The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-08-30
General McCOOk on the Sand
Creek Massacre.
tFrom the Atchison Champion, 1Oth.l

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Our old corps commander, Major General
Alexander Med. McCook, with his person
al Aid. Major Bates, and other members of
his staff, arrived here from,the West yester-
morning. General McCook has been on a
tour to New Mexico and Colorado, accom-
panying Eice-President Foster and party.
and has throughly investigated, by order
OF the War department, all affairs connect
ed with the Indians in the West General
McCook Is no inexperienced judge of the
Indiana character and disposition he has
not learned what he knows OF the red men
from Cooper Novels, +" he has fought
hem IN many campaigns, and is Influenced
by no mawklsh sentlmentality in their Ia
vor. His opinions are, therefore, entitled
to credence. OF Chivingtons 8 Sand Creek
massacre he gave us many interesting de-
tails, and he IS OF, the opinion that it was the
most cod-bIooded, revolving, diabolical
atr9clty ever conceived by man or devil, =
The sworn accounts of witnesses of the af-
ialr are enough to make any man blush for
his species, 1t was an indiscriminate.
wholesale murder Of men, women and chill
dren, accompanied by the disagreement of
dead bodies of both sexes In every revolt
ing and sickcning form and manner. I'm
born babes were torn from the wombs of dy-
ing mothers and seal ped: children of the
most tender ages were butchered; soldiers
adorned their hats with portions of the bo-
dies OF both males and females. and the flag
and uniform of the United States were dis
graced by acts of fendsh barbarity, so re-
voting IN then details that truthful ac-
count can not be published in respectable
Journal without giving otfense to decency.
And all these atrocities were committed on
band OF Indians, who had, voluntarily, in
trusted themselves to the protection of the
Government, received assurances of care,
and who had flying above the encampment.
at that time, a white flag and a national ban
ner,, gi' Ell them by the military authorities
at Fort Lyons with the promise that this
was to be to them security and guardianship
as long as they remain under it and continu-
ed friendly. ar .-
These Indians were underline leadership
OF Black Kettle, chief whose frerd-
ship for the whites had been ploverbial for
years. He had been in the employ of our
Government as a scout; had been engaged
by Lieutenant Colonel Tapran Of the lst
Colorado, to keep watch upon the Sioux
and other hostile tribes; has only few
days before prevented, by giving timely in
formation, an intended raid and he brought
the mcn, women and children Of his tribe to-
gether to live near the fort, and under the
care OF the whites. His trust was repaid by
mdlScrlmlnate massacre his friendship
was rewarded by outrage on the living and
d. fgurement Of the dead bis confidence
reqIitted by betrayal, by rapine, by ymurder.
s sickening in its forms tllat-it passes all
understanding to imagine how any one, be
he eitaer nsps Or devil, eou&s shara executed
it. Added 10 these crimes, and making
them more henlouS, is the fact that within
some distance Of the scene Of the massacre
were body of hostile Indians, who had no.
toiious!y been engaged in committing dep
relations. These Chiyington permitted to
60 unharmed, probably because their war
rlorS numbered rs many as did the men Of
his command, So to this cruilty must be
added cowardicc to his barbarity, poltroon-
cry
All these facts arc established by sworn
statements in possession Of General McCook,
and they agree in every respect with the
testimony taken by Lieutenant Colonel Tap
pan, Of the LIST Colorado, as he related them
to us some days ago. ... a