, 1870-06-24
RED CLOUD.

savage Life on the P1Alnx-Clvil
Lie in Washlnxton.
10 the Editor ef the 1ear<naorta {Eansas) Buttfa
A look at tie dispatches in your issue of
this evening assures me that the great Sioux
Chief, Red Cloud, is still in Washington, eat
ing the bread OF the government which ho has
these many past years despsed and openly de-
fed. Spotted Tail, the companion Of Red
Cloud, has gone to New York to ace the ole-
phant and obtain the ESQ, 900 worth Of pres
onts allowed to them BY the Congress- of the
United States, On the Recommendation of the
President and Secretary Of, tho Into
rior- Red Cloud declares in favor OF
MoEmons, and doubtless in favor Of Nor
monlgm Who knowa? When read tho dos
patches heralded all over the country and
throughout the important points in Europe OF
the great feast given BY tho President Of tho
United States to these Sioux Chiefs, when Mrs.
Grant and family were present, as we'll a.
mHnT ct the distinguished lAdies and gentle
men Of Washington diplomatic society, could
not help thinking Of tho time when these Same
chiefs, with their bsuds, swept down uponKanEaH
in 1864, while out men were in the Union array,
fighting under TIE same Grant for the preser:
Tation OF tho Union, and ruthlesaly murdered
our women and children on the Mue and al.
joining Streams; how they returned westward
BY the way Of Plum Greek, killing erry human
being that crossed their path, on to within
few miles Of Denver City; how they repeated
winter Of 1864, and early in the spring OF 1865;
how, in the dead Of winter, after returning
from the Price rxid, the Eleventh Kansas was
forced to march over the Plains without prop
e!r clothing o. sufficient rations; sleeping IN
the snow night after nignt,, without tent Or
covering: how they reached Fort Laramie in
Mnrch, 17G5, md were scattered by companies
and battalions all along the Platte, and Is far
up as SweetNater; how, in conjunction with
companies Of Ohio and 1owa cavalry, almost
the entire Sioux nation operating in the Platte
country, was captured by tho middle OF May
how the following C1uofs with their tribes,
we're among tho captured, ndconfessed them
selves as having been Of those who committed
all the depredations in Kansas along the line
Of the Flatte westward-Red Cloud and tribe,
Spotted Tail and Tribe, Standing Elk and Hibe,
Baptiste and tribe-how tLere va. captured
with them the great Chief Of the Sioux nation,
Black Foot, and his second in command, Two
Face; how these Chiefs held as prisoner with
them when them when they wera captured one
Of our Kansas women, Mrs. EwbankB, taken
husband md family murdered and her cabin
burned; how she related to me her treatment
while serving nine optha as the squaw Of Black
Foot and Two Face, exhibiting the marks Of
tho raw hide on her bare back nell laid On, u,l-
I'll she agreod 70 their terma Of compromise;
there, these noble Chiefs for Injuries received;
how they acknowledged the deed, and rojoiced
that they had been permitted to bury the
hatchet in the brains Of Kansas citixcns how
I erected temporary ecafroid on the north
ern alope overlooking Fort Laramie, and, in
the presence Of said Red Cloud, Spotted TRi1,
Standing Elk, Swift Bear, Little Thunder,
Baptiste, aud their noble followers, hung the
said Hack Foot and Two Face for tho known
crimes Of murder, rape, arson, and robbery,
committed On Kansas, colorado, hnd Dakota
eo1 how Red Cloud then became Chief in
place OF Lick Foot; how General Connor
:aen. at Julekburg (the temporary healquart-
e1s OF tho distrct), ordered me to send all the
prisoners, mustsring 1,474 men, women and
children, to Julosburg to report to him. FOX
fear 3 scr3es Of hanging would forever end the
Indian WAT, and stop contracting how he
naming tho officers who ahould have
command, and being careful to have no
KAnsas officers or soldiers among the number;
how the third day out, on their way from Fort
Laramie to Julesburg, these samo Chiefs, Red
Cloud, Spotted Tai. Standing Elk, Swift Boar,
tribes, rebelled against the authority Of Gen.
eral Connor's escort, killed the commanding
officer Rnd 4 number Of his men, and made
good their escape to the Black HillB, where,
from that day to this, they have been amusing
themselves by killing soldiers and stealing gov
GluMeut pIopelLVs RIO low LHey 0ou1AQu CQo
removal Of Fort FettermAn aud all troops from
their country, How the Commander in Chief
OF the army permitted CHATS soft worD that
I should be Immediately ordered out Of the
Indian country and mustered out Of service
for tho hanging Of tho beloved Black Foot and
Two Face. How the Eleventh Kaneas WAS or
dered about and abused by General Connor,
until Governor Crawford obtained their muster
out of service.
Nov, in the face Of these facts, hastily and
rudely stated; in the face Of tho murdered
citizens Of Colorado; in the face OF the scalp
less graves of Kansas, and the daily s,1Rerings
now Of her people on the frontiers, snd the
thousands Of treasure being appended by the
State annually to protect Life and property
from the demopiac Eisitaions Of these red
soDs Of clliralry, 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,
whcro they appear in full harness, with tie very
knives hanging to their belts which we're once
plunged into the bowels OF innocent children
drawing life from their mnthers' breasts
and there hung the very tomahAwkB, glisteu-
ing in the gaslight Of the White House, and re-
accting back tho Rplendors and bril1iancy OF
diarnonded ladies, which b1ained the loving
mothers as they sat nursing their frst-born
and singing Of the love they bore for the hus-
bands and fathers, who 1t that moment were
targets for hundred arroWs, and whose scalps
hung dangling from the BaddlsbowB Of Red
Cloud and Spotted Tall Tho silence Of cur
representatives while these disgusting scenes
have been transpiring has been exceedingly
palite but, oh how craven the spirit. Youra
truly, THOMAS MOONLIGHT.