Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-12-03
NEW SERIES--V0L. 8, NO. 90,

! steal he will not hesitate TO kill.
Therefore, a joint occupation of that
; district of country by these two classes
of people, with such opposing inte.
rests, is a simple impossibility, and
the Indians must yield.
The Peace Commission has assigned
them reservation which, If held for
fifty years, will make their descend.
, ants rich, and in the meantime they
are promised food, whilst they are
learning TO cultivate the earth and to
rear tame stock.
To labor with their own hands or
even TO remain in one place, initiates
with all the hereditary pride of the
Indian, and force must be used to ac.
complish this result 1t was for this
reason that the Peace Commission, at
its Chicago session in October, after
the events before described had occur.
red and were known TO them, was
forced to the conclusion that the man.
agement Of Indian affairs should be
transferred back to the War Depart
ment, where it belonged prior to
1919.
That Department of our Govern.
ment is the only one that can use
force promptly without the circumlo.
cution now necessary, and no other
department OF the Government can
act with promptness and vigor enough
to give any hope that the plans and
purposes Of the Peace Commission
will be carried out, and even then
there is doubt that the Indians them.
selves will make the necessary per
sonai efforts TO succeed, and / fear
that they will at last fall back upon
our hands mere mass Of helpless pau
pers.
am fully aware that many Of our
good people, far removed from contact
with these Indians, and dwelling with
a painful interest on past events, such
as are described to have occurred in
Minnesota in 1868, and at the Chiv.
ington massacre OF 1864, believe that
the whites are always in the wrong. /
and that the Indians have been forced |
to resort TO war in selfdefence by 40 |
tual want or by reason Of our selfish. |
ness
am more than convinced that such |
is not the case in the present instance,
and ! bopo have made it plain. | |
further believe that the only hope of |
saving any part of these Indians from
utter annihiIation, is by a fair and /
prompt execution Of the scheme sug.
gcsted by the Peace Commission,
which can alone he done by Congress,
with the concurrence of the Indians
themselves. Even thenit will require
much patience and hard labor on the
part of the officers who eSVcute the
plan, which / do not wish TO assume
myself or impose on other army Off
GERS but is certain that the only
hope to find an end TO this eternal
Iudian war, is in the transfer of the
entire business TO the War Department.;
aud for Congress to enact the laws
and provide the necessary money, at
least year before il is required to be
expended. This is especially neces
sary in the case Of the Sioux, because
the Missouri river is only nayigable in
early summer.
Ii is true that in the annual appro.
priation bill, approved July "a, 1865.
and which did not become public till
the Cheycnnes had actually started
on the war path-viz: August 3,
there was a clause giving 100000 TO
be disbursed under my direction as a
member of the Peace Commission to
carry out the treaty stipulations, ma {
king and preparing homes, furnishing
provisions, tools, and farming uten. '
sils, and furnishing food for such bands ,
of Indians with which treaties had /
been made and not yet ratified, and ,
in defraying the expenses of the com
in making such treaties and {
their provisions into effect, /
as soon as | got a copy Of the bill. /
viz August 10, issued my general q
orders No 4, copy of which is here G
with enclosed, in hopes that by its (
provisions | could prevent the diff {
culties already begun in Kansas from O
spreading TO the powerful and dan. a
gerous tribe of Sioux at the north. /
This clause in the Appropriation bill q
made no change whatever in the gen.
eral management Of Indians with d
whom treaties had been made and n
which, as before, remained v
wholly with the Interior Department. a
Upon application TO Gen. John B u
Sanborn. the member of the Peace v
Commission who had been its disburs. p
ny agent, | received list of the out h
accounts against that com.
mission amounting to about sl50,000
therefore retained that sum OF
and have disbursed thereof r
he sum OF sl4l,750 10, leaving IN my /,
,auds Mt this date balance Of sS,2l9 n
81, applicable to the few items OF nc. y
.ount still outstanding. The balance i
II the appropriation, viz; s35O,00O, 8,
vas distributed as follows To Gen. a
". S. Harvey, for the Sioux, $780,. 1,
NO; to Gen. w b. Hazen, for the o
Jheyenncs, SC, $4,000; to Gen. c. ;,
= Angur, for the Snakes, &c, $50. q
100; and to Major r S. Lamatte, for n
he Crows, $4,000 Total, $3.50, 900. a
That the Indians viii receive the IA
,enetit Of every cent of this money v
NOW, and the high character Of these A.
'flicers and their peculiar fitness to :,
he trust named, will, | feel assured, w
AIRY conviction to all that the dis II,
ursement OF this money will be in
ull harmony with the design and
urposcs Of the Peace Commission and 7
f Congress. In the same appropria- q,
ion bin were two other items Of ex- =,
endture entrusted to my official SUI n
ervision, viz: s200,00O for seeds, E,
lrming implements, work cattle. and n,
ther stock provided for in article n
even of the treaty with the Navajo
indians, of New Mexico aud Sl2, 500
Or constructing warehouse agency l.,
uldings, blacksmith and carpenter "
hop, and schoolhouse for the same =,
ribo, Navaioes The whole Of this ~