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Show 8 BEPOET OR THE reported, the agents have been instructed to notify the wrong doers that their acts were in violation of law and the faith of treaties, and that they must cease their trespasses and retire outside of the Indian reservations. Many of the intruders have wholly disregarded the admonitions and warnings of the officers of the Indian service, and to compel obedience and to vindicate the good faith and authority of the government in this behalf the military arm has been invoked and called into requisition; and under instructions recently issued by di-nection of the President, it is expected that all persons remaining nn-lawfully upon any of the Indian reservations in Kansas Territory after a period to be fixed, and of which they will have notice, will be forcibly ejected therefrom. However disagreeable it may be to resort to this extreme measure, the condition of those Indians is such as to require it, and the obligations of the United States towards them can-not be discharged without its application. If persons within that Territory will persist in trespassing upon the rights of the Indians, after the admonitions so often repeated to them, all fair minds must sanction the proceedings of the government in its forcible expulsion of them from the Indian reservations. Causes of complaint and dis-satisfaction have also existed among the tribes who ceded their lands in trust to the United States, because of the encroachments of the whites upon these lands in advance of their being surveyed and offered for sale at public auction. The act of Harch 3, 1855, authorizing the President to cause these trust lands to be classified and appraised be-fore they are offered for sale, will, it is believed, enable the govern-ment to execute the trust in good faith ; and the agents have been in-structed to assure the Indians that they may rely upon the faithful execution of the stipulations for the sale of these trust lands. The recent executive of the Territory in fixing the election districts and appointing voting places, and in establishing the executive office, did not regard the organic law, which excluded Indian reserves from its operation, but embraced several reservations within the districts, and authorized polls to be opened in them. He also established his executive office within the Shawnee country. The territorial legisla-ture, following his example, held its session at the Shawnet? mission, and by its enactments has embraced some of the Indian reserves within the organized counties--all which is clearly a violation of treaty stipu-lations and the act creating the Territory. Many of the emigrants to, and settlers in the Territory of Kansas, are engaged in bitter controversy and strife in relation to the institn-tions to be formed there, as applicable to the condition of the African race; yet the hostile factions seem to have no sympathy for the red man; but, on the contrary, many of both sides appear to disregard his interests and trespass upon his rights with impunity. The condition and circumstances of the four leading tribes of the southern superintendency-the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws-continue to afford gratifying evidences of increasing prosperity and improvement in the elements of civilized life. The peace and good order prevailing amongst them and their earnest efforts to improve their physical and moral condition, entitle them to the warm and active sympathies of our people, and the liberal and |