The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-07-08
IDAHO WORLD.
THE LAST F1END1sH HOWL OF PHILLIPS.

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THE LAST F1ENDIsH HOWL OF PHILLIPS.
That most craven stay at-home bowler tor tne
blood of whites, Wendell Phillips, has dropped
the negro as tool for WHILE ana taken up
the savage of the Plains as his instrument 10
torture and debauch and murder. In the Ant'-
Slorery Standard Phillips publishes the folio"-
ing infamous leading article:
An b.,, and farewell to the Pacific Railroad.
Tha tsiaaronh tells us that the Indians have
hannn tn tear I'D the rails, to shoot passengers
"a Conductors on this road. We see great
aood in this At last the poor victim has found
the vulnerable spot in his tyrant THANK
Cd America has resisted' cried Lord Chat
hon Our feeling is the same. For seventy
Years and more the Indian has begged this
great nation to attend to his wrongs. His cries
have been unheard. Ruthless and unheedlng
uve have trampled him down. To-day the worm
turns and st:ngs US.
Last wear Indians destroyed locomotives and
shot conductors. Timid Durant forbade the
telegraph wires to report the fact. He trem-
bled for his road To day $1,000 warriors on
the war path-a thousand miles of exposed
road; this railway the pet playthlng OF the
American people! Would our words could
reach every Indian chief. We would tell him.
Law down your gun, but allow no rail to lie be-
tween Omaha and the mountains Inc ac-
cursed code" is O'Connells best weapon, saia
She'll The Pacific Railway is the Indians
Alabama. Every blew struck on those rails is
heard round the globe. Haunt that road with
such dangers that none will dare use it.
Some men may think us needlessly agrees
siye. No citizenship, they may say, would be
a better remedy. Yes, byand-by. Atpresent
citizenship means little Heaven forbid that
we should betray the Indian to such protection
as " citizenship gives to the Georgia negro
and loyalist. No, We are thankful the Indian
has one defense that the negro never had. lie
is no citizen and has the right to make war
Well may he use that lost right, and never
Weld it till citizenship" means more than it
does now.
Ar Abolitionist may well glory in these red
men. When, in 1865, General Sanborn carried
to the Semnoes the news OF emancipation
they Instantly set their slaves free. Bat, more
lust than We, they proceeded at once to divide
their possessions with them fairly-shared with
them their pension money, and last winter, in
Washington, were specially earnest TO secure
such teacher as these emanclpated men would
prefer. When TIVE or three years ago Sher
man. COMMISSION met Tue lHuiaus, tue va" ~
Toes refused to come into conference unless
their women could be admitted on equal terms
with themselves to share the debate. Could
these men be persuaded to undertake, for
few years to come, the task of reconstruction
What a saving of time What saving OF
honor!
Earnestly do we wish that this nation could
rise to the level Of once doing an act OF Justice
from pure and simple motives of honesty and
duty But it does not seem as II this level
would ever be reached in our day. In default
of that we rejoice to see the nation scourged to
its duty Long and weary were the years OF
A.. blood and misfortune that finally broke us into
willingness to emancipate the black. May our
stubbornness Weld sooner and easier in this
matter of the Indians. 1t seems probable. by
the time Congress assemblies again, we think
its members will be ready-as they never have
been-t0 listen on this topic. The sad and pom
derous documents stored in the Capitol will, at
last, be read, and We shall learn that nation
by its own confession always in the wrong,
must seek some other path out Of IT, =
than by sending butcheEssksb
and blood in the Yalgef@ftd " exterminate V
a Drawer 10 (An ours. We spent hundred
million lRy-ffty conftssedly-to EXTERN
- I'd remove" the Seminoles from Florida.
H there are everglades in Florida to-day
EHhere no white man enters, and which the Sem
'inole still holds If this be the case in Florida
with a thousand Seminoles, how likely are We