, 1865-08-16
Gen. He cook on the sand Creek nj

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=: From the Aehnon Champion, tNt1
0u1 old corps commander, MAJ. aen. Ae1.
Med. McCook, with bis personal Aid, Wi.
Bates, ard other members Of bis stst1. A.
rived here from the West yeaterday morning.
Gen. McCoek has been On tour to New:
Mexico and Colorado, accompanying vice
Pres1dent Foster ard party, and has thor
oueh1y Investigated, by order Of the war
Department, all affairs connected with the
Indians In the West. Gen. McCook is no lt-
experienced indge Of the Indian character
knows Of the red men from " Cooper's NOT
e1s;" he has fought them in many cam.
pajgns, and LIS Influenced By no maw kish senti.-
mentality In their favor. His opinions are,
therefore, entitled to credence. OF Chtying-
TOMS esnd Creek MASSACRE he gaTe US many
INTERESTING details, and he IL Of the opinion
that It Tas the most cold-blooded, revolt
.hg,- diahcl;ca1 atroclty ever conceived BY
man OF devil. Thg sworn accounts OF Wit
neses Of The affair are en1ugh to make any
man blush for bis species. It was .Rn 1ndls-
criminate, wholesale murder Of men. women
aad children, accompanied by the dlsasure-
,mant Of dead bodies ol both sexes, in every
revolving tand stckensug form and manner.
Unborn babes were torn from the Tomos Of
dying mothers, and sca1ped /; children Of the
'most tender ages we're butchered soldiers
adonea their bats With portions Of the hod.'
-tEB OF both males and females; and the flag
and Uniform OF the United 6tates were dts
grsced By acts OF tiendish oarbarity, 90 re.
Voting In their details that q truthful &C.
count cannot be published in 4 respectable
journal, without giving ofecce to deceucy.
And all these atrocities were committed on
band OF Indians who had, voluntarily, en-
t us.ed. themselves to the protection Of the
Government, received aesurances Of ca:e, and
who had flying above their encampmeat. at
%rn$ tvh4 HrAo ma h11
ner.' given them BY the military authorities
at FoFt Lyon, With the promise that th!a was
to be to them security and guardianship as
long as they reualted undeslt and contmued
friendly.
These indians were under tho leadership
of a.Black Kettle" chief whose friendship
fcr the whltes had been proVeFbfal for years.
He bad heen in The employ Of our Government
as & eeort had been engaged BY Leue. e.-Col-
" Tappan, Of the 1st Colorado, to Keep watch
upt the Sioux and other hostile tribes bad
only few days before prevented, BY giving
timely Information, an intended ratd and
he brought the men, women and children Of
under the care Of the whites. His trust WAS
repaid by lndiscrimlnato massacre :; his friend
ship was rewarded By outrage on the living
aud dlsagusemento Of the dead bis conf 1ence
requ!tted by betrayal, BY rapine, by murder.
Eo EiekerlDg In It's forms that 1t passes I'LL
understanding to imagine how any one, b. he
either man or devil could have execused It.
ADDED to these crimes: and making them
more helnp1s, Is the fact tnat within some
dlEtauca Of the scene Of. lhe massacre were Il
body Of hostile Indiars, rho had notoslouEly
been engaged In committing depicdattons.
These GnlvIpgton permitted to 50 unhafm-
ed, probably because their warriors number
I'd as many as did the men Of bis command.
So TO h:s cruelty must he aided coWardice ;
tn hJH arhn ritz uDlrfoorleJV -.
AN thesa facts are established By sworn
stattmertsIu In possession Of Gen. McCool,
ard they agree tn every respect with the tes-
rimouy taken ty Lieut.. Col. Tappan, of the
lst Colorado, as he related them to ns sone
day ago..