The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-04
TuH TNDJAN MAssAC CREs.

THE INDIAN MASSA CRES
Dunno the cold weather there is no trouble
whatever with the sayages on the plains, and
they are only too glad TO accept Of shelter,
food, and clothing, and TO make any number
of promises of good behavior. AS soon as the
warm weather sets in, however, the thirst for
blood begins to excite them. They stink away
from the custody of the Government officers,
and SO long as they can obtain subsistence for
themselves and their horses, they defy the
military, and slaughter men, women, and
children in the detached settlements with
perfect impunity. The latest accounts of the
massacres by these savages are more horrible
than anything in thatGline that has been lately
related. The tongues and hearts were cut out
of the dead bodies, the calves of the legs slit
down and tied under the Shoes pieces of flesh
cut from the backs, pieces of telegraph wire
stuck into the bodies, ears cut off and heads
scalped, with other, disgusting performances
of like character.
That the Quakers, with their peace policy,
will ever be able to do anything with such
brutes as these is extremely doubtful, and
while we are perfectly willing that any policy
rather than that which has been adopted here
tofore should be tried, it cannot be denied
that the prospects of success from the endea-
vors of the Quakers are greatly circumscribed
by the limitations which have been imposed
upon them. 1t is to be feared, moreover, that
the Quaker plan of settling the Indian diff
culties is based upon sentimental idea of
the Indian character, which is as mythical as
the famous treaty of William Penn, no record of
which exists beyond the very vaguest tradi-
ton. The genuine savage of the Western
plains is a very unsentimental being, and all
experience shows that nothing but very
decided policy will answer in dealing with
him. Matters have now come to such pass,
and the alternative ought to be presented to
Mr.. Lo to settle down and become decent,
hard-working citizen, or to submit to extermi-
nation.
For the present condition of affairs the
United States Senate is directly responsible,
and it should be forced upon the minds of the
members of that body that the people will
hold them individually responsible for the
Indian outrages in the future. This is the
only way to strike at the root of the whole
Bureau to the War Department, the Senate
tacitly gave its endorsement to all the vii
lanies of the agents, and became participant
in their crimes 1t is we'll known that the re-
fusal of the Senate to accede to a reform in
this instance was due to the fact that it would
throw large number of the personal friends
and appointees of Senators out of office.
The Indian agents almost openly acknowledge
that they accept the positions for the sake of
plunder, and of the two the Sena-
tors who support them are the
greater criminals. Hitherto the Senate has
escaped with very mild censure, but if such
outrages as those which are now being perpe-
trated by the savages are continued, the
upper house" should be made to feel the
weight of public Indignation; and every
Senator who makes an effort to support the
present villainous system, or who will not give
his voice and vote for total abandonment of
the Indian Bureau as it is constituted at pre-
sent, and the Inauguration of a radical and
complete reform in the method of dealing
with the savages, should be held up as mark
for public indignation and contempt. Decided
and positive action is needed on the part of
the press and public, and it is the United
States Senators that need to be brought to
terms far more than the brutal redskins,
whose bloody performances are but the natu-
raj result of corrupt policy that has its main
support i'll the National Capitol.