The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-07-07
CHI Jribuue.
WITH SUPPLEMENT-,
REDCLoUD.

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To the Editor Of the Leavenworth (Kansast Bulletin
a look at the dispatches in your issu
Of this evening assures me that the grea
Sioux Chief, Red Cloud is still in Wash
lngton, eating the bread of the govern
ment which he has these many past year
desplsed aud openly defed. Spotte'
Tail, the companion Of Red Cloud, ha
gone to New York to see the elephan
and obtain the $4,000 worth OF present
allowed to them by the Congress of tht
United States, on the Recommendation o
the President and Secretary of the Int
rior. Red Cloud declares In favor @
mormons, and doubtless in favor of Nor
monism who knows? When | reao
the dispatches heralded all over the
country and throughout the important
points in Europe of the great feast given
by the President of the United States to
these Sioux Chiefs, when Mrs. Grant
and family were present, as well as many
of the distinguished ladies and gentle
men of Washington diplomatic Society,
| could not help thinking OF the time
when the same chiefs, with their bands,
swept down on Kansas in 1864, while
our men where in the Union army, fight
ing under the same Grant for the preser-
walton of the Union, and ruthlessly MUIR
dered our women and children on the
Blue and adjoining streams and how
they returned westward by the way OF
Plum Creek, killing every human being
that crossed their path on to within a
few miles Of Denver City; how they re-
peated the dose from Fort Nearney
westward, ia the winter of 1864, and
early In the spring Of 1865 how, IN the
dead Of winter, after returning from the
Price raid the Eleventh Kansas was
forced to march over the plains without
clothing or sufficient rations; sleeping
IN the snow night after night, without
tent or covering; how they reached Fort
Laramie In 1865, and were scattered by
companies and battalions all along the
Platte, as far up as the Sweetwater; how
q cojunction with companies of Ohio and
owa cavalry, almost the entire Sioux
alton operating in the Platte country,
as captured by the middle Of May fol-
wing, and held prisoners at Fort Lar
lle how the following Chiefs with
leir tribes, were among the captured,
i'd confessed themselves as having Eeen
those who committed the depreda-
ons in Kansas along the line of the
latte westward-Red Cloud and tribe,
potted Tail and tribe, Standing Elk
nd tribe, Swift Bear and tribe, Little
hunder and tribe, Baptiste and tribe
ow there was captured with them the
reat Chief of the Sioux nation, Black
cot, and his second in command, Two
ace; how these Chiefs held as prisoner
With them when they were captured one
# our Kansas women, Mrs. Ewbanks,
aiken from her hcme on the Blue, after
eeing her husband and family murdered
md her cabin burned how she related
o me her treatment while serving nine
mouths as the squaw Of Black Foot and
Two Face, exhibiting the marks Of the
Jaw hide on her bare back well laid on,
lntil she agreed to their terms Of com
promise how she requested Of me to
punish them then and there, these noble
Chiefs for injuries received how they
acknowledged the deed; and rejoiced
that they had been permitted to bury
the Ratchet in the brains OF Kansas citi-
zens how | erected temporary scaifod
on the northern slope overlooking Fort
Laramie, and, in the presence of said
Red Cloud Spotted Tail, Standing Elk,
Swift Bear, Little Thunder, Baptiste
and their noble followers, hung the said
Black Foot and Two Face for the known
crime of murder, rape, arson, and rob
berry. committed on Kansas, Colorado,
and Dakota soil; how Red Cloud then
became Chiefin the place OF Black Foot;
how General Connor then, at -jUlesburg
THE temporary headquarters Of the dis
trict), ordered me to send all the prison
ers, mastering .414 men, women and
children, to Julesburg to report to him,
for fear series of hanging would forev-
er end the Indian war. and stop contract
ing how he ordered and designated the
escort, naming the officers who should
have command, and being careful 20
have no Kansas officers or soldiers among
the number; how the third day ont, on
their way from Fort laramie to Jules
burg, these same Chiefs. Red Cloud,
Spotted Tail, Standing Elk, Swift Bear,
Little Thunder. Baptiste. and their love-
~ tribes, rebelled against the authority
of General Connor's escort, killed the
commanding officer and a number of his
men, and made good their escape to the
Black Hills, where from that day to this
they have been amusing themselves by
killing soldiers and stealing government
property; and now they demand the re-
moval of Fort Fetterman and all troops
from their country How the Com
lnander in Chief of the army permitted
Chats a soft word) that [ should be i'm
mediately ordered out of the Indian
country and mustered out of the service
for the hanging of the beloved Black
Foot and Two Face. How the Eleventh
Kansas was ordered about and abused
by General Common, until Governor
Crawford obtained their muster out Of
the service.
Now, in the face of these facts, hastily
and rudely stated in the face of the
murdered citizens of Colorado in the
scalpiess graves of Kansas, and the daily
sufferings now of her people on the fron
tiers, and the thousand of treasures being
expended by the State annually to pro-
tect life aud property from the demoniac
visitations OF these red sons of ohivalrv.
the Government of the United States
bids welcome TIC Washington the fathers
of these crimes. the commanders of the
expeditions, and makes for them a great
feast, where they appear in full harness.
with the very knives hanging to their
belts which were once plunged into the
bowels Of innocent children drawing life
from their mothers breasts; AMI hung
the very tomahawks. gliste ing IN the
gaslight of the White House, and reflect
ing back the splendors and brllliaacy OF
dia,nonded ladies'. which Drained the
loving mothers as they sat nursing their
first born and singing of the love they
bore for the husbands and fathers. who
at that moment were targets for a hun
dred arrows. and whose scalps hung
dangling from the saddlehows of Red
Cloud and spotted Tail The silence OF
our representatives while these disgust
ing scenes have been Transporting has
been exceedingly polite; but, oh how
craven the spirit. Yours truly.
THOMAS MOONLIGHT.