Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-02

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teray reused either subsection, amalgamation. or
improvement, II Anglo Saxon hands. and have
f.lIeu, rank after rank, sighting 10 the last With
IN the shadows Of their ancestral forests for the
hunting grounds Of their fathers. Their van has
heen dr;Sen back. and further back, until they
are ali forced beyond the Mississippi. And now,
suddenly. they are pressed by great detachmcnts
from civilization, Who flank them from Utah and
New Mexico. and enrroach upon their narrowing
territory from the rear in California. Oregon and
Washington. Upon the barren plains, and
among the drcary mountain-ranges Of the great
des.rt.heart Of North America, they have for
some time maintained precarions existence
from the yearly decreasing bands OF the buna-
loes, the triding avails Of other hunts, and the
insignificant fruit Of some little unskiliiui agri-
culture, eked out with wild roots. But the ring
of advancing settlers now hens them in on all
sides, From Minnesota, Washington Territory,
Oregon. California, and the Mormon and half
Mexican settlements at the South, they are
steadily compressed within their narrowing des-
crts: and steadily Is starvation staring them
more and more nearly in the face.
|. With the stubborn hardihood OF their race,
however. the few survivors seem to be resolved
10 die in the vain effort to maintain what ground
is left to then unsoiled by the step Of the white
man. By the adyices which the last few arri-
walls bring from our Pacific and Trans Mississip-
plan possessions there seems to be now waging a
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lied attack upon the whites, similar in character
10 the enterprises Of KISG PHILIP, of Pontiac,
of TECuMsEn and BLACK HAWK. In the Column
bia. Rogue River and Willamette Valleys, beyond
the Rocky Mountains, in the mountainous re-
eion east of the California settlements, in the
vast plains haunted by the Sioux and Pawnees,
which stretch from the foot of the Black Hills east
ward to the settlements upon the borders Of the
States, the Indians seem TO be everywhere rising
after their old manner, ambuscading individuals
and parties, firing houses, numbering and scalp
ing man, woman and child; in short, devastating
and destroying every person and thing which
has che mark Of civilization upon it, with all the
old Indian blood.thirstiness and blind, unthink-
ing barbarian recklessness of consequences
And, always heretofore, the more slowly moving
Angio-Saxon power is rising around them with
it's old, steady, extermnating purpose. to erase
forever these last remnants of the red tribes
Harvey moves westward from the frontier forts
upon the Sioux and Pawnees, with strOng body
OF regulars. Governor Curry, of Oregon, il pre-.
pairing to sweep the Rogue River, Walla Walls
| and other Pacific tribes, out Of Oregon-and ex.
| stence-wi,h thousand frontiersmen and three
hundred United States troops. Governor Mason,
of Washington Territory, has summoned volun-
teers from that section for like purpose. The
whole white population is beyond endurance ex-
Ill. I..y,
by the Indians, in their national warfare. Thir-
ty men and women are heard Of, assassinated
singly or by families, within ten days. Sixty
more similar cases are registered at another time.
Daily reports of such atrocities have awakened
Ill the settlers; and they will probably not rest
until there are no more indians left within their
borders. This done, there will be none OF
the race in the United States, except those settled
in agricultural communities in the different "Na-
tons" and Reservations west and northwest of
Arkansas, and the few scattered relics farther
east.
A great cutlery has more than once been
raised about the diabolcal injustice, SO called, of
the exterminating and reyengeful character OF
the measure now being pursuesed against the
Indians. This however, is far from being a rea.
sonable objection; although, we must confess
that the case is prima facie strong against the
present Administration, since it is one where we,
the stronger nation, are arining against the
weaker well known trick of the heroes now
managing the Executive and Departments And
this final extinction of whole nations, who are,
moreover, after their savage fashion, only stri.
king Tor their Fatherland, their homes and their
rights, is inexpressibly sad to the phanthropist
and the Christian. Yet it is, apparently, nc
cessity. The Anglo-Saxon race will spread
and the forests must fall, and the desert mast
grow green and fowerv, before and around its
advancing footsteps Its pioneers will be rude
and uncutivated men, of fierce hearts and
strong and ready hands-who will reck little of
the wild savage, his rights and his wrongs. his
comfort or his anger. The proud and passion
ate ravages will waylay and murder, as they al
wavs have and the revengeful frontiersmcn ,ciH,
as heretofore, kill the "Indian devils" like so
many dogs. Unless the first pioneers are exem-
plarily forbearng and forgiving Christians, or
unless the savages shall become such in advance
of them, neither of which conditions seems
likely to be fulfilled, the collision is absolutely
necessary and as surely as it comes, the abort
gnes will perish Their few remaining rowing
bands, scattered and weak as they are, can offer
no substantial resistance to the attack Of the
whites. Their numbers are SET by guess of
the Oregon papers, at ten thousand; it is, how
ever, very unlikely that there are more than
fifteen hundred or two thousand fighting men
of them. all tod. Few or many, they will
all have persisted ere long, and the rowing IN,
only In tradition.