The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-06-08

paper, but on account of it's advocacy
of those sacred principles of Democra-
cy which every American should love
and reverence only second to his God.
The B. d o. or some other r. r. that
the people of Ashland and some other
small to,ons made so many vain at
tempts to secure, at last accounts will
touch our town on the south side
This we think will be the right thing
in the right race-and whatever adj
vantages may be claimed for the var
ious routs surveyed north of us it is
a fsct that cannot be disputed that if
made on the line surveyed by this
place it will open a saeav field, rich in
coal-beds and other minerals, and rem
der available for its own and other
purposes inexhaustible quarries of stone
besides ~traversing a region rich in tim
Der and every agricultural product
here it can in a great measure enjoy
these advantages alone, while on any
northern line there are no greater adj
vantages, and the advantages then arc
already tapped by other great thor
o~ughfares. Being in the neighbor-
hood the other day 1 made a brief visit
to the old Indian burying ground
which is in Green township, and about
three miles north westfrom P~errysville.
1 had often heard the place spoken
of but had never looked over this last
resting place of the red mar. With
me it caused strange emotions, stand
ing alone where long ago these people
had gathered to deposit their dead
from whence the Good Spirit in his
own time would transport them to the
happy hunting grounds where the sun
will shine forever. And when think
ing that but half q century had pass
ed since their last brave was lain there
to "sleep that sleep that knows no
waking"-a problem for those who
would study the future-could but
reflect on the careless indifference of
our Anglo-Saxon people to thus invade
the burial place of that once powerful
tribe, and pillow up their knives, their
battle-axes, their guns and swords,
from where they had been lain to keep
watch over their owners till they
should all alike molder to dust, and
to ever exhume the Indian skeletons
with rs little conjunction as they
would the skeleton of M of the low
or animals, AS though an Indian
were a dog forgetting that in many
respects he was endowed like our
selves and perchance may have pos
sessed a susceptible intellect and an
immortal soul. But we need not be
surprised that the burial places of the
Indians should be thus desecrated since
within the last few months the gov
crnment has endorsed the most cold
blooded and cruel murder of nearly a
whole tribe of destitute, sick, and suf-
fering Indians, and they principally
women and children. And still worse
the fact that while only Il few years
ago you would scarcely enter a church
without hearing of the s~ufarings, hard
ships, and abuse heaped on the poor
negroes and hourly supplications for
their deliverance, now We do not hear
one word from these holy men, of
sympathy for these poor Indians, or
den~unciations of this horr;d crime
They appear to payne more attention,
nor to feel any more interest in the In
dian ace than in the inhabitants of
another planet. "But it is not all
gold that glitters, neither is all lost
that is in danger" The American
people may yet learn to call things by
their right names and TO judge Alright.
But 1 have already trespasscd too
much on your columns
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