The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-07-14
THE INDIANS.

WAsErseTos. July 5.-The Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs has received the following letter:
CAMP SUPPLY, INDIAN TERRITORY, Jnne :, 1870,
To LRINTos DARLINGTON, Indian agent.
DEAR SIR:-It is my duty inform you Of the
following facts, viz On the 25th of May received
for you lot of goods from Capts Ripley, Lee, and
Reynolds. and shipped the by Tracy,s train
On the 18th, at Usage Springs, the Indians attacked
them aud took the entire lot of mules including those
belonging to DICK Curtis, at the same time killing
one OF Tracy drivers Two rode at n CHI and
informed Col Nelson, who out companies of
cavalry and mules, and brought the wagons back
;his place. L received the goods off the wagons and
paced them IN an empty sore-house, and the pack
ages the as shipped but some Of the goods
ware vet from the severe rsairs. Cart Rev
nods ordered over the horses and stores
by the 3oth inst AID settle up all business ,e,taii,
TO subsisng Indians have reconsidcretl my deter
fninatQn TO remain here ii You would employ me- as
the responsibility for all this property at present
sate OF aairs Is too great the Indians within
O. yards, and around US almost every night. A few
nights ago they endaavored stampede train just
Ielow, WHERE we had our and bacon piled
auiDeil ana my saf ran TO the rescue, and together
ge drove the In5ii away last night tIqy stan,-
re0ed and stole Shaw's stock that had just arrived
from the agency. How they ever managed 10 get up
without being killed is miracle to all of US We
have for three weeks been living in preparation for
attack and with oIIr arms beside rs IN Las Tho
Killed and scaiPed Dave lees man. also q Mexican
right in the post. They also killed two men and
ieari'iy wounded the Sergeant At the rancho between
t!lls and Dodge. So you there is no chIds play
aeou this, at all events About 20 Indians lying
around the post bnt it isimpossble TO Kill capture
Them. The cavalry did go ont one day and ran them
~ or II miles bit nothing of it except the
c. P R.spALL
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has received the following letter through
Friend Enoch Hoag. Superintendent for
the Central SUPPLEMENTARY
OFFICE kIoWA AGENCY, INDIAN TER.
June 10, 1870.
FRIEND HoAG, Sll7t. Indian AGGirs DC:
From The reports of some Indians believe that ali
Of the Kiowa7. spacles, and about half Of the Co
manciieS have left the reservation without my con-
spnt. One of the Chiefs, Tshananica sent word tn
ne that he wanted the soldiers ont and fight
them. From what learn it IS the intention Of some
O 1:ieJn g JOIN nc rowing Indians and make
te1sive raid into Texas Tt arTaare that when aa-
nanica made his raid here the 22h nit they killed
and Scaipe1. according their own renort one ma H.
Its dead body has been diligently searched for bHt
Dot 1o'i7fi The only have heard the Indians
.ssica for leaving here are. first because so many Of
them wpresicl and died here last Summer and Fall;
second, they received small ar amount Of annuity
goo $; and third not being allowed 70 purchase am
munition. The Indians repor the NIexicans are now
fn3e"here on the Plains 500 or t0 miles southwest
al mere rs near rs can len n selling arms and am
rlrnition to the InIians Gen PrarSon has many of
his troop7along Red River and other places, watching
ior the movements Of indians Affairs look rather
LAWRIE TATUsI, q. 5. Indian Agent.
THUS it appears that the Indians in
the northwestern and southern Reserva-
lions are intent on--and we are to pre-
pare for-another bloody and costly war,
war which, in orr opinion, has been
materially hastened by bringing to Wash
ington and New York lot Of Indian
murderers and vagabonds, with Red
Cloud at their head, fattcring and feast
ing them in the vain expectation to re-
concIle them and to subdue their wild
passions by grand displays of our power
and riches and to induce them to give up
al further resistance to the progress of
human civilization. But these proceed
ings have effected just the opposite;
these Indians think now more, of their
own greatness than eyer before, for they
have been treated by some Of the most
prominent men of our nation as if they
were some Of the most powerful pofen-
tates; as such they claim the ownership
OF immense tracts of territory, because
they have hunted on these lands FL many
generations; assuch they decline and dis
claim ever to change their wild. rowing
life, or to conform to the claims of civil
Or moral progress in any manner, and to
all their most arrogant demands they
have been answered with the greatest
Difference and most co nciliating polite
ness. Such treatment to such barbarians
must of course increase their stupid
pride to an unbearable degree and make
them deaf to any request to relinquish
even single one of their wild and MUIR
derous pursuits.
Red Cloud declared at Washington and
repeated again at New York, That the
Sioux, in the treaty of 1867 had hccn
deceived by the interpreters. 1t will lie
nlmost impossible now, to prove or dis
approve this allegation, for all Indians,
and especially the Sioux, do not consider
It disgrace, but on the. contrary great
merit, to lie too and thus to deceive the
whites. The Interpreters on their part
viii not acknowledge that they have
swindled the Indians; how shall we as
certain the actual facts?
Let US suppose however, that the
Sioux never intended to permitthe build
ing Of railroad through the territory
they occupy, what then? Should our
President respectfully take off his hat,
most humbly ask the pardon Of His
dighness, prinse Red Cloud, order the
lmmedyato destruction Of the railroad and
forbid eyery white man, ever hereafter
to touch the Indian territory ?-Nothinq
less than this IS what these savaces de-
mand, and nothing less have thew been
encouraged 70 by these eastern silly sensa.
tlonists, to expect And indeed. If thew
nfa an Independent Nation with law
ful title to all the lands oyer which they
roam. THEN they have a right to expect
such satisfaction and full indemnifcation.
And just here we perceive the most
plainly the absurdity and inconsistency
Of the whole manner of treatment of In
dian affairs by our Government. By
eonceding to these savages, roaming over
almost unreasonable territories, that thew
are entitled to a nofionai existence, is the
root and the source of all the evils we
have suffered and are still to suffer from
THESE Indians. IF we measure them bv
the degree of civilization predomirating
IN this country, they are nothing more
nor less than uagabonds, uncouth and
adverse to labor, who, partly through
want, partly through their unbridled