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Show UTAH SUPEPINTENDENCY. 147 The cruelties practiced by hostile savages have prejudiced our people against the whole race. The emigrants who traverse these plains, the set-tlers in these mountains, and the officers and soldiers who are here for their protection, are almost entirely in favor of the extermination of all Indians, and the constant exhibition of this feeling in the presence of our peaceful Indians discourages them and leads them to distrust our professions of friendship. Under my observation, and within my own experience, I know of only one rase of Indian outrage and dquredalwn thal has not commenced in the mis-conduct of the whiles. When the onblic sentiment in repard to the Indians sh.~ll,w ilile holding them to a strict responsibility fur tieir conduct, recog-nize tlieir rights as the or:ginnl possessors of the soil, and wltilc appropriat-inc tu ourselvt.~t heir ancienr L~,rncs.d estruvinc a s we must their means uf 1 suYbsistence, actuated by a spirit of .justice "to ibe poor, ignorant, degraded I race, provide for them other homes, other ways of subsistence, and seek by all the means in our Dower to he the instruments in the hands of the Al-mighty in guiding t1;em to the l~ighcrg round8 of civilizatiuu, morality, and Chrislianity, whicll it is the I~oastedp rivilege by our raw tooccupy-~f this, the humane oolicv of the n~vc*rno~eocut,u ltl receive from all classes uf our 1 people, especially those ~d h oh ave personal intercourse with the Indians, a cl~cerfulc o-operation, i t would be much more effective. Then, the Indian. I recoenizine the iuevitable destiny that awaited him. that before the s ~ i r i t u . . of e~brcr~rianad ~.iviliz:ltioni,n 11;s barb:~rismn ~tdig dorrrxace, he must pGrish uulras he shol~l.ln ubtoit hi~n.;~.tlof uur influencr, wuuld, under our teachings and wit11 tlleossistd~lre~ vcprotlcr,seekfu r the f i~tur~in, ,t hep~lthofi ndustry, for him and his people, peace, content, and prosperity. On the 30Lh of Jaut~ary last I wrote to the department, requesting that measures should he taken to give the Indians their goods in the month of August, so that they would, after receiving them, proceed to their winter hunting grounds before the snow fell in the mountains, and by sodoisg, ena hle the Indians to support themselves by hunting d ~ ~ r i nthge winter. I re-ceived a reply to my communication, dated the 7th of April last, in which I was informed "that the order for the purchase of these goods has already been made, and instrnctiuns sent to have thpm forwarded with all p3ssible despatch, sod nnless some unforeseen detention ocours they should reach their destiuation bv the time mentioned." Notwithstandiue the efforta of the department toget the goods here in time, there is no p;ospect of their 1 being received so as to distribute them urltil the middleof October, and then we are subject to the same difficulties we enoountered last year, as the I rno~tntainao ver which the Indians must Dass are alreadv covered with s.n ow. - The most uf the Indians wait fur the'C.oodn, and mben tll+>yrt .reivc t l~cm it m~l ll ~ etu o late to go to their l~~l n t i n~gM U I Ia~ndA w,e mill be compelled of ncvesxitr to assist them w~ t ho rovisiond d~lrinrrth e winter: t h i ~ilt creirst, the eat)t,n&s of tile superintend~ncyu t least oncrthird, wl~icl~.cabne avoided by the drlivery of the goods her<: by the fil'trentli uf iu,nuat, which can be accomnliehed b v cout~act inef or the trans~ortationb -v earlu mule trains. < instead of ox triins, as has &en the case heretofore. On the 14th of August 1 proceeded to Uintah valley to examine the Indiao reservation, to make myself familiar with its resources. I find it wcll ad;qott!d to tlle raising of btock, and am mure that1 ever convi!tced of the corwctnees of the policy of niaking uattlr h ~ ~ s l ~ a ntdhrey b uiiiness fur the it1di311s that 3re to bc settled then!. Our Indians are hv nature herds-men, aud will take care of cattle in preference to performing the more Iabo-rions service required in cultivating the ground. They prefer to live on meat; a very small quantity of grain or vegetables will supply them if they can have all the meat they want. |