Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-02-14

kota, who have ever lived within sixty
miles of the above requirements, (Sioux
City, are Secretary Hutchinson and Attor
ney General Gleason. The rest have vio
lated Il most sbamefully, both in letter
and spirit, by being absent from the Ter
ritory and ther duties more than three
Jourths Of the entire year. Will they now
obey it, or will they belle it to the Presi.
dent? We shall see.
Military matters in the Territory are
| progressing slowly, no orders having been
yet received for the mastering in of the
two cavalry companies now being raised
under Captains Trip and Fuller. These
two companies, if once mustered in,
| equipped, rationed and paid by the Gov.
erumen,, would be sufficient protection
to quiet the fears of the people, and en-
courage the planting Of our spring crops.
BY that time Government could certainly
spare three or four companies of infantry
to be stationed in the Territory. We
would not assume TO call for any unneces.
sary protection from our Government in
time of war, nor do we; but We believe
the Government is willing and able to
grant US The aid We derire, and would long
ago have sent as the necessary protection,
had 1t not been for a gross dereliction Of
duty on the part of our chief opponents
| and repres entative men at Washington
! They fee for protection in the time of
| danger, while ace must stand and fight for
our homes and families. do not say
that there IS danger, or will be but there
may be, and the people feel and fear it,
when it is known that the punished and
enraged Sauntee 8, Of Minnesota, have Ia
ken up their abodes in the valleys of the
James and Missouri. An exhibition of
military strength ON the part OF our Gov
ernment will do more to subdue the ln>
dams, than hundred little victories
gained with sma II detachments of soldiers
The war can be made offensive or defen.
sIve. Five thousand mounted men could
drive all the Indians Of the Northwest
! beyond the mountains, while 500 could
defend the settled portion of the Territory
against the whole Sioux nation. Gov.
Saunders, of Nebraska, is distributing a
strong force of dragons all along the Ne
|
lection of the settlements of that Territory.
So long as the ice bridges the river the
| Nebraska troops are a defense to OAK Ota
and if We do not soon receive protection of
our own, we shall begin to pray to God
| instead of the Government, in order that
| the river may retain lis flooring of ice
| throughout the summer season. Thirty.
| one Sanntees consisting of men, women
| and children, have recently come down
the Missouri, IN a starving condition, and
| have surrendered themselves to the mill
tary authorities at Fort Randall. A de
tachment of cavalry has been ssnt after
ten more lodges now encamprd 10 miles
| above the Fort. Among those already
captured was found stolen herse, taken
last season from settler on James river
The unknown cattle spoken of in my
last letter "A. having strayea into the white
settlements. have proved to be those that
were driven off by the Indians, las, fall,
| from the settlements in Clay county. The
Ganktons and Pawnees have recently
made treaty and sealed the contract by
An exchange OF ponies and squaws.
| Aside from military movements and In.
| dian rumors little Of interest occurs in
the Territory The citizens are generally
engaged in building block houses by day
and in dancing and dreaming of Indians
By night. The grand sociaIe of the season
came Oft at the Hotel de Ash, on Frank
lin birth day, under the auspices of the
"Printers Festival Most OF the nota-
bIes and aspirants of Dakota have fed to
| Wa shingtou, TO offer their services to the
President in tlIiug vacancies in Office
"Poor Uncle Sam" what a legion of
friends he has-Outside Of the army.
Governor Seymour's Message is already
in the househo.d Of every pioneer in Da-
kota, and i: is read as the evening chapter,
on these wintry nights, BY almrs cverv fire,
side and family group IN the Territory
This is the only Territory organ zod since
the days Of jefferson, | believe. wherein
the political sentiment Of the people and
Legislature was averse to that of its rulers
and the President. But the people of Da'
kota, like the people everywhere, BEGIN TO
enquire, what is all this war of blood
and MISERY for, and when viii it termi-
nate ~ Go ask the half million of our
countrymen, who have left the pillow and
anvil, the loom and workshop, their wives
and children, and are standing to day on
the field Of battle amid the roar of artillery.
the groans of the dying and the blood of
their brothers; 60 ask the thousands of
widows and orphans in their dark and
dreary homes, where nightly knee and
weep our country's mothers, and whisper to
God prayer for their trembling little ones,
while the audible burst OF the war.thrsty
cannon is rending the heart of the Nation.
We ask the political leaders of the North,
what are we fighting for?' They an
swer, "to conquer the South, liberate the
slaves, and force adhesion to the Union"
The South replies, zee are fighting for our
rights and liberties, we never desired war,
We begged for our rights, we asked you to
compromise, long before the first shot was
fired on Sumter, dollar wasted. or life
lost. Is this 500 Let rs see In Sen.
ate debate, of March %, 1861, on the
Crittenden Compromise, found in the
Congressional Globe OF March IL, 1851
Senator Pugh said:
Before the Senators from the State Of
Mississippi left this Chamber, | heard one
of them say, who now assumes, at least,
To be presioent of the Southeru CnnfaIar.