Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-19
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n cOteinporhry suHHcstS, III icicichcc
to Sheridan Shenandoah raid, that "it
was almost literally fulfilled; and his
| march could be traced by flame and
smoke whichalike arose from house, barn
and mill, which sheltered and fed the de-
fenceless and unoffending mother and
her little ones No Radical voice was
heard in condemnation of that-and yet
he claims TO be civilized and a Christian
But when the uncivilized resorts to the
same uncivilized species of warfare, he
would be forever placed without the pales
of forgiveness or sympathy Out upon
such inconsistency.
With regard to the Indian, Senator
Casserly, of California, corruborates the
speech of Bed Dog and his words should
60 deep into the hearts of those who have
no palliation for the red man, but would
wipe him out entirely. He said:
We are suffering to-day-our helpless
women and children, our peaceful, we'll
meaning settlers of the frontier settle
ments, are suffering to-day for the wrongs
done to the Indians by vicious and law
less white men for the last fifty years.
Hence has sprung state of border war
fare, or of precarious peace, which was
but preparation for war. The Indian
has known too often no protection
against his white foeman, except that
which. he could win by his own bow and
spear, and no other justice for the wrongs
he has had to bear than the wild JUS
tice of revenge" To-day, upon our
great plains or in his mountain fast
nesses, or in his forays upon our border
settlements, he is fighting out in his un-
tutored savage fashion the old quarrel
which is ever new, between his race and
ours, going back almost to the first occu-
patton of this country by the white man
If the red man himself, and the Cali
fornia Senator, viii not be taken as sound
on the wrongs done the Indian, hear
what the New York Tribune, the great
gun of Radicalism has, itself, to say on
this subject; and especially note its ref
erence to the Piegan massacre. 1t need
not be called in question, that Greeley
is humanitarian and incapable of treat
ing properly such subjects. 1t is a ma
tional question he presents, and the hor-
ror expressed by the Tribune, of the in
discriminate massacre Of Indian women
and children by the bully, Sheridan, must
find an echo in every true and manly
heart. The whole article will bear read
ing, and the history of the application
| for relief Of the Nawab to the British
Government is aptly made a potent illus
| tration of the treatment of the Indians
by this Government. The Tribune thinks
if it had only been little old man, in
stead of the retaliatory bands of Indians
who were sueing for redress, he would
have been knocked in the head long ago.
But read the Tribun' article:
cREDIToRs-RE AND YELLOW.
A pitiful feature in the records of the
London Court Journal lately is the pres
ence of certain yellow-skinned, white.
haired old man, who, with his two sons,
haunts all the State dinners, drawing
rooms and public meetings to which he
can gain admittance, giving donation
whereon there is chance of buying a
little popular favor, and making an anx-
iously conned speech thanking the Eng
| lish press its justice to him and to his
claims. The old man is the Nawab Ma
zim of Bengal, and the claims which he
has made this long, weary journey to
present have been due to his family from
| the English Government since 1851. The
! story of this Indian Prince is curious as
bit of history, and may serve as a hint
to our own people in their present diff
Guilty with their red-skinned creditors OF
how a great nation may BECOME de-
faulter and a perjured cheat, and yet re-
tain its prestige of honor and problty, 1t
it only choose for its victims helpless
paganism or poverty.
This Nawab Nazim is the lineal de-
scendant of Nicer Jatiier, the friend and
ally of Give, who turned the scale in fa-
yor of the British at the battle of Plas-
sey. and first gave the East India Com
pany a footing in Bengal. By the treaty
in l757 between this Prince and the East
India Company the latter was permitted
to trade in his dominions, paying for this
privilege military service as feudatory,
and the annual sum of E5l8,000. The
Company also entered into solemn agree
ment never to interfere with the govern
ment of his kingdoms of Bengal, Behar
and 0rissa. The subsequent story is a
hackneyed one. The supine scholarly
Indian has but little chance whenever
the grosser avaricious Briton sets his
heavy foot upon his soil The annual
payment was lowered afterward by treaty
to 'e3l8, 900, which agreement, the Com
pany added, should, by the blessing Of
God, be inviolably preserved forever.
In ITO, however, the Nawab being mi
nor, the Company judged it prudent,
considering bis tender years, TO pay him
less than one half that sum, and in the
century that has passed since has
apparently acted upon the presump-
ton that lie was growing more under age
with essry year, until the present Nawab
receives but E72.2Q0 per annum. Not
only has the governments CT bis kingdom
been taken from him, but he Is placed
nnder surveillance in his own family; his
sefsaats are appointed or discharged
against his Will, even the tombs oil has
ancestors are removed from his care
the crowning insult to Bengalee. The
curious point is that no attempt rs made
by England TO deny her debt or her cruel
iniusiies TO this man, nor the fact that
she is bound In gratitude 70 him person
ally for valuable services rendered IN the
Bengal mutiny of native troops IN 1881.
Mr.. Havilaud Burke calling for the Ma
wab Statement in the House the other
day, Mr.. Grant pEg coolly disposed OF
the matter by saying the docpAient was
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