Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-04-14
Savage w Warfare. !.

the perpetrators Of these enormities men |?
we are tempted to ask, or demons in human
form Is it possible that they are parta-
kers with US Of common humanity p
Must we admit ties of brotherhood between
suchlferocious beasts and ourselves All
| that is tender and magnanimous, all that is
true and noble and just in us re-
volts but glance nearer home humbles
I our pride, covers US with shame, and makes
even an Indian massacre, with all its hor,
rors, seem possible. Err 1aa 11.l
| The barbaric blood still betrays itself even
IN our most civilized communities. It is a
matter Of history that enlightened and
Christian Englishmen were won't, during
the Indian rebellion in the East, to blow
Hindoo insurgents, taken with arms in their
hands, from the cannon's mouth. A still
darke;, pagesin their national story will re
cord the late shelling. and burning, by a
British admiral, without word ofwarning,
of a japanese city full Of innocent women
and children, thousands of whom were
horribly mutilatcd, torn into bloody frag-
ments by the bursting bombs, or roasted to
death inthc rapidly spreading flames! And
the same lingering barbarism shows itself
on this side Of the water. In the loathsome
prisons of Richmond, thousands of brave
and noble hearted soldiers are at this mo-
ment being deliberately and with studied
malignity starved to death by Southern
gentlemen and officers-the subordinates
of the pious Jefferson Davis and, alas
we have hardly ceased to shudder at the
ferocious deeds lately done under our eyes
in the very streets of New York, where
asylums were plundered and burned, and
unoffending men, women, and children
hung or beaten to DEAN, and dragged, torn
and bleeding, through the streets by an in.
furiated mob. If the Sioux savages exceed
those Of Mackerville in the diabolical in
genuity of their crueltics, it is perhaps
merely because they have had more ex
perience in the art of torlnenting.
But our otjcct.is simply tointroduce some
efextracts from the intensely but pain
fully interesting work before US. .#taa.
HOW THE INDIANS WERE CHEATED.
1t is but proper that we do the fiendish
redskins the justice to admit that they had
been sl,amcfully overreached and cheated,
and had grounds for an urgent remon-
STRANGE: Ge 7G- e.
Cover $55,O of the moneys paid un-
der this treaty for debts of the Indians went
to one Hugh Tyler, a stranger in the coun-'
try, for getting the treaties through the
Senate, and for necessary disbursements in
securing the assent Of the chiefs.
In 1857, trader, pretending that he
was getting them to sign power ofattor-
ney to get back the money which had gone
to the traders under the treaty Of 1851 and
1852, obtained their signitures to vouchers,
by which he swindled them out of $4,000.
Shortly afterward, this trader secured the
payment of $4,000 for goods which he
claimed (falsely, it is said) to have been
stolen. About the same time, nman in
Sioux City was allowed claimsof 5000
for horses which he also alleged to have
been stolen.
In 1858 the chiefs were taken to Wash.
ington, and agreed to the treaties before
referred to for the cession of all their reser-
walton north of the Minnesota River, under
which, as ratified by the Senate, they were
to have $166, 600; but of this amount they
never received a penny until four years
afterwards, when $4,000 IN goods were
sent to the Lower Sioux, and these were
deducted out of what was due them under
former treaties. n
The Indians, discovering the fraud, re-
fused to receive them for several weeks, and
only consented to take them after the Gov
ernment had agreed to rectify the matter.
Most OF the large amount due under these
treaties went into the pockets of traders,
government officials and other swindlers.
The Indians were previously dissappoint-
ed with their bargains, and from that time
the control of affairs passed from the chiefs,
who twas believed had been bribed, to the
young men. They had now nearly dis
posed of all their land and received scarce
lv ANYTHING for If They vera G o00 in
number, and their annunities, when paid
in full, were hardly fifteen dollars apiece
Their sufferings from hunger were often
severe, especially during the winter and
spring previous to the massacre" m
GaA Az INDIAN WAR TALK.
lon the occasion of the Imprisonment
of Red Iron, one of the Sioux Indian
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