We should be better pleased if we could actually see the good effects of these doctrines in your own practices rather than hearing you talk about them, or reading your newspapers on such subjects.

     You say, for example, "Why do not the Indians till the ground and live as we do?" May we not ask with equal proprity, "Why do not the white people hunt and live as we do?"

 

 

 

     The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized societies.

 

 

 

     In the government you call civilized, the happiness of the people is constantly sacrificed to the splendor of the empire. Hence the origin of your codes of criminal and civil laws; hence your doungeons and prisons. We have no prisons; we have no pompous parade of courts; we have no written laws; and yet judges are as highly revered amoung us as they are among you, and their decisions are as much regarded.

     We  have amoung us no exalted villains above the control of our laws. Daring wickedness is here never allowed to triumph over helpless innocence. The estates of widows and orphans are never devoured by enterprising swindlers.

     We have no robbery under the pretext of law.

 

 

 

     The white man's police have protected us only as well as feathers of a bird protect it from the frosts of winter.