Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-12-13

BY IRE, and .hieving, prosperous settle
ments entirely depopulased. the cattle
running. at large. grain stacks unpsotecs.
ed, corn6elds ungathered, in fne, tbs set.
tiers homes aud oil bis worldly goods and
possessions deserted through fear Of an
attack next. Eastern papers, add even
western papers, accuse Us Of making al
this complaint for specul ative purposes
That we may get few troops into our
country and make u dime out of them
Agents have been sent by the State and
by the general Government, to investigate
our wants, and because, forsooth, they do
no: find savage behind every bush, or
formed in battle array on the hll.tcps
around our settlements. they return and
report US a white livered race, and afraid
Of our own shadows, and that no troops
are needed, all is quiet, no cause Of alarm,
that the whole excitement was gotten up
BY few spectators, and troops are de-.
MED Us. II is reported to US, that one
Of our State officials, high in military po.
sition, said, if he believed every thing that
wac said, he would not send man to our
assistance, as he believed be could whip
out all the Indians in this section with ten
men.
We sincerely trust that such talk is at
an end. We hope and pray that our Gov
ernment is not going to.s,op right still
here now, and intrust the protection Of
our country to any State Officials with ten
men, but will give Gen. Cook, now among
us, command sufficient to enter upon,
and thoroughly scour the Indian territory,
and compel good behavior on their part,
| for all ii lie to come. Not an old Indian
trader from above, not an adventurer to
the gold mines of the Upper Missouri, who
has run the gauntlet among the several
tribes all along the Missouri River, not =
man that can speak the Indian languages
| and has, come in contact with them during
the last few months, nor friendly Indian
that comes here, hut says forcibly, unless
something is done between nov and early
spring, war on this section is inevitable.
That Little Crow and his tribe are now
among the tribes on the Upper Missouri,
and tina, they are uniting ard combining,
preparatory to a. attack "as soon as the
e., ssis as high as your hand
We believe there are more parties inter.
ested in this matte. ban realize it. There
must be frontier somewhere. Sioux City
is now the nucleus for hundred miles Of
frontier, and her destiny is involved first,
but if We are compelled to skedadd!e, va
then ask those familiar with the geography
Of our country. aud the location Of settle.
nents therein to see where the next fron
tier is and who is exposed. Notwith.
standing eastern papers are so aippan. in
stating there is no danger, and that all is
quiet, without desiring 20 cause any un
necessary alarm, or to spccutats upon tn e
blood OF murderer women and children,
we stake our reputation as spuhic jour.
nalist, that unless there is protection fur.
nished this section before another spring,
the savages will hold uniisputed posses
sion of Dakota Territory, if not Of Sioux
! City and Northern Nebraska.
You who are hundreds of miles from all
danger may laugh, and sneer at our fears,
. but we would like to see you sleep one
night half mile from the corporate lin.
its Of oar town with your clothes off and
without revolver under your head.