New York, Dec. 24.--Col. Wynkoop, in an address to the American Geographical Society, last night, defended the Indian Bureau against certain charges made against them, and said, as the Bureau exists, at present, "I do not know how it can be bettered. I have failed to see, so far, how the Department of the Interior, or the officers of the Indian Bureau, have been to blame for any of our Indian troubles. Let the sympathies of the people of this great country be aroused for the Indian as they have been for the African; and, irrespective of Indian Bureaus or Congress; there will be such a radical change in the condition of the Indian as will be of incredible benefit to him in future, and consequently to our whole country."

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Unknown, "Col. Wynkoop and the Indian Question," The Daily Kansas State Journal, Lawrence, Kansas, Friday Morning, 25 December 1868, Vol. IV, No. 137, p. 1, col. 2.