Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-04-11

And why don't we have plenty of sol.
diers here2 The Regular Army of the
United States 50, 900 strong. Where are
they? Garrisoning the cities of the
South, overawing and enslaving their
fellow citizens and giving occasion to
large and fat contracts for shoddy loyal.
lists from Moo. England. Meanwhile the
frontiers and the mines are abandoned to
the savage!
In the good old days before the war,
while yet we lived in a free Republic,
and before we became the subjects Of
the Niger and when the Government
was administered by Democratic hands
according to the Constitution, with
that dread of large standing armies,
which is the instinct of Republics, the
Regular force of the United States was
about $4,000. The whole of this small
force was on our borders protecting a
frontier greater in extent than the limits
of the Roman Empire, and our borders
were then comparatively safe.
But now we are groaning under tax
alton that supports a regular establish
ment of $4,000 men, most all of whom
are employed in the South not to preserve
order, but to excite, if possible, tumult
and resistance. What else are they there
for? Can any one truthfully say that
those down trodden people are giving
even their tyrants any trouble? Are
they not perfectly quiet? Can even the
most gifted liars among the Niger Yam
kee party fix on them the charge of dis.
turbance. The fact is we should sus-
pect them of a want Of spirit had they
not. during the prolonged, aud unequal
struggle lately past, illustrated their an.
nails with the example of such unparal-
leled courage and devotion. The $4,000
men then are employed in beating,
insulting, and tyrannising over our fell
low citizens in the Southern States after
they have given up their arms and sub
mitted to the stronger, while we are left
as prey to the "poor Indian"
Not having succeeded so far in goad-
ing the Southern States into resistance,
the band of tyrants at Washington call.
ing themselves the Congress of the Uni
ted States have ventured upon an usur-
patton without precedent in the annals
of Russia or Austria. They have, in
time of profound peace, assumed to abol.
ish one third of the Uuited States, to
suspend the writ of HaJeas Corpus, and
to put six million of American citizens
under martial law
But we have wandered into an episode,
and it is impossible to avoid doing so,
when the eye is cast ever any department
of Governmental affairs under the pres
en- tyranny. Wherever you look you
behold traces of the ruin, outrages and
destruction wrought by the Niger party.
We demand then that the Govern
ment officials shall send us more troops.
We demand then The protection which |
the Government of the United States
owes to us. We call on these officials to
pause for moment over their Turtle
soup and remember that no stage, no We.
hicle, no solitary traveller can 90 outside
of these villages unless loaded down with
arms to meet the unequal combat which
is known to be imminent. We ask them
to suspend munching their terrapin stew
to remember that our prospectors, our
teamsters, our travellers and our citizens
Of every class are not only liable to these
hangers, but that it is getting to be an
almost daily occurrence that they are
slaughtered and mangled in the most
shocking manner We beg them to cease
or moment fumbling the green.backs
Irung from an over taxed people and lis
zen TO hear the wall of the widow and
he cry of the orphan. And if they have
my sense ofduty left, send us the means of
defence and security, that our people may
90 on in exploring these mountains and
lragging from their bowels the wealth
hat is to sustain the Nation.