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Volume 3 (1858-1859) (592 pages)
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156 HUTCHINGS’ CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE.
tricts, best suited to their wants, the
straggling tribes, already greatly reduced
in numbers, to make for them a new
home, where the natural elements of
their subsistence are sufficiently abundant to ensure to them, under moderate
labor, a maintenance from the farming
establishments formed for that purpose,
and liberally aided on the part of Government. The Indians are thus protected
and provided for within the limits assigned to them, under a salutary control,
while, by their removal, the white settlers, secured from their incursions, have
free scope for extending their improvements. Thus have favorable results been
generally obtained in the Atlantic States;
and though, with the exception, perhaps,
of the Cherokees, (where, by the mixing
of races, a prosperous nation of agricultural half-breeds has sprung up,) I know
of no instance of the difficult problem of
conservation and civilization of the red
men having been solved; their lot, considering the circumstances, has been
very much alleviated, and their transition to a kind of industrial existence has
stayed the annihilation of the race.
THEFISHING STATION ON THE RIVER NOYO, MENDOCINO.
The system, in itself, is comprehensive
and highly beneficial; though it has
been asserted in this respect, as in other
branches of public service, that practice
falls short of theory, and that the Indian
appointments, through the management
of Uncle Sam’s farms, are some of the
richest morsels in the gift of the leading
party, to reward political merit. It is to
this source (the envy arising from such
assertions) that most of the invectives,
and even vile aspersions, are to be attributed which repeatedly have been
heaped upon Indian Agents.
Considering the remoteness of the field
of action, the large contracts to be carried out for supplies of every kind to
large communities, at first wholly dependent on them; the management of
rations ; the providing materials for buildings, bridges, and unlooked-for emergencies; the position of an Indian Agent certainly embraces a large scope for action
and power, in which control is almost
impossible; the more acknowledgement
is due to the faithful fulfillment of the
arduous duties in this particular branch
of the public service. For the welfare or