The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-05-08
Ln. the Poor Modoc.


their determination, and to work up
sympathy for tho noble red mnu"
These occasional Cts Of teOdcrhear!ed
ness become tho Puritan amazingly aud
no Puritan could SWIVEL in well rcgula'
ted manner without them They afford
no opportunity to unload al accumulated
quantity Of guib, to tho manufacture oil
which the Puritan devoles vast deal oil
time. 1t is a little peculiar, however,
that ibis gash only starts 10 extreme and
unexpected cases. General Sherman i,
the mau who has been guilty Of letting
this food cut upon the country this time,
and all because he has ordered punish
mcnt to be Inflicted upon tue Modocs for
their trclchcry and murders 1t 5 not So
long ago that very young people may not
remember It distinctly, that this same
General Sherman led 40 invading host
through the most fertile and wealthy sect.
ion Of the Union; That he laid waste Tue
plantation and farms; burned the houses
and property Of the people. and pluudercl
them Of all they had Tue people whose
all thus went down before the gandal torch
were not Savages; they were not outlaws
and unCiVilzed beings whose sole aim was
to murder and steal and scalp, and those
who were thus burned out Of home aod
robbed Of every youthful of all they had
to eat were mostly w,mcn aud children
harmless aud dolcDceltss
This act of savage cracity, this torch
and turpcnlinc vandalism, did no: awake u
the gush of the canting Puritan. Ihrrc
was no tender spot in the Puritan heart
for tho poor, starving, homeless women
and children Of the South. because, for.
sOOth, those women and children were rob.
els! 0u the contrary, there was incxprcs.
siblo enjoyment throughout the whole Pu.
ritan dominiOns The newspapers au.
nOuncGd the result of this maraudng
march to the sea" in glecful headlines;
she people took it up, and sent with huz
zahs from the shores Of the Atlantic across
to the Pacific and up aud down the country;
Gags were placed at highest mas, and Ec
Dcuos woutAp from the Puritan Church.
es oftho'land, Tor Sherman had MARCHED
- the sRa, and he'd left a black aud desc
lated tritG lbropst the fircst States OF
America, and that track was marked by
the ruined aud smouldoriDg homes Of a
civilized people.
But the Puritan SWIVEL is saved for o
more worthy object, in whose behalf to let
itself out. In time General Sherman has
been called from bis warfare upon our
fcnow.Citi2ens Of other States, aud his tao.
ties are used ngsiusta band of murdorous
outlaw Indians, Instead Of "march to
the sea-" Sherman orders march through
tho Lava Beds, and 50 up comes the Puri.
tan with his gush,
Lo, the poor Moloc
What a miserable and contemplate by.
pocrjsy is that which gushes in behalf Of
this murdcrOus band. There is no giIloiny
of which the Indian nature is not capable,
aud these NodocS are worse than any 9th.
crs, if one eau be worse than another -
They have murdered and pluudered tue
settlers who went upon the soil to gain a
livelihood They have been fed aud
clothed year after year, and yet ycer after
year they have continued to murder aud
plumber until their conduct was beyond
Human endurance, aud now they have for.
loitcd all claims to mercy by their treach,
orous assassination of men who we're sent
to treat with them.
General Sherman has ordered war Of
determination, and says "bah upon your
soothing system" And this time we mos
heartily agree with General Sherman
Lei him turn bis guns as vigorously anC
rs relentlessly against the-savagcs, VIII
are impeding the progress of civilization
npon the border, as be did against the wo
men and children of the South, and b.
will add more to his fame and name. lie
him make it as hot about the Lava Bed
as be did about Columbia, when bis fam
ing torch made her a mass ofdreary ruins
It's no time now for whine and driycl
no matter from whom it comes. 1t is al
very well for you in the East, who DO no