Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-06-26
PANDER1NG TO MURDERoUs FOES.
The following appears among late dispatches
in the California papers:


of the special commissioners to investigate the FOR
Phil Kearney massacre, has returned aiuer 1un CA
amination He says there is no necessity 1or an In
dian war if the Indians are protected from Une I'd
naciv of the frontier settlers and traders Inc pre-
sent war is raid upon the Treasury by 1ronuers
men the army the contractors for the construction
of the Pacific Railroad who are fast arriving etc
These men are thrown out of business by the cheaper
freights Government pays 81 per bushel for oats al
Fort Laramie So for corn and $125 per ton for hay
The Fort Kearney massacre was caused by the Gov
eminent forcing the military along the Boseman's
route before the treaty concluded with the In
dams. The Government policy being to make terms
with the several Chiefs they created new chiefs not
recognized by the tribes means to legslate.
Under cover of this treaty the troops marched to
Fort Kearney. Buford and Gen. LangdOrn think the
territory north OF Nebraska and west or south of the
Missouri, far Muscle Shell River, including
eight thousand square miles, should be assigned ex-
cusively to the Indians. Reports of atrocities by
Indians are exaggerated by designing persons.
| It's folly to hope for any protection to set
tiers, emigrants, or any class of whites upon
the frontiers or on the Plains by the Govern
lnent, so long as reports similar to the above
are made by men like Gen. Buford and Gen.
Langdorn, who have the ear of the powers that
be at Washington, and who pander to the muir
derous propensities of the Indians by giving ia
their utterly untrue and deeply prejudiced
statements and opinions with regard to the
causes of Indian depredations and massacres.
That such reports are made with view to also
pander to the mawkish and criminal Indian
philanthropy which exists in Congress, espe-
cialIy among members and Senator'S from the
New England States-whO now control the
Government, and which has no regard or
sympathy for the white sufferers from Indian
outrages, we cannot doubt. Perhaps Gen.
Buford and Gen. Langdorn think their show for
promotion to still higher rank in the service is
to be best facilitated by the condemnation of
the settlers and frOntiersmen and emigrants
overland, and the excuIpation and adulation of
the Indians who make the maSSacres. These
discreet Generals have no fancy to hazard
their precious lives in an Indian war, and so
long as the sayages refrain from numbering
officers, and shoot, or MAIN, or steal from, on
ly the priVates, or settlers, frontiersmen, and
overland emigrants, it is very likely they will
join in advising the Government to let the In
dams have full swing and go on with the work
of massacre and general outrage without inter-
ruptiOn from the army. We may next expect
to see that these same philanthropic Generals
have advised the War Department to provide
the hostile savage tribes with large quantities
of the latest approved long range repeating RI
fles, cartridges, scalping knives, hatchets, and
every implement Of butchery and war, and to
offer them bounties for white scalps, provided
that Generals in the army shall be exempted
from the wrath of the Indians.
There is but one way to properly deal with
all such Miss Nancy and philanthropic military
officers, and with their Indian friends and al
lies on the plains and frontiers: it is to keep
them far apart from each other; to send men
who do not have cowardly fear of death by
an Indian arrow or gun against the savages
and to wage vigorous war on the murderOus
tribes until they are completely subjugated, or,
if they cannot be, in life, to make sure work
of preventing them from committing further
outrages, by totally exterminating them. I'm
til officers are sent against Indians who prefer
ugHGIHg IHtIu W 1HSlOIlouely uoD-AoDD1lS Win
them, we need not expect safety on the from
tiers or over the Plains, except it be by pure
self-defence by the settlers and parties attacked.
Our people may at times be able to whip the
Indians, but it is too much to expect of them
that they shall be able to whip the Indians and
their military allies under such Generals as
Buford and Langdorn when banded together.
DEMORALIZED.-The Radical nominations
in California, for Governor and Congressman,
have clearly demoralized and fatally disrupted
the party. 1t was bad enough when Wilcox,
the g Mariposa Blacksmith" who assumed to
be the champion of the Workingmen's Associa-
lions, and of the poor mans interests, sold him.
self out to the capitalists, and traded off himself
for Congress in favor Oft. G. Phelps. But this