New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-25
INDIAN MURDERS.

Ii is fact of no small significance that the
treason which boasts Of it's Chivary and its
natural and cultivated aptitude for the pursuit
of arms, and regards the loyal States as emil
ncnty peaceful, commercial, money-getting,
and unwarkc, should have appealed from the
first and in every stage Of the conflict to for.
eign aid in the desperate struggle it iDaugu-
rated. Before President Lincoln had ordered
the firing of a shot or the calling out OF
regiment, Rebel cmissaries were perambulating
Europe in quest of allies and of assistance
tor their pirate Confederacy on any concelva-
bic terms. Within few weeks thereafter,
other emissaries sped westward to the Indian
tribes on the frontiers of civilization, to enlist
them in tho work Of devastation and massacre.
The accession of these tribes to the traitor
league argued special evity and ingratitude on
their part. The very spirit now working IN
the breasts Of the Southern traitors had ex-
PEELED most of those Indians from their origi.
nal homes, in violation OF the faith OF treaties
aud in defiance of the earnest protracted re-
sis.ance Of the loyal influences DOW predoml-
nant ut the North 1t was the spirit now IN
open revolt against the Union that imprisoned
missionaries and executed Indians ia ostenta-
tious defiance of the faith of treaties and OF the
decisions of the Supreme Court. Gov. Iroup OF
Georgia undertook to e1pel the Creeks and
Cherokees from their lands within thai State, I'M
memoraly held by and solemny guaranteed, to
them but was stopped by the sword Of the Union,
then welded by President John Quincy Adams.
The treaty.breakers then rallied upon Gen. Jack
son and elected him, and he helped them to expel
the Indians and seize their lands III utter con
ternbt for treaties and courts. There y said
President Jackson. when the Judgment OF tue
Supreme Court WIS announced; john Mar
shall has made hs dccison-now let INN en-
force il ~ OF course, he could not-;hat was
Tie Presidents buslucss-and rs the Pfesdent
would do nothing, treaties and Judgment went
for nothing, the Indians were driven of, and
TIER lands were divided BY lottery among their
Georgian robbers. And now those robbers. hay-
ing undertaken rather larger job OF Multi.
eaton. have called on the Indians for help,
~
Tie explanation of this iatuuy is found ia the
fact Of Slavery. The Southern Rebels and their
Iodian allies are alike slayeboldcrs-a broth
efhoud Of rhieyes" The White traitors arc
fighting for Slavery; aud tue Indians are I'M
PEELED by a COMMON interest, n common crime,
TO 20 in VITA them.
The new Outbreak 10 the Northwest has
manifrsrly Lac origin, without u Ike excuse
The SIOUX have doubtless been stimulated Il not
brood to plumber aud slaughter their White
neighbors by White and Red villains sent
Among them for TIL. purpose by the Secession
isi.. These perfectly understand that the In
diaDs viii be speedily crushed and probably de.
stroyed as trDes; but what care their Sc
ducers Ion limit They VIII have effected a
temporary diversion In favor OF the Coufeder-
acy, aud that is all their concern. But day
VI reckoning for all thfse niqmties is at hand.