Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-07-27
THE INDIAN FARCE.


even soldiers all along the Overland route, be-
tween Salt Lake and the Missouri river, the
Radical authorities in Washington, some OF
the Federal army officers who agree with them,
land most of the Eastern Senators and Repre-
sentatives, all join in asserting that the In
dams are not at all to blame for the outrages
and massacres they daily perpetrate; That the
whole treuble is directly traceable to white
gnen-the settlers and emigrants whoare robbed
and murdered; that the Indians ought to be
paid large sums as indemnity for the losses
they have sustained at the hands of these
whites whom the pet savages have butchered
and that troops should be Immediately sent out
to protect these numbering savages from the
whites, and prevent the whites from encroach-
ing in future upon the Indians.
In the face of all this, the Governor of Kan
sas, Radical himself but who presides over
a frontier State which is infested and overrun
by the lnarauding, butchering tribes, and who
personally knows the truth of the statements
he makes on the subject, declares that fully
FIVE thousand men, women and children have
been slaughtered by the savages within year.
His statements are fully corroborated by humid
reds of prominent, truthful, intelligent men,
all of whom dwell in the Indian country, and
absolutely know whereof they speak. It's not
to the interest Of any of these witnesses on the
part of the whites to have Indian hostilities
waged; to have the Government prosecute a
war against the Indians. On the contrary, it
is next to ruinous to their different occupations
of trading, farming, stock-raising, or mining;
and it is at the constant hazard of life and
limb. to them, to have an Indian war upon the
Plains. But notwithstanding this mass of pos
tive, intelligent, very direct testimony, from
men who are personally cognizant of the facts
they state, it all goes for nothing at Washing
ton; if, indeed, it be not perverted by the
mawkish Indian sympathisers into evidence to
prove that there is gigantic scheme among
the whole people of the frontier States and
Territories to defraud the Indians of their
lands, and to exterminate them, root and
branch, from the face of the earth. An In
dian Commissioner, perked up in his high and
lucrative Office in Washington, who has never
seen an Indian in his wild condition, but only
the fancy, painted, begging, and therefore very
friendly and peaceable patterns of the tribes,
bedecked and taken on by the crafty Indian
whose perquisites of Office
are in the ratio of the annuities secured to the
Indians under their charge, who usually divide
with the big chiefs the lions share of the
presents Tor the money appropriated for
their purchase), and whose interest it is, man.
festy, to tell very pretty stories of the i'm
and progressiveness of his dusky
wards in all the arts of peace the Commits
sioner, we say, who only sees or personally |
knows of this class of false pretence) Indians,
1t once puts his foot down upon the truthful
of men like the Governor of Kan
sas, the Senators and Representatives from
rontier States, the Delegates from the Indian
infested Territories, and the respectable set
lers and miners and traders who inhabit the
[ndian country, and very fatty responds that
lie has examined the whole case, he knows all I
bout it, and he is entirely satisfied that the
Indians are perfectly blameless; that the bad
White men provoke them to hostilities purely to
,xcite an Indian war, cut of which they shall
,e enabled themselves to rob the public treas
Iry And having thus delivered himself, the +
treat man closes his ears to any further APP
,eals or representations from white men, opens
he treasury to the Indians, prevails on the
Var Department to protect them against the
whites, and to assist them in maintaining their
ands against the white settlers; then presents
o Congress his budget of false testimony, ca
,di.te in the interest of the Indian, and infiu-
noes that body to legislate so that larger an
luities and more valuable presents shall be
made (ostensibly) to the Indians-the best
,ortion of all of which, really, shall be divided
Lmong the officials connected with the Indian &
Department.. This done, and the sayages can
'epose in peace and plenty until their tribute
money is exhausted, when, if they expect to
'eceive more, they must commences . fresh
of outrages and butcheriea upon the
whites. They have secured as good as the
Government warrant to act thus, and they
make full advantage of the arrangement.
So long as there is an Indian Bureau, sOlong
will there be inducements given by its officers