The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-10-12
An Affecting Incident.
from the Denver Coli News

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Sunday School yesterday, the following
touching incident occurred, which I
furnish you subject to your disposal:
As l was passing along the aisle of tho
church, = man 10 very common dress,
called me to him, and requested that the
school would aing, ".ShaN ,ce know each
other there ?" he having noticed that
beautiful hymn on our Sunday School
cards, At the Same time remsrking that
Eve weeks ago his family had been badly
cut up by the Indians-his wife's moth
er, 40 old spd helpless woman, and his
youngest child, babe Of thirteen
months, killed, his wife taken prisoner,
and himself snd'little girl badly wound
ed also, that the hymn was q favorite Of
his wife's and he wished it sung for her
sake. l gladly stated tho request with
its reason to the school, and with deep
sympathy for the afflicted man, all joined
in the song. The second verse Of the
hymn reads thus:
when the holy angels meet us,
As we 60 to join their band,
Shall we know the friends that greet us
In that glorious spirit land!
Shall We see the same eyes shining
On us as in days of yore?
Shall we feel their dear arms twining
FoDdly round US as before?"
CHORUS:
shall we know each other there" etc.
While this verse was being sung the
strangers head bowed, and gushing tears
flowed down his cheeks as fresh memories
came of a home once happy, but now
desolated +; and loved ones, SO lately his
joy. but now dead by murderous hands,
or prey to the passions of savages.
Mr.. Cottle's tale is q sad one aud mer.
its sympathy, but is only one of the very,
very many, that arc being told of 6end
ish red men numbering innocent child
rem, and those of enfeebed age. When
Mr.. Cottle and family were attacked, he
said to one who spoke t, him in English,
Take all l have, but dou't kill my
family" and the 6end responded with a
ball that inflicted a terrible wound in the
head, causing him to fall insensible, He
permitted them to take his cattle, his
money and his goods, but they were net
satisfied; they took his wife captive,
murdered her helpless infant, and drag.
ged her decrepit old mother out Of the
wagon and butchered her like hog
They tried to kill her little girl thirteen
years old who escaped with an arrow sh OF
through each shoulder. Some give these
men the appellation of friendly Indians
but according to the odiom of Colorado,
II can't see it," Some make great
ado over a few squaws and pappcoses
killed in battle, but have 20 sighs or
tears for the innocent whites that fall by
the savagr's tomahawk and scalping
knife. People in shc States who are ig
rorant of the horrid cruelties which they
have practiced on the whites, may, in
some degree, be excused for crying
"poor indians but l can have DO sym
path, with the man of Colorado, who in
the face of repeated barbarities, can ex,
press himself in sympathy with these
our enemies. Israel did God service in
waging the war of determination against
the Csnsanites, aud l am not sure but he
is doing humanity and God service, whe
is waging a war Of determination against
the hostile Indians of tho Plains. Let
the unfortunate fsnatics who have simi-
larly suffered receive our ardent sympathy
but let those who have committed
these deeds, have no sympathy, till they
return to peace and make reparation for
their crimes.
am, very respectfully,
GEO. RICHARDSON.
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