The New York herald., 1870-05-30
NEW PHASE OF TEE INDIAN QUESTION.


The Indians Obstructins the Channels Of
Trade and Commerce Between New York
and the S0uthwest--They Stop the Con.
struction Of Railroads and Levy Tribute ON
the Internal Trade OF the United States
Unparalleled Impudcnce.
WASHINGTON, May o. 1s7o
The Indiln question has assumed a new phase.
The hating, swlndling and equivocal policy Of the
Indian Bureau ring will answer no longer. For rea-
sons best known to themselves certain members OF
the United States Senate and all the members OF that
close corporation known here as the Indian Bureau
ring have chosen to assume that each
tribe or clan OF Indians within our bor-
der is an independent nation, to be treated
with upon the same terms and in the
same manner as with actual nations like France,
Portugal or Great Britain, ana treaties have been
made accordingly with the Kickapoo, Quapaw
Cherokee, Piegan, Blackfeet Choctaw, Usage.
Sioux and other similar nations" In the matter
OF observing treaty stipuatons the government has
had two distinct rules With foreign nations
toleraby strict observance of stipulaM0ns has been
maintained both sdes at least such has been the
theory With the Indian nations" on the other
hand while the United States has been almost with
out exception faithful to Its treaty obligations, and
in most instances doing better than was required,
the Indian nations' have never in scarcely single
the reason stated by Commissioner Parker in his
last report viz.:"Indian tribes are not nations ca
paDle OF making treaties. as none Of them have
organized governments Of such inherent strength
would secure faithful obedience OF It's people in
the observance OF compacts OF this character"
Tributes LEVIED.
The ring managers have been permitted TO go on
In this nelaroas and absurd treaty business until
they really appear TO believe in the nationality Of
these tribes OF savages. case In point is well Illus
trated by the following, whcn clip lrom Kansas
paper OF tho 18th inst.:-
pRocLAMATIoN
CAMP BIO HILLS, OsAGE NATION, April II, 1870.
prevent disturbance between the cattle droyers
eSSy 0ass on ana % % ss h pss n %
all people, deem duty, Governor Of the Nation,
And l. therefore this day authorize Messrs Greenway
a. The chisorl trail to collect from herds cattle pass
head Of cae drlven through said country on said trail
Now fths amount is paid Messrs r.. Greenway CO. At
call the said droyers for beef for for drvng
through SAID country nor molct any droyeT road or trail
Governor of the Usage Nation.
Signed in the presence Of G. W. Hill and Harry Anderson
WORD OF EXPLANATION.
This most extraordinary proclamation needs word
Of explanation 1t is well known that large herds
OF Texas Wild cattle driven TO Kansas Missouri,
Illinois and sometimes as far east as Ohio, where
they kept over one season fattening, prepara-
| and other Eastern markets / may observe in pass.
Ing that have more Ind an chefs-they are all
stgoyernOrs' OF "nationso In all Indian Jobs there
will be found clique OF vlllanous white men al the
| bottom. The white keepers OF .Joe Pineopeasha,
| Governbr OF the Usage Nation have put that
confederate to backmail the cattle trade OF Texas
| while OH the road to New York. THIS Is no joke
can assure you Not only does rhe Governor OF
III Usage Nation" exact ten cents tribute every
| head OF beef on the road between Texas and New
| YORK, but every individual Usage can do the same.
| The governorsr guarantee OF protection is not
worth the paper his white keepers write Ii on. All
that any schemer In the Southwest country has to
do 10 himself Up independent tax collector
Is to catch an Osage, Cherokee or q QgapaW, dub
him governors an1 proceed at once TO business.
rLnc
break up Texas cattle trade and seriously affect
the price OF beef in all our Eastern cites.
MAKE A NOTE OF THIS.
Beef eaters will MAKE q note OF all this. They Will
also bear In mind that II the Governor OF New YORK,
for example, should undertake for single week to
DO what this Usage governor and other Thugs Of
the Southwest have been doing Tor years With npu-
with sharp stick. Ergo the Governors OF oar States
have less power under our constitution aud laws
than these Thug. These tributes have been
attempts TO avoid payment subjects himself
10 the prescribed penalty-death and consoailon Of
| properly. Hon. John G. Conner, OF Texas states
thai over 200 Of his constituents have been murdered
by these Thugs within the past year; nevertheless
| with them One tenth part OF the outrayes, If conf
mitted by Engishmen, would al once alsogate all
| treaties with Great Britain and bring on 4 war;
These called treaties never have had he force Of
| actual treaty between nations. II i5 not neces
sary to qubble over their nature; they were al ab
rOgated long ago, thousand times over, by the
fulhment OF the stipuaons on the part OF the In
| dians. II any OF them have not been thus abro.
gated they have been entirely done away with by
! United States, which declares all persons born
within the exterior boundaries ol the United
| States to be citizens thereof These Thugs
| of the Southwest should not, therefore, be
permitted to plead treaty stipulatlons any longer as
to obey the law. Their status las been liked. Let
| us hear no more OF treaty sspu!ations with these
| pauper citizens.
| The Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad Com
pany is made UP almost entirely, of sound New York
x-f,D ,nxvA af.1
operation over one hundred ana eighty miles OF their
road within the past sixteen months and were build
trunk between Fort Riley, Kansas ana Camargo,
| Texas, on The border oil Mexico, when they were
stopped and their workmen driven from the
road by Indians, under the Ease pretence
| that It's construction through the Indian Terri
tory was prohibited by certain Indian treaty
supuIatlons l say false pretence because
Indian treaties, admitting thlt they have the force
of law, which they have moi, give The company full
| Territory and Texas to the Mexican boundary. Tie
action OF the Indians only temporarily suspends tile
work on the main line through the Indian Territory
The work on the companys branches through the
States OF Missouri and Kan as is continued same as
ever. The outrage Is All the same, however, as
though they were compelled to suspend the whole
WORK permanently.
EXTENT OF TIE ENTERPRISE.
have gathered from the records OF the interior
Department and elsewhere few intere Ting facts tt
show the nature Of the enterprise that our modern
Thugs are permitted by Secretary Cox to levy
tribute upon-for it amounts to that and nothing
else When the company get ready to pay the
required tribute to the managers Of sundry gov
ernors' Of Indian nations the treaty stpuia
! tons' will not be further insisted upon. Thougl
the work On the Missouri Kansas and Texas Rail
| road and branches has been pushed forward verI
quietly the enterprise In itself Is second only In i'm
portance to the Pacific Railroad The main trunk
extends from Fort Riley, Kansas, on the Kansa
Pacific Railroad to Camargo, on the Rio Grande
running through Southern Kansas, Indian TerritGry
and Texas with view OF an extension TO The citl
OF Mexico. One hundred and eighty miles ar,
| finished and In operation, and the construction wa
being pushed forward strictly according TO the Law
Of Congress, when it was stopped, as above stated
| by the Indians
The Tebo and Neosho Railroad Ia being built b,
the same company from Seialia, Mo-, on the Mis-
| souri, Pacific Raroal, 10 Gadball, Kansas th
point where their main TRUNK crosses the NeOsh
| river.
The Holden cutoff f. being butt, also, ny the sam
company, from Holden Oh The Missouri Pacific Rail
road, to Emporia, Kansas, on tia main line. Thes
roads, II will be seen, connect with The existing sys
tem and open up TO our scabOard ciles the iale O
tha -.xrna GarthuLnct .a,aLia iar,a