Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-09
From Our Nebraska Correspondent.
NEBRASKA CRY, N T. I
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DEAR CoLoNEL:-Now it is the last Of 1861,
and near the "wee sma' hours against the
twal" So goodbye old 1860 The truth is, /
dom. think much Of the year just now dying. ]
don't regard Lis death at all. An evil genius
has attended his whole career. and our obildren's
children will recnr to the date with loathing.-
So far as our, own particular locality is con-
cerned, the year has been peculiarly an un-
fortunate one Fire destroyed the principal
part Of our city; the drouth destroyed our crops;
Lincoln's election destroyed confidence; the de-
truction Of confidence destroyed credit, and l
fear the drama is to close with the destruc ton
of the American Union. Who regrets that
1860 is dead2
Ihave not written for the Statesman for some
time, principally for the reason that had moth
ing in particular to write about. Barring the
egotism, may | not remark that it would be well
II all newspaper correspondents observed the
same rule. 4tfu Oh. -.
Now, have not much to write about, but feel
disposition to let your readers know how the
separation of the American Union is likely to
affect US here, in the Territories. You, Colonel,
having been here, ,and being familiar with our In
dian relations. will readily apprehend the danger
we are In. We have among and near US, the
Ottoes, Sioux and Pawnee Indians, all in treaty
alliance with the Government and all entitled to
annuities Tho Sioux and Pawnees, though
ncminally friendly, are ugly fellows, always
ready for row, and IL is barely possible to keep
them in order by the prompt payment Of their
annuities, and the presence IN their vicinity of
considerable bodies of troops. Add to these
the Kiowas, Cheyen mes, Camanches, and other
tribes Of the Plains, who are only kept from at
tacking the white settlements by fear, and
then let the payments stop, and the army be
withdrawn or dsbanded, and you at once bring
down upon the white settlements not less than
&c, 900 IndiaDs, and among them the most saw
age and warlike OF the whole savage race. Your
readers need not say lam unnecessarily alarmed.
You, Col. Manypenny, know better. You
know, that If the Indian payments are stopped
as stopped they must be, In the event OF disso.
lution-three months will see this whole Terri
tory and Kansas, so overrun with hostile In
disns, that it will require we'll appointed army
of not less than 10000 men, to hold them Ii
check, Where is that army to come from
Who is to raise it2 Who to equip itf Who Il
pay it2 Who to provision III When the Fed
eral Treasury is bankrupt-wheI Federal bondl
are a drug-when its Government issel
is broken up--when confidence is gone
l-how will you support, an arm,
here-youc cannot pay your snnuities
There ia not, to-day, in the Treasury enough
money to pay the current expenses OF your Gov
ernment. Tell me, where ia the money to com,
from to pay the Indians next spring2 And th,
moment they are not paid, that moment, wo,
betide the Territories! Can you not defent
yourselves7 Look here, reader, there are II
Nebrasks and Kansas about l50, 600 people, al
told. OF these say one-eighth are capable o
bearing arms. This would make considerable
oil an army-and able to repulse all Indian in.
cursions,g Yes, but remember most Of thes
men are poor men-they have families to sup
port wives and children who need their dali,
care-whom they cannot leave-especially Ii
times Of trouble. Remember, citizens Of Colum
bus, that within few weeks you have beer
holding meetings and contributing of you
means to keep the people Of Kansas from abso
lutte starystion. Do you remember that meet
log where Mr. P B. Wilcox, and Others were
committee to raise bread for starving Kansas
and we are not much better Of We have no
had 10, beg yet--that 10 not the fashion of th
people of Nebraska. Bot the drouth destroye
our cropa too, and It is as much as a bargai
that we have enough to live on. How then
are the people of Kansas and Nebraska to en-
gage In an Indian War Of extermination2
Oh, my Republican friends, you have "dedi
Gated the Territories to freedom, :, but II is ih
freedom of barbarian. You will, 10 a fev
monihs have returned the Territories to thei
"normals condition" of wild Indians, bufaloe
and pralrie wolves--for nnless you can save tn
Government, nothing can save the whites of tn
Territories from death, but fight, y. go.
II Many Of the citiSens OF central Ohio own in
terests here. If they can contrive any way !
save theips property they will confer o great fa
vOr uponthose who live here; es5i -. :