The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-11-17


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g tls fnaian eoun.g1 Aoat protection
Tie history d lie p months sufficient
evidence 81 ths truth d this fact Cap Gunnin
sob, while suIpe al routs 70 tie PdeI
&c, last spring. IS killed il Utali odd nearly III
as men were massacFed Lieut. Davidson
def tel within 40 miles 81 bis own camp. ii Now
Mexico. and forced % ratreat leaving bis dead
upon tie field Capt Van Blrsn VAS defeated
Ii Texas, BIS men dispersed ana himself MORALLY
wounded. And now, We learn from recent adYi-
ees, that tie garrison 1t Fort Laramie il ID I'M
minent danger, and the government goods haze.
been captured The first victory has yet 10 Be.
gained 81 tie United States troops over tie III.
dams west Of the 1liasouri, since 1916. Ifno
means can 81 devised % protect our soldiers from
tie arrows Of tie Indians. tie sooner they can Be-
withdraw from TIE Indian country, tie better fol-
themselves and tie credit 81 tie government
The United States Amy. We believe, Tie.
people 81 this Government over seven millions 81
dollars year, and 81 what benefit has It been
since tie war with Mexicog IIas It lot been
more orglanental than usefulg a strong force has
been kept up along tle frontiers of Texas, ii the
Wilds Of Mexico. and 10 the deserts Of California,
which enrichaa tho hordes az adranturers and
spectators that hang around the Quartermaster
aud COmmissary Departments, a tie expense Of
the Government, but which i useful for 10 other
purpose. Ineyery contest With the Indians It has
como out second best. Gen. Smith acknowledged
his inability to protect the people of Texas from
tie vengeance Of Gle Cananches, By calling for
four companies of Rangers Gen Garland M
able 70 quell the Apaches lgEho could not muster
200 Warriors was glad to avail himself Of thel
services Of the volunteers IN New Mexico And
yet, with al this aid, they have done nothing We
have known Of officers, while ii command 81 mill
tay posts ii the Indian country to present claims
against the Government for their own private pro-
psrty taken from within sight Of the Gag that
coated over them they were sentout toprotsct
tie property 81 tie citizeus aIa were unable Is
retain Their
Ro hes much about ptelalloa
tea 81 he Indians and but little Of che causes
That have driven them 70 such course It IS Of
Ten choice with them between stealing and starry
Ing "A few years ago we made d treaty, solemn
treaty with the Indians Of tie Plains, that the
country ii which they lived should be theirs, ind /
theirs forever Have We complied with It. The +
Dele8ares, the Shawnees the sacs and foxes,
Pottawattomies and other tribes, were sustaining
themselves By their agricultural products. and
gar getting their farms il fine order. their stock
d good condition, and we're just beginning to live
lie white men, but they have not been suffered
% pursue the line Of policy marked ont for them
By orr own government The settlers Of Kansas
and Nebras haEe lookedupon their possessions,
and the poo Indians have got to go nobody
knows where and how they are 10 lire nobody
cares Can we look an Indian in the face and
complain Of injusticeg