The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-03-18


indignation and pa,hos, worked BY the
dry crushing process. No honest tears
have been shed but much lachrymose,
no. to say usudlin, iamentation has
been poured forth BY non-combatants,
admirers OF the Noble Red Van as seen
on tobacco boxes and in the play of Me-
tamor., romantic and impracticable
philanthropists and spectators in beads,
wampum and commissary whisky. The
woeful picture presented BY these gives
the unsophis,icated world to understand
that while the devoted mothers of Pie
gandom we're quietly and religiously
weaving their domestic wares, teaching
their lovely children to reverence the
Great Spirit, sweetening the homes of
their noble lords, aud deporting them
selves, generally, like so many improved
editions Of Poeshontas and while their
children we're disporting themselvesIike
delectable Sabbath School children
about the maternal knee and learning H.
nocence and virtue at the domestic altar; |
and while the husbands and fathers, the /
ehivalric warriors of the tribe, and the
noble youth, their promising sons. were
devotedly engaged in the thrifty and en-
nobling occupations which follow the
Summers successful chase, the heart
lees aud blood.ihirs;y emmissary of a
still more cruel and merciless command
er (Sheridan) swooped down upon this
admirable, blissful abode Of peace and
happiness aud proceeded to deal out in-
discriminate slaughter. That is some
what the style in which this story has
been worked up. Let Us look at the
" Indian village" of reality. A hun ,
dred or more savages too lazy to hunt, ,
too slovenly to cleanse their persons +
from the accumulated filth of years; too G
eowardly to attack white man except {
in numbers of ten to one, and that when !
the object Of their attack is asleep too q
brutal to treat their women otherwise q
than as slaves and beasts of burden III
given to the horrid performances of the q
scalping knife /; mutilators and ravish
ers of their victims murderers in cold
blood, liars and vagsbonds, these beast G
~ scoundrels who come of race tina. p
is the lowest and most degraded in the .
scale of humanity, fee to their noun +.
tain places Of rendezvous to seek secu-
rity from the just punishment their a
crimes deserve. Here they burrow, u
BY their nasty squaws, more 81
than themselves in the meas.
nre in which dirty woman il more re- o,
pulsive than . dirty man; aud here q
.heir worthless, idle, vicious progeny m
Are congregated-,he food of /" The IN
Village" stolen from the farms of the
white settler, and the ornaments of M
heir persons the scalps of white men, vi
somen and children. The army officer Re
Ind his troops who are cent in pursuit v;
4 these thieves aud cut-,broats man.
ges, after many dangers and hard H.
fps, to come upon them. They ye
II scatter like the wind at his to
pproach, and fly, an indiscriminate b
orde Of rags, cowardice aud dirt. wi
,oving mass of vermin and tatters. m,
lust these be allowed to escape only to re-
ather fresh temeri;y for their thieveries du
nd murder? The officer has his orders, se,
nd his men, long used to the perils of 70,
adiao assassination and torture eagerly Il
ress forward to execute his commands. al
he opportunity is at last before them an
} do what is too often sough: to be done ne
, vain-"punish the Indian" AN
ley execute their terrible duty with a an
OF less terrible effect. The "Noble Red ri
an" hnddles behind his squaw and CO.
icy both are shot-andtwoun mitigated
uisences are forever aba,ed. Some tn,
retehed, lousy children are put out of of
leir life of misery and degradation by in,
ray bullets sent into the middle of the me
'omiscuous mob Of tatterdemalious. a d
be officer has done bis duty; something Sc
ward an assurance Of peaceable occu. tbs