The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-04-29

ehAs eAN.tiNNephS NNfy osNuiu w pOoou
on US. II the Christian agents can better
control the wild savages,' wish them all
success; but, surely, the white people who
venture into the wilderness to labor and
toll are entitled to the protection of their
lives and property; and 1t is natural that
they should feel the greatest interest, al.
though it is the exclusive privilege Of Con-
gress to devise tho best means to secure
this end.
Many good people residing east Of the
Alleghsnies mistake the character Of the
emigrant population, who have Of late
years brought millions Of acres under cul.
tivation, and produced fifty or sixty mil
lions Of gold and silver, whore 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 in
their stead we would act just AZ they do.
| know ii, because have been one Of
them. They now pay their full share Of
taxes, and contribute 10 our national
wealth and power. As rule the emi-
grants do object that the Indians should
foreverrcmain non roducers, beegars 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, II the Cheyennss,
Arspshoes, and Kiowas will utilize the
beautiful pastoral land assigned them in
raising stock, they will soon become the
richest people in the southwest. Bat this
they have not done, and 1t Looks as though
they never will.
And the question will surely arise, and
that very soon, how long must the govern
ment continue TO clothe and feed them
without any assurance Of self.support ?
The pressure Of white settlements on the
borders Of Indian reservations Is nothing
new. II has gone on for two hundred
years, and must 60 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-
oipls that one wrong justiies another; and
q greater, that because the soldiers In New
Mexico chase and kill few Cheyennes
near Fort Bsseom, who are more than q
hundred miles of their reservation TO steal
horses, they can 90 and kill the surveyors
near Camp Supply engaged in lawful
survey; and because "Whistlsr" has been
killed by some murderer on the Republic.
can, they must demand Of the government
an 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 a re-
gion of country four or Ave times as great
as tho whole state Of California. The
Modocs are a small remuant Of what us,
to be called the Pitt river Indians, OF
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.
ticpated in it; have seen the wild val
leys where they used 10 fish and hant con-
verified into prosperous farms and ranches;
but in this they seem not to have initiated
their white neighbors.
Whether they have sustained wrongs OF
not is net in question, but they have taken
refuge ia n natural fortress, have defed
the civil and military agents, and lastly
under flag Of truce, killed Gen. Candy
who was their best friend and this was
not an isolated fact, for about the same
time they deceysd Lieut.. Sherwood within
reach Of their rifles at another and dis
tinot part, and also stea!thily attacked
Col Mason's camp on the opposite side
from that where Gen. Candy and the peace
commissioners were shot. All the Modocr
are involved, and do not pretend that the
murder of Gen. Candy was the individual
act Of Capt. Jack. Therefore the order Il
attack is against the whole, and il sll b,
swept from the face Of the earth they them.
selves have invited II.
The place is like fortress, and during
an assault the soldier oannet pause to dis.
tinguish between male and female, OF
even discriminate IS to sgs; - long IS re-.
sistance is made, death must b melted
out, but the m oment all resistance cessei
the firing will stop and the survivors b.
turned over to the proper Indian agent
This whole matter must DO left to the off.
GERS on the spot, and these must be shell.
tered against the howl such as followed
Major Baker after the Piegsn attack, and
General Gustav after his attack on Black
Kettles camp. There is not much dang 81
of too much harm being done. To be o.
fsctivs and exemplary the blow must in.
volvs the terrible; enough to impress the
kindred tribes Of Klamsths aud Pr Utter.
/ believe the civilians aad soldiers wish
the same end, and, in fact, do not differ
much ~ TO the process. All Indians must
be made to know that when the govern
ment comm ands they must obey, Aad un
til that state Of mind is reached, through
persuasion or fear, We cannot hope fol
peace. Lam yours, With respect,
W. T. SHERMAN, General.