The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-20
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great deal about the sayings ana plsns =
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Alas, Alaska!

& The new purchased Uncle Gam from 'ne
Czar Of Russia, isr giving much trouble 'sna
CONCERN 70 Government and people, anu :
opening new field for q rich harvess 70
contractors and traders. Bad feeling 70
reported between the Indians and the mill
tary and it is regretted that the ln no'''a
villages are 50 farfrom shore that the men
oe.var cannot "shell them /" This is o
nitv. We're they closer to shore they would
afford q very good target practice ct q cost
Of ten millions Of dollars! -g.,, 81. ;5,r,, !.
The New York Times is decidedly dis
cps,ed at this news. There was no such
bad feeling, no such need for Smelling "
the shells Of habitations Of the poor In
dams when the Russians had possession Of
Alaska / The Times is glad our men-of-War
can't "shell'' the villages, adding: J" 1t
"is an abominable thought that we have
I" only extended our dominion to the North
"Pole as means Of -butchering the mise
"rable people who have built their huts
4" around it for the last thousand years
Are ne Christian people, or are we
savages 2" Yes; are wei Assurediy
the yindictiveness and revengefulness OF
sayages are tolerably well preserved
amongst US.
The London Times boasts Of the descent
of the English from pirates, and jealousy
assigns us the second degree of heritage OF
the virtues of q noble ancestry! If we go
TO the Pacific coast we have a good deal to
philosophize upon with regard TO both
nations. In British Columbia the natives,
since the occupation by the English, have
been converted from the gentle, simple
children of the forest to blood-thirsty and
revengeful beings. The civilization which
the philanthropists and the traders have
there disseminated has made devils Of
them. and such murders and massacres
have occurred there in the lost decade as
will shock all who read the bloody details
even in this day of outrage and blood.
Alaska, go peaceful and contented under
the Russians, is becoming another land Of
peril and bloodshed. Why is this /? Plainly
that the Russians-abused and slandered
as they are-were sincere and fair, and not
given to swindling sort Of trade, getting
all the goods Of the poor Indians for next to
nothing by making them drunk with I" fire.
water" that maddens their brain and be-
gets the leeds of blood which bring in the
army and call for the "shelling," consider
ed so desirable as q moral agent Of civili-
cation. So the Russians lived in harmony
with the Indians, who remained simple and
cenfding, and traded and trusted in con-
tentment and peace. 1t took only a few
months of American hypocrisy and cum
ming to metamorphose the country, root out
peace and confidence, and plant in their
places distrust and hate. The greed and
the cunning, with the fre-Water to help,
did it all and we find that our people have
succeeded as well as the English, a little
south of them, in producing {" bad feeling"
"revenge," and blood. The Times puts us
too far away from the ancestry Of which 1t
boasts
Russia appears to rule without destroy
ing, while the supremacy of Britain and
the American Republic forces the policy
Of humiliation to the aborigines CATLIN
too faithfully summed up our relations
with the red men when he said "White
men - whiskey - tomahawko - scalping-
knives-guns, powder, and ball-smsll-
neutrality-suspicious."