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February 2, 1857
Lynchburg Daily Virginian
Lynchburg, Virginia
What is this article about?
In the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, during discussion of the Indian Appropriation bill, Mr. Crittenden criticized the failure of U.S. Indian policy and its high costs, while Mr. Cass highlighted the moral challenges and Indians' aversion to manual labor as barriers to civilization.
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When the Indian Appropriation bill was under discussion in the Senate, on Tuesday, Mr. Crittenden remarked that our whole Indian policy had proved a failure, and sufficiently indicated that Congress had mistaken the true means for attaining the beneficent ends it had proposed. The expense attending our intercourse with the Indians had reached a frightful amount—being greater than that of the whole General Government in the early days of the Republic; and Mr. Cass also spoke briefly on the subject of our Indian relations, which he thought constituted a difficult moral problem for the solution of the American people. The Indian's repugnance to all manual labor seemed to interpose an insuperable obstacle to his civilizing.
What sub-type of article is it?
Indian Affairs
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Indian Appropriation Bill
Senate Discussion
Indian Policy
Crittenden Remarks
Cass Speech
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Crittenden
Mr. Cass
Domestic News Details
Event Date
On Tuesday
Key Persons
Mr. Crittenden
Mr. Cass
Event Details
During Senate discussion of the Indian Appropriation bill, Mr. Crittenden stated that U.S. Indian policy had failed, Congress had erred in methods, and expenses exceeded early Republic government costs. Mr. Cass described Indian relations as a difficult moral problem, with Indians' aversion to manual labor hindering civilization.