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Letter from the Office of Indian Affairs. Dec. 9, 1919, "In re Cherokee land." "The Indian and His Problem," F. E. Leupp. New York, Scribners, 1910, p. 24. See Bulletin 184, New York State Museum, Albany, 1916, p. 61. The Labor Shortage The American colonists took the land which they required for settlement from the Indians. The labor necessary to work this land was not so easily secured.
At the very time that Leupp committed suicide, Gould was buying the first mortgage bonds of the Rutland and Washington Railroad a small line, sixty-two miles long, running from Troy, New York, to Rutland, Vermont. These bonds, which he purchased for ten cents on the dollar, gave him control of this bankrupt railroad.
The sequel was a tragic one. One night, in the panic of 1857, Leupp shot and killed himself in his fine mansion at Madison avenue and Twenty- fifth street. The coroner's jury found that Leupp had been suffering from melancholia, superinduced, doubtless, by business reverses.
Persons of different temperaments, but of equal patriotism and sincerity, will probably pass different verdicts on this incident for a long time to come. Mr. Leupp quotes a member of Roosevelt's Administration as stating four alternative courses the President might have followed.
I have drawn at this point upon Peck, Twenty Years of the Republic, 453-456. Peck, 451-453. For brief accounts of Tillman, see Leupp, National Miniatures, 117; N.Y. Times, July 4, 1918; N.Y. Evening Post, July 3, 1918. Cf. Whitlock, Forty Years of It, 64 ff.; Altgeld, Live Questions and The Cost of Something for Nothing.
In another case, where there had been a division among the Sac and Fox Indians, part of the tribe removing to Iowa, the Iowa delegation in Congress, backed by two Iowans who were members of my Cabinet, passed a bill awarding a sum of nearly a half million dollars to the Iowa seceders. They had not consulted the Indian Bureau. Leupp protested against the bill, and I vetoed it.
Every step which followed, from freeing the slave to enfranchising him, was due only to the North being slowly and reluctantly forced to act by the South's persistence in its folly and wickedness. * Leupp,231. The President could not say these things in public because they tended, when coming from a man in public place, to embitter people.
In connection with the Indians, by the way, it was again and again necessary to assert the position of the President as steward of the whole people. I had a capital Indian Commissioner, Francis E. Leupp. I found that I could rely on his judgment not to get me into fights that were unnecessary, and therefore I always backed him to the limit when he told me that a fight was necessary.
* Leupp, 10-11. That the Colombian politicians, who repudiated the treaty Herran had framed, were blackmailers of the lowest sort, is as indisputable as is the fact that whoever begins to compromise with a blackmailer is lured farther and farther into a bog until he is finally swallowed up.
I'm a neighbor of yours live next door " "Sure! Didn't I see you move in? When my friend, Mrs. Leupp, seen your iron beds, she up and went to Macy's and bought one herself. What yer doing in there, anyway, with that printing-press? It gives me the trembles." Joe laughed heartily. "You feel the press in this house?" "First time, I thought it was an earthquake, Mr. Blaine." Joe was abashed.
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