Eadle Keatah Toh

A Dying Nation.

There are suggestions of little but sadness in the story which is told of the forthcoming payment of the last of the instalments for which the Miami Indians, in the time of President Pierce, compounded the government annuity to which by a previous treaty, they were entitled forever. Their Great Father, it would seem, did not scruple to take advantage of the improvidence and the ignorance of legal and business methods which have gradually reduced this once powerful tribe from a princely domain to a few patches of Indiana swamps. The essence of the reproach in this case lies in its representative character. As this tribe has been treated so have all the Indian tribes on this boasted continent of bounty and freedom for all been treated. There is not room on the planet for the Indian and the pale face to dwell side by side. The beautiful doctrine of the survival of the fittest may be here illustrated, but the doctrine is an impeachment of the American theory of government which made this continent an asylum for the oppressed of other lands, and an impeachment of some of the highest theories of modern civilization.-N. Y. Evening Telegram.