The New York herald., 1872-07-15
UNCLE SAM'S RED REBELS.
How Skulking SaVages appreciate
Governmental Caressing.
THE PEACE POLICY "PLAYED OUT"
Federal Ideal Philanthropy vs..
Murder and Rapine.
MIR. L0 IMPUDENT AND CALL0US
The Present Reign Of Terror in Texas,
Arizona and the Northwest.
sHERDAN's PROPOSED REMEDY.
"Little Phil's" Plan Of ChastiSement
the Only Correct One.
LOUD CRIES FOR VENGEANCE.
The Apaches Of Arizona Heaping
lin Eath0n1InSc Wrath
The Present Reign Of Terror in Texas,
Arizona and the Northwest.
sHERDAMs PROPOSED REMEDY.
"Little Pills. Plan Of ChaShSement
the Only Correct One.
LOUD CRIES FOR VENGEANCE.
The Apaches of Arizona Heaping
Up Fathomless Wrath.

Up Fathomless Wrath.
JACKSON Miss, July 8, 1871.
The student Of political economy has remedies,
gibly slipping from the ready tongue, for any dis
ease which may inJuriousy afect the well-belng Of
. nation In the case Of a strong people supplant-
Ing on their own Soil weaker and ruder race O
romantic compassion extends the ideas Of the Sc
verely just economist. The monstrous crime Of
the whites In gradually pushing back the Indial=-
dispossessnrss - nim or his donlaln-h&s never been
atoned for In tn eyes of teatabe philanthropists
and the great gushing moral engines OF reform
by the really liberal reservations 0fland and ample
creature comforts set aside for the unhappy red
man by the United States government. The
FIRST requirement for our restless people ls free
and safe circulation from one end Of our broad
country TO the other, and, unhappily, to-day those
who spy out the land and herald the march Of i'm
provement frequently pay for their enterprise the
forfeit OF life. The hardy settler on
the frontier some one must be on
the outside always) Is diverted from
his labor in the field to find his home In flames and
his family massacred. The inviting prairies of the
West lie unpeoped In measure, for the ready
knife too often avenges the encr0achment on the
patrimonial domain claimed by the skulkng
savage, who strikes no plough into the rich prairie
bosom. 1t cannot be denied that, with handsome
territory set apart for the Indians exclusively,
many fertile reservations cut out Of valleys very
dear to the farmer, the employment Of two-thrds
Of our army and yearly expenditure of millions.
that the Indian is an expensive, intractable and
restless pauper. All the rights pertaining to the
nrst owners Of the soil have been considered-nay,
oven the last objection Of the sentimental school
no IN md fho radc I'm
has had fair chance to develop any
latent capacity for the blessings of civiliza.
tion. Every poicy-individual, municipal and
g0vernmental-has been tried, and, from coolly
making game Of them to making them lions at
washington, all expedients have had their day.
Communities have offered scalp bounty; the
orazed and wronged settler has haunted the track
nerved to terrible vengeance; from the earliest
days rangers have preyed on them and regulars
fought them, with varied success, while, within
two weeks, fashionable New York has crowded q
hall to hear
RED-HANDED RED CLOUD
''make big talk" Shaker and Quaker; Colyer
and Don Fulano de Tai and the portly Indian
agents of twenty regimes have poured unceasing
platitudes into the of the red man in council.
These scenes, as ludicrous as can be imagined,
have allowed some hundreds Of magnanimous
''o1cialsn "oficious" persons, q chance to dis
play second-handed ideasm, in which Uncas the
Good, Logan the Eloquent and Black Hawk
the Bitter suggest 'thlalutin" speeches,
which would be ignominiously "cut outn of q
Beadle dime novel. The ideal philanthropy is
universally met by the materiastic Lo with de-
mand for rum and buckshot, blankets and 'baccy
Common sense revolts from o policy In which
idealism and idlocy blunders and butchery, have
been 80 curiously mingled
1t is my purpose in this brief article to take
look at the present situation and repeat the reme
dies needed Promising all will agree that the red
man is fast disappearing; that land enough is now
Bet or to support in peace all Of the copper color;
that it is but just to demand that peace should be
maintained and the Indian obey the law in return
for the supplies and annual presents and that mis-
slonary influence with some exceptions) has
signalIy failed, announce my convictions-
OLD LOS DUTIES.
Frst-That the Indian, TO avoid national death,
must work; must learn to keep the peace, value
the rights OF others and thus Chrstianize himself
by an enjoyment of the benefits OF civilization in
stead Of self.destructon by its vices.
Second-That law Is as binding lin its penalties)
on the Indian as on the white; that 1t must be en-
forced and IN return for national protection the In
dian must be placed in n, bounds % & and k Kept there
In creature comforts and friendly teachings the re-
ward of his amended life.
Rejecting on these principles, letting the Indian
snairs be managed with full powers, the strong
hand and wise head always In correlation, the way
il clear to peaceful frontiers extended miuing in
terests and large area brought under cultivation.
NO MORE WINDY PROMISES
BY irresponsible agents, no future plans Of scntl.
mental education by charitable young ladies' no in
discriminate attacks on helpless Indian communi.
ties, but well-kept faith with the good, swift and
sure punishment for the bad. Let us look at
THE INDIAN OF To-Day.
The indian Is found to-day, with few insignificant
exceptions. west Of the Mississippi. The first dl.
vision as to class will be the civiiiza or narty SO,
rom the sayases =, tho FIRST division we find all
tne ma. d.n Territory inhabitants, the dwellers On
reservations everywhere, and these nation, of de-
cidedy peaceful attributes. Excluslv. of the Ter.
ritory Indianswe have on rescr' atlons some Sioux
the Navajos, several bra-1ches OF the Ute family the
ean Dicgos and Diggers in Middle and Southern
C.afofnia and in Northern California and Ore
gon the Snakes, Redweods Yaquinas and
others The general peace and well-doing
OF reservation Indians is so far above the others
that we may say, If not properly treated, at least
they are humanely so, and have fair chance in
the great struggle for existence. The friendly
tribes are the Pmos, Mancoras, the Moquis and
Yumas in Arizona; rowing piutes, in California,
and Pawnees and fIlcndy Sioux on tie
Palms. with the peaceful dwellers In Alaska
The savage tribes comprise the Eualapas
and Apaches Of Arizona, Comanchcs and
Kiowas of New Mexico and Northern Texas.
and some tribes OF various names west of Mime.
sofa and north Of Utah These are judged 'by
their fruits" and the journals everywhere give evil
dence Of their merit to the title.
The nomadic Indians haunt our grassy Plains, and
are the Sioux, Cheyennes Pawnees, Comanches,
Kiowas, ct "a onwse genus. The rest are footmcn.
hut dwelers, tent dwcers, nomade and hunters.
The nations OF the Plains despIse work; live by
fha chase. can move aulckly and eacane punish-