Kansas weekly herald., 1855-03-09
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The eondaet Of Conmissioner MadnypennyI
il His nsh ssement n. sdAe die Indian 'pepaftl1
ment. It.amatsersn not how these articles
find a pace 10 The columns Of the press !:
Whether paid,for in moneys PROMISES or
official patronage, it. is all the, same, and
the public are a. much deceived as though
the articles were the honest offering Of the.
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| = ssAfr. Maanypennys s,.s = says. one writer
Iset1eseryesit the dthankscf tie public for ex-
posing the frauds a upon theIndiansl under
previous administrations" = Granted But
how much better. than. exposing frauds, in
former days, would it be to correct them in
these latter days! = We, Who ,areidwellers
on the frontier, need not be told Of frauds in
the Indian Department. We have known
of them for years; but have looked in vain
for reform under the. administration of the
man who stands before this section of the
country now powerful in Office it is true,
tyet welding his power with an arrogance
and impudence that is passing strange
t. Mr., Mannypenny deserving thsrka for,
sooth! Thanks for the distribution of arms
and other munitions of war among the hos
title Indians, and thereby aiding tomake the
enigrants journey, across the plains. always
one of peril, and frequently enc of death !
For il should be known that the rifles,
which these wilder Indians use in their
forays against small parties of the whites,
are the gift of the Department over which
Ipresides this model Commissioner And
when the friends -af the murdered read of
the horrors Of the massacre, oh! we beg Of
them not to forget, in the hour of their grief,
the thanks they owe the Commissioner!
The Commissioner may be a friend of
the Indian. And if enmity to the poor
white man is friendship to tie poor Indian
Il-then he is one. But we are not of those
who think the interests of the races so an
tagonistic that to love the one we must hate
1 the other, nor do we believe it rebounds to
the credit of any man to excite the hostility
of one against the other, as has been at
tempted in this Territory
I "But," says another of the Commission
er's eulogists, he has denounced the settlers
on the Delaware lands, and deserYesc red
it fer his efforts to drive them therefrom.' -
Yes, it is true he denounced these settlers
denounced whole community, the hum
blest one OF whom is, in all that makes a
man, vastly the superior Of this Mannypen-
ny. Not one of them, il mans actions
and intentions could be written on his cheek,
but would hold his bead higher than their
libeller; not one of these denounced men
but should feel honored in the denunciation
considering the source from whence it
came, and net one of them but might dis
trust his own rectitude was he so unfortu-
nate as to incur the slime of the Commis-
sioner's appreciation.
Did any persons, with knowledge of
the facts of the case, believe Mr.. NANNY
penny's efforts TO drive the settlers from the
Delaware land, resulted from any desire to
prevent injustice to the Indians, they might
give him credit for honest, though mistaken,
motives. They could forgive his ignorance
and forget their own wrongs. But we cannot
} believe-kpowing as much as we do of the
matter-that his efforts derive their force
from any other motives than the most base
land sordid. They saw Mr.. Mannypenny
come among them, amid their honest efforts
to secure home, with smooth words upon
his tongue; they were not displeased with
him In advance; but they were too pure
in their own intentions to offer him, or his
agents, bribe; and then they saw him 60
forth to SANDER and injure them, and to pros
titute his official position at shrine of dis.
J appointment or revenge.
The Delaware treaty, for which Mr..
Mannypenny so mnch exaIts himself, il
should be known was no free act of that
, tribe. The clause which enjoins upon the
government to sell the land at auction, was
repeatedly and earnestly met by their ep-
position, and they only yielded when indu-
ences were brought to bear upon their judg-
ment, which we know not of now, and may
not know until another chapter of the mys-
teries of Mannypeppy's iniquity be opened.
We see however that the ohnnxin11s fea-