The Tarboro' southerner., 1870-05-12

and the destroyer of Southern homes,
show up the base pretensions of North
ern negrophylists and pseudo philan"
thropists. He is representative man.
He has been loudly applauded for his
cruel outrages in Virginia. He IS
General Grants favorite hero. He is
the model Yankee soldier. His action
in regard to the ''poor Indian is just
what we might have anticipated. The
man who would burn Touring mills
would kill children and women and de-
crepit old men. Read again the story
of his last great crime against hu-
manity.
This hero sends detachment OF SOL
diers in the dead of Winter to attack
an Indian enoampment in Montana
Territory The Indians made some
show of resistance, and one soldier was
killed. The poor Indians were not
ready to be slaughtered quietly in their
homes, and so undertook defense,
which they had right to do. The
soldiers then commenced an indiscrlm-
mate slaughter. For three mortal
hours they continued the work of death
They continued to slay the helpless vic
TINS until. as an eyewitness says, "the
troops could find no more Indians to
kill" How does the list of casualties
on either side compare5 One soldier
only was killed and no one was wounded
On the part Of the Indians l73 were
butehered, most of them women and
children. For this grand achievement
of the cruel blue coats, Sheridan, the
Great Butcher and Burner, wearing
the uniform of Lieutenant General OF
the United States, thus congratulates
his troops. Read it, humanitarlans !!
Readis, christians Read it, ye boosters
of n advanced civilization! Read it,
ye mounting, canting, wanting hypo-
critics, who "cry havoc and les loose
the dogs Of war" and then hang yodr
heads in shame:
After having been repeatedly
warned, they have at last received a
carefully prepared and we'll merited
blow. In the middle of Winter,
with the thermometer below zero, and
when experience led them to believe
they could not be reached, the blow
fell. The Lieutenant General cannot
commend too highly the spirit and con-
duct of the troops and their commander;
the difficulties and hardships they ex.
perienced in the inclemeney of the
weather were great, and, as one Of the
results Of this severe but necessary and
well nerited punishment of these In,
diaDs, he congratulates the citizens OF
Montana upon the prospect of future
security
Well did the venerable philosophe.
Of the old white hat, Greeley, Of the
Tribune, write when he thus comments
upen this wicked and c-uel outrage
He says:
"If centuries Of education and chris
tianity cannot raise us a whit above
the Indians, but have left us, like
them, brutal towards, mere womer
and baby strangers, there is no reason
to choose between US. Better the red
skins should be left 20 torment US OF
the border, than these successful
butchers in our army TO condemn u:
in the eyes of the world and Of God
It is, perhaps, not difficult to uraer
stand why United States officer darec
justify, order and applaud such fendisl
eruelties. He had tried his own savaet
hand upon the whites of the South
and only honors and shouts of graft
tude and incense from the rabble ant
higher pay had greeted him. VIII,
should he hesitate TO annihilate tn
helpless Piegans when his cruelties il
the South had gained for him the ad
miration and affections of his Northerl
) friends. The fright Of the strongest
is the essence of Yankee philosophy
l 1t was so when they warred with us
it Will be SO until the end of the chap
ter. The policy of the North is a cold
hard, grasping, iDsolent policy, and i
generally carried out by bad, unprin
cipled men, who plunder, and cheat
and lie, and abuse, and tyranize owe
the weak. \ body of soldiers massacr
D in cold blood over a hundred wome
e and children, and the highest office
IN the United States army but on
> offers his hearty congratulations upo
: the performance of so heroic and hu
5 name deed. Such a creature deserve
), to be scourged with the wrathful 70
t of an indignant people.
The RAIDS in meeting on Saturda
s last were growing over the last issu
Of the CaroIinian. 1t was exactly t
their TASTE S0utheruer.
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