Other editors speak ill enough of Gen. Jackson’s treatment of the Southern Indians.  Why do they not also speak ill of all the head men and great chiefs who have evil entreated the people of Marshpee.  I think Governor Lincoln manifested as bitter and tyrannical a spirit as Old Hickory ever could, for the life of him.  Often and often have our tribe been promised the liberty their fathers fought, and bled, and died for; and even now we have but a small share of it.  It is some comfort, however, that the people of Massachusetts are becoming gradually more Christianized.

    [From the Daily Advocate.] THE MARSHPEE INDIANS.

The Daily Advertiser remarks that the Indian tribes have been sacrificed by the policy of Gen. Jackson.  This is very true, and we join with the Advertiser in reprehending the course pursued by the President toward the Cherokees.  If Georgia, under her union nullifier, Governor Lumpkin, is permitted to set the process of the Supreme Court at defiance, it will be a foul dishonor upon the country.

But while we condemn the conduct of General Jackson toward the Southern Indians, what shall we say of the treatment of our own poor defenceless Indians, the Marshpee tribe, in our own State?  The Legislature of last year, with a becoming sense of justice, restored to the Marshpee Indians a portion of their rights, which had been wrested from them, most wrongfully, for a period of seventy-four years.  The State of Massachusetts, in the exercise of a most unjust and arbitrary power, had, until that time, deprived the Indians of all civil rights, and placed their property at the mercy of designing men, who had used it for their own benefit, and despoiled the native owners of the soil to which they hold a better title than the whites hold to any land in the Commonwealth.  These Indians fought and bled side by side, with our fathers, in the struggle for liberty; but the whites were no sooner free themselves, than they enslaved the poor Indians.

One single fact will show the devotion of the Marshpee Indians to the cause of liberty, in return for which they and their descendants were placed under a despotic guardianship, and their property wrested from them to enrich the whites.  In the Secretary’s Office, of this State, will be found a muster roll, containing a “Return of men enlisted in the first Regiment of Continental troops, in the County of Barnstable, for three years and during the war, in Col.  Bradford’s Regiment,” commencing in 1777.  Among these volunteers for that terrible service, are the following names of Marshpee Indians, proprietors of Marshpee, viz.

    Francis Webquish, Samuel Moses, Demps Squibs, Mark Negro,
    Tom Caesar, Joseph Ashur, James Keeter, Joseph Keeter, Jacob
    Keeter, Daniel Pocknit, Job Rimmon, George Shawn, Castel
    Barnet, Joshua Pognit, James Rimmon, David Hatch, James
    Nocake, Abel Hoswitt, Elisha Keeter, John Pearce, John Mapix,
    Amos Babcock, Hosea Pognit, Daniel Pocknit, Church Ashur,
    Gideon Tumpum.