president Dwight. shared in his sympathies and prayers. In New York and its vicinity, he continued a number of days. After a sermon in the Middle Dutch church, the contributions amounted to three hundred and thirty-three dollars. At Philadelphia, he collected between seven and eight hundred dollars. As a specimen of his energy and perseverance, it may be mentioned, that he began his solicitations one morning at the head of one of the principal commercial streets, and went into every counting-room, down on one side of the street, and up on the other, in a day, presenting the claims of the Indians, receiving from some an entire refusal, and from others a few dollars. The late Stephen Girard contributed twenty-five dollars. He thus describes his journey to Baltimore.

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"Next morning, June 20th, I continued my journey, and passing through one village only, Abingdon, arrived in Baltimore on the evening of the same day, and put up at the Fountain inn, kept by Mr. John Barney. Here I continued until after the Sabbath, when I was invited to take up my residence in the lovely family of J. C., Esq. Here I continued while I remained in Baltimore, and was permitted to prosecute my object with all the earnestness I pleased. I proposed to Dr. I. and obtained his consent. to preach in his church on Sabbath evening, June 29th, to an united audience of different denominations of Christians. When this arrangement was entered into, I did not anticipate making any personal solicitation at all. When the evening came, unfortunately for the cause as we supposed, the weather was too inclement to permit a general attendance. As it was, I preached and had a collection of two hundred and five dollars.

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preach twelve miles distant, on the way to Washington, at a place called Elk Ridge. It became necessary, therefore, that I should part with my Baltimore friends. Two of them, however, had concluded to honor me with their attendance, which rendered parting less painful than it would have been to break away from all at once. In the family of Mr. C., I had become attached, and had reason to believe I was blessed with a large share of their affection in return. When I bid them farewell, Mrs. C. and her daughter manifested as much affection by their tears and sobs as ever did my own mother and sisters. Unable to say deliberately what she wished, Mrs. C. had committed it to writing, and requested me to read the note when I had left them. It was as follows:

"Dear Sir,-As time will not admit of conversation, I must request in this way an interest in your prayers, occasionally, for myself and family. Accept my best wishes for your health and happiness, and my sincere prayer shall be that you may be preserved from the temptations of the world. I feel for you nearly the same interest a mother does for an own son.

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'Yours, with affection,

M. C.'

"Thus I left this family, a family to whom I shall ever be indebted, and whom I trust I shall never forget."

Mr. Cornelius remained in Washington several weeks, and preached upon the objects of his agency in the city, and in the surrounding country. He here received an additional commission from the American Board of Missions, authorizing him to give particular attention to the plans which were then devising for the benefit of the Indian tribes. He was directed to express to the late secretary of war, the Hon. William H. Crawford, the high

estimation in which the Board regarded his services in connection with the Indian mission, and to assure him that it was the settled purpose of the Board to form in the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek nations, establishments similar to the one which had been formed at Brainerd in the Cherokee nation; and also to promote with energy and perseverance the great design of imparting to those four tribes, the blessings of civilization and Christianity.

Mr. Cornelius accordingly opened a correspondence with Mr. Crawford, secretary of the treasury, Mr. George Graham, acting secretary of war, Mr. Thomas L. McKenney, agent for the office of Indian trade, and other gentlemen. From every officer of the government, with whom he had intercourse, he received warm assurances of friendship and co-operation. Throughout the administration of Mr. Monroe, a decided interest was manifested in favor of Indian civilization. One of the officers wrote

after the following tenor. "From the war department, which is charged by the laws with the management of the Indian tribes, you have received assurances of all the assistance which the means placed at its disposition will permit. In this cause, that department will be supported by the other departments, with the decided approbation of the president. But the means of the executive are inadequate to the establishment of a system commensurate with the importance of the object. It is impossible to determine whether these means will be increased with a view to second the efforts of the executive government in this benevolent undertaking. If an appropriation equal to that which has been made for the purpose of improving them in agriculture could be obtained, my hope of success would be sanguine, Fifteen thousand dollars a year is nothing to this nation, compared to the great interest of civilization and humanity, which I fondly hope could be effectually secured by the judicious application of it in the education of our children of the forests."

Another individual, high in office, thus expresses his feelings. "If I could aid in the promotion of a design, so benevolent as that of reforming our own Indians, and of promoting civilization and Christianity among those Indians who live beyond the limits of the United States, it would afford me great satisfaction. There are no means within my control, which I would not gladly put in immediate requisition for the promotion of such a work. Aboriginal reform, is a labor requiring much and various exertion; and resources more abundant than have hitherto been employed. Nor is it owing to any cause other than a want of judicious management and suitable means, that so many thousands of our Indians remain to this hour, ignorant in almost all matters relating both to their present and future happiness. As to our government, I KNOW it is benevolent—the pillars on which it rests are formed in mercy. If any measures can be devised, promising the extension of the happiness of any portion of the human family within its limits, those, who constitute this government, stand ready to furnish the means. Nothing, I am sure, within their province, or which they have power to afford, will be withheld."

It were well for the honor of the country, and for the condition of the Indian tribes, if our national government had always been actuated by the noble feeling which is implied in these remarks. It shows that the spirit of Washington, who was a father to the Indians, as well as father to his country, animated at least some of his

successors.

It is not pretended by these remarks, but that the relations of our government with the Indian tribes, are involved in difficulty. It has ever been the fact. In different periods of our history, the Indians have been called upon, not only to revenge their own quarrels, but to furnish a mercenary guerilla for the English, French, and