The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-13

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tame him; while the mulatto. is tht
mule, who inherits most of the vice.
and few of the virtues of his fathers
Loud applause. Bya Democratic Sen
ator: "That is o libel on the mule
The Indian win not be epslaved. Foul
million blacks were enslaved, but nary
red. The reds believed in the whites
and have been driven from hunting
field, to hunting field, until ever
Indian nature rebels, from the At
lantic, almost to the Pacific. They
hardly get settled on their new
reservation before we covet it, and wher
we can't cheat him out of it We drive
him out of it. [Shame.1 Scarcely five
thousand out OF every hundred thou
sand dollars voted them ever reaches
the tribe. The Indian agent divides
with the Indian trader. The Indian
trader divides with the sutler; the sut'
Ter divides with the farmer and the
ranchmen, and all get rich; while the
Indian, having lost his lands and his
game, is left to starvc. Sensation.
San-tan-ta told the whole story the
other day to General Hancock, and the
Indian agent stopped the council, fol
he couldn't stand the Indians fire. An
Indian war will stop emigration, stop
gold mining, and throw the West back
twenty years.
General Sherman says we can have
peace or war. Give Them justice, ard
we can have peace; injustice and war is
certain. If Billy Bowlegs could keep
rs at bay twenty years in Florida, these
hostile tribes unless pacitied will make
us add one hundred millions to the
debt. Can we affoI d it 7 [CovOde, "No,
tits big enough already."] Most from.
tier towns like war, it makes trade
good; hence traders and military men
soon become active, for are we not a
virtuous people? ["Good" and laugh
teri The wheel within wheel system
works charmingly in this enterprisihs
community. Help me cheat the Indi-
ans and l will give you One-half! The
officer on small salary says "eXtermina-
tion." and the war bugle is sounded.
One fact: The powder and ball with
which they shoot us down we sold them
the other day! That is our Indian pol
icy-anOther fact: The Indians are the
best mounted cavalry in the world =
We are sending ont infantry to fight
them. Bah! what nonsense! Again,
one frontiersman like Major North OF
"old Wiched" is worth hundred new
recruits from the East. If the Church
and State say war, let it be done as ex.
pensively as possible. The more il
costs, the more tareS, aud the surer we arr
to pay the national debt. [Applause.]
hope Generals Sully and Parker may
succeed in separating the friendly from
the hostile tribes in their northern ex.
petition with the chiefs, but doubt it
Sully is good man for conciliation
Was it not his men and whisky that
massacred the Indians in the North be-
fore Phil. Kearney was attackedf Keep
faith! respect treaties! don't cheat
them! don't lie to them don't steal
from them, and the Indians are at
peace. (Applause.] The Indians al
ways kept faith! the whites generally
lied. What Outrages occurred before
1887 Did not the overland emf
grants pass the Indian hunting
fields in safetyf That was the year a
scamp of an emigrant shot an Indian to
test his skill. [Shame.] Revenge was
sudden. In two days the train was
destroycd; then more ambnscades-
Whites against Indians. Babbitt's mail
party was slost-Lieutenant Grafton was
killed with his men in pursuit The
Sioux war of '54-5 followed. When
Harney and Cooke, at Blue Water that
year, closed the fight with a solemn
treaty, giving them all the land be-
tween the Platte ard Missouri. "This
is your land,n said Harney to Little
Thunder, Chief of the Sioux, "aud you
can kill any white man who trespasses
thereon" But Presto! Montana gold
was found. Miners pour in with revol-
vers. Harney's treaty is forgotten.
Ontrages are frequent; massacres are
reported. Human nature was simply
Indian nature. Then came the age of
Brigadier Generals and Indian Com
missioners; big pow-wows and sham
treaties. The Iudians refuse the right
of the Powder River route to Montana
more talks--mOre treatieS-when Tay-
lOr meets them at Laramie and sells
them the powder and ball used at the
"shamew Then War Department says
you did it! Interior Department re-
plies you are liar! Bogy makes his
report, and War Department escapes by
dismissing poor General Cooke, who
had nothing to do with it. A Senator,
EXACTLY, now you have it, General
Augur succeeds. Another pow-wow
commission. Buford follows. Judge
Kinney goes to see the Crows. Colonel
Lewis organizes volunteers for Montana.
Thurlow Weeds friend, young Clark, of
the L. P. II. X. Engineer Corps, is
killed. Hurford loses his stock while
getting out ties. Kountz & Ruth lose
one hundred mules. Jack Morrow all
his cattle. The Denver stage is at
tackled, and the war is looming up by
every dispatch.
Senator Trumbull, you are right in
saying .:that there is not an animal that
walks or creeps that will not turn and
bite if trod upon" ["True," "applausess'l
Thomas Francis Meagher is an old
friend Of mine, but l fear he has made q
mistake in hosting the black flag i'll
Montana against an entire race, because
one white man was killed by five lndi-
ans for making immodest proposals to
an Indian squaw, and the belle OF their
tribe. Laughter. Senator Yatcs-"And
was that sofs] Yes, My information is
authentic: / had it from the squaw her
self. (Laughter.]
agree with John Covode, "that an
Indian war will bust McCulloch and
knock spots out of some of the military
Generals" also agree with you, Mr.
Parsons, that killing the Indian traders
is better than killing the Indians.
[SensatiOn.
O1ce more. Science, civilization and
Christianity are ahead. as land purcha-
sers. Where is it recorded in any other
country that 100000 square miles of
gold mines and wheat fields were pur-
chased for a string of beads and q bottle
of whisky: Loud applause.] Allah u
Allah! ....t
The Selma (Ala) Messenger says OF
the suicide ofJohn NJ. Parkman, the de-
faulting President of the National Bank: