I shall let Indian life speak for itself; these true pictures of its course will tell its whole simple story better than any labored exposition of mine.

Here we may see, not the red man of the novel or the drama, but the red man as he appears to himself, and to those who live with him.

His better characteristics will be found quite as numerous as ought to be expected under the circumstances; his faults and his sufferings should appeal to the hearts of those who hold the means of his salvation.

No intelligent citizen of these United States can without blame forget the aborigines of his country.

Their wrongs cry to heaven; their souls will be required of us.