Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-06-26
Another and a War Messasc---SibIey's
sioux Scarei

| the supreme felicity of sending in another,
and this time it was very ferocious message,
| breathing war and rumors of war, and asking
authority to call ont volunteers, and for an
appropriation of $4,000 to pay them
And what do the people think, all this
was for2 Why, the Yank,on Sioux Indians
have been playing the mischief over in Dako-
ia territory, fifty miles or more beyond the
limits of the State of Minnesota burning,
at Medary, which is the proposed territorial
capital. a large amount Of property belonging
to the Dakota Land Company--the same
company whose agents last fall made such
strenuous exertions, by slillfully cast votes
with pen and ink on paper, TO elect Mister
SIBLEy to the Governorship; in return for
which aid, we suppose, the forgery Governor
thinks that now is a capital opportunity to
help them in return, while at the same time
he can display himself! 70 write messages
is his vocation and he is thankful for any
circumstance which affords him pretext for
one.
The message was referred to joint COM
lnittee of both houses, to consider the mo-
mentous exigency!
Now, we would enforce upon this commit
tee the fact, which they may not he aware
of, that this is warm weather. Some people
| go so far as TO term it hot---deededly hot
The advisability Of keeping cool, therefore,
is wisdom that is transparent to all capable
of evolving an idea Of any kind in that labor
atory Of thought, the brain, Keep cool, phys
ically and mentally this then is the grand
watchword of the times Don't even get
excited about Indian wars and rumors there
Of I!
1t possible we may have this Fall little
immigration provided always we don't spoil
it all by ridiculous and unfounded Indian
war. We tried that experiment year ago J;
and have paid pretty dearly for shoulderins
the burden of the Spirit Lake affray, the
onus of which properly belonged to Iowa to
hear: hut the fools were not all dead in Min
nesota at that time. and with an editor to
back them up in their tomtoolery whom the
fool-kiIler had accidentally spared on going
| bis annual rounds, quite panic of Indian
war was got up which efectually scared away
immigration as though an angel OF wrath
stood at our doors, with flaming sword, as
Of old at the gates Of Paradise, warning in
truders not to enter
Our advice to the committee having this
subject in charge is, to examine It well and
carefully, The whole story rests apon the
narrations of one man. Let him verify his
statements under oath---let the committee
have him discriminate between what he HIM
self saw and knows, and Whist he only heard :
Our impression is, that in this affair the
Yanktons are only asserting their possesSory
rights over that part of the country which
every record among white men, and every tra-
dtion amongst Indians, will sustain as just
anI well founded.
True, the Treaty made at Traverse des
Sioux, with the Sisseton and Wakpayton
| Sioux, makes the Big Sioux River the west
ern boundary Of tho purchase. But having
been the Secretary Of the Treaty Commits
| sion, we A,a0ao that it was understood By the
Commissioners, and by ali hands there on the
occasion Of making the treaty, that the inn
mediate valley Of the Big Sioux, on both sides
| thereof, and eastward as far as the head
| springs Of the Redwood river belonged in
! fact to the Yas44toa Sioux. AS, however. the
Sisseton and Wakpayton boundary line on
| the west was underlined, and as these Indians
were accustomed to range even as far as the
Big Sioux, is was deemed best TO ombody in
the treaty, a quit claim from them OF whatever
| interest that might have in the country clear
up to the Big Sioux River.
| Still the intention and suppostion Of the
| Treaty Commissioners at the time was, that
/ the United States should subsequently satisfy
the Yanhtons and by treaty, likewise extin-
guish their title to the eastern slope of the
Valley Of the Big Sioux River.
| LtJ IL pc uliueTsIOOu aiso tiaC tIc Iahh-
/ tons have never ceased claiming that this
was TIER country and that they, and not the
Sissetons and Wakpaytous, should be paid
! for it |
That the Yanktons should, therefore, be
| Jealous Of the encroachments of white set
tiers upon the disputed lands is most natu-
raj, and is not only Indian-ke but white
man-lke. No person viii willingly give his
rival the advantage of the nine points of the
law. which are said to be involved in the fact
of being in possession Of a piece of land
The Indians have not read Blackstone but
they are good natural lawyers for all that, as
! i'~ ortti.,;::n IF Il eirs proves.