Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-11


thrift.
% A feast to-day, and huge drunk
then the mania pOtu; then long
winter of starvation and smallpox,
and in the spring a war with the
white man-this is the Indian char
acter. as YOU see Il" said Gen. Sher-
idan. recently, " What it may be as
Won don't see it, 1 leave distant people
to tell. But as you do see 1t, that it
is-incurable laZiness, spasmodic glut-
tony and war;"
Gen. Pope recently said that not
one Indian being in five was free
from secondary syphilis. Whether
contact with the white man did or
did not make this misery, is not now
the practical question. What can be
done with this diseased gypsy-this
shiftless maniac-this cumberer of
the ground? He can no longer be
protected in the reservations, unless
the essential impulses of civilization
be SUPPRESSED in the white settler. If
we want to line the frontiers with
n set of feeble, white-livered, and
negative white people, let us keep
up the cry of d" LO! the poor, inof-
fensive Indian" But a race of pio-
neers, with the instincts of the great
nation behind them, will not stop to
parley with these people upon the
basis of the supposed Indian char
acter. Like the Irishman who ad-
dressed the Frenchman
" Pdrlez rous FrdReHis?2,'
"Oui."
The settlers next interrogatory Will
be: "Then lind me gridiron! Take
your chance! But, by our Democ-
racy! with no more than myself"
The Quaker Indian policy has been
pronounced a success by the present
Commissioner, but other officials in
the office saw that it has been failure
throughout, and the Quaker ObseTva-
tions and suggestions have been of
the dullest and flattest description.
SOME INDIANS AND VICTIMS HERE.
There are many Creeks, Cherokees
and Choctavs here-many OF them
alf-breeds-acting as stool-pigeons
for railroad land grabbers. Some In
dians are here also ON a grand drunk
and palaver. and also some whites,
seeking to be compensated for Indian
damages. Mix, the old Indian chief
clerk has been routed from his Office,
and he keeps private claim agency
near the General Post Office.
Amongst the queer people who have
come here with claims against the
Government, arising out of Indian
affairs, is n Mrs. Mary Burns, of Ne
braska. Sheis buxOm, middle-aged, I,
rather cheerful woman, of Western
and Irish extraction, and probably no
woman alive has suffered as much
who has vet as much pluck and busi-
( ness earnestness. Mrs. Burns, her
children and husband, started some
two wears ago for the territory OF
Wyoming, with a good many cat
! tie, sheep and horses, with farming
stock, provisions, and all other appur-
! tenances of pioneer agricultural life.
/ They had not gone more than nifty
miles across the naked prairie, out OF
sight of the habitation and marks OF
man, when they were pursued by 9
large band of Sioux who affected tC
be peaceable, but begged for little
| food, on the ground of extreme hun
ger. Not deeming it prudent to re-
fuse, the little party gave them IRON
time to time parcels of meat anC
bread out of their little store. Tht
more the Indians received, however
the more pertinacious they became
and seeing signs of impatience on the
part of the Burns family, the Indian:
alleged that if they were given ont
"good square meal" they would g
peacefully away and molest the fam
ily no more. The Burns family, gla6
.t I fA-hR T1n nj TneI
redskin parasites, stopped upon th'
prairie. killed a COW, and prepared {
feast. While they were in the mlds
of the entertainment, the attrocloui
Indians suddenly killed all the male:
of the party, except the husband
who was fortunately just outside o
the camp, and who escaped for th'
time being. One of the women,
sister of Mrs. Burns, made resistance
and was killed with a club by thu
gang. All the fiends, more than
hundred in number, beginning will
the Chief, then outraged the middle
aged woman, and afterward compelled
her to proceed with them westward
She was treated with the extrem
est brutality for many weeks, and
finally, making a futile effort to es
cape, her young baby was tortured Z
J death in her presence. The 1ndoml
J table woman, however, suffering will
bruises, mutilations, and sorrows, die
, not despair, and at last she accom-
pIished her purpose of escape. Afte
|, suffering such hardships as history
seldom relates, she reached the camps
of civilization, almost naked, withou
} a child or relative, and without cen
] in the world. Here she is at the sea
!, of government, living example o
i ten thousand similar heroines who's
J adventures have almost faded from
] history, but who were the grand
mothers of some OF the best of US
How few of the nervous, exquisitely
and magnificently dressed creature
who sit in the galleries of Congress
soothed by smelling bottle, ar
aware that the hem of their garment
is touched by a sister with sucl
a record? Mrs. Burns, knowing o
nobody else to whom she can appeal
has laid her claim, in a prepara
tory way, before Congress. What
ever equity there may be in thu
public Treasury compensating for he
loss, it is certain that few women o
our day have had such distress, an'
live, and need more.
INDIAN BOARDING HOUSE.
Turn from this outraged, brave
white creature-who had hoped T.
, raise her baby to a softer and NOR
+ comfortable state than her own harC
!, one-to see gathered round the door
of a boarding house on Pennsylvanii
avenue, near Four and Half street
, the highest civilization of the heath
, ems who did her this despite. Ther'
they sit, set of broad-faced GRIMM!
pock-marked wretches, smoking ci
gars and smelling of bad whisky
, They are Indians, who have beel
, permitted to come to Washington t
press the claims of their tribes upoI
, the Indian Bureau or upon Congress
and some of them, perhaps, have beel
J brought here by land spectators ant
makers of bogus railways, that the.
may help TO plunder their own tribe
. and guzzle, and smoke, and walloy
/ like swine upon the proceeds till ma
, ture afiicts them with trichnia, o
, something consonate with the sort O
, flesh they are composed of. Now an,
, then, YOU find one of these rascals Q
more sordid soul than the rest, if tina
were possible, who does not drink an,
spend his money, having made u
his mind to grow rich, swindle hi
countrymen, and be the last red maj
of his region. What purpose in liv
/ ing such an exceptional mlser ca
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