The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-19
hostile IsD1AN rR1nrs

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!Ihe tribes occupying the beautiful In
dian Territory, reserved for them wet If
Arkansas and south of Kansas. are now ar.
rayed as unit against the Federal Gov.
eminent. The Cherokees were tia I.ot fo
yield to the poison of Secession. Holm Rnss
their able chief. held them back "a lone a.
possible. But they assembled in mass meet
ing on the 2lst ult. and resolved unon an
alliance with the Rebel States. slavery
being interviewer with the social svstem
OF the Indians. has furnished handv NET.
work Of sympathy and interest for the traitor
wlre-pulers of the South TO onerate mon
Il The force which the united tribes NAV bring
against US is not small The C6octaws
and Chickasaws number, By the report of
1853, about 5000. The Creeks humber
10000 and the Seminoles. not ;ncluded
IN the Creek census, about 5000 The
Cherokees have population of FL 900, and
other small tribes number nearly 5000.
: Lbs gives numerical strength of "a 900.
not including the Indians of several aoeu-
cies on the Western frontier, who are too far
from the scene Of conflict to participate.
ny this computation the Indian Territory
becomes nearly as formidable an antagonist
as The State of Floida, and capable of sup
PIIBg quite as many men for the Southern
armies. The Indians are by nature well
nIted Tor the uncivilized, predatory warfare
waged by Ben Mccullough. and they have
already given the Union men of Kansas and
missouri serious annoyance. The Cicero
KEGS are Immediately to be mustered as
cavalry brigade under one Drew They are
very warlike Tribe. Bitter have been their
wars with the whites and with neighboring
tribes OF their own race, in which they
showed all the Indians ferocity and more
than the Indians courage. Their knowl-
edge OF the arts of civilization extends
scarcely further than the use of powder and
Dali, although missionary enterprise had es-
tabished some schools among them. OF
all the Indian nations the Choctaws are
most advanced in the arts and appliances
OF civilization. They are by nature better
htted for an agricultural people than any
other OF the American aborigines, as they
possess fair mental ability and peaceful dis
position. The Choctaws have never Waged
war with their white neighbors. 1t has been
the boast of the Choctaw that he never shed
the blood Of white man in battle They
have so for advanced in enlightenment as to
substitute government similar to that of the
United States for the savage rule of chief
They publish newspapers and books and
maintain excellent schools. Still, they are
largely under the influence of their leading
men. = - ~ -
The head chief of the Choctaws is COL:
> Pytchlyn, a half-bFeed, an extensive slave
holder, and man of intellect and charac-
ter. His residence, but five miles from the
Arkansas line. brought him under the in
fuence of Secession, and he fell easily into
the plans of the conspirators. Soon after
the secession of Texas and Arkansas,
Pytchlyn's influence with the tribe, backed
by the rifles of large body of Texan ran-
gers, forced the acting president and coun-
Gil of Choctaws and Chickasaws into an i'm
mediate coalition with the rebels. Thirteen
mission schools, fostered by the Govern
ment and Northern charity, in which about
1000 Choctaw youth of both sexes were be-
ing educated, were Immediately broken up,
and the teachers and missionaries forced
to flee for their lives. Such was the work
of the Texas despeTadoes, who hate chris
tianity only less than abolitionism. The
Creeks, less civilized than the Choctaws, live
more by the chase than by agriculture.
Their government is an improved chleftain-
ship, and the leading Greek chief is Gen. Rol
ey Mcintosh, a halt breed of Scotch origin.
He is strong-minded aud determined man,
q thorough Indian in, his instincts and hab-
its. scarcely speaking the English language
even. He was captain in the U. 5. army
during the Greek war in Florida, and serv
ed the government faithfully. His power
over the movements of his people is abso
lutte and his word with them is law. The
willy Albert Pike of Arkansas, Who has
long been McIntosh's personal friend, sue
ceeded in bringing the Greek nation into the
Southern conspiracy. A treaty of alliance
was at the same time effected with the Sem
inoles. Here, as among the Choctaws, sew
eral fiourishing schools were broken up,
and the teachers shamelessly driven from
the Territory. Still the plots of the seces-
sionists were blocked while the Cherokees
appeared loyal, or at least maintained neu-
trality. OF course these Indian tribes will
henceforth receive no more annuItIes from
tie Federal Government, nor recover the
trust funds stolen by their seducers into trea-
son, nor obtain the payment of any more
treaty debts. Congress, at the next session,
will repeal all the acts by which they hold
lands. And when this wicked and causeless
outbreak against just GoyeInme has been
subdued, as it will be, the attitude of the
Indian Territory may cause a second re-
moval of the aboTigines, this time beyond
the Rocky Mountains. So much for the
hostile tribes Springfield Mass. } Rspu6.
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