Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-06-27

were still reeking with the blood of in
nocent women and children, to q friendly
g talk"-loads them with presents-dec.
crates them with medals, and yields to them
what bad been denied to the uh0ke Semi
mole nation, and for proposing which Gen.
Jesup was recalled.
If any thing could exceed the humilia-
ton Of these proceedings, it would be
found IN the stolidity and ignorance which
put trust in the promises Of the crafty
and blood-ihlrsty sayoges. So little re.
gard did they pay to their pledges Of
peace to the lmbecile government which
was paying them premiums for The soaps
Of its own citizens, hat numerous muir.
ders were committed by marauding binds
at the gerry moment that the disgraceful
scene Of the talk" was being enacted at
Fort King
Since the PRONUNCIATION Of the +" peace"
by Gen. Macomb, not q day has elapsed,
phich has not brought newS Of fresh de-
predaiions and murders. The hand Of the
white man is tied up.-Tho Indian has the
field TO himself. More murders have been
committed in the two weeks that have
elapsed since the formation of the new
"treaiy" than in six previous months (!
You may depend upon il, the white
man and tho Seminole can never again
live together in peace. There is scarce
y a family in East Florida, that has not
a father, a brother, a mother, or a sister
to ayenge. The Indians too, have their
grievances TO redress, and it is certainly
nothing short Of madness, to think that
both races can now inhabit the same
soil. One race or the other must pre-
vail. Which shall it be? Before the
war they lived together in harmony, nei-
Their race wishing a change; but the
=" settled policy Of the government" re-
CURED the removal of the Indians, and
now, after removing the principal part of
the nation, they propose to relinquish
their settled policy" and leave the
country and its inhabitants to the tender
mercy of the relentless sayages.
But what is TO be done? How are the
savages to be rooted out? | will tell you
the way, and the only way, which this can
be accomplished, and in Florida, there
IS but one opinion or the subject. The
government may, and probably will, try
some new schemes, which will inevitably
share the same fate OF all the previous
ones, after millions OF money and hun
dreds Of lives shall have again been sac
rliced. The plan | allude to, and 10
which the government must come at last,
IS to set d REGARD on he heads of the mur.
derers. They are no nation. They have
no legitimate chiefs. No treaty can be
made with them. They are a banjitti-
%maraudlne bands Of robbers md murder
ers. Let the government withdraw the
regular army and offer $500 reward for
every dead warrior and $1,000 for every
hrtng prisoner, and a speedy and cheap
termination will be made of the "war."
|, will be ended in six months, and most
OF the Indians will be taken alire. The
inhabitants of the territory, assisted bv
others from the neighboring States, will
form into war parties of from so to 100
each-caIying with them their parched
corn and a little salt, aud trust for the
rest to their good rifles. The regular
army officers and men have suffered
much in this miserable warfare, and have.
on all occasions, exhibited the utmost
bravery. But to- what purpose? They
are unft-altogether unfit for this skulk.
ing warfare. Indians must be fought in
their own way, and by men accustomed
to the use OF the rifle, and brought up in
The woods. The immense baggage trains,
provisions, artillery, &c., of a regular
army, can be dispensed with by the kind
OF force that must at last finish this war.
a knapsack and rife, with n few pack
mules, must constitute the whole incum.
brance of Indian fighters. Sharp shoot
ers and rifemcn, skuIking behind trees
and logs, and hiding in marshes and
swamps, can alone cope with these Indi-
ans. They hare nc fear of the regular
troops, because they are not good marks.
men, and are led up in regular order to
be shot down from the covert Of the In.
dian. 1t is no disparagement to the
bravery and discipline of the regular ar.
my 10 say, what IS now apparent TO every
one, that IL a nerer bring this icar TO a
close. Its habits aud discipline, so vnlu.
able in civilized warfare, arc a positire
disadvantage in This. The proper maieyi.
Ell for this war are the crackers and
woodsmen of the frontier, and their prom
er stimulus is $500 OF $1,000 a piece for
the Indians.
am aware hat there exists at the
North, a morbid sympathy for " the poor
Indians" which is not extensive enough
to embrace the poor whites, ana | confess
mat was at one time mighty a dIscip-
line OF this school. A view OF things as
they really exist, however, has wrought
a complete change in my mental vision,
and can now share a little Of my SYM
Pathy Tor the Suflerings of our OWL peo-
pie This mistaken philanthropy may
oppose obstacles TO the mode here nrono.