Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-05-03

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work within the borders Of such States q
Kansas and Nebraska, as though actua
war existed.
All will venture to assert is, that tn
army has much more difficult task nov
| than if we were actually at war. an,
could anticipate depredations and folls,
the perpetrators 10 their very camps, as
| did in the case of the Kiowas two year
ago. Then the Texas people were con
stantly complaining that the treaty ln
dians were depredaiing on their property
killing their people and taking refuge oil
their reservations. l woula not believe |
until went In person, and was actual,
near by when Santanta killed seven poo
teamsters in Texas, one of whom was foun,
burned, tied at the wagon-wheel, and
few days after he came to the agency a
Fort Sill, boasting of the deed. With tn
approval of the agent, MIR. Tstun, ar
rested him and two others and sent then
to Texas for trial. Now l ON told tha
Santanta is To be turned loose again, al
though / believe he has committed fift,
murders, and has notoriously VIOLATED
every promise hitherto made.
No general rule will answer for the
government of every tribe, but each must
be treated according to their conduct, and
think, the army officers are better quail.
fed to Judge than the average of oitisens
though am by no means anxious tha
this disagreeable duty should be imposed
on us. If the Christian agents can better
control the wild savages, wish them al
success; but, surely, the white people who
venture into the wilderness to labor and
toll are entitled to the protection of theil
lives and property; and it is natural thai
they should feel the greatest interest, al.
though it is the exclusive privilege Of Con-
gress TO devise the best means to secure
this end.
Many good people residing east Of the
Alleghenies mistake the character of the
emigrant population, who have Of late
years brought millions of acres under oul-
tivation, and produced fifty or sixty mil
lions of gold and silver, where twenty
years ago white man dared not venture.
These people are of the same kind as set
tied in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. They
are as good as we are, and were we ia
their stead we would act just as they do.
l know it, because l have been one of
then. They now pay their full share Of
taxes, and contribute to our national
wealth and power. AS q rule the emi-
grants do object that the Indians should
foreverremain nom producers, beggars and
robbers, if not worse. If the indians are
willing to work, as they used to in the
gold mines of California, nobody will pre-
vent them. SO to-day, If the Cheyennes,
Arapahoes, and Kiowas will utilize the
beautiful pastoral land assigned them in
raising stock, they will soon become the
richest people in the southwest. But this
they have not done, and it looks as though
they never will.
And the question will surely arise, and
that very soon, how long must the govern
ment continue to clethe and feed them
without any assurance of self support
The pressure Of white settlements on the
borders of Indian reservations is nothing
new. 1t has gone on for two hundred
years, and must go on, and the Indians
must conform. In some instances they
will do it without resistance, in others
they will resist, and in some cases injus-
tice will be done; but surely our govern
ment can never admit to practice the prin-
ciple that one wrong justifies another; and
D greater, that because the soldiers in New
Mexico chase and kill few Cheyennes
near Fort Bascom, who are more than
hundred miles off their reservation to steal
horses, they can 60 and kill the surveyors
near Camp Supply engaged in lawful
survey; and because "Whistler" has been
killed by some murderer on the Republi-
can, they must demand Of the government
IN indemnity in money, else his death
must be avenged on any stranger. These
are not supposititious cases, but cases ac-
tually pending, and illustrate how far we
have thus far progressed in the great
work of civilization.
The affair with the Modocs is not re-
garded as an exceptional case, nor has it
any connection whatever with the affairs
Of tho Apaches, Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapa-
hoes, and Kiowas, that wander over re-
gion Of country four or five times as great
Is the whole state Of California. The
Modoes are small remnant of what used
10 be called the Pitt river Indians, or
Rogue river Indians, with whom there
have deem several wars. They are famil-
lar with the habits and customs Of the
whites, and have seen gold dug from the
canyons of their:mountains, and have par
tioipsted in it have seen the wild VAL
eys where they used to fish and hunt con-
vsrtsd into prosperous farms and ranches;
,ut in this th0y seem not to have initiated
their white neigbbors.
Whether they have sustained wrongs or
not Is net in question, but they have taken
refuge in natural fortress, have defied
he civil and military agents, and lastly,
inder . flag Of truce, killed Gen. Candy,
who as their best friend; and this was
,ot an isolated fact, for about the same
ime they deceyed Lieut.. Sherwood within
reach of their rifles at another and dis
,inct part and also steaithily attacked
Col. Mason's camp on the opposite side
from that where Gen. Candy and the peace
,om mmissioners were shot. All the Modocs
are involved, and do not pretend that the
murder of Gen. Candy was the individual
,ct Of Capt. Jack. Therefore the order to
attack is against the whole, and il all be
swept from the face Of the earth they them
selves have invited it.
The place is like fortress, and during
an assault the soldier cannet pause to dis
tinguish between male and female, or
even discriminate as to age; as long as re-
sistance is made, death must be meted
put, but the moment all resistance ceases
the firing will stop and the survivors be
turned over TO the proper Indian agent.
This whole matter must be left to the Off
GERS on the spot, and these must be shell
tered against the howl such as followed
Major Daker after the Piegan attack, and
G neral Custar after his attack on Black
camp. There is not much danger
of too much harm being done. To be eff
fectivs and exemplary the blow must in
volvs the terrible; enough to impress the
kindred tribes Of Klamaths aud Pi- Utes.
/ believe the civilians and soldiers wish
the same end, and, in fact, do not differ
much as to the process. All In dians must
be made 10 know that when the gevern-
ment commands they must obey, and un.
til that state Of mind is reached, through
or fear, we cannot hope for
peace. Iau yours, with respect,
W. SHERMAN, General.
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