North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-06-29
Red Cloud. The Other Side..NO Fancy
sketch. Savage Life on the Plains.
Civil Life In Washington.


Sioux Chief, Red Cloud, is still in Wash
ington, eating the bread of the governm't
which he has these many years despised
and openly defed. Spotted Tail, the com.
panion Of Red Cloud, has gone to New
York to see the elephant and obtain the
$50, 900 worth of presents allowed to them
by the Congress of the United States, on
the recommendation of the President and
Secretary of the Interior. Red Clsud de-
clares in favor of Mormons, and doubtless
in favor of Mormonism who knows?-
When I read the dispatches heralded all
over the country and throughout the i'm
portant 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 we'll as
many of the distinguished ladies' and gen.
tlenen Of Washington diplomatic society,
could not help thinking Of the time when
these same chiefs, with their bands, swept
down upon Kansas in 1864, while our men
were in the Union Army, fighting under
the same Grant for the preservation of the
Union, and ruthlessly murdered our wo-
men and children on the Blue and adjoin-
ing streams how they returned westward
by the way Of Plum Greek, killing every
human being that crossed their path, on
to within few miles of Denver City; how
they repeated the dose from Fort Kearney
westward, in 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 proper clothing or
sufficient rations sleeping in the snow
night after night, without tent or covering;
how they reached Fort Laramie in March,
1865, and were scattered by companies and
battalions all along the Platte, and az far
UP 40 Sweetwater how, in conjunction
with companies of Ohio and Iowa cavalry,
almost the entire Sioux nation operating
in the Platte country, was captured by the
middle of May following, and held prison
ers at Fort Laramie how the following
Chiefs with their tribes, were among the
captured, and confessed themselves as hav-
ing been of those who committed all the
depredations in Kansas along the line of
the Platte Westward Red Cloud and
Tribe, Spotted Tail and Tribe, Standing
Elk and tribe, Little Thunder and Tribe,
Baptiste and tribe-how there was captur-
ed with them the great Chief of the Sioux
nation, Black Foot, and his second in COM
mand, Two Face how these chiefs held
as prisoner with them when they were cap
tured one of our Kansas women, Mrs. Ew-
banks, taken from her home on the Blue,
after seeing her husband and family MUIR
dered and her cabin burned how she re-
lated to me her treatment while serving
nine months as the squaw Of Black Foot
and Two Face, exhibiting the marks of
the raw hide on her bare back well laid on
until she agreed to their terms of COM
promise how she requested of me to pun
ish, then and there, these noble chiefs for
injuries received now they acknowledged
the deed, and rejoiccd that they had been
permitted to bury the Ratchet in the brains
of Kansas citizens how l erected tenn
porary scaffold on the northern slope over
looking 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 knewn
crimes of murder, rape, arson, and robbie
~, committed on Kansas, Colorado, and
Dakota soil how Red Cloud then became
Chief in place of Black Foot; how Gene
raj Conner then at Julesburg 1.-THE tempo
rary headquarters of the DISTRICT, ordered
me to send all the prisoners, mastering l.
Ala men, women and children, to Julesb'g
to report to him, for fear series Of hang
ing would forever end the Indian war,
designated the escort, naming the officers
who should have command, and being
careful to have no Kansas officers or SOL
diers among the ::number; how the third
day out, on their way from Fort Laramie
Spotted Tail, Standing Elk, Swift Bear,
Little Thunder, Baptiste, and their lovely
tribes, rebslled against the authority Of
General Connor's escort, killed the COM
manding officer and 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 removal of Fort
Fetterman and all troops from their coun-
try. How the Commander in Chief of the
army permitted THAT'S soft word) that
I should be Immediately ordered out Of the
Indian country and mustered out of SER
vice for the hanging of the beloved Black
Foot and Two Face. How the Eleventh
Kansas was ordered about and abused by
General Conner, until Governor Crawford
obtained their muster out of service.
Now in the face of these facts, hastily
and rudely stated in the face of the MUIR
dered cit:zens of Colorado in the face of
the scalpless graves of Kansas, and the
daily suferings new of her people on the
frontiers, and the thousands of treasure
being expended by the State annually to
protect life and property from the demoni-
&C visitations of these red sons of chivalry
the Government of the United States bids
welcome to Washington the fathers of
these crimes, the commanders of the expe-
ditions, and makes for them great feast,
where they appear il 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 and there hung
the very tomshawks, glistening in the gas
light Of the White House, and rejecting
back the splendors and brilliancy of dia-
monded ladies, which Drained the loving
mothers az 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 hundred arrows, and
whose scalps hung dangling from the sad
die bows Of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail.
The silence of our representatives while
these disgusting scenes have been trans
piring has been exceedingly polite but,
oh how craven the spirit.
Yours truly, THos. MOONLIGHT.
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is no patent
medicine humbug gotten up to dupe the
ignorant and credulous, nor is it represen-