The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-08-05
(Frem the Cleveland Leader, July rs, 1867
The Minnes0fa Indians.

The .Minnes0ta Indians.
a war OF determination is being waged up
on the Indians of Minnesota. They have
ceased to pay a bounty on Indian scalps. But
they do pay indian hunters, Scouts two dol
lars a day and S26 bosbty for every male ST.
oux killed. Those who hunt Indians on their
own hook are paid S15 for each Indian killed.
1t is presumed q great many enterprising men
follow the business Of Indian killing as a reg
ular calling. The internal atrocities of these
merciless savages have brought destruction
upon them. They and the settlers cannot
live together in Minnesota. Their extermina-
ton is a foregone conclusion. They have act
ed the part of ravenous wild beasts, and are
being hunted as such. They must take their
final leave Of the States, and as beasts Of prey
hide away from civilization, or be shot. They
will be hunted and driven from their hiding
places. The people are in earnest-their
doom is spoken. Tie following dispatch to
the Chicago Tribune indicates the state of In
dian affairs, and the feeling of the people in
Minnesota: teseE % e2s
T ST. PAUL, July 81, 1868.
Three DAYS later news from the Indian ex-
pedition has been received. They have re-
ceiyed supplies from Fort Abercrombie and
were again on the march, expecting to reach
DEVILS Lake in twelve days,
They have another report that Little Grow
Land his warriors are aLthis lake, and intend to
1Sibley las cent InefFnss0afs in to ascer-
tain whetheJ the feportsa are truU. It is very
doubtful whether they win find any Indians
there. Their commissary stores have been re.
! packed, and are now IN good order.
The order revokingzthe scalp bounty men
toned in a previous dispatch as determined
on, was issued to-day. 1t pays scouts two
dollars a day and twenty-five dollars bounty
for every male Sioux killed, testimony instead
of the scalps being required. Those who dc
not choose to enter the service and receive
per diem win be paid seventy FIVE dollars for
each Indian killed. They are having a lively
st. Peter, Fifteen Indians were seen there
day before yesterday, and the settlers have
turned out in force TO kill them.
The Introductory matter in the foregoing ar
ticle by the Cleveland Leader, accompanying
the dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, is as
h~eartless as It is Infamous, and proves the man
who penned it to be as wicked as sin and as
hateful as Satan himself. The idea Of hunt
ing the Indians in Minnesota stlike beasts oil
Prey" he thinks not only commendable, bui
"their determination a foregone conclusion"
The conduct of the Federal and State au.
thorities toward the Indians in Minnesota is
the blacklist page in the history of this, If not
any other country. Ills difficult to perceive
how such atrocities can be, and yet they are
true. Two dollars a day and twenty five dol
lars bounty for every male Sioux killed -and
to those who hunt on their own hook seventy
five dollars for each La dian Killed. Thus
stimulated, many enterprisins men will follow
the business of killing In lians as a regular
calling! Shame shame !shame! And while
this wholesale murder Is going on, the pulpit,
the press, philanthropists, statesmen, all, all
are ~silentl The inevitabIs negro, and the
war with ahits patronage, plumber and patri-
otism iutefming lcd seem to attract all atten-
ton and the wickedosss to which we refer,
gees not only rnrubuked, but IN the main
unaoticed.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs must
be an infamous man, tc stand by with his
hands folded and tolerate such conduct. He
deserves a dip, not in Devils lake, in MINES
ota, but in that lake that burns with fire and
birthstone ; and if all the parties in this inhu-
man and a'roc;ous businc. do not go thence
on their exit from this world, then indeed is
there no need Of a devil or a helT-Ohio
Statesman.