The Washington union., 1858-02-13

XII septenber Of troops from Fort Clark
by Captain James oke second cavalry aud com
Infantry Henry Ciosson and twelve
company nr artillery and second eaen"nt James Weher
try Clark the mouth Of the Pcos Texas
expedition conducted with Judgment energy
that the operations Of day three parties Of indians were sar
the Indians Killed and four wounded Their animals and other
property taken or destroyed
The senator from Texas knows Indians well enough to
know the difficulty of surprising Indian camp. He
understands that men who ignorant of the frontier
and its service he described the army to be, would
surpr Indian camp, and yet here is gallant
soldier who three times surprised Indians In one day
Then again
3o,b, 1855 composed
g. first dragens and mounted remen in all
followed party Of nifty warriors the CHA Apaehe and after
three hundred eighty
three and tho and attacked
and drove them from The position of their own selection recovering
That sounds something like pursuit pursuit in which
fortitude Skill and all the knowledge that could enter
into such service, exemped in the highest degree
and that too, by of those very young men against
whom many of the senator Is remarks this morning
were directed. Again
April wakor H. Jcnlcr,
cavalry with thirteen of y, Of that regiment after
search thirteen and march Of nearly three hundred miles
upon fresh trail Of Indians the head Of tho north fork
the Nueees Texas aud the trail led into rocky country al
guard and continued tho pursuit with only seven mon After ,c
suddenly by
eighty Indians. Approaching cover
within hundred aud hi yards and he andts little party being
threatened at the same time by party returning 10 with horses
wounded i, being then night, he withdrew his men, roned hi.
horses and returned to to attack the asx day but in the mean
had no ratons, having been on seventeen days"
could go with these instances, have other
cases marked which might cite There twenty five
rccited in this single order OF them where
the Indians drawn up in position, and waited to
cciyc attack OF cavalry, when they gaanly at
tackled by Sumner, leading his men, charging them in
the in which he charged the Mexican forces
the time of the confusion thrown into troops at
Molina del Rcy, equally followed by dspencment. He
drove them from the field and their safety simply
from their ability with their light horses, to
stream the bed of which composed of sand.
The senator, then has done injustice and if he will
take this order, / will give it to him that he may
how great is the injustice he has done to the army in
thus proclamng to the country that they have rendered
part of that duty which devolvc upon them for the
protection of the frontier II he will read the report of
the Secretary of War; he will find that this is but one of
the two orders that recte such Deeds illustrating the
services which have been rendered by gallant little
band the frontier answering the reflection which the
senator has, unconscionsly, cast those who
are meantime encountering service severe than
have ever known volunteers to bear.
Then the senator, in the course of his remarks (or
find that us my opponents pressed to change, |
must change also) took the ground that,
son the army had been effective for said he they had
killed hundred and thirty and children and
the senator from Maine, Mr. HAmIN the intmation
perhaps of the senator from Texas sd dragons had been
raised under the petex of defending the frontier against
the Indians; and all he heard of their dongs the
killing some squaws and children. i do not know what
number he meant, whether the same hundred and
thirty not but nc explained that he meant the
place The report of General arncy, in reference the
action referred to- is to be found in the second volume of
tbs Presidents message and accompanying documents
for last year. at page 40 He sets forth the whole
and, according to his report and the accompanying
ports of the officers who serving under him, the
number of killed was eighty six and wounded five not
hundred and thirty and children but eighty
six Indians were killed. and five wounded about seventy
and children captured and fifty mules and ponies
TAKEN besides indefinite number killed and disabled
In report made by Colonel Cooke, which shall not
weary the Senate by reading, he explains that the
dressed and armed SO much like the sometimes to
be almost undisngushabe from them. They fired upon
his and, in instance, wounded sergeant who
had passed woman because he perceived she
Then, again the report of Lieut. Warren, who the
typographical engineer accompanying the expedition,
gives distinctly the whole circumstances Of the ground
which caused the killing Of, think, and
three children. After the first attack the Blue Wa
ter part Of the Indians escaped the plains and
were pursued by the mounted troops A part of them
being hill had fled into sort of cave where the
rock hung down to the ground, and furnished
loop hole through which they fired upon the troops
they approached. This fire returned by the troops
After cry heard from the interior of this cave
of the interpreters coming up said there in
it, and the officer who commanded them (and who by
the the senator from Maine would have found he
had inquired, worthy representative of his
Sate Immediately halted told the interpreter to ad
vance and called on the women to come out They did
come out; they were surrendered; they not hurt
and all that killed those who had been shot
the where they could not bc and that after
fire from the had been made. That, according to
the history of the case far have been able to
learn is the foundation of this charge of killing hun
dred and thirty women and children.
The commander Of that expedition General Harvey,
might compare his knowledge of Indians and of Indian
character avoably with the senator from Texas any
body else That stroke which he gave the Indians ON the
Blue Water was the most successful blow that ever
struck that frontier for the preservation of its future
peace; and If peace shall be enjoyed by people of Ne
braska it will be attributable that one great
movement of Harneys than to anything else which has
ever happened there Then moving on with that knowl
edge Of Indian character and that inrepidty and dcyo
ton to his duty which characterize the man. he went
Onward, disregarng all difficulties until reached the
Missouri river and there held council with the Indians
formed with them agreement, which stands in my
Judgment model for all treaties with Indian tribes
He there established among them organization which
anything could be effective to preserve these restless
people in order would conucc to that result IL has had
the good effect far learn, thus far to keep the
Indians, who had hitherto been hostile in state of peace
and approxmatng TO that end of which the senator
speaks,
The announced in the course of his argument
per annum but the senator from Maine, think, says il
is 81 500 The senator from Louisiana Mr. BENJAMINl
says is 81 900; and thus seems question be-
tween the gentlemen whether il is 81 900 ST. 800. Il
quite at loss to know by what process of calculation
they reach that result Surely the senator from Georgia