The Goodhue volunteer., 1862-12-10


cal, to assert rtssy, II Is 81 tbs case: These
sayases cannot be justly judged ~ the stand
ard Of a civilization they as Il hot enjoy. we
trust that the strongest religious d and humane m
influences viii withstand The Very very hat natural 1rl
pressure from Minnesota, and that something on
better than answering, barbarism With bar
barism will be done in the prem premises i s. B0stonn i
COMMONWEALTH. atl2tl22 Ss7''o74 at saa9aeft9'
Don't they hang people for n,urlle,:' ii in EBos
ton, Ar.~ Comnlonessalth, Yes, but that IS
disciplinary" Fays the 4 comnsonasoeazt6, and
you Minnesotiahs, barbarians that you. are are,
insist On hanging people only on account of
the unpqrq1lel.ed' atrocityef their nsurders''-
and 1t that-oh, rt that's horrible says the Conn.,
'nontoealth, , it is '.ylndictive," tits ''diaboli.
CAL"
Is life less sacred in Minnesota than in Mas
sachusetts elh4 !'e' Is murder 2 crime there and
here pastime2 Yes, but these people are
savages, says the Comanonoeazth, and ssayagess
cannot npe, be Justly judged by the standard of
civilization they DO not enjoy" "-e,yo, hang.
ing is too refined and civilized and Christian
punishment for an Indian. s"..,
What then !? Does, the Consmond5eqz7
want them judged by the standard with which
they are more familiar? ... 49,.
does it want them surrounded-the guilty
ana innocent, men, women and children to
gether, and massacred in ambush ?. for that i:
their way of doing these things. Dose itwan
Their throats cut, and their bodies hacked anc
chlpped into mincemeat, and the scalps of the
slain Haunted in the faces Of the dying as thu
bloody ensign and trophy Of this triumph O
oaroarous vengeance? For that is something
they can understand-that is what thcy have
been doing to US. .:.'s}' '~'} ..s' ..a'..,.-
Oh, no, no, -shrieks this Boston philanthro
plst, by no means. If the poor, Gear, faci
mating, romantic, picturesque Indian will d,
these odd things, why, we suppose we must
Indulge the interesting creatures. It woult
be SO cruel, to interfere. with their established
customs; but recoliect that you are only whit
men and women out there in Minnesota. an,
II these charming savages choose to cut you
throats, in accordance with the ancient, uniau
ana poet'ca' customs Of their tribe, you mus
take religious and humane" view Of tn
thing, and allow your throats to be u cut o.
hdltam, and console yourselves with the re
Election that your murderers are poor, be
nightcd savagcs. ~'.Q '''.''' ! u q 80
''All this is very pretty and pphilanthrroopitt
doubtless. But we trefer at present out her
tf TO have the disposal of our own .throats.-
And we are ignorant enougb--we barbarian
TO suppose that if it is necessary to the Sc
curity Of life in a. civilized community ,lk
boston that an educated criminal like Wei
ster, who might have been reformed by iud
c'ous appliances, should be hung by the nee
Till, ne was dead, to deter other citizens oftha
enlightened hub from like crimes, it is of ir
fin'ltely greater Importance to the security q
LIE and property on our frontier that the ex
treme penalty which our laws alIix to murde
should fall upon this gang of savage assassin.
who are inaccessible to any sentiment but tn
brutal one Of fear Moral .suasion and th
"spirit: Of the age" are nice phlanthropic G,
pedients which it will perhaps do to try o.
Boston criminals. But we have some twent
thousand savages in and near this State VIII
know no restraint upon their wild passion
but the single one of FEAR. They have nc
the most remote conception Of the ''standar
OF Boston civilization," but they cat, >tr,de,
stand, and We barbarians arc determined tina
ltth they shall understand, by a.lesson which sha
ring in their ears to the, latest generation
them all, that death, swift, relentless and te,
[rible, is the inevitable punishment Of murde,
and that they had better have not been d Dor
than lift'a hostile hand. against citizen {
alinnesota, in all time to come.-sst.i ,Pua
Press. .@tiQss,& = ; IL n:4if,g..'
Shall they be Executedf s@ ~.
+ TITS said the President has decided. in at