Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1865-02-09

D ses, and no compensation has as yet beer
allowed to those who lost their horses il
the service, and we are aware Of no pro
} vision Of law by which they can be paiC
out of the Federal T--a<urv
, And your msmorialists would further
represent unto your honorable body tha
il is fact to which we cannot shut oul
eyes, if we would. .sthat most sOf the In
dian Tribes in Kansas, Nebraska, New
Mixico, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Idaho
Montana and Dakota, melted by the en-
issaries of secession, have suddenly, and
! by concert Of action resumed a hostile
attitude against the Government, and
commenced system Of wholesale pill
lage and murder upon the commerce and
travel of the Plains, which have grown
within the past eight years, into gigantic
propositions. And it is equally true that
unless prompt and energetic measures be
employed by the General Government to
punish the guilty offenders and afford
adequate protection to this commerce aGd
travel. all communication, between the
Atlantic and the pacific, will be suspend
ed.
No single State or section lis exclu-
sively interested in this matter-it is EN-.
phatically of National concern, and
should therefore challenge the earnest
consideration of the National Legislature
The evil t. which we refer is By far
too general and widespread to come
within the scope of State or Territorial
action. Should Kansas undertake the
work of expelling the hostile tribes from
her borders, and succeed in the under
taking, it would only have the effect to
hurl them, upon the comparatively = de-
fenceless settlers of Colorado or Nebras-
ka, aud intensity the dangers to which
they are now expOsed-and .zthe same
would be true of the separate action Of
either of the States or Territories we
have named. Thssdisafection coVersan
area greater than that of the original
thirteen States, and no remedy will be
adequate which does not extend, in its
operations and influences, over the en-
tire region we have indicated.
Not less than one million of people In
habit the Great West, between the Mis-
souri, and the Pacific large proper
ton of whom are engaged or interested
in the business Of mining. Millions of
treasure are annually produced by the
energy and industry of this hardy and
adventurous population, and the great
bulk of 1t finds its way to the Eastern
and Western States by the Great Over
land Route. The Overland Mail, bear
ing its messages of businessand affection
between the people of the. East and the
West, passes over this Route, and claims
alike the protection, of New England,
New York, Ohio. Illinois, and the Ter
ritories west of the Missouri. So, too,
of the Pacific Telegraph. New York
CITY, Boston, Philadelphia, CINCINNATI,
Chicago and ST. Louis employ It's wires
as auxiliary to their already extensive,
and rapidly growing commerce with the
States and Territories of the Pacific and
the Rocky Mountains.
The one hundred thousand emigran!s
who annually pass over this Route are
confined to no particular State or Sec
ton of the country-they come from all I
Maine alike with Iowa-and the saw l
age arm that strikes down the interests {
Of California and Oregon and Nevada by 4
the flow Of commerce and !
travel between the Atlantic and Pacific III
nficts blow, equally fatal, upon the IN !
erests Of New England and all the In
ermediate States. $
We grantthe suppression of the Slave
holders Rebellion is task of herculean I
but we suggest that the
power which sustains the General Gev-
'rnment in Its mighty struggle with q
rreason( next to the loyal hearts and I
Itrong arms of our patriotic soldiers and l
is the millions Of treasure an C
lually exhumed from the great Mining :
egions of the West. and transported to
he East over the Peoples Highway
be Overland Route. a
We trust, therefore, that adequate s
means may be provided before the close i
# the present session of Congress TO af- d
ord the protection to this vast travel and i
which the interests of the peo- o
lie of the whole Union 50 imperiOusly 5
emand. G
Therefore Resolved, /. That the
Iouncil and House of Representatives, o
f the Territory of Nebraska, earnestly 5
ray your honorable body. to adopt such q
legislation as your wisdom shall devise, 4
r as may be necessary to provide for the 6
'rOmpt payment of the Nebraska Militia 1
Ehile actually employed in lhs service a