Harper's Weekly

“ Schurz is entirely correct in holding that a well-ordered Indian Bureau is as adequate to the control of our Indian relations as to any other proper function of the government. It is idle to furnish the Indians with improved arms to massacre the settlers, but it is equally idle to suppose that they can be civilized at the point of the bayonet. If it be assumed that they are vermin to be exterminated, the more overwhelming and sudden their destruction the better. But if our policy be one of civilization, they must be taught that we mean to enforce it consistently. ”