The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-11-24
From the KeOkak Gate City.
The Spirit Lake Indians-Hos-
tilities Apprehended.


tilities Apprehended.
We learn that there are unmi taxable
Indications of a general hostile feeling
among the IndinDs along oortherr
frontier, and that the impunity which
has hitherto attended their nutrages in
spires them with confidence in their
attempted repetition.
A special messenger has arrived from
Spirit Lake with dispatches for Gov
Lowe, representing that the Indians are
collecting in larger numbers than ever
upon our frontiers. The tom and bear.
ipg of these Indians is bold, i~nsoleni
and thrcatning, and they have already
committed numerous depredations upon
the property of the white settlers in
the vicinity of Spirit Like. The horses
and cattle of the citizens disappear
mysteriously, and IN several instances il
has been ascertained that they were
stolen by the Indians.
Miss Gardner. one of the captives
taken and released in the Spring of 1857,
is again living at Spirit Lake, and rec.
ognizes among these Indians some of
Ink pa du tabs band, who were engaged
in the butchery of citizens last Winter,
and by whom she aud others were taken
captive. The danger of similar hostili-
ties is regarded as imminent. and set
tiers are standing on guard day and
night, and will continue to do SO till a
military f rec shall be sent for their re
lief aud protection.
We are happy to learn that they will
not be kept in suspense, nor disappoint-
ed in their hopes of aid from the Gov
ernor. Upon the reception of the in
telligence that our fellow citizens were
again exposed to the perils of the bloody
scenes enacted winter before last in the
vicinity of Spirit Lake, Gov. Lowe
promptly issued orders 10 Captain Mar
tin of the Frontier Guards, requiring
bIm to march with his company of about
fifty men, with all possible dispatch to
the. scene of danger. Capt. Martin is
directed to take no offensive measures
against the Indians, unless such meas
ures are absolutely necessary for the
protection and safety of the settlers
He is required, however, to notify all
the Indians in that vicinity, whether
hostile or friendly, to leave the State,
and in case of their refusal or neglect
to leave, be is instructed TO drive them
ont of the State at all hazards; and he
is especially epjoiued to make every
possible effort to capture Ink-pa du tab,
and as many of his tribe as can be identi-
fed as implicated in the massacres of
the Spring of 1853, in order that they
may be dealt with according to law.
By a law enacted last Winter, it is
made the duty of the Governor to afford
protection to the frontier settlements
the incursions of hostile indians
until adequate protection should be pro-
vided by the Federal Government
Notwithstanding the fact that scores of
citizens were massacred by the Indians,
ard hat their surviving friends and
relatives petition the President for
redress and protection, the Federal
Government has never raised a finger
toward affording either. So the law of
last Winter still remains in force, and
the duty of the Federal Government is
devolved upon the Governor of the
State of Iowa.
It is very generally believed by those
who have the best facilities for knowing,
there is a malignant and settled
hostility in the breast of lux pa du tab
and the Indians who are under his con-
troll against the whites, and that they
are determined to wreak their hostility
on our exposed frontier settlements
understand that Gov. Lowe has
made the most urgent representation of
the porilons condition of the those set
Elements to the Exc utive at Washing
ton, and we would unite with him, on
behalf of our people, in demanding the
interposition of the General