The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-02

in administration Of Indian matters alone, Ehen
such exhibitions OF dishonesty are made IN nearly
refusing the Inferior goods OF q contractor, turn
them back upon MS hands, and compel HIM and his
bondsmen to to pay the price e. which sacn perfect
tractor surrounded by his shoddy, dishonored
goods, and take from him full compensation for
loss. Do not reward or countenance swindling by
touching the frauds or Its creation. Peace policy
elevates the church member above his fellow men,
and declares that he alone can administer right,
and Is alone honest. think II is only bid for
hypocrsy-that, with the investiture OF power and
the seductive influences Of money and patronage
times, ane be no more fitted than others for the
complicated control OF Indian reservations. the
past does not proclaim the inIalliblty OF church
members, either in high places or low, and the
proclamation by government that such are the
emily persons whom government will trust Is re-
ceived with thousand scruples OF doubt. The
government Is merely experimenting, when, by
careful attention to existing things all would have
been well. Government ignores the existence OF
outside OF the church. or course outsiders can be
allowed to question such proposition. Again, the
any tribe or bands ofIndans refuse to 90
upon reservation and determine to continue their
nomadic habits, accompanied with depredations,
ourages, &c then 1t Is the policy OF the President
10 treat such band or tribe with all needed sever
ity,n &c. The doctrine heie announced 10 ttat,
before the government win use severity the Indian
must not only have time and again refused to go
upon his reservation, but to his wanderings must
have joined outrage and depreciation upon the FROM
any such doctrine, and assert That 1T Is Totally
destructive OF the first proposition Of peace policy
mentioned.
WHY THE QuAKERs FAIL.
When the Indian refuses to go upon his treaty
reservation, and the government suffers him
fails, for he ceases to be within the reach OF the
blessings OF civilizing influences at the hands OF
church members alone. Does not this doctrine
place the Indians win and pleasure above the
power OF government. The Quaker policy pro-
posed TO put the Indian upon reservation, yet II
40 mn "a hnn an ntr,Ar Frau
pei him, under the policy, to do SO is at end,
less the Indian proceeds TO commit Outrages upon
settlers; Government proposes snat after the
life then he is In just the condition to be moved to
the reservation and commence his cvzing pro-
cess; In other words, IT openly permits what 1t
proposes to prevent. If remedy is Of any avail
let 1t be in tlme The doctrine Is wrong, fer care
not now pcaceable the nomadlc Indian may be, he
Is not where he belongs and 1t will be utterly I'M
possible to prevent conflicts daily with the Settlers
and is in strong contrast with the idea OF
keeping the Indian from 'c0ntiguity to settle
ments." This delay as to severity In this Modoc
case has painfully proven this in policy. The
Mod0cs had deserted rom the treaty reservation
mad been away some four years; had taken up
again their nsmadic habit; again and again they
mad fiatly refused to return, and were determined
to become cO-tenants with settlers upon the lands
which those Indians had specially sold by treaty
and had received compensation therefor. See the
result. Government was well posted in all these
matters. 1t knew that in last November, In en-
forcing proper ORDER Major Jackson was made
target for MOdoc rifle practice, and that within
LWenLy-lOur hours the MOuOcS ndu WantOnly Killed
near twenty unsuspecting settlers-mature men
and beardless boys. Had not everything happened
which, under the definition OF peace policy, re-
CURED the exercise OF needed severity by the Pres
dent? Had not the thunder been heard and had
not the flash of lightning and the storm been
seenY Far IRON carrying out the Quaker policy
doctrine and INJECTING necessary punishment,
the military power was stayed and q COM
mission sent 1900 miles to find out what
and determine what might be the cause OF that
TROUBLES mater then well known to the authori-
ties. From the very first telegram from the Com
mission, March 4, was not the government in
formed III these words: 1.-THE Mod0cs emphati-
cay reject all offers and propositions" '.rhls I'M
means treachery,n ''The Commission Is
a idilureY' Yet the government declines to en-
force its policy, and, upon confessed treachery,
grants delays; and can the frontier settlers place
the responsibility elsewhere than upon the act Of
government itself? The second and third Commits
sions dissolved and the tour months OF inefect-
death. Men skilled in Indian Character, even
members Of the Commission, had become disguised
and had abandoned the work, and had notified the
government OF its expensive blunder. IL was
A TRIUMPH or INDIAN DIPLOMACY.
The Indian gained everythng-time, until he
would no longer have to depend upon his caches
furnish him with road food and fire; time until the
squaw and pappOose could be paced beyond
danger time Tor the government to commit
fatai blunder; time to have confessed treachery
blossom out mo perfect success. Those Indians
came upon the council field with war paint upon
their faces with the scaps OF the murdered settler
dangling at their belts and his clothes upon their
persons. Government took no notice OF the twenty
slaughtered, scalped and INITIATED Uregonians.
Under the Quaker policy that was not sufficient to
Call for severity, but when, upon Good Friday, a
general was murdered 1t waKed up to the fact that
the Modocs were hostile; that they needed little
severity in the words OF the secretary, ITO teach
them IT were better to go upon the reservation"
Punishment, swift and cOndgn, should have fallen
upon them long before. And this great nation has
been seen parleying in treaty with fifty mulderers
and get blanket and food Tor having been so
good. Those settlers were heads OF families, and
dear to their wives and children-as dear as was
General Candy to his-they were our fellow citl-
zens, yet twenty deaths III November last had not
the same power to wake a nation to duty as had
TWO deaths in April. What faith can settler have
in such an enforcement OIL policy? 1t Is no COM
pensatlon or relief that government, acting under
It's conversion OF an hour turns now to the abso-
lutte extreme. Now by high order, the drums
beat, the war horse champs the bit the soldier
dons his harness and tnirsts Tor war; The order Is
absolute determination OF Modoc, buck, squaw and
harmless pappoose. In anger the government de-
clares tine Modoc an outlaw, whom one need
challenge before he Stays. Guns and ammunition
are furnished III abundance TO the settler the Ore
gonian, whom the public and peace policy speak
ers so lately branded as .border ruiflann and as
one greedy for Indian spoil at all times, and
peace policy, and bids him God speed to the car
nival OF death. III the oregon settler Is such man
as alleged Will he wait TO ask any Indian whether
he be a Jew or gentle, Modoc or Simcoe, Scythian
or Greek, before he does his c0untrys present
bidding The result WILL lear, be war from
California to Idaho, including the hitherto peacea-
bic Cayuse and the uncompromlsing Modoc.
Paullna, snake Indian, with eleven braves, kept
all Eastern oregon in Tear, while Tor two years,
despite the United States troops, he murdered ut
will. In the same proportion how long will sixty
Modocs harrass the Innocent settler
INTERFERENCE WITH THE LAWS OF OREGON.
Another matter demands notice. In response to
the protest oil the Governor OF Oregon understand
that tue secretary OF the Interior telegraphed to
the Commission to pay no attention TO sucE protest
and directed the officer in command in no event,
case OF treaty. to surrender to the state auhorl
ties any OF the Modocs who stood indicted for muir
no f.a
true, then i here enter what | know will
be the unanimous protest OF the people OF Oregon
against any such course. 1t deserves strong con.
demnation. The laws OF oregon are mercu aud
just. Tney declare that every one who unlawfully
Kills another, upon proper trial ana conviction,
shall suiler the penalty. The Modoc on soil 10
which his right had been extingushed and where
he unawfully was, which the United States admits
by forcing him elsewhere. commits murder, yea,
twenty murders, and thus amenable to oregon
law escapes punishment by the interference OF the
armed military power OF the United States. The
Commissioners first proposition TO the Modocs was
universal amnesty upon surrender Thus the
government agrees that the Modoc shall not suffer