wealth and distinction.among these tribes in- as
marked a manner as among any peopledn th©
world. Industry, capacity, and integrity, are
strongly marked on the character and manners -
of. numbers in each of the tribes* The art of
speaking, and a facility in grasping objects of .
thought, and in the transaction of, business, ser
parate and distinguish persons as fully as physi-
cal traits do their feces. And- it is to be observed
that these intellectual traits run very muph in
certain families. That there -are numbers, on
the contrary, who are drones in the political hive,
who do not labor, or labor-very little; others who
are intemperate; others who neither work nor
Own land, or would long remain proprietors of
them, were new divisions and appropriations
rnade, and all of whom are a burden and draw*
back upon the industrious and producing classes,
it requires little observation to show. Admitting
what reforms, teaching and example may accomplish
among these,- it is yet certain that of
this number theje^re many who dp,not assimilate^
or appear" itp^onsMute material for assimilation
in tastes and Habits, with the mass,
nor appear likely to incorporate with them in any
practical shape where they now reside, in their
advances in agriculture, government and morals*
The hunter habit in these persons is yet strong,
but having nothing to stimulate it, they appear
loth to embrace other modes of subsistence.
Others stand aloof from labor, or at least all
active and efficient labor, from a restless desire
of change, or ambition to do something else than
plough and raise stock; or from ill-luck, penury,
or other motives. The proportion of the population
whp thus stand still and do not advance
in eivil polity, are a strong draw-back on the
rest. It is conceived to be a pertinent question
whether this cfess of . the population would not
find a better theatre for their progress and de-
velopement by migrating to -the west, where the
general government still possess unappropriated
territory at their disposal. It is believed by
many that their migration would result in benefit
to. both parties. The question is one which
has been often discussed by them in council,.and
is not yet, I should judge, fully settled. A point
of approach for the;. Iroquois has already been
formed in the Indian temtory by the -Senecas
and vShawnees from Sandusky in Ohio, who, at
the last accounts (vide President’s Message to
Congress, 1844), number in the aggregate 336
souls. They are loCatpd,on the Neosho river, (a
branch of the Arkansas), west of the western
boundary of the sta.te^of Arkahsas, where the reports
ofthe government agents represent them
Ha raising'horses; cattle and other stock, and be*
ing producers of grain; In any view, the subject
of the several classes of persons represented
in the accompanying tables, as semi-hunters and
nomcultivatprs, or individuals without lands, is
one entitled to attention. They should not be
permitted to liye within the boundaries of the
state without lands. The #tate should cherish