Richmond Enquirer

[Report to be continued.]
DOMESTIC.
TREATY WITH THE KICKAPOO INDIANS.
ST. Louis, (Mo.) Dec. 8.—By the
terms of this treaty which was made in August
last at Edwardsville, the United States
gave to the Kickapoos land upon the Pomme
de Terre fork of the Osage river for
their claim upon the Sangamon river in the
state of Illinois, and in execution of the treaty
the Kickapoos have already been conducted
into the Missouri Territory.
The Pomme de Terre is a southern fork
of the Osage river, entering it some miles above
the mouth of the Younger, and not more
than 30 miles below the Great Osage villages.
The treaty cannot yet have been ratified
by the senate of the United States, although it
has already been carried partly into execution.
There are several good reasons why it
should not be ratified.
First, the country ceded to the Kickapoos
is the hunting ground of the Osages,
and in the immediate neighborhood of their
towns and cannot be occupied by the Kickapoos
under the authority of the United States,
without impressing the Osages with an unfavorable
opinion of the justice of our government
and laying the foundation of certain hostilities
between the Indians themselves.
Second, it is equally desirable to the Missouri
people to keep the Kickapoos off the
Osage river, as it was to the people of Illinois
to remove them from the Sangamon.
Third, they will have to be moved again
in a very short time, as their new position
in the neighborhood of the whites and Osages
will neither be desirable nor tenable by
them many years.
[St. L. Enq.