New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-31

detachment Of the regular forces came with Cannon
and encamped before the enemy. After while the
carnon were discharged once and the attacking army
slept This signal having been given, when the next
dsy opeped il was found the Indians had proed by
and gone TO the mountains.
The tale here told is laid to illustrate two phases
Of this ysr one ia the disposition Of the volunteer
force to trump up charges against the Government
for useefs services and the other is the indispOsi
ton of the regular force to engage earnestly in
war which is believed to be unjust unprOvOket,
and unnecessary. In regard to the cause of the
bostlties, our correspondent declares they have
grown out of the treatment Of tho savages by the
whites. The former have been, by repeated out
RACES, put upon their defense, and this defense has
been seized upon by the whites as an excuse and
justification Of further and greater outrage. The
Indians of Oregon are as shrewd and intelligent IS
any on the continent. They have striven to learn
the language, adopt the dress, and initiate the man.
ners of the whites. They have courted their so
ciety and been proud of their friendship, aud it is
said have never been the frst to commence attack
On the other hand the laws have been made to bear
with unequal severity against them, and unprincl-
pied individuals have subjected them TO imposition
and oppression. Their women have been violated.
the honest earnings of the men taken from them by
fraud. and murders have not been infrequent- The
chiefs instead OF passonately counseng revenge for
their wrengs, are reported on good authority to
have exhibited forbearance, and to have deplOred
the necessity for resistance, and they have re-
Trained from it further than their own safety re-
auired. On the part of the whites, however, the
war has been carried on with ferocity and indis-
crimir ate slaughter. No quarter has been given to
the sick or yielding, and De helplessness of wOmen
and the innocence of childhood have alike plead un-
availingly for mercy. The Indian is pursued like
the wild beast of the forest. He is termed
"buck" and "red skin, and the killing Of him is
regarded as "fun" or "sport, like the shooting OF
buffalo or wolf
1t is in view of the character of these Indian
wars as we know them to be on this side the
mountains, and as we have them represented to u'
from the other that we deprecate appropriations
to carry them on. Such appropriations are but
indictments to fresh Outrages They stimulate
diabolical spirit already too rampant. They en-
courage murderous excesses into which the
thinking traveller and settler the plains and
borders are but too ready to plunge. So far az We
can Judge, all that the Indian tribes ask is treaty
of peace and for protection in their rights. If we
are to believe testimony that certainly has no In
ducement to partiality toward tho red men, we
must believe that In the existing war it is the
whites and not they who are the savages. II any
body should be protected, it is Indian women and
children ruthlessly murdered by barbarous foes.
We believe the proposed appropriation of three hum
dred thousand dollars, now under consideration by
the Committee of Ways and Means, to be no better
than wholesale swindle in behalf of wrong and
outrsge. Let Congress, instead Of making it,
make an appropriation to defray the expenses of a
Commission of Cancellation to be sent to the Indl-
ans with whom we have gone to war. Such
commission, composed of judiciOus and honest
men, would find the tribes but too willing to enter
into terms of accommodation, and but too glad to
seize the proffered hand of peace. Let the in5er-
ests of humanity as we'll as national economy be
consulted; let the bloody schemes Of tho war ad-
yOcates be rejected and frustrated.