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their own intellects, and at the same time are learn-ing lessons for the government of their own passions, and purifying their own affections. They find that the furious maniac yields to gentle firmness, when he would rave at severity; that melancholy may be banished by the voice of cheerfulness and kindness, when it would grow deeper if attacked by boiste-rous harshness; and that even demency may be quickened into life and mental action by proper moral sentiments. It is an acknowledged fact, that those who have the care of the insane are generally cheerful; one cause of which may be, that they feel conscious of being in the way of doing good, and the effects of their exertions are constantly before them; and, perhaps, another is, that the same mind is unceas-ingly dwelling upon the blessings it enjoys in its sanity, and draws comparisons between itself, and those unfortunate beings who are deprived of reason, as we take a more elastic step when we pass a crip-ple, who moves on slowly in his deformity and an-guish, or as we look at the sun, or some bright object, and see that the petitioner for street alms is blind. The Indians within the United States have been harassed, warred upon, driven from their primitive abodes, and, at times, hunted down as beasts of the forest. Sometimes they were sinned against, but often sinning in the causes which produced this dis-tress. They thought this whole continent their own, and that they were sole proprietors of it. Their ideas of national rights and of political economy were not very extensive, but their patriotism and courage will never be doubted by those acquainted with their history. At times, they seemed to wish to be friends; at other times, were vindictive and blood-thirsty. The Eastern Indians were among the fiercest on the continent. King Philip is a noble instance of sagacity and love of country ; and the Six Nations, so well known in the history of New York, were brave,