Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-06-18
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ton aew % olsan asked hg the radi'
cAls aWhat would The Democracy
d i'm power e'--wfittsn sczzas tiEn<
aeo,ws statnd that .swe would rsducs
fhs ssanding aszny, rspeal the Frsed'
msnS Burean, and Ne would makk
the lazy, thisving nsexosa support
themselves. We would allow tho
peopls Of the West 10 make peace
with the Indiana by killing every
ons they met until they bscDxne
peacsabie.r To thess propositions
the editor of the State Regist~s now
q candidate FOR Congress, takes sx-
csptians, ON the ground that an In
Discriminate slanghtsr would bring
about q general Indian war. Now,
the editor ought TO have understood
that eur proposition was 20 mako
peace, andasa means to that end we
proposed 10 allow tho people OF the
West TO kin every Indian they met
who was not peaceable. This wa
the plain and unmistakable meaning
of our proposition, and We stiIl ad-
here to Ii. The general Indian war
30 much deprecated by the Register,
we now have and have had 1t for the
last four or ave years, and the policy
of the government has been TO fight
the Indians one day and 10 feed
them the next, and this policy has
been the means Of kssping up Q
continual war, for while one band
was being fed and fattened, another
was fighting, and the mtsened band
In turn took the place Of the lighting
band, and the lighting band was
brought In 10 be feaseed, rested, and
loaded down with presents. Thus
the government has fed and fought
the Indians for the last Ave years,
and has exercised the exclusive
privilege of tials sport, without any
beneficial results Our proposition
Is to let the people of the West 60 in
and have a free fight without the feed
with the Indians, and TO XIII all who
are not peaceabie until the Indians
will make peace witout being paid
for making 1t. Under these feed and
pay paaces made there vns no secu-
rity, for when they got hungry, OF
had worn out their blankets, they
again went upon the war path 6oE
the purpose Of more feed and more
pay. Perhaps the Register is una
ware that grandmother Sherman
has issued strict orders to prevent
tina killing of Indians by any one not
iu the military service, and that he
tries by drum head eourt-nlartiaI and
imprisions men found guilty Of kill
ing hostile Indians, if such persons
did not belong TO the military service,
There ID, ia our opinion, but one way
to make Indians peaceable, and that
way is 10 fight them in the same
manner that they fight our people
/. E., when you find them, like Gen.
Harvey kill all you find-s thsnl
no quarter-folIow them up and kill
again and again until they sue for
peace, and then you will have last
ing peace. We fought Black Hawk
and his band for twenty years, OF
and on, and never hads permanent
peace until we caught him at bad
Axe, and went In and killed ali we
could find, without regard 10 sex or
age,, until they cried for quarters
and surrendered. From that day,
now over thirty-four years gone by.
we have had peace with Black
Hawks band.
Let the Government say to the
people Of the West, s'you shall have
$500 for every pair OF Indian cara you
win bring In, and a permanent peace
viii be made In less than two years
-one that win last, 20 far as Indians
are concerned, for all time TO come
The government has already spent
more money than would be necessa-
ry under the above proposed arrange
ment TO pay for aso, 900 pairs Of ears,
and stiII we have no peace.
Horrible exciaims some old grand.
mother down In New England. Bru-
tai! responds some one in YANKEES
dom who knows nothing about In
dians and the editor Of the Register
win draw . long breath and say,
"Lo the poor Indian, = and denounce
us a. q barbarian, but did he and
they know as mush about Indians
as edo. they perhaps would find
other words with which 10 express
their ideas. We know that an In
dian cannot be trusted that he d
not governed By any sense Of honor,
but through fear, and that shars b
just az much sense In urging ssciviI-
lied and Christian wariArc'' againss
. pack Of wolves, - against Indiana
and we would treat the two alike, un-
til through fear we should make
them tame and docile. SO naach for
the Indian portion Of the Rezistwss
artica: We win reply 10 the Freed
Insns' Bureau part Tomorrow.
lrtsreeIey gives as d reason for
tbs n01ufmatf0M c< C0liAx fkInh ssIn.
diana d one Qf the moGt doubtful
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