The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-04-17
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The sentiments and language OF
'.Fairplay, >" in the last Chronicle, remind
Us Of the old woman who excused the
cruelty of skinning GELS. Fairpiay, ~
he means anything by his article, means
10 paIliaie the late massacre of ChiPPe-
wa women, children, and feeble old men,
by the Sioux at Apple river, on the
ground that Indians are in the habit of
being thus butchered and scalped.-
"Skinned! Lord blessyou sir, they Is used
TO it, Fairplay assumes mentally the
blanket and moccasins and attempts to
"argue Indian" Forsooth, some pre-
vious bu,cheries of Sioux by Chippewas,
at some former period, change the whole
affair into an act Of noble, national re-
venge. Two negatives in some langua-
ges, make an affirmative; but we VEN
ture to say, that even in the Sto"r Ian
puage, two wrongs do not make right.
If it is right, if it is noble in the tribes
of Africa, to administer poison to their
foes, if it would be honorable for braves
20 murder cripple. to drown bind
man, to strangle helpless babes, to cut
the throats of those who are asleep--in
short, if sneakiag is bravery, then have
we maligned the war party on Apple riv-
er; for we dad characterize that, as "One
Of the most foul and dastardly acts of
wholesale assassination, that ever dis
graced the annals of Indian ruihanism. !"
Fairpiay admits the truth of all the de-
tails Of the butchery; but puts in the
fshwoman's replication, Lord bless
you sir, they is used to it," We beg
pardon, if we have done injustice to
cny OF these braces If this was not
zone of the most foul of Indian assassi-
nations, Fairplay is welcome to make
all he can by this denial, in proof of In
dian humanity; if it is one of the most
foul of Indian assassinations, then we
have characterized it truly. In support
Of the first Of these propositions. we will
now state the fact, which we did not
mention last week, that these Sioux
braves, all riolated TIE person Of one Of
the Chippe,oa ,eomen, and then cut her
body into lille fragments, except a small
portion of it which they brought away
with them. Fairplay contradicts no ma
terial fact which we stated last week, IN
regard to the butchering; which was done
with knives and without the slightest re-
sistance. We were mistaken in the day
when the party came to Saltwater;
which was on Friday instead of Tues
day. Fairplay shows, or alleges, that
an Indian who was active in getting up
the war party and who scalped his wife
last summer, has t,ro eyes instead Of one,
us we asserted-and that the fellow did
not Kill his wife but only scaiped her a
little. Lord bless you, sir, they is
used to it," We beg pardon of this
brare and also of Fairplay. We are
willing to concede to that brave anoth-
er eye and are happy to learn that ne
was too amiable to do anything worse
than scalp his dear wife. If Fairplay
denies the participation Of Little Grow,
the Chief, in this bloody affair, We chal-
lenge him to the proof of that denial
We have named man, Mr.. Bruce, who
has authorized us to say that he saw L't-
tie Cror on his ,oay ,oih the ,car party.
AS journalist, we intend to speak the
truth, without regard to persons. We
say then, that if the Chief Little Grow,
participated in this affair, holding the
station and having the influence he pos
sesses amongst the Sioux, with his intel
ligence, his cultivated moral nature, his
acquaintance with the principles Of HUI
manity by much travel and intercourse
with the whites-if he even connired at
the act, with the knowledge he possessed,
that the massacre there, was in violation
Of the authority of Wisconsin and in
contempt of the stars and stripes, he
ought to be passed over to the civil au-
thorities. As Fairplay has chosen to as
sert that the Sioux have always been
friendly to the whites Americans) we
here take occasion to refresh Fairplay's
memory with a scrap of history; by
which it will be seen, that not only did
the Sioux hire themselves out to the Brit
ish to butcher our countrymen during
the war of 1912, to butcher "a people
whom they scarcely knew and who had
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