If he did not with his eyes, he well might in his heart.
Not often have they been addressed with such intelligence and tact.
The few who have not approached them with sordid rapacity, but from love to them, as men having souls to be redeemed, have most frequently been persons intellectually too narrow, too straitly bound in sects or opinions, to throw themselves into the character or position of the Indians, or impart to them anything they can make available.

The Christ shown them by these missionaries is to them but a new and more powerful Manito; the signs of the new religion, but the fetiches that have aided the conquerors.
Here I will copy some remarks made by a discerning observer, on the methods used by the missionaries, and their natural results.
"Mr .-- -- and myself had a very interesting conversation, upon the subject of the Indians, their character, capabilities, &c.

After ten years' experience among them, he was forced to acknowledge that the results of the missionary efforts had produced nothing calculated to encourage.

He thought that there was an intrinsic disability in them to rise above, or go beyond, the sphere in which they had so long moved.

He said, that even those Indians who had been converted, and who had adopted the habits of civilization, were very little improved in their real character; they were as selfish, as deceitful, and as indolent, as those who were still heathens.