The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1861-11-05


The Nashville Boviing Green Louisville
Courier. printed IN the hrst named place.
published pominally in the second. and a
Stunning the name OF tie third. contains tbs
paragraph:
The Yankee Scalpers Is the name Of
COMPANY Of Chsetaw Indians enlisted In the
Confederate service.
The Courier mentions this with no word OF
dis4pproval, bat With evident APPRECIATION
and exul.tion. The Coar,er's feeling upon
the subje~t however iss matter of little or
10 Consequence, the only fact IN the csse that
Interests the pablo Is that company 81
Cho~t.w Ipdiass has bees enrolled IN the
Confederate service under the name OF tie
Yankee Scslpers-"
SJme Of our secessionists here. since if be
came known that the confederates we're N =
king great and 10 some extent, successful
exertions 20 ealisi the Indian tribe in the var
against the United States. have pretended 10
think that the lncian character has become
80 changed within the last few yeaD that no
apprehension need be entertained OF their
praeticins the horrid barbarities which every
where marked their progress in our revolu-
tionary uaT ana ln our war OF lcl2 And IN all
the other numerous wars in which our people
hzve been engaged with them. We say our
secessioui-ts have pretended 70 think this.
but they do not think a. They know better.
they know that the Indian disposition in war
fare Is unchanged. To suppose that they do
MT know this would be To suppose them a.
ignorant - cattle OF all the incidents upon
our Western frontier and through the i'm
mense Indian territory beyond during the last
lev yean- They must have read. If they
ever read at all, hundreds Of accounts OF
white men. who. travelling over the wide
Aas.x and
| Pacific. have been killed by the savages and
Afterwards found not only with the marks Of
the tomshawk aud the scalping- knife but
Nth all the brutal aud revolving mutilations
that savage ingenuity could invent and
savage brutality inlet There has probably
besu no case where white men have fallen
| victims Ia the mid-t OF our Western Indian
tribes and hid Their scalps lett upon theiI
heads. And humanity has often slckend and
surnesl pale Ia reading of the disgusting and
shocking treatment extended 10 innocent and
Oeiutilul women during their captivity
monS the Iudiar tribes within the last fe~
Years. The Indian character for cruelty Is
,sot only unchanged but unch ,ngcable. IL is
a. much a part CT his moral nature red
skin is oil his physical
Moreover. the Confederate civil or militia
n authorities. ss the paragraph We have cit
e. from the Cou. Ter shows. hive no thought
o. leaving any doubt upon mems or women 4
minds As TO their views and expectations II
engaging the services OF Indians in this strug
Sle They enroll Indian companies that give
nptice besorehsnd Vt their de-ius by demon
mating themselves Yankee Scslpers;" ane
oy the term " snkee" thew like their white
brethren OF the seceding States. mean al
whom they are TO fght against. The scalp
I a.. IN,
nate between New Englsnders. New York
ers, and kentuckisns This war then Is c.
J De made. on the part OF tho Coniederates
such war as those for which all ot on
c mtryuen no les la the South than In tn
n nth aud the Centre have for halt csntu
~ beeu invoking all the world 10 wretk u
indignation upon Great Britain ~ guilty o
conduct thlt Was shame 20 civilization ans
TO hum an nature. Whit difference, as We
md our living aud dead fathers have thou
sands Of times a~ked, can there I've betwecI
a civilized nations welding With its ow.
hands the weapons OF savage torture ans
massacre against the men. women. and chil
dcen OF beliigerent milton, and calling u
the aid Of b,rbarian allies, who, they Know
will do this?
The Confederate organs in the Sout
boosted. some time ago. that they had eve
then enlisted four Indian regiments. and wer
making fine progress in their Indian enlist
. men,s A portion of the Indians, ~ "
know from secession testimony. have bee
for some DAYS at Bowling Green. and other
will soon be there. The whole or the bu!
OF the savage forces enlisted and 70 be en-
D listed will 90 brought into Kentucky an
Missouri. Indians, armed as all Indians ar
armed painted to look like demons. an
= 4 - hoo
are to be led on by Gen. Sidney Johnston
I and Gen. s. B. Backner, aud Col. Thoml
X. Hunt. and Major Alex. Cssseday. an
other Kentucky Generals and Colonies an
. n .jors. and let loose upon Us TO yell. 10 mu
der aud TO burn-to spare neither sex nc
-ge--to torture and slay the living and
; mutllate the dead. Those Generals m
! Cslonels and Majors were but lately respec
81 citizens in the midst of u, and now, hs'
ny become renegates 10 humanity as we'll I
{, country and TO God, we see what doo
, they are deliberately preparing for their o.
> relatives and friends aud neighbors-wh;
= kind OF scenes they are mixing arrangement
; 20 enact or 10 cause 10 be enacted IN an
around their recext homes
And now the duty OF every kentuckian
< Main. The voice that calls him 10 the pc
fsrmancc of that duty is louder than ii
u bolts OF Heaven" We all see what the II
e vadcrs OF Kentucky are doing. and We mus
: We shall. Il We are not dead TO every feelir
!. of manhood. meet and drive them back 81
:. the tread of hostile shoes and moccasins sha
u be on our streets. on our thresholds, sad
y our psrlors. or perish in the hrm and her'
= endeavor Come up IN the work, mea
= Louisville and men OF Kentucky. or sit 81
y pine. shrinking. de d--a thousand tim'
. worse thin dead What would your neb
- and ,hivslric anccstor--yoar glorious o
= fathers an: mothers immortallzod IN story
have thought aud how would they have fel
N hsa ,hev known or believed that they wou
. have descend ,ts, Of the secoli or third I
y even tne zenith generation. who would tail
hesitate % rush 70 arms at the first cry o. :
e ATTEMPT to overrun AMI subjugate keHiacs
bv the comb ned forces OF white men 81
! savasesi RISE AZ your fathers rossl Stril
= As your fathers struck
. There vas time saw the New Alosr
f>>ig<r when the Democratic party Was %
,fraid TO st-.nd upon .ts osn merit---wh'
/. mon who believed in Democratic pnnclp
\ AL voted the Democratic ticke. we're .
oalv persons Invited % tske rart M Dem
i. cratic meetings and conventions But u q
State COMMITTEES OF INDIANA trulv speak q
party land Ne k-ow they do moi, All this
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