The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17

WAo Made 1Nem?-Endiam Agents, 40 Polsti-
clans, Bound 70 Side scith ths WAisss-No More
Vacant Country for the Indians to Move Io-1ne
Consequences ef Drioirg them to Desperation
Old Fbgy Operations-G General Disgwst Of Young
Arwy O6ieers, Re-, 3'e.
One OF the New York papers Of November last
copies from the Anti S2avsry Standard . long and
abusive article on the army and Indian wars. viii
fees Secretary Davis, makes Harvey out every thing
bad, and calls the West Pointers names This arti-
Gle, like others y writer's determined TO find fault,
seeks to enlist the sympathies Of good and pious
people East against the authorities, by sweeping
assertions Of cruelty against all officers.
I shall not attempt to defend General Harvey
from the charge Of cruelty, or being vindictive
Indian hater. Nor shall presume to defend Jef Da-
| Wis from the Anti. Slavery Standards ISLANDERS.
II the Secretary Of War acted up to their wishes he
would let the Indians murder all the whites West,
| and the negroes all the whites South
| That charge of contempt, hantsur, inhumani-
ty and selfish love Of power" should be brought
| against all West Pointers, even by the Stand
ard indicates that it has forgotten the cause it has
adopted and has opened its columns for the gratif-
cation of some writer, specially spiteful on West
| Point, generally hostile to the government whose
laws protect him, and at the same time full of SYM
patty for the sorrows Of the savage. This writer
reminds me of boy who stoned o brick house be-
cause he wasn't made brick.
But because there are two truths in his long
| article some simple minded people may credit it
all and for one do not wish my countrymen Though
they do believe in some ''isms') to believe that we
West Pointers forget that county was generous to
us in our childhood and hour of needforget that
we have eaten it's bread and worn its raiment from
bcyhood, and hope to do so till we die-forget
the lesson taught MS there in cur youth, to fear
God ard honor the people" forget the flag which
daily rusted over as boys, and which is one day
to be our winding sheet That all this is not forgot
ten let the people look at the West Pointers but by
the chivalry Of Charleston for doing his duty an
officer of the United States army, in charge of
United States FORTS and the same West Pointer,
stigmatized by Boston fanatics for obeying the
laws Let the people know that hundreds of West
Pointers scattered over the peoples waste lands
| the two millions square miles OF desert-and
that in this Wilderness far away from nome, trends,
days Of their manhood. Let the people look at the
army register, and read the list of West Pointers
killed in their SERVICE far away in this wilderness
and some Of whose bones now lie bleaching on the
slopes Of the snowy mountains; or look at the list
of West Pointers who have been by them placed in
posts of trust and honor as " Senators" foreign
minister's" chiefs Of coast and other surveys"
bishops Governors Of States and Territories"
legislators presidents Of colleges" and Of rail
| road canal end banking companies. No, the repu-
tation Of West Point is too dear to the people for
them TO let the cloud Of party Islander rest upon her
! time honored hills.
happen to have seen some service among the In.
dams and to have marked the part taken by off .ers
of tie army in the contest for existence waged by
| the Indians The people who require the govern
ment to war against the Indians are not Q few Dor
dereIs Oh the western edge Of the Atlantic States,
but many hundred thousand men scattered over the
wide West-from the valley Of the Mississippi to the
Pacific. California has been settled till no kanyon,
from the crest Of the snowy mountains to the ocean,
has not had its tenants. The Indians were there,
and could not get away; there is more West left
them to move to. In Washington Territory, the
mot worthless country in our limits, where the rail-
road explorers could not help exclaiming, What
blessing We did not get up to o. 4o'' In Utan New
of the white men occupying these countries, would
rather shoot an Indian than sheep stealing dog.
| People in the East cannot understand this senti-
ment They have not kept guard for months over wife,
children cattle for fear OF murderous thieving In
dams; they have not listened to the unvaryng stories
| of wives murdered sisters violated, houses burned
they carried their rifles in the cornfeld, or been at
| the fights and massacres so common in these re-
gioDs. These are the people who insist on war
| with Indians. And the officers Of the army have
| almost invariably stood between the Indians and
this class of whites, especially where the Indians
were but few, and have tried to shield them, until
they were accused Of "siding against their coun-
oIlegon papers at the present time, and see # ii is
! not SO; ard read the following account from the
] Oregon Times Of apresent from son to father
Of Indian war spoils:-"The volunteers were gene.
rally in good health and spirits They stood in need
of clothing and -four. They had plenty Of beef
straight. DR.. Shaw brought down as trophy, old
Pee Pu Mox Mox's ears, and Mr.: Story brought
! down portion Of his scalp to Thomas Stevens,
which was sent him by his son John, who cut it off,
| This Indian Chief Pee Pu Mox Mox, came to the
camp Of the Oregonians and gave himself up-under
white fiag-and was few days afterwards, du-
eli md fvpn
| scalps taken from his head alone.
! Atthe present time, large force of Oregonians
| have gone unmasked into Washington Territory,
| and are engaged in an indiscrimate war-which is
likely to drive the most peaceable tribes into per-
manent hostility. Many Of these tribes are hume
and powerful. And all this has been done con-
| trary to the wishes Of and without consultation
with Gen. Wool. Now, just let us reflect how these
wars begin,
drunken white man and Indian quarrel over
| squaw-the Indian stabs the white man, flies, and
tie war begins; an indian is seen with horse or
blanket like the one belonging to some murdered
whte--a party organize, go and kill all the men of
! this Indians band, and take all the women and
children as slaves Start not ye abolitionists, for
| slavery is as common among the Indians out here
i as 1t is In Louisiana.
/ Last summer wholesale slaughter of the Indians
| on Fort Lane reservation was threatened by some
| two hundred Californians couple of "Areros'
! had been murdered near Yreka, and their horses
] taken. An Oregon Indian from Fort Lane reserva-
ton was shortly afterwards seen with one Of the
stOlen DOTEeS, tIc party 10 XIII UaIu
| but the commanding officer Of Fort Lane, West
Pointer wished to have the law take its course, and
he placed the Indians under the protection Of his
guns. The Cafofnans said they would kill all the
Indians In spite of him. but this West Pointer dared
them at their peril to try t-and they didn't. The
Indian has been since sent to California for trial.
Last fall the citizens on Rogue River pursued an
Indian for wounding white man in drunken
brawl. West Pointer sent escort to see the In
dian safe from the mob into the hands of civil au-
thority. The soldiers orders were if necessary, to
! fire on the pursuers. The Indian and escort were
pursued on the river; and though 1t dark, and
the pursners were warned off they rowed up to the
boat containing the Indian, and shot him he set
between the cOrporas knees. There were but three
soldiers and three men in the offending boat but
these latter were all shot dead and at Fort Yuma,
Fort Miller Fort Oxford Fort Jones' in fact at every