The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-22
An Emphatie Protest against Pardonina
the Indians.

An Emphatic Protest against PardonlnS
the Indians.
From the St. Paul Press, 18th:
Efforts are being made to secure permanent
peace with the conquered Sioux of Minnesota,
without the Wholesale hanging, which letters
from that State anticipate, and as the action of
Gen. Pope implies.-Telegraphic Dispatch of
this morning
Day before yesterday, We understand, that
Gen. Pope telegraphed to Washington the. find.
ing of the court martial in the case of the Sioux
onvicted Of participating in the recent massa-
ere and other outrages upon our people; and
this, We suppose, is the answer.
It is an answer which, If authenticated, will
fall like thunderbolt of doom on every home
in Ainnesota-an answer which, if there were
no appeal from it, would depopulate every acre
of its soil.
Thank God! there is an appeal from it-an
appeal to power above presidents and cabi
nets-the power of people banded a. one man
in defense of their hearthstones to b law above
all laws-the law of self>preservation..
The people of this State wait only to know
the final and authoritative decision Of the Gov.
eminent in this matter. III A'l
z If it refuses them its protection, let it be as
sured they viU protect Memsel,es They will pro.
tect themselves to the last extremity! ta.a
What! has life, then, become so cheap in
America and the wasted blood of its citizens of
so little account, that murder has ceased to be
crime? The blood Of five hundred husbands
and wives and brothers and sisters and daugh-
tiers, cry to the authorities for vengeance on
their assassins, and these fat and oily function.
aries coolly telegraph back to the wailing homes
which these arch-demons have left desolate,
that 'eforts are being made to secure perma.
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Is government mad? Do these sleek Scribes
and Pharisees of Departments sitting with
feet on fender, 1000 miles away from Indian
bullets, and 100000 bayonets around them to
keep them safe from nearer harm-think that
our Threats are less valuable than theirsp
"a permanent peace with the conquered
Sioux" is it? Not, by the Lord in Heaven, ia
the VOW of 100000 American citizens, on the
soil OF Minnesota, and not on any soil adjoining
it, except through the death of the guilty and
the removal of every surviving shred and rem.
nant of this hated race. -
This is no lenger the petition of the people of
Minnesota. 1t is their demand-a demand which
they will exact to the last retributive drop Of
Iudian blood; and they will not stop when
they shall take-Gf they are left to,take)-they
will not stop to measure justice by the rule and
square, and make nice adjustment Of the sc-
count of blood. They are not in temper for
delicate balancing of evidence, or judicial dis
elimination of the degrees of guilt.
IF the government wants wholesale hanging
by the acre; If they want the western mains
turned into q wide Gogotha of dead Indians;
il they want them hunted down like wild beast,
from the face of the continent they had better
refuse to perform the act of justice which the
people of this State demand, and turn the IN
shrved criminals over to their victims.
We ask the government, then, in the name OF