General Sherman has recommended that the Red Indians of the
Pacific States should all be driven to certain reserved lands, and there be trained to civilization. The Red Indians object, but the General believes that if they are incessantly attacked outside the Reservations and left in peace within them, they will ultimately see the wisdom of remaining within their boundaries. There, he admits, they will probably degenerate into a mass of helpless paupers. He advises that the Indian Department should be abolished, and the entire control of the tribes transferred to the War Office. The latter recommendation is, we believe, a humane one, as the settlers are far more cruel than the soldiery,--suffering much more,—and, if the Indians could be induced to agree to it, a province of their own would be a refuge. The hunting tribes, however, will not settle, and General Sherman scarcely conceals his belief that his plan involves a war of extermination. The same interne- cine contest breaks out in Mexico, though there the wild Indians often obtain the advantage.
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