
that they may be driven from it at
time when we choose to say they must
leave ? But wbeu we have allotted the
Sands to them and each has his land iu
then he is entitled to the
protection of the law; he can go for¬
ward and improve his homestead. If
he knows it ig fiis v he has a stimulant to
industry, and there is something to in¬
duce him to make a good citizen and to
bind hint to good conduct.
The man who is a robber and desires
to possess himself of the property of
the Indian goes upon tho reserve, steals
his ponies or his. cattle, and brings them
away. Is it unnatural that the Indian
should pursue ? t is it unnatural that he
,
should attempt to protect bis rights of
property? Ho would bo loss than a
human being if he did not seek to pro¬
tect theta. This Indian follows the rob¬
ber, and the result generally is a collis¬
ion-, sossebody fs killed; and then war.
Allot his lands to him in soveralty: give
him tlye right to build houses, to clear
plantations, to raise stock upon it, and
wo shall in a very short time Bee tho
progress in the far west that wo have
sosn it, the Indian Territory.
YVe will soon jlind tho Indians upoa
their hoajesteads advancing in civiliza
t'on; and trader .....•>-- tho bonigu influence ! - a 0 f
the Christian denominations, wo shall
soe Sunday schools and churches plant¬
ed among them-; a&d instead of roving
baDde without fixed habitations, goad
ed to desperation by injustice and
wrong, spreading death and dastruction
in their pathway, we shall' see them in
the comfortable homes of civilized man,
not only a Christian people but many of
them cultivated and honorable citizens
But the question is, shall tho Indian
be a citizen f l have said it scorns to
me ho is a citizen already under the
fourteenth constitutional amendment as
soon as bo severs his tribal relation aod
takes tho homestead that the law now
allows him to take. The fourteenth
amendment is very broad in its provis¬
ions. It reads thus:
All persons born or naturalized in the Uni¬
ted States, and subject to tho jurisdiction
tuereof, are citizens of the United States and
of the State wherein they reijdo. No State
shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge tho priviledgcs or immunities of eiti
jcen%of the United States; nor ehallapy Stat?
deprive any persou of life, liberty, or proper¬
ty, without due process of lat?, nor deny to
any person within r jurisdiction the equal
pr.-teution of the law.
t . . tho
original sovereign of this continent,
who had tbe title to it by a posseesion
that may have run back a hundred
generations; who met the while man
when ho came here kindly and fratern¬
ally, who during the wars that we have
had with him has shown gallantry of
tho highest order and oftentimes milita¬
ry genius uusurpassod—is he not a per¬
son?
Was King Phillip, who swayed tho
scepter over six powerful tribes, and
who when be felt that his rights had
been outraged, by his great geuigs and
powers of organization and persuasion,
formed a league of all the tribes of the
Atlantic slope, in a cause which they
considered sacred, not a person? Was
Logan, the great chief who neverturned
away from his cabin a white nfan who
asked his protection, and who never
took an undue advantage of an enemy,
not a person? Wa9 Tecumseh, whose
military genius was not surpassed by
any American ofiicer he met, and of
whom tho poet has said:
And long will the Indian warrior sing
The deeds of Tecumeeh the royal.
not a person ? Are the educated lead¬
ers of the five civilized tribes, same of
whom possess intelligence of the highest
order, not persons? Was Sequojah,
the author of the Cherokee alphabet
and dictionary, who reduced their Ians
guago to a system as complote as auy
other written language, not a person ?
The idea is absurvi. If they aro not
persons what are thoy? You hold that
the meanest and most ignorant uegro
who comes from the deepest juugle of
the darkest part of Africa and plants
himself here is a person, and yon pro
Sotabe naturalization laws by which he
has a right to become a citizen.
Every human being—
Said Governor Horatio Seymour
born upon our continent, or who comes here
from auy quarter of tbe world, whether savage
or civilized, can go toourcourts for protection,
except those who belong to tribes who once
owned this country. Tho cannibal from tho
islands of tbo Pacific, tbe worst criminal
from Europe, Asia, or Africa, can appeal to
tho law and courts for tbeir rights of person
and property; ail save our native Indians,
who above all, should be protected from wrong
The Indian on the western piain* who
shows genius aud gallantry and man -
hood is denied evou an existence as a
person. Note the of Constitu¬
language the
tion:
Ail persons born or naturalized in tbo United
Slates, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States.
YVe claim that the jrniadielion of this
country extends to ih« Pacific Oean.
Was the Indian born within that limit?
No one questions it; He does oat ask
you for naturalization. He cares no
thing about tbe uniform rules yon may
make on that subject. He claims his
right as a birthright. He was born in
tho United States, aud he is a person,
(to be continued)
“Left fiver.”
About midnight on the night of the
5th, a Woodward Avenue policeman
discovered a female seated in a dark
hallway and apparently fast asleep. It
was not until he took hold of 1 er
arm that she suddenly put her right foot
against his body and sent hirn down
three steps and out tho doorway, follow¬
ed by the remark:
‘Young man don’t you come spooking
around here uuloss you want to loose a
leg!’
“Who are yon?’ inquired the officer,
as he cautiously advanced again
1 Tou go ’long, sir!' she replied
He was several minutes assuring her
of his official position ami bis desiro to
be of anysorvice to hor, and when bar
mind was easy on that she replied.
‘I come down here from Canada on
an excursion, and got left over/
’Row long have you been here ait the
stairs !’
‘About an hour, I guess.’
‘Aud will you go to a hotel ?’
‘Naw 1’ she replied in tones of dis¬
gust, Tea going to slummix around
hero till daylight, and then I'm going
to cross on tho boat. You don’t catch
mo paying out no money at a hotel.’
‘Don't you feel afraid ?'
‘I rather think I don't/ she replied,
as sho roso up and showed a figure
about five feet ten in height, and weigh¬
ing about one hundred acd sixty pounds.
‘It's kind o’ dark and purty dusty in
here, and there's a good many rats
running around, and if you hear
screams fur help "twist now and day¬
break you may reckon that some fool of
a man has come along aud sassed me,
ami that I've lit down on him !'
•Well, I guese you'll get along.'
‘You bet I will J I can wh'stle some,
and sing purty well, but if I had a
mouth organ and a hunk of gum I
might feel more lively. Never mind,
though ’Taint over four hours to day¬
light, and I’m used to setting up all
night,,
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Brandy and 'Brains,
From Ohio comos a capital story
which all who lovo a good joke will
relish, whatever they may think of
teetotalism or the tricks of scurvy
political mountebanks to make capital
out of pretended zeal for “temperance/
A teetotal lecturer led off as follows:
'"All of those who in youth acquire a
habit of drinking whisky, at forty
years of age will be total abstainers or
drunkards. No one can use whisky
with moderation. If there is a person
in tho audience before mo whose.exper¬
ience disputes this, iet him now make
it known. I will account for it, or ac¬
knowledge that I am mistaken.”
A tall, largo man arose and folding
his arms iu a dignified manner across
his breast, said distinctly:
"I offer myself as ooo whose own
experience contradicts your statement'
“Are you a moderate drinker?” ask¬
ed the Judge.
“I am' ' • I
“How long have you drunk iu mod¬
eration?"
“Forty years.’’
“And were uev«.r intoxicated?''
“Nevor.”
“YVell,” remarked the Judge, scan¬
ning his subject closely from head to
foot, “ yours is a singular cause, yet I
think it is easily accounted for. L am
remined by it of a little story. A ne¬
gro man, with a loaf of bread aud a
flask of whisky, sat down to dice by
the bank of a cloar stroam. In break¬
ing tho bread some of the crumbs drop
ped into tbe water. These were eag¬
erly seized and eaten by the fish. , That
civeumstauce suggested to the darkov
the idea of dipping tho bread iu the
whisky and feeding it to them. He
tried it. It worked well. Some of the
fiish ate of it, became drunk, and doat>
ed helplessly on the water. In this
way be easily caught a number. But
in the stream was a large fish very un¬
like tbe rest. It'partook freely of the
bread and whisky,_ but without any
peraeptibio effeot. It was shy of every
effort of the darkey to take it. He re
solved to have it at all hazards, that he
might learn its name and nature. He
procured a net, aud after much effort
caught it, carried it to a negro neigh¬
bor, and asked -his opinion of the mat-
ter. The otner su.veyed the wonder
a moment, aD<i then said:
“Sambo, I undorstand dis case. Dat
fish is a mullet head. It ain’t got any
brains.’
“In other words," said tho Judge,
“alcohol affects only the brain, and of
course, those having none may drink
with impunity/'
The storm of laughter that followed,
drove the forty years' moderate drinker
suddenly from the house.
Vvhat is the difference between a
drummer boy* and a pound of meat ?
One weighs, a pouiid aud the other
pounds away.
ch $1 A YEA I!
NO. 5
1 lilies light as air—Bording house
pillows.
’/ should blush to simper,’ is tho
atest slaug.
1
‘Am I froze? is the regular Minneso¬
ta salutation.
An eff irt made (or the happiness of
others lifts us above ourselves.
Death has consign M many a mart to
fauio, when a D- gu- life «.vu;;U pavs
consigned him to in. n.-e.
There are m i . : -.ir¬
on grace, many sno ,.l
charity.
Smoking io injurant•<
man was killed by falling
his pipe.
The man who ‘kept hi9 wo u’
serious offense to Webster, was a. iron
it for his dictionary.
,1 can t do it/ never did any /Mag.
Til try has worked wonders; and ‘I
will do it,' has performed miracles.
Anger is the most important passion
that accompamos the mind of man, id
affects nothing it goes about, and hurts
tbo one tnat is possessed by it, morn
than any other against whom it is di¬
rected.
‘We wont indulge in such horrid an¬
ticipations/ as tho henpecked husband
said whan the parson to'd him he would
be joined to bis uife in another world,
never more to be separated from her.
‘Parson, l hope you will not mention
this unpioasaut circumstance again,’
said he.
A newspaper subscriber who refuses
to receive from ois postmaster a paper
on which there remains a portion of
the subscription unpaid, tenders him¬
self liable to prosecutoiu. Io has re¬
cently been decidod that such an act
on tho part of subscribers is prirna facie
evidece of intentto defrand the newspa¬
per publisher. It would he well for
dishonestly inclined persons to pasta
this on their demijohn, where they will
bo apt to see it several times a day.—
Athens Banner.
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