Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-01-04
PUBLIC LEDGER.
,m.o, No. ~ Madi.on street.
IApaRST 0ITY GENERALIZATION.
4. Head demonstrates with General rnii'
Sheridan.
From the New Orleans Crescent
- Mr.. I.yrso's TA Y ,s;so


From the New Orleans Crescent
Mr.. IHvrso's TAyRRN,
INV York, December l6. 1865.
NV DrAp FRIENp: | desire to counsel
van in regard TO your singularly unkind
,rsatment Of the 'injuns, for whom l ap..
nsar az counsel " for this occasion only.
Yonr action towards our Red Brethren is
not onlv obnoxious but exceedingly I'M
nlaasant TO them, and would seem TO
emanate from spirit of prejudice on
account of color. Vide Blackstone's
Commentaries, PIP. l776) Besides your
course is not justified by the evidence In
the case. What have they done that you
should pursue them thusly, destroying
their scalps with which they were born,
defacipg their residences, and scattering
death and canned shot among their appy
uniting grounds2 Is gentlemaniy
You say they burned the homes OF our
pale faces with red noses), scallopsd the
men, murdered the women, ana killed
the children; and what property they
could not carry off they destroyed. New,
Phil, suppose they did, what ofitT They
wasn't to blame. They didn't know what
they did. They. was "insaner You
needn't take my word for it; but if you'll
come TO New York or pay my expenses
land mel out to where you are, I'll show
YOU plenty of precedents from trials go
ing on and gone on, that them lpJuns
amt legally responsible for KILN. They
got excited and for moment was reck-
less, and made mince meat out of some
of our white settlers, which it was set
tier onto them, of course; but if you'll
get bail and give me sixty or ninety days,
I'll demonstrate to the satisfaction of any
twelve men selected from their most re-
spectacle savage tribes that they was
"insane" when they went into the mas
sakreein business, or Ill prove lullaby.
(Vide Tommy Hawk on Frontispiece, lst
edeshin).
You may wonder that l take SO much
interest in the ipjuns; but l cant help
it; they saved my life onst; l heerd they
was on the war.path, and as / wasn't on
it, kept off of it; SO they spared my
life
There is reasons, Phil, why you
should feel an interest in them on prin-
cipal. There was an iDjun onst as had
the same name as yourn--they call him
"Phillip king Phillip! Ali what
memories cluster round that name He,
too, bad a mother onst Ills father
didn't marry a second squaw.) Perhaps
his mother called him "Philly, dear"
like your mother has you, only his mother
said it in ipjun, and your mother said it
in irish
Then there are other reasons why you
should be merciful to your-iDjuns
+" They cant help their color-haven'
they solesT Hey2 Why not, then,
take out some tracts and let your SOL
diers make tracks homer What the in
juus need is maps of the seabord section
of our country that they may see how we
live, and carry on elections, and lberate
The oppressed criminals without regard
10 colsr- They can't sppresheate these
blessins, fheyr so fur in the interior.
Foa know all about it. Gi, the injans
10 give you bigger fee for leitin' EN- go
than Uncle Sam psys you for whippin'
EN-. and let EN- 70 10 their happy hunt-
IN grounds on the other side Of the
Missouri, or The oiher side of the Arkan-
ssE, or the other si6e Of Jordan.
Also there was q sellebrsied injun
named Red Jacket, after whom the
"a Justly sellsbratei Rsd Jacket Bittsrs
(full brother to HE Jacef) was called
If you have no yesrning towards him,
no affection or feeling for his name and
fame, have you not for the bittsrs? 0, Z
.hink before you speak
Then there was the well known Lo
he poor injsnl" Of whom We have all {
.ead. He is out OF business now, bat on
account of his name ell the Lo ipjuns
ire entitled to your consideration and
upport.
But it is on higher and more moral
rounds ! approach you on this Subject.
The Ipjun needs the ballot. Give him
he ballot if you would make him great,
,elorious, intelligent and prosperous ma
ion. Let him set in our congressional ,
md legislative halls and smoke the calo-
mel of peace and drink whisky with US.
len. Grant says land he knows) Let Us
ave peacs T. Now you just say that to !
be IDjuns and see how quick they II do it
Phil, you may forget your ride against !
line at Winchester; you may forget !
our brilliant attack on New England
you may forget your innocent .
hildhood when you hooked watermelons Z
nd birds nests, aud you may forget your
d childhood in New Orleans; all these
at do not, D, do not forget that the
NUNS is insane.
Peacefully yours, A. HEAD. 2
Momentary Insanity.