Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05
GREELEY ON THE INDIAN
QUESTION.

Greeley has written a book-title,
"What | know about Farming" No
other man In the world, probably,
would have undertaken TO make a book
OF so small a stock ; thus, Greeley is n
man possessed Of courage. A much
smaller book, however, would contain
all he knows about the proper treat
ment of Indians !; and this position we
propose to substantiate by the testi-
mony of every man who has any
knowledge or experience on the point.
Following are the points laid down for
the sustaining Of the Quaker side OF
the case, In an attack upon representa-
tions sent to Washington by citizens Of
Montana:
l. They do not deny the wholesale slaugh-
tef Of women and children in what they term
"chastisement" Of the Piegans. We take
that, therefore, a. admitted.
2. They talk Of repeated acts OF murder
and pillage" by the Indians, but are silent as
to similar acts BY the whites, whereof Indi-
ans were the victims. Yet all men do know
that such acts have been and are committed
By our frontiersmen-often uanton and bar
barously. Why conceal one face Of the
picture?
8. They demand that the Indians shall be
"rigidly confined to reservations at q DISTANCE
from tho white settlements" But how is
this possible, since our settlements or our
prospectors are everywhere? 1t was once
possible 10 drive 1hdipns toward the setting
sun /; since we have o%yerspread the Continent
and planted ourselves beside the Pacific, this
cannot be. There is no region where wild
Indians have = right to be II not in Montana,
and to say they must not be there, is to as
sumo that they must NO longer exist.
4. II the hardy adventurer who seeks !" to
deyelop the resources Of the country"
friphtens of or appropriates the Indian game
(which are his Aocks and herds-his subsist-
ence). undermines his cabin, digs up his
match Of grain and vegetables, and in short,
s~taryes the Indians to deaths door, we do
not know about Severity Of retaliation"
being the right treatment II he r~ssists.
s. We think Indians have some "rights
which whites are bound to respect" Mr..
Cavanaugh's constituents think otherwise.
They evidently believe the rights Of Indians
exactly similar to those Of bears, wolves,
deer and b~uffalos. They will have to allow
US TO desist. r H-.s..r
Greeley has a great mind-he has
room enough In It for large ideas, and
many of them. He does not fully
digest every subject. but a subject Is
generally better for having been
sloshed around awhile In his mind. 1t
Is like Mono Lake, great deal of
alkali in it; and a gray shirt dragged
around an hour or two in it loses a
great deal of its fat /; and, though per-
Raps not fit for shelving in a store, it
gets thinner-and in better condition
Tor somebody else to commence upon.
Greeley would not hesitate to write
a treatise on the inside business Of a
circus-undertaking to show the Null
hollanders how back-summersaults can
be better performed by starting the
other way. He has no hesitation about
writing q book to explain what he
knows about farming-when In fact
the whole truth is contained on the
blank page in the front. Now doctors
only one half treat the case when they
tell what is the matter Of the patient.
We are a nation Of trespassers, that Is