White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06
Correspondence.
(For the Chiefly
Indirectly Committing Murder.

Indirectly Committing Murder.
Nh. Eprroa-Dsss Sis:-Ths above caption
10 the most applicable that can and for the ar
ticls an going to pea, and to which wish to
draw your attention. - well - the attention oi
al good citissns.
He who sells Intoxicating drinks 10 Indians,
thereby maddsning their brain, in which state
they take the uvss Of their fellow. beings, com
mits murder: A. for instanes. thsrs have been
some seven or eight Indians murdered on the
Iowa Reserve within six months past; and from
undoubsed evidence ELECTED BY their Agent,
they were caused. BY intoxicating drinks OBJ
tanned from tasnes purporting to be "whits
men," Indeed, SIR, there 10 no language at
my command TO give ssch bs'ngs . name; for
they arc Heaven provoking, hsll-dsssrving
tRisss. The mesnest name can think Of, q
applicable to such dspraved beings, heard .
friend Of mine express, not long since. in this
language: " The dispisable means employed BY
God to destroy and obliterats the Indian tribes.
and who IN turn will b. subject TO Gods ire. for
thus yshding their poison, and causing whole
Isbutchsries!"
These beings, sir. are all marked, their pla-
ces known, and large amount Of evidence &C.
cumulatsd, sufficient to convict the depraved
wrstchss-commencing with mynheer." near
the bridge, In White Cloud; thence to the dog
gerry keeper in the same city; and going below
the city, into the cabin of him who steals the
Indians blanket for two or three quarts Of TO-
bacco juice and strychnine. called BY him "whis-
keys" and farther down, even unto the city
of Iowa Point, sir, they are oil known, and are
sbhor,ed BY good citizens everywhere. They
have only been permitted to run thus loDg, in
hopes that they would quit; but they will not.
Now, sir, "forbearance ceases to bs . virtue"
and if they do not cease, why We will deal in
law first; and if that does not have the desired
effect, then, Of course, We know how the old
man brought the boy out of his apple tree. Do
those hings, depravsd a. they are. have no
feeling' They prove they have not, even for
their wives and children. Do they think that
God will wink at the Wholesale murders COM
mitted by them-of women killed, men butch
cred. and children slain, by the infuriated de-
mons made BY the whisksy obtained from those
"despicable means employed by Godf" These
beinss (for cannot call them men; they DIS
grace beard, and are only man in shape, not
in principls) are accountable to man here, and
to God hereafter; for the manner in which they
behave 10 that Of the assassination who cannst
fancy he sees the drunken Indian proving
about with assassin's knife in hand, to plunge
into the heart Of his unsuspecting victini :.
Why, sir, since the payment, November 1.t,
1867 it has been unsafe for femate to travel
alone half . mile from White Cloud in any d.
rsction; and, sir, know Of two instances Of al
most alarming nature, which expect to COM
municate at the proper time-and also know
where the Indians obtained the srtiele that
made them drunk. Likewise know the cir.
cumstance of an aged and respectable man be-
ing stopped within mile of White Cloud, by
some twenty drunken Indians, and but for his
tact and cirsunspection, would no doubt have
been killed outright Now, how long can good
citizens stand this7 Will they submit to it al.
ways7 No, sir; in the absence Of any other
proof but seeing the Indians going into those
"hslls," (for they are nothing slss,) they are
justified, in selfdefsnce. in putting an end to it,
The character Of the town justifes it, and de-
mands it. Ifthsse tAinss cannot make living
in any other manner than by selling whisksy to
Indians, they ought to pray God to move their
miserable cascssses from here.
call upon all good citizen, ladies and gen
slsmen, to respond to this, either Though your
paper, or BY csnversation and acts. Shall /
call in vain7 Remember. some white male or
female life may depend upon the action taken
in the premises. I say, do appeal in vain7
Yours, PEPPRRSALT.
November Goth, 1860.