I grant that good may have been done; that, in the end, it may be shown that elevation and enlightenment have followed from even this contact with a superior civilization and religion. God causes the wrath of man to praise Him; and even the sinful and the selfish acts of men are made the servants of His will. But that is hardly to be put to the credit of the thus indirect instruments of good. Rather, by what this good lacks of that which Christian motive and effort might have accomplished, we are guilty before God. The horrors enacted and still enacting on the dark continent of Africa—for the slave trade still continues—the enforced ignorance and enforced vice of two centuries and a half, the engrafting of the vices of civilization upon those of heathendom, are the charges which this nation has to meet before the bar of God. It is a debt which never can be paid. Is there no claim on us from the American Negro? How is it with the Indian? The original occupants of the territory now covered by these United States, and its possessors, as much as wandering hunters can be the owners of the soil, our fathers found them. What have they gained from us? The greed of the white man has pursued them from that day to this. From place to place they have been driven. Bargains have been broken and treaties violated, in almost every instance, first by the white man. The true history of almost every Indian war (so called) has been begun by the violence or provoked by the faithlessness of the white man. It was true of the Modoc, the Sitting Bull and the Nez Percès wars, and that evidently. What have we given the red man? Whisky and powder; the vices of civilization, and the means of war. A few missionaries have been among them, devoting themselves, with heroic self-denial, to the work of educating and elevating them, and, wherever the tribes among which they have labored have been far enough away to escape the too frequent trader and the settler, they have been teachable, have come to occupy farms, and learned to labor and to pray. Perhaps the halting and uncertain policy of the government has been its worst crime toward them for these last thirty years. And now, even under the peace policy, which has done very much for them, their disabilities are of the greatest.