The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-08-27
COMMUNICATIONS.
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are not swift to shed blood, sxceptin case Of
spFoyoeation, real or supposed. Considering
the superior opportunities and intelligence 81
the white man, much can consistently beurgsd
ID fayor q the predatory and sometimes bloody
conduct 81 the Indian.
Stealing 10 The Indians traditional creed. ~
With him, - with certain classic aneisnts,
theft ii honorable, under received conditions
Dot 4 white man processes I'd have soul
above stealing. That accomplishment forms
no portion Of bis ostensibIs creed. YET how
many thousat d. are ever and anon slyly soon
yeyeu,D under false preisnces and through dis.
honorable advantages, from the pocket n one
white man 10 the pocket of anothet2 Hint to
de white man Of hfsdefeetioh, and oqt L jerk
ed his revolver OF bowie knife, 70 avenge the
attack On bis precious character This 70 HE
brother white.
The white man travels across the hunting
ground oE the Iadian, tie Indiatts BY posses
sion, SAID TO be nine poihts iuiaw, and often
his too BY express treaty with the Iordly and
ssIf-gratalant white. The Indian approaches
the white nari's camp, and without more ado
the deadly rife Is leseIied and the poor son Of
The forest bites The linat. His tribe retsIiate-
plumber, destroy and kill. Then comes the
cry = 4 Exterminate the red skittly Such are
too frequently the true anteesdehts Of Indian
difficulties. IA !. & 81
a just man 10 one Of the farest objects IN the.
world Willthere neser be q time when lus-
lice will triumph, and might cease To be ac-
ceuntsdTight? Or does the lamb always soil
the stream? And IL the wolf always ihno-
esn5? Arc the weak unfortunately always
ia the wftng2 Il the white man toe greet te
be lnagnanimous2 Can he not afford TO be
genefousP il he ashamed OF owning his faults
and acknowledging The simple virtues 81 the
red manp OF has the white man like the la
/ dies with her two dozen petticoats each array
ca himself Id all the virtue, leaving the poor
Indian morally nakedP ] am satisfied that
when The great day of accounts arrives there
viii be figures exhibited which will alarm
tsomebcdy. When the white man and the red
man close accounts, / shall be mistakenh q
handsoln. balance does not swing over TO The
gentleun a, in the swarthy skin. Won't hethen
gally don His feathers, paints and beaded moe
casins! s5. \. Elm. 81.
tits right that the Indian troubles IN the
fofthern partof our Tertiary shoald De iuqulr-
ed iato thoroughly siftsd to inc bdttorn,i possI-
bic, that those who deserve Ii may bear The
blame. II the emfgrants were The pFoyokerts,
let them have due credit Tor their acts. if the
Indians attacked the whites unpfoyokedfy, let
the guilty Indians have the odium, and il pos
sibIe let than be properly punished. But bet
sss .sn sats,J Insiaas ssrspe unpunisned man
a single friendly one inn5cshtiy suffer and die.
a red man's blood should be shed nnre-
serysdly no more than white mans. They
should be equally sacred when equally inno-
cent, 6 Woe be to him who sheddeth innocent
blood p Of red or white man. When innocent
bloot cries to heaven for vengeance, !. I'll divine
justice paTley about ths color Of The skiu9
II il currently reported that, in connection
with the late skirlnish between some u. S
troops and sone indians near Brigham City, an
innocent Indian boy, 10 the employ Ola CITIZEN,
was shot down BY the troops, notwithstanding
bis repeated protestations thai he was III no
way connected with the; Indiahs whom they
had been fshtipg. IL this is true, those who
shot bun, or ordered him 10 be siot, are every
whit as much guilty Of murder as any man can
be In the world, and should be punished ac-
eordingly. a " ..;# HI ::c ...: ..:s
Permit me append the following confession
of disgraceful treatment Of the Iedians, from
the Sacramento uiion, July lB:---2 .... I. "
!: uThe seyerity with which the peInetrator,
Of III. late oGtraees upou The Indians are De.
nounced in the Eastern b pers, toee Their with
the laws which have permitted the offenders 10
20 iunpanished. Is certainly deserved oar
,daily: readers can hardly be awar. without
.s.ino ,hs .rr,,,n,,I, "a ann :, ,hs..
Tor tue past tnTee OF tour ulonthes OF tHeF ex-