The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-09

\ TnpsnAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1864
CO Brutal Murders.
&sOThe Indian Department has received in
tal)irence from Governor Edmunds, OF La
$iotss0f the brutal murder of four Ponca
Irdisns-a friendly tribe--at Mobrara, IN
that territory. The outrage occurred on
s,nhs Ath of last December. A party OF nj
0Umponca Indians, while returning from
the Omaha Agency with provisions, were
visited. while encamped, by party OF mon
soldiers. about three miles from Moorara,
who INQUIRED for their passes. FINDING
thew had none, tho soldiers left but soon
Ss,sssftsrward returned, and offered indignitles
''Sto the women, which were resisted, the
whole party fleeing to the woods to escape
y,;the soldiers who fired at them as they ran.
w" The soldiers, after procuring wagon,
carried of most of the provisions which had
+, bean left behind by the Indiana aud de
stroying what they could not take with
a Them. departed. The indians resumed
ss.Itheir Journey, and encamped about seven
miles further on. They were followed by
Az the soldiers, who fired on them the second
time, killing four men, and wounding three
women and children. The rest escaped to
the woods. q q 45..~ '..'..'
o--S e Lucky it was for those poor creatures
that they had woods to escape to, supposlng
it to be piece Of luck to exchange a
speedy death by the bullet for slow death
By cold and hunger. Unhappy Indians
guilty of skin which is neither white nor
=, black. The above Incidents aspecimen OF
our short method with the red man, meth
cd which has been going on for generations.
% Had these victims Of the white mans cruel
Nty been negroes and slaves, what Hoods OF
tears would have been wept for them, and
how the gales would have been swelled by
- our sighs but being only redskins, their
, murder swakens no more sensibility than
49, the slaughter OF SO many bufaloes. "Slav-
ssis cry is the sum of all vill-nies:" that is, to
-, take black man, to feed him, clothe him,
- nurse him in sickness, support him in old
- age, but in return to compel him to work,
.e.. 10 such crime against humanity that it is
: o q moral duty to exterminate the whole
slave-holding population by the edge OF the
-. sword but as for the Indian, he is under
- the same ban as the white man who owns
!: I . black man. The excellent Bishop OF
Minnesota says: "There is not a man In
America who ever gave an hours calm re-
Election to this subject, who does not know
that our Indian system is an organized
! system Of robbery, and has been for years a
disgrace to the nation" And again: deep.
ly as our people feel on the question Of
slavery, they may see here, on the
border, system of slavery which, in ours
.'s es to body and soul, in the loss of manhood,
home and Heaven, has worked out degra-
ID dation to red men which slavery has never
done for the African race" The explana-
ton of all this is very simple. The Indian
has never been available in the great bust
ness of President making, and the moment
81 the black man ceases to be available in
that capacity, the negro problem will solve
D.. itself, just as the Indian problem has solved
itself. We can see how it is going to be
done by adverting to the condition Of the
freedmen in the Valley of the Mississippi.
y But the process will be shorter, as the black
man has much less power of resistance and
endurance than the red man. American
Z asnsibility has very dainty appetite. We
hate the Indisn, We care nothing for the
black man but if the black man is also
lsA slave, our bowels yearn with compassion
- over him. Such is our pity for him, that
",e we kill his master, and then let him die of
cold and hunger.