The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-04-13
MURDERoUs DISCRIMINATION.

B blood, in The South. With q hatred thai
knows 40 pause, . thirst for blood that ha:
no safety, they putsue the people ofthe South.
ern States even as wolves and tigers hunt
4 down their prey. But in legislating in regard
to Indians who infest the frontiers and plains
1 these same Radicals in Congress become SIS
$50 many doves and lambs-they cannot bear
to hear of taking thelife of & ssnoble red sen
of the forest" Yet they do not shrink from
receiving the frequent official reports Of
6endish massacfes Of whole garrisons, oil
parties of emigrants, or of frontier settlers,
Iby these same 'snoble red men" and what is
worse, they appear really to countenanes
these savage atrocities. Let the mere report
come that Northern "loyalist," or any ne
gro be assaulted OF killed in any of the
ESouthern. States. ard instantly important
public business isput aside in Congress and
Immediate action is taken to bring the per-
Epetrators, if they be Southern men, to severe,
mercilessY punishment for the offence But
when official information is received that the
indians on the frontier or on the plains hare
suddenly, while protesting peace, and draw
ing large annuities for the maintenance of
peace, made an attack upon military post,
and savagely mastered every soul within it
men, women and children, these Radical
legislators who act as if theyneyer could see
enough of the blood of the oppressed South
ern people shed, all at once change into hui
manitarians, and, as to provide for campaign
which would kill off the hostile tribes who
committed the massacre of the whites would
not bring to life the slaughtered victims, the
tender hearted Radicals cannot find it in
their natures to inaugurate such campaign.
They are prepared to believe that, if all the
truth were told, the whites were at fault and
deserved the death they met. They have read
about Indians in those veracious publications
regularly and necessarily issued from Radi-
cal presses, and from these works they have
derived the very certain knowledge that all
Southern people deserve misery and death,
and eternal damnation, on general principles;
that all negroes are saints; that all Indians
are noble, and just and generous-neyer in
juring any except such as have given them
great cause; and that only Radicals, like
are worthy Of credence care, or
the blessings of life. Tilton,. and Phillips,
and Lucy Stone, and Fred Douglass, and Sum-
ner tell them all this, and they know it to be
so. When informed of the real nature of the /
wild indian, of bis treachery, his cowardice,
bis craft, and bis untameable savagery, by
truthful men, whose lives have been passed on
he frontier or in Indian countries, they at
tribute the views and statements of these
men to their prejudice against the sfnoble
ed man. refer again to their books and the
of their Radical APOSTLES, and re-
;eiye the latter as exact and uncontradicted
acts. On this final basis they proceed to
AXE action in the matter They fret provide
or paying the offending Indians larger annu-
ties than before, next order a small force,
unequal to conflict, to go forward and beg
1rbny peace, and then wind up the affair by
sending out with very formidable military
force, after peace is provided, some Radical,
hungry for gold and notoriety combined, en-
powered as Commissioner, to conclude the
treaty and disburse the annuity. Having
performed his duty, with this formidable
military guard to protect him, and also en-
riched himself on the mission, the Commits
sioner sends in aslengthy report, for which
he is likewise rouudly paid, and in it mar
rates in equal portions his own sagacity, the
honorable dealing. of the Indians, his own
greatness, the perfect innocency of the In
dams "in the late unhappy affair = meaning
the cold blooded, utterly unprovoked massa-
ere of the whites) and winds up by recon-
meniing that arms of the latest approved Il
pattern be distributed among the indians,
who have solemnly promised him that they
should use them only in hunting game {allE
whites are game for all Indians) and protect
ng their own valuable lives from the cruel
attacks ofWhite settlers and emigrant parties.
The people Of this whole coast, of the
great Western frontier, aud OF this Territory
md adjacent Territories particularly, ought
% take into consideration this most baneful,
inequal,l inhuman discrimination of the