New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-11
ot4, INDIAN Wars.

whites but that the latter are and ever have been in
almost every instance the originators, directly or in
directly Of hostlites with their red brethren There
ID no doubt that as the tide Of civilization has swept
backward nom tile Atlantic shore towards the heart
of tie continent there has always existed upon our
western frontiers class Of Wild adventurous men,
often guilty Of wrongs and outrages against the sons
of the Forest and ever ready to engage in warfare
with them and no question but that these border
feuds have continually served to embtter and keep
alive the ranking hatred against the white man
which burns in every true Indians BOSOM and have,
times without number brought on or fastened cruel
wars and stimulated the fearful atrocities which in
varably attended them, 1t cannot be denied that
the Government even now employs many Indian
agents in our vast Western Territories who pay much
more attention to private speculatons than to their
legitimate duties and who so that they attain their
personal ends little for mourning the and
enmity Of the savage tribes they are sent to conc
late 1t is true, too that the white man first sowed
the seeds Of intemperance and disease among the ma
tive races and that through these and other agencies
and the gradual occupation of their hunting grounds
they are slowly but surely disappearing and will at
no distant period Of time, be swept from existence
| forever
But all this does not authorize the oftrepeated as.
sertion that our Indian troubles invariably OF gener
ally, result from the aggressive spirit Of the whites
It has not been with the frontier settlers Of Texas
who for several years have suffered from the incur
sons Of rowing bands Of sayages, coming upon them
when least expected in the field Of labor by day or
the dwelling at night. In the course of few years
these predatory bands have destroyed and carried
away an immense amount Of property generally in
horses and cattle, and have killed large number of
people and carried many into captivity. What PRO.
yoked the ferocious Camanches, whose hunting
grounds are far away, upon the eastern boundary Of
New Mexico, to travel hundreds of miles and murder
deenceless settlers upon The Texan frontier? Moth
ing more nor less than the thirst for blood and the
love Of plumber
The same fell instincts brought Ink-pa,du-tah and
his hideous band Of Yanktons, a year OF two ago
down from the depths of central Minnesota upon the
unsaspecting settlers Of northern Iowa. As in the
case Of the Camanchesa aud Texans they had received
no provoCation for the murders and outrages they
committed; their hunting grounds, where they be.
longed were too distant to render peaceful contact
with the settlements heydeyasated expedent or ne
cessary, except at rare intervals and in fact in al.
most all at the present day of attacks upon the
frontier they do not proceed from contiguous tribes
bat from those sufficiently remote to battle any except
the best organized and most perseverng pursuit.
1t is certain that the most humane and generous
treatment that could be extended to the tribes along
our frontiers, on the great Western plains or in the
wilds Of Oregon and Washington Territories would
not prevent the continual recurrence of those butch
cries and outrages which have always characterized
not only the warfare but the pastime Of the treacher
and bIoodthirsty aborigines. Does any one sup
pose that if from the time of the Pilgrims to the
present, the white man had never committed an act
of Injustice against the Indian, and had even studi
ously avoided offending in the slightest manner,
there would have been perpetual peace between
them2 Far from it. The Indian race possesses no
such temper nor disposton-no such Christian char
aeterise. They are not made of thatsort of stuff For
any created being that yields or shows itself pus
luminous in the iaintest degree, they have neither
sympathy nor compassion. The white man would very
soon have had to meet the Indian in battle or submit
first toinsolence and aggression aud then subugation
1t has always been found sOin our dealings with them
Wherever our Government has been most powerless
to prevent and punish outrage there the Indian has
invariably exhibited i'll their full excess his arrogance
his erocty his thirst OF blood and bis delight in the
misorunes Of his victims and their final tormens at
the stake. With him these are traits Of character
which fear alone can quell into sulen submission,
and death alone can extinguish. The petty wars
which are continually waged by the different Indian
tribes upon one another furnish quite sufficient proof
that they are incapable of remaining on good terms
for any considerable period with anybody, and that
with them peace is only an abnormal condition.
Since, then, it well known to be impossible to en-
poY with these creatures either reason argument or
Cancellation toany commensurate oradequatep
it seems ncomprehensibe that the people should not
long ago have compelled their representatives to
make use Of the ample means in their hands in pro.
tecting our frontiers and the travellers and emgrauts
on the great Western deserts and in eectualy crush
ing out the endish spirit of barbarity wherever it
exhibits ITSELF The manner in which the aggressons
of the sayages on the Texan frontier in New Mexico
in Florida, and on the routes across the Western
plains have been opposed has but served for many
years to invite aggressons and ontrages, and to i'm
press our untutored antagonists with contemntu,
Gus idea Of our prowess and efficiency in warfare
Wherever the War Department established a fort
to awe neghboriug tribes into peaceabIe behavior
the ahsurdty was invariably committed of manning
il with body Of inantryan arm Of course perfectly
useless against the well mounted sayages Of the
plains, Many times have these painted and whoop.
ing devils, upon their swift-looted prairie steeds,
swooped down upon our FORTS and almost from under
their very walls driven away herds of cattle or ocea
slonally murdered some naples straggler who could
not regain his shelter quite in time In such case tho
bngle is Of course sounded and tine drum beats 10
arms but before platoon eau defle from the gate,
way the adventurous foe disappears below the horizon
that skirts the vast plain.
We rejoice that q more energetic and efficient
course Of warfare has been recently adopted against
the red marauders and We believe that au occasional
ehastisement like that administered by Capt Van
Dorm to the Gamanehes and by Col Wright to the
spokans in Oregon, would 90 farther towards keeping
them orderly and quiet than all the treaties annuities
and presents that could be granted to them Not
that we object to treaties, annnities and presents
they are very well in proper way but the sword
should invariably be npfted when the olive branch
is held out
LAW NoTIcE-Any one having business in the
United States and Supreme Counts of the Eighth
Judicial District will find competent attorneys in
Messrs. Chrsty Daigre whose offices are at GOWN
ton and Greensburg. We refer to their card else.
where.
We should explain that the W. Christy above men
Toned is our old and esteemed tellow.etizen, Col
VIM. Christy. That he will be not only useful but
popular in the pant of the State in which he has
anchored for business we are sure. The followii Q
notice we copy from the Greensburg Imperial:
Lac Partaa8hip.-It will be seen by reference to
heir card in to,days Imperial that Col VIM Cbristy,
omerly 81 the New Orleans bar, and an old aud
much respected citzenof that city and our esteemed