New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-06
our Indian Troubles

The latest intelligence received here from the
East informs us that Government is making e.
tensiye arrangements for campaign against
~ sioux. PaWnee and Camanche Indians,
With tho intent Of utterly exterminating them
4 reinforcement of three hundred men has neen
sent to New Mexico and the Southern frontier,
by way ii Corpus Christi. while couple q
companies of dragons have been ordered to ~.
LOUIS
The crusade against the aborigines Of the
country, which has been carried On by Cur
Government 80 long and 50 bloodily, seems ~
first. not only unjust and rsprehensible, but
opposed to sll proper notions Of humanity, CIV
lixation and Christianity Whela tribes have
been exterminated, and their lands seized, with
ont other pretext than what can be found IN
the eis major. Nations have been sxpatrihtsd'
transplsnted to new regions, re- transplantsd'
and 6nally destroyed. At the present time the
seminoles are Che only Indians, following lndIan
customs, that live east Of the Mississippi They
have been warred against, and still are, but
manage to maintain their ground, anu I'VE
where their fathers lived before them The
natural feelings Of indignation awakened by
ACCOUNTS Of the destruction Of Indian tribes In
Tie West are not much mitigated by learning
that, in almost avery instance, the whites were
the aggressors "A party Of emigrants steal
Indian property, or reckless hunter shoots
down Indian braves. Retaliation is certain,
and the next defcnceless company that passes
10 made 10 pay for the villainy Of its predeces-
sors. ACCOUNTS Of outrages on the frontier are
! sure TO find their wey TO publicity; troops are
dispatched, and the original sufferers made to
suffer still more deeply. This 10 net 80 IN all
cases, but it han been SO. and, to certain
degree, il 30 still
Il is true that ofttimes, and more frequently
NOW than before, the Indians do not wait foi
propagation, but, mindless Of their own treaties
and their own sense Of right, attack emigran
trains, murder tho men and violate the women
steal the property and drive away the cattle
They are better and more expert in the nae Q
arms than the tribes on the east Of ths river eve
we're There il an immense annual emigration
through various parts of tho Western country
and ali along the frontier are settlements ex
posed 70 destruction at any momsnt frym cause
Of which they are both ignorant and innocent
unless tho Indians are inundated and r.
strained by military force Almost every ma
from Oregon and New Mexico has the particu
lars Of murders and robberies, some Of whic
are horrid beyond conception There 10 an iu
perative necessity for just such Governmer
action as has been taken, cruel as It may seel
to be- and undoubtedly 10 The Indians cann'
be restrained by treaties or presents from plut
deripg those who are mot strong enough to q
fand themselves. snd these are the very poop
whom the Government is eallsd upon to defcn'
Every one must regret tho rapid passing ava
Of the real Native Americans, and that so mar
have fallen in an unequal conflict with our oN
soldisry. Thsrs has always existed, however,
stern necessity, compelling the soldier to folle
and protect tho pioneer, Tho white race a.
the Indian have never been able to live in amt
and probably never will. One or the 9th
must give way, and it Is not doubtful whio
The tribes now to be attacked are more warli
and treasherous than any others, and fully q
aerye the punishment they are to receive.