Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-17

| Indians, ii is well to mention that while
our Indian agents only get fifteen hun
dred dollars salary, they are enabled by
great industry and enconomy, to retire
in two or three years, rich and owners OF
houses and estates, "That's 8 so-they
have been swindled. y For great is
Diana Of the Ephesisns. Laughter. ]
Negroes can be enslaved-lndisns can't
Four distinct races Of men are on the
continent, representing four types of
nature. The white man is the Arabian
horse, the black man the donkey who
bears the burden, the Indian is the zebra
you can never tame him, while the mu-
latto ia the mule, who inherits most of
the vices and few Of the virtues of his
fathers. Loud applause. BY Demo-
cratic Senator, "That is libel on the
mule."] Tho Indian will not be slave.
Four millions of blacks were enslaved,
but nary red The reds believed in the
whites, and have been driven from hunt
ing field to hunting field, until even In
dian nature rebels, from the Atlantic al
most to the Pacific. They hardly get
settled on their new reservation before
we covet il, and when we can cheat hi m
out of it We drive him out oft. [Shame. ]
| Scarcely FIVE thousand out of every hun
| dred thousand dollars voted them ever
reaches the tribe The Indian agent di-
vides with the Indian trader. The In
dian trader divides with the sutler; the
sutler divides with the farmer and the
ranchmen, and all get rich while the
Indian, having lost his lands and his
game, is left TO starve. Sensation. ]
San-tan.ta told the whole story the other
day to General Hancock, and the Indian
agent stopped the council, for 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 and we
can have peace; injustice and war is
certain. II Billy Bowlegs could keep us
at bay twenty years in Florida, these
hostile tribes, unless pacifed, will make
US add one hundred million to the debt
Can we afford it1 [Covode, "No, tbs
big enough already."l Most frontier
towns like war, it makes trade good
hence traders and military men soon be-
come active, for are we not a virtuous
people. ["Good " and laughter. The
wheel within wheel system works charm
ingly in this enterprising community.
Help me cheat the Indians, and | will
give you onehalf The officer on small
salary says determination, 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
policy-another fact The Indians are
the best mounted cavalry in the world
we are sending out infantry to fight them.
Bah what nonsensel Again, one
frontiersman like Major North or old
Wiched ia worth a hundred new re-
cruits from the East. If the church and
State say war, let it be done as eXpen-
sively as possible. Tho more it costs,
the more taxes, and the surer we are to
pay the national debt. [Applause, l
hope that Generals Sully and Parker
may succeed in separating the friendly
from the hostile tribes in their northern
expedition with the chiefs, but / doubt
it. Sully ia a good man for Cancellation.
Was it not his men and his whisky that
massacred the Indians in the North
before Phil Kearney was attacked 2
Keep faith respect treaties don't cheat
theml don't lie to them don't steal
from them, and the Indians are at peace.
Applause The Indians always kept
faith the whites generally lied What
outrage occurred before 1887 Did not
the overland emigrants pass the Indian
hunting fields in safety That was the
year o scamp OF an emigrant shot an In
dian 10 test his skill. shame. ] Re
venge was sudden. In two days the
train was destroyed; then more ambus-
cades-Whites against Indians. Bah
bits mail psrty was lost-Lieutenant
Grafton was killed with his men in pur-
suit. The Sioux war of 'jl-5 followed.
When Harvey and Cooke at Blue
Water that year, closed tho fight with q
solemn treaty, giving them all the land
between the Platte and Missouri. This
is your land" said Hsrney to Little
Thunder, Chief of the Sioux, " and you
can kill any white man who trespssses
thereon. But presto Montana gold
was found Miners pour in with re-
volVers Harney's treaty is forgotten.
0utrages are frequent; msssacres are re
ported. Human nature was simply Indian
nature. Then came the age of Briga-
dier Generals and Indian Commission
ers; b:g pow-wows and sham treaties
The Indians refuse the right of the Pow
der river route TO MontanG-more talk
more treaties, when Taylor meets them
at Laramie and sells them the powder
and ball that was used at the Phil. KeaI'
ney massacre. Sensation, Shame!
Then War Department says you did 1t
Interior Department replies you are a
linrl Bosy 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 soc the
Crows. Colonel Lewis organizes vol
untsers for Montana. Thurlow Weed
friend, young Clark, Of the U. P. r. Il.
engineer corps, is killed. Hurlord loses
his stock while getting out ties. kountZ
4 Ruth lose one hundred mules.
Jack Morrow all his cattle. The
Denver stage is attacked and the
war is looming up by every dispatch.
Senator Trumhull, you are right in
saying that there is not an animal that
walks or creeps that will not turn and
bite il trod upon. True, and APP
plAuse
Thomas Francis Meagher is an old
friend OF mine, but fear be has made 8
mistake in hosting the black flag in
Montana against an entire race because
one white man was killed by FIVE Indians
FOR making immodest proposals 70 sn
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