Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-20
.rHR oott1Na 1HDiAs WAR.

All tho recent dispatches from the
Plsins coincide in the statement that
the Indiana have confederated to make
war upon the whites, and that the pres
emit summer will inaugurate the severest
conflict of this character ever known in
the history of the Republic. The alta
notices the fact, and thinks it better and
cheaper to buy them of than to fight
them. It claims that the land over
which they roam is theirs, and that they
|Ghould be permitted to remain upon it,
or the Government should purchase it
from them.
We could never understand this policy
of making treaties with Indians, and
recognizing them as 8 distinct SOW
ereignty, as It were, within the Repub-
lie. Why not make treaties with the
Mormons on the Plains as well, with the
Chinese of California, with the Africans
of the South, or with any portion of our
population who dwell mainly by them
selyes2 Have Indians rights superior
to all other inhabitants, and If so, why?
The fact appears to be that this Gov
eminent has pampsred and spoiled them
BY entering into treaties with them aud
giving them money to prevent them from
committing murder, 80 that il it at any
time fails to keep up tho supply, they
begin q career of massacre to force the
Government to purchase a peace; or, as
has been the case, they break treaties
and enter upon the work Of slaughter
for the purpose of increasing their an
n~uities. The Government has educated
them by a false policy to be mischieyous
and murderous-to be q burden upon
the nation, while in truth and in fact
they are as able % any other portion of
our people to provide for themselves.
This false system must be stopped some
time, and we know Of no time superior
to the present.
What claims have the Indians upon
this Government for support more than
any other like number Of its people?
Nay, have they even so much? Did not
they during the rebellion break their
treaties in the main and assist treason
to destroy the nation? Do they ever
keep a treaty whom it suits them to
break it2 Do we ever know the day or
the hour in which they will rise and
make havoc of lives and property along
the border? What faith can be put in
their promises that they 80 often disre-
garded? But it is said that the whites
abuse them and the Government agents
cheat them BY not giving them all they
are entitled to. If individuals abuse
them, as we admit, does that authorize
them to set out upon the work of whole
sale massacre2 Ifa white man Of any
nationality is abused does that author
ize all Of his countrymen to band to-
gether and slayall they meet, regardless
Of age or sex Of the offending peoples?
And,what more right have Indians to do
this than any other class of our inhabit-
ants 2 Why should not Chinese do like
wise? And as to their being robbed by
the Government agents, the surest way
to stop that and thus give them no
cause Of complaint upon that score is
for the Government to cease taxing the
poor and the feeble Of other colors to
pamper and corrupt Indians who are
able to work for their W living.
But il 10 said by the journal referred
to, the lands over which these tribes
have roamed are theirs, and the Govern
ment should purchase them. The the
DRY of this Government is, that it is the
owner of the public domain, and that
instead Of purchasing it from those in
possession, it sells it to them; or under
the latest policy, gives it in limited
quantities to those who will settle upon
and cultivate It. If a settlement Of Ger
mans, Irishmen, Chinese or negroes
were to occupy q portion Of the public
domain, and the advance Of civilization
or the expansion Of our people demand
ed that Others should live near them or
among them, would the Government
think of purchasing its own lands from
these people? Not at all. 1t would,
on the contrary, put them in the mar
ket and sell them, after giving to each
settler q certain quantity when be nae
complied with the homestead laws. Why
should Indians be treated better than
white men or men Of any other color ?
What have they done for the Govern
ment that they deserve special favor?
And IL they make war rs they are now
doing, why purchase an e%phemeral and
false peace2 Were the rebels of the
South so treated? Is it thus we act to-
ward others? We hold that these In
dams should be subject to the law and
the Government, just as other people
that they should be treated no better
nor no worse-and that for crime the
Same punishment should be melted out
to them that We mote out to others
Sac. Bee.